This dissertation examines individual, constricted agency in a multilingual environment within the context of a language discussion group and the form of social capital possessed by their Mexican Indigenous diasporic community living on the California Central Coast. The research…
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This thesis investigates the causes of gender and number agreement errors in learners of both Arabic and Spanish as second languages. Data was collected from each of these groups during beginner level language courses at a university. There were a total of eight tests. The first…
The purpose of this study is to examine the communication issues and loss of cultural capital that monolingual English-speaking Mexican-American children face in order to communicate with their monolingual Spanish-speaking Mexican grandmothers due to language loss. This study de…
This study examines the role of the language cue on language selection in the Bilingual Language Production (BLP) Model, (Hermans, 2000; Poulisse & Bongaerts, 1994) and its relationship to the Language Mode (LM) model, (Grosjean, 1998). In order to examine the role of phonology …
The research of this thesis was completed within the framework Chomskian's Principles and Parameters model of acquisition. A detailed analysis of individual production of null-subjects and pronouns in non-native Spanish speakers was carried out in order to determine its relation…
A contrastive study of Kiswahili and Spanish, two different languages both genetically and morphologically, and at the same time identical since they are both human languages. The study develops gradually, touching on themes related to language and communication, general linguis…
Through a group of films from the late 60s and 70s which have been totally obliterated in the canonical studies about Spanish film due to their low technical quality and apparent triviality, this study focuses on their cultural impact, overwhelming production and extending consu…
This dissertation is a literary and historical analysis of the concepts of Blackness and racial otherness as they are represented in Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age. While the presence of Muslims and Jews is well-known, and therefore, widely studie…
This dissertation analyzes the uses of illness in Spanish women's literary and non-literary writings from 1880–1920. Two opposing trends were at work during this period. On the one hand, cultural esthetics privileged sickly, pale, and inactive women. On the other hand, the hygie…
This thesis examines the reception and translation relationships between Hebrew and Spanish in the sixteenth century. It focuses on Zarfati's reception of La Celestina, the fragment of Guevara's Relox de príncipes translated in Shevet Yehudah and Yoseph Ha-Kohen's translation of…
This dissertation employs a comparative method to examine the similarities between the church plans of Visigothic Iberia, the mid-sixth through the late-eighth century, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. The comparative study of these two architectural groups relies on evidence from the a…
Causative constructions, as found in many of the world's languages, are similar enough to invite a unified explanation and yet different enough to make such an explanation appear to be difficult. This study, realized within the framework of Relational Grammar, accounts for all t…
This dissertation explores the corpus of Spanish and Portuguese song contained in the eight principal manuscript sources of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Its purpose is to treat songs as cultural products which reflect, react to, or comment upon the culture o…
This thesis investigates bare singular nouns from a cross-linguistic perspective, with an emphasis on Spanish. While there has been considerable work on bare plural and bare mass nominals, there is, in comparison, little work on bare singulars and this dissertation aims to ll th…
Recent studies of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Latino immigrants in South Carolina have demonstrated that Latinos encounter language barriers when accessing healthcare services and feel that they are treated unfairly based on their ethnicity. The purpose of this research was…
This dissertation examines both the literary and philosophical concept of Other in Antonio Machado's Proverbios y cantares. By redefining Machado's pithy creations as distinct fragment poems, I insert them in a continuum of late eighteenth- through early twentieth-century poetic…
This study considers the development of the modern construction of identity as it is enunciated in a specific literary genre. The sonnet, a literary form developed as a vernacular poetry yet meant for private enjoyment, synthesizes cultural and personal identification in a way t…
A historical sociolinguistics approach is used to analyze the uses of ser and estar in different linguistic contexts in Sephardic Spanish. Publications ranging from the 15th to the 21st centuries cover the period following the arrival of the Jews in Constantinople/Istanbul after…
The present investigation frames the conceptual art that includes the body as an artistic support in the intervention of nature: body-nature-work, within the cultural context of the Spain of the decade of years 70. Concretely through the performances and of the interventions as …