Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Spanish"
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Contributions of cognitive grammar to learning Spanish prepositions: An empirical study with university students of Spanish as a foreign language / Aportaciones de la gramática cognitiva al aprendizaje de preposiciones: una investigación empírica con estudiantes universitarios de E/LE
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)The perception of prepositions as relational functional units with a secondary role in the creation of meaning has often resulted in a superficial treatment of these elements in the classroom. Their introduction as ... -
The flute in Flamenco social practice: An analysis of timbre, processes of hybridisation, and indigenisation (1975-2017)
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-10)This thesis explores the introduction and integration of the flute in flamenco. Since its codification in the 1850s, flamenco has been associated with ethnic, regional and national identity in Spain (Gypsy, Andalusian and ... -
La Habana as a site of disenchantment in the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes
(2013-09-27)This thesis establishes that disenchantment in the city of La Habana is a recurring theme in the narrative of Cuban author Leonardo Padura Fuentes. It involves a close reading of seven novels written and published between ... -
Representations of genders and ethnicities in the historical fiction of Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías
(2016-08-26)This thesis analyses the ways in which Chilean authors Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías re-examine and engage with ideas of gender and ethnicity through their fictional representation of Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer ... -
Subversive narrative and Mexicanidad in the works of Luis Buñuel and Juan Rulfo
(2015-09-30)This thesis is a comparative study of the Mexican works of Luis Buñuel and Juan Rulfo, focussing on the period from 1950 to 1962. It examines the impact of Mexican cultural nationalism on the artistic practices of a writer, ... -
"You Mean We're Not Real People?": A semiotic and sociolinguistic perspective on the transposition of fictive Dialogue in the Spanish Translations of John Updike's "Rabbit" books
(2015-01-29)Despite the vast amount of research on translation in recent decades, the issue of fictive dialogue has yet to gain prominence in the field. Viewed from a monolingual perspective, dialogue is already problematic in that ...