This master’s thesis is about linguistic attitudes that speakers from Panama have about their own variety, and what degree of prestige, identity, and emotional attitudes they assign to their own variety. The study presented here shows the results of a questionnaire where 30 people participated, and which probes different aspects of the values that they assign to the Panama variety in contrast with ...

This master thesis presents an original analysis of how branding is produced through verbal and non-verbal communication in the context of so-called Marketing 4.0, whose main differential properties are the extensive use of digital media and a horizontal distribution on information that privileges the interaction with consumers. Both properties make establishing a brand image more crucial, and make ...

This thesis presents original research about the motivation of first year university students of Spanish in Norway, trying to diagnose the factors that play a significant role in their choosing Spanish, the aspects of teaching that they favour, the impact of the forced digitalisation that had to be undergone due to Covid-19, and the evolution and development of their motivation and perception of the ...

This master thesis presents an original contribution to the understanding of how different types of relative pronouns in Spanish are distributed across prepositional complexes. The thesis presents a description an analysis of the simple relative 'que' and the complex relative pronouns 'el que' and 'el cual' in combination with lexical and functional prepositions, attending to syntactic, semantic and ...

This master thesis presents original research on the lexicographic representation, corpus presence and use of four clothing terms that are characteristic of Guatemala, as a contribution to our current understanding of the lexical properties of the Guatemalan Spanish variety, within a Central American context and more broadly under the light of geographically considered language variation. The results ...

In Spanish, modal adjectives are generally presented as a class of units which, when used inside a noun phrase, is usually placed before the noun, albeit with ill-defined exceptions that allow them to be used after the noun. This corpus-based study aims to explore and better define the conditions that allow adjectives to be used postnominally, by semantically categorising a substantial quantity of ...

The Spanish language is, as many know, one of the languages derived from Latin. What distinguishes Spanish from the other languages derived from Latin is the influence of Arabic through the Arabic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Several scholars have studied the Arabic words that have been incorporated into the Spanish vocabulary through extensive contact between the speakers of the two languages. ...

This master thesis presents an original investigation on Error Analysis on the L2 / L3 teaching of Spanish, specifically about the use of conditional structures involving subjunctive by a group of secondary school native Norwegian students. The research starts from a corpus consisting on a number of directed grammar activities done by the student group during one semester, and proposes a classification ...

Miguel de Cervantes escribió su obra maestra Don Quijote de la Mancha durante un periodo tumultuoso. La España del siglo XVII experimentó una crisis socioeconómica grave que, junto con fracasos militares, generó una percepción de que la monarquía estaba experimentando un declive – tanto moral como económico. En aquella época circulaban los arbitrios, cartas en que criticaron los arbitristas la ...