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Exploring the formation and curation of the self on TikTok through TikTok voice
(Universidad de Belgrano - Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2025)Content creators may seem to speak authentically on TikTok projecting relatable, friendly, and entertaining selves; however, their ways of communication are likely to have been carefully crafted. By describing how some ... -
Living otherwise : a humorous world to revisit and resist sectarian violence in Northern Ireland as seen in Anna Burns’ Milkman (2018)
(Universidad de Belgrano - Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2022)The present work focuses on a stylistic analysis of humour in Anna Burns’ second novel Milkman, published in 2018 and celebrated with the prestigious Booker Prize that same year. This thesis explores the narrator’s unique ... -
The negotiation of politeness in business meetings : a study of Argentine speakers of English
(Universidad de Belgrano - Escuela de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2010)Although much has been written on the “the discursive struggle over (im)politeness” (Watts 2003: 9) by non-native lingua franca speakers and their native counterparts, there is still, to my knowledge, relatively little ... -
Towards a phonological characterisation of unacusatives in English
(Universidad de Belgrano - Escuela de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2013)In the last decades, the syntax-phonology interface has attracted the attention of both generativists (Miller et al 1997, Pullum & Zwicky 1988, Selkirk 1995, 2001) and systemicists (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004, Halliday ...