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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 ... -
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 ... -
Exploring Linguistic Impoliteness in CMC: An Analysis of the Users' Construction of Impoliteness towards Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris in YouTube Comments
(Universidad de Belgrano - Escuela de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2023)Impoliteness is an extremely rich phenomenon embedded in human interaction that may be realized through different channels of communication: speech, gestures, prosodic features, silence, turn-taking, among others. Nowadays, ...