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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 ...