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The assignment of nuclear accents in three different discourse genres : documentaries, TED Talks and interviews
(Universidad de Belgrano - Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2026)This dissertation investigates nuclear accent placement across three spoken discourse genres in Standard Southern British English (documentaries, TED Talks, and interviews) with the aim of determining how canonical ... -
Emotional self-disclosure as a resource in the discursive construction of feedback on YouTube product reviews
(Universidad de Belgrano - Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros - Maestría en Lengua Inglesa, 2026)This dissertation examines emotional self-disclosure as a discursive resource in user-generated textual feedback on YouTube. While previous research on online emotions has often focused on sentiment analysis or psychological ... -
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 ... -
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 - Facultad 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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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