Italian Theses: Recent submissions
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Journeys beyond binaries : storytelling and polyphony in the narratives of Gabriella Ghermandi, Igiaba Scego, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah and Amara Lakhous
(2015-10) - ThesisIn the last two decades, in media and political discourses, Italianness has been increasingly represented as a homogeneous and compact entity, which is intruded on and contaminated by immigrants. In this study, the binary ... -
La vita in uno spot : un'indagine diacronica della pubblicità televisiva italiana, 1957-1977
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-21) - ThesisThe present dissertation investigates the role of television advertising in shaping the cultural values of the Italian society in the circular process of mirroring pre-existing societal values yet inducing new ones, thus ... -
A diachronic study into the distributions of two Italo-Romance synthetic conditional forms
(University of St Andrews, 2009-06-23) - ThesisTwo distinct conditional paradigms are available to speakers of Italian, derived from the Latin periphrases cantare habui/cantare habebam. The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain their patterns of attestation in ...