Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
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The dynamics of literary translation : a case study from English to Persian
(2014-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis aims to elucidate the translation process by devising a way of retrieving evidence of this process from its output. It further aims to assess the claims made by some scholars concerning the possible existence ... -
A social-psychological study of foreign learners' attitudes and behaviours towards model varieties of English speech
(2014-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to bridge the gap between Social Psychology and Sociolinguistics by exploring the relationship between language attitudes and language use. Using a sample of 71 university students in Spain, it ... -
A corpus linguistic analysis of phraseology and collocation in the register of current European Union administrative French
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThe French administrative language of the European Union is an emerging discourse: it is less than fifty years old, and has its origins in the French administrative register of the middle of the twentieth century. This ... -
The political and military career of General Anastasio Bustamente (1780-1853)
(University of St Andrews, 2001-05) - ThesisAnastasio Bustamante was born in the modern day state of Michoacan in 1780. He served the Royalist Army during the insurgency (1810-1821). He was one of the first officers to adhere to Agustin de Iturbide's Plan of Iguala ... -
The relationship between Arabic Allāh and Syriac Allāhā
(2012-10) - Journal articleVarious etymologies have been proposed for Arabic allāh but also for Syriac allāhā. It has often been proposed that the Arabic word was borrowed from Syriac. This article takes a comprehensive look at the linguistic evidence ...