Modern Languages (School of): Recent submissions
Now showing items 76-80 of 225
-
The origins of Slavonic : language contact and language change in ancient eastern Europe and western Eurasia
(2004) - ThesisThis thesis attempts to analyze the causes and mechanisms of the dissolution of the language ancestral to the modern Slavonic languages. Recent advances in the field of archaeology have cast traditional theories of the ... -
Idioms with a viable literal interpretation in German advertisements
(University of St Andrews, 2004) - ThesisAn idiom is a set phrase which is relatively syntactically and semantically fixed, and which produces striking stylistic and rhetorical effects. Advertising is a discourse type which is particularly rich in idioms: around ... -
Language policy in education and ethnic relations in Catalonia, (1993-96)
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThis thesis is the result of research into the impact on the population of Catalonia of Catalan normalisation policies ('normalisation' in this context refers to the Catalan Government's intention to return Catalan to its ... -
Cinema plays history : National Socialism and the Holocaust in counterfactual historical films of the twenty-first century
(2018-06-28) - ThesisInspired by 2009 pastiche 'Inglourious Basterds' (US/DE), my research presents counterfactual historical film, firstly, as a marginalised type of film: the 2000s and 2010s have seen an abundance of overtly fictional films ... -
Literary, political and historical approaches to Virgil's Aeneid in early modern France
(2018-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the increasing sophistication of sixteenth-century French literary engagement with Virgil’s Aeneid. It argues that successive forms of engagement with the Aeneid should be viewed as a single process ...