This thesis analyses the English borrowings in a corpus of Dutch original and translated cookbooks. The main purpose is to determine whether translators’ tendency to explain and clarify causes them...Show moreThis thesis analyses the English borrowings in a corpus of Dutch original and translated cookbooks. The main purpose is to determine whether translators’ tendency to explain and clarify causes them to produce translations that contain fewer anglicisms than similar original Dutch texts. The results show that the anglicisms found in the translations and original texts are similar in terms of type, function, and degree of conventionality, but the total number of anglicisms is larger for the corpus of original texts.Show less
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published in 1916. It was written “in several phases between 1903 and 1914” (Gabler 83). Eventually, in 1907,...Show moreA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was published in 1916. It was written “in several phases between 1903 and 1914” (Gabler 83). Eventually, in 1907, Joyce began to write A Portrait, in its final form. “This reached the state of intermediary manuscript during 1907 to 1911. In 1913-14, the novel was completed” (Gabler 83). The five chapters of the novel deal with different stages of Stephen’s life, in particular, the periods of infancy, boyhood, and adolescence. The subject matter of the novel is Stephen’s mental and spiritual development to the point where he becomes the artist he aspires to be. The novel is very concise and depicts the major milestones in his life, people and events, that marked him and formed him as a person, and as an artist. The novel is considered as one of the most representative samples of modernist literature, because of its narrative technique. In A Portrait, Joyce abandons the style of narration which he had used in Stephen Hero, and instead he employs the so called ‘stream of consciousness’ and ‘free indirect discourse’. ‘Stream of consciousness’ is a narrative technique that attempts “to convey all the contents of a character’s mind—memory , sense perceptions, feelings, intuitions, thoughts—in relation to the stream of experience as it passes by, often at random” (Gray 274).Show less
Compared to the protagonist of the classic Who series, since 2005 the Doctor has darkened considerably. This finding of moral complexity in the character best shows itself in ambiguities in the way...Show moreCompared to the protagonist of the classic Who series, since 2005 the Doctor has darkened considerably. This finding of moral complexity in the character best shows itself in ambiguities in the way in which the Doctor addresses and discusses (with 'laymen' in the show, such as his companions, or passers-by who somehow get involved) the show’s monsters and villains, and himself.Show less
Esta tesina buscará investigar el valor metafórico del topos de la ruina en la época postsoviética en Cuba por medio del texto Un Arte de Hacer Ruinas, del escritor cubano Antonio José Ponte. La...Show moreEsta tesina buscará investigar el valor metafórico del topos de la ruina en la época postsoviética en Cuba por medio del texto Un Arte de Hacer Ruinas, del escritor cubano Antonio José Ponte. La ruina es lo que queda de la imagen de un pasado idealizado y la abundancia de las ruinas en el texto de Ponte hace visible la omnipresencia de la memoria en la ciudad. En esta tesina se explorará qué significa vivir entre tantas memorias y cómo afecta la imagen actual de la ciudad.Show less
Over the last two decades the productivity gap between the United States and the European Union has increased. In the 1990s the EU was one of the leading countries in the IT (information technology...Show moreOver the last two decades the productivity gap between the United States and the European Union has increased. In the 1990s the EU was one of the leading countries in the IT (information technology) development. With huge firms like Nokia who introduced the GSM standard for mobile telecommunication the European Union was a significant player. However, since the 1990s the EU lost its important market positions to countries like the USA and China. Dominant companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft all have their roots in the American soil. the main question this paper wants to answer is: Why is the European Union lagging behind the United States in the development of the IT market?Show less
While the use of computational strategies in humanistic inquiry have been discussed extensively, cultural, political and societal aspects of digital humanities tools have not been addressed.This...Show moreWhile the use of computational strategies in humanistic inquiry have been discussed extensively, cultural, political and societal aspects of digital humanities tools have not been addressed.This paper discusses the possibility and necessity of the tool criticism in digital humanities.Show less
La llegada de Chávez al poder produjo cambios considerables en el “panorama mediático” del país, que se debieron principalmente a los distintos vaivenes políticos que el país ha vivido, y al...Show moreLa llegada de Chávez al poder produjo cambios considerables en el “panorama mediático” del país, que se debieron principalmente a los distintos vaivenes políticos que el país ha vivido, y al contexto político que han emergido de tales transformaciones. Dichos cambios dieron paso a que la lucha por la libertad de expresión en Venezuela se convirtiera en un espacio de primer orden en la lucha de la hegemonía cultural entre los medios y el Estado. Los medios de comunicación pueden tanto reflejar la realidad, como construirla. Debido a esto, los gobiernos populistas encuentran en la representación mediática, el terreno ideal para establecer una relación “pueblo”-líder. Entendido como un gobierno populista, este trabajo busca esclarecer que tipo de relación estable el gobierno de Hugo Chávez con los medios de comunicación. En primera instancia, el presente trabajo hace un análisis sobre el escenario mediático en Venezuela, antes de la llegada de Hugo Chávez. Éste se divide en dos periodos: 1950-1990 y 1990-1999. Seguidamente, este trabajo hace un análisis de los dos primeros presidenciales del Presidente Hugo Chávez, entre 1999-2001 y entre 2001-2007.Show less
This paper is aimed at offering a theoretical discussion and interdisciplinary investigation into theories and concepts concerning categorization and individual and/or group differences in...Show moreThis paper is aimed at offering a theoretical discussion and interdisciplinary investigation into theories and concepts concerning categorization and individual and/or group differences in cognition. From this it is suggested that there is the possibility of miscommunication, or at least degradation of the communicative value of a message, as the result of perception and/or reception differences concerning the connotations (consisting of of all combined properties and implications) of specific lexical items between individuals and/or groups. These differences are suggested to be present both in practical instances of use as well as in people's prototypes of said terms. Based on these theoretical expectations a schematic model is created, and a possible solution in the form of intralingual intersemantic translation is suggested. The theory, model, and solution are exemplified through an investigative qualitative case study into the use of the term sustainability by several political leaders in environmental speeches.Show less
Online reading networks are a form in which social reading becomes apparent in the digital age. They are compared to traditional reading groups and examined by their similarities and differences.
