This thesis examines the stereotype of foreign-born or to a foreign-mother Yemenis, known as Muwalladin, showcased in a Yemeni YouTube series called ‘HadramToon’, which shows how their...Show moreThis thesis examines the stereotype of foreign-born or to a foreign-mother Yemenis, known as Muwalladin, showcased in a Yemeni YouTube series called ‘HadramToon’, which shows how their discrimination is normalized through contemporary cultural artifacts. Using Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA), it examines stereotypes of Muwalladin in the Yemeni YouTube series ‘HadramToon’, particularly through the character Ahmedo. The research reveals how the series perpetuates existing biases, stigma and discrimination against Muwalladin, especially those with African heritage. This study employs QCA to dissect thematic categories such as origins and family, language and behavior, and socioeconomic status, aiming to uncover and challenge these stereotypes that are mainly used to stigmatize Yemenis with mixed heritage. The thesis contributes to understanding the complexities of Yemeni identity, aims to voice the struggles of Yemenis with mixed heritage and calls for more nuanced representations of Muwalladin in Yemeni society and media.Show less
Cette thèse compare l'interprétation des termes chevalerie et courtoisie dans l'œuvre de Chrétien de Troyes. Premièrement, une définition de la chevalerie et de la courtoisie est donnée dans un...Show moreCette thèse compare l'interprétation des termes chevalerie et courtoisie dans l'œuvre de Chrétien de Troyes. Premièrement, une définition de la chevalerie et de la courtoisie est donnée dans un cadre théorique. Ce cadre théorique est suivi de deux chapitres analysant le combat entre chevaliers et l'amour courtois dans Lancelot de la Charrette et Erec et Enide. À la fin de ces deux chapitres, une comparaison est faite entre les analyses et le cadre théorique. La conclusion montre que dans le cas des chevaliers analysés, Lancelot et Erec respectivement, aucun d'entre eux ne répond aux normes de l'amour courtois. Ils remplissent leur rôle de chevalier, la chevalerie, à leur manière, ce qui surprend régulièrement le lecteur.Show less
Master thesis | Educatie in de Taal en cultuurwetenschappen: Frans (120 EC) (MA)
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Ce mémoire de master examine la préservation des valeurs fondamentales des contes de Charles Perrault par Walt Disney Pictures à travers les adaptations cinématographiques de Cendrillon et La Belle...Show moreCe mémoire de master examine la préservation des valeurs fondamentales des contes de Charles Perrault par Walt Disney Pictures à travers les adaptations cinématographiques de Cendrillon et La Belle au Bois dormant. L'analyse se concentre sur les transformations des valeurs morales, psychologiques et des rôles de genre, comparant les versions originales des contes aux interprétations de Disney. Malgré les efforts d'enrichissement moral et de complexification des personnages pour rendre les histoires accessibles au public contemporain, les adaptations maintiennent des représentations stéréotypées des rôles féminins, soulignant les stéréotypes de genre traditionnels. Bien que les films simplifient parfois les symboliques profondes des contes pour une compréhension directe, cette simplification peut altérer la richesse symbolique originelle. En résumé, les adaptations cinématographiques transforment les valeurs morales, les dynamiques des rôles de genre et la profondeur symbolique des contes de Perrault tout en préservant leur essence fondamentale.Show less
Code switching can be defined as the use of more than one language, or ‘code’, by someone engaged in speech or text. It is a practise employed by multilinguals in both oral and written...Show moreCode switching can be defined as the use of more than one language, or ‘code’, by someone engaged in speech or text. It is a practise employed by multilinguals in both oral and written conversations. Different multilinguals will have different switching patterns. These patterns can vary depending on the speaker’s language proficiency, community norms, the typology of their languages, and the cultural or political relations these languages might have with one another, among many other reasons. Code switching between Spanish and English and Spanish and French has been the subject of various studies. Although trilingual research is rare (e.g. Parafita Couto et al., 2023; Valdés Kroff et al., 2023), there has also been some research on the connection between Spanish, French and English, but most of this work is based in the French-speaking provinces of Canada (e.g. COLEM, 2023; Pato, 2019, 2022). This paper aims to study the code-switching patterns among a set of trilingual siblings living in Geneva who have Colombian heritage and attend a British school in the city. The participants recorded themselves for up to 30 minutes having casual conversations following a prompt in three separate occasions. The switches were identified alongside general information about the corpus, such as how many languages were present in each clause, the clauses’ matrix language, the general use of each language in the corpus, among others. This paper focuses on intraclausal switching. We followed Deuchar et al. (2007)’s methodology which categorises each intraclausal switch into insertion, alteration, or congruent lexicalisation according to the code switching pattern it most aligned with following Muysken’s typology of bilingual speech patterns (2000).Because English, Spanish and French are typologically similar, combined with the fact our participants are fluent in all three languages, and due to the culturally open context of Geneva, we expected alternation to be the dominant switch pattern in the recorded conversations. Having said this, since the participants go to a British school where their education is mainly in English, and because the Colombian community in Geneva is not as big as other bilingual communities around the world, a dominant insertional pattern was also a possibility. The corpus was composed of mainly unilingual clauses with 7.8% of the first recording being bilingual clauses, 19.6% of the second recording, and 8.95% of the third. Only three clauses in the entire corpus were trilingual out of 1215. Once we had analysed the entirety of the conversations, the dominant pattern was indeed overwhelmingly insertion with 77.55% of the switches in the corpus presenting this pattern. Congruent lexicalisation was present in 11.56% of the switches and alternation in the other 10.88%. Although these results do not necessarily align with our expectations of codeswitching in Switzerland, we believe our participants’ specific background, namely the fact that language separation is encouraged in the different spheres of their lives, could explain the prevalence of insertion over alternation in our case study. We hope our research will contribute to bigger corpus studies of trilingual codeswitching patterns in different communities.Show less
This study aims to examine the extent and limits of the comparison between Holland and China in French travel Literature of the 19th century. We particularly intend to comprehend the nature of the...Show moreThis study aims to examine the extent and limits of the comparison between Holland and China in French travel Literature of the 19th century. We particularly intend to comprehend the nature of the precise comparison: of which elements it consists, why she is made and in which manner. In order to answer this question, we analyse a corpus of multiple travel journals from different writers. We apply a method of Imagology, together with concepts as Orientalism and exoticism. From the analysis of the corpus results three research tracks: the material aspect of the comparison, the cultural aspect and the limits of Chinese Holland. The comparison between Holland and China has proved to be a complex structure, resulting from a long tradition as well as (erroneous) stereotypes based on different types of images.Show less
This thesis investigates the usage of the well-used but little researched descriptio puellae, a form of describing women that was used in medieval literature around Europe. The form is regularly...Show moreThis thesis investigates the usage of the well-used but little researched descriptio puellae, a form of describing women that was used in medieval literature around Europe. The form is regularly assumed to be written from top to bottom; starting with the woman's hair and ending with her hips, hands, or sometimes, feet. This thesis looks at how accurate this assumption is and also explores derivative forms of the descriptio puellae, such as the description of male characters (descriptio pueri) and the descriptions of feminine "subversive" characters that do not directly satisfy the feminine standards associated with the medieval status quo.Show less
