Oferta de TFM
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
GEMMA DELICADO PUERTO
1.The representation of gender in literary language
This project aims to explore the subject of gender and stereotypes through an analysis of
gendered literary corpora. To this light, canonical texts can be reinterpreted by means of
rethinking representations of gender in language.
2. Gender studies and foreign language teaching books
Books to learn a second language are an excellent tool. However, it is significant the
important gap between the male and female representation sometimes offered. In this
sense, this project aims to examine gender stereotypes together with the depiction of
their roles in teaching books and manuals by different publishers by means of analyzing
terms and actions traditionally associated to men and women.
JESÚS MARÍN CALVARRO
1."Ben Jonson and the Use of Wordplay in Volpone, or the Fox’.
Elizabethan writers were very fond of using wordplay in their writings. The Works of
Ben Jonson, particularly his plays, are embellished with this peculiar feature that makes
them richer in meaning but, at the same time, more difficult to understand and
consequently harder to translate into Spanish.
2."Marriage and Witticism in William Wycherley’s The Country Wife"
William Wycherley stands up as one of the wittiest playwriters of the Restoration
period. He uses his witticism, through puns and plays on words, to satirize the
aristocratic society of his time.
CCAROLINA P. AMADOR MORENO
1.Using corpora to investigate embedded questions in Irish English: a diachronic and
synchronic study
Embedded questions (e.g. I wonder did he tell his mother) are a characteristic feature of
the English spoken in Ireland. However, while frequently found in the English spoken in
Ireland nowadays, embedded questions in Irish English have a long history. The present
study will look at examples of this feature in a historical corpus (the Corpus of Irish
English Correspondence, which contains mostly emigrant letters), and a contemporary one
(the Irish component of the International Corpus of English, or ICE-Ireland) in order to
determine: 1. How the feature has developed, and 2. Its (socio)pragmatic functions.
2. Signs of Irishness in the Old Bailey Corpus.
This study will focus on the analysis of features of Irish English contained in trials of the
18th century in The Proceedings of the Old Bailey (www.oldbaileyonline.org).The digital
corpus of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey (1674 to 1913) provides an insight into the
historical development of some vernacular features characteristic of the variety of English
spoken in Ireland. The on-line version offers material for such studies in an easily
searchable form. In this study, you will study how Irish identity is reflected through
language choice.