American author Kate Chopin (1850-1904) is known for writing many short stories located in the state of Louisiana, which display a representation of local particularities. In several of her stories, Chopin focuses on Cajun ...

The objective of this dissertation is to analyze and compare the multimodal language from campaigns that prevent HIV/AIDS, mainly focusing in the Cognitive Linguistics perspective by incorporating the approach of regional, ...

This dissertation analyzes some chronicles from the book Histórias sem Amanhã, from Lara de Lemos, written in the 1950‟s, to be published in Correio do Povo newspaper in Porto Alegre further the chronicles had been published ...

El tema de esta disertación consiste en la investigación acerca de los motivos de las elecciones literarias de ocho alumnos, matriculados en la enseñanza secundaria, que primeramente participaron de un proyecto de extensión ...

The present paper approaches the “gaúchas” identities represented by characters in O Tempo e o Vento in the perspective of their variations, emphasizing the diversity inherent to the constitution of the South-Brazilian ...

This dissertation intends to study the perception of Erico Verissimo about himself, his literary production and his relation with the political and social context of his time and space, from that to verify the relation he ...

This thesis is the study of the use of the neutral article "lo" by undergraduate Spanish learners as a foreign language, approached in two perspectives of analysis: as a grammatical structure and as a lexical-semantic ...

Mark Twain was a prominent realistic author and local colorist, known by his colloquial style of writing. He represents the regional oral modality of the English language in the speech of the characters in the novel The ...

This thesis investigates how children activate and reconstruct the poetic element that is present in literature selected by PNBE 2010, questioning the constitution of literate subject in poetry, taking intentional teacher ...

This dissertation analyses two non-fiction books written by Jack London: The people of the abyss (published in 1903) and The cruise of the Snark (published in 1911). Written over a period during which ethnography’s ...