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Curso 2022-2023

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Báez Rodríguez, Natalia

A new perspective on audiovisual accessibility: Creative proposal for the deaf and hard-of-hearing subtitles for the series Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Blanco Del Pozo, Paula Marina

Neutral Pronouns: A Survey Study on the Perception of Non-binary They/Them

Dr. Mario Serrano Losada

Boluda Peláez, Elena

Oh my God!: Gender differences in the use of interjections in oral discourse

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Campos López, Pilar

Offensive language in the subtitling of English into Peninsular Spanish: a comparative study between Euphoria and Succession

Dra. Elena Orduna Nocito

Castell, Martha Elena

That was sarcasm, by the way: Non-verbal and Verbal Communication in Relation to Sarcasm in English

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

Castro, María Milagros

A Contrastive Study of Argentinean and Spanish People’s Language Attitudes towards Different Varieties of English

Dr. Mario Serrano Losada

Conde García-Morales, Patricia

Representation of Social Actors in British tabloids: The case of Meghan Markle

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Corral Elejabeitia, Carlota

The use of English in the field of Chemistry: teachers, students and staff's views at the faculty of Chemistry

Dra. Elena Orduna Nocito

De La Rosa Vicente, Mónica

The mysterious attraction of blended names: Conceptual Blending Theory in Genshin Impact

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Doñoro Domínguez, Rebeca

Death in English Fiction and Non-Fiction Books for Children: Beyond the Conventional Semantic Frame

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Estrada Rocha, Beatriz

Shrek’s Intertextuality from a Cognitive Perspective: A Conceptual Blending Analysis

Dr. Daniel Martín González

Fernández Montes, Irune

A Cross-Cultural Approach to Apologies: The Cases of Peninsular Spanish and Anglospheric cultures

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Fernández Soriano, Blanca

Linguistic construction of the domain of FEAR in Black female childhood: A case study of Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Julius, Shannel

Bailey’s Cafe, by Gloria Naylor: A Cross-Decade Examination of Translating African American Identity

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Lozoya Sevilla, Andrea

“You can't sit with us”: A Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of the Mean Girl Stereotype Across Time

Dr. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Pérez Pozo, Laura

A critical analysis of the translation of humor (puns and cultural terms) into Spanish: a case study

Dra. Matilde Vivancos Machimbrana

Rueda Escribano, Marina

“Perhaps someplace in Chinatown?”: an Analysis of the Literary and Audiovisual Translation of Humor in Crazy Rich Asians from English to Spanish

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Silva García, Oihana

The Use of English Expressions Among Spanish Youngsters

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Zhuk, Polina

Self-identification and accommodative intercultural behaviour in the Asian-American sitcom Fresh off the boat

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

 

Curso 2021-2022

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Bruggemans, Lisa Sacha

Associations in given names: A cross-cultural classification

Dr. Mario Serrano Losada

Calvo López, Nerea

Women’s portrayals in Lifestyle magazines: A semiotic analysis of the representation of age

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Chamorro Álvarez, Sara

A Comparison between English and Spanish Conversational Humour: The Graham Norton Show & La Resistencia

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Fernández-Camuñas Cervantes, Sinforoso

The audiovisual translation. Subtitling and dubbing analysis of insult and hate speech in the TV series Elite

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Gkoutziomitrou, Maria

The representation of social actors in male survivors’ digitally-recounted experiences of sexual violence

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Gomes Gómez, Jessica

Evolution of race discourse: A comparison between epistemic, effective and affective stance between speeches from Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Gradolph Andrés, Ana

The role of cultural media in the spread of English in Spain and its effect on the perception and learning of foreign languages

Dra. Ariadna Sánchez Hernández

López Cánovas, Pablo

The use of directives in religious writings by Catholic and Lutheran authorities in the USA: letters to the faithful during the pandemic times

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Martínez Cano, José Miguel

Informality in EFL/ESL academic writing. A comparison of Nordic and Mediterranean writing styles in bachelor’s and master’s theses

Dra. Elena Domínguez Romero

Milekic, Nina

Teaching Students with Intellectual Disability in a Pro-CLIL Setting in Serbia: A Vocabulary Approach

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Park, Sora

The Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning EFL in the Post-COVID-19 Era – A case study of tertiary education in South Korea

Dres. Begoña Núñez Perucha y Jorge Arús Hita

Pavón Pérez, Mónica

Examining CLIL students’ written production in L1 (Spanish) and L2 (English) from an Interdependence Hypothesis perspective

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Pérez Martín, Pablo

“This is called real poison”: A critical discourse analysis of hate speech on Twitter

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Pérez Calvo, Olga

Multimodality and motivation: Image-text interaction for EFL Skills in Spanish secondary education

Dra. Mariann Larsen

Pozo García, Elena

Conceptualisation of Eighteenth-Century Canadian Female Childhood in Biographical Discourse

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Rodríguez Moreno, Francisco

The use of humor in intercultural encounters: The Ellen Show

Dras. Carmen Maíz Arévalo y Ariadna Sánchez Hernández

Song, Weichen

Comparison of Compliments between English and Chinese Comments on Online Video Platforms YouTube and Bilibili

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

 

Curso 2020-2021

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Alegre Rodríguez, Miguel Anthony

Translating African American English into Spanish: Aunt Cloe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dra. Paloma Tejada Calle

Álvarez Collado, Marta

Politeness and facework strategies in the ‘rights of reply’ within the United Nations: A cross-cultural pragmatic analysis

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Avilés Moreno, Patricia

The representation of Harvey Wieinstein in the media. The portrait of a sex offender

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

De Gregorio Casado, Ismael

Detour (2016): Spanish translation and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing population

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

De la Villa Vecilla, Inés

The evolution of transgender terminology: A corpus- based diachronic analysis of the use of the terms transvestite, transsexual, and transgender

Dr. Mario Serrano Losada

Fernández Marín, Laura

The Representation and Evaluation of the Police and Protesters Involved in the Black Lives Matter Movement and the Construal of Events of Violence: A Comparison of Media Discourse

Dra. Juana I. Marín Arrese

Gascón Arias, Belén

Analysis of the influence of English on Spanish terminology in the context of instant text messages

Dra. Davinia Sánchez García

González Duarte, Paula

Analyzing Materials in CLIL Secondary Education: From the Alignment of Content and Language Objectives to the Activation of Thinking Skills in English and Spanish Science Textbooks

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

González Pérez, Miranda

The Role of English in HE: Language Policies in Spanish Universities

Dra. Elena Orduna Nocito

Gozalo Carvajal, Mayte

The Queerless Queerness of Supernatural and Sherlock: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Dra. Mariann Larsen Perhzon

Guias, Andreea Iona

Comparative study of thinking skills language functions in CLIL and non-CLIL methods in Secondary Education in Spain

Dra. Chloe Sharpe

Grytsak,Nadiya

The development of IC of postgraduate learners: comparative study of MA students from Spanish and Ukrainian universities

Dra. Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

Hermida Ramos, Beatriz

“One Day We Will Be Free”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Joanna Russ’ 1975 The Female Man

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Ibáñez Sánchez, Nerea

 Effects of L2 learners’ individual differences on pragmatic production: exploring requests and refusals in technology-mediated communication

 Dra. Ariadna Sánchez Hernández

Martín Rodríguez, Paloma

A neo-Gricean approach to the creation of humour in Intercultural Communication in the TV show The Good Place

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Mhayate Tabti, Doha

The importance of background knowledge in memes’ meaning-construction: an analysis from a conceptual blending perspective

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Minguela Lucía, Alberto

Portraiture of African American characters in Southern literature before and after the American Civil War: a stylistic study

Dra. Mariann Larsen Pehrzon

Quirós Zuera, Lidia

Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis using metaphors: different ways of conceptualising Brexit within the United Kingdom, England vs. Scotland

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Ruiz Quesada, Manuel

‘Brexit means Brexit’. Rhetoric as a discursive weapon in the realm of journalism, and the (re)presentation of othering in UK

Dra. Juana I. Marín Arrese

Sánchez Cócera, Marta

Evaluation, stance and alignment in the digital discourse of female survivors of sexual violence

 Dras. Elena Martínez Caro y Begoña Núñez Perucha

Suárez Sedano, Ángela

American Fraternities and Sororities: A Discourse Analysis on Gender in Blogs

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Valero Padrón, Carolina

A comparative study of metaphors in English and Spanish research article abstracts

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Vázquez Cárdenas, Anakarla

Theatricality and Storytelling in Inaugural Speeches: A Contrastive Study

Dra. Mariann Larsen Pehrzon

Yagüe París, Rebeca

A Spanish Translation of the Irish Sitcom Father Ted: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

 

Curso 2019-2020

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Corriente López, Antón

The translation of dialectal varieites in literature and film: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

Calvo San Segundo Yaiza

Taboo Expressions and Intense Emotions: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Cantos Delgado, Clara

Gender, culture and digital communication: A contrastive study of women’s reaction to men’s conversational starters on Tinder

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo y Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Cristescu, Roxana Georgina

A Critical Discourse Analysis on the (self) representation of Theresa May’s Political Discourse

Dr. JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer

Dong, Wenwen

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Speeches: The Positive Evaluation of Boris Johnson and Negative Evaluation of Donald Trump

Dra. Juana I. Marín Arrese.

Fajardo González, Ana María

Blame-shifting and the representation of domestic abuse against women by the media in the UK: A Critical Discourse Analysis on victims and perpetrators in two British newspapers, The Guardian and The Telegraph

Dra. María Victoria Martín de la Rosa

Iglesias Rama, Eugenia

Accessibility in educational cartoons: A new accessible script of “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” and an audio description for Spanish blind children

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Khalifa Sultan Elbarghath, Karima

Teaching English as a Second Language to Young Children in Libyan Schools (in Libya and Spain)

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

Li, Xiang

A cross-cultural study of multimodal metaphor and metonymy: Chinese and English anti-tobacco campaign posters as a case in point

Dr. Mario Serrano Losada

Martínez Jiménez, María

The pragmatics of coronavirus: An analysis of presidential speech acts and the representation of the force

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Oliva Coronilla, María

The way we are: knowing a society through its festivities

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Rodríguez Chávez, Jhoana Alejandra

A study of the management of the stigmatized identity and perspectival alignment in serial killers’ non fictional narratives

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez.

Ruiz López, Cayetana

A Preliminary Study on the Translation of Culture and Humour: The Case of Siblings

Dr. José Javier Ávila Cabrera

Segura Ibarra, Ana María

Language and power at work: a critical discourse analysis

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Sánchez Hidalgo, María

Stance – Evaluative, Effective and Epistemic – and Inter/Subjectivity in National Anthems: A Critical Discourse Perspective

Dra. Juana I. Marín Arrese

Yuanyuan Zhao

A Contrastive Study of Humour in Dog with a Blog and Home with Kids from the Perspective of Conversational Maxims, Conversational Implicature and Presupposition

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Zuluaga Escudero Ane

Sexist language in animated sitcoms: A contrastive study of Peninsular Spanish and Latin American Spanish dubbing

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

 

Curso 2018-2019 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Kelly Marie Lammers

Intercultural Competence and Critical Thinking: A Cross-Comparison Content and Multimodal Analysis of Contemporary CLIL and EFL Textbooks

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo y Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Elena Domíguez Mayordomo

Creativity in the protest: Metaphor, metonymy, pun and blending in the 8M demon-stration banners

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen 

Miquel Carbonell Cantero

 Well, You’re Not That Attractive Anyway: Masculinity, Aggression and Facework after Sexual and Affective Rejection

 Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Laura Gallo Alcalá

 A Critical Discourse Analysis on the Representation of Sexual Abuse in Media Dis-course, “La Manada Case”

 Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Raquel Romero Miranda

 A Language Focus on Materials Analysis in Higher Education: A Case Study from the Field of Chemistry

 Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Carlota Villanova Adan

 The expression of affect in mother-child discourse: A contrastive study between homosexual and heterosexual mothers

 Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rincón

Gender Stereotypes in TEFL: a multimodal analysis of four English textbooks

 Dra. Elena Orduna Nocito

Yanan Wang

A Comparative Study of Refusal Speech Acts used in the American TV Series Friends and the Chinese TV Series Love Apartment

 Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Irene Peláez Gutiérrez

 Report and rapport language in travel blogs: a gender-based analysis of writer-reader relationship and the conceptualization of the travelling experience

 Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Laura Álvarez Yáñez

 The Locus of Prestige: Regional, National or International? An Empirical Study

 Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Carmen Fernández de Córdoba Oñate

 The representation of male and female characters in fairy tales and their film adaptations: A diachronic study of Snowdrop/Snow White

 Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

José Manuel Moreno Fernández

Movida madrileña: A semantic impact on the Spanish culture

 Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Lidia Hidalgo Martín

 What is behind a translation? On the dubbing of racial slurs in Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino (2008)

 Dra. Marta Nadales Ruiz

Raquel Pasero López

 A Research Study of Cognitive Sociolinguistic Dynamics of American So-rorities

 Dra. Gitte Kristian-sen

Camelia Lungu

A Spanish translation of Maya Angelou’s Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997) Alliteration alternatives: a pilot study

 Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Borja Garrigues, Marina

Female expression of identity in an anonymous atmosphere: an analysis of female latrinalia

 Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Echaikhi, Fátima

Problematising the absence of heritage languages in CLIL schools: the case of Moroccan Arabic in Spain

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

García Crespo, Ana

Gender representations and media: men and women representations through British Royal Members in online British tabloids

 Dra. Juana I. Marín Arrese

Lupiánez Rodríguez, Daniel

Politics is war: a conceptual metaphor approach to Trump´s border wall

 Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Martín Díaz, Claudio

Dubbing as a tool to manipulate: censorship in Spain

 Dra. Marta Nadales Ruiz y Dr. Arsenio Andrades Moreno

 

Curso 2017-2018 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

García Durán, Isabel

Influences of motivation in Second Language learning

Dra. Davinia Sánchez García

Ramírez Castellanos, Felipe

An English translation of the Spanish criminal drama series “Ajuste de Cuentas”

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo 

Mastrangelo, Claudio

“Potterology”: translation strategies comparison of proper names in Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone in 23 languages

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Machuca Fuentes, Isabel 

Lost in audiovisual translation: dubbing culture-specific items

Dr. José Javier Ávila Cabrera

Mora Castillo, Luis Alejandro

The creation of an ideology through language: Hip-hop ideological construction

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

Ponce Esparcia, Celia

A discourse-historical analysis of floating and empty signifiers and metaphors in left-wing and right-wing populist discourse 

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha 

Díaz Muñoz, Patricia 

Rapport Management in the TV show Orphan Black: From accommodation strategies to accommodative moves

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Ferlic, Jessica 

 Framing and discursive strategies across twenty years of sexual harassment editorials in The New York Times: A diachronic critical discourse analysis

 Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

León Meseguer, Adriana 

 Linguistic conceptualizations of death and afterlife in Asia and Europe

 Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Pasuy Amores, Liz Jamira 

 A study of verb tense from a narratological point of view: “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “Happy Endings” and “Girl”

 Dra. Mariann Larsenn Pehrzon

Pérez Pérez, Ángela

An English Translation of the Spanish TV Series Aquí no hay quien viva: Subtitling for non-hearing population

Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Rodríguez García, Joana 

 An approach to the conceptualization of emotions cross-culturally: A case-study in cognitive psychology and cognitive sociolinguistics

 Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Sánchez Sánchez, Manuel Juan

 The qualification of Figure and Ground in factive-fictive motion: a tentative exploration of motion events in literary discourse 

 Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

 

 

Curso 2016-2017

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Chamorros Sanjuán, Arantxa

You can’t believe what I have to tell you: A Descriptive and Sociolinguistic Approach to the Prosodic Patterns of Emotions

Dr. Marciano Escutia

Espina Puertas, Mª Ángeles

Fairy Tale Retelling: Translation and Domestication in “A Wolf at the Door”

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Gómez Piqueras, Mª de los Ángeles

Gender processing information: An analysis of advertising using linguistic and visual resources

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Ibáñez Archilla, Leyre

A cognitive approach to semantic equivalences A context-based study on Spanish aspectual clitic se and English perfective preposition “up” 

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Latorre García, Juan Antonio

Attribution of Authorship of The Merchant of Venice and Henry VI Through Linguistic Parameters: A Contrastive Study between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Martínez Celis, Andrea

The Role of Pragmatics in English Teaching: A Study of Pragmatic Competence of Students from Spanish Institutions

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Martínez Portillo, Sara

Translating “A Clockwork Orange”: A Case Study on the Conundrums of Musical Dramas

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

Sicilia Polo, Laura

Teaching English as a Foreign Language
to Students with Down Syndrome: A case study

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo and Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Li, Qui

A corpus-based study: Topic in Newspaper Articles in written Chinese and written English

 

Prokofieva, Elizaveta

Business writing: genre and register approaches to the analysis of business reports

Dra. Elena Domínguez Romero

Abdulaziz Alarify, Mead

The use of the English language among Saudi business youth in Riyadh

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Amat Samper, Carolina

"In Cuba I was a German shepherd”, by Ana Menéndez: code-switching and translation

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

Arribas Rodríguez, Dánae

Let’sBe Bad Moms! Portrayal of Mothers in Cinema through Dubbing and Subtitling in four Cinematographic Genres

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Calviño Novoa, Ana

Go on: A translation approach of an American sitcom

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Chetouan Chakir, Fátima

The conceptualization of Happiness: Multimodal metaphors in the original and adapted version of the song ‘My favourite things’

Dra. Mariann Ellen Larsen Pehrzon

Fernández Río, Patricia 

Direct and Indirect Theatre Translations: Terra Baixa in Spanish and English

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

García Huertas, Jonathan

For or Against? A Contrastive Rhetorical Analysis of Speeches on Climate Change

Dra. Mariann Ellen Larsen Pehrzon

Gil Bonilla, Jhon Fredy

A Critical-Cognitive Analysis of Donald Trump’s Discourse across Time: Trump as a businessman versus Trump as President

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

González Gómez, Ana

“Pun’s not dead!”: Wordplay in Audiovisual Media and Translation Techniques: The Case of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Dr. José Javier Ávila Cabrera

Landa, Ewelina

A Study of the Transitivity system in Fictional Narrative: A Comparison of Process Types in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Minculescu, Andrada 

Silences and overlaps: not mere exceptions to turn-taking

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

 

Curso 2015-2016

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Albadalejo Pay, Beatriz

Corpus annotation of causal relatins and their signals in English and Spanish

Dra. Julia Lavid López

Artero Abellán, Pablo Agustín

A Contrastive Study between English and Spanish Newspapers’ Comments Section: An Approach to Modal Verbs

Dra. Elena Domínguez Romero

Bartczak, Katarzyna

Cultural diversity in an international business environment: The case of Google and Toyota Motor Corporation. Technology vs People

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Jaén Campos, Marta

Redefining the Roles of the EFL Teacher within CLIL Secondary Setting

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Jiménez Aragón, Garazi 

An analysis of authorship attribution: Identifying written linguistic variables in oral discourse

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Lagunas Hernández, Francisco

A Spanish Translation of the TV Series “Big School”

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

López Yáñez, Javier

A Spanish Translation of the American Crime TV Series “Wicked City” 

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Marín Torres, Gloria

 The representation of terrorism in American news reports

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Rodríguez Alayo, Wendy J. 

 A critical discourse analysis of the (self) representation of Hillary R. Clinton in public discourse

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Birkus, Orsolya

The discursive representation of language practices and European identity in the main Treaties of the European Union

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Carrasco Pérez, Jesús

 An English-Spanish contrastive study of jocular mockery on Face- book: the influence of age

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Conejero Cuadrado, Jorge

 A comparison between the subgenres of movie and book reviews by analyzing their evaluative elements and rhetorical structure

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Crevillén Castell Luis Alberto

A comparison in the use of clefts in native and non-native English discourse

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Martínez-Abarca Crane, Francisca Isabel

 Native/non-native, does it really matter? Teacher's and Students' perception of English Language Teachers

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Sebastián Salinas, Sofía

A multimodal analysis of the vampire movie posters genre

Dra. Mariann Larsen Pehrzon

Wood, Louise Diane

Cultural Clashes in Intercultural Pragmatics

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

 

Curso 2014-2015

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Almeida Trinidad, Isabel

Cultural adaptation in advertising translation: A corpus based study

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

Angulo Rufs, Ana Belén

Thematization of the internal and external world. A Systemic- Functional analysis of three written registers: news writing, fiction and academic prose

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

García Delgado, Tatiana

Contrastive analysis on the perception of dubbed characters: The case of death note

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Huélamo Alfaro, Natalia

A cognitive-functional approach to students’ narratives in English: Deixis, transitivity, and thematic structure

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Ionita, Anca

A cross-cultural study of women language

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Martín González, Daniel

Animacy and psych verbs: A usage-based approach to the processing of psychological predicates

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Martínez Antón, Maite

The linguistic concept of police interrogations

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

Pareja Galeano, Aroa

Culturomics: A New Approach to the Public Reception of Non-sexist Terms in two English Varieties

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Peso Sánchez, Sandra del

The evolution of immigration discourse in the Maltese press from 2005 to 2015: A case study of the Times of Malta

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Sánchez Martín, Laura

Language and Gender in blogs: An analysis of male and female features for positioning and interaction

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Sanjuan El Bakkali, Sara

A cross-cultural study of greetings in Peninsular Spanish and British English

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Talavera Lombarte, Eugenia

An analysis on the relation of inter-semiotic cohesion and humour creation in online memes

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Tsoumou, Jean Mathieu

Language and Mobility in Spain: A sociolinguistic study of Erasmus Mundus students at the UCM

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Yang, Hao

An analysis of students´ attitudes towards EMI in Chinese Higher Education from a sociolinguistic perspective

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

 

Curso 2013-2014

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Alda García, Marta

E. E. Cumming´ “poem pictures” and their relation to haiku: A stylistic approach

Dra. Mariann Larsen Pehrzon

AlRubaian,

Haifa Mohammed

A cross-cultural examination of the use of multimodal metaphor in English and Arabic cartoons of the “Arab spring” in Egypt

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Carrasco Flores, José Andrés

On the translator’s linguistic competence: Towards a methodology of English for Translation and Interpreting

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Cristea, Ligea

A cross-cultural study of refusal strategies in British English and Peninsular Spanish

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

de Moraes Abrahão, Viviane

A corpus based analysis of verbs in subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing and audiodescriptions

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Gael Echitchi, Size Raymond

The discursive formation of nationalism: A study of the Anglophone secessionist movements in Cameroon

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Nuño Lohr, Pavel A.

Bridging the gap in legal translation: A study on dethronement and divorcement as translation approaches in the legal field (English and Spanish)

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

Núñez López, Miriam

The use of swearwords in adolescent online fan fiction

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez

Sanjuan Martín, Ana

Prototype Theory: The stork in Extremadura

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Schlemmer, Sarah María

The use of stance markers in advertisements targeting women: representing existing conflicts or imposing them to sell?

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Ternovaya, Maria

Looking for the finest English humour: cultural analysis of English and Russian anecdotes

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

 

Curso 2012-2013

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Amarouch, Ismail

The use of code-switching as a marker of identity and to establish in-group solidarity

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

Ben Deggoun, Naim Rian

The use of apologies and refusals in English by Moroccan EFL speakers and British native speakers

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

Bernal López, Danilo 

Beyond the production of garments: A critical study of the representation of social actors and social events in the information disclosure of four apparel companies

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Cirera Giménez, José Carlos

Teacher-student interaction in the EFL classroom and its effects on students´oral discourse production

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

Ferrández Melero, Layla

The issue of accessibility: linguistic reduction and simplification of subtitles for deaf children

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

García Manchón, Paula

A corpus-based analysis of swearword translation in DVD subtitles and Internet fansubs

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Glotova, Svetlana

CLIL lessons in law: A case study in Russia

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Gutiérrez Ashling, Lara 

A Spanish Translation: Alison Lurie’s Tales

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Gutiérrez Dutton, Juan Carlos

Acronym-metaphors. A corpus approach to the study of <PIGS>

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Hernández Leiva, Ana María

Sex in print advertising: patterns in their production and different reactions in terms of sex

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

Juncos Zori, Alicia

Analyzing the use and function of mock Spanish in the Picturebook Collection Skippyjon Jones

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Lazarescu, Raluca Catalina

'Can you upload as soon as you can please?' A study of university student requests by e-mail in English Medium Instruction

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

López López, Luis F.

A critical metaphor analysis of the conceptualisation of economy in the British conservative party: the language of progressive conservatism

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Mateos Martínez, María

A gender study of primary education textbooks: A comparative analysis

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Morales de la Prida, Rocío

A contrastive study of English and Spanish campaigns against domestic violence

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Moslehi, Sepideh

A comparative study of the compliment responses between English and Persian TV interviews

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Park, Mok-won (Morgan)

The recontextualization of social events in media discourse: a critical analysis of Korean newspapers

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Rambla Espejo, Rosa

Register in English and its use by Spanish learners of English

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

Shabaka Fernández, Sonia

The linguistic realization of disagreements by EFL Egyptian speakers

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Wójcik, Ursula 

Native speakership and its influence on the concept of competent translator: Folk knowledge versus scientific knowledge

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

 

Curso 2011-2012

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Coleto Salas, Yolanda

Students´Writing Performance in Primary Contexts

Dra. Emma Dafouz

Fraile Fresno, Minerva

Ideology in News Reporting: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

García Favaro, Laura Elisa

Feminine identities in cosmopolitan advertising: A critical study of post-feminist media discourse

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

González Romero, Rocío 

Multimodality and English as a Foreign Language: Image-text Interaction for enhancing Students' reading comprehension

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Kimura, Yui

A contrastive analysis in determinacy between native English and the non-native English of Japanese adult students

Dr. Marciano Escutia

Lepelletier, Elsa

Metaphorical conceptualisations of women’s issues

Dra. JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer

Liu, Lu 

A study of the typological transitivity systems in oriental and occidental languages: A comparison of relational processes in English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

López Almansa, Sagrario

Second Language Acquisition, motivation and attitude of immigrant students learning English as a Foreign Language in a formal setting: The school contexts

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Majoud, Nesrine

Cognitive Interpretation to personal deixis in Obama’s speeches applying Lakoff’s Theory “The Obama Code”

Dra. JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer

Norman, Natalie

An Examination of the Benefits and Drawbacks of Translanguaging in CLIL Science Classrooms: An Examination into Spanish Primary Contexts

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Orzini, Fabrizio

A stylistic and multimodal comparative study of Bob Dylan’s songs and their Italian covers during the sixties

Dra. Mariann Larsen Pehrzon

Özalp, Nilcan

Syntactic comprehension in schizophrenia and linguistic theory

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Panagiota Alexandropoulou

The Persian Gulf War: Critical Analysis

Dra. María Luisa Vega

Pascual Iglesias Almudena

The role of facial expressions in the syntax, prosody and affective prosody of both oral and sign languages

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez

Robles Braojos, Óscar

Students´classroom interactional strategies in a bilingual sections programme

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Sanquer, Laura

The conceptualisation of the Tunisian and the Libyan revolutions in the French and the American press: A contrastive study between Le Monde and The New York Times

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Shahada, Ezzedeen

Common errors in using subject verb agreement among non-governmental university students and governmental secondary school students from the 10th Grade in Gaza, Palestine: A corpus-based study

Dr Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Sokolova, Olga

A study of gender and stance-taking in American and British political discourse

Dra. Paloma Tejada

Sulkowska, Elzbieta

English lexical borrowings in Polish and Spanish

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano

Tastan, Feride Duygu

Language contact in Computer-Mediated Communication: The use of English on Twitter by Turkish Native Speakers

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Yakimovskaya, Ksenia 

Applying Corpus Methodology to Error Analysis of Students' Translation into the L1: The Context of Audiovisual Translation

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo y Aída Fernández Bueno

Wilson, Christopher

Fictive orality and translation: A case study and original translation of Javier Negrete´s “Alejandro Magno y las Aguilas de Roma”

Dr. Jorge Braga Riera

 

Curso 2010-2011

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Daquila, Jean Pierre

The improvement of classroom pronunciation through the explicit teaching of Phonetics

Dr. Marciano Escutia López

de Carlos Fernández, Laura 

Metaphors, blends and cultural associations in advertising: A four-language comparison of cultural and gender issues

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

de Toffol, Marta

An English-Spanish contrastive analysis of culturally loaded phraseological units containing kinship terms

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Fernández Prieto, Mario

Errors in the acquisition of the present continuous by Spanish Secondary students

Dr. Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo

Gerakopoulou, Olga

Scaffolding oral interaction in a CLIL context: A qualitative study

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Karshenas Najafabadi, Hosna

A study of English translations of metaphorical expressions in Saddi´s “Golestan The Rose Garden”

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Martín Píriz, Sheila

A corpus-bassed approach to fictive motion

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Martín Tevar, Jesús

A native accent is always attractive: Perception of British English varieties by EFL spanish students

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

Mora López, Natalia

Annotating expressions of engagement in online book reviews: A contrastive (English-Spanish) corpus study for computational processing

Dra. Julia Lavid López

Nieto Álvaro, Ramiro

The role of conversational maxims, implicature and presupposition in the creation of humour: An analysis of Woody Allen’s “Anything Else”

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Pereira Rojas, Silvia Inès

Raising metacognitive awareness in university settings: A study of reading strategies in a bilingual business degree

Dra. Emma Dafouz MIlne

Rosolovska, Yuliya

The perception of irony in newspaper articles in English and Ukrainian

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Ruiz Cabanillas, Marta

Linguistic diversity and cultural diversity: the use of Singlish in computer mediated conversation

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Santo-Tomás González, Mercedes

From low to high order thinking skills in CLIL Science Primary Textbooks: A challenge for teachers and publishers

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Segreti, Daniel J.

Animal farm revisited: A conceptual integration analysis

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Serú, Nadia Alelí

Gender representation in online EFL teaching material: A case study of Spanish teacher´s comics

Dra. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Subero Pérez, Koritza

Contrasting thematic patterns in Spanish and English news genres: A corpus-based analysis with a view to developing ESP teaching resources for Venezuela schools of journalism

Dr. Jorge Arús Hita

Zeljko, Ana

Case study- Translation of Jodi Picoult´s “Learning Home”

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

 

Curso 2009-2010

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Álvarez Fernández, María de los Ángeles

Women representation and propaganda during Italian and German totalitarian regimes

Dra. Elena Domínguez Romero

Arévalo Garrido, Leyre

English in Europe: examining uses and meanings of culture-specific words in British and non-British contexts

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Cembreros Castaño, Diana

A software/design method for predicting readability for ESL students

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

Famelart, Emeline

Multimodal Metaphors and Advertising: A Trilingual Comparison of the Use of Multimodal Metaphor in Bank Advertisements

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

García Puente, Rubén

Interdisciplinary learning in a bilingual context: Proposal for an integrated syllabus in the subject of Physical Education

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Gómez Cerdeño, Teresa

The use of foreign words as a persuasive tool in marketing discourse: the cultural stereotype of Global English in Spanish print advertising

Dra. Gitte Kristiansen

Gómez Pérez, Remedios

The acquisition of intercultural communicative competence: a perspective from the experience of language teachers and students

Dra. Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Hibler, Abbie

Effective collaboration between native and non-native Speakers in the Spanish CLIL contexts: The case of the language assistants in Primary Education

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Khir Allah, Ghufran

Metaphor within culture variation: Metaphors of “The Islamic Veil”, “Female’s Body” and “Cultural Integration” among the mainstream British Culture and the Islamic British subculture

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Krug, Matthias

War of words? A contrastive linguistic study of the political speeches of Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr., George W. Bush Jr. and Barack Obama, employing the ‘Wave Method of political speech analysis’

Dr. Enrique Bernárdez Sanchís

Mañoso Pacheco, Lidia

Multimodal metaphors and mirror neurons´ analysis in Spanish TV commercials

Dr. Enrique Bernárdez Sanchís

Maponga, Farayi

Students´attitudes to EIL and local teachers

Dr. Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla

Naghy, Corina E.

Directing ddeologies through Media Cartoons

Dr. Enrique Bernárdez Sanchís

Potapeiko, Jelena

Gender discourse democratization: Cosmopolitan and Men’s Health

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Riera Saenz de Buruaga, Isabel

Figurative language in hybrid literature and its translation

Dr. Enrique Bernárdez Sanchís

Sánchez García, Davinia

Classroom interaction in university settings: The case of questions in three disciplines

Dra. Emma Dafouz Milne

Soumani, Katerina

The encoding of property concepts in Spanish and English: Meaning categorization and perspective

Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller

 

Curso 2008-2009

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Caballero Benito, Laura

Object and complement fronting in the English clause

Dra. Elena Martínez Caro

Contastinescu, Monica

Idioms of biblical origin in the English and Spanish media

Dr. Michael White

López Sánchez, Pilar

The interpersonal metafiction in English and Spanish advertising slogans

Dra. Marta Carretero Lapeyre

Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara 

Comparing thematic features in English and Spanish: A functional analysis of two newspaper genres

Dra. Julia Lavid López

Rubio Muñoz, Águeda

The Washington Post and El País: Different ways of conceptualizing the current financial crisis

Dra. Juana Marín Arrese

Villalaín García, Patricia

“Speeding U” the process of language acquisition for Spanish-speaking students in California. A new approach

Dra. Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

 

Curso 2007-2008

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Moreno Palmero, Celeste

The contribution of the mass media to the creation of the mental model of the atomic energy: Ideology, cognition and discourse

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha

 

Curso 2006-2007

 

Estudiante

Título del TFM

Tutor/a del trabajo

Allani, Samira

Ideological Discourse Structures in opinion articles: a cross cultural analysis

Dra. JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer

Pappalardo, Giuliana

Gender, politics and the media: a critical discourse analysis of the 2007 French presidential elections

Dra. Begoña Núñez Perucha