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Los Ritmos Latinoamericanos Como Estrategia De Resistencia En La Ópera La Ruta De Su Evasión (2017) De Abya Yala Y Carlos Castro, Pamela Zamora Quesada
Los Ritmos Latinoamericanos Como Estrategia De Resistencia En La Ópera La Ruta De Su Evasión (2017) De Abya Yala Y Carlos Castro, Pamela Zamora Quesada
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
In this Master’s thesis I examine the most recent Costa Rican opera The Path of Avoidance (2017), produced by the Cultural Association for Performing Arts Abya Yala, directed by Roxana Ávila and composed by Carlos Castro, based on the homonymous novel of Yolanda Oreamuno (1948).Through a semiotic analysis, I will discuss how the innovative manner of incorporating Latin American rhythms such as salsa, bolero, vals criollo, bossa nova and tango is a musical strategy which promotes a problematization of the gender dominant discourse and patriarchal context. Simultaneously, these rhythms offer a way of resistance on the direct or psychological violence …
Dp Internal Codeswitching By Spanish And English Bilinguals In The Us, Yurena Castaño-Nuñez
Dp Internal Codeswitching By Spanish And English Bilinguals In The Us, Yurena Castaño-Nuñez
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Codeswitching studies the boundaries that exist at all linguistic levels when a speaker switches between two or more languages in a single moment of speech.
(i) En el restaurante he pedido la big hamburguesa.
‘At the restaurant I have ordered the big hamburger.’
(ii) Juan conoce la highway para llegar a Washington D.C.
‘Juan knows the highway to get to Washington D.C.’
(iii) A Carmen no le gustan los pantalones cortos. A ella le gustan los long ones.
‘Carmen doesn’t like short pants. She likes the long ones.’
This thesis concentrates on the study of switches between adjectives and Noun …