This thesis examines ways in which interpreting practice in healthcare settings can be enhanced in order to better facilitate communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. This study is based on 17 ...

The navies of France and England explored Indo-Pacific regions in the 18th and 19th centuries, seeking new scientific knowledge and territories. Although equal in technical and navigational skills, the health of their crews ...

The interpretation of Kafka’s literature has always presented major problems for critics, who have attempted to simplify the figures and metaphors contained in the stories by offering possible explanations. Starting from ...

Motivated by the growth of study-abroad (SA) population and the various findings in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) literature, this thesis investigates the effect of the SA context on the acquisition of English embedded ...

This thesis investigates the linguistic and cultural resources that eight Indigenous children draw on when they pursue affiliative and disaffiliative actions in talk with peers. These children are L1 speakers of Murrinhpatha, ...

Research on cross-language phoneme perception has mainly focused on either vowels or consonants, but little is known about the difference of the perception patterns of the two groups of phonemes. Therefore, both non-native ...

This thesis is an explorative study of the phenomenon of repeated mobility in highly-skilled Germans. Repeated mobility consists of a series of international mobility episodes over long periods of time. The thesis explores ...

Los monstruos son corporizaciones del miedo (Warner 4), creaciones que construye nuestra mente para confrontar la cambiante realidad (Gilmore 1), personificaciones de la otredad existente dentro de la mismidad (Beal 4); ...

This thesis investigates the ambivalent nature of utopian representation in the novels of Michel Houellebecq. Moving beyond previous definitions of Houellebecq’s utopias as either utopian, dystopian, or anti-utopian, it ...

The notion of risk has become an integral part of the contemporary societies, which come to understand potential harms and threats in and through the discourses of risk. Aligning itself with the literature of risk and ...