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Dans cette étude, je souligne la manière dont l'expérience d'immigration est représentée dans la poésie de Walter Bauer et de Jorge Etcheverry. Ces deux écrivains immigrants ont publié au Canada, en allemand et en espagnol respectivement, et il n'existe aucune étude comparant les oeuvres des deux auteurs. Je soutiens que le poème "Canada" consiste en un discours mélancolique de l'écrivain immigré et que le poème "Perro con alas", quant à lui, consiste en un discours nostalgique de l'écrivain exile. Je m'appuie sur les notions de nostalgie et de mélancolie en littérature de Walter Moser et d'Idelber Avelar. J'ai recours à l'analyse du discours d'Émile Benveniste pour étudier et interpréter la dichotomie formée par, d'une part, le pays et la culture d'origine et, d'autre part, le pays et la culture d'accueil. En plus de présenter une analyse de l'expérience littéraire d'immigration, cette recherche livre une réflexion générale sur les relations ethniques au sein de l'institution littéraire du pays et sur la place de la littérature en langue étrangère au Canada.

The goal of this thesis is to study names in the Harry Potter series and its French and Spanish translations. It therefore opens with an analysis of the names, nicknames, and titles that are found in the English series before elaborating on the characteristics that distinguish names with special significance from those without. The second chapter offers an analysis of the onomastic wordplay that can be found in the five English-language novels. Over the course of the third chapter, the reader will find (a) summaries of several translation theories, with a focus on those that pertain directly to the translation of names and onomastic wordplay, (b) a study of the strategies available to translators who are faced with loaded names, and finally, (c) an analysis of which of these strategies would seem to be the most useful in the translation of the Harry Potter series. Last, the reader will find the author's commentary on the treatment of names by Francois Menard, the French translator, by Alicia Dellepiane, who translated Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into Spanish, and by Adolfo Munoz Garcia and Nieves Martin Azofra, who translated the remaining four volumes into Spanish. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

This thesis consists of a study of the figure of the Jew in La Realidad historica de Espana, the most important of Americo Castro's works on Spanish history. My thesis is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I offer an overview of the evolution of Castro's historical work followed by an examination of his historical theories and key concepts and how they were received by the intellectuals of his time. The second chapter examines the presence of the Jewish population in Spain throughout history according to Castro. Since Castro's vision of the Jews is very different from that of his contemporaries and tends to be exaggerated at times, the third chapter is dedicated to the study of the cultural legacy of the Jews to Spanish culture according to his works. The conclusion to this thesis offers a brief comment on Castro's inclusion of the Hebrew population in his historical work as a possible answer to the official historical discourse of the francoist regime. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

La place du vernaculaire dans les oeuvres d'auteurs mauriciens d'expression française à très peu intéressé la critique jusqu'ici. Cette étude tente surtout de circonscrire la façon dont se vit le créole dans quelques oeuvres littéraires ainsi que la place et l'avenir de ce langage dans la société mauricienne. Cette thèse sera également l'occasion de voir comment les thèmes identitaires les plus récurrents évoqués par certains romans de notre corpus sont fatalement imbriqués à la notion de race ou de communauté.

In this dissertation we investigate whether the term 'near-native speaker' should be used to refer to speakers who, in spite of having been in contact with the Spanish language since childhood, differ from the Spanish standard norm sanctioned by grammarians and linguists with respect to both their grammatical competence and their ability to process this language. In order to carry out this investigation we have used two constructions that evidence unstable areas of the Spanish language: (a) Resumptive Pronouns in ambiguous Restrictive Relative Clauses (Pintaron los techos de unas casitas i que cuando nos fuimos a vivir al camp las i vimos en malas condiciones.); and (b) Optional Dative Clitic Doubling (Sally Potter (les) dedico el premio a los tangueros.) versus Obligatory Dative Clitic Doubling (El nino travieso le rompio el jarron a la abuela. ). Three groups of speakers with Spanish as their mother tongue participated in our study: an SC (Spanish Control) group consisting of speakers who have always lived in a Spanish speaking country; an LC (Late Contact with English) experimental group formed by L1 Spanish / L2 English speakers, and an EC (Early Contact with English) group which consisted of so-called heritage speakers. Our aim was to revise the term near-native so that it is not only the experimental groups' global grammatical competence that determines their being near-native versus native speakers, but also these experimental groups' local grammatical competence in relation to their acceptance and processing of Resumptive Pronouns and Dative Clitic Doubling constructions. We carried out three off-line and two on-line experimental tasks (Acceptability Judgments, Magnitude Estimation and Sentence Matching) intended to evaluate the grammatical and processing abilities of the three groups of speakers, who represented two varieties of Spanish: the Peninsular variety and the Rioplatense variety. The results show that the experimental groups' (LC, EC) global grammatical competence differs significantly from that of the Control group (SC). However, in relation to the acceptability and processing of the Resumptive Pronouns and Dative Clitic Doubling constructions, the experimental groups differ from the Control group only with respect to certain aspects of these constructions while they evidence native competence in relation to other aspects. This leads us to propose that the term 'near-native' cannot be applied across the board.

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