Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Imhoff, Brian"
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McLain, Jana Dale (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The 1690 expedition led by Alonso de León into present day Texas proved to be a pivotal journey that had lasting effects on the development of Spain's land north of the Rio Grande. This expedition established the first ...
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Jensen, Katie Laurie (2012-02-14)This story suite is a work of autobiographical fiction, a coming of age tale which uses a young girl’s relationship to horses—along with various people and places connected to the horse world—as its narrative theme. The ...
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Weir Gil, Hector Enrique Antonio (2016-12-09)The Catholic experience in the Texas-US borderlands represents a void within the humanities. The attitudes that surround the topic of religion in socio-historical and literary studies have limited the scope of works. Two ...
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Yanes Fernandez, Inti (2018-05-01)The myth-making (mythopoeia) of El Cid and King Arthur as hegemonic devices flows through a diachronical shapeshifting process with religious and political functionality linked to the Christianization of Spain and Britain. ...
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Cunningham, Debbie S. (2011-10-21)In 1747, José de Escandón led an expeditionary force into the Seno Mexicano, the remote northern frontier of New Spain, which had developed into a safe haven for rebellious natives who had fled to the region as they resisted ...
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Audenaert, Michael Neal (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Large digital libraries typically contain large collections of heterogeneous resources intended to be delivered to a variety of user communities. One key challenge for these libraries is providing tight integration between ...
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Norris, Lola 1957- (2010-12-07)From 1686 to 1690, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from Northern New Spain into modern-day Texas in search of French intruders who had breached Spanish sovereignty and settled on lands claimed by the ...
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Robles Garcia, Damian (2022-01-24)The present study analyzes impoliteness phenomena in Don Quixote and the first known English translation of the same (1607-1620). It examines the very dynamics of denoting insults and offenses in the translated novel. This ...
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Gonzalez, Patricia Garza (2014-09-19)This study investigates how Spanish heritage language speakers interpret two types of compound constructions in Spanish: head-initial [N+N] N (e.g., obra cumber ‘masterpiece,’ lit. ‘work summit’) and exocentric [V+N] N ...
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Harris, Sinia Bolanos (2017-05-19)This dissertation describes and analyzes regional, social, and stylistic variation in the address system used by the characters of the telenovela El Señor de los Cielos (ESDLC). It also addresses the forms of negotiation ...
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Gardner Flores, Helen Lisa (2012-10-19)This study examines Dialect Awareness as an instructional practice when used to teach Spanish Heritage Language (HL) learners at a university located on the U.S.-Mexico border. The author employs bidialectalism as a ...
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Hickey, Concepción Maríe (2012-07-16)This qualitative study investigated Spanish language use and linguistic attitudes in Laredo, Texas and the surrounding area from 1860 to 1930. In the public domain, sources include the Spanish and English language newspapers ...
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Anderson, Sheri L. (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This analysis employs the sociolinguistic framework of status and solidarity (Holmes, 2001) to examine the use of codeswitching on the relational development between the characters in three plays by Cuban-American playwright ...
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Jordan, Sheila Pat (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This thesis edits and compares two diaries written during one of the earliest Spanish expeditions into Texas during 1691-1692. The first governor of the Province of the Tejas Indians, Domingo Ter??n de los R??os, steered ...
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Sorenson, Travis Doug (2011-08-08)This study documents and accounts for maintenance and change in dialectal features of Salvadoran Spanish in the United States, especially voseo, as opposed to tuteo, terms signifying the use of the second person singular ...