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• Sexpeditions: mapping mobility and sexuality in postcolonial France and the Maghreb 

  Tarjanyi, Peter (2020-07-13)

  The dissertation explores the intersections of mobility and sexuality in France and the Maghreb from the heyday of colonialism to the postcolonial present. In particular, it investigates literary and cinematic representations ...

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• Reinforcing and destabilizing myths of origin: Storytelling and biopolitical communities in contemporary theater in French 

  Strole, Nicholas A. (2020-02-04)

  This dissertation examines representations of community in contemporary theater in French through the theoretical lens of biopolitics and analyses of the ways in which stories are told. In close readings of major theatrical ...

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• The impact of self-reflection and integrated pronunciation instruction on the intelligibility of Generation Z learners of French: A mixed methods study 

  Meritan, Camille Anne Sarah (2020-04-29)

  Research in second language (L2) teaching and learning has shown that very early in the learning process, developing intelligible pronunciation is a paramount goal for students. This becomes clear in the way they describe ...

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• Dynamics of prescriptivism and lexical borrowings in Contemporary French 

  Zsombok, Gyula (2020-04-22)

  In France and Québec, language contact with English is often perceived as a source of negative influence on French. Terminological commissions working under the supervision of the Académie française and the Office québécois ...

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• Les Histoires françaises d’avarice jusqu’aux temps modernes 

  Brown, Alice Louise (2019-04-18)

  This study is an intellectual and cultural history of greed with emphasis on the impact religious and political change had on the concept of avarice from the mid 15th to the beginning of the 18th century. I trace how the ...

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