• Sociopragmatic development in study abroad contexts: the role of learner status in the use of second language pragmatic markers 

  Magliacane, Annarita (University College Cork, 2017)

  With the ever-growing number of individuals who embark on study abroad (SA) sojourns, SA research has become a prolific and well-established area of investigation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. However, ...
• Sartre on Flaubert: philosophy becoming literature 

  Edwards, Mary Louise (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis aims to illuminate the philosophical importance of Jean-Paul Sartre’s final major work, L’Idiot de la famille (The Family Idiot), by arguing that it is not only a biographical study of the literary author Gustave ...
• Complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) development in L2 writing: the effects of proficiency level, learning environment, text type, and time among Saudi EFL learners 

  Alghizzi, Talal Musaed (University College Cork, 2017)

  The purpose of this longitudinal exploratory research is to investigate the influence of four factors: proficiency levels, text types, times, and learning environments on the writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency of ...
• Gender and metadiscourse in British and Saudi newspaper column writing: male/female and native/non-native differences in language use 

  Alsubhi, Aeshah Saadi (University College Cork, 2016)

  The topic of gender differences has proved to be a popular line of inquiry for researchers for decades, and the recent growing interest in the pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse makes it a major domain in the research ...
• A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons 

  Alsadi, Wejdan M. (University College Cork, 2016)

  This study is an attempt to push forward research on cartoons and humour in the Saudi context which has little scholarly attention. It is further a contribution to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour ...

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