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A postcolonial and disability studies analysis of a selection of popular contemporary novels about disability
(2020-12-10)
This thesis will combine postcolonial theory and disability theory to analyse the representation of characters with a disability and their family members in a selection of contemporary popular novels. The texts examined ...
Irish policemen in the Palestine mandate, 1922-1948
(2022-03-16)
This thesis explores Ireland’s influence on and involvement in the policing of British Mandated Palestine and, through an examination of five distinct but interrelated aspects of the Irish experience, assesses Ireland’s ...
A literary theoretical exploration of silenced African women from psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives
(2022-04-01)
The study explores the gender relationship in the three English speaking regions of Sub Saharan Africa through three novels: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga; Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and Parched ...
Which graphs are rigid in lpd?
(Springer, 2021-03-13)
We present three results which support the conjecture that a graph is minimally rigid in d-dimensional ℓp-space, where p∈(1,∞) and p≠2, if and only if it is (d, d)-tight. Firstly, we introduce a graph bracing operation ...
Monströse Romanzen und romantische Monster
(2022-03-16)
This thesis examines German monster mash-up novels as a contemporary form of popular fantastic literature, which has developed as an intricate part of today’s globalised, multimedia world and has to be analysed within this ...
A corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of Irish English and Canadian English
(2022-04-06)
This PhD thesis is a comparative study of the spoken grammar of Irish and Canadian Englishes within the framework of Variational Pragmatics at the formal level, used to study the pragmatic variation (the intra-varietal ...
A metaphilosophical defense of Wittgenstein's conception of polythetic methods of analysis
(2022-04-06)
This thesis advances a metaphilosophical interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later conception of philosophy and specifically, its emphasis on a plurality of different philosophical methods. The thesis aims to achieve three ...
The disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and forced migration, 1922–31
(2022-04-08)
This article concerns the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were disbanded from the force in 1922 and felt obliged to leave Ireland for Britain. Afforded unique – if not always entirely sufficient – financial ...
Data-driven learning, theories of learning and second language acquisition: in search of intersections (Pre published)
(2021-11)
This chapter focuses on the need to address both theories of learning and theories of language acquisition in data-driven learning (DDL) research. While it recognises that there has been so much worthwhile research work ...