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The USA used to be an active actor in international cooperation on environmental issues, but since Trump came to office, his worldviews do not match with the current situation regarding environmental policies. This thesis discusses the influence that Donald Trump and his administration have on the current climate debate in the United States of America via the analysis of the communication of key moments (speeches and texts).

Donald Trump --- US politics --- trump administration --- climate debate --- us climate debate --- trump and climate --- speech analysis --- Arts & sciences humaines > Multidisciplinaire, généralités & autres

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This research paper is concerned with Hopper & Thompson’s conceptual redefinition of transitivity in Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse (1980) in which they reject the dichotomous nature of transitivity and claim that it should be seen as a scalar notion so that structures are ranked as more or less transitive. It concentrates on transitive structures that contain generic or indefinite object-arguments in Present-day English. A corpus study of 1200 analysed instances was carried out to analyse 'people' and 'stuff' as generic, plural and uncount nouns and 'someone', 'anyone', 'somebody', 'anybody', 'something', 'anything' as indefinite pronouns, occurring in object position. The aims of this corpus study are: a) to investigate to what extent these show reduced transitivity and backgrounded discourse status in the sense of Hopper and Thompson (1980), and b) to show that constructions containing such generic or indefinite object-arguments exhibit characteristics of object demotion and support the emergence of functionally antipassive constructions in Present-Day English.

English linguistics, --- transitivity --- discourse --- antipassive constructions --- Arts & sciences humaines > Langues & linguistique

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This master thesis starts from the importance of co-speech gestures in communication and from the typological differences between verb-framed and satellite-framed languages (Talmy 2000). It is thought that these differences are reflected in gestures (Kita & Özyürek 2003, McNeill 2005 and Brown & Chen 2013). The present study aims to determine how French native speakers, Dutch native speakers and French-speaking learners of Dutch (2 proficiency levels) express dynamic and static motion events in both language and gestures. To do so, we conducted an experiment in which participants had to recount scenes from Tweety and Sylvester and in which they had to locate objects on images. Their productions were then analysed on both levels. The results of the current research are mostly in line with previous studies on the expression of motion events by French and Dutch speakers (Talmy 2000, Lemmens 2002, Kopecka 2006) and with studies on the expression of static motion events by French-speaking learners of Dutch (Lemmens & Perrez 2010, 2012 and 2018). In addition, it reveals (1) how French speakers of Dutch express dynamic motion events, (2) that the gestures produced by the two groups native speakers do show similarities and differences and what these are, (3) that gesturing in L1 is different than in L2 and (4) that learners tend to code the same pieces of information in their gestures in both languages.

gestures --- co-speech --- co-speech gestures --- multimodal --- multimodality --- verb-framed --- satellite-framed --- gesticulation --- Arts & sciences humaines > Langues & linguistique

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This thesis examines the influence of the nineteenth century on the Victorian ghost story.

Ghost Story --- Victorian Literature --- Spiritualism --- Nineteenth Century --- Arts & sciences humaines > Littérature