James Dewey and Dr. Willis C. Fails, Spanish and Portuguese Mozambique, located on the southeast African coast, gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. Since that time, the Mozambican government has faced numerous problems such as a sixteen-year civil war, famines, flooding, and extreme poverty. In addition, the government faces unique linguistic challenges including how […]
A Translation of El Muerto Dissimulado by Angela de Azevedo
Jessie L. Christensen and Dr. Valerie Hegstrom, Spanish and Portuguese The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain have come to be known as the “Golden Age”, due to the incredible flowering of art and literature that took place during that time. Among the greatest accomplishments of the era was prolific growth in both the writing […]
The Marvelous American Reality: Making a Case for Carpentier’s Magical Realism in Latin American Music
Erika Edwards and Drs. Arden Hopkin, Music and George Handley, Latin American Studies In 1949 the Nobel Prize-winning Cuban novelist and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier, published his essay on lo real maravilloso Americano, an aggressively American discussion of the theory now known as magical realism. Carpentier refers to the German art critic Franz Roh (who initially […]
The Fate of Condemned 18th Century Portuguese Loanwords
Aaron Eggleston and Dr. Christopher Lund, Spanish and Portuguese In 1760 a book was published in Lisbon, Portugal entitled Infermidades da lingua, e arte que a ensina a emmudecer para melhorar (Sicknesses of the tongue, and the art that teaches it to be silent for improvement), in which the use of certain words and phrases […]
Seven Days: A Latin American Historical Novel
David Wiseman and Dr. Douglas J. Weatherford, Spanish and Portuguese Introduction As often is the case in creative writing, the direction of this project deviated slightly from its initial aims. The results, however, surpass in significance the expected outcome of the project’s early development. In order to insure proposed results, this project required extensive research […]
The Roles of Tone and Intensity in the Perception of Spanish Intonation Patterns
Angela Weech and Dr. J. Halvor Clegg, Spanish and Portuguese Even among linguists, there exists some disagreement as to the contribution that various acoustic parameters make or don’t make to the perception of Spanish intonation patterns. The three parameters commonly in question are tone, intensity, and duration. While it is common to only include tone […]
UNDERSTANDING MOOD SELECTION FOR NOMINAL CLAUSES HEADED BY EL HECHO DE QUE IN SPANISH
George P. Myers and Dr. Jeffrey S. Turley, Spanish & Portuguese In A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, David Crystal semantically defines the mood of a verb as the “attitudes on the part of a speaker towards the factual content of the utterance, e.g. uncertainty, definiteness, vagueness, possibility.”1 While Crystal’s definition may give the mood […]
A COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF THREE NOVELS BY GALDÓS
Erik Lewis and Dr. Dale J. Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese This report is designed to chronicle my experiences while performing my research and to explain the subsequent conclusions that I have made. In its inception, this project was to cover three novels by Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain’s most prolific author. However, after consulting with Dr. […]
AN INTERLINGUISTIC THEORY OF JAZZ, BARTHES AND 20TH CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE
Jeff Gabbitas and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese, Through this grant I have been given the opportunity to explore a common thread that ties jazz and 20th century Spanish literature together. I put a large amount of time and thought into this interlinguistic theory by studying different Spanish literary works and comparing the content […]
Worth its Weight in Gold: The Incredible Success of BYU’s Spanish Golden Age Theater Program
Jared White and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese Department During the first quarter of 2005, Brigham Young University’s Spanish Golden Age Theater program performed the theatrical work El caballero de Olmedo, a seventeenth-century production by Lope de Vega, a renowned Spanish playwright. The Golden Age Theater program not only performed the play, but also […]