Theses by Year
2009~2005
This catalogue represents theses held in the collection of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. It is not a complete list of all theses completed by students of the school.
A complete collection of Master and PhD theses can be found in the Monash University Library (Honours theses are only available through the School.)
| Year | Title | Program | Degree | Code |
| 2009 | Attitudes to English Spelling | Linguistics | Hons. | 2009wm |
| Compund Ideograph-A Contested Category in Studies of the Chinese Writing System | Chinese | PhD | 2009cz | |
| Constructing 'Sites of Memory': Official and counter-official representations of 'Serangan Umum 1 Maret' in Modern Indonesia | Indonesian | Hons. | 2009ha | |
| Depoliticising the Holocaust n the early years of the BRD and the DDR | German | Hons. | 2009ls | |
| Difference and the Other in Dialogue - Philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction: a comparative analysis | German | Hons. | 2009cs | |
| Discourse functions of demonstratives and place adverbs with exophoric reference in Logea, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea | Linguistics | PhD | 2009dc | |
| Eyes Unaccustomed: The Creative Mind in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina and Other Prose Works | German | PhD | 2009ju | |
| Framing In Hispanic-Australian Adlolescent Narratives: Worst Holiday Stories As an Expression Of Identity | Hispanic | M.A. | 2009pk | |
| Gender Assignment and Word-final Pronunciation in French: Two Classification Systems | Linguistics | PhD | 2009am | |
| Greeting the browsing customer: service encounter openings and the influence of gender | Linguistics | Hons. | 2009mr | |
| History's Aside. A Study of Digressive Narrative Strategies in Historical Fictions by Italian Women Writers | Italian | M.A. | 2009cl | |
| Increasing immigration as a response to Japan's declining population | Japanese | Hons. | 2009fs | |
| Kierkegaard on Sartre (combined thesis French/Philosophy) | French | Hons. | 2009ds | |
| Las Identidades Indigenas Contestan Al Poder Colonial: Los Casos De Guatemala, Mexico Y Bolivia | Hispanic | Hons. | 2009jr | |
| Net-Speak: The Internet and Language Change | Linguistics | Hons. | 2009ss | |
| Parasocial Relationships between Media Audiences and Japanese Enterainment Characters: Does participation in virtual fan community influence the parasocial involvement of media fans towards the Johnny's Entertainment media characters? | Japanese | Hons. | 2009kj | |
| Playing it Gay: The construction of homosexual identity in the pilot episode of Will & Grace | Linguistics | Hons. | 2009sd | |
| Reading Annabella (1965-1978): A case study in feminism, social change and Italian popular culture | Italian | PhD | 2009ws | |
| Renegotiating Women in Contemporary Italian Cinema | Italian | PhD | 2009tt | |
| Silvio Berlusconi: Populism and the Undermining of Liberal Democracy in Italy | Italian | Hons. | 2009ga | |
| "Sospensione dell'io a fini personali" Discursive space and the construction of identity in Rosa Cappiello's Paese Fortunato |
Italian | Hons. | 2009cj | |
| Staying Together: Kinship, morphology and language change in Yanyuwa | Linguistics | Hons. | 2009jw | |
| Strokes of Culture: analysis of two versions of subtitles for the Korean movie "Chihwaseon" | Korean | Hons. | 2009fe | |
| The appeal of Boys' Love manga: An analysis of the protrayals of love and sex in Japanese comics | Japanese | Hons. | 2009cj | |
| The Mirror of Medea: Pasolini and Glover through the reflection of discontent | Classical Studies | Hons. | 2009dj | |
| The structure of the Chinese aspect system: A critical study | Chinese | Hons. | 2009wa | |
| The Writing of Leopoldo Maria Panero: Subjectivity and Mulitiplicity | Hispanic | PhD | 2009lr | |
| Translating Australia: The Case of Australian Contemporary Fiction in Italian Translation | Interpreting and Translation | PhD | 2009fd | |
| Translation and Modernity in Late Qing China (1895 - 1911) | Interpreting and Translation | PhD | 2009cl | |
| Translation Project as an Honours Dissertation - Ishida Ira's The Maze of the Palm | Japanese | Hons. | 2009bm | |
| Transmutations and Transfigurations: The Thesmophoria and the Cult of the Thesmophorian Goddesses after the Classical Period | Classical Studies | Hons. | 2009mk | |
| Traversing Textual Terrains : Strategies for Trnaslating Metaphonr in Japanese -English Literary Translation | Interpreting and Translation | PhD | 2009ts | |
| Vietnamese women's magazine fiction and agency | Asian Studies | Hons. | 2009dm | |
| "We call it Springbok German!": language contact in the German Communitites in South Africa | German | PhD | 2009fk | |
| Women Know Best: Women as Dante's guides through the different stages of love in La Divina Commedia | Italian | Hons. | 2009rc | |
| Word rage: An investigation into why 'poor' language use 'justifies homicide' | Linguistics | Hons. | 2009dk | |
| 2008 | A translation of Alain Badiou's "Philosophy and Politics: Beyond the philosophical theme of the community" with an accompanying theoretical introduction | French | Hons. | 2008cj |
| An Analysis of the 'China Threat Theory': Sino-U.S relations and the Notion of a 'Coming Conflict' | Chinese | Hons. | 2008lt | |
| Australia and Taiwan: Bilateral Relations, China, the United States, and the South Pacific | Chinese | PhD | 2008aj | |
| Collaborative Writing In A Second/Foreign Language | French and Italian | Hons. | 2008zc | |
| Huang Naishang: A Chinese Christian Reformer in Late Qing and Early Republican China | Chinese | PhD | 2008pa | |
| Jest and Recreation : The Translation of Humour | Italian | PhD | 2008mb | |
| "Keeping An Eye On All Balls" : Interpreters' Functions In Multi-Party Business Interpreting Situations | Japanese | PhD | 2008tm | |
| L'integration francaise a l'epreuve | French | Hons. | 2008hr | |
| Little, Great and Not-So-Great Russian: The Minor Literature of Nikolai Gogol | Slavic | PhD | 2008sp | |
| Opportunities for Second Language and Use in Foreigh Language Lerners' Social Networks | Japanese | PhD | 2008kn | |
| Proclus commentary on Plato's Timaeus Book 3, part ii Proclus on the World Soul | Classical Studies | PhD | 2008bd | |
| The European Union's 'illegal' immigration policy | French | Hons. | 2008gr | |
| Timor Leste's Portuguese language policy: implication development and national building (combined thesis Politics/Spanish) | Hispanic | Hons. | 2008mt | |
| Undesirable, unwanted and unconstitutional: An analysis of Aceh's prohition on apostasy | Indonesian | Hons. | 2008re | |
2007 |
A feast in Translation | French | Hons. | 2007tk |
| At street level: Service provision for drug users in Yogykarta within the context of a looming AIDS/HIV epidemic and the national drug-free 2015 policy | Indonesian | Hons. | 2007mc | |
| Bilingual friendship networks of Japanese students overseas | Japanese | Hons. | 2007wm | |
| Blurring the boundaries: History, memory and imagination in the works of W G Sebald | German | Hons. | 2007md | |
| Carlton and the development of an Italian neighborhood | Italian | Hons. | 2007bs | |
| Chronicles of my resurrection. Once upon a time in the Wesr…of Canada. : A translataion of selected extracts from Ugo Monticone's first novel | French | Hons. | 2007pb | |
| Contradictions of Memories and counter-memories. The significance of the Wenderoman in Post Reunification Germany | German | Hons. | 2007cv | |
| des themes de la citoyennete et de l'identite nationale dans le discours politique en France au cours des periodes electorales 1995 ey 2005 | French | Hons. | 2007gl | |
| Ficken auf der Buhne: Self-conceptualisation in Christian Kracht's Faserland | German | Hons. | 2007or | |
| Gattopardi, fiori e sciacalletti: Animal and natural imagery in Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo | Italian | Hons. | 2007ml | |
| Gender Politics and rape in Terence's Eunuchus | Classical Studies | Hons. | 2007rl | |
| German (re)unification, Gunter Grass and Ein weites feld | German | Hons. | 2007bl | |
| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. A decade under Chinese Sovereignty | Chinese | Hons. | 2007ne | |
| Jews and Other Victims: 'Jewishness' as moral identity in Natalia Ginzburg's works | Italian | PhD | 2007cn | |
| La presence du cinema francais en Australie | French | Hons. | 2007ja | |
| Learning second language vocabulary with the help of Etymology: German as a not-so-foreign language for speakers of English | German | Hons. | 2007wa | |
| Liebeskonzepte in Fatih Akins Film "Gegan die Wand". | German | Hons. | 2007sd | |
| MAKING NATURE: Visions Of Mastery in Third Reich Cinema | German | PhD | 2007ng | |
| Monteverdi's Eighth book of Madrigals: A musical genre in Transition | Italian | Hons. | 2007mk | |
| Nationalism, Hegemony, Language Politics and Language Marginalization in Postcolonial Zimbabwe | Linguistics | PhD | 2007nf | |
| Perceptions of speech accomodation of English speaking migrants | Linguistics | Hons. | 2007fp | |
| Reimagining Slovak National Identity: Media-based Popular Culture 1993 - 2005 | Slavic | PhD | 2007bj | |
| Sicilianism and the Mafi: Representations and realities | Italian | Hons. | 2007cm | |
| Studying online community: New approaches for new communities | Linguistics | Hons. | 2007dl | |
| Symbolism and Religion in the works of Mykola Khvyl'ovyi | Ukrainian | Hons. | 2007ki | |
| Taiwan-Japan relations | Asian Studies | Hons. | 2007bs | |
| Technology and the creation of new words in English | Linguistics | Hons. | 2007se | |
| The LingTool application. An interface for the production of interlinear morphemic glosses in XML | Linguistics | Hons. | 2007st | |
| Topo Gigio and the challenge of subtitling for Children's movies | Italian | Hons. | 2007ml | |
| Tracing a Tradition The Translation of Australian Children's Fiction into German from 1945 to Present | Interpreting and Translation | PhD | 2007gl | |
| Trans/figurations: Gender Crossing Contemporary Latin American Written and Visual Narratives | Hispanic | PhD | 2007lp | |
| Translation of Nihon kaiga no joseizo (the image og Japanese women in Japanese paintings) by Ikeda Shinobu | Japanese/Linguistics | Hons. | 2007sc | |
| Un Lugar : La inmigracion en Barcelona. El tratamiento y los deberes de los nuevos ciudadanos | Hispanic | Hons. | 2007mj | |
| Will a süβess sexy girl chattn? English borrowings on a German youth website | German/Linguistcs | Hons. | 2007gp | |
| Jews and Other Victims: 'Jewishness' as moral identity in Natalia Ginzburg's works | Italian | PhD | 2007cn | |
| 2006 | "You have to speak it at least": language and identity maintenance among Australian migrant teenagers | Linguistics | PhD | 2006wl |
| A comparative analysis of the Media Response to September 11, 2001, in Germany and Australia: An investigation into the print media debate | German | Hons. | 2006hj | |
| A critics discourse analysis of the 1968 West-German student movement | German | Hons. | 2006fa | |
| An examination of the core values of young second-generation Italo-Australians in Melbourne | Italian | Hons. | 2006ud | |
| Border Identities: The Mexican and United States border and the El Mariachi trilogy | Hispanic | Hons. | 2006rp | |
| Bridging The Gap | European Studies | M.A. | 2006hs | |
| Collectivism and Individualism as Japanese traits: A comparison of Karate Practitioners in Japan and Australia | Japanese | Hons. | 2006bc | |
| Coming to terms with Cultural Plurality: Responses to German-Turkish Literature since reunification. | German | Hons. | 2006dc | |
| Cultural Commodities in Local Revitalization: A Case Study in Tsugaru, Japan | Japanese | PhD | 2006ra | |
| Dancing to the beat of a different drum: On rave in China | Chinese | Hons. | 2006la | |
| Expletives, abusive swearing, euphemism and dysphemism: An examination of taboo language and its functions in Australian television | Linguistics | Hons. | 2006bm | |
| Giveness, definiteness, and specificity in a language without articles: The use of NP markers in Saliba, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea | Linguistics | Hons. | 2006cj | |
| "Heimatslos unter fremden Menschen" Hanna Papanek and Experience in Exile Letters | German | Hons. | 2006kb | |
| Indonesian Religious Humour: A cultural and linguistic analysis of religious humour in Indonesia | Indonesian/Linguistics | Hons. | 2006ce | |
| Interation in Japanese-English Language Exchange Partnerships | Japanese | M.A. | 2006my | |
| Intercultural Internet chat between learners of Japanese and English in informal contexts | Japanese/Linguistics | Hons. | 2006ps | |
| "La Memoire ukrainienne". The reconstruction and maintenance of cultural identity in France: The case of he Ukrainian community | French | Hons. | 2006mo | |
| Language Maintenance and Language shift in the Indonesian migrant community in Hamburg, Germany | German/Indonesian | Hons. | 2006er | |
| Learner Interaction in Pair/Group Work Tasks in a Japanese Language Classroom | Japanese | M.A. | 2006sc | |
| Managing Language diversities in an era of Globalisation: A critical analysis of the language policy and planning in India, Australia and Germany | German | Hons. | 2006ra | |
| Materialising Memory: An Enquiry into the Process of Public Memorialisation with Reference to the Rosenstrasse Protest | German | M.A. | 2006bk | |
| Normalisation and Historicisation as a means of Vergangenheitsbawaltigung in the post Wende German novel | German | Hons. | 2006be | |
| Observations regarding the possible linguistic origins of Bergamasco phonetic elements | Italian | Hons. | 2006mj | |
| "One country, two systems" and the challenge of air pollution in the Greater Pearl River Delta | Chinese | Hons. | 2006yd | |
| Political Accountability for Extra-Territorial Border Controls: The case of the Kater y Rades | Italian | Hons. | 2006jz | |
| Primary to secondary transition: What effects does it have on students' motivation to continue LOTE learning beyond the compulsary year level? | Linguistics | Hons. | 2006fb | |
| SBY: A new era in Political Rhetoric in Indonesia | Indonesian | Hons. | 2006wk | |
| Student and Tutor Oral Participation in Medical Problem-based Learning Tutorials | Japanese | M.A. | 2006ir | |
| Switzerland's relationships with the European Union: A critical analysis of Switzerland's accession to the European Union | German | Hons. | 2006kn | |
| The city examined: A comparative study of Jean Claude Izzo's Chourmo and Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Los mares del sur | French | Hons. | 2006sf | |
| The city examined: A comparative study of Jean Claude Izzo's Chourmo and Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Los mares del sur | Hispanic | Hons. | 2006sf | |
| The grammar of Wathawurrung: The aboriginal language of the Geelong-Ballarat area | Linguistics | Hons. | 2006dp | |
| The Grammar of Western Dani | Linguistics | PhD | 2006bp | |
| The Holy Roman Empire and the idea of European unity: the invention of the modern state and ''turn to equality''. | European Studies | Hons. | 2006cr | |
| The internationalisation of higher education: Social interaction between Japanese and Australian students | Japanese | Hons. | 2006mr | |
| The possessive constructions in English | Linguistics | Hons. | 2006sc | |
| The Writing of Francis Ponge: From the subject of language to the object of autography | French | PhD | 2006ap | |
| Writing in Japanese as a Second Language Composing on the Computer and by Pen-and -Paper | Japanese | M.A. | 2006sy | |
| 2005 | A comparative analysis of Australian and Japanese Mathematics Textbooks on Fractions | Japanese | Hons. | 2005pn |
| Alain Touraine and the Crisis of Organised Modernity | European Studies | Hons. | 2005af | |
| Artistic Beauty and Knowledge in the Aesthetics of Hume and Hegel | German | Hons. | 2005bd | |
| Attitudes toward suicide amoungst Japanese and Australian University students | Japanese | Hons. | 2005lk | |
| Barilla. Affidabilita, Tradizione e qualita in scatole blu: Un'analisi di alcune pubblicita televisive della pasta Barilla | Italian | Hons. | 2005rl | |
| Chastity and the single woan writer: Ideal states for creativity in Maddelana Campiglia's Flori and Moderata Fonte's il merito delle donne | Italian | Hons. | 2005rk | |
| From Mess-Mend to the Mafia: A history of Russian Detektiv | Slavic | PhD | 2005dj | |
| Hanryuu: Wave or Tsunami? The impact of Winter Sonata in Japan | Japanese | Hons. | 2005ha | |
| Language, Culture and Ideology: Socio-cultural and ideological implications of the adoption of anglicisms in French and German | German | PhD | 2005am | |
| Migrant Identites. The effects of diversity in the German context: integration, education, identity and language | German | Hons. | 2005cd | |
| Narrating Women's Lives: A comparative study of Anna Banti's Artemisia and Matilde Serao | Italian | Hons. | 2005cl | |
| Patterns of Language use in two Melburnian-Sicilian families | Italian | Hons. | 2005dj | |
| Pembangunan dan Aktivisme (Delepment and Activism) | Indonesian | Hons. | 2005hp | |
| Raising children bilingually through the ''one parent-one language approach: A case study of Japanese mothers in the Australian context | Linguistics | PhD | 2005tm | |
| Representation of Stalinist Themes and the recovery of cultural memory in the 'novels of death'' : The Keeper Of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Knowledge by Yury Dombrovsky | Slavic | M.A. | 2005dt | |
| Tales In Translation : A study of the German editions of the Grimms' Kinder-und Hausmarchen and their translation into English, with a detailed comparative analysis of ten translations of the tale of 'Rumpelstiltskin'. | German | M.A. | 2005kv | |
| The accession of the Central and Eastern European Countries to the European Union and the transitional restrictions upon freedom of movement | European Studies | Hons. | 2005sf | |
| The afflictions of an outsider exploring the ''Paradox of selfhood'' in the early cinema of Nanni Moretti | Italian | M.A. | 2005sm | |
| The Construction of Cultural Identity: Germans in Melbourne | German | PhD | 2005es | |
| The management of intercultural academic interaction in student exchanges between an Australian and its Japanese partner Universities | Japanese | PhD | 2005nh | |
| The relativity of Deviance in "Cosi' e' (se vi pare)" and "Enrico IV" by Luigi Pirandello | Italian | Hons. | 2005bc | |
| Translating Reality: L'Uomo del parco (1984) by Francesca Sanvitale | Italian | Hons. | 2005fd | |
| Translation of Mai Sentitia Cosi Bene by Rossana Campo with theoretical and critical review | Italian | Hons. | 2005js | |
| Une Traversee' de la Soci'et'e Post-Moderne a' travers le monde romanesque e'chenozien et le monde rhizomatique deleuzien/guattarien | French | Hons. | 2005wj | |
| Vagabondes, Dropahoutes, Fausses Pistes: Le nomadisme litteraire de Jean-Patrick Manchette et de Jean Echenoz | French | Hons. | 2005pg | |
| Vocal Others: Variations on the Feminine Voice | French | PhD | 2005fk | |
| Zygmunt bauman and Tzvetan Todorov: Morality, Modernity and the "Age of Camps"? | European Studies | Hons. | 2005wl |