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(2017-08-14)ResearchmastersDirect object scrambling is a type of word order variation in which the direct object of a sentence moves across an adverb to a more leftward position in the sentence. The phenomenon exists in a number of the Germanic ... -
(2017-11-01)ResearchmastersThis thesis does not discard opinion polls as an inferior aspect of political communication, but historically studies how the appropriation of electoral research by broadcasters has influenced notions of political ...
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(2019-07-09)ResearchmastersThis project is concerned with the evolution and development of the genre of didactic poetry. Five poets, Hesiod, Aratus, Lucretius, Vergil, and Pseudo-Oppian, were investigated to find out how they applied didactic tools ...
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(2016-09-09)ResearchmastersCentral to this thesis is the question: how can differences between the public persona and the images of the practice of (popular) archaeology Austen Henry Layard (1817 - 1894), William Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942), and ...
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(2019-09-25)ResearchmastersEven though operetta has been a hugely popular genre in nineteenth-century Amsterdam, the genre has never been fully appreciated in Dutch historiography. Its influence on Dutch society has only partly been acknowledged by ... -
(2021-04-06)ResearchmastersIn his erudite periodical Pieter Rabus reflected on the most recent developments in the Republic of Letters. As the author of the Boekzaal van Europe, he attempted to convey heterodox ideas to his audience, resulting in ...
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(2020-02-07)ResearchmastersContrary to what one might believe, drunkenness was actually considered a highly complex phenomenon in the Middle Ages. Inspired by the notion of ‘indeterminacy’, this thesis investigates how a variety of meanings of ...
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(2017-08-15)ResearchmastersThis thesis explores the historical development and current appropriation of a war-related site in Japan—the Noborito Institute—that was connected to Japan's aggression during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). It illustrates ...
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(2017-08-31)ResearchmastersThis thesis researches the shape and conduct of three particular concepts in the context of the construction of the Zuiderzeewerken in the early twentieth century Netherlands. The first chapter deals with the visual ...
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(2021-03-31)ResearchmastersThis thesis examines the cityscape of Umayyad Córdoba that acquired a legendary status in the written source material already during the Umayyad era (AD 756-1031) as well as in the centuries that followed. In this research, ...
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(2018-01-25)ResearchmastersJuxtaposed entities, like butterfly and dress or banana and bread, invite people to look for meaningful connections between the entities. The type of interpretation one ends up with might depend on which of the object is ...
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(2021-08-19)ResearchmastersThis thesis focusses on the connections between heritage tourism, memory culture and imperialism in the Dutch East Indies between 1908 and 1940. In 1908 the Dutch imperial government supported the establishment of the ...
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(2016-09-15)ResearchmastersConversation is a socially and cognitively demanding endeavour in which interlocutors have to continuously monitor what is being said in order to react fast and appropriately. This is even more demanding with questions as ...
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Combatting Immorality: The implementation of the anti-trafficking discourse in the Dutch East Indies (2021-04-28)ResearchmastersThis thesis questions the function of the anti-trafficking discourse in the Dutch East Indies’ colonial politics between 1900 and 1940. It follows the Foucauldian notion that deviant sexualities were historically constructed ...
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(2016-04-14)ResearchmastersThis thesis seeks to analyse the differences and similarities between early twentieth-century comparisons between the British and Roman empires and between comparisons between America and Rome that were drawn during the ...
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Comprehension of coreferential and new proper names in discourse: an event-related potentials study (2020-08-28)ResearchmastersThe present event-related potentials study investigated how discourse coherence of repeated and new proper names influences discourse comprehension. In our study, we presented participants with mini stories in Dutch where ...
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(2017-08-31)ResearchmastersLife expectancy is a leading indicator when making decisions about end-of-life care, but good prognostication is notoriously challenging. Being overly optimistic about life expectancy, as doctors tend to be, greatly impedes ...
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(2019-10-09)ResearchmastersThis research provides an in-depth comparative analysis on how gender as a concept has been framed in three consecutive Dutch National Action Plans (NAPs) on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the period 2008-2019. This ...
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(2018-03-30)ResearchmastersFew people have discussed or are nowadays discussing (contemporary) artworks and their effects in terms of use and usefulness. It is generally believed that art is purposeful, and yet the union between art and utilitarianism ...
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(2018-08-31)ResearchmastersThis study examines the role of phonological overlap in perceived iconicity in a foreign sign language. Signers of Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal; NGT) were shown pairs of signs for the same ...
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