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Mapping the text culture of the subject of English. Genres and text types in national exams and published learning materials
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-01-09)Mapping the text culture of the subject of English investigates patterns of genres and text types in textbooks, educational websites and national exam papers for English as a common core subject in Norwegian upper secondary ... -
A Master’s Monument: Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)This article explores the reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by W.B. Yeats. In her recent study Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007), Helen Vendler has stressed the importance of taking the formal structures ... -
May the Accent Be with You: An attitudinal study of language use in the Star Wars trilogies
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Føremålet med denne studien har vore å analysere bruken av engelske uttalevariantar i dei tre Star Wars trilogiane, for å finne potensielle systematiske korrelasjonar mellom karakterane sin aksent, og deira karaktertrekk. ... -
Más allá de lo evidente - Interrogantes sobre el movimiento #YoSoy132.¿Por qué surgió y cuál fue su impacto en el sector estudiantil
(Master thesis, 2014-08-31)This thesis focuses on the social movement #YoSoy132 that emerged in the Mexican presidential campaign of 2012. It is a study of the interaction of civil society with political institutions, where a movement that was not ... -
Mediación y desarrollo de la competencia intercultural: un análisis de Pasos y Encuentros1.
(Master thesis, 2022-02-01)En este estudio analizo actividades en dos manuales de ELE para averiguar en que medida los libros utilizan la mediación como una herramienta para desafiar la competencia intercultural y el desarrollo personal de los ... -
Mellom barken og veden. Estisk språkpolitikk etter sjølvstendet.
(Master thesis, 2014-09-17)Inst i Austersjøen, der Bottenvika møter Finskebukta, ligg Estland. Opp gjennom hundreåra har landet vorte hærteke av både danskar, svenskar, tyskarar og russarar, og det var fyrst i 1918, etter at det russiske imperiet ... -
Memorias de Paulina (1874) El juego de la provocación
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Memorias de Paulina (1874) a short novel written anonymously by José Negrete in Mexico, is a text that questions certain social consensuses and established institutions of the time. The main character, Paulina, was a dancer ... -
Memories of a Contested Homeland: Nostalgia, Postmemories, and Exile in Mornings in Jenin, Here I Am, and A Map of Home
(Master thesis, 2018-06-13)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hvordan identitet, hjem og hjemland er fremstilt gjennom ulike former av minner i moderne litteratur som, direkte eller indirekte, omhandler konflikten i Israel/Palestina. Selv om denne ... -
Men in Support of Women's Suffrage
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Meningsfremvisning, ikke meningsutveksling: Uttrykksprinsippet som debattideal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Offentlig debatt forstås gjerne som deliberasjon; som avveiing av argumenter for og mot valg av fremtidig handling. Et deliberasjonsprinsipp innebærer dermed at samtalepartnerne begrunner sine synspunkter overfor hverandre ... -
Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching
(Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics, Book; Peer reviewed, 2018)This volume offers an exhaustive look at the latest research on metacognition in language learning and teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of metacognition in language learning and teaching, this book, ... -
Metaphor and ideology in biotechnology: A study of metaphor in media’s discourse on reproductive and genetic biotechnology and bioethics
(Master thesis, 2012-05-14)Metaphors are powerful rhetorical devices that contribute to shaping our reality through hiding and highlighting. Within the field of cognitive linguistics metaphors are considered vital, not only to language, but also in ... -
Metaphor and its Usage in the Genre of Advertising
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Médicos, curanderos y boticarios en el cuadro de costumbres costarricense "Sea Usted Medico" (1854)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)“Sea Usted Medico” es una de las obras costumbristas literarias más reconocidas de Costa Rica por haber sido recopilada en El Costumbrismo en Costa Rica (1966) de Margarita Castro Rawson. Aunque este pequeño texto originalmente ... -
Médicos, curanderos, boticarios y dentistas: Representaciones de la medicina en el costumbrismo costarricense
(Master thesis, 2019-12-13)El objeto principal en este trabajo fue investigar la compleja dinámica que existía entre los tipos de medicina vigentes en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en Costa Rica vista a través del género literario de los cuadros ... -
"México megadiverso, medio ambiente y economía". Revisión documental de dos estrategias ambientales a nivel internacional y nacional en México durante el período 2014-2020 y su correlación con el desarrollo económico del país.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Este trabajo de tesis se enfoca en la relación que existe entre el desarrollo económico y las acciones tomadas para la protección del medio ambiente y la lucha contra el cambio climático en México. A partir de 1990, la ... -
Michty me, whit are ye gassin' aboot? The use of Scots in the newspaper comic strips The Broons and Oor Wullie
(Master thesis, 2009-05-14)This thesis examines the use of Scots in two newspaper comic strips, with respects to phonological, morphological and lexical features, as well as one sociolinguistic process (code-switching). Scots was used as a written ... -
The Mighty Weight of Tradition: An Evaluation of Grammar Exercises in EFL Textbooks Based on Communicative and Cognitive Principles
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)The purpose of this master thesis is to evaluate grammar exercises in certain school textbooks with the intention of gaining insights into the quality of exercises based on principles derived from communicative and cognitive ... -
Migrantnarrativer som interkulturell døråpner? En pilotanalyse av læreverktekster i fransk, italiensk og spansk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Artikkelen tar opp fremmedspråkenes formidling av interkulturell kompetanse, og hvordan denne er knyttet til skolens samlede danningsprosjekt. Artikkel-forfatterne diskuterer hvordan migrantnarrativer kan brukes som ... -
Mind the gap: Academic vocabulary knowledge as a predictor of English grades
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is necessary for Norwegian speaking upper secondary students for the completion of their English course and to qualify for university studies. General academic vocabulary occurs in ...