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“Blackfella talk” An attitudinal study on the linguistic portrayal of Australian Aboriginal characters in Australian films
(Master thesis, 2020-06-17)Formålet med denne oppgaven har vært å se på fremstillingen av australske aboriginer i australsk film. 12 filmer ble analysert for å se hvorvidt det fantes en korrelasjon mellom karaktertrekk og uttalevarianter blant ... -
Blended Learning in English Literature
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)Abstract Blended Learning This study investigates blended learning used in a course of English Literature and Culture in upper secondary school. It raises the question how the use of blended learning may promote and encourage ... -
Breaking away from the mould? A corpus-based study of the development of Aktionsart, transitivity and argument structure in phrasal verbs with away in English
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan engelske fraseverb med partikkelen away, ‘bort’ (som i break away) har utviklet seg i britisk engelsk i perioden ca. 1470 til ca. 2000, spesielt med hensyn til aksjonsart, transitivitet ... -
Breaking the mould: The voyage out by Virginia Woolf
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Breaking the silence: Power relations and sexual violence in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Valerie Martin's Property
(Master thesis, 2013-05-29)Octavia E. Butler's Kindred (2003) and Valerie Martin's Property (2003) revisit slavery as a site of memory and offer alternative perspectives on America's history, which critique and complement the historical master ... -
Bride and Prejudice: A Feminist Perspective
(Master thesis, 2008-12-15)This thesis discusses, with a feminist perspective, Gurinder Chadha's film Bride and Prejudice. Using Jane Austen's novel to show womens' situation twohundred years ago in comparison to Indian womens' situation today. It ... -
Britannia still rules the waves. Norwegian teachers' and students' attitudes to British English and American English
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This MA thesis investigates Norwegian teachers' and students' attitudes toward British English and American English. To the best of my knowledge no previous language studies have been conducted on both of these groups in ... -
"But if you can't fix it you got a stand it" Determinism in Postcards and Selected Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This thesis is interested in examining how determinism shapes the characters in Postcards and a selection of the Wyoming Stories by Ameican author Annie Proulx. Throughout this thesis it becomes clear that Proulx's characters ... -
By whatever name
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)This paper explores the significance of naming and the role of editing practices of Shakespeare's plays: Is it Imogen or Innogen, Falstaff or Oldcastle? By looking into how editors of Shakespeare have approached these and ... -
Caged verses: some new notes on the politics of The Pisan Cantos
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Pisan Cantos is the most notorious section of Pound’s masterpiece The Cantos, which was named after the concentration camp of Coltano, near Pisa, where Pound was imprisoned by the US army after the fall of Italian ... -
Cardiff English: A sociolinguistic study of phonological variation and change in Cardiff English
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker den fonetiske utviklingen i den Cardiff Engelske aksenten. Med utgangspunkt i fem forskjellige fonetiske trekk, ser jeg på utviklingen fra et bruk av tradisjonelle til nye supra-regionale ... -
Carving the body at its joints: Does the way we speak about the body shape the way we think about it?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)Looking at the way different linguistic communities speak about a universally shared domain of experience raises questions that are central to the language sciences. How can we compare meaning across languages? What is the ... -
"Caterpillars and Butterfly" The Process of Self-Realization and Unity in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly
(Master thesis, 2020-06-13)Etter sitt kommersielle gjennombrudd med good kid, m.A.A.d. city i 2012, ble Kendrick Lamar regnet som den store frelseren av hip hop. Det var med andre ord store forventninger da han utga oppfølgeren To Pimp a Butterfly ... -
Change With The Machines: Posthumanism and Postmodernism in Cyberpunk Literature
(Master thesis, 2022-09)Denne oppgaven tar for seg sammenhengen mellom de postmodernistiske motivene som skiller undersjangeren cyberpunk fra den større science fiction-sjangeren, og det posthumanistiske uttrykket som cyberpunk får som resultat ... -
Charting a new course for translator and interpreter training in Africa: Lessons from the COVID-19 experience in selected countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Translator and interpreter (T&I) training, using virtual learning environments, was largely uninterrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the Global North. This might not have been the case in the Global South, ... -
¡Chingar tu madre! El uso del verbo chingar y sus derivados entre los jóvenes de la Ciudad de Mexico
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Este trabajo pretende describir el uso del verbo chingar y sus derivados en el habla juvenil de la Ciudad de México. -
Chunks in the classroom: An experiment on the use of Cognitive Linguistic principles in academic vocabulary instruction among Norwegian upper secondary ESL-students
(Master thesis, 2019-06-06)Ordsekvensar, også kalla ‘chunks’ på engelsk, er ein viktig del av det engelske vokabularet. Denne masteroppgåva undersøkjer mogelege effektar av å bruka læringsstrategiar inspirert av kognitiv lingvistikk i undervisning ... -
"Ci-a potemu fari!" Usi e atteggiamenti linguistici tra adolescenti a Catania
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-18)"We can do it!" Language use and attitudes among adolescents in Catania Is there a connection between overt and covert attitudes towards own dialect among Sicilian adolescents? Can these attitudes be further connected ...