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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 ... -
Ciberactivismo de comunidades nicaragüenses autoconvocadas en España como reacción a la insurrección de abril 2018
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Cyberaktivisme fra selvinnkalte nicaraguanske samfunn i Spania som en reaksjon på aprilopprøret i 2018 er en samtidshistorisk forskning som bruker casestudie-forskningsmetodikk og verktøyene til digital humaniora – spesielt ... -
"Cibo e cinematografia italiana: ruolo del cibo nelle opere cinematografiche italiane"
(Master thesis, 2018-12-12)In this paper I will analyze the role played by food in the Italian movies and its role in the society. In the first part of the thesis, the analysis will be mostly focused on a linguistic overview on the language of cinema ... -
Cíborgs sueltos: metáforas de la ciencia ficción aplicadas a la realidad chilena. Análisis temático de la novela Flores para un cyborg (1997).
(Master thesis, 2019-06-04)A pesar del enorme éxito mundial de películas y series de televisión de ciencia ficcón, el género tiende a ser categorizado como poco serio o como mero entretenimiento. Sin embargo, autores reconocidos han empleado ... -
Class Critique in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)My thesis argues that there are significant similarities between the ways that Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) contribute to a critique of prevailing class ... -
Climat et environnement dans le discours publicitaire. Une étude de traits linguistiques
(Master thesis, 2015-05-16)Denne masteroppgåva utgjer ei lingvistisk analyse av språkbruken i franskspråklege reklametekstar med klima- og miljøinnhald. Bakgrunnen for studien ligg i ynsket om å finne ut korleis disse to emna vert kommuniserte i ... -
Climate change as a corporate strategy issue: A discourse analysis of three climate reports from the energy sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how energy companies discursively construct climate change when integrating it into their overall business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – This linguistic study ... -
Climate Change in Cameroon Political Discourse: A Case Study of Paul Biya's COP21 Speech
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)As climate change has occupied a growing space in public debates in recent years, various institutional frameworks have been developed to enable discussion of this issue across areas and borders. The most important of such ... -
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study proposes an analysis of climate change (CC) narratives in answers to an open-ended survey question, where we ask what a climate-friendly lifestyle may imply. The representative survey has been conducted ... -
Clueless about Class: A Study of how Four Film Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma Adapt the Theme of Class
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Romanen Emma av Jane Austen og synet på klasse som er presentert i forteljinga, har blitt tolka frå ulike vinklar med ulik tyding av forteljinga som ein heilskap. Føremålet med denne masteroppgåva er å vise korleis dei ... -
Cocineras de posguerra Doña Petrona y Josefina Velázquez de León: recetarios para la sociedad de masas en Argentina y México
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)This study closely analyses two cookbooks, El Libro de Doña Petrona (1950, Argentina) and Los 30 Menús (1945, Mexico), by Petrona C. de Gandulfo and Josefina Velázquez de León respectively. The authors were contemporaries ... -
Code-switching in The Wire
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)This MA thesis examines the use of code-switching in six characters in the HBO series The Wire. Three Afro-American and three Caucasian characters, placed in the low, middle and high social stratum, were chosen. The aim ...