Blar i Department of Foreign Languages på emneord "711124"
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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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Collocations and Teaching: Investigating word combinations in two English textbooks for Norwegian upper secondary school students
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)This master thesis is concerned with the teaching of collocations in upper secondary school level in Norway. The scope of this study is to investigate vocabulary exercises in two textbooks used for the teaching of English ... -
Constructed identities A Chronotopic reading of The Great Gatsby, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Mad Men
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This thesis aims to explore how the past figures in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), and in the AMC series Mad Men (2007-2015), written by Matthew Weiner. ... -
Constructions of a Life: (Be)Longing and (Dis)Location in the Autobiographical Writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman, and Ihab Hassan
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis will examine the autobiographical writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman and Ihab Hassan, and the main objective will be to study how their individual experiences of cultural translocation shape their narrative ... -
Contemporary British Working-Class Literature: Precarity and Transcendent Solidarity
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne masteroppgaven ser på samtids arbeiderklasselitteratur, og analyserer hvordan den gir uttrykk for en økende usikkerhet (precarity) i livene til arbeiderklassefolk. Dette analyseres gjennom samtids klasseanalyse av ... -
Contesting the Rural Idyll in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines the rural idyll genre in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Several literary critics refer to Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a rural idyll' narrative. In consequence the novel is considered to pertain to ... -
"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
Coronastalgia and covidience: A corpus linguistic study of the productivity of corona and covid as constituents in word-formation
(Master thesis, 2022-11-21)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker hvordan orddanning har skjedd under covid-19 pandemien, og hvordan konstituentene corona og covid blir brukt i dannelsen av nye ord samt produktiviteten av prosessene som skaper de. I tillegg ... -
Crisis and Infantilization in the Technological Landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) and Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013)
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)Literature has a long history of articulating the dangers as well as the possibilities for human life in confrontation with technology. Among the literatures expressing these concerns we also find Player Piano (1952) by ... -
Dark Academia – ‘anesthetic aesthetic.’ Internet visions of academia in times of crisis in Western higher education
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David Malouf's "Remembering Babylon" and "An Imaginary Life:" Identity Processes in the Postcolonial Borderland
(Master thesis, 2008-11-13)This thesis discusses David Malouf's two novels Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life and how they represent the meeting between self and other in the postcolonial borderland. By linking postcolonial theory and border ... -
Deep Reading in English: How do Teachers Promote and Experience Deep Reading in the English Subject?
(Master thesis, 2020-12-15)Det blir stadig viktigere å mestre mer kognitivt krevende måter å lese på. Dette gjelder ikke minst engelsk, som er et etablert verdensspråk. For eksempel, viser en studie at studenter ikke er godt nok forberedt til å lese ... -
"Dey were gotten escapit": A sociolinguistic study on pre-oil Shetland dialect
(Master thesis, 2022-05-25)Denne oppgaven er en sosiolingvistisk studie om språklig endring på Shetland basert på intervjuer med Shetlendere født mellom 1877 og 1932. Intervjuene er hentet fra et nettarkiv med opptak fra nittenfemti, seksti og ...