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Playful Parody and Philosophical Counter-Narrative: Douglas Adams’ Science Fiction Comedy
(Master thesis, 2020-06-12)Denne masteroppgåva tar føre seg den parodiske science fiction-trilogien, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy av Douglas Adams, som diverre vert diskutert svært lite i akademia. Oppgåva ser på korleis forfattaren nyttar ... -
Playing Editor: Inviting Students Behind the Text
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This commentary feature considers the advantages of using textual criticism to teach Shakespeare and using Shakespeare to teach textual criticism, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. First I discuss how to do ... -
Poetologie der Prozessualität und schreibendes Erinnern in Thomas Bernhards Die Autobiographie
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-01-25)“Ich bin ein Geschichtenzerstörer, ich bin der typische Geschichtenzerstörer” – “I am a story destroyer, I am the typical story destroyer”, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) says in the film manuscript Drei Tage (1970). The ... -
Policies, textbooks, and curriculum constraints to integrating literature into language education: EFL teacher perspectives from Russia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Employing a qualitative design, this exploratory study examined the challenges and constraints encountered by foreign language teachers in Russia when using literature in their lessons in primary, secondary and tertiary ... -
Polyphonie et identité du roman africain dit de la rupture. Discours paternaliste et hétérogénéité constitutive de quatre romans de Bolya Baenga, Calixthe Beyala et Ahmadou Kourouma
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-10)This dissertation attempts a discourse analysis of four African post-colonial novels pertaining to what has been named “roman de la rupture”, which refers to novels that have evolved from the sixties till date and depict ... -
Polyphonie et représentations dans la poésie orale africaine. Images et voix d’outre-mer chez F. Bebey et D. Elwood
(Master thesis, 2006-04-01)This study is about the white presence in francophone oral poetry from Africa south of the Sahara. The thesis uses polyphony and enunciation theories to attempt a study of the pictures and voices of the North in the works ... -
Popular science - common ground. A literary critique of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)This thesis aims to perform a literary reading of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene from a perspective situated outside of the 'battle of the two cultures'. Chapter 1 takes Foucault's article What is an author?" as its ... -
¿Por qué usamos los anglicismos? Un estudio de las actitudes lingüísticas hacia la lengua inglesa y de su influencia en el uso de los anglicismos en vida diaria en Alicante, España.
(Master thesis, 2019-06-26)Es un hecho que las lenguas vivas cambian con el tiempo y con la evolución. Con la lengua inglesa muy presente en nuestra vida diaria, su influencia sobre otras lenguas es inevitable. El presente estudio hace una investigación ... -
The portrayal of Working-Class speech in British film: a study of accent in British films from the 1960s and the 2000s
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)The aim of this thesis has been to investigate the portrayal of working-class accents in British films over a period of 40 years. The hypothesis expects that there will be fewer instances of non-standard accent variants ... -
Practicing and Managing Foreign Toponyms in China: Cultural Politics and Ideologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the vogue of adopting foreign-origin place names in Chinese cities and the Chinese governments’ endeavors to regulate the toponymic landscape. The place naming practices, management, and public attitudes ... -
Pragmatic competences in oral textbook tasks
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Pragmatic competences can be perceived as awareness of how meaning is context dependent and how to use language accordingly. These competences are a central part of communicative competence, enabling students to engage in ... -
The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Russian Prose Fiction:A Comparative Reading of Guzel’ Iakhina and Sergei Lebedev
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article studies the poetics of historical reimagination in works by Guzel’ Iakhina and Sergei Lebedev, two contemporary Russian prose writers. The main tendencies in Russian official history politics and memory culture ... -
Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that Olivia didn’t take both classes (EXCLUSIVITY) and that the speaker doesn’t know which of the two classes she took (IGNORANCE). The corresponding sentence ... -
Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed in subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise ... -
Préstamos en la prensa colombiana: 1913 y 2013
(Master thesis, 2015-07-13)Esta tesina es un estudio sobre préstamo en el periódico colombiano El Tiempo en los años 1913 y 2013. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo fueron encontrar si existe un cambio en el predominio de préstamos de un ... -
Promoting 21st century skills through classroom encounters with English language literature in Norway: Theoretical and practical considerations
(Chapter, 2022)The present chapter explores the affordances of literature as an educational medium in the School of the Future, more specifically in relation to the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Norway. ... -
Promoting critical intercultural awareness in an upper secondary EFL classroom: A case study using the film Gran Torino.
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Promoting Intercultural Competence in a Multicultural Classroom
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis is a study of a multicultural classroom and what the foci of English as a foreign language are. Furthermore, it focuses on how intercultural competence could be promoted. -
Promoting Strategic Readers in a Digital Age: Teachers' reported beliefs on the digitized L2 textbook's potential for promoting reading strategies in the EFL classroom
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Å lære å lære er en sentral del av engelskfaget ifølge Kunnskapsløftet 2020 (LK20). Dette innebærer at elevene utvikler strategier for å tilegne seg og anvende kunnskap. I det 21. århundre har måten elever lærer og tilegnet ... -
Propagandalyrik im Dritten Reich: Horst Wessel, Baldur von Schirach und Heinrich Anacker
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)I denne oppgaven har jeg sett på dikt og diktsamlinger fra tre diktere tilknyttet den tyske nasjonalsosialismen mellom 1929 og 1943. Formålet er å undersøke hva som gjør diktene deres til propaganda, hvorvidt tonen og ...