Blar i Department of Foreign Languages på emneord "711124"
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A Master's Thesis Has No Name: A study on personal names in fantasy literature
(Master thesis, 2019-06-21)Denne masteroppgåva handlar om personnamn i fantasy-seriane A Song of Ice and Fire av George R.R. Martin og The Stormlight Archive av Brandon Sanderson. Oppgåva sitt mål er undersøke korleis personnamna frå desse seriane ... -
A Monster Will Help You: Childhood Grief, Healing Nightmares, and Monstrous Wish-Fulfillment in A Monster Calls and The Nest
(Master thesis, 2023-05-25)Denne oppgaven tar for seg ulike debatterte tema innen barnelitteratur, slik som skumle bøker, monstre, sorg, død, traumer, med formålet om å vise hvorfor det er viktig å skape åpenhet rundt disse temaene. Basert på oppdatert ... -
A “Whole” New World of Accents: A Societal Treatment Study of Accent Use and Stereotyping in Disney’s Originals and Remakes
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This master’s thesis analyzes the portrayal of English accents in eight Disney classics released between 1940 and 1998 and eight live-action remakes of these films released between 2019 and 2023. The purpose has been to ... -
AAVE In Pop-Music: Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation?
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne oppgaven tar for seg bruk av African American Vernacular English (AAVE) i pop-musikksjangeren. Det legges spesielt vekt på diskusjonen om en kan snakke om kulturelle appropriering, når ikke-svarte musiker bruker AAVE ... -
Ability qua Mobility: Disability as Identity and Hierarchy in Brave New World and Flowers for Algernon
(Master thesis, 2020-05-29)Skildringa av funksjonshemjing i litteraturen er ein verdifull målestokk for dei samfunnsverdiane som eit samfunn forventar både av kropp og sinn. Science Fiction inviterer særskild ei lesing med fokus på funksjonshemjing ... -
Academic Vocabulary Unleashed Potential?A corpus study of English course materials for advanced Norwegian learners of English
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)A corpus study of English course materials for advanced Norwegian learners of English -
Accents in Wonderland: An Attitudinal Study of the Use of Accents in Disney's Originals and Remakes
(Master thesis, 2019-06-08)This thesis is a study of language attitudes which aims to investigate how various English accents are used in Disney films. The data consists of 16 Disney films including eight original films released between 1950 and ... -
"Ach, it's a great wee day so far": A corpus stylistic study of discourse-pragmatic markers in Derry Girls
(Master thesis, 2023-09-01)This thesis aims to analyse the use of the discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) ach, och, final but and wee in the dialogue of the television series Derry Girls (Leddy et al., 2018–2022), the language of which constitutes a ... -
An acoustic study of the low back merger and northern cities shift in Des Moines, Iowa
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)The present study is a sociolinguistic study conducted in Des Moines, Iowa. It deals with the Low Back Merger and the Northern Cities Shift. It deals in particular with what happens to the low back vowels in an area affected ... -
The Acquisition of english prepositions by Norwegian L2 learners - a Corpus-based error analysis
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Adapted Education in English. A Study of EFL Classroom Experiences from a Learner Perspective
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)Adapted education is a concept which over recent years has received gradually more attention in Norway. Facilitating adapted education towards both individual learners and classes is definitely a teacher challenge. Being ... -
Adultery in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur: a model of loyalty and fidelity
(Master thesis, 2020-06-18)Ce mémoire a pour but d’analyser la notion d’adultère dans Le Morte Darthur de Thomas Malory (1469), une compilation de romans arthuriens français et anglais qui retrace l’histoire du roi Arthur de sa naissance jusqu’à sa ... -
The Aesthetics of racism in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American lyric
(Master thesis, 2018-06-13)I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg på hvilken måte rasismen i USA i dag er fremstilt i Claudia Rankine sitt verk Citizen: An American Lyric. Dette er en bok som blander en rekke ulike sjangre, og som inkluderer et utvalg ... -
Agent nouns in the language of Caxton’s edition of Le Morte Darthur: An analysis of the distribution and morphosemantic structure of agent nouns in William Caxton’s edition of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
(Master thesis, 2019-05-28)I denne masteroppgåva vart agent nouns, agentative substantiv, i språket til William Caxton si utgåve av Le Morte Darthur undersøkt. Eit agentativt substantiv er ein ordformasjon som uttrykker utføraren av verbet i basen. ... -
Akan bilinguals’ code switching style in the Ghanaian TV series Efiewura
(Master thesis, 2022-10-17)It is obvious, but important fact that in addition to the communicative function of language there is the social function which explains the role that language plays in society. Qualitative analysis is done using data ... -
"All men must serve": Religious conversion in A Song of Ice and Fire
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“American has become the neutral and standard English”: Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Standard and Non-standard Varieties of English in Norwegian Classrooms
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Denne språkholdningsstudien undersøker norske elevers holdninger til fire engelske uttalevarianter. Dette omfatter standard britisk engelsk (Received Pronunciation), standard amerikansk engelsk (General American), nord-vest ... -
American presidential speeches: a frame analysis
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)This master's thesis is on the topic of framing. Framing is a phenomena that can found in all use of language, mostly below the level of consciousness. Through conscious use, framing can be a potent rhetorical strategy. ... -
American, British or Norwegian English?: A phonological analysis of songs by Norwegian singers sung in English
(Master thesis, 2017-06-02)Denne oppgaven har hatt som formal å undersøke norske sangeres engelsk uttale. Jeg har sett på engelsken til sangerne Sverre Kjelsberg, Jahn Teigen, Morten Harket, Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby, Alex Rinde, Marit Larsen og Ida ...