Blar i Department of Foreign Languages på emneord "VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020"
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The Madman is a Waking Dreamer. A psychoanalytical and existentialist reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)In this thesis, I explore Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled as a dream and mental universe. Using Freud, I uncover the latent content of the dream, which centers on the protagonists' repressed needs for his parents. ... -
Michty me, whit are ye gassin' aboot? The use of Scots in the newspaper comic strips The Broons and Oor Wullie
(Master thesis, 2009-05-14)This thesis examines the use of Scots in two newspaper comic strips, with respects to phonological, morphological and lexical features, as well as one sociolinguistic process (code-switching). Scots was used as a written ... -
Network-based EFL Motivational aspects of using networked computers in the EFL classroom
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News as a Cultural Product: A cross-cultural Study of Language Use in British and Norwegian Online Newspapers
(Master thesis, 2008-11-13)Denne masteroppgaven i Engelsk tar for seg språkbruk i media; nærmere bestemt i norske og engelske nettaviser. De aktuelle hypotesene som undersøkes er for det første om det vil finnes forskjeller som kommer til uttrykk ... -
Normalisation in translation: a corpus-based study of 'take'
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)This study attempts to find an answer to whether normalisation is a feature of translation by using corpora-technology. Normalisation has existed as a proposed universal feature of translation for almost two decades, but ... -
Omission of the primary verbs BE and HAVE in London teenage speech - a sociolinguistic study
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"One foot in this world and one foot in that": Woman Hollering Creek and the bildungscomposite
(Master thesis, 2008-12-15)In this thesis I discuss the genre of Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek. I argue that the book is what I here call a bildungscomposite," that is, a hybrid genre with elements from both the Bildungsroman and the short ... -
The Past is Never Lost
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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 ... -
Questions of Culture and Context in English Language Textbooks A Study of Textbooks for the Teaching of English in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-10-19) -
The Savage Journey Continues: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a Modern American Picaresque
(Master thesis, 2008-12-29)This thesis presents a reading of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a continuation of two separate literary traditions: the picaresque genre, and that of American journey narratives. It is focused on ... -
"Some Collaboration Has to Take Place in the Mind": Androgyny and Creative Dialogue in Three Works by Virginia Woolf
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)This thesis explores Virginia Woolf's concept of creative androgyny as it is conveyed in three of her works: A Room of One's Own, Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. My reading explores the 'androgynous vision' from a ... -
"Teen Noir" A Study of the Recent Film Noir Revival in the Teen Genre
(Master thesis, 2008-11-11)In the late 1990s I started to notice how tv-series and moviespicked up on common noir traits from the old classical noirmovies, such as rain, darkness and more dystopian plots. In2006 critics started paying attention to ... -
Variability and change in Received Pronunciation A study of six phonological variables in the speech of television newsreaders
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Word order in Old English and Middle English subordinate clauses
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-05-07) -
Word order patterns in Old and Middle English. A syntactic and pragmatic study.
(Doctoral thesis, 2001-03-16)