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The Past is Never Lost
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A Peaceful resolution is a victory for the resistance. The relationship between Hizbullah rhetoric and possible peaceful resolutions in Lebanon
(Master thesis, 2010-11-22)This study attempts to examine selected Hizbullah rhetoric concerning future peacebuilding and state-building within Lebanon. Hizbullah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, following the end of the Israeli occupation in 2000, ... -
Pedagogical Programs for a Period of Crisis: El museo mexicano (1843-1845)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores the literary periodical publication El Museo mexicano (1843-1845) in order to reveal its pedagogical program. As it shows, the magazine challenges the often-assumed clear-cut separation between liberal ... -
Peer-Led Group dialogues between majority and language minority students in the Norwegian upper secondary EFL classroom. A Case study.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-26)This master’s thesis explores the didactic benefits and challenges of using peer-led mixed group dialogues between majority and language minority students in the upper secondary Norwegian EFL classroom. The study implements ... -
People’s Conceptions and Valuations of Nature in the Context of Climate Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper investigates how people conceive and evaluate nature through language, in a climate change context. With material consisting of 1,200 answers to open-ended questions in nationally representative surveys in Norway, ... -
Percepción lingüística y pluricentrismo: Análisis del binomio a la luz de los resultados del Proyecto Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-speaking Latin America (LIAS)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper advocates the close linkage among sociolinguistic awareness and language pluricentrity and calls for a deeper exploration of this relationship, due to the fact that speakers´perceptions towards different language ... -
Person deixis in Japanese and English - a Contrastive Functional Analysis
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-15)This dissertation is a contrastive analysis of person deixis in English and Japanese. Person deixis is the linguistic reference to discourse participant roles, i.e. expressions referring to the speaker, listener and to ... -
Perspectives linguistiques et discursives sur la circulation du discours portant sur le changement climatique
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)In the debates on climate change – one of the great global challenges, we observe a development where various discourses are constructed, often based on divergent understandings of the phenomenon as well as of its consequences. ... -
Petersburgmyten i russisk litteratur: Fra opposisjon til stagnasjon? : Et kulturologisk studium av tekster fra 1700-2000
(Master thesis, 2007-03-22)Målet med denne kulturologiske studien er å undersøke petersburgmyten i russisk litteratur. Mitt fokus er rettet mot spørsmålet om denne myten har stagnert, slik enkelte forskere hevder, eller om den er fremdeles er ... -
Phonological variation and change in London Cockney English: a phonological study
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)The aim of this thesis has been to investigate phonological variation and change in the variety spoken in the traditional East End of London, traditionally referred to as Cockney. The main focus has been on the social group ... -
Phonological variation and change in Sheffield English
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This master's thesis is concerned with investigating variation and change in the urban accent of Sheffield. The main aim is to see whether the Sheffield accent is levelling towards a southern pronunciation by looking at ... -
De pinga o la productividad de un vocablo en la variedad cubana del español
(Journal article, 2023)En esta investigación me he propuesto documentar un conjunto de unidades formadas a partir del vocablo pinga en el español de Cuba, describir los procedimientos morfosintácticos y semánticos que tienen lugar en la formación ... -
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 ... -
Polar question intonation in Russian speech from Moscow and Perm
(Chapter, 2023)In Central Standard Russian, polar (yes/no) questions are typically pronounced with a high rise on the nuclear syllable, followed by a fall to low level, starting immediately or shortly after the nuclear syllable. Recent ... -
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 ... -
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 ...