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Violent ends: Masculinity and school shooting in young adult fiction
(Master thesis, 2018-06-12)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker fremstillingen av maskuliniteter i ungdomsromanen Violent Ends (2015), redigert og del-forfattet av Shaun David Hutchinson. Violent Ends er resultatet av et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom atten ... -
The Virginian's Cultural Clashes: A Study of Cultural Representation in Owen Wister's novel The Virginian
(Master thesis, 2012-11-19)This thesis is a cultural study of Owen Wister's novel The Virginian. Its main focus is on the ways in which cultural differences between East and West are staged and acted out in the novel's depiction of a culturally ... -
Visualising the language practices of lower secondary students: outlines for practice-based models of multilingualism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The multilingual turn in applied linguistics has produced a number of models that approach multilingualism from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. However, fully developed models of multilingualism ... -
Vocabulary and EFL textbooks: Investigating explicit vocabulary exercises in three English textbooks for Norwegian year 10 students
(Master thesis, 2017-09-21)Vocabulary learning is an essential part of learning a language. David Wilkins expresses the importance of vocabulary in the following way: “without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be ... -
«Voix chaleureuse du sud» et «voix monotone du nord»? Une étude quantitative des attitudes linguistiques des jeunes dans la région Languedoc-Roussillon à l'égard de deux variétés diatopiques de la langue française.
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)Denne oppgåva handlar om språkhaldningar hjå ungdom i den sørfranske regionen Languedoc-Roussillon. Eg har undersøkt ungdommane sine haldningar til to diatopiske varietetar av fransk talespråk, ein sørfransk varietet, frå ... -
Voix citées dans le discours sur le changement climatique : comparaison de deux textes journalistiques français et anglais
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)This paper aims to explore journalistic discourse about climate change, as it manifests itself in the written press. Our corpus comprises journalistic texts from six different countries, covering the large international ... -
Voix, silences et colonialisme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-11)Asking whether silence necessarily equals oppression, and (giving) voice necessarily assures agency, Jorunn Svensen Gjerden’s paper examines voices and silences related to colonial power structures in three francophone ... -
THE WALL - Un estudio de las actitudes de los residentes de la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos hacia la migración y las políticas de inmigración recientes de los EE.UU.
(Master thesis, 2019-03-13)This study takes place in the twin border cities of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona, U.S., where this study focuses on the attitudes of Mexicans and U.S. Americans about the current migration situation between ... -
WE have had very pearlous times and lost much but through devine providance is blessed with sufficent of the nessarys of life': A study of subject-verb concord in 18th-century Ulster
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis investigates subject-verb concord (SVC) in varieties of Irish English in Ulster between 1741 and 1800. The quantitative study is based on the 4747 occurrences of SVC in personal correspondence in a subcorpus ... -
Web 2.0 et genres discursifs : l’exemple de blogs sur le changement du climat
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The Internet has become an important source of linguistic data, but it also presents several challenges, such as its characterisation in terms of discourse genres. In this article we present a definition of genre that takes ... -
'Well, That’s Just My Opinion': The Principle of Expression and the Public Debate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, I argue, we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation. By examining the interaction in a particularly ... -
Wer spazieren geht, sieht mehr. Wirklichkeitswahrnehmung und Gesellschaftskritik in Johann Gottfried Seumes "Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802".
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)Zusammenfassung Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, Seumes Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802 zu untersuchen und herauszufinden, wie sich dieser Reisebericht von anderen Reiseberichten des 18. Jahrhunderts unterschied. Der ... -
What´s topic got to do with it? A study of code-switching behavior in Norwegian upper secondary school students
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)In this MA thesis, the effect that topic has on code-switching in native Norwegian students at upper secondary school is investigated. The first hypothesis of the thesis claims that topics that are typically Norwegian, ... -
Women for Suffrage
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Women Readers at Syon Abbey : Networks of Books and Community, 1415–1539
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-06-07)Denne avhandlingen, med tittelen «Women Readers at Syon Abbey: Networks of Books and Community, 1415–1539», undersøker forholdet mellom de middelalderske Birgittasøstrene fra Syon Abbey (et. 1415) samt bøkene deres ved å ... -
Word order in clauses of purpose and result in Old English translated and non-translated prose
(Master thesis, 2020-12-09)Mange av de overlevende tekstene vi har fra den gammelengelske perioden er tekster som er oversatt fra, eller inspirert av, latinske tekster. Spesielt tekster fra den tidligste gammelengelske perioden (800-950 evt) er ... -
Word order in Old English and Middle English subordinate clauses
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Word order patterns in Old and Middle English. A syntactic and pragmatic study.
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Wordsworth's Causal Poetics of Thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)