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Metaphor and ideology in biotechnology: A study of metaphor in media’s discourse on reproductive and genetic biotechnology and bioethics
(Master thesis, 2012-05-14)Metaphors are powerful rhetorical devices that contribute to shaping our reality through hiding and highlighting. Within the field of cognitive linguistics metaphors are considered vital, not only to language, but also in ... -
Médicos, curanderos y boticarios en el cuadro de costumbres costarricense "Sea Usted Medico" (1854)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)“Sea Usted Medico” es una de las obras costumbristas literarias más reconocidas de Costa Rica por haber sido recopilada en El Costumbrismo en Costa Rica (1966) de Margarita Castro Rawson. Aunque este pequeño texto originalmente ... -
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 ... -
The Mighty Weight of Tradition: An Evaluation of Grammar Exercises in EFL Textbooks Based on Communicative and Cognitive Principles
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)The purpose of this master thesis is to evaluate grammar exercises in certain school textbooks with the intention of gaining insights into the quality of exercises based on principles derived from communicative and cognitive ... -
Migrantnarrativer som interkulturell døråpner? En pilotanalyse av læreverktekster i fransk, italiensk og spansk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Artikkelen tar opp fremmedspråkenes formidling av interkulturell kompetanse, og hvordan denne er knyttet til skolens samlede danningsprosjekt. Artikkel-forfatterne diskuterer hvordan migrantnarrativer kan brukes som ... -
Mind the gap: Academic vocabulary knowledge as a predictor of English grades
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is necessary for Norwegian speaking upper secondary students for the completion of their English course and to qualify for university studies. General academic vocabulary occurs in ... -
Minnet som resignasjon og opprør. Eit studie av Anna Achmatova sin diktsyklus Rekviem
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Mistaken charity? The individual in a social context in Edith Wharton's Summer
(Master thesis, 2010-05-16)This thesis explores the individual in society through the lens of ideology, naturalism and literary imagery in "Summer". -
Modalité épistémique et discours scientifique Une étude contrastive des modalisateurs épistémiques dans des articles de recherche français, norvégiens et anglais, en linguistique et médecine
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-02-08)Epistemic modality markers are linguistic expressions that explicitly qualify the truth value of a proposition, by marking the informational content as either certain or uncertain. The present thesis focuses on epistemic ... -
Moderato Cantabile et l'Ingénue libertine - L'expression de l'amour courtois dans le roman moderne
(Master thesis, 2008-05-15)Pourquoi l'adultère est-il un thème si courant et si prisé des écrivains dans la littérature francaise? L'amour courtois, apparu au Moyen-âge permet peut-être de répondre à cette question. En effet, l'amour courtois valorise ... -
Modern bodies. Tensions between liberation and suppression of the body in Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin and Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This thesis explores the tensions between corporeal liberation and suppression which can be seen to play themselves out in Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight and Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, and to relate these ... -
Modernism, Nominalism, and the Hidden God in Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, and David Jones
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The idea that human language is an inherently inadequate instrument for grasping reality is widespread in modernist literature. While the ‘radical nominalism’ of this position has been recognised, this article argues that ... -
Modus in hypothetischen Komparativsätzen mit als ob, als, als wenn, wie wenn
(Master thesis, 2008-11-13)In der vorliegenden Arbeit werde ich mich darum bemühen, die Moduswahl in den hKS zu beschreiben, wobei ich mein Augenmerk auf verschiedene Aspekte richten werde, die diese zu beeinflussen scheinen. Innerhalb der Moduswahl ... -
Multilingual children’s imaginative worlds and their language use: A chronotopic analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims and objectives: This study applies the notion of chronotope as an analytical tool to explore the role of globalization, immigration, and transnationalism in shaping multilingual children’s awareness and use of semiotic ... -
Multilingual, bilingual, and monolingual Arabic teachers’ development of learner self‐regulation and language awareness in the Emirates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Multilingual learning and teaching have been receiving growing attention of late as many cities and states undergo significant demographic changes brought about by increasing levels of human migration. The onset of ... -
Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of Eastern China: City residents' perceptions and attitudes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Linguistic landscape (LL) is a thriving strand of inquiry in sociolinguistics to interpret the multilingual representations in public space. Taking city residents as LL readers, this paper examines their opinions about the ... -
Multiplicity and Modifiers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A sentence with an adverbial modifier under negation like Mike didn’t wash the window with soap gives rise to an inference that Mike did wash the window. A sentence with a plural noun like Mike washed windows gives rise ... -
Muslimske minoriteter i Vesten. En studie av IslamOnlines fatwaer
(Master thesis, 2009-08-10)Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan og i hvilken grad det populære tospråklige nettstedet IslamOnline tilpasser og anvender den islamske loven til de muslimske minoritetenes situasjon i Vesten gjennom sine fatwaer. For å ... -
Nancy Morejón desde las perspectivas del folklore, lo popular y la cultura clásica en Richard trajo su flauta y otros argumentos (1967).
(Master thesis, 2018-02-16)This thesis explores Nancy Morejón’s Richard trajo su flauta y otros argumentos, a collection of poetry published in 1967, only a few years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution (1959). Drawing from textual references ... -
Nathalie Sarraute et sa vocation littéraire
(Master thesis, 2005)