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Staging a Female Identity: Representations of the female actor in Ellen Terry's The story of my life and Henry James's The tragic muse
(Master thesis, 2013-05-14)Abstract This thesis examines the actor Ellen Terry's construction of her own female identity through analysis of critics' writings of her, her own writing in her autobiography The Story of My Life (1908) and how she is ... -
Staging the suburban ideal in revolutionary road and the corrections. Performing and disrupting the “Performance of Normal”
(Master thesis, 2016-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg iscenesettelsen av familieidealet i amerikanske "suburbia" referert til som "the suburban ideal" i litterær fremstilling, i de amerikanske romanene Revolutionary Road skrevet av Richard ... -
Stemmer fra Fortiden - En komparativ analyse av neverbrev fra Novgorod og runepinner fra Bergen
(Master thesis, 2013-05-14)Jeg ønsker i denne masteroppgaven å sammenligne neverbrev med runepinner. Neverbrev og runepinner er sammenlignbare på grunnlag av sin funksjon i samfunnet, og de er skrevet i samme periode, middelalderen, på samme type ... -
A study of empty referential pronominal subjects in old english
(Master thesis, 2010-09-01)This master thesis is concerned with empty referential pronominal subjects in Old English prose. The study has investigated 450 occurrences of subjectless" sentences taken from a corpus consisting of eleven Old English ... -
A study of teachers' understanding of the English subject as a Bildung subject
(Master thesis, 2014-02-03)The aim of the thesis has been to discover how teachers understand Bildung and raise an awareness of their understanding of English as a Bildung subject. It has also been of interest to know how the curriculum conveys this ... -
A study of vocationalisation of English in Norwegian upper secondary schools. “Why do I need Norwegian and English? I’m training to become a carpenter.”
(Master thesis, 2015-09-01)This is a master thesis on the topic of vocationalisation of the common core subject of English in the vocational classroom. The aim is to learn about the opinions of the teachers through a qualitative approach and the ... -
Subjektive Lerntheorien über Grammatik und Grammatikaufgaben im Fremdsprachenunterricht
(Master thesis, 2016-06-16)Ohne Grammatik gibt es keine Sprachen. Das Lernen von Grammatik ist folglich für das Sprachlernen unentbehrlich. Dennoch ist kaum ein anderer Aspekt der Spracherwerbsdidaktik so umstritten wie die Rolle der Grammatik im ... -
"Sure it wouldn't be right" Sure as a discourse marker in a corpus of Irish English from from the 18th to the 20th century
(Master thesis, 2010-11-21)This is a study of sure, surely, to be sure, sure enough, but sure and no sure that are used discourse markers in Irish English. The study has been based on A corpus of Irish English (Hickey 2003) which is a collection of ... -
The Sustainable Development Goals — Sensible Initiative or Just Nonsense? An Investigation of Norwegian Citizens’ Knowledge and Attitudes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract: We explore what associations Norwegian citizens have with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through an analysis of their knowledge of and attitudes towards these goals. To achieve this, we combine three ... -
A Suzerain of the Earth: The Creative Violence of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
(Master thesis, 2016-09-05)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg den amerikanske romanen Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West, skrevet av Cormac McCarthy og publisert i 1985. Romanen finner sted i Nord-Amerika mot slutten av 1840-tallet og ... -
Swearwords and attitude change: A sociolinguistic study
(Master thesis, 2013-05-14)This master thesis concerns change and attitudes to swearing among Englishmen. It includes two parts: The first part is about the underlying theory on swearing, such as why we swear, the history of swearing and attitudes ... -
Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC "Worlds"-A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05)The paper investigates topics, emphases, frames and absences in the Summary for Policymakers parts of the three Working Group reports in the IPCC 5th Assessment Report and the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis ... -
Systemkritik bei Christoph Hein 1980 bis 1989
(Master thesis, 2008-11-14)Zusammenfassender Vergleich der Systemkritik in den ausgewählten Werken:Die Textanalyse zeigt, dass die Zensur der 80er Jahre eine breitere und offenere Kritik an den politischen Fehlern des Stalinismus der 50er Jahre als ... -
Teacher cognition in the foreign language classroom: A literature review from Norway and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The study of language teacher cognition (LTC) allows us to understand better language teaching regarding what teachers know, how they come to know it, and how they draw on their knowledge. Due to the recently increasing ... -
Teachers' beliefs about multilingualism and a multilingual pedagogical approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-08)Knowledge of teachers’ beliefs is central to understanding teachers’ decision-making in the classroom. The present study explores Norwegian language teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism and the use of a multilingual ... -
Teachers’ reported implementation of multilingual teaching practices in foreign language classrooms in Norway and Russia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study investigated the extent to which 517 teachers of English, French, German, and Spanish in Norwegian and Russian schools reported drawing on their and their students' multilingualism as a resource and boosting ... -
"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 ... -
Tengo el orgullo de ser peruano y soy feliz": Estudio lingüístico-cultural de la representación del dialecto peruano en la música y la identidad nacional
(Master thesis, 2011)The main objective of this thesis was to find out whether or not the Peruvian dialect is a part of the Peruvian national identity, using music as a medium. To accomplish this objective, interviews were conducted in Trujillo, ... -
Textbook tasks and the development of ICC in the EFL-classroom. How do textbook tasks in the subject of English in VG1 potentially promote the developmentof intercultural communicative competence?
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)As of 2016, due to globalization, cross- cultural contact and communication are at an all-time high. Therefore, it is important that education prepares pupils for the increased interconnectedness of the world, and as a ...