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Truth Be Told: Problematizing Historical Truth Through Narration in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis attempt to prove how William Faulkner problematizes the idea of historical truth through the narration of Absalom, Absalom! (referred to as AA). The focus revolves around Faulkner's use of mythical narration ... -
Tunisians’ attitudes towards English and its use in the Tunisian context. A sociolinguistic attitudinal study
(Master thesis, 2018-12-13)Etant donné l’essor grandissant de l’anglais à l’échelle mondiale et son statut unique de langue internationale, de « Lingua Franca », les tunisiens d’aujourd’hui ont de nouvelles aspirations. En effet, les interactions ... -
Tutti Frutti - Best said in an Inverness accent: A sociolinguistic variationist study of phonological variation and change in Inverness
(Master thesis, 2018-06-01)I denne masteroppgaven har det blitt forsket på språkendring og -variasjon i Inverness, en liten by i det skotske høylandet. Denne sosiolingvistiske studien har særlig fokusert på å avdekke lingvistiske mønstre som korrelerer ... -
Two Narratives of Islamic Revival: Television Preaching in Egypt
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-06-17)Since the turn of the millennium, the interplay between Islamic revivalism, economic liberalization, and new media has created a new form of popular Islamic preaching framed as television programs. From the pulpit of the ... -
Two-valued and Multi-valued Orientation in the American Press" : A contrastive linguistic study of American quality newspapers and tabloids
(Master thesis, 2015-05-12)This thesis focuses on two-valued and multi-valued orientation in the language of tabloid and quality newspapers in the U.S. This paper aims at answering the following research questions: Does the language of American ... -
Un análisis del Plan de Atención Nacional a la Emergencia Social del Uruguay
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Un(w)rapping Ta-Nehisi Coates' Politics and aesthetics
(Master thesis, 2018-03-14)Denne oppgaven er basert på en analyse av hvordan forfatter og journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates representerer den afroamerikanske opplevelsen i sine litterære verk. Forfatteren har i de siste årene opparbeidet seg status som ... -
Une Analyse de film pour comprendre le racisme
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)Il y a une nouvelle vague de racisme ouvert en France. Cependant, c'est un phénomène avec des racines sociales et historiques complexes. Ce mémoire cherche à comprendre le racisme de deux manières : généralement, aussi ... -
Une analyse du discours politique des Chefs d'état français et norvégien à la suite d'un attentat dans leur pays
(Master thesis, 2013-09-01)Deux attentats terribles perturbent la vie paisible quotidienne de deux pays démocratiques du monde occidental. Des enfants sont tués de sang-froid. Le tueur ne montre aucun regret. La nation est bouleversée. Les deux Chefs ... -
The Ungspråk project: Researching multilingualism and multilingual identity in lower secondary schools
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The main objective of this article is to discuss the theoretical background and rationale for developing Ungspråk, a longitudinal, mixed methods study set in Norwegian lower secondary schools. The paper starts with an ... -
Universalising idealism: The cross-cultural case of Russian religious thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article analyses the idealist dimension of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian religious thought as it appears in key works by Vladimir Solov’ev (1853–1900), Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944) and Nikolai ... -
The use and development of revenge tragedy in the comics V for Vendetta and the Sandman
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis examines the two comics V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and The Sandman by Neil Gaiman in the context of revenge tragedy. The revenge tragedy tradition is perhaps mostly associated with theatre, ... -
The use of accents in Disney's animated feature films 1995-2009: a sociolinguistic study of the good, the bad and the foreign
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis is a study of the use of accents in eighteen of Disney's animated feature films released in the years 1995-2009. Building on Rosina Lippi-Green's study from 1997, the present thesis aims to investigate whether ... -
The use of non-standard features in British and American English – a comparative attitudinal study.
(Master thesis, 2018-05-23)Denne masteroppgaven omhandler bruken av ikke-standard grammatiske trekk i britisk og amerikansk engelsk. Studien som er gjennomført er en komparativ holdningsstudie. Hovedmålene med studien er å: (1) måle graden av ... -
The use of verb-initial word order in Old English prose: a corpus-based study
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This master's thesis is concerned with verb- initial (V1) word order in declarative main clauses in Old English. Using a corpus of nineteen Old English prose texts, the present study carries out a quantitative and qualitative ... -
Using documentary films in the EFL classroom to promote the development of intercultural competence
(Master thesis, 2017)Hovudmålet med denne oppgåva er å undersøke korleis dokumentarfilm kan bli brukt i klasserommet for å fremje utviklinga av interkulturell kompetansei det obligatoriske faget engelsk på Vg1. Interkulturell kompetanse er ... -
Ut av gråsonen: Språk og tilhørighet i to romaner om krigen i Donbas (Serhij Zjadans Internatet og Andrej Kurkovs Grå bier)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Russlands krigføring i Ukraina siden 2014 har hatt stor innflytelse på ukrainsk kultur. Krigserfaringer tematiseres på mange ulike måter i litteratur, film, musikk og kunst. I et samfunn rammet av krig, intensiveres spørsmål ... -
Übersetzungsbezogene Stilanalyse von Christoph Heins Roman "Horns Ende" unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzählerstimmen
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Romanen "Horns Ende" er skrevet av Christoph Hein og ble utgitt i 1985. Handlinga utspiller seg i en småby i DDR. Tidlig på 1980-tallet forsøker fem svært ulike fortellere å huske hva som hendte tilbake i 1957, det året ... -
Valid and Reliable? A Critical Analysis of the Final Written Exam in English in the Upper Secondary School
(Master thesis, 2015-05-12)ABSTRACT This study focuses on which competence aims that are actually measured in the written exam in English in Norwegian upper secondary schools and, further, on students' understanding of the texts and the tasks in the ...