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Climate change as a corporate strategy issue: A discourse analysis of three climate reports from the energy sector
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how energy companies discursively construct climate change when integrating it into their overall business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – This linguistic study ... -
Climate Change in Cameroon Political Discourse: A Case Study of Paul Biya's COP21 Speech
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)As climate change has occupied a growing space in public debates in recent years, various institutional frameworks have been developed to enable discussion of this issue across areas and borders. The most important of such ... -
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study proposes an analysis of climate change (CC) narratives in answers to an open-ended survey question, where we ask what a climate-friendly lifestyle may imply. The representative survey has been conducted ... -
Code-switching in The Wire
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)This MA thesis examines the use of code-switching in six characters in the HBO series The Wire. Three Afro-American and three Caucasian characters, placed in the low, middle and high social stratum, were chosen. The aim ... -
Collocations and Teaching: Investigating word combinations in two English textbooks for Norwegian upper secondary school students
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)This master thesis is concerned with the teaching of collocations in upper secondary school level in Norway. The scope of this study is to investigate vocabulary exercises in two textbooks used for the teaching of English ... -
Colombianos en Bergen: un estudio de integración, percepciones y actitudes lingüísticas
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Colombians in Bergen: A Study of Integration, Perceptions, and Linguistic Attitudes This research aims to identify the linguistic perceptions and attitudes of Colombian residents in Bergen toward their Spanish and the ... -
Comics as a multimodal resource and students’ willingness to communicate in Russian
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The multimodal nature of daily interactions in the twenty-first century has led to growing calls for the inclusion of multimodal content like comics in foreign language classrooms. Such content, as opposed to traditional ... -
Como usado como marcador del discurso en el lenguaje juvenil de Madrid
(Master thesis, 2011-11-20)El objetivo del presente estudio ha sido analizar y describir las varias funciones pragmáticas que muestra como en las conversaciones entre los jóvenes madrileños en el corpus COLAm. Asimismo fue analizada la distribución ... -
The concept of creativity in Georges Florovsky’s thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article discusses the meanings of “creativity”—tvorchestvo—as we encounter it in Georges Florovsky’s thought, first and foremost in his magnum opus Ways of Russian Theology (1937). Tvorchestvo had by this time become ... -
Conceptual metaphors in Ukrainian primeministers’ discourse involving renewables
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-30)This qualitative study is aimed at elucidating conceptual metaphors associated with renewable energy sources (further referred to as ‘renewables’) in Ukrainian prime ministers’ (PMs) political discourse. The material derives ... -
Conciencia migratoria y educacion chilena
(Master thesis, 2013-11-20)Resumen - Sammendrag Hay verdades que están profundamente arraigadas difíciles de remover. Estas se petrifican y sobre ellas se van estableciendo otras que pretenden formar un sólido fundamento. Con el tiempo llegan a ... -
Constructed identities A Chronotopic reading of The Great Gatsby, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Mad Men
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This thesis aims to explore how the past figures in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), and in the AMC series Mad Men (2007-2015), written by Matthew Weiner. ... -
Constructions of a Life: (Be)Longing and (Dis)Location in the Autobiographical Writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman, and Ihab Hassan
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis will examine the autobiographical writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman and Ihab Hassan, and the main objective will be to study how their individual experiences of cultural translocation shape their narrative ... -
Contested utopias: Language ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped
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Contesting the Rural Idyll in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines the rural idyll genre in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Several literary critics refer to Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a rural idyll' narrative. In consequence the novel is considered to pertain to ... -
Continuity of Texts: Metafiction in a Cortazar Short Story and its Swedish Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article analyzes the Swedish translation of the short story Continuidad de los parques, written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar and translated into Swedish by the translator Jan Sjögren. This short story is an ... -
"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
A corpus-based study on the evolution of There: Statistical analysis and cognitive interpretation
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Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a corpus-pragmatics approach to explore how the ... -
La correlation temps-espace dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Mongo Beti. Parcours chronotopique de Ville cruelle, Perpétue et Branle-bas en noir et blanc
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-06)This work is an exploration of Bakhtin’s chronotope in the novel of the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, whose pen has relentlessly been exposing, for nearly half a century, the abuses of colonialism and neo-colonialism on ...