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Caged verses: some new notes on the politics of The Pisan Cantos
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Pisan Cantos is the most notorious section of Pound’s masterpiece The Cantos, which was named after the concentration camp of Coltano, near Pisa, where Pound was imprisoned by the US army after the fall of Italian ... -
Cardiff English: A sociolinguistic study of phonological variation and change in Cardiff English
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker den fonetiske utviklingen i den Cardiff Engelske aksenten. Med utgangspunkt i fem forskjellige fonetiske trekk, ser jeg på utviklingen fra et bruk av tradisjonelle til nye supra-regionale ... -
Carving the body at its joints: Does the way we speak about the body shape the way we think about it?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)Looking at the way different linguistic communities speak about a universally shared domain of experience raises questions that are central to the language sciences. How can we compare meaning across languages? What is the ... -
¡Chingar tu madre! El uso del verbo chingar y sus derivados entre los jóvenes de la Ciudad de Mexico
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Este trabajo pretende describir el uso del verbo chingar y sus derivados en el habla juvenil de la Ciudad de México. -
"Ci-a potemu fari!" Usi e atteggiamenti linguistici tra adolescenti a Catania
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-18)"We can do it!" Language use and attitudes among adolescents in Catania Is there a connection between overt and covert attitudes towards own dialect among Sicilian adolescents? Can these attitudes be further connected ... -
"Cibo e cinematografia italiana: ruolo del cibo nelle opere cinematografiche italiane"
(Master thesis, 2018-12-12)In this paper I will analyze the role played by food in the Italian movies and its role in the society. In the first part of the thesis, the analysis will be mostly focused on a linguistic overview on the language of cinema ... -
Class Critique in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)My thesis argues that there are significant similarities between the ways that Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) contribute to a critique of prevailing class ... -
Climat et environnement dans le discours publicitaire. Une étude de traits linguistiques
(Master thesis, 2015-05-16)Denne masteroppgåva utgjer ei lingvistisk analyse av språkbruken i franskspråklege reklametekstar med klima- og miljøinnhald. Bakgrunnen for studien ligg i ynsket om å finne ut korleis disse to emna vert kommuniserte i ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...