Blar i Department of Foreign Languages på emneord "VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020"
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Estuary English in Norfampton? Phonological variation and change in Northampton English
(Master thesis, 2011-05-15)This study is concerned with language variation and change in Northampton, United Kingdom. The accent of this area has rarely been investigated and it lacks empirical studies about recent changes. At the same time, there ... -
Freebooters, yachts, and pickle-herrings: Dutch nautical, maritime, and naval loanwords in English
(Master thesis, 2011-05-15)This thesis examines Dutch nautical, maritime, and naval loanwords in English. It looks at when and how they were adopted, if and when they fell out of use, and why some of them are still found in English today. -
Instinct or Insight in Dystopia. Reading Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler through a Darwinian Lens
(Master thesis, 2011-11-20)Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author known for novels such as The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. Octavia Estelle Butler is an American author who has won several awards for her work. The novels I have selected for this ... -
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 ... -
Phonological variation and change in London Cockney English: a phonological study
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)The aim of this thesis has been to investigate phonological variation and change in the variety spoken in the traditional East End of London, traditionally referred to as Cockney. The main focus has been on the social group ... -
Promoting Intercultural Competence in a Multicultural Classroom
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis is a study of a multicultural classroom and what the foci of English as a foreign language are. Furthermore, it focuses on how intercultural competence could be promoted. -
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 ... -
"That something better ought to come". Structure and canon formation in British literary history
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)Literary historiography may, among other things, mean the study of how literary history is written. Taking as my departurepoint Hayden White's claim that history is fictional as well as factual, and that writing history ... -
Time is motion : a corpus-based study on the quantitative use of cognitive metaphors in translated and non-translated English
(Master thesis, 2011-11-21)Translation of cognitive metaphor is treated as a matter of conceptual equivalence or diversity between languages and cultures. Previous research on various language pairs (source and target language) has revealed a number ... -
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 ... -
World of speechcraft: accent use and stereotyping in computer games
(Master thesis, 2011-11-21)Denne studien omhandler dialektbruk ('accent') i dataspill. Nærmere bestemt, etterforsker den om det er en sammenheng mellom egenskapene til spillkarakterer og den dialekten de snakker. Studien er inspirert av Rosina ...