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A “Whole” New World of Accents: A Societal Treatment Study of Accent Use and Stereotyping in Disney’s Originals and Remakes
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This master’s thesis analyzes the portrayal of English accents in eight Disney classics released between 1940 and 1998 and eight live-action remakes of these films released between 2019 and 2023. The purpose has been to ... -
AAVE In Pop-Music: Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation?
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne oppgaven tar for seg bruk av African American Vernacular English (AAVE) i pop-musikksjangeren. Det legges spesielt vekt på diskusjonen om en kan snakke om kulturelle appropriering, når ikke-svarte musiker bruker AAVE ... -
Ability qua Mobility: Disability as Identity and Hierarchy in Brave New World and Flowers for Algernon
(Master thesis, 2020-05-29)Skildringa av funksjonshemjing i litteraturen er ein verdifull målestokk for dei samfunnsverdiane som eit samfunn forventar både av kropp og sinn. Science Fiction inviterer særskild ei lesing med fokus på funksjonshemjing ... -
Abort og fosterreduksjon: En etisk sammenligning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)De siste årene har fosterreduksjon i økende grad vært gjenstand for debatt i Norge, og intensiteten nådde et foreløpig maksimum da Lovavdelingen leverte tolknings-uttalelsen § 2 - Tolkning av abortloven i 2016 som svar på ... -
Abortion and multifetal pregnancy reduction: An ethical comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) has increasingly been a subject of debate in Norway. The intensity of this debate reached a tentative maximum when the Legislation Department delivered their interpretative ... -
The Absent ‘Thing’ and the Value of Distance – Social media through an Arendtian lens
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The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion
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Academic Vocabulary Unleashed Potential?A corpus study of English course materials for advanced Norwegian learners of English
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)A corpus study of English course materials for advanced Norwegian learners of English -
Academic writing in the Baltic States: Introducing the Bwrite project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing ... -
Accents in Wonderland: An Attitudinal Study of the Use of Accents in Disney's Originals and Remakes
(Master thesis, 2019-06-08)This thesis is a study of language attitudes which aims to investigate how various English accents are used in Disney films. The data consists of 16 Disney films including eight original films released between 1950 and ... -
Access as transaction. A discourse analysis of users’ construction of value and cost on Facebook, Netflix and Fanfiction.net.
(Master thesis, 2014-11-19)Internet services are big business, but what exactly are the service providers selling, with no physical product? And what are the costumers paying, when so often, the services are evidently free? Truth is, it really doesn't ... -
"Ach, it's a great wee day so far": A corpus stylistic study of discourse-pragmatic markers in Derry Girls
(Master thesis, 2023-09-01)This thesis aims to analyse the use of the discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) ach, och, final but and wee in the dialogue of the television series Derry Girls (Leddy et al., 2018–2022), the language of which constitutes a ... -
An acoustic study of the low back merger and northern cities shift in Des Moines, Iowa
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)The present study is a sociolinguistic study conducted in Des Moines, Iowa. It deals with the Low Back Merger and the Northern Cities Shift. It deals in particular with what happens to the low back vowels in an area affected ... -
Acquiesced and unrefuted : The growth of scientific myths
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-05)This thesis explores the phenomenon of scientific myths distributed in academic discourses. Drawing on a set of myth-examples, I explicate a definition of the term ‘scientific myth’, arguing that it ought primarily to be ... -
The Acquisition of english prepositions by Norwegian L2 learners - a Corpus-based error analysis
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Actitudes linguisticas de los hablantes de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria hacia su propia habla
(Master thesis, 2007-11-20)Mastergradsoppgave i spansk språk og latinamerikastudier -
Actitudes lingüísticas de los bogotanos hacia los dialectos del español hablado en Colombia y las variedades nacionales de esta lengua en los demás países de Hispanoamérica.
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-11-18)The aim of this study is to describe the linguistic attitudes in people from Bogota towards the dialects of Spanish in Colombia and the national varieties of it in other countries of Latin America. This project follows the ... -
Actitudes lingüísticas de los hispanohablantes hacia su propia lengua: nuevos alcances
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Most research works on language attitudes, which have been done within the Hispanic world, deal with issues where Spanish is usually confronted with other languages (American Indian languages, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, ...