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The Power of Satire: An Analysis of Language Attitudes in South Park
(Master thesis, 2023-05-29)Denne oppgaven har som formål å se på bruken av engelske uttalevarianter (accents) i den animerte TV-serien South Park, utgitt mellom 1997 og 2022. Total har 205 karakterer fra 6 ulike sesonger blitt analysert og kategorisert ... -
The Question of Nepal and Nepaliness in Samrat Upadhyay's The Guru of Love
(Master thesis, 2014-12-16)Samrat Upadhyay‟s roman The Guru of Love er en fortelling om kjærlighet og hat. Samtidig som romanen inngår i en litterær tradisjon der ingen tidligere hadde skrevet på engelsk, bryter den med denne tradisjonen ved å gjøre ... -
The spelling of phonemes - An Error Analysis of Norwegian pupils' L2 English spelling with emphasis on phoneme–grapheme correspondences
(Master thesis, 2019-06-06)Denne masteroppgaven i engelsk lingvistikk undersøker hvordan fonemene (lydene) bak ulike grafemer (sammensetninger av bokstaver) påvirker elevers evne til å stave grafemene. Forholdet mellom fonemer og grafemer i engelsk ... -
The Translation of Language Attitudes
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)I denne oppgaven undersøkes språkholdningene som finnes i animasjonsfilmer for barn produsert i USA i det 21. århundret. Formålet med oppgaven er todelt: å undersøke om det finnes systematiske korrelasjoner mellom karaktertrekk ... -
The Use of Literature to Discuss Racism within the English Subject in the Norwegian Lower Secondary School: A Mixed-method Study.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Denne studien tar for seg om, og i så fall hvordan, engelsklærere i ungdomskolen bruker skjønnlitteratur for å diskutere rasisme i engelskfaget. Det blir undersøkt hvordan lærerne definerer rasisme, deres refleksjoner rundt ... -
The Wonderful World of Accents: Accent Use in Disney’s Animated Television Series 1985-2020
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne oppgaven har hatt som formål å se på bruken av engelske uttalevarianter (“accents”) i animerte tv-serier fra Disney, utgitt mellom 1985 og 2020. Totalt har 490 karakterer fra 14 ulike serier blitt analysert og ... -
“They Made us into a Race. We Made Ourselves into a People”: A Corpus Study of Contemporary Black American Group Identity in the Non‑Fictional Writings of Ta‑Nehisi Coates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article examines representations of contemporary Black American identity in the non-fictional writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates. The dataset is a self-compiled specialized corpus of Coates’s non-fictional writings from ... -
‘Things he wanted to say’ : Figures in the Dialogue of Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Characterised as a ‘rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story’ (Nesset, blurb), Raymond Carver (1938–1988) represented something novel in the 20th century literature of the USA when his stories started to appear ... -
Third Time's the Charm: Revisions in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Story of Sara Crewe
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)This Master's thesis examines Frances Hodgson Burnett's three versions of the story of Sara Crewe. The story was published as a novella, a play and a novel; Sara Crewe: Or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, The Little Princess ... -
'This Is How You Made Me': The Current State of Hypermasculinity in Mainstream Rap through the Lens of Jay-Z's Lyrics
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'Thone vpon thother' - On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)A frequent result produced by a search of the digital corpora of Middle English (henceforth ME) for instances of reduced th’ is a nominal involving the pronouns one or other with initial th- or t- attached. In this study ... -
"Those are the real gifts": Fictional representation of philanthropy in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)This thesis addresses the representation of fictional philanthropy in two Victorian novels by two women writers; Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage. Philanthropy and the notion of the gift are ... -
Thought Experiments: Connections between genre and feminism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Joanna Russ's The Female Man
(Master thesis, 2014-09-01)In this thesis, I show how the two novels The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin, and The Female Man, by Joanna Russ, make use of the transformativity of speculative fiction in order to explore sex/gender. Speculative ... -
Time for Change. A Theory-driven, Corpus-based Study of Tense and Aspect in La Paz Spanish.
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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 ... -
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‘To be multilingual means … ’: exploring a participatory approach to multilingual identity with schoolchildren †
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article presents an innovative way to engage schoolchildren in discussions on multilingualism and multilingual identity using research data they helped generate. Adopting an exploratory, participatory approach to ... -
“Todo lo que has podido ofrecerme siempre ha sido una vida complicada” Un estudio de los migrantes noruegos que retornaron de Argentina en los años 1880-1940.
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Este trabajo de tesis se enfoca en los noruegos que migraron a Argentina en los años 1890-1940, y más específicamente en los migrantes que decidieron volver a Noruega. Un número considerable de los noruegos que migraron a ... -
Tolstoj and Symbolic Castraction: On Love and Death in Russian fin-de-siècle Culture
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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973): Acts of Narrative as Propagation of Culture
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)I den hensikt å problematisere fraværet av gjennomsiktighet i Toni Morrisons diktning, utforsker denne oppgaven hvordan fremstillingen av de strukturalistiske kategoriene stemme og fokalisering, samt dobbelthet og billedbruk ...