Blar i Department of Foreign Languages på tittel
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THE WALL - Un estudio de las actitudes de los residentes de la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos hacia la migración y las políticas de inmigración recientes de los EE.UU.
(Master thesis, 2019-03-13)This study takes place in the twin border cities of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona, U.S., where this study focuses on the attitudes of Mexicans and U.S. Americans about the current migration situation between ... -
WE have had very pearlous times and lost much but through devine providance is blessed with sufficent of the nessarys of life': A study of subject-verb concord in 18th-century Ulster
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)This thesis investigates subject-verb concord (SVC) in varieties of Irish English in Ulster between 1741 and 1800. The quantitative study is based on the 4747 occurrences of SVC in personal correspondence in a subcorpus ... -
“We wake, work, fight, eat, drink, fight, and we forget to sleep” - A corpus linguistic study of WAR metaphors in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hvordan Covid-19 pandemien har blitt metaforisk fremstilt i nyhetsartikler og magasiner i USA, Storbritannia og New Zealand. Det vil bli spesielt lagt vekt på krigsmetaforer da de ble brukt ... -
Web 2.0 et genres discursifs : l’exemple de blogs sur le changement du climat
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The Internet has become an important source of linguistic data, but it also presents several challenges, such as its characterisation in terms of discourse genres. In this article we present a definition of genre that takes ... -
'Well, That’s Just My Opinion': The Principle of Expression and the Public Debate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The public debate is commonly criticised for lacking deliberation. Therefore, I argue, we need a better understanding of the rhetorical modes occurring instead of deliberation. By examining the interaction in a particularly ... -
Wer spazieren geht, sieht mehr. Wirklichkeitswahrnehmung und Gesellschaftskritik in Johann Gottfried Seumes "Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802".
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)Zusammenfassung Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, Seumes Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802 zu untersuchen und herauszufinden, wie sich dieser Reisebericht von anderen Reiseberichten des 18. Jahrhunderts unterschied. Der ... -
«What do you mean ‘in your own words’?» A qualitative study of EFL teachers’ reported attitudes towards reading-to-write processes in the context of argumentative writing at upper-secondary level in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-12-16)I følge overordnet del av læreplanen skal skolen bidra til nysgjerrighet, og vitenskapelig og kritisk tenkning hos elevene, mens i engelskfaget skal elevene kunne skrive både «formelle og uformelle tekster, inkludert ... -
What is Above is Within: William Blake and the Alchemical Paradigm
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Denne oppgåva utforskar William Blake sin firfaldige visjon som ei oppleving av gnosis, og ser på korleis ein større alkymistisk tradisjon kan ha påverka utviklinga av Blake sine to profetisk verk Milton: A Poem in Two ... -
What´s topic got to do with it? A study of code-switching behavior in Norwegian upper secondary school students
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)In this MA thesis, the effect that topic has on code-switching in native Norwegian students at upper secondary school is investigated. The first hypothesis of the thesis claims that topics that are typically Norwegian, ... -
Whitman on TweetDeck: Community and Self Through Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Blogging
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne avhandlinga tek for seg dikt-eposet Leaves of Grass (Gresstrå på norsk) av Walt Whitman og tradisjonen han etablerte gjennom verket, i relasjon til blogging. Leaves kom først ut i 1855 og er eit verk som ikkje har ... -
Women for Suffrage
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Women Readers and Female Genres in the 18th century: The Female Quixote and Northanger Abbey
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Word order in clauses of purpose and result in Old English translated and non-translated prose
(Master thesis, 2020-12-09)Mange av de overlevende tekstene vi har fra den gammelengelske perioden er tekster som er oversatt fra, eller inspirert av, latinske tekster. Spesielt tekster fra den tidligste gammelengelske perioden (800-950 evt) er ... -
Word order in Old English and Middle English subordinate clauses
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Word order patterns in Old and Middle English. A syntactic and pragmatic study.
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Wordsworth's Causal Poetics of Thought
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The Work of the Witness: Leonard Woolf, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Starting from an interest in witnessing as a set of conceptual and narrative operations that also involve comparison as a fundamental cognitive practice, this essay examines the work of the witness at two historically ... -
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 ... -
The Worth of Nature: Valuations of Glaciers in Alaskan and Norwegian Media Discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article presents a comparative case study of public valuation of glaciers in Alaska and Norway. The first case examines Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier, which has been central in public debate over the US Forest Service’s ... -
Wrestling between English and Pinyin: Language politics and ideologies of coding street names in China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper examines the code choice and contestations on street name signs in China to find out the dynamics of language politics and the language ideological debates. In China, Hanyu Pinyin and English compete for visibility ...