Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för språk och litteraturer by Title
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Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue
(2011-04-19)This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a ... -
The Curve of an Emotion: A Study of Change in the Portrayal of Children and Childhood in the Literature of James Joyce
(2021-02-09)Literary theorists and social historians consider fictional texts to be important for the study of children and childhood. James Joyce’s fiction is considered important for understanding Irish childhoods, and Joyce’s ... -
The Disruptive Semiotic: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
(2021-05-11)Avhandlingen analyserar Thomas Hardys romaner med syfte att utröna varför de oftast väcker en känsla av ambivalens i läsaren. Med utgångspunkt ifrån Julia Kristevas teori om det semiotiska, enligt vilken intertextualitet ... -
The Multiple Functions of the Reflexive Prefix in Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu
(2021-10-21)This dissertation describes and analyses the multiple functions of the reflexive prefix in four North Eastern Bantu languages, Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu, all spoken in Tanzania. Apart from encoding the reflexive ... -
The Ndengeleko Language of Tanzania
(2013-03-06)This dissertation describes the Ndengeleko language of Tanzania, in particular the phonology and morphology in the noun and verb phrase. This Bantu language, spoken by approximately 72,000 people, has not been the subject ... -
The Trials of the Intertextual: The Translation and Reception of Tatyana Tolstaya's Kys´ in Sweden and the United States
(2020-01-09)This dissertation analyses the translation and reception of Tatyana Tolstaya’s novel Kys´ (2000). The analysis includes, as well as the Russian source text, the Swedish translation Därv (2003), translated by Staffan Skott ... -
To the very End. A contrastive study of N-Rhemes in English and Swedish translations
(2016-12-14)The present study is an explorative, corpus-based contrastive study of N-Rhemes in English and Swedish original texts, as well as translations between the two languages. The aim is twofold, to describe the N-Rheme in English ... -
Towards Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education – The Case of English Courses at Swedish Universities
(2023-08-21)The present thesis investigates higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) and critical thinking in English courses at Swedish universities. The rationale for investigating this topic is based on policy documents which state that ... -
Under the Shadow of a Self-Sufficient Writer: The Critic and J. M. Coetzee
(2018-03-28)J. M. Coetzee’s writing has consistently challenged the work of the critic, questioning the principles of literary criticism and preempting its ordinary procedures. A distinguishing trait of this challenge is the solipsistic ... -
Vom Lesen lesen. Zur Konzeption und Darstellung des Lesers im postmodernen Roman
(2020-09-07)I postmoderna romaner tillskrivs läsaren en avgörande roll. Läsaren träder ofta fram som fiktionaliserad figur respektive protagonist i texternas handlingar, där olika typer av läsning och dessas olika funktioner visas upp ... -
Vowel-Zero Alternations in West Slavic Prepositions: A Corpus Based Investigation of Polish, Slovak and Czech
(2014-10-17)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the scope of the vowel―zero alternations in prepositions in the three major West Slavic languages, i.e. Polish, Slovak and Czech, and to formulate, within the Government Phonology ... -
Worldmakers and Worldwreckers in Decolonial and Developmentalist Imaginaries of Environmental Justice from Western Europe and North America in the 2010s
(2023-08-21)This dissertation investigates imaginaries of environmental justice from Western Europe and North America in the 2010s. It explores the relevance of research on predominantly Global South environmental movements and ... -
Ya nos cayó el chahuistle: El cuento apocalíptico mexicano contemporáneo (1996-2016)
(2019-01-11)The aim of this dissertation is to cover a gap left by literary criticism in the study of Mexican apocalyptic literature. Its main objective is to make a systematized and comprehensive characterization of contemporary ... -
Zu Form- und Funktionsvariation der Gesprächspartikeln HM, JA, OKAY und NEIN und ihren schwedischen Entsprechungen in der Chat-Kommunikation
(2013-04-11)This thesis investigates the communication in one German and one Swedish chat room on the internet. The aim is to find out how the specific conditions of the communication influence the use of certain linguistic forms ... -
Zur Absurdität und Relativität im Werk Reinhard Lettaus
(2009-12-15)This study focuses on the thematic and narrative continuity of the literary prose work of the German writer Reinhard Lettau (1929-1996). Reinhard Lettau published six pieces of literary prose, including experimental short ... -
Zwischen ”Mittsommerreigen” und ”Höllenspektakel”: Bilder von Schweden und ihr Einfluss auf Rezensionen im deutschen Feuilleton der 1990er Jahre
(2012-05-16)Abstract Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 9 June, 2012 Title: Zwischen „Mittsommerreigen” und „Höllenspektakel”: Bilder von Schweden und ihr Einfluss auf Rezensionen im deutschen Feuilleton ...