Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

Metaforer inom populärvetenskap

Larsson, Anna (2024-11-13)

Jag har valt att översätta en populärvetenskaplig text från spanska till svenska och därefter undersöka de metaforer som förekommer i källtexten, vad de förmedlar samt på vilket sätt dessa hanteras i översättningen. I både ...

TRANSFER OF IDEOLOGY IN THE TRANSLATION OF POLITICAL SPEECHES - Yasser Arafat’s Speech at the UN in 1974

Abudaher, Alaa M (2024-07-04)

This study focuses on examining the process of translating political speeches and how the ideology expressed in the speech is transmitted and how it can influence the process of translation. The main data used in this ...

ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: William Shakespeare´s A Midsummer Night´s Dream – Tragic Aspects and Social Significance

Kubresli, Cathérina (2024-07-04)

Throughout the years, A Midsummer Night´s Dream has often been performed with a variety of interpretations made by different directors. At the Royal Shakespeare Company, Dream is frequently performed. This is unsurprising; ...

CODE-SWITCHING IN KONTEMPORÄREN DEUTSCHRAPTEXTEN Eine Analyse ausgewählter Texte von Capital Bra und RAF Camora

Bräutigam, Sofie (2024-07-04)

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, zu untersuchen, was der plötzliche Einschub von fremdsprachigen Elementen in ausgewählten Deutschraptexten leistet. Ein Teil der Analyse bezieht sich auf die inhaltlichen Domänen, ...

THE KIMONO Traditional wear, nightclothes, or cultural appropriation?

Bendall, Lisa (2024-06-19)

This thesis hopes to investigate how the kimono has gone from being everyday wear in Japan, to loungewear in the West. A brief historic overview of the kimono, both in Japan and in Europe will be given, as well as how the ...

PARALENGUAJE PARA EL LENGUAJE Los signos paralingüísticos en dos programas de contexto mediático

Careborg, Eric (2024-06-17)

El propósito general de este estudio es investigar cómo los hispanohablantes usan el lenguaje no verbal en las conversaciones. Este estudio se concentra específicamente en los signos paralingüísticos. Las preguntas de ...

MEN CAN BE VICTIMS TOO A Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Male Victims of Sexual Assault in Official Documents Issued by INGOs and NGOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo

de Boer, Esther (2024-04-03)

Male victimisation of sexual assault is not often spoken about and hidden by the victims. This trend can be found within research as well, where men play a marginalised role in the literature about sexual assault. It is ...

Identity Changes for Iraqi Employees in Multinational Corporations Using English as the Lingua Franca

Majeed Hamad Amin Ahlgren, Sarezh (2023-11-01)

With the help of this study, I aim to understand how Iraqi employees whose first language is Arabic, deal with situations where they have to speak English in their workplace, and how their identity changes. Through ...

‘NOTHING IS IN VAIN': Non-Standard Negation and Cyclical Change in Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo

Zahran, Aron (2023-10-31)

This work concerns the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of an item bule in the under described Tanzanian Bantu languages, Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo. Through collection and analysis of field data, it is shown that the ...

COLLOCATION COMPETENCY AMONG IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

Shatery, Kazhal (2023-10-03)

In the current study, a quantitative approach was taken to explore the impact of the first language on the transfer of lexical collocations, highlighting both positive and negative transfer effects. It explored the ...

THE ADAPTATION CYCLE OF COMIC BOOKS AND CINEMA: Authorship, Intermediality and Fidelity in Batman Adaptations

Camoglio, Nicola (2023-09-20)

This thesis explores the adaptation process from comic books to cinema, by leveraging theoretical frameworks found in the modern field of adaptation studies. The focus lies primarily on film adaptations of Batman, one ...

Vetenskapen vid vägskälet: En studie av sovjetisk vetenskapssyn vid trettiotalets början

Malmgren, Johannes (2023-09-19)

At the Second International Congress of the History of Science in 1931, Soviet academics had a rare opportunity to present their view of science to an international audience. At this time, science was becoming an increasingly ...

Intercultural (mis)communication in Swedish Workplaces from the Perspective of Brazilian Employees

Viera de Carvalho, Ana Paula (2023-08-10)

This study explores politeness and linguistic strategies in intercultural workplace communication in Sweden from the perspective of Brazilian white-collar employees. Employing Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness framework ...

Do our stories shape our identity? A case study of narratives and discourses among Iranian immigrants in Sweden.

Soghari Vash, Neda (2023-07-07)

Global migration movements are a daily occurrence in our globalized world. Immigrants’ identities evolve and are affected by the cultural norms, policies, and practices in host countries during their journeys. Throughout ...

REDUPLICATED FORM OF ADJECTIVES IN SOMALI: A plural form or something else?

Sheikh, Ahmed Abdulqaadir (2023-06-21)

Abstract The Somali adjectives gets reduplicated. This form of the adjective usually follows the nouns in the plural and the base form follows the nouns in the singular. The thesis aims to study the form and function of ...

INSERTIONS IN POPULAR HISTORY TEXTS - A contrastive study on translation from English to Swedish and from Swedish to English

Landälv, Gustav (2023-02-27)

The purpose of this essay is to compare the frequency of insertions in an English popular history text and a Swedish popular history text. Moreover, the purpose is to compare the English text with its Swedish translation ...