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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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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.
(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?
(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
(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 ... -
WHAT CHANGES WHEN YOU USE ENGLISH AT WORK? A STUDY OF ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN CHINA
(2023-02-17)This study investigated when Chinese business professionals use English as a lingua franca to communicate in the workplace, what changes, and why and how the changes happen. 14 respondents who had Chinese as L1 and English ... -
Europa in Bewegung Zum Europa-Essay bei Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
(2023-01-30)This thesis discusses the essay as a literary genre whose form is particularly apt to be compared to the structure of Europe. First, the theoretical discussion of cultural, literary and cartographic borders of Europe ... -
KONSTENS STARKA VERKAN En studie av Freuds idéer om den estetiska erfarenheten i ”Michelangelos Mose”
(2023-01-24)This thesis analyses Freud’s thoughts on the aesthetic experience through a close reading of his essay “The Moses of Michelangelo” (1914), an overview of his other works about art and literature as well as his historical ... -
Me minus me: Self-Effacement in Autofiction by Christopher Isherwood, Rachel Cusk and J. M. Coetzee
(2022-11-24)Autofiction is one of the most popular genres in contemporary Anglophone literature. Yet the self-fashioning, outwardly hybrid genre merging autobiography with fiction is also the object of frequent contestation and ... -
We Are Very Similar, yet We Are Very Different: J.R.R Tolkien´s Éowyn of Rohan´s Vergilian Origins and Her Search for Meaning
(2022-09-29)Abstract: Through the years, many characters in The Lord of the Rings have been analysed in different ways. Éowyn is no exception. Her character has often been associated with the shield-maidens and Valkyries existing ... -
Cross-cultural training and cultural adjustment: Proposing an optimal CCT program.
(2022-09-29)Abstract Title: Cross-cultural training and cultural adjustment: Proposing an optimal CCT program. Author: Chrysiida Psarri Supervisor: Joseph Trotta Abstract: The increasing development of international business has ... -
Resonancias góticas del fantástico. Paisaje sonoro y violencia doméstica en Raimunda Torres y Quiroga
(2022-02-24)Sound has a great power in the production of emotions and can affect the listener as well as convey information. In three of her fantastic short stories published in the 1870s, Raimunda Torres y Quiroga, an Argentine author, ... -
Griesbach Rethought: The Synoptic Problem Reviewed The Griesbach Hypothesis (Two-Gospel Hypothesis) Examined in Light of Ancient Compositional Book Production
(2022-02-03)This paper investigates the Two-Gospel hypothesis from an ancient compositional book-producing practices. Mark is seen as the middle term and most important is the theoretical framework of book production in antiquity ... -
Littners Werk und Koeppens Beitrag. Eine textnahe Untersuchung von zwei Darstellungen des Holocaust: Wolfgang Koeppens Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch und Jakob Littners Mein Weg durch die Nacht
(2022-01-20)The thesis examines two literary works, Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch, published in 1948 in Munich, supposedly being the Jewish survivor Jakob Littner’s Holocaust memoir and Jakob (Jacob) Littner’s original memoir ... -
ZWEITSPRACHERWERB UND SPRACH-EINSTELLUNG IM STANDARD-DIALEKT-UMFELD. Eine soziolinguistische Studie von Lernenden aus Schweden und Norwegen in der Deutsch-schweiz
(2021-11-22)English Second language acquisition and language attitudes in a standard-dialect environment. Swedes and Norwegians in German-speaking Switzerland. The simultaneous acquisition of Swiss German and Standard German in a ...