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Danny Miller in Pat Barker's Border Crossing - a study in manipulation
(2012-05-09)In may essay I discuss the character Danny Miller in Pat Barker's "Border Crossing (2001). I argue that he does not change in the novel, even though he goes through rehabilitation, after murdering Lizzie Parks, his elderly ... -
Dans le monde des « clodos », « clébards » et « cainfris ». La traduction de l’argot français dans Vernon Subutex de Virginie Despentes
(2020-02-10)Slang , sometimes referred to as a social variation in language, can be a challenge for the translator due to its rapid evolution and lack of equivalences in the target language. This paper examine the translation of ... -
DARK MOUNTAIN’S UNCIVILISED WRITING AND ROBINSON JEFFERS Shedding Light on the Dark Mountain through the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
(2021-04-21)The Dark Mountain Project is a community of writers that seeks to create literature that reflects a poetic vision similar to the inhumanist perspective expressed in Robinson Jeffers’s poetry. The movement’s ... -
DECONSTRUCTING GENDER - How to Teach Gender and Feminist Pedagogy using Stephenie Meyer's Life and Death in the EFL classroom
(2017-09-05)Research done by The Swedish National Agency for Education shows students being treated and assessed differently. Various demands and expectations are placed on them based on their gender. Schools thus have a responsibility ... -
DEN FJÄTTRADE PROMETHEUS. En stilometrisk studie av hyperbatakonstruktioner
(2022-06-07)In this student thesis, the phenomenon of hyperbaton (Hb) is used as a stylometric device to contribute to the discussion about the authorship of Prometheus bound (Pr.). The phenomenon is analyzed in a quantitative way in ... -
Der geborene Ritter? - Eine Untersuchung zur Funktion der ritterlichen Geburt in „Wigalois“ und „Der arme Heinrich“
(2012-06-30)In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Funktion der Geburt des hochmittelalterichen Ritterideals aus einer diskurstheoretischen Perspektive diskutiert. Als Ausgangspunkt für die Diskussion dienen die zwei hochmittelalterlichen ... -
Deux langues – une culture? Étude sur la traduction des référents culturels dans la traduction française d’un roman de Lars Kepler
(2012-06-30)Uppsatsen har som mål att analysera den franska översättningen av de kulturspecifika begrepp som förekommer i Lars Keplers roman "Hypnotisören". Begreppen har delats upp i olika semantiska grupper som jämförts med varandra ... -
DEVINER, RÉSUMER OU PRÉDIRE? Une étude sur les stratégies de lecture et leur rapport avec une épreuve de compréhension écrite en français chez un groupe de collégiens suédois
(2018-06-18)Uppsatsens syfte är att visa ett exempel på förhållandet mellan läsförståelse av en fransk text och de lässtrategier som en grupp åttondeklassare använder. Våra forskningsfrågor är: vilka strategier använder eleverna när ... -
Didactic considerations of vocabulary breadth and depth in EFL/ESL contexts - a literature review
(2015-04-27)This literature review analyzes and synthesizes current studies on the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension in the context of English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL). It concludes ... -
DIGLOSSIE IN DEUTSCHSCHWEIZER SPITÄLERN. Studie zu Sprachgebrauch und Spracheinstellung von MitarbeiterInnen
(2020-06-10)The concomitant presence and usage of two varieties of German, namely Swiss German and Standard German, is characteristic for German-speaking Switzerland. This linguistic situation is mirrored in the region’s hospitals or, ... -
Dissecting Diversity A Discursive Analysis of the Use and Meaning of Diversity in two Texts by Ted Cantle
(2014-10-27)This essay purports to investigate the use and meaning of the lexical item, or word, diversity in two texts by British sociologist Ted Cantle. In order to analyse these texts an approach drawing from discourse analysis, ... -
Do Homophobic Slurs Reinforce Heteronormativity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Homophobic Slurs and Epithets in Film
(2022-11-24)Homophobic slurs can reinforce the hegemonic view of heteronormativity, namelythat heterosexuality is the preferable sexuality (Peake, 2013). The aim of this study was toexamine whether a societal heteronormative ideal is ... -
Do the Speeches of Japanese Female Politicians Feature Japanese Women's Language? -Political Language from a Gender Perspective
(2014-03-04)This thesis focuses on so called Japanese women’s language by analysing Japanese female politicians’ language use in written speeches. Compared to the rest of the world there is a severe lack of female politicians in the ... -
Do women and men translate differently? A quantitative study of stylistic differences in four translations of "Madame Bovary"
(2011-04-27)Gender differences in oral communication are a linguistic fact. The objective of this study is to find out if such differences exist even in written communication, focusing here on the translation of prose texts. Based ... -
DO YOU HAVE THE TIME TO LISTEN TO ME WHINE? First person pronoun use in English pop lyrics
(2016-02-05)The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a pattern in first person pronoun use can be detected in the lyrics of different music genres. For this purpose, eighty songs were randomly selected by Spotify's ... -
Does technology make us poor spellers? The effects of CMC on standard spelling
(2015-10-21)In this digital era, technology has been accused of causing declining language standards. However, not much research has been put forth to support this claim. Therefore, this literature review seeks to examine current ... -
Doko ga omoroi nen! Analys av Manzai diskurs på japanska
(2015-03-11)Manzai (漫才) is a Japanese comedy style similar to stand-up comedy but done by two people in the form of a dialogue. One is the Boke “Funny man” and the other the Tsukkomi “Straight man”. This work examines how manzai ... -
Don't Panic! A study of the Absurd as an Expression of Anxiety and Existentialism in Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
(2013-06-26)This essay studies the absurd as expressions of anxiety and existentialism in Douglas Adam's novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; my thesis is that the absurd is the key to understanding the novel. With the help ...