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HANDING THE REINS TO THE TRICKSTER: A Narratological Analysis of the Construction of Reliability in Joanne M. Harris’ The Gospel of Loki
(2016-09-16)How can a reader believe anything the narrator says when the narrator is an infamous trickster? The Gospel of Loki (2014) tells the Edda-stories from the Norse Trickster God Loki’s viewpoint, providing a unique perspective ... -
Happy Multicultural Land? Reading Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as a Critique of Multiculturalism as an Ideology
(2013-04-16)This essay explores the portrayal of multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth in order to show how Smith, rather than as an ideology, depicts it as a reality. Through its characters’ experience as immigrants of different ... -
Hardship of the families. A linguistic study and categorisation of English loanwords in Japanese
(2017-01-26)This study investigates what type of Japanese loanwords and waseieigo (Japanese made English), is the most difficult to comprehend for Swedish students studying Japanese at University. With the framework presented in ... -
Hålla huvudet kallt. Bildspråk och kulturella aspekter i ryska och svenska idiom
(2020-09-02)Syftet med med uppsatsen var att utforska, beskriva och analysera idiom som innehåller huvud i ryska och svenska utifrån deras bildspråk och kulturella aspekter. Idiomen definierades utifrån egenskaperna hög grad av ... -
Hedges and Boosters in Academic Writing - A Study of Gender Differences in Essays Written by Swedish Advanced Learners of English.
(2012-06-30)The primary aim of this study was to investigate the overall frequency in which Swedish advanced learners of English use epistemic modality to express doubt (hedges) and certainty (boosters) in their academic writing; and ... -
Hedges, Boosters and Tag Questions in The Big Bang Theory: A Gender Perspective
(2014-02-21)The aim of the present study is to investigate the overall frequency of hedges, boosters and tag questions in a selected number of episodes of the TV show The Big Bang Theory, and whether or not there are any gender ... -
Hej, tja, salam: En sociolingvistisk studie om kunskaper och attityder gentemot det arabiska språket hos icke-arabiskatalande ungdomar i Göteborg
(2023-09-06)Jag undersöker i vilken utsträckning som Sveriges näst största språk sett till antalet förstaspråkstalare tagit plats bland ungdomar i mitt lokalsamhälle. Till hjälp har jag utformat två frågeställningar som rör språkkunskaper ... -
HEMINGWAY’S HONESTY AND THE TRAGEDY OF A FAREWELL TO ARMS
(2016-02-05)In his writing, Ernest Hemingway made frequent use of the word ‘honesty’. ‘Honesty’ is, however, an ambiguous term, and it is not an entirely simple task to figure out exactly what Hemingway meant when he used it. In ... -
Het woord na de moord - De invloed van de moord op Theo van Gogh op latente waarderingen van "moslims" en "islam" in Nederlandse krantentaal
(2012-05-02)De algemene vraag van deze scriptie is hoe maatschappelijke gebeurtenissen het dagelijkse taalgebruik beïnvloeden. Als specifiek voorbeeld werd bestudeerd hoe de moord op Theo van Gogh in 2004 de waarderingen van moslims ... -
Heteronormativity in EFL textbooks
(2015-04-09)Gender is a binary construction reinforced by language, and reinforcing heterosexuality. When learning a foreign language, one has the ability to reconstruct one’s norms and therefore acquire strategies for avoiding ... -
HETERONORMATIVITY OF THE AMBISEXUAL. A Queer Reading of the Science Fiction Novel The Left Hand of Darkness
(2018-06-13)The utopian genre exists predominantly in science fiction and has in the twentieth century been extensively explored in feminist literature. Ursula K. Le Guin is considered one of the leading authors in this genre and has ... -
HIJAS DE LA TIERRA MEXICANA
(2016-02-19)The aim of this essay is to analyze the ideologies that appears in the novel Ladydi by Jennifer Clement. In addition we also examine how ideologies are negotiated by the characters in the book. The novel was published in ... -
His Dark Teaching Materials. Using Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials in a language classroom
(2014-02-19)This essay argues the usefulness in an English language teaching context of the novel His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman in terms of a project focused around ethics, morality and the quest for personal identity. It also ... -
HOLA, BIENVENIDOS… - ¡PUES VENGA, EMPEZAMOS! Análisis y evaluación de los métodos de enseñanza de español de dos canales educativos en YouTube
(2022-08-12)A myriad of knowledge is transmitted through the Internet at all times. Learning a language at home from the computer with a native speaker is possible wherever you are in the world. YouTube channels that are devoted to ... -
How and What to LOVE in English and Swedish: a contrastive study of the translation of semantic fields
(2017-08-02)The aim of the present study is to examine how the words belonging to the semantic fields of LOVE and ÄLSKA are translated and how the source language influences the target language. A corpus search in the fiction part of ... -
How and What to LOVE in English and Swedish: a contrastive study of the translation of semantic fields
(2017-09-05)The aim of the present study is to examine how the words belonging to the semantic fields of LOVE and ÄLSKA are translated and how the source language influences the target language. A corpus search in the fiction part of ... -
How Swedish Teachers Work with Different Varieties of English in Their Classrooms
(2013-06-28)British English and American English are frequently used in Swedish schools. Today, however, English is a global language, and several other English dialects and accents are to be found worldwide. Therefore, questions that ... -
How to use "The Rock and the River" in the English classroom - The benefits of literature in the language classroom
(2013-03-19)The aim of this study is to illustrate the advantages of literature in the teaching of English as a second language for Upper Secondary School. More specifically, the study will focus at how the African-American Civil ... -
How to use The Catcher in the Rye in the English classroom. Let the students enter and discuss the phony world.
(2010-12-20)In this essay I have chosen to work with the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger in the English classroom in Upper Secondary School. I do this in order to provide students with a novel that deals with the prejudices ... -
Human Rights in the Surveillance Society. A study of the similarities between George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Western World today
(2014-02-19)The technical development which has taken place since George Orwell published his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has contributed substantially to the surveillance society in the Western World today. Although Western countries ...