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Bad Language in Reality: A study of swear words, expletives and gender in reality television
(2014-04-28)
This essay is a study on swearing in modern English on television from a sociolinguistic point of view, taking into account the effect that variables such as nationality, social class and gender might have on the expletive ...
Widening Gender Norms with Literature: Teaching Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and Gender in a Sociocultural Language Classroom
(2013-06-26)
The aim of the essay is to argue why and how the novel "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman can be used to introduce students to gender issues in an English as a foreign language classroom where sociocultural theory is applied. By ...
Teaching the Canon; Jane Austen´s Pride and Prejudice
(2011-04-06)
This essay presents a literature study for students of English as a foreign language, and it has its basis in the Canon debate. The Canon debate refers to the questions about what literature should be used in schools and ...
Blow my whistle & eat my poison - A pedagogical study of ideologies and language in music lyrics
(2013-03-19)
The aim of this study is to investigate how students perceive English authentic material, ideologically and linguistically, outside of school and whether it is possible to find clear connections to what is or is not taught ...
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 ...
“LONGING WON’T BRING HIM BACK SOONER…” A Case Study of Gendered Language Use in American Recruitment Posters from the Second World War
(2020-09-08)
The aim of this study is to analyse and compare American male and female
recruitment posters from the Second World War. The sub-aims are to find out whether the
slogans directed at men and women differed linguistically ...
Power, politics, and gender-related epistemic modality in interview discourse
(2014-10-08)
To examine usage, distribution and function of gender-related
epistemic modality in the form of hedges and boosters in political
interviews and compare the present findings with those of previous
studies.
Methods: A ...
Gender Roles in Harry Potter: Stereotypical or Unconventional?
(2013-06-28)
In this essay I will analyze the three main characters in the Harry Potter books based on how they perform gender. My main focus is if the characters challenge gender stereotypes or if they build on clichés, norms and ...
Femininity in Twilight: A Literary Analysis of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight from a Gender Perspective
(2015-02-10)
Abstract: This essay examines the female characters in the novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer which is the first novel in the series often referred to as the Twilight Saga. Through looking at the female characters and ...
"It happened like this - I did everything in my power to make him look back": Gender and Relationships in Carol Ann Duffy's "The World's Wife"
(2012-04-27)
This essay explores the importance of gender with regard to the relationships depicted in Carol Ann Duffy's collection of poems "The World's Wife", arguing that factors such as individual traits and social circumstances ...