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POWER IN TRANSLATION. Bringing Japan to the West
(2016-09-02)Studying the Japanese language in translation is highly interesting, given its many unique linguistic features and the distinctive cultural setting in which it is primarily used. Adopting Japanese works into Western languages ... -
PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN
(2023-04-19)Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus ... -
PRAGMATIC TRANSFER: A STUDY OF REFUSAL STRATEGIES AMONG CHINESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
(2021-10-04)The present study aims at exploring how negative pragmatic transfer has affected Chinese learners of English in terms of the completion of cross-cultural refusals and the correlation between their linguistic proficiency ... -
Preternatural och övermänniska. Översättning till svenska av ett antal primära och sekundära kulturella ord i Gail Carrigers roman Soulless
(2014-11-11)Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om det är möjligt att använda sig av stra-tegier för översättning av primära kulturella ord vid översättning av sekundära kulturella ord. Kulturella ord är ord som används inom ... -
QUEER JAPANESE. The modern-day language usage of Japanese LGBTQ+ people
(2022-01-25)Gendered language is a well-known feature of Japanese, but how is it applied by a speaker who does not fit the cisgender or heteronormative standards in society? In a 2010 study, Hideko Abe published a book titled Queer ... -
Quelques critères en cours de langues dans le nouveau système scolaire suédois – comment les réaliser?
(2014-02-20)Ce mémoire traite quelques critères dans le nouveau programme d'études des langues vivantes, introduits au lycée suédois en 2011. Les critères concernant la recherche des textes et de la langue parlée, ainsi que l'utilisation ... -
Representaciones del pueblo mapuche en la promoción turística de la región de La Araucanía: un análisis multimodal y comparativo de los discursos mapuche y los discursos estatales de Chile.
(2016-06-13)The aim of my study is to compare the discourses concerning mapuche tourism in the region La Araucanía, Chile. The growing industry of ethnic and ecotourism can be seen as a way for indigenous peoples to participate in the ... -
Ruptures of Poetic Language - Applying Kristevan theory to Jean Rhys's "Voyage in the Dark"
(2012-04-27)This essay will be concerned with the fiction of Jean Rhys, focusing, in particular, on her novel Voyage in the Dark, first published in 1934. Rhys's work has in the past sometimes been disregarded as sentimental and ... -
“SEGÚN EL SAPO ES LA PEDRADA”
(2016-04-05)This study examines the use of conceptual metaphors in Mesoamerican editorial articles in Spanish language newspapers published on September 4, 2015. The method of study is mainly qualitative based on cognitiv linguistics, ... -
Self Betrayal: Marxist and Psychoanalytic Analyses of Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights"
(2012-04-27)This essay is a Marxist and Psychoanalytic approach to Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights". The protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine are dealt with in terms of self-betrayal that bring economic well-being but can shatter ... -
SEMANTISKA AVVIKELSER I DEN SVENSKA ÖVERSÄTTNINGEN AV RECEPTEN I ISABEL ALLENDES MEMOARER AFRODITA. En komparativ och kvalitativ analys.
(2020-06-09)I denna uppsats undersöks de semantiska avvikelser som uppstår när recepten i Isabel Allendes memoarer Afrodita: Cuentos, Recetas y Otros Afrodisíacos (1997) översätts till svenska i Lena Anér Melins översättning Afrodite: ... -
SPANSKA INBÖRDESKRIGET PÅ SVENSKA. Problemanalys i en egen översättning av Michael Alperts A New International History of the Spanish Civil War
(2016-04-04)Denna undersökning utgår från min egen översättning av de inledande avsnitten ur Michael Alperts A New International History of the Spanish Civil War. Sitt tydligt populärvetenskapliga anslag till trots erbjuder boken ... -
Sprachstrukturen in der Grundschule lernen
(2013-08-20)Im vorliegenden Projekt sollen die Fragen beantwortet werden, erstens wie zwei Fremdsprachennterrichtsjahre in der Grundschule zwölf-, beziehungsweise dreizehnjährige Schüler im Hinblick auf Motivation, Einstellung und ... -
SPRÅKBARRIÄRER I PRAKTIKEN. En studie av arabisk och svensk vokabulär inom sjukvård och flyktingmottagande
(2016-09-05)The aim of this thesis is twofold – to explore in what situations Arabic- and Swedishspeaking people experience language barriers and to make a survey of what vocabulary is most relevant in these situations. The following ... -
Svensk litteratur på arabiska. En bibliografisk studie
(2014-09-30)Denna magisteruppsats presenterar en bibliografi över svensk litteratur som blivit översatt till arabiska. Någon sådan bibliografi finns inte sedan tidigare och i studien motiveras behovet av bibliografin med bristerna ... -
The Blurred Narrators of Douglas Coupland's Life After God
(2010-09-13)This essay examines the construction of narrator identity in Douglas Coupland's short story composite Life After God. It suggests a reading of blurred narrators, a narrator identity positioned in between one and several. ... -
THE CONCEPTION OF THE BATTLE AGAINST HIV IN SOUTH AFRICA - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Speeches by Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma
(2021-10-04)In the past decade South Africa has enrolled the biggest antiretroviral treatment programme (ARV) in the world to treat HIV/AIDS. The country has had a hard time to deal with the disease for a long time, however, now ... -
THE FALSE PROMISE OF ‘USTOPIA’. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Utopian Feminist Romp or Dystopian Postfeminist Cautionary Tale?
(2016-09-26)The Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is a text that attempts a critical rebalancing of an established gender hierarchy. The novels expose the fundamental power imbalances present in a binary ... -
The Marxist Concept of Alienation and Exploitation in "Of Mice and Men"
(2013-06-25)This essay analyzes John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" from a Marxist perspective. It focuses on how the author succeeds in bringing out the alienated in capitalism from two different levels. The first level demonstrates ...