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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 ...
”Det anstår mig inte att göra mig mindre än jag är” - skönhetsidealet och den kvinnliga grotesken i textanalyser av Kerstin Ekmans Grand Final i skojarbranschen, Muriel Barberys Igelkottens elegans och Majgull Axelssons Moderspassion
(2013-10-11)
The purpose of this paper is to make a feminist textual analysis of three female protagonists in
contemporary novels in order to demonstrate representations of ”skeva” female bodies, deviant
from beauty-, slender and age ...
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 ...
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 ...
USING LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD TO TEACH GENDER IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
(2013-03-19)
In this essay I explore ideas about how to work with fairy tales and gender, but also discuss the potentials and problems with the approach. Gender roles can often be cemented and maintained in Upper Secondary School, which ...
“Ja, för jag tror att something’s afoot”. A study of generational differences in English code-mixing on Swedish National Radio.
(2013-10-29)
This study aims to investigate Swedish/English code-mixing across different
Swedish generations, in an attempt to discover language change in progress. The spoken corpus has been extracted from two Swedish National Radio ...
Gender-Related Variatin in CMC Language. A Study of Three Linguistic Features on Twitter
(2013-06-28)
This study examines the usage of reduced forms, first person subject ellipsis, and alternative capitalization in tweets from a gender perspective, with the data provided by a 20,000 word selection of male and female tweets. ...