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"A great deceiver and a self-deceiver": Fortellerteknikk og intertekstualitet i J.M.Coetzees Disgrace
(Master thesis, 2014)Denne mastergraden er en intertekstuell og fortelleteknisk analyse av J. M. Coetzees Disgrace. Romanen forholder seg nært til et Sør-Afrika kort tid etter oppløsningen av apartheid. Den har blitt lest realistisk, og har ... -
"A Handshake in Ulster": A Mnemonic Study of Ireland's Troubled Past and Present
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven analyserer minne og identitet i Nord-Irland, og hvordan Irland's problematiske fortid– spesielt i forhold til 'the Troubles'– har ført til konflikt rundt irsk identitet. For å illustrere dette, viser oppgaven ... -
A Hymn in Translation: A comparative analysis of the translation of the Swedish hymn “Tryggare kan ingen vara” into Norwegian and English
(Master thesis, 2023)Dette prosjektet tar for seg en salme i oversettelse og utforsker hva som skjer når en salme oversettes til et nytt språk og til en ny kontekst. Kildeteksten er den svenske salmen “Tryggare kan ingen vara” av Lina Sandell, ... -
A Linguistic Evaluation of the Output Quality of 'Google Translate' and 'Bing Translator' in Chinese-English Translation
(Master thesis, 2017)This study investigates and compares the translation output quality of two statistical machine translation (SMT) systems – Google Translate and Bing Translator, by performing a human evaluation method called ‘linguistic ... -
A literary review on attitudes regarding the use of machine translation in the classroom
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Generelt sett er forskere som nylig har forsket på bruken av maskin-oversettelse (MT) i klasserommet mer optimistiske for MT enn det lærere er. Dette kan skyldes at lærere er mindre informert om den nye utviklingen på MT ... -
A Look at How the Communication in Counter Strike: Global Offensive Compares to English as a Lingua Franca
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Denne artikkelen ser på hvordan engelsk brukes til kommunikasjon i spillet Counter Strike: Global Offensive, samt hvordan kommunikasjonen kan sammenlignes med engelsk som en lingua franca, eller om kommunikasjonen kan ... -
A Multimodal Classroom: A Study on Teachers' Use of Multimodal Ensembles in the Norwegian English as an Additional Language Classroom.
(Master thesis, 2023)Tekstar ein finn i dagens samfunn tar ofte i bruk visuelle og verbale uttrykk for å kunne formidle innhaldet sitt til lesar verda over. Ein majoritet av desse tekstane brukar bilete, lyd, video og tekst for å formidle ... -
A neo-constructional approach to computer-oriented talk
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A new framework in adaptation studies : adapting adaptation theories : cultural economy theory, meme theory, and the blind side
(Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the applicability of cultural economy theory and meme theory in adaptation studies. These theories have experienced increasing attention lately; however, so far no one has attempted ... -
A note on the relationship between Scandinavian and Low German
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Recent work on language contact between Scandinavian and Low German during the Middle Ages widely assumes that the varieties were linguistically close enough to permit some kind of receptive multilingualism, and hence ... -
A Novel Approach: Investigating Factors that Predict and Impact Vocabulary Acquisition through Fiction Literature in the Norwegian ESL Classroom
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven kombinerer språk- og litteraturretningen i engelsk ved å undersøke hvilke faktorer som kan forutsi og påvirke ordforrådstilegnelse gjennom lesing av skjønnlitteratur. En helhetlig tilnærming og et relevant ... -
A Perspective on the Unfamiliar: Epic Fantasy in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
(Master thesis, 2013)This dissertation is an examination of George R.R. Martin’s ongoing book series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996 - ) and how its polyphonic narrative questions several of the conventions within the epic fantasy genre. This ... -
A Phonological Analysis of Vowel Allophony in West Greenlandic
(Master thesis, 2011)A typological peculiarity that West Greenlandic and other Inuit languages exhibit is that they have very few underlying segments. This is especially true for the vowels, of which there are only three. However, the allophonic ... -
A portrait of Grooming and Educator Sexual Abuse in My Dark Vanessa and Boy Toy
(Master thesis, 2022)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the grooming processes in My Dark Vanessa and Boy Toy, and to chart which consequences arise after educator sexual abuse. Building on the #metoo movement and other media coverage on ... -
A Psychoanalytical Investigation into the Evolutionary Mind of Mary: A Freudian Perspective on Character Development in Octavia E. Butler’s Mind of My Mind (1977)
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Karakterutviklingen til protagonisten Mary i Octavia E. Butler sin roman Mind of My Mind (1977) kan analyseres og forstås ut ifra Sigmund Freud sin psykoanalytiske teori om hjernens oppbygning, bestående av de tre komponentene ... -
A psychological and cultural approach
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)En psykologisk og sosio-kulturell historisk tilnærming til studiet av vennskapet mellom Bruno og Shmuel i Gutten i den Stripete Pysjamasen -
A relevance-theoretic approach to the English translation of the Cantonese sentence-final particle laa
(Master thesis, 2016)This study investigates how the Cantonese sentence-final particle, laa, was translated into English in the context of the Cantonese Opera play, The Regretful Tale of Butterfly Lovers. As there is no direct equivalent of ... -
A semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Gã Discourse Markers ni and shi : a relevance-theoretic perspective
(Master thesis, 2015)In the last three decades, linguistic inquiry into the discourse-pragmatic functions of pragmatic particles, especially discourse markers, across diverse languages has become prevalent. In this vein, the current study ...