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The Scandinavian singer-translator's multi semiotic voice as performance
(Chapter, 2017)Most current research on translator’s voice within Translation Studies focuses on voice in written communication. The present chapter seeks to expand the concept to include multisemiotic voice – ways of expressing ... -
The Scapegoating of Father Flynn: Unveiling the Catholic Church’s Oppressive Impact in Joyce’s Dubliners
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Denne avhandlingen har som mål å undersøke og analysere hvordan James Joyce skildrer den katolske kirkens undertrykkende innvirkning på innbyggerne i Dublin på slutten av 1800-tallet og begynnelsen av 1900-tallet. Ved å ... -
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Address forms in Persian
(Master thesis, 2013)In Persian, there is a tendency to use plural pronouns instead of singular pronouns in order to show respect and politeness to either the addressee or some other individual referred to (2nd or 3rd person). The choice of ... -
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Address forms in Persian
(Master thesis, 2013)In Persian, there is a tendency to use plural pronouns instead of singular pronouns in order to show respect and politeness to either the addressee or some other individual referred to (2nd or 3rd person). The choice of ... -
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Address Forms in Persian
(Master thesis, 2014)In Persian, there is a tendency to use plural pronouns instead of singular pronouns in order to show respect and politeness to either the addressee or some other individual referred to (2nd or 3rd person). The choice of ... -
The semantics and pragmatics of Norwegian sentence-internal jo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper proposes a refined analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian non-truth-conditional adverb jo (‘after all’, ‘of course’). According to the existing literature, jo indicates that the proposition is ... -
The Semantics and Pragmatics of the North Slope Iñupiaq postbase niq
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Uummarmiutun Modals
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:345, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Summary of the thesis We use modal expressions to talk about permissions, obligations and desires (e.g. Peter must/may/ wants to leave) as well as how certain we are of something (e.g. It must/might/may be raining). ... -
The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia) coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English fingerspelling and/or mouthing) with more richly ... -
The Sense of Duty: Gender, Family and Class in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Jane Austen regnes som en av de største forfatterne i engelsk litteratur. Hun skrev seks romaner og Persuasion er hennes siste fullførte verk utgitt i 1818. Persuasion inneholder kvaliteter av stream-of-consciousness-romaner. ... -
The Sentimental Courtship Novel and its Critics, 1769–1796
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The significance of things and objects in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis will provide a discussion of the significance of things and objects in Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. It presents an investigation of what significance the objects and things play in relation to the ... -
The Simple, yet Complicated Do So: An Analytical Study of Do So's Anaphorical and Syntactical Properties
(Master thesis, 2024)Denne masteroppgaven er en utvidelse av tidligere arbeid med å prøve å undersøke egenskapene til ulike typer anaforer. Hovedsakelig vil denne oppgaven undersøke egenskapene til "do so"-anaphora, et område som har fått ... -
"The Sinking of Charles Macklin's Scholarship"
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"The soul that dares and defies": A study of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
(Master thesis, 2013)This master’s thesis is a study on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), with emphasis on the three female characters Edna, Adèle, and Mademoiselle Reisz. It argues that Chopin employs the novel to undermine the images of ... -
The Sound of Disney: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English accents in four animated films from the 2010s
(Master thesis, 2019)Accent can function as a cue for social categorization and stereotyping and the media is one of the main agents for this distribution. This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of the use of accents in four recent Disney ... -
The structural configurations of root categorization
(Chapter, 2017)This paper discusses the syntax of roots by way of looking at four different views discussed in the literature: (i) roots merged as complements, (ii) roots merged as modifiers, (iii) roots merged either as complements or ... -
The Subversion of Character Types in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” A Comparison of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” and Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard”
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)I 1977 oversatte Angela Carter flere av Charles Perraults eventyr fra det 17. århundret, og i 1979 utga hun selv en samling av gjenfortalte eventyr kalt The Bloody Chamber. (Makinen, 1992, s. 3) Den første fortelling i ... -
The Suez Crisis and British Colonial Policy - How the Suez Crisis accelerated the Decolonisation of the British Empire
(Master thesis, 2018)The thesis is an analysis of how and why British colonial policy changed after the Suez Crisis in 1956. The thesis is centred around British colonial policy but takes into account a range of other factors influenced by the ...