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What kinds of losses have occurred in the subtitle translation of the movie "The King`s Speech", and what are the likely effect on the target audience?
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Analysen viser tap av banneord, ikke-standard språkbruk, høflighet, humor og meningsskapende konnotasjoner. Disse typene tap har blitt utviklet på grunn av begrensninger som følge av audiovisuell oversettelse, som eksempelvis ... -
What procedures were employed in the translation of names in Winnie-the-Pooh into Norwegian?
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)This thesis focuses on the translation of names in Winnie-the-Pooh from English to Norwegian. The first book about Winnie-the-Pooh was originally written by Alan Alexander Milne and was published in 1926. It was translated ... -
What's in a word?: Studies in phonosemantics
(Doctoral thesis, 2001)The notion that there is a regular correlation between the form of aword and its meaning is, of course, controversial. In this dissertation my intention has been to shed light on that controversy by conducting a variety ... -
“What’s Filipino? What’s authentic? What’s in the blood?” (Hagedorn, The Gangster of Love 57). Filipino identity in Jessica Hagedorn’s two novels: Dogeaters (1990) and The Gangster of Love (1996)
(Master thesis, 2019)Med en rik historie av okkupasjon og kolonisering har Filippinene blitt påvirket av flere nasjoner. Jessica Hagedorn (1949-) utforsker hvordan Filippinene sin historie har påvirket nasjonen etter uavhengighet. I sine ... -
“What’s in a Name?” Authorship as (Micro)Genre in the Paratext of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Les adaptations modernes en prose des pièces de Shakespeare ont franchi plusieurs frontières (génériques, culturelles, temporelles) – et les romans commissionnés et publiés au sein du projet Hogarth Shakespeare n’en font ... -
When delayed responses are productive: Being persuaded following resistance in conversation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Conversation analysts have long since demonstrated that, in responding to an initiating action (e.g., question), recipients have at least two ways to respond; response options (e.g., answer, non-answer) are not equivalent, ... -
When Two Become One: The Unorthodox Pairing of Realism and Romance in Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Hører romantikk og realisme sammen? Den viktorianske romanforfatteren og lyrikeren Thomas Hardy utforsker dette i flere av sine litterære verk, blant annet i en av sine første romaner: A Pair of Blue Eyes. Noen kritikere ... -
Who Am I?: Creating the Narrator in Dungeons & Dragons
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)In this paper, we discuss a workable definition of the TTRPG, specifically, Dungeons & Dragons. We examine its relationship with genre and trope, taking a deeper dive into villain-coding and queer interpretations of the ... -
Who Contributed to Late-Eighteenth-Century English Newspapers? Authorship, Accessibility and Public Debate (1790–92)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)A dominant narrative shaping how we view the eighteenth-century English press is that newspapers were important forums for debate and opinion, and that they contributed significantly to the gradual broadening of political ... -
Who was Ruskin? Ruskin's Reception in the Victorian Periodical Press
(Master thesis, 2020)Moderne forskere anser John Ruskin for å være en stor innflytelse i Victoriatiden i den grad han blir fremstilt som en representant for sin tid. Denne holdningen virker sant for enhver som generelt er kjent med Ruskins ... -
Whose self-determination? Barriers to access to Emergency Hormonal Contraception in Italy
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Why energy retrofitting in private dwellings is difficult in Norway: Coordinating the framing practices of government, craftspeople and homeowners
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Retrofitting private homes to meet strict energy demands is a prioritised goal in climate mitigation policy. In this article we approach the challenge by analysing how retrofitting is framed differently by the government, ... -
Why is the Locative NP in Kiswahili not Syntactically Oblique?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Kiswahili, a Bantu language, distinguishes between PPs, e.g. kutoka soko-ni 'Cl. 0 COP-a from market-Cl. 17/26, i.e. from market, lit. from in market' and NPs, e.g. m-pishi w-a soko-ni 'Cl. 1-cook Cl. 1 SM-COP-n of market-Cl. ... -
Why the Narrator Matters: Narrating Environmental Futures in Frank Herbert’s Dune and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores how works of speculative fiction engage in narrating environmental futures. The Anthropocene details how human intervention in nature has led to the current climate crisis, which makes speculating about ... -
Wickedness in Politics: a House of Cards - The intertextual relationship between literature and television as evident in adaptations of Michael Dobbs' House of Cards
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines the intertextual relationship between two novels and two television series, all named House of Cards. The original novel was written in 1989 and its most popular adaptation today is Netflix’s ongoing ... -
Widening the Envelope: Exploring variations of the epistolary genre in modern American fiction
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Wie hat sich der Gebrauch der Geschichte in den ostdeutschen Schulbüchern entwickelt? : Eine diachronische Untersuchung von der Instrumentalisierung der Geschichte in zwei ostdeutschen Geschichtsschulbüchern und in einem sächsischen Geschichtsschulbuch mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Darstellung der Nachkriegsjahre
(Master thesis, 2017)Etter nederlaget i andre verdenskrig lå Tyskland i ruiner. På et tidspunkt ble de tyske områdene delt inn i fire soner, som ble administrert av krigens seierherrer. Den østlige delen tilfalt således Sovjetunionen. I 1949 ... -
Willa Cather and her Obscure Destinies
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Hvordan er Anton Rosickys skjebne forskjellig fra den til gamle Mrs. Harris og J. H. Trueman og R. E. Dillon i Willa Cather sin novellesamling Obscure Destinies? -
Willa Cather's USA
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Gjennom novellesamlingen Obscure Destinies utgitt i 1932 skriver Willa Cather om livet på de landlige områdene i USA på 1890-tallet. Historiene karaktieriseres av det folkelige og vanlige livet mange mennesker på denne ...