Browsing Institutt for språk og litteratur by Document Types "Master thesis"
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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 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 ... -
A study of attitudes towards English-medium instruction in higher education among students at the Faculty of Medicine at NTNU
(Master thesis, 2014)Today a growing number of university courses are taught through English and recently a report, written by a group of Scandinavian researchers, revealed that Nordic students and teachers are frustrated about this increasing ... -
A Study of Code-Switching in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis explores the alternations between English and Malayalam, or the code-switching in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things. The foundation used for studying codeswitching in literature is Meir Sternberg’s ... -
A study of grammatical constraints on code-switching in Norwegian-English bilinguals
(Master thesis, 2014)This MA thesis looked into grammatical constraints of code-switching in English-Norwegian bilinguals. Three types of grammatical constraint were studied; the equivalence constraint, the free morpheme constraint and the ... -
A study of tense and aspect in Vietnamese compared to English
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A study of young Norwegians in English idiom processing
(Master thesis, 2016)A quantitative study was conducted with a group of twenty-six Nowegian upper secondary students and a group of twenty-six Norwegian university students. Both groups were tested for English proficiency and idiom comprehension. ... -
A Study on Vietnamese Passive Constructions
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A Tavola! : orality in the Sopranos
(Master thesis, 2015)The Sopranos is a critically acclaimed TV series which has engaged audiences in many countries after it first aired in North America. Its themes are varied. Its longevity is welcomed. Its characters are loved. This thesis ... -
A Threatened British Identity? Rethinking the roles of commemorations in 21st century Britain
(Master thesis, 2022)I løpet av det siste tiåret har minnesmarkeringer i Storbritannias offentlige rom fått mye oppmerksomhet som et resultat av et økt fokus på inkludering av forskjellige grupper i samfunnet. Dette fokuset har utspring i ... -
A United and Disunited Sisterhood: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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“A very nice well-spoken gentlehobbit is Mr. Bilbo, as I’ve always said” - A Study of the Translation of Linguistic Variation in The Lord of the Rings into Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines which translation procedures have been used to translate linguistic variation in The Lord of the Rings into Norwegian, and sets out to test whether the results confirm the hypothesis that standardization ... -
A Vital Outlet for the British Left: Marxism Today as a discursive space, 1979-1983
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne avhandlingen er en studie av bidragene til Marxism Today i perioden 1979-1983. For å kunne utvide forståelsen vår av den intellektuelle historien til Marxism Today og politikken til både ‘Labour Party’ og ... -
A Woman Written by a Man - En undersøkelse av forholdet mellom forfatterkjønn og karakterkjønn i tre stykker av Henrik Ibsen
(Master thesis, 2023)Bakgrunnen for denne oppgaven er internettfenomenene «a man written by a woman» og «men writing women». Det første er en positiv beskrivelse, mens det andre referer til at det er mange mannlige forfattere som beskriver ... -
"A World of Ever-Present Daylight": Digital Surveillance in Contemporary American Fiction
(Master thesis, 2020)This project argues that surveillance fiction plays an important role in bridging the gap between academic and public discussions of digital surveillance. Specifically, the thesis explores how two surveillance fiction ... -
Academic and General English in Norwegian Upper Secondary School - A study of students' proficiency and ability to distinguish between the two language styles
(Master thesis, 2017)Norway is one of the countries with the highest English language proficiency in the world (Bonnet, 2004; MCG, 2009; EF EPI, 2016). Yet, research shows that Norwegian students entering or studying in university or college ... -
Accusations of nostalgia: How nostalgia dominated the post-Brexit debate
(Master thesis, 2022)The 2016 Brexit referendum campaign and the political debate following it have been discussed at length in the years following it. Many of those who voted to Remain, most important academics and other political commentators, ... -
African American Hardboiled Detective Fiction
(Master thesis, 2022)Kriminallitteratur er en av de mest populære formene for litteratur. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Philip Marlowe, og Sam Spade er velkjente navn. Det er også en sterk tradisjon i Skandinavia for kriminallitteratur. ...