Blar i Institutt for språk og litteratur på dokumenttype "Master thesis"
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A bæstemor hu fræse rundt med støvsuger
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven er en sosiolingvistisk studie av den preproprielle artikkelen i Trondheim. Korpusmateriale fra 1970-tallet og eldre lokal dialektlitteratur fra så langt tilbake som sent 1600-tall, viser at den preproprielle ... -
A Christian Voice in a Secular Society: The Role of the Archbishop of Canterbury in British Public Life
(Master thesis, 2013)Historians have argued that religion has lost much of its social impact as a result of increasing secularization during the 20th century. This dissertation examines the previous Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Translator Style in the Translation of Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole Series
(Master thesis, 2023)Det overordna målet med denne oppgåva er å samanlikne to litterære omsetjarar sine stilar i omsetjing frå norsk til engelsk med fokus på kulturspesifikke gjenstandar, faste uttrykk og dialekt. Dette er gjort gjennom å ... -
A comparative Exploration of Negative Concord in Dialects of English and Scandinavian: Investigating the Susceptibility of Language Varieties to the Development of Negative Concord.
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne tesen tar et nærmere blikk inn i hvordan negativt samsvar, fenomenet hvor flere negative elementer semantisk negerer en setning bare én gang, kan bli sett fra et komparativt perspektiv mellom ikke-standard engelske ... -
A comparative investigation into the syntax of double object constructions in English and Ewe : a minimalist approach
(Master thesis, 2016)An alternative realization of the sub-categorization of ditransitive verbs is the Double Object Construction (DOC). English and Ewe are part of the few languages that permit the DOC pattern. Per the asymmetric relationship ... -
A comparative investigation of ‘Tough movement’ in Norwegian and English
(Master thesis, 2024)The overall purpose of this thesis is to provide a descriptive analysis of the Tough-Movement construction which is illustrated by the following sentence pairs: It is tough to paint the fence – The fence is tough to paint. ... -
A Comparative Study of Norwegian and French Dubbing and Subtitling Strategies in the Film Frozen
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A Comparative Study of the Cinematic and Serial Adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon
(Master thesis, 2021)The thesis discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final and unfinished novel The Last Tycoon and two of its adaptations: the 1976 film and the 2016 Amazon series. A comparative analysis of three of The Last Tycoon’s most notable ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of The Viktig Alternation in Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2021)Formålet med denne avhandlingen er å gi en beskrivende analyse av viktig-argumentvekslingen (‘the viktig alternation’) som er illustrert av det norske setningsparet Et godt arbeidsmiljø er viktig/ Det er viktig med et godt ... -
A Descriptive Comparison of the Swarm Alternation in English and Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2020)In light of key properties discovered in the English swarm alternation, which over the years has been studied fairly thoroughly (e.g. Salkoff (1983); Levin (1993); Dowty (2000); Rowlands (2002)), this thesis primarily ... -
A diachronic study of norms and the subtitling of pejorative language
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker normer innenfor teksting i audiovisuell oversettelse. Dette gjøres med et diakront perspektiv ved å kombinere kvalitative intervjuer av to undertekstere med en korpus analyse av substantiv ... -
"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 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 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 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 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 ...