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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 "Cupid and Psyche" and "Kvitebjørn kong Valemon"
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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 Review of Selected Articles: Discrepancies in Gesture Production in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Children
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)En kort annmeldelse av noen artikkler som fokusere på hvordan barn med autisme og barn med vanlig utvikkling lærer seg språk gjennom bruk av gester. -
A Comparative Study of Norwegian and French Dubbing and Subtitling Strategies in the Film Frozen
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A comparison of Heavy NP Shift in English and Norwegian
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A Critical Evaluation of the Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)I denne oppgaven blir flere sentrale artikler innenfor forskningsfeltet tospråklighet presentert. -
A cross-linguistic puzzle and its theoretical implications: Norwegian 'jo', German 'doch' and 'ja', and an advertisement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)It has long been recognised that at least some linguistic expressions – such as the connectives but in English, mais in French, doch in German and jo in Norwegian – function to affect the audience’s inference or reasoning ... -
A distributed architecture of L1 attrition
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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 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 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 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 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 ...