This study examines the 2008 presidential election in the context of critical elections, applying V. O. Key's definitions. The primary sources are newspapers and magazines acquired in the United States the first week after ...

The reasons for, and the effects of, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon September 11, 2001 were extensively discussed and analysed in the aftermath of the disaster,. Many theories have been ...

This corpus-based study examines the expression of synthetic diminutives in the often assumed “non-emotive” language of English and the emotive language of Spanish. The topic of diminution is approached through a quantitative ...

Sociolinguistics is a field that covers the relation between language and society. Over the past decades, there has been an increasing interest in language use, and the impact of societal variables on language. Attitudes ...

The Verb-second (V2) phenomenon is one of the central issues of modern linguistic theory. This volume examines V2 from a micro-perspective, comparing various languages and periods. At the heart of the work presented here ...

This thesis explores the narrative strategies of Lydia Davis’s short fiction. Based on close readings from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and Can’t and Won’t, I argue that Davis’s textual practice has feminist ...

Ce mémoire présente les résultats d'une étude comparative sur l'absentéisme pour raisons de santé entre la Norvège et la France pour la période 2000-2013. Les observations du mémoire affirment que le système d'indemnisation ...

What current changes are taking place in the York accent today? What are their causes? This thesis aims to explore change-in-progress in York English among ten females in their mid-tolate twenties. The data was collected ...