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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis has explored the identity and legacy that the 79 Group left to the Scottish National Party. The 79 Group was an organization created within the SNP in the aftermath of the Devolution Referendum held in Scotland ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Hedging strategies, i.e. downtoning expressions or expressions of tentativeness or possibility, are ubiquitous in most, if not all, languages. However, hedging is often realised differently across languages, making such ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Using English as a lingua franca is different from using it as a foreign language for communication with native speakers. English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be defined as the use of English among communicators of different ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The aim of the study is to show the role of the Italian expression devo dire in different contexts of use. The analysis is based on the approach elaborated in the studies of scholars belonging to the group of the French ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)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 ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Indefinites face competition at two levels: Presupposition and content. The antipresupposition hypothesis predicts that they signal the opposite of familiarity, or uniqueness, namely, novelty, or non-uniqueness. At the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In this thesis I have looked at how J. Edgar Hoover came to power as Director of the FBI, and how he later used that power against Attorney General Robert Kennedy and SCLC leader Martin Luther King, Jr. I have further ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)How has the Egton accent developed over the past 30 years? The aim of this thesis is to analyse tokens from seven lexical sets, TRAP, BATH, START, FOOT, STRUT, FACE and GOAT in order to compare the findings with the results ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The contemporary global circulation of literature resulting in the «multiple recontextualizations of the texts» on the one hand «un- dermines the previously sacrosanct monopoly of methodological nationalism in literary ...