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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, 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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(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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(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, 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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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Synopsis: de poëzie van Luuk Gruwez tussen 1977 1990 Ik heb de poëzie van Luuk Gruwez tussen 1977 en 1990 bestudeerd. Vooral heb ik aandacht besteed aan literaire voorstellingen, retoriek en woordkeuze: welke voorstellingen ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)According to Eugene Nida’s theory of Dynamic Equivalence, the most important aim for translators should be to achieve equivalence in effect between original and translated text. Equivalent effect is achieved when a translated ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Ce mémoire est une étude empirique sur l'acquisition des phrases relatives françaises chez 26 lycéens norvégiens. Le but général de l'étude était de déterminer l'interlangue des apprenants par rapport à la relativisation ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Drawing on diachronic data from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), this paper starts by testing the initial hypothesis that the resultative ADJ enough that construction is on the increase. One complicating ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Multistability refers to those moments in a narrative when readers are made aware of two mutually exclusive possibilities, conceived as an analogy to the visual illusion of the duck-rabbit, which can be seen either as a ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis examines the relationship between postcolonial politics and aesthetics in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s poetry. The thesis shows how Johnson’s poems are predominantly analysed and discussed in a political context. ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)Analyse og tolkning av to av Albaharis romaner. Oppgaven gir også en kort oversikt over likhetstrekk i romanene.
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The basic purpose of this study is to describe agreement with collective nouns in American, British, Australian and New Zealand English by comparing singular and plural agreement with verbs and relative pronouns in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Analyserer amerikansk landbrukspolitikk fra 1800 til 2002. Landbrukslovgivningen i 1996 satte amerikansk landbrukspolitikk i retning av et fritt marked, men denne politikken ble reversert av landbrukslovginingen i 2002. ...