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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The high school student body at the International School of Stavanger located in Stavanger, Norway is made up of students from fifteen nations. More than sixty percent of high school students are internationally mobile, ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
In nearly all contexts an English that-clause cannot be directly preceded by a governing preposition. There is no such restriction on the grammatically parallel clause type in Norwegian, the at-clause. This difference ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Abstract of thesis:
In my analysis of The End of the Affair (1951), I examine how memory and narrative are presented as problematic existential complexes at work in the story and the discourse. My main claim is that the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
We live in a world where the borders between nations and continents in many ways have become less significant. International co-operation has become a necessity, both in connection with political issues and in international ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The thesis aims to investigate how three inter-related dimensions of caring are presented in two selected novels and their film adaptations. The literary texts are A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The English ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
In my thesis I have examined how Americans understand the concepts of fairness and equality in relation to affirmative action, and how this differes according to whether the focus is on race or gender. I have looked at the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The Republican Party's capture of the previously Democratic southern states in presidential elections has been considered one of most important factors in the transformation of American politics after World War II. This ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The thesis focuses on the evolution of the New Woman in American literature around 1900, who was the first example of a modern woman. The characters studied are Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin s The Awakening (1899) and ...
Causality in a cross-linguistic perspective : So, therefore, and thus versus så, derfor, and således
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis involves a corpus-based cross-linguistic examination of one aspect of the overt expression of causality, comparing and contrasting the uses of six conjuncts of result in two languages. The actual lexemes in the ...