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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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(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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(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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(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)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, 2020)Abstract The Old English noun phrase displays more variation in word order than its Present-day English equivalent. This study aims to investigate the internal word order of Old English noun phrases, with a view to identify ...
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Against Settler Time: Thematic Temporality in the Poetry of Joy Harjo and Linda HoganRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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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 / Hovedoppgave, 2005)Langston Hughes dedicated his life to fight for the rights of African Americans. His production was large, and covered all literary genres. This thesis is consentrated on a selection of his articles in the Chicago Defender, ...
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All that is I see: Why can some characters see the ghost in Hamlet and Macbeth, while others cannot? (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis deals with some of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems as expressions of his political thought. I have wanted to explore Ginsberg's political commitment as expressed in his poetry, since it is already well ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis aims to place the nocturnal settings of Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets in a wider literary context by comparing her poetry to nocturnal poetry written prior to, contemporary with and after her literary career. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)A very particular, literarily interpretative analysis of the Narrator figure in Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Novels, countering the hitherto overly one-sidedly biographical indulgence by critics and exploring instead ...