This thesis explores the politics of the tongue in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1913) and Caroline Bergvall's Fig (2005). By comparing and contrasting these two poets and their poetry, I investigate the interconnections ...

For this MA thesis I have chosen to investigate the accent known as Estuary English (EE). Even though it is having a massive impact on the development of the English language (especially in Britain) there are few extensive ...

Many critics have noted the presence of doubles, or counterparts, in Dickens’s work. These sets of counterparts, which most often consist of two, but sometimes of several, characters, fulfil various functions. While Dickens’s ...

The main focus of this thesis is lexical transfer, avoidance, and the influence Norwegian and Russian languages have on the acquisition of English. It will be claimed that Russians avoid using English phrasal verbs more ...

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 ...

This study is an investigation of the very frequent noun PART, with primary focus on its use in three constructions: TAKE part, PLAY [*] part, and PLAY [*] [*] part. The theoretical framework for the study is rooted in ...

In this thesis I examine the way the concept of the self and our perception of reality are intertwined in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) and C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce (1945), and what similarities and ...

The main aim of this thesis is to investigate how the English grammar teaching and learning is carried out in junior secondary school in China, and the role of grammar teaching as the EFL in the general studies’ foundation ...

This thesis will analyse how three different literary texts contribute in the discussion of ‘honour’ killings, and how they challenge cultural values and traditions in honour and shame based communities. The literary texts ...