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A(nother) day in the life of a purist. Anglicisms in the speech of Norwegian university students.
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Academic and General English in Norwegian Upper Secondary School - A study of students' proficiency and ability to distinguish between the two language styles
(Master thesis, 2017)Norway is one of the countries with the highest English language proficiency in the world (Bonnet, 2004; MCG, 2009; EF EPI, 2016). Yet, research shows that Norwegian students entering or studying in university or college ... -
A Christian Voice in a Secular Society: The Role of the Archbishop of Canterbury in British Public Life
(Master thesis, 2013)Historians have argued that religion has lost much of its social impact as a result of increasing secularization during the 20th century. This dissertation examines the previous Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and ... -
A comparative investigation into the syntax of double object constructions in English and Ewe : a minimalist approach
(Master thesis, 2016)An alternative realization of the sub-categorization of ditransitive verbs is the Double Object Construction (DOC). English and Ewe are part of the few languages that permit the DOC pattern. Per the asymmetric relationship ... -
A Comparative Study of Norwegian and French Dubbing and Subtitling Strategies in the Film Frozen
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Adornos radioteori : radioens stemme som opplysningsverktøy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Radioteori fikk et interessant tilskudd da Theodor W. Adornos tidlige skrifter om radio ble publisert for første gang i 2008/2009. Denne artikkelen presenterer og diskuterer noen sentrale poeng i det Adorno selv kalte ... -
Adverbiale Partizipialkonstruktionen im Deutschen mit dem Partizip 1 als Kern
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The syntax and semantics of adverbial present participle constructions in German This article deals with the syntax and semantics of adverbial present participle constructions (PPC) in German. Based on a corpus study of ... -
"A great deceiver and a self-deceiver": Fortellerteknikk og intertekstualitet i J.M.Coetzees Disgrace
(Master thesis, 2014)Denne mastergraden er en intertekstuell og fortelleteknisk analyse av J. M. Coetzees Disgrace. Romanen forholder seg nært til et Sør-Afrika kort tid etter oppløsningen av apartheid. Den har blitt lest realistisk, og har ... -
Akan-English Codeswitching on Ghanaian TV Talk Shows: The Case of ‘THE DELAY SHOW’
(Master thesis, 2017)Contact between English and Ghanaian languages due to Ghana’s anglophone colonial heritage has resulted in the manifestation of several language contact phenomena. The contact phenomenon of codeswitching (CS) is addressed ... -
Aktionsart og Aspekt: En semantisk analyse av vekslinga mellom -e og -en i nordnorske fortidspartisipper
(Master thesis, 2013)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg to ulike sterke fortidspartisipper i nordnorsk (hovedsakelig Troms-mål), der man i intransitive verb har ei veksling mellom vanlig supinumsending -e og det som antakelig opphavlig har vært ... -
A Linguistic Evaluation of the Output Quality of 'Google Translate' and 'Bing Translator' in Chinese-English Translation
(Master thesis, 2017)This study investigates and compares the translation output quality of two statistical machine translation (SMT) systems – Google Translate and Bing Translator, by performing a human evaluation method called ‘linguistic ... -
"Alt er awesome i mitt liv" : social motivations for Norwegian-English code-switching
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis examines which factors influence the use of English code-switching (CS) by Norwegians, and in the course of this examination, discusses what the social motivations are for such behaviour. The theoretical ... -
American Gothic: En tematisk reise i det amerikanske skrekkuniverset
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Anaforiske bindingskonstruksjoneri norsk som andrespråk
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2014:138, Doctoral thesis, 2014)Den underliggende grammatiske kompetansen til voksne som lærer norsk som andrespråk er i stor grad skjult for oss, men nye metoder gjør det i dag mulig å undersøke denne kompetansen. Denne avhandlingen presenterer en studie ... -
Androgynitet og bevissthetsstrøm: Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway og Orlando fra roman til film
(Master thesis, 2014)Denne oppgaven er en tekst- og adaptasjonsanalyse av to romaner av Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway og Orlando, med vekt på transformasjonene fra litterært verk til film. Prosjektet undersøker hva som skjer når disse tekstuniversene ... -
‘And They Say We Shouldn’t Teach Children About Evil…’ - Harry Potter as a Tool for Understanding Evil
(Master thesis, 2017)This thesis examines the portrayal of evil in the seven Harry Potter novels, written by J. K. Rowling. With its roots in the criticism raised against the books, the thesis attempts to answer if the concerns about children ... -
A neo-constructional approach to computer-oriented talk
(Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2007:257, Doctoral thesis, 2007) -
A new framework in adaptation studies : adapting adaptation theories : cultural economy theory, meme theory, and the blind side
(Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the applicability of cultural economy theory and meme theory in adaptation studies. These theories have experienced increasing attention lately; however, so far no one has attempted ...