Department of Languages and Literatures / Institutionen för språk och litteraturer (2009-): Recent submissions
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Ascending the Mountains of Madness: the Language and Psychology of H.P. Lovecraft
(2018-03-26)The horror of Howard Philips Lovecraft’s writing lies within the mentality and psychology of his characters. Since he first became prominent, the main criticism against Howard Philips Lovecraft has been that his writing ... -
Jane Eyre: Victorian Women’s Madness Maze
(2018-03-26)Madness has always been a difficult concept to define as different sorts of behaviors have been considered madness in different times as well as different geographical, social and cultural contexts. In other words, the ... -
THE PROTAGONIST’S FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN “PYGMALION” BY BERNARD SHAW
(2018-03-07)Abstract: Shaw’s Pygmalion is often considered as a play about the superficial change of its protagonist. The purpose of this essay is to reveal the fundamental transformation that Eliza experiences by focusing on the ... -
¿ADECUACIÓN O ACEPTABILIDAD DE LA LITERATURA INFANTIL? Pippi Calzaslargas en épocas diferentes en España desde una perspectiva feminista
(2018-02-23)Syftet med den här studien är att, utifrån en feministisk konceptuell textanalys, jämföra Pippi Långstrumps personlighet i tre spanska översättningar från olika tidsperioder med varandra och med det svenska originalet från ... -
METÁFORA Y LEGITIMACIÓN EN EL DISCURSO POLÍTICO ARGENTINO CONTEMPORÁNEO. La metáfora conceptual en los discursos políticos de Mauricio Macri y Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
(2018-02-12)The objective of our work is to study how the conceptual metaphor is used by the Argentinian presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Mauricio Macri with respect to the issues of poverty, security and unity, as a ... -
“ANTES, EU QUIRÍA SER URUGUAIO, AGORA, QUIERO SER DAQUÍ” - Un análisis sobre actitudes lingüísticas en poemas y canciones escritos en portuñol
(2018-02-08)En las ciudades fronterizas de Uruguay y Brasil, se habla la lengua híbrida portuñol desde el período colonial. Esta variedad lingüística es una mezcla entre español y portugués y tiene hablantes nativos. Es una variedad ... -
„Wenn die Welt im Arsch ist, wird der Arsch der Welt zu einem Ort, wo man es aushalten kann.“ Eine Analyse idiomatischer Phraseme mit dem Wort Arsch
(2018-01-25)In diesem Aufsatz wird untersucht, wie idiomatische Phraseme mit dem Wort Arsch verstanden werden können. Der theoretische Ansatz geht von Elke Donalies Definition des Begriffs Phrasem aus und von der im Duden gegebenen ... -
Apartheid als Metapher. Eine Korpusstudie deutscher Medientexte 1994-2014
(2018-01-25)The aim of this essay is to examine how Apartheid as a metaphor is used in German newspapers after the end of the apartheid era in South Africa. The essay proceeds from the linguistic field of Politolinguistik and is a ... -
ROLES DE GÉNERO EN LA LITERATURA INFANTIL. Un análisis de lengua y género en veinte libros infantiles
(2018-01-24)The purpose of this essay is to investigate what vocabulary is being used in children’s books from the Occident to describe female protagonists compared to male protagonists. Foremost, the purpose is to see if different ... -
FUNKTIONERNA AV “DE” I KYOTODIALEKTEN. En lingvistisk analys av den satsfinala partikeln ”de” förekommande i Kyotodialekten
(2018-01-22)The purpose of this study is to determine the functions of the sentence-final particle de as it appears in the Kyoto dialect, focusing on four sentence structures, namely declarative, imperative, interrogative and hortative ... -
THEGOVERNORS ANDTHE GOVERNMENT. A lexical analysis of national and local manifestos in Japan
(2018-01-19)The aim of this study was to examine whether the linguistic characteristics in the local policy statements (知事の所信表明 chijinoshoshinhyoumei)reflect those of national manifesto(綱 領 kouryou)characteristics. The basic theory ... -
Rooting for the Bad Guy: Narrative Empathy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(2018-01-19)One of the reasons for feeling an emotional connection with fiction is narrative empathy. Research shows that for narrative empathy to be fully realized, it must compose both reader response and authorial strategies. This ... -
SEX AND SUCCESS. A Feminist Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
(2018-01-19)Sexuality is an subject area that affects the power relations between genders, where one gender uses sex to subjugate and control the other. Sylvia Plath comments on this use of sexuality in her semi-autobiographical novel ... -
¿Confianza o Cortesía? Tuteo y ustedeo en Fuentelcésped y en la Puebla de Guzmán
(2018-01-18)Syftet är att beskriva användandet av tilltalsformuleringarna i två specifika byar i Spanien. De personliga pronomenen är du (tú) och ni (usted) i singular. Byinvånarna har genom en enkät där frågor om ens personliga ... -
Det medeltida Visnum
(2013)Från en period som omfattar lite drygt trehundra år, från tiden mellan 1200-talets ingång och den nya tidens början, finns ett sextiotal dokument bevarade rörande jordägande och bebyggelse i det sydvärmländska område som ... -
“...NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, LET THE VIRGINIAN WOLFSNAKE NEAR A TYPEWRITER.” Theory of Incongruity, Bakhtin's Theory of the Carnivalesque and Metafiction in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
(2017-11-21)The aim of this essay is to map out and examine the various forms of humour present in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. In addition, this essay analyses what purpose the humour serves to the text. The ... -
Dikter ur Duvans Ring av Ibn Hazm. Analys av översättningar till engelska, tyska och franska
(2017-10-23)Någon gång mellan 1022 och 1027 författades Duvans ring av Ibn Hazm. Detta verk skildrar kärleken med psykologisk insikt. Verket innehåller både prosa och poesi. Det har översatts till ett flertal språk. I denna uppsats ... -
A corpus-based study of Amplifiers in American English A study of the differences between amplifiers most frequently used in the different registers in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
(2017-10-19)Abstract: This study aims at exploring the most frequently used amplifiers in American English by using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The focus is to investigate amplifiers with regard to two ... -
Grammatical Effects of Affect A contrastive corpus analysis of the use and meaning of infant and baby
(2017-10-12)This thesis aims at (1) outlining a basic understanding of how affective, or expressive, meaning can be understood relative to linguistic meaning and language at large, and (2) analysing how affective meaning may relate ... -
Revitalización del mapuzungun en Temuco, La Araucanía
(2017-09-14)Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur situationen för mapuchefolkets språk, mapuzungun, ser ut i dagsläget i Temuco i regionen La Araucanía i södra Chile, samt att undersöka dess möjligheter till revitalisering. Syftet ...