General American and Standard English are the two main varieties of English found in Swedish schools. Traditionally only Standard English has been taught, but lately General American has been taught as well. Nowadays, both ...

This investigation shows that the lyrics of power metal can deal with a wide range of topics; from love, freedom and oppression to grief, greed and poverty. The level of language is high, without many mistakes and with ...

This study has two main aims: (1) to look at, and analyze, how language is used in stand-up comedy in order to portray characters of different ethnicity, and (2) to look at how these characters are portrayed and what images ...

There is a connection between students’ learning style and their spelling ability. Good spellers are more likely to be visual, random, deductive and abstract. Furthermore, it is showed that poor spellers are kinesthetic ...

Egyptens familjelagstiftning baseras på šari‘alag som har sin tolkningsgrund i den sunnitiska hanafitiska lagskolan, men innehåller också inslag ur den shafi‘itiska-, den malikitiska- och den hanbalitiska skolan. Ett ...

Uppsatsen undersöker förekomsten av två olika former av tyst period bland flerspråkigt uppväxande barn med nederländska som ett av språken. Vidare undersöks vilka faktorer som skulle kunna bidra till att vissa barn har en ...

This essay strives to make a re-definition of Thomas Hardy's classic heroine Tess, from "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", an archetypal example of a fallen woman. The fallen woman was a phenomenon of Victorian culture, a puritan ...

Several NLP-applications could benefit from identifying irony. Currently there is no process for doing so automatically. My findings suggest that irony occurs in up to 8.5% of online reviews. I identify three groups of ...