Department of Languages and Literatures / Institutionen för språk och litteraturer (2009-): Recent submissions
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Topics and language features in The Clash’s London Calling.
(2012-08-24)The aims in this study were to identify the topics and language features in The Clash’s London Calling to see how they reflect the society in the UK at the time, and how a study like this can be practiced in the English- ... -
"I want to stay in Sweden whole my life..." A study and alalysis of errors in the written production of Swedish pupils in the 9th grade
(2012-08-20)This essay investigates errors in written production by Swedish pupils in the ninth grade. A total of 36 essays were randomly selected from the National Assessment Programme in English in 2010. When analysing the corpus, ... -
Deux langues – une culture? Étude sur la traduction des référents culturels dans la traduction française d’un roman de Lars Kepler
(2012-06-30)Uppsatsen har som mål att analysera den franska översättningen av de kulturspecifika begrepp som förekommer i Lars Keplers roman "Hypnotisören". Begreppen har delats upp i olika semantiska grupper som jämförts med varandra ... -
Lits de Procuste et partis pris Une - étude sur l’aspect métonymique de la traduction française de la poésie de Tomas Tranströmer
(2012-06-30)On the metonymic aspects of the french translation of Tomas Tranströmer's poetry. -
Der geborene Ritter? - Eine Untersuchung zur Funktion der ritterlichen Geburt in „Wigalois“ und „Der arme Heinrich“
(2012-06-30)In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Funktion der Geburt des hochmittelalterichen Ritterideals aus einer diskurstheoretischen Perspektive diskutiert. Als Ausgangspunkt für die Diskussion dienen die zwei hochmittelalterlichen ... -
Men and Boys in Man and Boy - Gender Roles and the Relation Between Fathers and Sons in a novel by Tony Parsons
(2012-06-30)Extensive reading is beneficial in the language learning process. If students get the opportunity to read novels, they will not only increase their vocabulary and develop their language competence, but they will also learn ... -
Non-Standard English in Children’s Movies: A Gender Perspective
(2012-06-30)Sociolinguists have repeatedly demonstrated that men use more nonstandard forms of English than women do and that this gender-related variation develops in early childhood. The present study has investigated whether ... -
Teachers’ Reflections about Vocabulary Teaching
(2012-06-30)The aim of this study is to compare teachers‟ opinions about vocabulary teaching to methods described in research and to investigate if there is a correlation between the methods the teachers say they use and their work ... -
Gender-Related Features in the Use of the Hedge "You Know" - A Case Study of Conversations on the Radio Station, London’s Biggest Conversation 97.3FM
(2012-06-30)Aims: To examine gender-related features in conversations with the focus on the use of the hedge you know and compare the findings with previous studies. Method: A quantitative study of the use of you know in conversations ... -
Hedges and Boosters in Academic Writing - A Study of Gender Differences in Essays Written by Swedish Advanced Learners of English.
(2012-06-30)The primary aim of this study was to investigate the overall frequency in which Swedish advanced learners of English use epistemic modality to express doubt (hedges) and certainty (boosters) in their academic writing; and ... -
Teaching "The hunger games"; Read - Write - Speak - Listen
(2012-06-28)This essay explores how the best-seller The Hunger Games can be applied in the classroom. In the curriculum for the English courses in Upper Secondary School the students should develop an all-round communicative competence ... -
Colonising "The Coral Island": A Postcolonial Reading of R.M. Ballantyne's Children's "Classic"
(2012-06-28)Being written during the rise of the British Empire in the 1850sm R.M. Ballantyne's boys' adventure story "The Coral Island" is in many ways a product of its time, conveying imperial ideas and Victorian values to the young ... -
Who is Percival? Intertextuality, Monologism and Heteroglossia in Virginia Woolf’s "The Waves"
(2012-06-28)The essay “Who is Percival?” discusses the complex questions which arise from the obvious contradictions between the ideals of the hero Percival in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves and the political opinions which Woolf ... -
What the Butler Recalled - Memory and Self-Deception in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
(2012-06-28)This essay focuses on the main character, Mr Stevens, in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and his recollections of his forty years as a butler at Darlington Hall. The novel, in the form of a diary, describes a six-day ... -
Aspects of phonology in Eboo-Nzikou (Bantu B74)
(2012-06-27)This paper describes aspects of the phonology of Eboo-Nzikou which forms part of the Teke language group (Bantu B70) spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. It posits that Eboo and Nzikou are phonologically the same variety of ... -
Översättning till svenska av japansk onomatopoetikon i Manga
(2012-06-27)Målet med den här studien är att analysera hur japanska onomatopoetiska ord i manga översätts till den onomatopoetiskt fattiga svenskan. Över 600 exempel på onomatopoetiska ord och deras svenska översättningar har hämtats ... -
"Nobel Prize kind of stuff. Fo’ sho." An Analysis of the English Found in Food Blogs
(2012-06-27)This essay examines the frequency of Non-Standard English variants in six American food blogs in relation to gender and contents. The blog posts and commentaries of each blog were thoroughly analyzed to discern the frequency ... -
Exploring and Analysing the Difficulties When Learning and Teaching the Present Tense and the Present Progressive Aspect to Swedish Pupils
(2012-06-27)Purpose: To explore the difficulties when learning the English present tense and the present progressive aspect and get information about the common errors made by Swedish learners of different grades. Method: A quantitative ... -
Grammatical Errors in Written Production by Swedish Learners of English - A Quantitative Study of Concord Errors and Selected Verb Errors in 35 National Tests for the B-Course of English
(2012-06-27)The aim of this study is to analyse the most frequent grammatical errors made by students of the B-course of English in Swedish Upper Secondary School. As primary material, 35 national tests of written production have been ... -
Concord errors in written production of Swedish learners of English
(2012-06-27)This study has examined and discussed previous research about subject-verb concord and also examined the phenomena with help of essays and assignments written by students and teachers from the University of Gothenburg. The ...