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From Abominable to Zealous
(2014-10-13)The aim of this study is to examine the views on linguistic phenomena which have been criticised during the past century. The material used is six British usage guides published between 1906 and 2010 in which five controversial ... -
¿Se mantiene la comicidad? El humor en la subtitulación sueca de Torrente, un éxito de ventas en España
(2014-10-10)To investigate how GTVH (General Theory of Verbal Humor, by Salvatore Attardo) could be used to determine the quality of the humor translation of a local ‘blockbuster’ in Spain, we analyzed the original script of Torrente, ... -
¡Pero tutéame, hombre! ¡Entre nosotros dos ya no hay barreras! La traducción de las formas de tratamiento en La señorita Julie de August Strindberg
(2014-10-10)Switching of address terms is one of the most important means of conveying alternations in status and emotion in August Strindberg's Miss Julie, written in Swedish in 1888. The aim of this essay is to study the renderings ... -
The Reader Strikes Back:A Narratological Approach to Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy
(2014-10-09)The detective novel genre has long been a genre of conventions. Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy is a detective story with a twist that challenges the established conventions of the genre. In this essay, I will use ... -
Icarus Falling, A Marxist Study of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis
(2014-10-09)This is a study of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis using Marxist economical theory, from a position that we live in a postmodern capitalist society and that literature as a part of the superstructure can mirror society. The essay ... -
The moral value of slavery as represented in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(2014-10-09)The aim of this essay is to show how Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, represents the morality of slavery and the conflict between this institution and Christianity. It is necessary to talk about the main characters ... -
Teaching History through The Last of the Mohicans
(2014-10-09)This essay explores how effective literature can be when used to teach history utilizing James Fenimore Cooper‟s The Last of the Mohicans, in order to teach students two specific historical events, as well as historical ... -
On Borrowed Time:An examination of the representation of time in To the Lighthouse
(2014-10-09)This study elaborates on the relationship between the representation of time and how it is perceived in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Therefore, this paper will explore the link between time, modernism and the structure ... -
Hyde-ing Between Holmes and Watson An Examination of a Homosocial Bond Through a Freudian Analogy of Jekyll and Hyde
(2014-10-09)The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is one of the most famous male friendships in modern literature. Using the two novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s extensive ... -
Power, politics, and gender-related epistemic modality in interview discourse
(2014-10-08)To examine usage, distribution and function of gender-related epistemic modality in the form of hedges and boosters in political interviews and compare the present findings with those of previous studies. Methods: A ... -
¿En qué piensan unos adolescentes cuando les hablamos de un Programa de Estudios?
(2014-10-08)Den nya Läroplanen, Lgr 11 och de olika kursplanerna som finns formulerade där, har från olika håll inom undervisningssammanhang stött på kritik för det abstrakta språkbruket. Som lärare i moderna språk, spanska, i grundskolan ... -
El Mundo Hispanohablante
(2014-10-08)The aim of this study is to analyze through a qualitative method the representation of the Spanish speaking countries in three Upper Secondary textbooks of Spanish as a foreign language in Sweden and simultaneously, to ... -
El refranero -Un estudio comparativo español-sueco.
(2014-10-08)Ordspråk är något som man har använt sedan lång tid tillbaka i historien och de finns på flera språk, i olika stöpningar och kan användas i en mängd uppkomna situationer. En frågeställning i detta sammanhang är om det finns ... -
Romantic Discord
(2014-10-08)Abstract: The Romantic Movement was a cultural movement that changed the literary and political landscape of Great Britain in the early 19th century. However, the political inclinations and implications of British Romantic ... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Ideology of Hate
(2014-10-08)Hatred and ideology play an important role in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. This essay aims to show that hatred not only is a core tenet of the Party’s ideology, but that it also guides the protagonist Winston ... -
Var är göken? Översättning av japansk haiku
(2014-10-07)The topic of the present paper is to investigate and identify how two translators, Reginald Horace Blyth and David Landis Barnhill, differ in their translation of Japanese haikus by Matsuo Bashô to English. Three focal ... -
Könsord och tankstreck. Återskapandet av svordomar och interpunktion i en egen översättning av Gelasimovs kortroman Žažda
(2014-09-24)Denna studie behandlar de svårigheter som kan uppstå vid stil- dialogöversättning. Dialog används ofta av skönlitterära författare för att ge de litterära karaktärerna egna röster, både i specifika situationer och genom ... -
L’Éducation des femmes dans L’École des femmes de Molière, Pygmalion de G.B. Shaw et Educating Rita de William Russell. Une étude comparative
(2014-09-24)Ce mémoire a pour but d’explorer le sujet de l’éducation de la femme à travers les trois textes: L’École des femmes de Molière ; Pygmalion de George Bernard Shaw et Educating Rita de William Russell. C’est une étude ... -
Vagabond. An analysis of the role language in a historical Japanese comic
(2014-09-24)By means of analyzing the comic ‘Vagabond’ by Inoue Takehiko, which depicts the renowned sword saint MiyamotoMusashi, who lived during times of yonder (circ. 1584 – 1645) when the samurai society thrived, this study inquires ...