Kandidatuppsatser / Institutionen för språk och litteraturer: Recent submissions
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The Brand Naming of Japanese Sake. A Linguistic Analysis of 200 Varieties
(2017-01-26)This paper reports on a study conducted on the brand names of the 200-top ranked Japanese rice wines in Japan in the year of 2016. The brand names are content analyzed using the same framework as was used for the Chinese ... -
PUBLIC OPINION ON THE CONCEPT OF IKUMEN. A discourse analysis of contributions made on a Japanese bulletin board
(2017-01-23)The aim of this thesis has been to find out what opinions can be found about ikumen on the internet bulletin board Hatsugen Komachi and how these opinions relate to the government policies (Ikumen Project) encouraging, ... -
“Vi är sådana som vi är”. Hur kvinnor i fyra euripideiska dramer beskriver sig själva och sin tillvaro.
(2017-01-18)This study took its starting-point in a remark made by the scholar Donald J Mastronarde, who points out how Euripides differ from other dramatists of his age by letting female characters analyze, criticize and generalize. ... -
L’HISTOIRE DE MA VIE DE GIACOMO CASANOVA : AUTOBIOGRAPHIE OU ROMAN D’AVENTURE ? Une étude comparative du texte original des mémoires de Giacomo Casanova et de l’adaptation de Jean Laforgue
(2016-11-23)The aim of this study is to determine the role of Jean Laforgue’s adaptation of Giacomo Casanova’s memoirs in the construction of a fictional, almost mythical character. To achieve our purpose, we have compared an extract ... -
I GRÄNSLANDET MELLAN LITTERATUR OCH JOURNALISTIK. En analys av Svetlana Aleksijevitjs berättarstil i Vremja Second Hand
(2016-10-06)Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka Svetlana Aleksijevitjs berättarstil och på vilket sätt hon kan anses ha förnyat det litterära reportaget som genre. I uppsatsen används narratologi och stilistik som teoretiska ... -
HANDING THE REINS TO THE TRICKSTER: A Narratological Analysis of the Construction of Reliability in Joanne M. Harris’ The Gospel of Loki
(2016-09-16)How can a reader believe anything the narrator says when the narrator is an infamous trickster? The Gospel of Loki (2014) tells the Edda-stories from the Norse Trickster God Loki’s viewpoint, providing a unique perspective ... -
ANNA KARENINA. Ett annat sätt att läsa romanen
(2016-09-15)Syftet i detta arbete var att söka finna nytt sätt att läsa romanen, genom att i de fiktiva personernas karaktärsdrag relatera till psykologisk teori (anknytningsteori). Annas inre arbetsmodell visade tydliga drag av ... -
SAME WORD, DIFFERENT MEANING? An Analysis of Sino-Japanese Homographs found in Chinese Subtitles for Japanese TV Dramas
(2016-09-05)In this essay I studied the variety of differences in meaning and usage between Sino-Japanese homographs. The purpose of the essay was to shed some light on what different types of Sino-Japanese homographs there are, as ... -
CREATING THE CITIZENS OF TOMORROW. A study of the Japanese curriculum regarding goals in creating “the good citizen”
(2016-09-05)The main purpose of this thesis is to study what kind of citizen the Japanese curriculum aims to create and what language and words are important in doing so. The research is based on three main materials; First, the ... -
ANALYSIS OF LEXICON IN JAPANESE ADULT AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. Comparison of Kawauso and Serohiki no Gauche
(2016-09-05)This paper investigates the usage of Japanese vocabulary in two different texts: Kawauso (The Otter) by Kuniko Mukōda and Serohiki no Gauche (Gauche the cellist) by Kenji Miyazawa. Japanese vocabulary is commonly divided ... -
ÄLDRE JAPANSKA HUS I DET OFFENTLIGA RUMMET. Diskursanalys av diskussionen kring bostadsbeståndet i Japan
(2016-09-02)The current situation in the Japanese property market is not sustainable, as houses are seen as consumer goods rather than investments. Comparing property advertisements with official Japanese texts concerning house ... -
Attitudes in Sweden towards four Different Varieties of the English Language: A Quantitative Study
(2016-08-12)The aim of this study is to explore the attitudes of Swedish people towards the following varieties of English: Indian English (IndE), American English (AmE), Nigerian English (NigE) and British English (BrE). The study ... -
"Affemmée de viol-ence" ou "Délivre-nous du mâle". Violence et féminité dans "La Mariée était en noir".
(2016-06-21)This essay is a study of the relation between femininity and violence, in relation to the main character, in the subgenre rape/revenge. I study this phenomenon – through an analysis of the main character in Truffaut's ... -
”IL EST BIEN” ET ”JE SUIS BIEN” - BIEN DIFFERENTS. Sur les valeurs de bien employé comme adjectif attribut.
(2016-06-13)Denna uppsats handlar om användningen av ordet bien som adjektiv, och de därmed förknippade tvetydiga betydelser som ordet kan ha. Frågan vi ställer oss är om det finns ett samband mellan det personliga pronomenet och ... -
Analysis of Japanese complex particles in L2 learners' compositions
(2016-06-08)While the research on so-called complex particles – or compound case particles – has flourished in the latest decades, there is no consensus regarding their classification and definition, and thus there is still need to ... -
SAKURA OCH HANAMI GENOM HISTORIEN. En diskursanalys av symboliken kring sakura och hanami i japanska tidningsartiklar.
(2016-06-08)The purpose and aim of this thesis has been to examine if there has been any change in the terms sakura and hanami in their relation to Japan under the period stretching from 1918- 2015. The material consists of selected ... -
ATTRIBUTIV JAPANSKA. En analys av modifiering av substantiv i romanen No. 6
(2016-06-08)Noun modification in Japanese is complex and difficult to understand for the learners of Japanese. This thesis examines the use of the noun modification in modern Japanese literature, using the novel No. 6. What sort of ... -
Effects of direct and indirect feedback on ESL/EFL writing. A literature review focusing on form
(2016-05-04)Feedback is a very broad term involving many different ways of providing information to our students. The effectiveness of feedback has been largely debated throughout history. The major debate had its starting point in ... -
A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF TRANSLATION
(2016-04-04)Disney works and their original soundtracks are extremely popular in Japan. This study examines the differences between the subtitled and the dubbed songs featured in Disney’s Aladdin from 1992. The field of Audiovisual ...