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The embodied meanings of towards and against Two English prepositions from a cognitive and contrastive linguistics perspective
(2014-02-19)This is a study of semantic differences in the use of the English prepositions towards and against analysed in terms of cognitive linguistics. The data for this analysis is provided by a selection of 120 sentence examples ... -
Virtues and Fundamental values A case study on how to teach the fundamental values using New Spring
(2014-02-19)Moral education through the work of literature and story-telling has long been present in our society. With the curriculum this moral education is something that should be present in today’s education as well. By studying ... -
Symbolism in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
(2014-02-19)The modernists wanted to give as true a picture of the world as possible and experimented with narrative techniques and devices such as stream of consciousness, fragmentation and symbolism, which meant a break with more ... -
His Dark Teaching Materials. Using Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials in a language classroom
(2014-02-19)This essay argues the usefulness in an English language teaching context of the novel His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman in terms of a project focused around ethics, morality and the quest for personal identity. It also ... -
ICT and the four major language skills: An interdisciplinary study of teachers' attitudes towards ICT as a teaching tool
(2014-02-19)The aim of this survey is to provide a descriptive report of upper secondary school teachers' attitudes towards ICT and their actual use of it in class in relation to the teaching of the four major language skills. It ... -
En attendant d’avoir vingt ans. Une étude de la temporalité et du suspense dans Demain j’aurai vingt ans d’Alain Mabanckou
(2014-02-19)L’objectif de ce mémoire est d’examiner les constructions temporelles et la disposition des événements dans le roman « Demain j’aurai vingt ans » d’Alain Mabanckou. Ceci sera mis en relation avec les structures textuelles ... -
Les erreurs que font les Suédois en apprenant le français
(2014-02-19)En apprenant une langue, beaucoup d’élèves semblent rencontrer le même genre de difficultés ou d’obstacles. Dans ce mémoire, j’essaie de trouver quelques-unes des erreurs récurrentes chez les élèves suédois, afin d’essayer ... -
A Relationship to Death: An Examination of William Shakespeare´s Hamlet
(2014-02-18)Hamlet is an extraordinary play, which is full of deception, drama, intrigue, melancholia and death. This essay will examine Hamlet´s relationship to death in selected acts, scenes and soliloquies from the play. The purpose ... -
An Exploration of Gender-specific Language in Japanese Popular Culture Gender Stereotypes in Japanese Dating-simulation Games
(2014-02-17)Traditional ideas of gender identities are affected by everything around us, while continuously being changed and reinforced by society. We are constantly surrounded by ideas of male and female in media and in everyday ... -
A dissertation on philosophising women, edited with introduction, translation and commentary
(2014-02-17)The objective of the present study is to produce a reader-friendly edition and translation of, and commentary and introduction to the dissertation Exercitium Academicum Mulieres Philosophantes Leviter Adumbrans (Uppsala ... -
I was only feeling a little lonely. A comparison of Alfred Birnbaum's and Jay Rubin's translations of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
(2014-02-17)Whether to translate literally or freely has always been the big question when it comes to translating literature, and throughout time it has become clear that translators who observe different conditions also adopt different ... -
The Usage of English in Swedish TV Commercials
(2014-02-13)The aim of this essay is to study the usage of English in Swedish TV commercials; mainly how much English is used, and whether this depends on factors such as channel, time of day, target audience, and product/service being ... -
Gender, Language and Second Language Education - a Study of Swedish EFL Textbooks
(2014-02-13)The aim of this study is to examine whether gender stereotypical language can be found in textbooks used in the course English 5 in the Swedish upper-secondary school. Several researchers have previously found that women ... -
Étude contrastive sur le futur simple et le futur périphrastique en traduction du français à l’anglais et de l’anglais au français
(2014-02-13)Le mémoire traite des traductions anglaises des deux futurs français, c’est à dire le futur simple (je partirai demain) et le futur périphrastique (je vais partir demain), ainsi que les constructions anglaises qui peuvent ... -
Innocence and Childhood in Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials
(2014-02-13)Philip Pullman's young adult fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials combines the characteristics of the adventure tale with philosophical musings about subjects such as God, sin, humanity, and death. Among other things, the ... -
Code-switching online - A case study of Swedish-English code-switching in the blog Charlotta Flinkenberg
(2014-02-13)This study investigates the form and function of Swedish-English code-switching within Swedish pop culture online through a case study of the fashion blog Charlotta Flinkenberg. Code-switching can be found in a multitude ... -
Kicking Ass with Style: Linguistic Humor Strategies in Three High-Grossing Action Movie Franchises
(2014-02-11)Since the 1980s, the American action hero has become increasingly humor-conscious as he disarms the villains through superior strength but also through superior wit. It is the aim of this study to, from a linguistics ... -
Paradise Overcome A Secular Interpretation of Paradise Lost
(2014-02-07)P.B. Shelley wrote that John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost “contains within itself a philosophical refutation of that system of which, by a strange and natural antithesis, it has been a chief popular support” (394). ... -
Archetypes and Stereotypes in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
(2014-02-07)This essay explores the archetypal hero and gender stereotypes in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Using both theories about the hero genre and the discussion of the Harry Potter novels themselves, I argue that despite ... -
Two Jokers in the Pack? A Comparative Analysis of Iago in William Shakespeare’s Othello and the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight in Relation to W.H. Auden’s ‘The Joker in the Pack’
(2014-02-07)What would happen if we viewed the Joker of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 motion picture The Dark Knight as a modern incarnation of Iago, the villain of William Shakespeare’s Othello? Additionally, how well does Auden’s ...