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Presentations of Femininity in Patrick Marber's Closer
(2014-02-07)This essay explores the presentation of femininity in Patrick Marber's play Closer from perspectives borrowed from Michel Foucault and feminists inspired by post-structuralism and social constructivism. Foucault describes ... -
Toni Morrison’s Hero: A Song of Solemn Men
(2014-02-06)This essay claims Song of Solomon is an example of a hero’s journey, aligned with the narratological features of the genre. Through an analysis of comradeship as the virtue of the quest, the hero’s identity within family, ... -
The Pronunciation of English by Somali L1 students in Sweden. Testing indications of phonetic transfer through Error Analysis and Contrastive Analysis
(2014-02-06)This study was based on a mixed method, being both quantitative and qualitative. Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis was used to predict and identify errors. Contrastive Analysis was mainly used to create a pronunciation ... -
« La littérature est morte, vive la littérature ! » Le débat contemporain sur la crise des études littéraires
(2014-02-06)Ett flertal titlar som utgivits i Frankrike under 2000-talet vittnar om en litterär kris som växt fram det senaste decenniet. Den här uppsatsen bygger undersökningen på ett urval av ett dussintal nutida kritiska verk med ... -
An Analysis of Selected Linguistic Strategies Used to Evoke Moral Judgments, Emotions and Attitudes with the Audience of 300.
(2014-02-06)Literature has the power to influence its audience to establish different attitudes towards its characters and elements. This study examines the linguistic strategies that are employed in doing so. A case study, in the ... -
L´importance de la motivation dans l´acquisition de la prononciation du français dans deux groupes de lycéens suédois
(2014-02-06)Ce mémoire traite les difficultés qu'on rencontre quand on cherche à apprendre la prononciation française qyant le suédois pour langue maternelle. Le mémoire traite également l'importance de la motivation quand on apprend ... -
The Playboy of the Western World: A Carnivalesque Reading
(2014-02-06)A carnivalesque reading of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is presented. Mikhail Bakhtin defines carnivalesque as a literary style that challenges authority and traditional social hierarchy through the use ... -
Satire and Ambiguity in Thomas More's Utopia
(2014-02-06)Since its publication in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia caused confusion amongst literary critics and scientists. This essay is an attempt to explain the problem of interpretation in More’s novel and to show its ambiguity. ... -
Swedish learners’ usage of relative pronouns in English. An informant testing study
(2014-02-06)The complexity of the grammatical rules governing relative pronouns in English can cause foreign language learners to experience uncertainty in when to apply which relative pronoun. The aim of this study is to explore ... -
A Sea Change. An Examination of the Imagery in Chopin's The Awakening
(2014-02-06)The Awakening is Kate Chopin's tale of a woman seeking her individuation and selffulfillment in a male-dominated society – it is a novel about female emancipation. The aim of this essay is to examine the imagery in The ... -
Pedagogy and Persuasion. Teaching gender with Jane Austen’s Persuasion in the EFL classroom
(2014-02-06)Abstract: The aim of the essay is to argue why and how Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion can be used in an English as a Foreign Language classroom when discussing gender issues in upper secondary school. By using literature ... -
Chick Lit in the Classroom. Identity and Gender in Gossip Girl and Confessions of a Shopaholic.
(2014-02-06)Language and literature give students access to new worlds and present voices that offer new perspectives. Literature is used in the language classroom to improve language skills and is a highly important tool in order ... -
Étude comparative du sous-titrage suédois de trois versions du film français « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob »
(2014-01-29)Den franska succéfilmen « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob » från 1973 har flera gånger översatts till svenska. I denna studie har svenska undertexter från 1987, 1992 och 2008 studerats och jämförts med varandra. En svårighet ... -
Översättning av den japanska mangan Gintama till engelska
(2014-01-15)Kandidatuppsats som analyserar mangan Gintama med Yoko Haseganas The Routledge Course of Japanese Translation som ramverk. Från denna bok analyseras diverse parametrar för att se vilka som är mest relevanta för mangaöversättning. -
Representations of British teenage slang in the TV-series "Misfits" - A communicative approach to teenage slang
(2014-01-15)The aim of this essay is to examine the functions of British teenage slang vocabulary from a communicative perspective and to analyse it in the social situations that occur in the TV-series Misfits. The language in Misfits ... -
The Americanised British English Classroom: A case study on the linguistic nature of the input in Swedish EFL teaching
(2014-01-15)Input is everything a learner is exposed to within the target subject, yet it is a relatively scarcely researched area within EFL and SLA - especially the linguistic nature of the input that Swedish EFL learners have access ... -
Supplementing Narratives: A Pedagogical and Norm-Critical Discussion of How To Teach James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room in the EFL Classroom
(2014-01-15)The aim with this essay is to examine the implications of norm-critical pedagogy in language education. The novel "Giovanni’s Room" by James Baldwin is used as an example of how supplementing narratives, both in the sense ... -
Nouveau Roman – Nouveau regard sur « l'Homme » ? Genre et Nouveau Personnage dans Martereau de Nathalie Sarraute
(2014-01-09)Ce mémore étudie le personnage tel qu’il est présenté et interrogé dans le roman "Martereau" de Nathalie Sarraute. Le Nouveau Roman étant une remise en question des normes du roman « traditionnel », la conception critique ... -
Auteure libératrice - Une étude de l’écriture autobiographique de Nina Bouraoui à partir du roman Nos baisers sont des adieux
(2013-12-20)The definitions that can be ascribed to Nina Bouraoui - French, Algerian, woman, homosexual etc. - are not neutral. This essay investigates the narrator's subjectivity in the novel "Nos baisers sont des adieux" (2010). It ... -
Sailors and Tentative Talk-a-lots. - A study of folk linguistic notions of gendered language in action films
(2013-11-15)The relationship between reality and the media is a complex one; some say that media is the most important symbolic world for the shaping of our perception of reality while others argue that expecting the media to be ...