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A Thud or a Bang?: A Study of the Translation of Onomatopoeia in Manga
(2020-06-16)This bachelor’s thesis was written with the aim to analyze how Japanese onomatopoeia in manga are translated from Japanese to English, and if and how the translation changes the meaning in context. This was done by using ... -
L’évolution du personnage principal de L’Enfant noir de Camara Laye. Nègre je suis, Nègre je resterai
(2020-06-15)Utvecklingen av en karaktär som håller sin framtid i sina händer ger bilden av en intressant resa att följa. Den undersökta problematiken i L'Enfant noir (svensk titel: ”Svart barn”) handlar om den bild som ges av hur ... -
Representaciones de la maternidad en Cuentos de Eva Luna de Isabel Allende: El caso de “Clarisa” y “Tosca”
(2020-06-15)Motherhood is a central life experience to female identity and to the configuration of gender roles in any society. However, despite this centrality, the figure of motherhood in literature has not been studied until a few ... -
Espacios de intimidad en La voz dormida: La configuración del espacio y su efecto en la lectura
(2020-06-15)The aim of this essay is to study the configuration of the literary space of intimacy and its effect on the act of reading, in the novel The Sleeping Voice of Dulce Chacón. In order to accomplish this, textual strategies, ... -
El fenómeno de simplificación en el español chileno. Un estudio comparativo entre personajes de diferentes clases sociales en Martín Rivas de Alberto Blest Gana.
(2020-06-15)The dialogues of the Chilean novel Martín Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana show an imitation of the spoken language through the orthography of the vocabulary. This graphic representation varies depending on the social class of ... -
DIGLOSSIE IN DEUTSCHSCHWEIZER SPITÄLERN. Studie zu Sprachgebrauch und Spracheinstellung von MitarbeiterInnen
(2020-06-10)The concomitant presence and usage of two varieties of German, namely Swiss German and Standard German, is characteristic for German-speaking Switzerland. This linguistic situation is mirrored in the region’s hospitals or, ... -
Conflict Discourse in Television Series – The Functions and Uses of Silence in Relation to Social Class
(2020-04-30)This study paper investigates the correlation between social class and the use of silence in conflict discourse, by comparing the interactional style and turn-taking behaviour in two television series representing the upper ... -
On the Use of Katakana in a Modern Japanese Essay
(2020-03-20)The purpose of the present study is to carry out a pilot investigation on the use of katakana in a modern Japanese essay, and to compare how the usage of katakana differs between daily newspaper and a modern essay. Among ... -
Linguistic Differences in Real Conversations: Human to Human vs Human to Chatbot
(2020-03-02)This study investigates how students communicate in writing when they know that their conversational partner is a human being in comparison to how they communicate when they know their partner is a chatbot. The participants ... -
Beskrivning och översättning av no da samt analys av Murakami Harukis Nejimakidori och Fågeln som vrider upp världen
(2020-02-20)The purpose of this thesis is to give a description of the functions of the Japanese nominal predicate no da, which in short is used to signal that the participants of a communication are already aware of the information ... -
LA NOMADE, LES ANGES ET LES DÉMONS. Une analyse de la distance narrative dans Le Fabuleux et Triste Destin d’Ivan et Ivana (2017) de Maryse Condé
(2020-02-19)In this study, a narratological analysis has been conducted of the narrative distance in the novel Le Fabuleux et Triste Destin d’Ivan et Ivana (2017) by postcolonial author Maryse Condé. The recurrent structures found in ... -
Dans le monde des « clodos », « clébards » et « cainfris ». La traduction de l’argot français dans Vernon Subutex de Virginie Despentes
(2020-02-10)Slang , sometimes referred to as a social variation in language, can be a challenge for the translator due to its rapid evolution and lack of equivalences in the target language. This paper examine the translation of ... -
L’ÉVOLUTION DU PERSONNAGE-ENFANT DANS LES MALHEURS DE SOPHIE & POIL DE CAROTTE. Les relations de pouvoir enfant-adulte dans la littérature enfantine française du XIXe siècle
(2020-02-10)Departing from the notion of aetonormativity, which questions the adult as norm and the child as deviation in children’s literature, the aim of this study is to examine the development of the child character and the ... -
Somaliska med arabisk skrift – en språkhistorisk studie
(2020-02-04)Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur man har skrivit somaliska texter med arabisk skrift. Två konsonantfonem, /g/ och /ɖ/ och fyra vokalfonem, /ɛ/, /ɛː/, /o/ och /oː/ finns i somaliska men inte i arabiska. I ... -
The Aspects of “Be” in selected rap and Hip Hop lyrics: A marker of cultural identity?
(2019-12-16)The aim of this study is to investigate the use of the African American English (AAVE) verb be in lyrics written and performed by four African American rappers, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Gucci Mane and Future. This paper ... -
La representación de Hispanoamérica en "La siesta del martes" de Gabriel García Márquez. Un estudio crítico literario de un texto factible para las clases de español como lengua extranjera.
(2019-09-30)In this bachelor thesis we investigate literary resources in a text possible to use in the class of Spanish as a foreign language, when the purpose is an intercultural knowledge. Our purpose is, to deepen our knowledge ... -
LANGUAGE WORK AT A SWEDISH MULTINATIONAL Employees’ Perceptions of Language Management and Policy
(2019-09-25)This study investigates language workers’ perceptions of the implementation and possible outcomes of new guidelines aimed to increase consistency in communication. A needs analysis establishes both present and target levels ... -
La traducción del sueco al español de referencias culturales en la novela En man som heter Ove (Un hombre llamado Ove)
(2019-08-19)Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur kulturella referenser översatts från svenska till spanska i romanen En man som heter Ove, skriven av Fredrik Backman år 2012. Verket översattes till spanska utav Carmen Montes ... -
SONGS OF RAIN AND LOCOMOTION. Text mining of Japanese lyrics of pop and enka
(2019-06-20)The purpose of this thesis is to compare the differences in the vocabulary used in lyrics of the two music genres Japanese pop and enka. Text mining or lexical analysis as described by Hanks (2013) and previous studies on ...