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Reclaiming Authorship : A Thematic Approach to the Poetry of Elise Cowen
2018
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2018
Bound by society: Social identity in A Room with a View and The Rainbow
2021
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) The thesis presents a reading of the modernist novels The Rainbow (1915) by D.H. Lawrence and A Room with a View (1908) by E.M. Forster with a view at highlighting the factors that contribute to the formation of characters’ social identity. The analysis is founded on the theoretical background of social identity theory with special focus on aspects such as intergroup vs interpersonal interaction, self-categorization and gender schema theory. The thesis attempts to examine how the influencing factors affect selected characters on their journey towards self-discovery and self-categorization, and whether these forces ultimately lead them into a feeling of bel…
Climate Change Literature in the English Subject Classroom : Discussing how English teachers can use Young Adult Climate Fiction to teach about susta…
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) This thesis explores the Young Adult DystopiaThe Sandcastle Empireby Kayla Olson and the Young Adult Climate FictionsThe Final Six and The Life Belowby Alexandra Monir and their different depictions of a future world affected by climate change. Intending to figure out how an English teacher in a Norwegian classroom may use these novels, the thesis discusses the criticism of capitalism, scientific innovation, and parental responsibilities given to the teenage protagonists. The thesis does this through an ecocritical lens and focuses on the characteristics of Anthropocene and Climate Fiction. Simultaneously, the thesis examines how the novels may affect the …
The Scope of Bilingual Sentence Planning in L1 and L2 : Effects of Complexity and Bilingual Profile
2021
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) Investigating the scope of bilingual sentence planning, this two-component study compared first and second language sentence production at different complexity level sin relation to aspects of bilingual profile. Norwegian-English bilinguals filled out a questionnaire detailing their language background and proficiency in both languages, after which they performed a sentence production task in each language, producing prepositional-structure and coordinate-structure sentences at varying levels of complexity. The results of the study revealed that first and second language planning operates with different planning scopes. Prior to speech onset, the scope of …
How is bilingual’s memory for visual scenes effected by the use of cognates and disfluencies? : An eyetracking study
2021
Master´s thesis in English (EN501)
Investigating tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals : Effects of word frequency, cognate status and noun type in word retrieval, i…
2021
Master´s thesis in English (EN501) The current study aimed to explore the effects of frequency, cognate status and noun type in tip-of-the-tongue occurrences in Norwegian-English bilinguals. In what manner the bilingual profile may exert influence on the matter was of additional interest. This study also attempted to relate results to the varying approaches presented by the weaker links hypothesis and the competition hypothesis. Stimuli sets were created consisting of target words controlled for the aforementioned manipulations and randomly dispersed throughout experiment blocks. Predictions were made based on language production models and results from similar studies performed previously.…
Is the Brazilian Portuguese phrase estar indo, i.e. be going [to], being grammaticalized into an auxiliary, and if that is the case, is it a borrowin…
2018
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2018 The aim of this thesis is to compare the grammaticalization of English be going to and Brazilian Portuguese estar indo (i.e. the equivalent to English be going to) in order to investigate whether the phrase is grammaticalizing in Brazilian Portuguese, and furthermore, to discuss whether the grammaticalization is influenced by English. To discuss these issues, the thesis consults research and corpora that illustrate the use and grammaticalization of the phrase in the two languages. Data from the BYU corpora and Twitter1 show that Brazilian Portuguese estar indo is used in situations where it appears to be a (purposive) future auxiliary…
“You Know, It’s Like Everywhere. Nothing’s Doing what it’s Supposed to Anymore” : A Corpus-based Study on Sociolinguistic Distribution of the Discour…
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 Discourse markers are sometimes socially stigmatized by people, and researchers conducting corpus-based studies report contradictory results about sociolinguistic distribution of such items. This study focuses on the two discourse markers likeand you knowand comparisons of distribution of these discourse markers among men and women, and among people of higher and lower education have been conducted. The study uses American speakers aged 20-59 to answer the two following questions: (1) can social differences regarding frequency of employing DMs be detected? and (2) do different social classes use discourse markers for different purpose…
Borders in Northern Ireland : Exploring borders related to Northern Ireland in two textbooks written for Social Studies English through the lenses of…
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 In a referendum in 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This event sparked a major debate concerning national identity and national borders, as the British society was divided in half, with almost 52% voting to leave, while the other48% wishedto remain in the EU. As Brexit moved forward, one element in the various withdrawal-agreements stood out as a main issue, namely the Irish border. The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland was now to be given a new characteristic, also functioning as the border between the EU and the UK. One of the main challenges was to find a solution that would benefit a…
Planning Sentences in Second Language English : Effects of Language Similarity and Language Proficiency
2019
Master's thesis English EN501 - University of Agder 2019 This experiment examines the effects of syntactic structure, interlingual word similarity, and semantic relationships on second-language English sentence production and planning scope. Syntactic structure was manipulated by the two target lexical nouns either occurring together in the same phrase (i.e. the initial phrase of the utterance) or in different phrases. A second goal of the experiment was to examine how bilingual language profile, defined as vocabulary-size paired with self-reported proficiency and exposure measures, affects sentence production and planning scope. Twenty-nine Norwegian-English bilinguals performed a sentence…