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The level of old norse influence on the development of middle english
2014
Masteroppgave engelsk- Universitetet i Agder, 2014
Liminal characters in the science fiction of Philip K. Dick
2011
Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder 2011
The loss of the real : hyper-reality in A Scanner darkly by Philip K Dick and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
2012
Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder, 2012
Full circle : the apocalyptic motif in Cormac McCarthy's The road and Robert Browning's Childe Roland to the dark tower came
2014
Masteroppgave engelsk- Universitetet i Agder, 2014
South Park´s ambiguoues satiric expression
2010
Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder 2010
Living in dangerous times : identity, volition and anxiety in Don DeLillo`s White noise and Falling man
2009
Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder 2009
Using corpus tools to analyse learner language in a UK EAP context
2014
This study analyses the language of successful spoken requests used by Chinese intermediate level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students in Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) at a UK higher education institution. Using corpus tools, the authors examined the frequent words, chunks and moves in request data and compared this to general reference corpora. Findings suggest that successful spoken requests often made use of high frequency modals and chunks. The data also demonstrated that the use of appropriate request moves were often associated with success, even if the language used contained linguistic errors. The findings have important implications for how spoken requests are taught in…
Gender-neutral Language in EU Secondary Legislation: The Case of the English Language
2023
English does not have a grammatical gender, thus having an “intrinsic predisposition towards gender-neutral forms” (Poddighe 2020, 3). Most personal nouns do not indicate a specific gender, as in the case of person or engineer. However, there are also personal nouns with lexical gender, such as king or queen (Hellinger 2001). As a result, in English there is a risk of creating sentences that are not gender-neutral. Within the EU, the promotion of the use of a more inclusive language represents an important objective. For this reason, in recent years, various documents containing guidelines on gender-neutral language have been elaborated to encourage members of the EU institutions to adopt a…
Transnational turn and national models of higher education - The case of Finland
2014
The purpose of the article is to problematize the relationship between the Nordic democratic public higher education tradition and transnational market driven knowledge economy policies. The article illustrates this development with two cases -- quality assurance and internationalisation policies -- where external demands, based mostly on market ideologies, have been introduced with apparently transnational incentives but having national implementations. These transnational pressures are related to a kind of soft governance of higher education policy, characterized by networked decision making and use of expert consultants, which possibly promotes flexible decision-making and efficiency, bu…
Corpus linguistics and its aplications in higher education
2010
The aim of this paper is to review and analyse relevant factors related to the implementation of corpus linguistics (CL) in higher education. First we set out to describe underlying principles of CL and its developments in relation to theoretical linguistics and its applications in modern teaching practices. Then we attempt to establish how different types of corpora have contributed to the development of direct and indirect approaches in language teaching. We single out Data Driven Learning (DDL) due to its relevance in applied linguistics literature, and examine in detail advantages and drawbacks. Finally, we outline problems concerning the implementation of CL in the classroom since awar…