Department of Foreign Languages and Translation: Recent submissions
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The Components of Brainwashing in Literature: A Comparative Analysis of China Miéville's The City & The City and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Master thesis, 2024)The intent of this master’s thesis is to explore the validity of the assertion that the novel The City & The City by China Miéville contains covert forms of brainwashing, which is also known as stealthy brainwashing. With ... -
Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. An exploration into the effects of the trauma of war and sexual violence depicted in Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen" and "Wolf Season".
(Master thesis, 2024)In my thesis I wish to explore the consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by applying trauma theory in an analysis of Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen", and "Wolf Season". In these two novels, the author ... -
Languaging as Emergent Constraint-satisfying Self-organizing Activity Dialogical context-completing, context-making, and context-seeking dynamics
(Journal article, 2020)Languaging is a manifestation of intelligent human action that enables selves to seek and to co-articulate functional fits between self and selected aspects of the self's social and cultural environments. Selves have ... -
How The Help Displays a Multidimensional Perspective in the Feminist Fight Against Oppression.
(Master thesis, 2024)This study focuses on The Help by Kathryn Stockett, one of the contemporary literary works that tackle the issues of race, class, and femininity in America. The Help is set during the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. ... -
COVID-19 Neologisms: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
(Master thesis, 2024)The COVID-19 pandemic brought about global changes to everyday life. This thesis investigates the emergence of neologisms in the English language in response to these changes. By collecting data from social media, specialized ... -
Raising Awareness of Coercive Control: The Role of Literary Representations.
(Master thesis, 2024)It is eight years since coercive control in intimate relationships was made unlawful in England and Wales, through section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. The relatively low prosecution rates under the Act can be linked ... -
Aesthetics of Afrofuturism: Exploring the Afrofuturist Influence in the Black Panther Franchise
(Master thesis, 2024)This thesis explores the usage of Afrofuturist aesthetic in Marvel's Black Panther franchise. By analysing and exploring key extracts from Ta-Nehisi Coates' A Nation Under Our Feet and Evan Narcisse's Rise of The Black ... -
The Power of Words: Disrupting Genre in the Neo-Slave Narrative
(Master thesis, 2024)Abstract This thesis will examine the three neo-slave narratives Flight to Canada (1976) by Ishmael Reed, Kindred (1979) by Octavia Butler, and Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison. The narratives take their inspiration from ... -
Migrasjon som undergang og nyskaping. Señales que precederán al fin del mundo av Yuri Herrera.
(Chapter, 2022)Dette kapitlet tar for seg migrasjons- og identitetstematikk i Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2009) av Yuri Herrera. Forfatterens bruk av mytisk materiale innebærer en forflytning fra et nasjonalt, ontologisk ... -
The Magic of Sound and Colour. Multimodality in Eleanor Farjeon’s Martin Pippin Books and their translations into Polish
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Eleanor Farjeon belonged to the most popular British authors writing for children in the first decades of the 20th century. However, very few of her stories have occurred in translation. There exist no translations of her ... -
Translator learners' strategies in local and textual metaphors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: Metaphor is more than understanding and expressing an abstract concept in terms of a concrete one. Pre-linguistically, it is the conceptual creativity that resides in the entities yet to be expressed. ... -
Sacred Ground : Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change
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What Would Preacher Do? Tactics of Blasphemy in the Strategies of Satire and Parody
(Chapter, 2023)Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s sixty-six-issue graphic novel series Preacher is blasphemous. Scream it from the rooftops, post it behind a sputtering red Cessna on an aerial advertising banner, and be sure to mention it ... -
The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper argues that the diachronic rise and fall of verb-second grammars is tied to the conservative nature of child structure projection and movement postulation, within a Minimalist syntax. For the rise of V2, we ... -
The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article examines how compositional and performative strategies impact the potency of environmental song lyrics on Gorillaz’s album Plastic Beach. The quality of songfulness is implicated as a primary obstacle to lyrical ... -
Spoken word production in Norwegian-English bilinguals Investigating effects of bilingual profile and articulatory divergence
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;443, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the effects of individual differences in bilingual profile and articulatory divergence on bilingual spoken word production. During bilingual word production both languages are to some degree active, ... -
Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy
(Book, 2023)Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over ... -
Britain’s Alternating Immigration Discourse
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis will investigate whether British immigration discourse has gone in a circle for the last 20 years. Following on from that, it will also attempt to determine whether the government’s discourse and policy on ... -
Teaching about indigenous people with Minecraft Education
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the potential of Minecraft Education (ME) as a tool for teaching Norwegian lower secondary school pupils about indigenous people, with a particular focus on the Māori people of New Zealand. A ...