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Master's theses in English [130]
EN-500, EN-501, EN-505
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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 ... -
Living in Changing Times Personhood and Partnership in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey and Harriet Martineau’s Deerbrook
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis analyzes the portrayal of gender in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook. It explores how the main characters challenge traditional gender roles and the extent to which the authors are ... -
Internalized Misogyny in Hip Hop: From Socio-Political Voice to Profit-Driven Objectification
(Master thesis, 2023)Hip Hop, with its social-political properties, is a genre that often discusses oppression and social injustice. This thesis aims at exploring how the genre contradicts these values with its view of women. In this context, ... -
Identity and Hybridity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
(Master thesis, 2023)The aim of this thesis is to explore identity and hybridity across two generations in two families in the multicultural suburb of Willesden in North West London in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. The characters are analyzed ... -
Translation shifts from English to Romanian in literary and general informative texts
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis asks the question of how English present and past participles are translated to Romanian in literary texts, as well as in general informative texts. Excerpts containing present and past participles are extracted ... -
Staging the Narrative
(Master thesis, 2023)Throughout this thesis, I will look at the concept album as a discursive genre with a focus on La Dispute’s second full-length album Wildlife, released in 2011. By engaging with the narrative and the performance of Wildlife, ... -
Kurt Vonnegut and the Postmodern Satire
(Master thesis, 2023)A broad look at the reformative qualities in Kurt Vonnegut's writing, through the analyses of three of his novels (The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five). -
The Black Panther's Aesthetics: An Exploration of the Importance of Visual Elements as Part of an Afrofuturistic Multimedia Narrative
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis aims to explore the ways in which visual elements of the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther affects its narrative, and how it reinforces the themes regarding identity, heritage, and Afrofuturism. By putting an ... -
From Brave New World to Ready Player One; yesterday's dystopias as tomorrow's utopias
(Master thesis, 2023)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the evolution of literary utopias and dystopias in light of what I consider to be the new master narrative of post-humanism. The inspiration for this project has been Yuval Noah ... -
Orthographic precision for word naming in skilled readers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Perfetti (2007) proposed that the quality of lexical representations affects reading. We investigated the role of lexical quality in decoding. Eighty-four adults read aloud words and pseudowords with dense and sparse ... -
Worlds and Readers: Augmented Reality in Modern Polaxis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article presents a close reading of the augmented reality (AR) comic Modern Polaxis, which was created by Stuart Campbell. Possible Worlds Theory was applied to discuss how fiction, which creates its own possible ... -
Modulation in alpha band activity reflects syntax composition: an MEG study of minimal syntactic binding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Successful sentence comprehension requires the binding, or composition, of multiple words into larger structures to establish meaning. Using magnetoencephalography, we investigated the neural mechanisms involved in binding ... -
Writing in German as a foreign language in Norwegian upper secondary school: An investigation of patterns of language choices for meaning-making
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The main objective of this article is to identify and describe characteristic patterns of language choices in texts written by Norwegian upper secondary school students of German as a foreign language (GFL) (age 16/17, ... -
The World of George Grosz’s Pictures and the World Depicted in The Novel Pokora by Szczepan Twardoch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)“My drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment […] I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms” – so stated George Grosz in a refl ection on his art. This quotation expresses ... -
“Natural” stress patterns and dependencies between edge alignment and quantity sensitivity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We conducted an artificial language learning experiment to study learning asymmetries that might reveal latent preferences relating to, and any dependencies between, the edge alignment and quantity sensitivity (QS) parameters ...