Sökning: "20th-century English"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade orden 20th-century English.

  1. 1. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction

    Författare :Niklas Salmose; Randall Stevenson; Laura Marcus; Patricia Waugh; UK The University of Edinburgh; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nostalgia; Modernism; Literature; Aesthetics; Style; Narratology; Emotions; Nostalgi; Modernism; Litteratur; Estetik; Stilistik; Narratologi; Känslor; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Language of English Newspaper Editorials from a 20th-Century Perspective

    Författare :Ingrid Westin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; 20th-century English; corpus linguistics; diachronic studies; dimensions of variation; editorials; newspapers; textual dimensions; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This work is a corpus-based study of the language of English up-market ("quality") newspaper editorials, covering the period 1900-1993. CENE, the Corpus of English Newspaper Editorials, was compiled for the purposes of this study and comprises editorials from the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Times chosen to represent periods at ten-year intervals. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Contraction in British newspapers in the late 20th century

    Författare :Margareta Westergren Axelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This investigation of verb contractions (e.g.I'm and it's) and NOT-contractions (don't and haven't) uses two samples of British newspaper text from 1994 and 1961. The 1994 material, compiled for this study, is carefully matched to the press categories of the well-known LOB corpus of written British English. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Language of English Newspaper Editorials From 20th Century Perspective

    Författare :Ingrid Westin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English Language; Newspaper Language; ; English language; Engelska språket;

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  7. 5. The language of English newspaper editorials from a 20th-century perspective

    Författare :Ingrid Westin; Engelska institutionen Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; corpus linguistics; diachronic studies; editorials; newspaper language; readability; textual dimensions; variation; Engelska språket; tidningsspråk; historia; 1900-talet;

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