Sökning: "Engelska språk och litteratur"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 393 avhandlingar innehållade orden Engelska språk och litteratur.
1. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers
Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER
2. Conversational Writing : A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication
Sammanfattning : This study is a linguistic investigation of two genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC), namely two modes of conversational writing: ‘Internet relay chat’ (synchronous CMC) and ‘split-window ICQ chat’ (supersynchronous CMC). The study employs Douglas Biber’s multifeature multidimensional methodology, taking into account the six dimensions of textual variation in English identified in his 1988 book Variation across speech and writing (i. LÄS MER
3. Apologising in British English
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. LÄS MER
4. “Distantly a part”: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the social and political dimensions of aesthetic autonomy as it is given formal expression in Wallace Stevens’s poetry of the 1930s and the early 1940s. Whereas modernist claims to autonomy are often said to rest upon an ideological assertion of art’s detachment from socio-historical concerns, I argue that, in Stevens’s work, autonomy is conceived in relational terms, which gives rise to new lines of interconnection between his poetry and its cultural situation. LÄS MER
5. Ord för höjder och sluttningar i Daga härad : en studie över betydelsen hos två grupper terrängbetecknande appellativ och ortnamnselement
Sammanfattning : When topographical generics such as backe, berg, slänt and stalp are treated in literature and dialect records, their lexical meaning is often given without details and precise semantic distinctions. It is indicated by 'synonyms' and by established agreement with other words within the same semantic field, rarely by contrasting definite differences between the words. LÄS MER
