Sökning: "Marie Tåqvist"
Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden Marie Tåqvist.
1. "Another thing" : Discourse-organising nouns in advanced learner English
Sammanfattning : This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and problem, in Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker (L1) students and from expert writing in this respect. The study uses corpus linguistic methodology and is set within the frameworks of Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics and Granger’s Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis. LÄS MER
2. "English Philology is just a Bubble" : Unconventional Metaphors in English as a Lingua Franca
Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigates unconventional metaphors in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Empirical approaches in metaphor research have gained prominence, yet methodologies could benefit from more transparent procedural descriptions and efforts to decrease researcher intuition in the data analysis. LÄS MER