Browsing Department of Cultural Studies and Languages (HF-IKS) by Title
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Who's afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-05-13)Fairy tales are an influential aspect within our culture. We grow up hearing and reading these stories in different mediums throughout our lives, which is why these narratives are easily identifiable. This thesis aims to ... -
“whore and little nasty sluten pispott whore”. A study in the use of swearwords in English courtrooms from 1500-1913
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)Swearwords are words in all its respective meaning; they convey meaning and are made of sounds found in the English language. However, more than any other group of words they have the power to hurt, offend, and are by some ... -
Why Is Inflectional Morphology Difficult to Borrow?—Distributing and Lexicalizing Plural Allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In this article we examine the allomorphic variation found in Pennsylvania Dutch plurality. In spite of over 250 years of variable contact with English, Pennsylvania Dutch plural allomorphy has remained largely distinct ... -
William Lloyd Garrison: Abolisjonistbevegelsen gjennom 200 år
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Denne oppgaven vil utforske hvordan oppfatningen av William Lloyd Garrison, og abolisjonistbevegelsen, har forandret og utviklet seg over de siste nesten 200 årene, både i offentligheten og i akademia. -
Winston Churchill og dronning Elizabeth II - om representasjoner og forholdet mellom statsminister og makr.
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Representasjoner av kjente folk er intet nytt. Det er blitt skrevet uttalelige biografier og litterære tekster om folk forfatterne mener har en historisk betydning. Det samme gjelder Winston Churchill og tidligere dronning ... -
With Strong and Active Faith Collectivism in the Age of FDR 1933-1945
(Master thesis, 2021)A study of language and social progress in America during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By analysing the power residing in the presidency, this thesis aim to uncover the extent of president Roosevelt's ... -
Women’s agency in Judith, Beowulf and The Wife’s Lament: Are the characters passive in their own femininity?
(Master thesis, 2022)Protagonists or main characters are the center of a story. The plot revolves around these characters, and the readers are influenced to see the story and events through their perspectives. Using New Formalist theory and ... -
Words Are Wind: Investigating Literacy and Power in A Song of Ice and Fire.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-11)The proposed thesis seeks to investigate how some of the characters of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R.Martin are limited by different social structures of masculinity, physical prowess, feudal power ... -
The Work Context and Mentoring: Do Job Characteristics Influence Mentoring Received?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of job characteristics on mentoring received. A survey questionnaire was sent to 435 employees from 29 preschools in Norway and 284 responses were returned, a ... -
Workplace mentoring: Investigating the influence of job characteristics on mentoring
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)No previous research has explored the relationship between three categories of job characteristics and mentoring provided. A cross-sectional design based on a survey questionnaire was sent to employees from 29 preschools ... -
Writing for Pleasure and the Teaching of Writing at the Primary Level: A Teacher Cognition Case Study
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)This research project is a collective case study exploring teacher cognition in relation to the teaching of first language (L1) writing at the primary level in England. The study places particular emphasis on writing for ... -
Writing Men on the Margins: Joseph Mitchell, Masculinity, and the Flaneur
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study introduces the philosophies of the flâneur—a figure associated with the acts of wandering, observing, and reporting the realities of life on the city streets—to offer a critical reconsideration of a sociological ... -
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)British biologist and science populariser J. B. S. Haldane was known as a contrarian, whose myriad ideas and beliefs would shift to oppose whomever he chose to argue with. Yet Haldane's support for synthetic food remained ... -
'Your worships, all of you do you think this is true?' A study of pragmatic strategies in the records of the Salem Witch-hunt trials
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)Earlier studies have shown that the successful survival strategy for defendants at Salem was submission and co-operation (Archer 2002:18). The six defendants here studied were accused at an early stage in the process and ... -
“You’ve aged like milk on a radiator”: An investigation of verbal humour on r/RoastMe
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of “roasting” on an internet forum called r/RoastMe. The analysis is based on politeness theory (Brown & Levinson, 1987; Grice, 1975), impoliteness theory (Culpeper, 1996), ... -
Å fjerne eller ikke fjerne?
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Mellom 2015 og 2020 har debatten rundt konføderale symboler vært dagsaktuell i det amerikanske samfunn. Det har vært store protester og folkesamlinger på grunn av uenighet over hva man skal gjøre med statuene. Denne ... -
Å gripe – og begripe – det flyktige. En studie av den sosiale praksisen i Helsesistas Snapchat-kanal.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05)Dette prosjektet retter oppmerksomheten mot et sosialt digitalt tekstlandskap. Tale Marie Krohn Engvik, bedre kjent som Helsesista, flytta i 2016 sitt helsesøsterkontor fra en videregående skole til Snapchat. Tre år senere ... -
Å hoppe eller ikke hoppe. Hvordan Kjerag ble et senter for risikosport.
(Master thesis, 2021)Denne masteroppgaven fokuserer på basehopping på Kjerag i Lysefjorden, og hvordan Kjerag ble et «Mekka» for basehoppere rundt om i hele verden. I sentrum av oppgaven står diskusjonen om et forbud mot basehoppingen i 1996 ... -
Å vera til stades. Ei lesing av Jimmen (2011) av Øyvind Rimbereid
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)Jimmen (2011) av Øyvind Rimbereid er eit dikt der framstillinga av staden tyder mykje for meiningsdanninga. Stavanger på 70-talet er bakteppe for handlinga. Eit todelt lyrisk eg i diktet, køyrekaren og hesten Jimmen køyrer ...