Browsing Student papers (HF-IKS) by Author "Traxel, Oliver Martin"
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Audiovisual Translation of Puns and Cultural References in the First Season of the TV Series ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Waloszek, Barbara (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-05-11)This master thesis investigates a topic from the field of audiovisual translation. The research is focused on the subtitling of puns and cultural references in the American TV series ‘How I Met Your Mother’. It aims to ... -
Code-Switching in Historical TV-Series: A Comparison Between Outlander (2014-) and Vikings (2013-2020)
Madsen, Malin Ertenstein (Bachelor thesis, 2021)This thesis is a study on code-switching in historical TV-series by comparing its use in Outlander (2014-) and Vikings (2013-2020). It focuses on how code-switching is presented, how it is affected by social factors like ... -
Code‐Switching in Fantasy Films: The Use of Constructed languages in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies
Kolnes, Sebastian Rob (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Code-switching into a constructed language is quickly becoming a staple of fantasy and science-fiction movies and TV-Series. This thesis examines instances of code-switching in The Lord of the Rings and The hobbit to ... -
English-Speaking Vikings: Scandinavian Accents
Tirasin, Kagan Daniel (Bachelor thesis, 2021) -
From industry to conversation: Code-switching among native Norwegian oil industry workers
Salvesen, Pål (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-11-16)The following thesis displays research on code-switching within the oil- and gas industry based out of Rogaland county in Norway. The thesis’ objective was to discover (1) where code-switching occurred in the workplace, ... -
From Pitch to Commentary Gantry: Investigating Syntactic Features in High-Pressure Events in the Sports Announcer Talk (SAT) of Football Commentators.
Kjelvik, Erik Hjorth (Master thesis, 2023)This MA thesis investigates the various syntactic elements in the register of football commentators to determine the presence of prevailing notions of temporal pressure. More precisely, the register of football commentators ... -
"Hello [Streamer] PogChamp": The Language Variety on Twitch
Hope, Henrik (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-04)The present text is a research into the language usage in Computer-Mediated Communication, specifically on the online streaming platform Twitch.tv. The study will discuss Twitch’s language variety with a focus on Twitch ... -
Hyper-reading headlines: How social media as a news-platform can affect the process of news reading
Waage, Henrik Søyland (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-05)People read differently on digital platform than on print, which can affect the way they interpret and understand what is being read. When reading digitally many people hyper-read, meaning that they skim the material in ... -
“Jeg holdt på å si express yourself”: A study of social factors that motivate young adults in Norway to use English code-switching
Iversen, Mathilde Helene Valberg (Master thesis, 2023)This thesis is a study of the social factors that influence young adults in Norway to code-switch between the Norwegian language and the English language. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches, with ... -
Selected Metadiscourse Markers in Academic Writing: Exploring the Distribution in the BAWE Corpus
Roka, Sanjay (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08)The study of metadiscourse markers is central to this thesis, based on the insights and framework embraced by Hyland who is a pioneer in this discipline. Metadiscourse is understood as an approach in which a writer or a ... -
The prevalence of prescriptivism and pedantry: A mixed method study of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes’ predominance in two British newspapers
Mikelsen, Kine Luna (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of the prevalence of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes in the Guardian and the Telegraph articles about linguistics between 2000 and 2019. The main inspiration ...