Essays about: "Engelska"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1444 essays containing the word Engelska.

  1. 1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Grain Size Analysis of Late Pleistocene Loess Deposits, Jersey

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Joakim Edlund; [2022]
    Keywords : Jersey; loess; grain size; ice age; past climate; Jersey; löss; kornstorlek; istid; forntida klimat;

    Abstract : As the world faces the effects of rapid climate change it is essential that we understand how the Earth’s climate has evolved in recent geological history. The island of Jersey harbours loess deposits which hold clues to recent climate change which have not been extensively studied. READ MORE

  4. 3. Teaching English in Sweden : A Look at the Rhetoric in the Federalist Papers

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Gustav Wetterlind; [2022]
    Keywords : Federalist Papers; Rhetoric; Swedish Curriculum; Ethos; Pathos;

    Abstract : This essay examines the possibility to use the Federalist Papers as authentic classroom material for English 7 within Sweden’s upper secondary school. To do this, three close readings have been done of the first, tenth and fifty-first essay amongst the Federalist Papers. READ MORE

  5. 4. Hey guys, there’s this guy I want you guys to meet, whose name is Guy, and he’s not one of the bad guys, no, he’s a good guy! A corpus study of vocative and referential uses of guys and guy in spoken English

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jenny Kristoffersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 5. Government and Power in Young Adult Dystopias

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Persson; [2022]
    Keywords : literature; young adult literature; YA; dystopian fiction; dystopia; dystopias; dystopian literature; politics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Dystopian fiction first appeared as a literary genre in the 1870s and has since been known to conduct social criticism of the real world in a futuristic, fictive form. As it has evolved during the 20th century it has grown into a widely researched topic. READ MORE