Essays about: "The scope of spoken english"
Found 3 essays containing the words The scope of spoken english.
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1. Losing personality : Exploring with a focus on formal speech how the register of Nakata Satoru in Murakami Haruki’s Umibe no Kafuka is affected when translated into English and Swedish
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : When reading a translated book or a dubbed movie, one might come to wonder if the translation conveys the characters’ personality traits identically to that of the original, and while ‘identical’ may not be achievable, ‘equivalent’ rather may be within the scope of a translator’s capability. Translation between languages as vastly different as Swedish and Japanese, or English and Japanese are bound to face greater difficulties than for example Swedish and English. READ MORE
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2. ‘Neutral, native-like or authentic’ : Investigating attitudes and beliefs of expanding circle speakers of English
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The status of English as the language of international communication is by now well-established. However, in the past 16 years, research has tried to emphasize the fact that the English spoken in international contact situations and between people with other first languages than English has different needs than the English spoken locally amongst native speakers, resulting in the emergence of English as a lingua franca (ELF) as a scholarly field. READ MORE
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3. "It is certain that it can be argued a million times over" - expressions of epistemic modality in L1 and L2 writing
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : This corpus-based study analyzes different types of epistemic markers used in argumentative essays by University students. More specifically it compares Swedish L2 writers and English L1 writers. The scope of the analysis covers epistemic modal verbs, lexical verbs and adverbs. READ MORE
