Mastergradsoppgaver språk og kultur: Recent submissions
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Russian emotion nouns and their metaphorical uses
(Master thesis, 2025)The thesis asks the question on how metaphorical constructions are used with prepositions and cases for emotion nouns. A corpus linguistic study has been performed to see what the general metaphorical tendencies exists within the Russian language. The method of this work is using a Corpus (Ruscorpora.ru) as a data collection tool. From the data collected a correspondence analysis was created to ... -
Traversing the Abyss : A Nietzschean Interpretation of Humanity in Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis provides a Nietzchean interpretation of how humanity is portrayed in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is done through drawing on theories of truth, humanity and the Other, and the Burkean sublime, as well as Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and, through this, provides an analysis of how the characters Moon-Watcher and David Bowman/the Star-Child can be understood ... -
En inngående undersøkelse av ubestemte pronomen og adverb i russisk språk.
(Master thesis, 2025)Oppsummering av viktige funn I russisk brukes ubestemte pronomen og adverb på forskjellige måter. Slik som lingvister som f.eks Terje Mathiassen, Terrence Wade eller Alan Timberlake sier, er det forskjellige bruksområder for -то og -нибудь/-либо. Det som er typisk for -нибудь er at den har i utgangspunktet flere bruksområder enn -то, men når det er sagt ser man også bruk av -то i bruk der man ... -
"I need to focus now on the manner of my suicide": Suicidality and Survivability in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Series
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines what the representations of suicidality and survivability in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series (2008-2010), tell us about one of the core elements of the human experience: whether to live or to die. Through examining the factors and situations that determine the characters’ suicidality and survivability, we get a better understanding of why people commit suicide as well ... -
Feminism and Patriarchy in Madeline Miller's Circe and Natalie Haynes' Stone Blind
(Master thesis, 2025)For the past two decades, rewritings of mythology have gained in popularity within literature. Rewritings of Greek myths are especially prevalent, with a common theme among many of them being women’s stories. The main goal of this thesis is to explore the effects of patriarchal social norms on women’s behavior, especially toward each other, in contemporary feminist Greek mythology rewritings. To do ... -
Patterns in Swedish complement clauses
(Master thesis, 2025)The thesis analyzes Swedish complement clauses from the perspective of syntactic theory, focusing on the division into propositions, situations, and events that recent literature proposes as an explanation for several crosslinguistic complementation patterns. The thesis shows, through a survey of different Swedish complement types, that the theory is essentially supported, though some complications ... -
Casas vacías: Madres vacías
(Master thesis, 2025)Esta tesis analiza la novela Casas vacías (2019) de Brenda Navarro desde una perspectiva socioliteraria y feminista, con el objetivo de mostrar cómo la obra desmitifica la maternidad como fuente de identidad y realización personal. A través de las voces de dos mujeres –una madre biológica y otra que secuestra a su hijo– la novela cuestiona los ideales de la “buena madre” y revela cómo las ... -
Análisis de Errores en el uso de los verbos existenciales "ser", "estar" y "hay" en estudiantes con autismo.
(Master thesis, 2025)I denne oppgaven har jeg forsøkt å forstå bedre hvordan er prosessen av å lære de eksistensielle verbene på spansk "ser", "estar" og "hay" i norske elever med autisme. -
Between Heaven and Earth: An analysis of moral ambiguity in interactive fiction through Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
(Master thesis, 2025)Video games present a very distinct form of storytelling; while some games use the elements of interactivity and narrative as auxiliary features to one another, some of the greatest games blend these two facets to make interaction an intrinsic part of the narrative experience. This thesis focuses on how this is achieved through the controversial character Edelgard von Hresvelg in the video game Fire ... -
Evaluación en la asignatura de español
(Master thesis, 2025)Forfatter: Ida Birgitte Wikstrøm, student ved lektorutdanningen i språk og samfunnsfag trinn 8-13, ved Universitetet i Tromsø ___________________________________________________________________________ Problemstilling: Evaluerer vi som spansklærere irrelevante faktorer i vurderingssituasjoner? Hvis dette er tilfelle, er det greit at det skjer? Om ikke, hva kan vi gjøre for å unngå dette – kan ... -
Strange Attractors
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis investigates how chaos theory, as both scientific paradigm and literary metaphor, informs narrative structure, thematic development, and character formation in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Stephen King. Focusing primarily on The Crying of Lot 49 and “Entropy” by Pynchon and The Dark Tower series by King, the study traces the ways in which concepts such as entropy, strange attractors, ... -
Resilience in the Bi-Multilingual Brain
(Master thesis, 2025)Bi-/multilingualism has been suggested to aid cognitive functioning across the lifespan by improving resilience to age-related cognitive decline. It has been argued that multilingual engagement places unique requirements on attentional and inhibitory control processes in the brain, which again could potentially change the structure and functional dynamics of the brain. This thesis aims to explore ... -
Using Poetry to Teach History: E. E. Cummings Makes an Interdisciplinary Return to the English Classroom
(Master thesis, 2025)In this thesis I try to show that using poetry, especially E. E. Cummings’ poetry, to provide interdisciplinary value to classes on historical events, such as the World Wars, is productive. To support this claim I collected data from two groups of participants in lower secondary school. After two sessions, one for each World War, I distributed a questionnaire to gather their opinions on the sessions, ... -
The acquisition of verb placement in main clause and embedded wh-questions by L1 Russian learners of L2 English
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-29)The current study investigates the topic of verb placement in the main clause and embedded wh-questions by L1 Russian learners of L2 English and difficulties with its acquisition. For this purpose, the grammaticality judgement task as well as a force-choice study were conducted. The force-choice task showed variability in the preferred placement of verbs in wh-questions among Russian speakers. The ... -
Echoes of Bilingualism: Socioeconomic and Social Resonance in Cognitive Development. Investigating How Bilingualism, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Language Engagement Interact to Influence Neurocognitive Adaptation and Inhibitory Control Across the Lifespan
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-31)This thesis investigates the interplay between bilingualism, socioeconomic status (SES), and social language engagement, and their impact on neurocognitive adaptation and inhibitory control throughout life. By analyzing data from 169 adults in Northern Norway, it provides new insights into how these factors contribute to cognitive resilience and executive functions. The study's mixed-method approach, ... -
Possessive Constructions and Code-Switching among Speakers of Pakistani English
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-11-12)This study aims to investigate the preferred possessive agreement forms among Pakistani English speakers in code switched mode, examining whether preferences align with the Matrix Language (ML) or Embedded Language (EL) of the possessor or possessum. It also investigates the relationship between reaction time and agreement patterns in ML vs. EL contexts, alongside the influence of extralinguistic ... -
“Lonjit gal fertejit, geampa han galgá” Beaskaduddjoma proseassaid speadjalastin tearpmain ja doahpagiin Guovdageainnu suopmana mielde
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-01)Čoahkkáigeassu Dán masterbarggu fáddá lea duodjefágagiella. Lean válljen beaskaduoji ja guorahalan dán čállosis beaskaterminologiija. Beaskaduoji tearpmat ja doahpagat eai leat ođđa fuomášumit. Dat leat oassin sámi árbevirolaš máhtus ja leat áiggiid čađa gaskkustuvvon juogo praktihkalaš bargguid bokte, njálmmálaččat dahje čálalaččat. Dán masterbarggu oktavuođas lean válljen 75 tearpma maid ... -
Exploring Code Switching as a Strategy for Euphemism: A study of Bilingual Undergraduate of Pashto and English in Degree college Wari, Dir Upper
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-09-20)This research explores the motivations behind code-switching behavior, particularly focusing on its occurrence within the context of group discussions among English undergraduate students. Twenty participants, consisting of seven females and thirteen males, were observed during group discussions and subsequently interviewed individually to elucidate the reasons underlying their code-switching ... -
Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-31)The present study examins how adults who speak Turkish as their first language and English as their second language acquire possessive pronouns in Norwegian as their third language, focusing on cross-linguistic influence. The study uses a combination of methods including a language history questionnaire, Norwegian and English proficiency tests, and an acceptability judgement task, while testing the ... -
The Acquisition of Aspect in L2 English by Greek speakers: A Feature Reassembly Approach
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-14)Abstract Aims and objectives: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate factors influencing the acquisition of aspect, the internal temporal conceptualization of events in predicates, in second language acquisition. The main objective is to examine which and to what extent the following linguistic components influence the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis; the learners’ age thus their linguistic ...