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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Literature in its original language"”.
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
This dissertation investigates the relationship between onset pitch height and topic/paragraph initiality. A review of the literature shows that initiality is usually signalled by high onset pitch. This study uses naturally occurring spoken data taken from the Spoken English Corpus, which is a …
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THRELFALL’S BOULDER: An investigation into the relationship between accent, dialect and identity.
In this thesis I have assessed the links between accent, dialect and identity, positing the conceit that ‘we wear our cultural identity on our tongues’. I assess and demonstrate how language (dialect) and intonation (accent) can be indicative of an identity. This thesis is presented in two parts: …
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To Be or Not to Be: On the Ontology and Morality of Metafictional Characters in The Dirge City Story
… this knowledge and how his newfound understanding affects the choices he makes. The story is set in the mind of the author; it examines the relationship between protagonists, antagonists and conflict in story-creation, and attempts to subvert stereotypes within the fantasy genre and comment on …
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The comparison of the effectiveness of the Observe Hypothesise Experiment and the Presentation Practice Production models on teaching procedural language of circumlocution and stalling devices to upper intermediate EFL students
The study presented in this thesis compared the effectiveness of two teaching frameworks: Presentation Practice Production (PPP) and Observe Hypothesise Experiment (OHE). The investigation was conducted in the context of teaching formulaic sequences with pragmatic functions, in this case procedural …
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Textual Space and Metafiction in Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves
… thesis presents an argument that through employing metafictional techniques, experimentation with textual and graphic space and allusions to hypertextual devices, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves seeks to remind the reader of the presence of the book in print fiction. Danielewski dispenses …
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Fracturing Histories: Understanding the writing of Narratives in a Visual Culture through Don DeLillo's Fiction
The experience of film has acquired a kind of independent existence in our consciousness, it's that deeply embedded... Film creates a dreaming space all of us occupy. (Don DeLillo, The Word, the Image and the Gun: BBC Omnibus, 27/09/1991). The novelistic works of Don DeLillo repeatedly examine …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… the hyphen presents many different issues. For Chinese-Americans, what part of a person is Chinese, and what part American? Maxine Hong Kingston raises these ideas in her novel The Woman Warrior, where on one hand her protagonist embraces her Chinese heritage, and refers to herself as a "Chinese …
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Transnational Space and the Discourse of Multiculturalism: Contemporary Canadian Fiction
This thesis engages in a study of the construction of identity as “process” in four contemporary English-Canadian novels. The novels under discussion are: Cereus Blooms at Night, by Shani Mootoo; Life of Pi, by Yann Martell; Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels; and Childhood, by Andre Alexis. It …
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Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films
… ran for twenty years from 1958-1978. Twenty-nine films were made and at the height of their popularity in the 1960s two films a year were being produced to capitalise on the success of the series. Film after film utilised the same comedic formula often with the same actors playing the same …
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A study into the effectiveness of pushed/non-pushed spoken output tasks focussing on upper intermediate students in the EFL classroom
The study reported upon in this thesis investigated the effectiveness of pushed and non-pushed speaking tasks in a UK university setting with 21 upper-intermediate students of English. Specifically, the study addressed a) if a pushed speaking task produced more language related episodes (LREs) than …