Search for dissertations about: "20th-century English"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words 20th-century English.
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1. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction
Abstract : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. READ MORE
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2. The Language of English Newspaper Editorials from a 20th-Century Perspective
Abstract : This work is a corpus-based study of the language of English up-market ("quality") newspaper editorials, covering the period 1900-1993. CENE, the Corpus of English Newspaper Editorials, was compiled for the purposes of this study and comprises editorials from the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Times chosen to represent periods at ten-year intervals. READ MORE
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3. Contraction in British newspapers in the late 20th century
Abstract : This investigation of verb contractions (e.g.I'm and it's) and NOT-contractions (don't and haven't) uses two samples of British newspaper text from 1994 and 1961. The 1994 material, compiled for this study, is carefully matched to the press categories of the well-known LOB corpus of written British English. READ MORE
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4. The Language of English Newspaper Editorials From 20th Century Perspective
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5. The language of English newspaper editorials from a 20th-century perspective
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