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Deutschmann, Mats. "Apologising in British English." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Modern Languages, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43.

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<p>The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. More than 3000 examples of apologising are included in the analysis.</p><p>Primarily, the form and function of the apologies are examined in relation to the type of offence leading up to the speech act. Aspects such as the sincerity of the apo

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Lopez, John-David. "The British Romantic reconstruction of Spain." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1692097271&sid=19&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.<br>Vita. Individual works cited are included for each chapter and are noted in the table of contents. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Lenart, Jessica. "American or British English? : Attitudes towards English dialects among Swedish pupils." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-22529.

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The two major varieties of English are American and British English. In Swedish compulsory school both varieties are taught. This essay examines the preferences and attitudes of pupils in 9th grades towards the two varieties, and if there are any gender differences. Previous research has shown that pupils are becoming more and more positive towards American English than they have been in earlier studies. This essay is based on a quantitative study carried out through questionnaires handed-out to 84 9th graders. The results show that the pupils prefer American English in speaking and for educat

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Williamsson, Joy. "How Brits Swear : The use of swearwords in modern British English." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-9164.

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Snider, Caleb. "Almost an Englishman: Black and British Identities in Three Contemporary British Novels." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28830.

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This project describes the work of three contemporary British novelists as they explore the possibility of self-identifying as black and British in contemporary Britain, despite the prevalence of racist attitudes that hold that these two identities are mutually exclusive. The three novels examined -- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and Brick Lane by Monica Ali -- present black protagonists who self-identify as British. While other characters in the novels either conform to assimilationist or diasporic models of identity, where the subject seeks to expunge

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Ashcheulova, T. V. "Intralingual translation of British and American English." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67318.

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Intralingual translation or rewording is an interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs of the same language. The intralingual translation of a word demands a kind of synonymous word for circumlocution. R. Jakobson was one of the first linguists who singled out three forms of translation one of which was intralingual translation. He points out how difficult it is to come up to complete equivalency because the affected codes make certain difficulty in the translation. Even in rewording it is necessary to use combination of code units to interpret the meaning.

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Чекотун, H. В., and О. М. Михальчук. "Linguistic Aspects of American and British English." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/46643.

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The theme of our investigation is linguistic aspects of American and British English. British English is considered to be he classical, exemplary variant. It has the status of the national standard of pronunciation in the United Kingdom. BBC adopted RP for the use by its news-readers since 1920. But “the circle of native speakers is extremely narrow – only 3-5% of the Earth’s population”. General American has wider level of usage – approximately 33%. It comprises the majority of American accents from Ohio and to the Pacific coast. Some scholars consider this variant of English to be stan

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Sohl, Gabriella. "Cuisine Linguistics of British and American English : Are the culinary vocabularies of British and American English converging or diverging?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19464.

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This study is intended to unveil whether the culinary vocabulary of British English and American English are likely to converge or diverge in the future, as a way of contributing to understanding the evolution of the English language and its varieties. The topic itself was founded in travels to America which were paired with nearly fifteen years of interaction with British English, leading to understanding that some (food) words come to have different meanings even in similar languages, and possibly also within the same language. Understanding this led to the thesis question: Are the culinary

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Ḥajarī, Hilāl. "Oman through British eyes : British travel writing on Oman from 1800 to 1970." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2662/.

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This thesis focuses on the images of Oman in British travel writing from 1800 to 1970. In texts that vary from travel accounts to sailors’ memoirs, complete travelogues, autobiographies, and letters, it looks at British representations of Oman as a place, people, and culture. It argues that these writings are heterogeneous and discontinuous throughout the periods under consideration. Offering diverse voices from British travellers, this thesis challenges Edward Said’s project in Orientalism (1978) which looks to Western discourse on the Middle East homogenisingly as Eurocentric and hostile. Ch

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Huffels, Natalie. "The British trauma novel, 1791-1860." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114340.

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This dissertation argues that the British trauma novel emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century, in response to the rise of individualistic conceptions of personal integrity and to the increasing value given to ordinary human life. Moments of intense suffering began at this point to register as shocking and traumatic violations of the boundaries of identity, and early- to mid-nineteenth-century trauma novels explore this cultural opposition between suffering and individuation. In such novels, individual boundaries are frequently imagined in architectural terms, while trauma is cast as a s

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Siu, Pui-kwan Rosanna. "Comparing British and American English in the media /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161483.

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Richards, Donna Jean. "Prestige and standard in Canadian English : Prestige and standard in Canadian English :." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29172.

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A survey of the use of standard and prestige in general descriptions of English, and of Canadian English in particular, reveals terminological confusion caused by the similarity of the two concepts and by cultural differences among the national dialects being discussed. This work argues, however, that these concepts can and should be distinguished. Once working definitions for both terms are formulated, they are tested against data from the Survey of Vancouver English. Vancouver English reveals little or no evidence of prestige, defined as "that variety (or those forms) used by the highest soc

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Wilson, Sara Curnow. "Unnaturalism: British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/448805.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>My dissertation explores a turn in British literature back toward naturalism in the late modernist period, a literary move I call unnaturalism to refer to the way it resembles but deviates from the classic naturalist tradition of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In the 1930s, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, and George Orwell separately play with the form that can best merge literature and politics. The resulting novels—The Years (1937), Murphy (1938), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Coming Up for Air (1939)—might not all look like naturalism,

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Siu, Pui-kwan Rosanna, and 蕭佩君. "Comparing British and American English in the media." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B21161483.

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Rampton, Michael Benjamin Helyer. "Uses of English in a multilingual British peergroup." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019219/.

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This research is innovative in its intensive focus on a multilingual peergroup in Britain. It studies a group of twenty-three boys of Indian, Pakistani, Afro-caribbean and Anglo parentage by means of interviews, questionnaires, participant-observation and radio-microphone recording. It addresses two main issues. The first issue situates the study within quantitative sociolinguistics. Following Le Page, the research asks: how is it possible to examine the social distribution of speech variants given the flexibility and mutability of group affiliation? Two empirical approaches are recommended: n

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Buchstaller, Isabelle. "The sociolinguistic constraints on the quotative system : British English and US English compared." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30382.

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The recent advent and rapid spread of two new vernacular options, <i>go</i> and <i>like, </i>within the (say) variable has attracted a growing body of research in variationist sociolinguists. This thesis examines the synchronic functions of these new quotatives and considers pragmatic, discourse, and social factors. The investigation is based on an analysis of very large corpora of spontaneous spoken British and American English. This cross-variety comparison gives me the opportunity (i) to investigate a case of rapid language change that is happening concurrently with the time of research and

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Ehret, Katharina Luisa. "Analyticity and syntheticity in East African English and British English a register comparison /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-opus-58047.

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Lewis, Lucy Catherine. "British Boethianism 1380-1436." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325659.

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Östlund, Fredrik. "British vs American English : Pronunciation in the EFL Classroom." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31.

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<p>Today English is a world language; it is spoken by millions both as first and second language almost all over the world. The varieties best known to Swedish pupils are the varieties British and American English. Another variety of English, which is spoken by both native and non-native speakers, is a mixture of British English and American English called Mid-Atlantic English. As long as the English language has been a part of the Swedish curriculum, the leading variety taught has been British English, but lately American English has influenced Swedish teenagers because of its prominent statu

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Krzakowski, Caroline. "Aftermath: Foreign Relations and the Postwar British novel." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106245.

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In the aftermath of the Second World War, British writers engaged with the reconfiguration of national identity that resulted from the dissolution of the empire. In many regards, the postwar British novel performs the work of diplomacy. While colonial power held together global networks before the war, an emerging discourse of internationalism urged cooperation after the war. Rebecca West's travelogue about Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, as well as her reportage on the Nuremberg Trials, laid the groundwork for her incomplete tetralogy, Cousin Rosamund: A Saga of the Century. In both h

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Hoyle, Brian. "British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice." Thesis, University of Hull, 2006. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5698.

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This thesis shall largely concern itself with examining two general aspects of British art cinema between 1975 and 2000; namely, how the British art cinema operates as an art cinema in the context of its 1960s and 1970s European counterparts54 and how the individual filmmaking practices of these British directors both conform to and deviate from classic definitions of art cinema. In this way, this thesis shall demonstrate the ways in which British art cinema can be characterised not only as a belated continuation of classic European art cinema but also a significant development from it. Theref

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Johansson, Caroline. "Received Pronunciation, Estuary English and Cockney English: A Phonologic and Sociolinguistic Comparison of Three British English Accents." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31481.

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Canpolat, Seda. "Hybridity in British Muslim women's writing." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/29994/.

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A key paradigm in postcolonial studies, Homi Bhabha’s notion of cultural hybridity has become the dominant model for understanding migrant identity formation. However, its assumed universality and widespread currency are problematic because this concept is not equally applicable or relevant to all migrants. This dissertation focuses on the representation of cultural hybridity in contemporary British Muslim women’s writing, which is well-suited to pointing out the limitations and biases of Bhabha’s celebratory concept of hybridity. Because of its mostly religious, dark-skinned, female and worki

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Travis, Madelyn Judith. "Almost English : Jews and Jewishness in British children's literature." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2231.

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This thesis examines constructions of Jews and Jewishness in British children’s literature from the eighteenth century to the present. It demonstrates that this literature has often sought to determine the place of Jews in Britain, and that this endeavour is linked to attempts to define the English sense of self. This discourse is often politicised, with representations influenced as much by current events and political movements as by educational objectives. The main focus of the thesis is on works published from World War II through 2010, with Chapter One providing a historical context for t

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Mapson, Rachel Patricia. "Interpreting linguistic politeness from British Sign Language to English." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687685.

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This thesis explores the way im/politeness is interpreted from British Sign Language into spoken English. This aspect of interpreting may significantly impact on the dynamics of interpreted interactions, due to differences in the way im/politeness is both produced and received in the varied situations in which interpreters work. The study draws on rapport management theory (Spencer-Oatey 2005, 2008) and the concept of social networks (Watts 2003) to frame the complex and multiple considerations involved. Qualitative data were generated through a series of semi-structured group discussions cent

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Ruthnum, Naben. "Haunted artworks: Oscar Wilde and the British ghost story." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104856.

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This thesis explores Oscar Wilde's influence on the British ghost story at the fin-de-siècle and the early years of the twentieth century. Arguing that Wilde's influence is reflected in the frequently occuring topos of haunted artworks in supernatural fiction, the thesis begins by establishing the significance of the Wildean haunted artwork in relation to Wilde-as-cultural-figure, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Decadence, and the public conception of the male homosexual that would emerge in the wake of the Wilde trials. The succeeding chapters of the thesis examine the manner in which haunted art

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Pearce, Jennifer. "Life in transit : travel narratives of the British governess." Thesis, University of Hull, 2013. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:10122.

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Life in Transit: Travel Narratives of the British Governess argues that on entering the profession of governessing, women embarked on a new, more mobile existence of travel and relocation on a local and global scale. At a time when gentlewomen rarely travelled far without a chaperone, governesses left home and travelled unaccompanied across counties, countries and even continents for the purpose of work. Some relocated to wealthy households in Britain, some toured with families on the Continent, and others voyaged out to the colonies to work for expatriates or members of the Eastern aristocrac

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Prescott, Holly. "Rethinking urban space in contemporary British writing." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3011/.

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Rethinking Urban Space in Contemporary British Writing argues that the prose literature of its featured authors offers a unique forum through which to perceive and account for the multifarious agency of urban space. Chapter one examines the limitations of using the Marxist spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre, widely adopted by literary scholars, to account for the widespread appearance of abandoned, subterranean and transient spaces in contemporary British writing. The thesis then develops new ways of reading which, unlike Lefebvrean theory, allow such spaces to emerge as affective and narrative

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Algouzi, S. "Discourse markers in Saudi English and British English : a comparative investigation of the use of English discourse markers." Thesis, University of Salford, 2015. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/34008/.

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Based on two corpora, one of Saudi learners and the other of native English speakers, this thesis investigates qualitatively and quantitatively the use of English discourse markers in the speech of advanced Saudi learners of English in the third and fourth years of undergraduate study of English and compares it to the use of discourse markers by native speakers of English. Three of the most frequently occurring discourse markers in the spoken language, namely so, you know and like, are analysed. Qualitatively, the results from the Saudi learners’ corpus show that the three discourse markers un

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Valman, Nadia Deborah. "Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1996. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1564.

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This thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious or racial difference in the Victorian period. The study situates literary representations of Jews

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Hansson, Emma. "Awareness of Grammatical Differences between British and American English among Young Swedes." Thesis, Halmstad University, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-4970.

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<p><strong>Background and aim: </strong>According to the most recent curriculum for the Swedish upper secondary school1, the students should be able to differentiate between British and American English. Furthermore, they should be able to keep to one of the varieties, as this is a prerequisite of writing correct texts in English. In the present thesis, young Swedes’ awareness of grammatical differences between British and American standard English and which variety they use are investigated. The investigation is conducted by means of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was composed of three pa

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Wozniak, Heather Anne. "Brilliant gloom the contradictions of British gothic drama, 1768-1823 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1692743101&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Franco, Chelsea E. "The (Wo)Man in the Masque: Cross-Dressing as Disguise in Early Modern English Literature." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1780.

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Characters’ identities are integral to how audiences relate to them. But what happens when the character suddenly alters his or her outward appearance? Are they still the same person? This thesis seeks to argue that disguise does not alter a character’s true nature, as evidenced by Pyrocles in Sir Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia and the Prince in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure. Both Pyrocles’ suit of Philoclea and the Prince’s suit of Lady Happy are successful because, however subversive they appear at first, they ultimately adhere to societal norms of the time

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Lawrence, Helen Rachel. "Aspects of English : an examination of aspect within past temporal reference in northern British English." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341495.

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Doyle, Brian Anthony. "English and Englishness : a cultural history of English studies in British higher education, 1880-1980." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 1986. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8539/.

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It is argued in this thesis that, contrary to much previous work on the subject, the history of English Studies in higher education is not best understood in terms of the emergence of a mature form of academic activity which has since continued to develop through time on the basis of the unity of its object (lq`English literature') and of its mode of study (lq`literary criticism'). Instead, this history examines the conditions which allowed the initial emergence, specification and delimitation of the new academic discipline of `English Language and Literature', and the sequence of subsequent i

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Clarke, Christopher. "Tracing the ethical dimension of postwar British experimental fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/380677/.

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This thesis examines the treatment of failure in the experimental fiction of Alan Burns, Eva Figes, B. S. Johnson and Ann Quin in order to reconsider their work’s faltering relationship to postwar British culture. The thesis reassesses the significance of failure in these authors’s experimental fiction by drawing on Ewa Ziarek’s analysis of the affiliation between modernism’s aesthetics of failure and the deconstruction of scepticism. Following Ziarek, it reads failure in the experimental texts of Burns, Figes, Johnson and Quin through the lenses of the philosophical revision of scepticism and

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Caines, Andrew Paul. "You talking to me? : zero auxiliary constructions in British English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609153.

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Girishkumar, Divya. "Diaspora and multiculturalism : British South Asian women's writing." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73381/.

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This thesis analyses how the British South Asian diaspora is conceptualized, understood and reflected in a selection of female-authored literary texts which engage with the multicultural policies of the British state from the 1950s to the present. The primary sources include Attia Hosain’s Phoenix Fled (1953) and Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), Kamala Markandaya’s Possession (1963) and The Nowhere Man (1972), Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman (1987), Meera Syal’s Anita and Me (1996), Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf: Muslim Woman seeks the

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McKenna, Edoardo. "British Latin in the sub-Roman period : the possibility of direct language contact between British Latin and Old English." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=235945.

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The present study endeavours to explore the possible survival of British Latin in subRoman Britain. Through a detailed socio-historical analysis it argues that Roman Britain was much more deeply Latinised than hitherto assumed; widespread bilingualism with Latin, and in some cases outright monolingualism in Rome's language, is shown to have extended beyond the army, the upper classes and the cities, and to have in fact become common also in rural districts at least from the 3rd century onwards. To this end, deeply-entrenched beliefs on the nature of British Latin are discussed and dispelled th

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Auger, Peter. "British responses to Du Bartas' Semaines, 1584-1641." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:be0f89c2-c2e4-482d-ac8f-e867985ff72e.

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The reception of the Huguenot poet Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas' Semaines (1578, 1584 et seq.) is an important episode in early modern literary history for understanding relations between Scottish, English and French literature, interactions between contemporary reading and writing practices, and developments in divine poetry. This thesis surveys translations (Part I), allusions and quotations in prose (Part II) and verse imitations (Part III) from the period when English translations of the Semaines were being printed in order to identify historical trends in how readers absorbed and adapte

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Thörnstrand, Åsa. "British or American English? : A survey of some upper secondary schools." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1744.

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<p>The aim of this paper is to find out what variety of English pupils in upper secondary schools are using, British English or American English, but also to see if there are any difference between boys and girls and if they are aware of their usage. British English used to be the only variety allowed in school, but now other varieties are taught as well and American English is gaining ground in Swedish schools. According to the curriculum, it is a part of the subject of English in upper secondary schools to study the different varieties and be aware of them. This study took place in Swedish u

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Golmann, Malcolm. "Investigating British and American English : Dictionary research and corpus investigation." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8701.

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<p>The aim of this Magister Degree Project has been to investigate if can corpora be used to investigate patterns of lexical distribution and/or borrowing from one variety to another. Another aim has been to investigate how well classification of lexical items as either “British” or “American” supported by evidence from corpora of English.</p><p>In order to accomplish these aims sets of lexical items have been examined in two ways: first through dictionary research and “dictionary dating”, and second through the use of such English corpora as the British National Corpus (BNC), the United Kingd

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Hatipoglu, Ciler. "Culture, gender and politeness : apologies in Turkish and British English." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274746.

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Carter, Paul Graham. "Structured variation in British English liquids : the role of resonance." Thesis, University of York, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14164/.

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Atechi, Samuel Ngwa. "The intelligibility of native and non-native English speech: A comparative analysis of Cameroon English and American and British English." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200400880.

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The purpose of this work is to measure the degree of intelligibility of native and non-native English speech as well as analyse the major sources of intelligibility failure when speakers of these varieties of English interact. British and American English (henceforth BrE and AmE) and Cameroon English (hereafter CamE) are used as a case study with focus on segmental and supra segmental features. The study was motivated by a number of concerns, several of which are more prominent: First, it was motivated by the trepidation scholars like Gimson (1965, 1980); Prator (1968); etc. nursed that the un

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Jones, Philip. "Rewriting the Atlantic archipelago : modern British poetry at the coast." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51877/.

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Despite a so-called ‘oceanic turn’, there has been relatively little attention paid to literary representations of the shoreline as a specific material and cultural site. This thesis examines how modern British poets respond to and represent the coastline in their work, with particular emphasis on notions of place and geographic scale. Whilst looking at the use of the archipelago in recent cultural and literary studies of British and Irish writing, this thesis argues for a more refined and complex sense of the archipelagic, one which responds to the needs and demands of an increasingly global

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Pruitt, John. "British drama museums : history, heritage, and nation in collections of dramatic literature, 1647-1814 /." View abstract, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3203336.

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Green, Helen. "Middlebrow mystics : Henri Bergson and British culture, 1899-1939." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2015. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/27319/.

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This thesis explores the influence of Henri Bergson’s philosophy on middlebrow literature between 1899 and 1939. In doing so it engages with the work of Joseph Conrad, Algernon Blackwood and John Buchan as well as critics John Mullarkey, Suzanne Guerlac, Michael Vaughan and Michael Kolkman who, over the past three decades, have instigated a significant interdisciplinary revival and reassessment of Bergson’s work. Specifically, this study builds on, yet also extends, the work of literary critics like Paul Douglass, Hillary Fink, Mary Ann Gillies and S.E. Gontarski who since the 1990s have produ

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Lai, Chun-yue Eric, and 黎振宇. "Reading Hitler: British newspapers' representation of Nazism, 1930-39." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38628673.

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Alftberg, Ann-Kristin. "British or American English? : attitudes, awareness and usage among pupils in a secondary school." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-5545.

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<p>The aim of this study is to find out which variety of English pupils in secondary school use, British or American English, if they are aware of their usage, and if there are differences between girls and boys. British English is normally the variety taught in school, but influences of American English due to exposure of different media are strong and have consequently a great impact on Swedish pupils. This study took place in a secondary school, and 33 pupils in grade 9 participated in the investigation. They filled in a questionnaire which investigated vocabulary, attitudes and awareness,

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