Sökning: "Foregrounding in literature"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden Foregrounding in literature.

  1. 1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Nyckelord :novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Sammanfattning : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Kundservice och kontroll - en studie över vad införandet av kundperspektiv har inneburit för det dagliga arbetet hos en indrivande myndighet

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Författare :Daniel Gustafsson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Tax Agency; Performance measurement; Culture; New public management; Consumer;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to discuss how the maintenance of a consumer perspective affects the day-to-day work, including the performance measurement and recruiting process, in a public revenue collecting authority. The study is a qualitative single-case study that has been performed through interviews with ten different employees at the Swedish Tax Agency (STA). LÄS MER

  4. 3. An Analysis of Selected Linguistic Strategies Used to Evoke Moral Judgments, Emotions and Attitudes with the Audience of 300.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Emil Ahnstedt; [2014-02-06]
    Nyckelord :engelska; 300; graphic novel; film adaptation; rhetoric; Matched Guise Test; ociolinguistics; Rhetorical Framework Processing; foregrounding;

    Sammanfattning : Literature has the power to influence its audience to establish different attitudes towards its characters and elements. This study examines the linguistic strategies that are employed in doing so. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Figure in the Ground - Perception, Identity and Readerly Involvement in four Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Lisa Larsson; [2007]
    Nyckelord :Elizabeth Bowen; Identity in literature; Perception in literature; Foregrounding in literature; Cognitive Poetics; Narratology; Reader-response; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Using tools and ideas from narratology, reader-response theory and cognitive poetics, and focusing on the representation of perception, this essay studies identity in four short stories by Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover", "The Inherited Clock", "Dead Mabelle" and "Foothold". The supernatural or uncanny element in the stories is seen as part of a defamiliarizing strategy, one which invites and even induces an active reading. LÄS MER