Sökning: "British humour"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden British humour.

  1. 1. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Fredrik Zadig; [2023]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Why always us? : A single case study on Fan perception in relation to the Manchester City FC Financial Fair Play allegations case based on social identity theory

    Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University

    Författare :Patrik Johansson; David Covarrubias Gillin; Anton Norberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Manchester City FC; Fan Perception; Social identity; Social identity Threat and Coping strategies;

    Sammanfattning : Background: The football industry is a giant economic driver in the world with the English Premier League being the one with the largest following worldwide. Recently, the Premier League club Manchester City FC got charged with over 100 breaches of the leagues financial fair play rules invoking discussion and reactions among fans. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Stereotypes in British Comedy : An Analysis of Open All Hours and The Good Life

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad

    Författare :AINTZANE BELAMENDIA; [2022]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this work is to analyse how the comic effect is constructed from a series ofstereotypes that characterize the British sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s. It is based on thewriter´s hypothesis that British television situation comedy in the second half of the twentiethcentury depended heavily on depicting mythical stereotypical characters in British society andconfronting these with aspects of modernity, especially in relation to the relaxation of sexualmores and the erosion of class distinction. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Coronavirus and the use of Twitter amongst journalists: A mixed-method analysis

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/JMG - Inst f journalistik och masskomm

    Författare :Declan McCann; [2020-10-12]
    Nyckelord :Coronavirus; Twitter;

    Sammanfattning : The coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous impact on humanity and news media has become dominated by coverage of the virus. This thesis examines the ways in which journalists have used Twitter during this time. Focus was placed on the journalistic roles that the journalists performed on Twitter. LÄS MER

  7. 5. ACROSS THE POND AND BEYOND. A UK/US comparison of game localisation and literary translation from Japanese works

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

    Författare :Theo Gillberg; [2017-08-01]
    Nyckelord :japanska; Japanese; video games; localisation; foreignisation; domestication; translation studies; humour; names; role language;

    Sammanfattning : Critics of Venuti‘s foreignisation/domestication concept tend to focus on his vague definitions of key terms or the limited viability of implementing his ideas in practice. However, few question the premise of his perspective, i.e. linking domesticating translation practices to both linguistic and cultural dominance. LÄS MER