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  1. 1. Navigating through life with metaphors as a guide. : An analysis about mind style and metaphors in John Green's The Fault In Our Stars and its pedagogical use.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Frithiof Eriksson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Mind style; Metaphor; Reality; EFL Classroom; Upper Secondary School; Motivation.;

    Sammanfattning : This essay offers a literary study of John Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars which was published in 2012. This thesis argues that Hazel and Augustus are portraying unorthodox mind styles, and they are demonstrating this with their use of and stance towards metaphors. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Författare :Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. LÄS MER

  4. 3. And Action! : A Study of the Semantic Domains of Action through Interpretation of Metaphor

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå,

    Författare :Henrik Westerdahl; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Semantic domain; Semantic dimension; Semantic pattern; Metaphor; Body in metaphor;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this essay is determining and describing some of the semantic domains of the concept of action. Action belongs to the type of abstract nouns with unclear semantic domains. In other words, there are difficulties in determining the precise semantic patterns that the word ‘action’ refers to. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Translating Metaphors An Analysis of the Translation of Conceptual Metaphors from English to Swedish in an Academic Text

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Patricia Loggarfve; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Conceptual metaphor; metaphor; metonymy; personification; translation studies; translation theory;

    Sammanfattning : This essay investigates the author’s translation of a non-fiction text about literary theory. The study examines the metaphors found in the original text and how they have been translated from English to Swedish.  The analysis uses Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) description of conceptual metaphors to categorize the metaphors found in the text. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Författare :Christian Gregory; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Cancer; Sick-Lit; Sick-Flicks; Cystic Fibrosis; CF; SCID; YA Literature; YA Films; The Fault in Our Stars; Five Feet Apart; Midnight Sun; Love Story; John Green;

    Sammanfattning : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. LÄS MER