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- Andersson Hval, Ulrika, 1974-
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The Superhero and the Tiger Mom : Examining the Relation Between Parental Expectations and Career Choices in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero
- 2021
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Ingår i: Engaging with Work in English Studies. - Cham : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783030697198 - 9783030697204 ; , s. 127-150
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through the example of Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero (2014), this chapter interrogates the cultural clashes emerging from the discrepancy between individualist and collectivist views of work in relation to family and society. While classic superhero narratives can be understood as manifestations of individualism, this narrative presents a young hero who is pushed into the role by an overzealous mother, reminiscent of the Tiger Mother-figure of Amy Chua’s controversial autobiography (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Penguin, 2011). Applying theories from social psychology to the analysis, it is shown that the idea of the independent self, in which work is a mark of adult autonomy, is posited against an idea of the self as interdependent and associated with collectivist ideals that link work with family and prioritize filial piety.
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- Jahlmar, Joakim
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“Give the devil his due” : Freedom, Damnation, and Milton’s Paradise Lost in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman:Season of Mists
- 2015
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Ingår i: Partial Answers. - : Project Muse. - 1565-3668 .- 1936-9247. ; 13:2, s. 267-286
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In their collection Milton in Popular Culture (2006), Laura Lungers Knoppers and Gregory M. Colón Semenza have established the importance of Miltonic intertextuality in popular culture, while recognizing the importance of William Blake to the field. Blake’s definition of Milton as “a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it” in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) lies at the centre of a main concern of Milton criticism since the poem’s original publication. The debate between Satanists and anti-Satanists goes back even further than Blake and the Romantics, and this central ambivalence is representative of the “discontinuities” and “irresolvable complexities” which Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer (2012) argue are the focus of interest of the New Milton Criticism.Following this strand of critical thought, this article proposes to show how the introduction of Miltonic intertext into Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, in issues 21–28, serves to structure the series’ theme of change and death — which involve questions of freedom and teleology, free will and damnation — through a critical dialogue with, and creative rewriting of Miltonic theodicy in the epic poem. Gaiman draws upon the ambivalent theological dimensions of Paradise Lost not to present his own concept of good and evil but rather to discuss the freedom to change and the damnation inherent in the inability to change as part of the human condition.
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- Jeong, Hyeseung, Senior Lecturer, 1969-
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Phonology as a tool for Global Englishes language teacher education : A Practical Resource Book
- 2021
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Ingår i: Language Teacher Education for Global Englishes. - : Routledge. - 9781003082712 - 9780367536411 ; , s. 248-255
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The native speaker (NS) norm, which promotes NS competence as the goal of language learning, is not congruent with Global Englishes Language Teaching. The purpose of English phonology courses in many teacher education programs is thus to “fix” teacher candidates’ accents to become nativelike and consequently enable them to teach American and British accents to their own learners. The curriculum has been developed for students in three teacher education programmes at a Swedish university to help them, and subsequently help their learners to achieve internationally intelligible pronunciation and maximised listening comprehension for diverse Global Englishes accents. The portfolio can be assessed qualitatively, in terms of how successfully the student has documented the profile of her pronunciation and critically evaluated her own global speaker and listener intelligibility. Phonology is frequently associated merely with teaching pronunciation although its usefulness for teaching listening comprehension has long been suggested.
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- Persson, Åke, 1959-
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'Imagine being so suddenly useless' : Unemployment, Vulnerability and the Irish Financial Crash in Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart
- 2021
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Ingår i: Engaging with Work in English Studies. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030697198 - 9783030697204 ; , s. 21-44
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The economic boom in Ireland, referred to as the Celtic Tiger, resulted in a financial merry-go-round, where there were few restrictions controlling the financial institutions. This in turn created a financial bubble that ultimately burst, resulting in the financial crash in 2008. At both the individual and collective levels, the crash was devastating, causing severe unemployment and economic hardship, even poverty among many segments of the population, re-shaping the landscape of work in Ireland. This chapter explores the pain and vulnerability following the crash as represented in Donal Ryan’s novel The Spinning Heart (2012). The novel offers a hard-hitting critique of irresponsible constructors and employers, a reality ultimately made possible by a corrupt and dysfunctional political culture.
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- Negretti, Raffaella, 1971, et al.
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Thinking outside the box: Senior scientists’ metacognitive strategy knowledge and self-regulation of writing for science communication
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Writing Research. - 2030-1006 .- 2294-3307. ; 15:2, s. 333-361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Academics are increasingly engaged in writing genres with purposes and for readers outside of academia—a variety of science-based communication practices that fall under the term science communication. These practices often span different modes, genres, and even languages, requiring high degrees of rhetorical flexibility, strategic knowledge, and regulation of writing. In this study, we probe the self-regulation and specifically the metacognitive strategy knowledge (MSK) of seven senior scientists who regularly and actively engage with writing for science communication. We argue that understanding their MSK can illuminate how strategic knowledge is transferred across written genres, and importantly offer useful insights for the training of future scientists. Using data derived from in-depth, narrative interviews with a recall component, we identify a variety of strategies for task conceptualization/analysis, planning and goal setting, monitoring, and evaluating the writing of different genres. Task analysis appears particularly crucial in science communication writing, due to the great variety of purposes and readers that fall under this umbrella. Interestingly, our participants underscore storytelling strategies, and seem to transfer language and style monitoring strategies to and from science communication and publication. We map the strategies identified and discuss the implications of our study for further research and science communication pedagogy.
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- Forsberg, Julia, 1985-, et al.
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Self-assessment and standard language ideologies : bilingual adolescents in Sweden reflect on their language proficiencies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-4632 .- 1747-7557. ; 42:2, s. 137-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Standard language cultures are characterised by beliefs in idealised standard forms of the language in question. In this paper, these beliefs are connected to the concepts of referee design and speech community, through analysis of how Swedish adolescents reflect upon and self-assess their language proficiencies. The data consist of interviews where 111 participants self-assess their Swedish, English and additional home languages. During the self-assessment, participants use different points of reference when reflecting on the different languages in their repertoires. Four main categories of answers are found, all relating to an absent referee in some manner: the participants’ evaluations of other people’s language proficiency compared to their own; their proficiency in other languages; their evaluation of their proficiency in relation to formal grading and feedback given in school; and their own experiences of their limitations and abilities in different situations. When assessing Swedish, participants display attitudes towards ‘good’ and ‘bad’ language and contextualise their proficiency in a way that focuses on standard language ideologies and their speech community. The same pattern does not occur when participants reflect on their other languages, indicating the important role that the peer group and speech community have in creating and facilitating these ideologies.
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- Gross, Johan, 1982-, et al.
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Weak Lips? A Possible Merger of /i/ and /y:/ in Gothenburgh
- 2020
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Ingår i: Phonetica. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 0031-8388 .- 1423-0321. ; 77, s. 268-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND/AIMS: This study investigates a possible merger in the early stages between /i:/ and /y:/ among young speakers in Gothenburg, Sweden.METHODS: (1) A large-scale online perception experiment testing listeners' abilities to identify the two vowels and (2) acoustic analysis of 705 vowels from 19 speakers.RESULTS: The perception study shows that listeners classify the horizontally centralized /y:/ as /i:/, both in isolated vowel items and in items containing the full word. This indicates that /y:/ is moving into the perceptual space of /i:/. Listeners also classify the unmerged /y:/ as /i:/ when listening to [y:] in isolation, indicating that lip rounding is a perceptually weak feature, for this centralized vowel, in this variety. The acoustic analysis shows that /i:/ tends to be produced as [ɨ:], and that there is no acoustic difference between /i:/ and /y:/ in measurements correlated with the first two formants, i.e. lip rounding is the most important distinctive feature.CONCLUSION: Results point in the direction of an incipient vowel merger, following a merger-by-approximation model. These results indicate a lack of perceptual strength of an articulatory feature in the disappearing phoneme, namely lip rounding, and the consequent perceptual similarities between the horizontally centralized [ɨ:] and /y:/.
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