Department of English
Head of unit:  Dr Claudia Egerer
Phone: +468162000
Fax: +468159667
Website: http://www.english.su.se
Address:  
Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 8
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
  
Contracts (6)
Researchers (21)
Subordinated organisations: (1)
RSS 2
ATOM
 
Effects of English-medium textbooks on vocabulary acquisition: lessons for Swedish universities
Period: 1/1/09 - 12/31/11
Swedish university students often study in a parallel-language situation, with English-language textbooks and teaching and their own writing in Swedish. It is assumed that students will learn English terms and expressions by means of incidental learning, acquiring vocabulary implicitly as they ...
For the good of their souls: A study of the Latin sources and how they were modified in the composition of the twelfth century Middle English homily collection Orrmulum
Period: 1/1/11 - 12/31/13
This project will provide an in-depth analysis of the use of Latin source texts in the composition of the great twelfth-century homily collection Ormulum, written in Middle English to make the gospels accessible to the laity with the declared purpose of saving their souls. Where earlier scholars ...
Geography, society and the symbolic terrain of anglophone Caribbean fiction
Period: 1/1/12 - 12/31/14
Inventing World Literature: Studies in the Mediation of Post-European Literary Values
Period: 1/1/07 - 12/31/09
Projektet ska undersöka framförallt översättningar men också andra ”förmedlingar” av de utomeuropeiska författarna Clarice Lispector (Brasilien), J. M. Coetzee (Sydafrika), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Assia Djebar (Algeriet) och Mia Couto (Moçambique). Syftet är tvådelat: dels handlar det om att bättre ...
Scandinavian features in Shetland phonology
Period: 1/1/10 - 12/31/12
Trots sitt relativt isolerade läge i Nordsjön så har Shetlandsöarna under historiens gång varit föremål för omfattande immigration från Skandinavien, Skottland, Tyskland och Nederländerna, vilket i dag återspeglas i språk, kultur och regional identitet. Det skandinaviska arvet framgår tydligt på ...
Time, Memory and Representation