This thesis focuses on how modality plays an important role in the translation of the Modernist narrative 'Barn Burning'. Translators have to decide whether or not to maintain modal assertions. The...Show moreThis thesis focuses on how modality plays an important role in the translation of the Modernist narrative 'Barn Burning'. Translators have to decide whether or not to maintain modal assertions. The problem that arises when modality is not maintained is that the truth value of the assertion is altered; the translated assertion may then have a different meaning than the original. In this thesis, translation universals and translation procedures are discussed as well. The universals and procedures serve as the theoretical background on which the analysis is based.Show less
This thesis discusses the different rhetorical tools used by Gandhi and Hitler in their speeches; thereby revealing that despite their opposing images they were quite identical in terms of their...Show moreThis thesis discusses the different rhetorical tools used by Gandhi and Hitler in their speeches; thereby revealing that despite their opposing images they were quite identical in terms of their use of rhetoric.Show less
Throughout the decades, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories change. However, this does not mean that discarded theories vanish from the field. This thesis analyses two discarded theories of...Show moreThroughout the decades, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories change. However, this does not mean that discarded theories vanish from the field. This thesis analyses two discarded theories of SLA, Contrastive Analysis (CA) and Error Analysis (EA), and then compares and contrasts them to five other SLA theories. The main questions are: where and how CA and EA resurface in other theories, and whether their continuing presence is of a sufficient nature to claim they are still relevant.Show less
