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Examples of MA1 projects presented by students in earlier years :
A British Rail booklet for children's safety, by Roald Dahl
A Dublin Student Residence Covenant : officialese or legalese ?
Aggressiveness in / through Language
Advertising for charities
Airport Control Tower Talk : A Sublanguage
Alice in Wonderland : for children ?
Anti-Aids pamphlets
Anti-Genetically Modified Food tracts
Anti-Martin Luther King tracts spread by the KuKluxKlan.
An anti-Martin Luther King article in the Readers' Digest: a critical analysis.
A student's notes vs. the teacher's syllabus.
Bart Simpson vs Beavis & Butthead : A different language for different audiences
Blurb : fulfills different purposes on different books
Breakdowns in communication : the origin of conflicts (in movies and plays)
Business Letters
Calvin & Hobbes : humour and cultural elements
Cassette Mail
Characterization of foreigners through their language in novels
Charlie Brown vs. Calvin & Hobbes : A different language for different audiences
Children's mastery of relative subordination
Class and Dialect in EastEnders
Colloquial letters
Communication and miscommunication in Pinter's plays
Cooperation and conflict in court
Cooperation vs Conflict in Alan Sillitoe
Deviance in foreign speakers' English as a humorous device in Malcolm Bradbury
Dialect and Standard language in Trainspotting
Diaries : expressive representatives
"Dignity" : Stephens the butler's language in The Remains of the Day
Ecotalk : The language of environmentalists
Eisenhower's obituary for Winston Churchill
Evolution of language in Disney movies : from children's film to family entertainment
Fairy Tales as a genre (between speech and writing)
Film Reviews : Opinion, Slanting
Football talk : variety across different media
Forewords to College Brochures
Gayspeak
George W. Bush's State of the Union Address
George W. Bush's (mis)use of religious language in political rhetoric
Graded Readers : what is gained, what is lost ?
Headlines : cultural and other playful allusions
Headlines : freedom vs. constraints
Hizbollah vs Israeli news reporting
Humour in Advertising
Humour in Monty Python
Idioms in the LOB Corpus
Irish Folktales : Transcribing oral tradition
Karen Phillips' The Nature of Blood : triggering emotions through language
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare vs. Shakespeare
Language and Gender
Language and Ideology in the musical Hair
Language and manipulation in the Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower
Language as a way of trapping people in telemarketing
Language in Emergency Wards
Language use in a dentist's practice
Letters of Recommendation
Limericks
Linguistic Humour in The Pickwick Papers
Mail advertising
Manipulation through language : Newspeak in Orwell's 1984.
Metaphors in two different newspapers (quality vs. popular)
Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream : Speech, Sermon, or both ?
Mood-creating linguistic devices in video games
National anthems as a genre
Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech
One news item in two different newspapers (quality vs. popular)
Parables in the Bible
Parody as Humour
Parody in Mad Magazine
Passives in scientific discourse
Penny Dreadfuls ("littérature de gare")
Playboy : Sex without Vulgarity for Middle Class People
Pornography
Power in the classroom : Teacher Talk at the ULB
Power-wielding in TV Shows : Oprah
Prefaces
Prayer as a variety, Varieties of prayer
Proxemics (indications about interpersonal distance) in literary fiction
Punning in the Satanic Verses
Puns and Humour in the Muppet Show
Readers' Digest : A vector of U.S. Ideology ?
Recipes in cheap / middle-class / expensive women's magazines
Relative pronouns in two different newspapers (quality vs. popular)
Respect and violation of Grice's principles in Friends
Rhetorical Devices in Martin Luther King's I have a Dream
Rules vs. Laws
Scientific discourse in popular vs. professional journals
Sexism in language
Sexism in schoolbooks
Slanting
Social dialect and regional accent in pop songs
Social dialect and social stereotype in the BBC comedy Keeping Up Appearances
Social satire in The Importance of Being Earnest
Songs of Praise: The language of hymns
Stage directions
Styles in the English versions of Liaisons Dangereuses
Subjectivity in reporting
Subtitling
Taboos : talking about death and sex
Talking about music
Talking about pregnancy : Different tenors for different audiences
Talking about sex : Xaviera Hollander
Talking about wine
Telephone English
Telling jokes
The Bible vs. a Children's Bible
The English of guarantees : legal language ?
The English of Harry Potter novels
The English of Tracy Chapman
The English of Winnie the Pooh
The French translation of English puns in the Muppet Show
The Guide Michelin in English
The Image of woman in cheap romances
The language and semantics of horoscopes
The language of antisemitism : critical semantics
The language and conventions of chat rooms on the Internet
The language and strategies of Scientology
The language of business meetings
The language of cheap romances
The language of Democrats vs Republicans
The language of demonstrations : slogans, banners, ...
The language of environmentalism
The language of folders in prescription medicines
The language of homophobia
The language of hooligans
The language of job advertisements
The language of KuKluxKlan documents
The language of love
The language of philosophy in Sophie's World
The language of record sleeves / of texts in CD booklets
The language of rap
The language of rock magazines
The language of strip cartoons (linguistic and pictorial)
The language of three different Bible translations
The language of the Green Card : response to heavy situational constraints
The language of the Teletubbies
The linguistics of phallocracy : macho language
The representation of Black speakers / Chinese immigrants / Italamericans in drama
The representation of spoken dialect in Trainspotting
The Smurfs in English
The TIME Essay as a genre
The use and function of "Oh" in conversations
Three different grammars : different audiences call for different approaches
Toy Story : a movie for the family or for kids ? Linguistic evidence.
Travel guides
Travel brochures
Use of foreigners' language as a humorous device
U.S. Presidential inaugural speeches
War speeches
Weather reports and forecasts : a sublanguage
Wesker's The Kitchen : languages of rank, hierarchy, antagonism
Woody Allen : humour and language
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