BA Theses by Alexander Eiter
This thesis investigates non-standard features of English in pop song lyrics from a corpus lingui... more This thesis investigates non-standard features of English in pop song lyrics from a corpus linguistic perspective. To this end, a corpus of roughly 120,000 words containing the most successful pop songs from 2012-2015 was compiled. Results were tested for significance against the COCA and BNC using the G2 and 𝝌2 test. The variables third person singular don’t, negative concord, “g-dropping,” and auxiliary ain’t all proved highly significant although these numbers are to be interpreted with caution. Occurrences of discourse marker like and you know are attributed specific functions. All results are discussed within a larger discussion of written versus spoken discourse and placed pop song lyrics as written-to-be-sung language.
This thesis investigates how concepts of same-sex desire of the late nineteenth century and early... more This thesis investigates how concepts of same-sex desire of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century are represented in the literature of that time by analysing Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), the anonymous work Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal (1893) and E. M. Forster’s The Longest Journey (1907) and Maurice (posth. 1971). Arguably, social prejudice, legal reforms and an emerging body of scientific writing shaped attitudes and images of homosexual men that prevailed for most of the twentieth century, creating a hostile atmosphere full of shame, guilt, degeneracy and a necessity to hide themselves. Nonetheless, I suggest that, amidst this hostility, there still existed, at least to a certain degree, a self-identity and, in part, these texts were also used to criticise contemporary beliefs.
Papers by Alexander Eiter
This thesis investigates non-standard features of English in pop song lyrics from a corpus lingui... more This thesis investigates non-standard features of English in pop song lyrics from a corpus linguistic perspective. To this end, a corpus of roughly 120,000 words containing the most successful pop songs from 2012-2015 was compiled. Results were tested for significance against the COCA and BNC using the G2 and 𝝌2 test. The variables third person singular don’t, negative concord, “g-dropping,” and auxiliary ain’t all proved highly significant although these numbers are to be interpreted with caution. Occurrences of discourse marker like and you know are attributed specific functions. All results are discussed within a larger discussion of written versus spoken discourse and placed pop song lyrics as written-to-be-sung language.
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BA Theses by Alexander Eiter
Papers by Alexander Eiter