Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Grammatical variation of English as a common tongue in Game of Thrones: Forms and dramatic effects
University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, Division for Educational Science and Languages.
2020 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This essay examines the grammar variation of English as a common tongue of two characters from the TV series, Game of Thrones. Scenes from season 1-7 of the series where the characters Irri and Grey Worm spoke the common tongue, English, were transcribed and examined using the concepts of interlanguage (IL) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) as analytic frameworks. The two research questions for this essay are ‘What is grammatical variation of English as a common tongue spoken by two characters, Irri and Grey Worm in the TV series, Game of Thrones?’ and ‘What dramatic effects are perceived with the characters' grammatical variation in the series?’. The results showed that while both characters have features explained by both the IL and ELF frameworks, IL was a more appropriate concept for understanding the data overall. Nevertheless, Irri proved to use more ELF features than Grey Worm in the collected data in which there were more variations by Grey Worm than by Irri. In addition, three dramatic effects of the characters’ grammar variation emerged, namely emotional effect, cultural effect, and development effect. Based on the results, this essay concluded that the characters of Irri and Grey Worm had grammar variations that featured in both IL and ELF, with the majority of them being IL.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 34
Keywords [en]
Grammar variation, Interlanguage, English as a lingua franca, Game of Thrones.
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-17350Local ID: EXE400OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-17350DiVA, id: diva2:1587128
Subject / course
English
Educational program
Teacher Traning Programme
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2021-08-23 Created: 2021-08-23 Last updated: 2025-09-30Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(394 kB)255 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 394 kBChecksum SHA-512
c69d32e799f48a2506e0ac4953ffbc240237d9bd5093d72a53cb486f7b94c94903e2b1e20dd3e03715515ed2aeda4f83eb7f19602659cbaf2e71b875723567b5
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Division for Educational Science and Languages
Languages and Literature

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 255 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 410 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf