The paper, “Code-Switching Among English and Swiss-German Speaking Couples” is a proposal for a hypothetical research project in linguistics, and it was a collaboration between Azra von Niederhäusern-Hodzic and me. We worked on the premise that native speakers of both languages will eventually code-switch during a conversation, no matter how consistently they try to stick to one language.

“The Duel in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale” is a paper which I wrote in Medieval English Literature. Its content focuses on the duel between Arcite and Palamon. I argue that the duel depicted in The Knight’s Tale does not seem to follow a proper etiquette, and that the narrator (the knight who tells the tale) points [...]

In “What is an Author”, Michel Foucault addresses the relationship between author and text. In addition, he wants to focus on the manner in which the text points to the author-“figure”. Foucault acts on the suggestion once made by Beckett. The latter asked, “What does it matter who is speaking?” Foucault concludes that this exclamation [...]