Sökning: "Iranian Languages"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden Iranian Languages.
1. Ardāy-Vīrāf Nāma : Iranian Conceptions of the Other World
Sammanfattning : The present thesis consists of an edition of an Iranian literary work whose theme is a journey to the Other World, namely the Ardāy-Vīrāf Nāma. The version of this work which is here edited and commented on is a prose version in the Zoroastrian Persian language. LÄS MER
2. From Oral to Written : A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives
Sammanfattning : Wakhi is one of the endangered “Pamir” languages belonging to the East Iranian group of Indo-European. A total of around 72,000 Wakhi speakers live in the border areas of four countries: Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. This study focuses on the Wakhi spoken in Tajikistan, which for a long time was unwritten. LÄS MER
3. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)
Sammanfattning : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. LÄS MER
4. Tvärkulturella skrivstrategier : Kohesion, koherens och argumentationsmönster i iranska skribenters texter på svenska : a study of cohesion, coherence and argumentative patterns in essays written in Swedish by Iranian students
Sammanfattning : For an adult immigrant student, writing in a second language often means adapting to a new writing culture. The main research question dealt with in this dissertation is whether L1 rhetorical influence occurs in writing in Swedish as a second language (SSL). LÄS MER
5. A study of European, Persian and Arabic loans in standard Sorani
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines processes of lexical borrowing in the Sorani standard of the Kurdish language, spoken in Iraq, Iran, and the Kurdish diaspora. Borrowing, a form of language contact, occurs on all levels of language structure. LÄS MER