Sökning: "classical languages"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 101 avhandlingar innehållade orden classical languages.
1. Crucifixion in Antiquity : An Inquiry into the Background of the New Testament Terminology of Crucifixion
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the philological aspects of how ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic texts, including the New Testament, depict the practice of punishment by crucifixion. A survey of the ancient text material shows that there has been a too narrow view of the “crucifixion” terminology. LÄS MER
2. A War of Words
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to come to an understanding of the meanings of words pertaining to acts of political violence in modern Arabic and Hebrew. The semantics of these terms will be established by comparison between the meaning in dictionaries of modern and classical Arabic and Hebrew, the meaning in the Koran and the Bible as well as the meaning we extract from the context in the newspapers where the terminology is found. LÄS MER
3. 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
4. Tense and Aspect in Caesar's Narrative
Sammanfattning : This is a study of the function of tense, aspect, and Aktionsart/situation type in Caesar's historiographical narrative (Bellum Gallicum and Bellum civile). The extensive theoretical part discusses these semantic categories from a cross-linguistic perspective and analyzes their functions in Classical Latin. LÄS MER
5. Celebrating with Words : Studies in the Rhetorical Works of the Gaza School
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the School of Gaza, a circle of rhetoricians in Late Antique Palestine. Special attention is paid to Choricius and Procopius of Gaza, and in particular to their epideictic works. LÄS MER