Sökning: "construal"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet construal.
1. Bit : an examination of the explanatory power of a meaning potential approach to the description of lexical meaning
Sammanfattning : Through a detailed examination of the use of the lexical item bit in four English language corpora, this study assesses whether the assumptions guiding a meaning potential perspective on lexical meaning (e.g. LÄS MER
2. The mental representation of true and false intentions: An application of construal level theory
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3. Event conceptualisation and aspect in L2 English and Persian : An application of the Heidelberg–Paris model
Sammanfattning : The present project investigates the impact of the grammaticalised progressive on event conceptualisation in English and Persian. It applies the Heidelberg–Paris framework using single event descriptions for analysis at the sentence level and story re-narrations at the discourse level. LÄS MER
4. True and False Intentions: A Mental Representational Approach
Sammanfattning : The study of true and false intentions is a specific case of deception-detection research. The focus is on how to discriminate between lies and truths about future behavior, as opposed to previous deception research that focused almost exclusively on past behavior. LÄS MER
5. Temporal Distance and Morality : Moral Concerns Loom Larger in the Distant Future
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation was to examine whether the temporal distance of moral events affects the moral judgments and decisions people make in response to those events. Drawing upon Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) which posits that the distant future is represented at a higher, more abstract level of mental construal than the near future, and that high-level mental construals shift attention to core values and higher-order principles, the main proposition of this dissertation was that people would show greater moral concerns in response to distant future events than near future events. LÄS MER