Sökning: "functional linguistics"

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1. 1. Engagement in Medical Research Discourse: A Multisemiotic Discourse-Semantic Study of Dialogic Positioning

   Författare :Daniel Lees Fryer; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; engagement; medical research discourse; social semiotics; systemic functional linguistics; dialogic theory; linguistics; semiosis; multisemiosis; multimodality; intersemiosis; intermodality; corpus linguistics; genre; disciplinarity; ideology;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates how medical researchers engage with a background of prior and anticipated utterances in a collection of highly cited English-language medical research articles. Taking a multisemiotic, systemic-functional approach, I examine the verbal, visual, and mathematical resources used by medical research writers to construe, engage with, and position themselves in relation to a dialogic background of different voices, positions, and propositions. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Sango Language and Its Lexicon (S�nd�-y�ng� t� S�ng�)

   Författare :Christina Thornell; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; lexical semantics; lexicology; language planning; language contact; functional linguistics; language typology; Ubangi language; pidgin creole; Sango; Central African Republic; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is an overview of the recently arisen Sango language spoken in the Central African Republic. The overview contains a sociolinguistic and linguistic dimension with a lexical-semantic focus. LÄS MER

4. 3. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations

   Författare :Mats Johansson; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Engelska språk och litteratur ; English language and literature; information structure; ground; focus; discourse topic; topic; theme; discourse; fronting; wh-clefts; it-clefts; pseudo-cleft constructions; cleft constructions; bidirectional translation corpus; translation; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; Swedish; English; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Syntax of Tenselessness : On Copying Constructions in Swedish

   Författare :Anna-Lena Wiklund; Görel Sandström; Lars-Olof Delsing; Anders Holmberg; Jan-Wouter Zwart; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; infinitives; pseudocoordination; feature copying; restructuring; tense; underspecification; Lingvistik; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates three construction types in Swedish where two (or more) verbs display identical inflectional morphology (COPYING) and share one overt subject. The constructions are referred to as (i) T(ENSE)M(OOD)A(SPECT)-COPYING complements, of the form John started and wrote (John started writing), (ii) PARTICIPLE COPYING complements, of the form John had been-able written (John had been able to write), and (iii) PSEUDOCOORDINATIONS, of the form John sat and wrote (John was writing). LÄS MER

7. 5. Stockholms stads tänkeböcker : Funktionell texthistoria 1476-1626

   Författare :Theresia Pettersson; Olle Josephson; Cecilia Falk; Harry Lönnroth; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish language history; language change; functional grammar; socio-historical linguistics; administrative literacy; register; discourse levels; discourse anaphora; tense; historical court-room protocols; Old Swedish; Early Modern Swedish; Scandinavian Languages; nordiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to shed light on language variation and language change in judicial protocols from the municipal court in Stockholm during the period 1476−1626. These documents provide a unique insight into late medieval and early modern use of written vernacular. LÄS MER