Sökning: "threatened languages"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden threatened languages.
1. "Ungerska för rötternas skull" : Språkval och identitet bland andragenerationens ungrare i Sverige och Finland
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a comparative sociolinguistic study which describes and compares language choice among people with Hungarian background in Sweden and Finland and studies their views on the importance of the Hungarian language and Hungarian cultural heritage for identity. The future prospects of language maintenance and language shift and differences between the Swedish-Hungarians and the Finnish-Hungarians are discussed. LÄS MER
2. Från beslut till verklighet : Läkarnas roll vid implementeringen av valfrihetsreformer i hälso- och sjukvården
Sammanfattning : Several policies were introduced in Sweden at the beginning of the 1990’s with the intention to give patients the right to choose health care provider. The effects of these policies have been moderate, e.g. few patients are aware of their rights to choose. LÄS MER
3. Konsten att lägga pussel. Deckaren och besvärjandet av ondskan i folkhemmet
Sammanfattning : The present thesis, Konsten att lägga pussel. Deckaren och besvärjandet av ondskan i folkhemmet, constitutes a literary and cultural-historical investigation of the Swedish 'whodunit' from 1945 to 1965, a period when the genre flourished in Sweden. LÄS MER
4. Immigration, security and the public debate on US language policy : A critical discourse analysis of language attitudes in the United States of America
Sammanfattning : The narrative of the United States is of a "nation of immigrants" in which the language shift patterns of earlier ethnolinguistic groups have tended towards linguistic assimilation through English. In recent years, however, changes in the demographic landscape and language maintenance by non-English speaking immigrants, particularly Hispanics, have been perceived as threats and have led to calls for an official English language policy. LÄS MER
5. Utan minne inget liv : en analys av Valentin Rasputins "Avsked från Matëra" och Čingiz Ajtmatovs "Och dagen varar längre än ett sekel"
Sammanfattning : The point of departure for this dissertation is the interest in memory that has characterized Soviet cultural life during the 1970s and early 1980s. This theme is developed through an examination of the role of memory in two noted works of the period - Valentin Rasputin's Farewell to Matyora from 1976 and Chingiz Aitmatov's And the Day is Longer Than a Century from 1980. LÄS MER