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  1. 26. "The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey’s Novels

    Författare :Christer Larsson; Stephen Knight; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Peter Carey; Speech Acts; Closure; Ethics and Literature; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to demonstrate that recurrent formal and thematic patterns in Peter Carey’s novels suggest an interrelation between the works, and that an analysis which takes that interrelation into account can extract an argument concerning the ethics of storytelling from the texts. The issue of the status of fictional discourse receives prominent and complex consideration in Carey’s novels, and this study argues that Carey presents storytelling as an intentional mode of social interaction, defined and governed by extra-linguistic conventions. LÄS MER

  3. 27. From Workflow to Conversation

    Författare :Jan Ljungberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Speech acts; genre; communication; design;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about designing information technology to support communicative work. The thesis has a theoretical focus, informed by two empirical studies, but the aim is not to formulate a grand theory, but rather to find new concepts and patterns of thought useful for design. LÄS MER

  4. 28. Diskurspartiklar hos ungdomar i mångspråkiga miljöer i Malmö

    Författare :Gudrun Svensson; Lena Ekberg; Catrin Norrby; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; varieties; liksom; typ; du vet; bara; ba; ju; grammaticalization; functional grammar; speech acts; native speakers; information structure; conversational analysis; non-native speakers; contemporary Swedish; adolescents; discourse particles; casual talk; disourse particles; Swedish language; Svenska språket Nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates the use of the discourse particles duvet (you know), ju (as you know), ba(ra) (just), liksom (like), and typ (sort of) among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Malmö. The data is drawn from a corpus of 6 hours’ spontaneous group conversations between female participants. LÄS MER

  5. 29. Symbols of law : a contextual analysis of legal symbolic acts in the Old Testament

    Författare :Åke Viberg; Teologiska institutionen Lunds universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sedvanerätt Judisk rätt Symboler Gester – juridik och lagstiftning;

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  7. 30. What else can I tell you? : a pragmatic study of English rhetorical questions as discursive and argumentative acts

    Författare :Cornelia Ilie; Stockholms universitet; []
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