Sökning: "Diction"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Diction.
6. Some aspects of style in twentieth-century English Bible translation : one-man versions of Mark and the Psalms
Sammanfattning : This is a study of the work of some seventy of the many hundreds of translators of the Bible, in whole or in part, into English during this century. Style, with particular emphasis on diction, is the major concern, though other aspects can be touched on at times, as well as methods of translation. LÄS MER
7. Trials of Device : Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies Wallace Stevens? ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. LÄS MER
8. The neologisms in 2 Maccabees
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates a hitherto under-researched topic in Septuagint studies, the Septuagint neologisms, that is, the words which are first attested in the Septuagint, taking as a case in point a deuterocanonical/apocryphal book originally written in Greek, the Second Book of Maccabees (2 Maccabees). The thesis first examines how the neologisms have so far been treated in Septuagint studies and lexicography and proposes a method for their identification based on a thorough search of the electronic databases of ancient Greek literary and non-literary texts rather than of the existing Greek lexica. LÄS MER
9. Phylogenomics of Oceanic Bacteria
Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis has been the phylogenomics and evolution of the Alphaproteobacteria. This is a very diverse group which encompasses bacteria from intraceullar parasites, such as the Rickettsiales, to freeliving bacteria such as the most abundant bacteria on earth, the SAR11. LÄS MER
10. Automated Text Analysis of Online Content in Marketing : Dictionray-Based Methods and Artificial Intelligence
Sammanfattning : Far more than products or services, words are the most fundamental element in the exchanges between sellers and buyers. Understanding the words that constitute the text that is created when sellers and buyers interact with each other is therefore critical for marketing decision makers. LÄS MER
