Sökning: "Engelska språk och litteratur"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 393 avhandlingar innehållade orden Engelska språk och litteratur.

1. 6. Språk, musik och kultur : En studie av hur språkbruket i musikrecensioner speglar kulturella värderingar

   Författare :Sirpa Koiranen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; stilistik; pragmatik; musik; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : Language and music are two forms of human communication with their own semiotic systems. The way in which language use concerning a certain kind of music is linked to the music in question, has been studied from a culture-theoretic perspective, i.e. LÄS MER

3. 7. Agreement with Collective Nouns in English

   Författare :Magnus Levin; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; markedness; Longman Spoken American Corpus; grammatical change; corpus; conventionalization; concord; conceptualization; collective nouns; British National Corpus; British English; BNC; Australian English; American English; agreement; Agreement Hierarchy; pronouns; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; agreement; English language; Engelsk språkvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns agreement with collective nouns in American, British and Australian English. It is based on material from newspaper corpora and spoken corpora. The findings suggest that dialectal, stylistic, diachronic, syntactic and semantic factors interact in the selection of singular and plural agreement. LÄS MER

4. 8. Room for Improvement? : A comparative study of Swedish learners’ free written production in English in the foreign language classroom and in immersion education

   Författare :Marika Kjellén Simes; Solveig Granath; Philip Shaw; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Immersion education; CLIL; International Baccalaureate; advanced L2 learners; upper secondary school; L2 learning; L2 acquisition; free written production; low-frequency vocabulary; tense shift; motivation; mastery orientation; intrinsic motivation; sociocultural attitudes; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : The present study examines the effects of immersion education on the English of two groups of advanced Swedish learners at upper secondary school. In immersion education, or CLIL, subject content is taught through a second language as a means of enhancing target language competence. LÄS MER

5. 9. I tweet like I talk : Aspects of speech and writing on Twitter

   Författare :Peter Wikström; Erica Sandlund; Solveig Granath; Andrea C. Schalley; Ruth Page; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social media; Twitter; speech; writing; orality; literacy; CMC; remediation; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates linguistic and metalinguistic practices in everyday Twitter discourse in relation to aspects of speech and writing. The overarching aim is to investigate how the spoken–written interface is reconfigured in the digital writing spaces of social media. LÄS MER

7. 10. Gods, Grammars, and Genres : Towards an Ethics of English Studies in Imperial Sovereignty

   Författare :Noah Roderick; Janice Neuleib; USA IL Normal Illinois State University Department of English; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grammar; genre; sovereignty; english studies; rhetoric; language; pedagogy; Engelska; English; Retorik; Rhetoric; Education; Pedagogik; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, the author argues that the post-process movement towards genre-based writing pedagogies is reproducing the logic of neoliberal or free-market ideology. By analyzing the relationship between three paradigms of sovereignty (feudalism, the nation-state, and globalization) and institutionalized language, the author demonstrates that teaching writing as multiple and genred as opposed to teaching it as a single, abstract skill is no a more rational approach, but rather a differently rational approach. LÄS MER