Sökning: "English language and literature"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 386 avhandlingar innehållade orden English language and literature.

1. 21. Scholarship and Mythopoeia : The ideas of language and myth in the works of Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

   Författare :Maria Kuteeva; Tony Crowley; Thomas Shippey; Department of English and American Studies University of Manchester; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; myth; philology; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the views adopted by Barfield, Lewis and Tolkien on the phenomena of language and myth as discussed in their academic writing and fiction. Part I (Chapters I and II) focuses on the study of language. LÄS MER

3. 22. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation

   Författare :Erika Berglind Söderqvist; Merja Kytö; Angela Hoffman; Marta Carretero; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Evidentiality; spoken language; English; corpus linguistics; gender; style; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. LÄS MER

4. 23. Risk, language and discourse

   Författare :Max Boholm; Sven Ove Hansson; Niklas Möller; Terje Aven; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; risk; safety; concept; meaning; definiton; discourse; langauge; risk communication; corpus linguistics; content analysis; nanotechnology; nanoparticle; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; risk; safety; concept; meaning; definiton; discourse; langauge; risk communication; corpus linguistics; content analysis; nanotechnology; nanoparticle;

   Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice.          Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). LÄS MER

5. 24. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

   Författare :Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

   Sammanfattning : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. LÄS MER

7. 25. Writing and revising : Didactic and Methodological Implications of Keystroke Logging

   Författare :Eva Lindgren; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; writing; revision; keystroke logging; GIS; stimulated recall; precontextual revision; writing development; Peer-based intervention; language awareness; noticing; EFL; L1 Swedish; reflection; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English;

   Sammanfattning : Keystroke logging records keyboard activity during writing. Time and position of all keystrokes are stored in a log file, which facilitates detailed analysis of all pauses, revisions and movements undertaken during writing. LÄS MER