Sökning: "Languages and linguistics"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 598 avhandlingar innehållade orden Languages and linguistics.

  1. 11. Interpretive Functions of Adjectives in English : A Cognitive Approach

    Författare :Helena Frännhag; Carita Paradis; Kristin Davidse; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adjective; meaning; meaning creation; interpretation; formal interpretive function; semantic interpretive function; kind identification; element identification; identity provision; stipulation; specification; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Lingvistik; Linguistics; Engelsk språkvetenskap; English; specification; stipulation; adjective; noun; meaning creation; cognitive semantics; interpretation; formal interpretive function; semantic interpretive function; kind identification; identity provision; element identification;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a theoretical discussion of meaning creation in general, and interpretive functions of English adjectives in particular. The discussion rests on a dynamic view of meaning and interpretation, according to which there are no fixed linguistics meanings – not even for single lexemes. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Engagement in Medical Research Discourse: A Multisemiotic Discourse-Semantic Study of Dialogic Positioning

    Författare :Daniel Lees Fryer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; engagement; medical research discourse; social semiotics; systemic functional linguistics; dialogic theory; linguistics; semiosis; multisemiosis; multimodality; intersemiosis; intermodality; corpus linguistics; genre; disciplinarity; ideology;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates how medical researchers engage with a background of prior and anticipated utterances in a collection of highly cited English-language medical research articles. Taking a multisemiotic, systemic-functional approach, I examine the verbal, visual, and mathematical resources used by medical research writers to construe, engage with, and position themselves in relation to a dialogic background of different voices, positions, and propositions. LÄS MER

  4. 13. 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

  5. 14. 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

  7. 15. «Und denn hemmer eifach e Burka bracht» : Sprachwissenschaftliche Studien zu Memes im politischen Diskurs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz

    Författare :Fabia Hultin Morger; Susanne Tienken; Charlotta Seiler Brylla; Martin Luginbühl; Georg Weidacher; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; affordances; discourse studies; German; globalization; glocalization; Internet memes; media linguistics; multimodality; political discourse; politolinguistics; populism; semiotic resources; text linguistics; Web 2.0; German; tyska;

    Sammanfattning : In this compilation thesis I examine Internet memes within the political discourse of the three major German-speaking countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The analysis incorporates several theoretical and methodological approaches, including politolinguistics and discourse studies, text linguistics, multimodality theory and media linguistics. LÄS MER