Sökning: "London in literature"

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  1. 6. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

    Författare :Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

    Sammanfattning : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa : a corpus-based account of information structure and epistemic meaning

    Författare :Karolina Zofia Grzech; Irina Nikolaeva; UK University of London Department of Linguistics School of Oriental and African Studies; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Quechua; Kichwa; Evidentiality; Discourse Markers; Information Structure; Linguistics; lingvistik;

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  4. 8. What's in a dialogue? : On the dynamics of meaning-making in English conversation

    Författare :Nele Pöldvere; Kognition och Discourse@Lund (SKD@L) Språk; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; spoken dialogue; constructions; stance-taking; intersubjectivity; engagement; prosody; language change; Cognitive-Functional Linguistics; corpus linguistics; London-Lund Corpus 2; reliability; experimentation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with spoken dialogue and the dynamic negotiation of meaning in English conversation. It serves two aims, one theoretical and the other practical. LÄS MER

  5. 9. The Idea of the Walking Dead in Medieval Historical Texts with Particular Reference to the English Examples

    Författare :Polina Ignatova; Paul Antony Hayward; Fiona Edmonds; Sophie Page; UK Lancaster University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; medieval history; textuality; Latin; death;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the origins and purpose of the stories about restless corpses appearing in the medieval Latin sources created in England between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries. By engaging with a wide variety of sources, including ancient texts, walking-dead stories created in medieval Europe and Iceland, early modern and modern collections of folk tales, medieval medical treatises, and excavation reports, this thesis endeavours to provide a new insight into the nature of the accounts about revenants appearing in medieval English sources. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Meningsskapandets möjligheter : multimodal teoribildning och multiliteracies i skolan

    Författare :Petra Magnusson; Malmö högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Design; design authority; design process; design-theoretical perspective; discourse; ethnography; fiction; learning design sequence; literacy; media; media ecology; mode; multimodal; meaning; meaning-making; meaning-offering; multiliteracies; reading; socio cultural; design;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the changing predispositions and conditions for contemporary meaning-making in school education. From a socio-cultural perspective, multimodal theory formation is used to find suitable tools and concepts for developing teaching and learning. LÄS MER