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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Papua.
1. Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, Christianity and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village
Sammanfattning : In the swampy jungles of northern Papua New Guinea lies an isolated little villagepopulated by about 100 people called Gapun. The majority of the villagers of Gapun are biormultilingual, but their mother tongue is a vernacular language which they call Taiap. LÄS MER
2. Topics in the grammar of Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes certain areas in the grammar of the little-known Kuot language, spoken by some 1,500 people in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Kuot is an isolate, and is the only non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of that province. The analyses presented here are based on original data from 18 months of linguistic fieldwork. LÄS MER
3. Landet bortom horisonten : En analys av journalistik om Västpapua i svensk press 1959-2009
Sammanfattning : The present thesis concerns Swedish journalism on West Papua, the western part of the island New Guinea. West Papua is a politically contentious area that since the 1960s is part of Indonesia, after a criticised UN-supervised referendum. LÄS MER
4. Fighting Lucifer : the state and its enemies in Papua New Guinea
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5. Language, literacy and code-switching in a Papua New Guinean village
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the language and sociolinguistic practices of a small group of people living in a village called Gapun in the Papua New Guinean swamps. Gapun has traditionally been a highly multilingual society, but today two languages dominate the villagers’ verbal repertoire, the lingua franca Tok Pisin and the local vernacular Taiap. LÄS MER