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1. 1. 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

3. 2. Articulable Humanity : Narrative Ethics in Nuruddin Farah's Trilogies

   Författare :Hilda Härgestam Strandberg; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Annie Gagiano; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; African literature; Nuruddin Farah; narrative ethics; ethical criticism; precariousness; vulnerability; human dignity; Emmanuel Lévinas; Adriana Cavarero; Judith Butler; postcolonial theory; feminism.; engelska; English;

   Sammanfattning : Fokus för avhandlingen, Att uttrycka det mänskliga: narrativ etik i Nuruddin Farah’s trilogier, är de nio romaner publicerade mellan 1979 och 2011 som tillsammans utgör Nuruddin Farah’s tre trilogier: ”Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship,” bestående av Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981), Close Sesame (1983); “Blood in the Sun,” bestående av Maps (1986), Gifts (1993), Secrets (1998); samt “Past Imperfect,” bestående av Links (2003), Knots (2007), Crossbones (2011). Tematiska och stilistiska skillnader till trots så är dessa trilogier och romaner märkbart sammanhängande i sitt fokus. LÄS MER

4. 3. På jakt efter språk : om språkdelen i gymnasieskolans svenskämne

   Författare :Fredrik Hansson; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; educational linguistics; critical literacy; school subject Swedish; mother tongue subjects; upper secondary school; language development; subject didactics; writing instruction; explicit teaching; invisible pedagogy; metalanguage; grammar instruction; genre pedagogy; school subject Swedish;

   Sammanfattning : A common feature of existing research is that the linguistic part of the subject Swedish in upper secondary school appears to be diffuse and seems to lack core and theoretical framework. The purpose of the thesis ’Hunting for language’ is to describe and investigate how the linguistic part of Swedish is handled in upper secondary school. LÄS MER

5. 4. L'immagine pubblicitaria dell'olio d'oliva, della pasta e del caffè : uno studio comparativo sulla ricezione

   Författare :Christine Wikman; Italienska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; semiotik; semantik; Grammatik; semiotics; syntax; semantics; Grammar; print ads; Advertising; Swedish; Italian; olive oil; comparative study; pasta; coffee; values; culturally specific patterns interpretation; connotations; sender; receiver; socio-cultural context; shared knowledge; implications; inferences; implicit information; co-operation; sender?s intended meaning encyclopaedic and cultural background knowledge; reception; Humaniora; Humanities; Applied linguistics; foreign languages teaching; sociolinguistics; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; sociolingvistik; Italian language and literature; Italienska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe how Italian advertising for olive oil, pasta and coffee reflects traditions, customs and culturally specific patterns regarding the ways in which these products are used in Italy, and how these culturally specific patterns are interpreted by native readers and non-native readers (Swedish students). The study is based on 22 Italian and 22 Swedish interpretations of three Italian print ads for olive oil, pasta and coffee. LÄS MER

7. 5. Sagans förvandlingar: Eva Wigström som sagosamlare och sagoförfattare

   Författare :Maria Ehrenberg; Litteraturvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; literacy.; orality; Eva Wigström; Bengt Holbek; Walter Ong; Gérard Genette; AT 502; AT 501; AT 500; AT 433b; ”The Wild Man”; ”King Lindorm”; ”The Three Old Women Helpers”; kunstmärchen; ”The Name of the Helper”; Fairy tale; folk tale; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to study how fairy tales can change when they are removed from one set of surroundings to another. This movement can occur on several levels; from an orally spoken to a written text, from a rural proletariat to an urban bourgeoisie. LÄS MER