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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden University Of Edinburgh.

1. 1. The history of the concept of grammaticalisation

   Författare :Therese Lindström; April McMahon; Andrew Linn; Nigel Vincent; Richard Steadman Jones; University of Sheffield; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammaticalisation; unidirectionaty; lexicalisation; history of linguistics; historical linguistics; grammatikalisering; unidirectionality; lexikalisering; lingvistikens historia; historisk lingvistik; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis discusses the history and meaning of the term and concept called grammaticalisation. Linguists usually ascribe the coinage of the term grammaticalisation to Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), who allegedly played a vital role in the history of grammaticalisation. LÄS MER

3. 2. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction

   Författare :Niklas Salmose; Randall Stevenson; Laura Marcus; Patricia Waugh; UK The University of Edinburgh; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nostalgia; Modernism; Literature; Aesthetics; Style; Narratology; Emotions; Nostalgi; Modernism; Litteratur; Estetik; Stilistik; Narratologi; Känslor; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Sammanfattning : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. LÄS MER

4. 3. Changing Types of Homicide in Scotland and their Relationship to Changing Types of Wider Violence

   Författare :Sara Skott; Susan McVie; Paul Norris; Alistair Henry; Marieke Liem; Scotland Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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5. 4. Conceptualisations of citizenship in Sweden and the United Kingdom : an empirical study and analysis of how ‘citizenship’ is understood in policy and by policy-makers

   Författare :Scott McIver; University of Edinburgh; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Citizenship; Integration; United Kingdom; Sweden; Policy;

   Sammanfattning : This empirical study identifies and analyses what conceptualisations of citizenship emerge in policy thinking around naturalisation and how these conceptualisations have been articulated in citizenship policy and by policy-makers in the two specific cases of the United Kingdom and Sweden. Understanding citizenship as a bounded membership status the research is grounded in a view of citizenship as having content: rights and duties, ideas of identity, perceived virtues or political values. LÄS MER

7. 5. But What Do They Mean? : Modelling Contrast Between Speakers in Dialogue Signalled by “But”

   Författare :Kavita Elisheba Thomas; Colin Matheson; Keith Stenning; Johanna Moore; Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova; University of Edinburgh; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English dialogue; discourse markers; coherence relations;

   Sammanfattning : Understanding what is being communicated in a dialogue involves determining how it is coherent, that is, how the successive turns in the dialogue are related, what the speakers’ intentions, goals, beliefs, and expectations are and how they relate to each other’s responses. This thesis aims to address how turns in dialogue are related when one speaker indicates contrast with something in the preceding discourse signalled by “but”. LÄS MER