Sökning: "diachronic analysis"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden diachronic analysis.

1. 1. „Familie“ als Diskursobjekt : Veränderungen im Spiegel des Sprachgebrauchs der Presse seit den 1960er Jahren in Deutschland und Schweden

   Författare :Ida Nynke van der Woude; Damaris Nübling; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :family; meaning; language use; Swedish; German; compound words; collocations; corpus linguistic discourse analysis; historical semantics; mentality; comparative analysis; diachronic analysis; newspaper; dictionary; Familj; betydelse; språkanvändning; svenska; tyska; sammansättningar; kollokationer; korpuslingvistisk diskursanalys; historisk semantik; mentalitet; kontrastiv analys; diakron analys; tidning; ordbok; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : The concept of "family" has undergone major changes over the past 50 years. This thesis examines changes in attitudes and values that can be detected in German and Swedish during this time. LÄS MER

3. 2. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

   Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words : A Diachronic Study

   Författare :Donald MacQueen; Merja Kytö; Raymond Hickey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; number-word universals; historical corpus linguistics; variationist study; American vs British English; newspapers; grammaticalization; iconicity; gradience; English language; Engelska språket; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This corpus-based variationist study traces the history of the English number word MILLION from its first attested use in the 14th century, focusing on the diachronic shift in function from one of heading its noun phrase (NP), as in the obsolescent (Obs) construction three millions of citizens, to one of a post-determiner of its NP head, as in Present-day English (PdE) three million citizens. The authentic historical materials used include both numerous electronic linguistic corpora and, more innovatively, very-large-scale general collections available online, especially historical newspaper collections from the US and UK comprising tens of billions of words. LÄS MER

5. 4. Preaspiration in the Nordic languages : synchronic and diachronic aspects

   Författare :Pétur Helgason; John J. Ohala; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : Preaspiration—the production of glottal friction at the juncture of a vowel and a consonant—appears to be typologically rare but is an areal linguistic feature of Northwestern Europe. This study contains a survey of the known geographical spread of preaspirated stops, their phonological distribution and phonetic expressions in some Nordic dialects. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Rhetoric of Pravda Editorials : A Diachronic Study of a Political Genre

   Författare :Ludmila Pöppel; Milan Bily; Anatolii Shaikevich; Dmitrii Dobrovolskii; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse; discourse analysis; language of revolution; totalitarian language; Soviet political language; Pravda editorials; rhetorical changes; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The present study considers the diachronic changes that took place in Soviet political discourse as reflected in six selections of Pravda editorials from the 1920s through the 1950s, as well as slogans and headlines in that newspaper from 1917 through 1933. The principal goal of analyses conducted on various levels is to identify and investigate a number of tendencies demonstrating the gradual transformation of the language of revolution into totalitarian language. LÄS MER