Sökning: "evaluative language"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade orden evaluative language.

  1. 1. Gender and its interaction with number and evaluative morphology : An intra- and intergenealogical typological survey of Africa

    Författare :Francesca Di Garbo; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Ljuba Veselinova; Vladimir Plungian; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender; number; evaluative morphology; interaction; grammatical complexity; Africa; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates interactions between gender and number and gender and evaluative morphology in a sample of 100 African languages, and provides a method for assessing the role that these interactions play in the grammatical complexity of gender systems. The dissertation is organised around three research foci. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Sense and Sensibility : Four Essays on Evaluative Discourse

    Författare :Nils Franzén; Matti Eklund; Andreas Stokke; Pekka Väyrynen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :aesthetics; aesthetic language; evaluative language; expressivism; Allan Gibbard; R.M. Hare; David Hume; John MacFarlane. metaethics; moral language; philosophy of language; predicates of personal taste; relativism; speech-acts; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is the nature of evaluative terms and concepts. It investigates various phenomena that distinguish evaluative discourse from other types of language use. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Personal Pronouns in Evaluative Communication

    Författare :Marie Gustafsson Sendén; Torun Lindholm; Sabine Sczesny; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : Personal pronouns represent important social categories; they are among the most common words in communication and are therefore highly interesting in studying psychological perspectives and relations. The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether pronouns are used in semantic contexts in a way that reflect psychological biases. LÄS MER

  5. 4. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction

    Författare :Hanna Andersdotter Sveen; Merja Kytö; Claudia Claridge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; 19th-century English; adjectives; attributive; British National Corpus; characters; children s fiction; contemporary; corpus linguistics; description; evaluative meaning; female; gender; male; part description; predicative; semantic domains; syntactic function; Victorian; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Kemiämnets normer och värden : Diskursanalytiska studier av nationella prov i kemi och tillhörande elevtexter

    Författare :Marie Ståhl; Caroline LIberg; Anita Hussenius; Cathrine Hasse; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Apparatus of bodily production; bildung; Cartesian thoughts; critical didactics perspective; democracy; deliberative communication; embodied science teaching; emotions; empowering; engagement; epistemological community; evaluative language resources; feminist theories; feminist figurations; involvement; subject positions; performativity theory; semantic framework Appraisal; stereotyped dichotomies; students’ attitudes; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to examine the conditions for democratic bildung-oriented education for students in the school science discourse. This is something that the Swedish curriculum is based on and thereby the education should develop students' capacity for social, political and cultural awareness. LÄS MER