Sökning: "figurative language"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden figurative language.

  1. 11. Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey

    Författare :Nesrin Ucarlar; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; resistance; emancipatory politics; transformative resistance; post-structuralism; deconstruction; nationalism; transnationalism; diaspora; European Union; Turkey; the Kurdish language; linguistic rights; trans-national outlook; minority rights; power; Kurdish intellectuals;

    Sammanfattning : As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Nicht-intendierte Idiomtransformationen im Deutschen. Eine Studie zu kognitiven Aspekten der Idiomatik

    Författare :Karoline Weber; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; germanistisk lingvistik; idiomatik; kognitiv semantik;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate cognitive mechanisms behind the representation and processing of conventional figurative language based on an analysis of non-intentional idiom transformations in German. Its main objective is to identify links between idioms in the mental lexicon and the function of mental images in idiom representation and production. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter : a study of animal designations in metaphoric usage in Swedish dialects

    Författare :Annika Karlholm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Wörter und Sachen; animal designation; subject word; special designation; semiotics; cognitive semantics; metaphor; abstract similarity metaphor; correlational metaphor; image metaphor; linguistic metaphor; conceptual metaphor; tools; utility goods; culture; cognition; categorization; polysemy; homonymy; meaning development; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter

    Författare :Annika Karlholm; Institutionen för nordiska språk Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Wörter und Sachen; animal designation; subject word; special designation; semiotics; cognitive semantics; metaphor; abstract similarity metaphor; correlational metaphor; image metaphor; linguistic metaphor; conceptual metaphor; tools; utility goods; culture; cognition; categorization; polysemy; homonymy; meaning development; Nordiska språk; svenska språket; svenska dialekter; djurbeteckning; ämnesord; specialbeteckning; metaforer; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk; Dialectology; Dialektforskning;

    Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Bilder av kvinnor och kvinnlighet : genus och kroppsspråk under övergången till kristendomen

    Författare :Eva-Marie Göransson; Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Gender is a process, a journey. It is in constant change, built up and altered by people who live itSaltering them. In this process, material culture is used both as an agent and as an object of representation.Gotlandic picture stones are the point of departure for this particular gender journey. LÄS MER