Sökning: "figures of speech"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden figures of speech.

  1. 1. Evaluation of nasal speech : a study of assessments by speech-language pathologists, untrained listeners and nasometry

    Författare :Karin Brunnegård; Jan van Doorn; Anette Lohmander; Fiona Gibbon; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hypernasality; auditory perceptual evaluation; reliability; nasometer; nasalance; Logopedics and phoniatrics; Logopedi och foniatrik;

    Sammanfattning : Excessive nasal resonance in speech (hypernasality) is a disorder which may have negative communicative and social consequences for the speaker. Excessive nasal resonance is often associated with cleft lip and palate, velopharyngeal impairment, dysarthria or hearing impairment. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Detecting Rhetorical Figures Based on Repetition of Words: Chiasmus, Epanaphora, Epiphora

    Författare :Marie Dubremetz; Nivre Joakim; Dahllöf Mats; Marcel Cori; Graeme Hirst; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; digital humanities; figure of speech; rhetorical device; machine learning; annotation; Computational Linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the detection of three rhetorical figures based on repetition of words: chiasmus (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”), epanaphora (“Poor old European Commission! Poor old European Council.”) and epiphora (“This house is mine. This car is mine. LÄS MER

  4. 3. La syllepse. Étude d'une figure de rhétorique dans l'oeuvre de Francis Ponge

    Författare :Andreas Romeborn; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; syllepsis; Francis Ponge; figures of speech; stylistics; polysemy; homonymy; ambiguity; antanaclasis; zeugma; metaphor; word-play; fixed expressions; etymology; linguistic approaches to poetry;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation deals with the figure of speech called “syllepsis” and, more particularly, with the way it is used in the work of the French poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988). The aim of the study is to highlight and describe features characteristic of his use of syllepsis, by means of a qualitative approach, to begin with, and then through quantitative analyses, based on a corpus consisting of 90 texts. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Le titre de presse : Analyses syntaxique, pragmatique et rhétorique

    Författare :Françoise Sullet–Nylander; Andrée Borillo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; newspapers headlines; syntax and discourse; thematic structure; intertextual analysis; reported speech; polyphony; rhetorical figures; word-play; communicative functions; French language; Franska språket; French; franska;

    Sammanfattning : What are the linguistic characteristics of French newspapers headlines? Employing three aspects of linguistic analysis (syntax, pragmatics and stylistics), the present thesis describes and analyses the textual "genre" of the headline. The author regards a newspaper headline as an autonomous text which carries various functions within the newspaper's discourse and therefore has specific features as regards language use. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Dissertatio gradualis, hyperbolēn, sacris scriptoribus novi federis non indignam, adumbratura; quam, consent. ampliss. Facult. Philosoph. in Regia Academia Upsalensi, sub præsidio ... Johannis J. Amnell ... publicæ eruditorum censuræ submittit Jonas Ol. Coldén, ... Helsingus. In Acroat. Gustav. d. V. Jun. anno MDCCLV

    Författare :Johannes J. Amnell; Jonas Ol. Coldén; Johannes J. Amnell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek language; Figures of speech; Language and languages; Greek language; Language and languages - style; Figures of speech; Grekiska språket; Stilistik; Stilfigurer;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER