Sökning: "fixed expressions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden fixed expressions.
1. Korten på bordet. Innehålls- och uttrycksmässig variation hos svenska idiom
Sammanfattning : The dissertation recounts how thirty-six Swedish idioms consisting of a verb and complement are used in contemporary newspaper material found in the Bank of Swedish Linguistic Reference Databank of Göteborg University. All the expressions occur at least once per million running words in my corpus of almost 33.7 million running words. LÄS MER
2. La syllepse. Étude d'une figure de rhétorique dans l'oeuvre de Francis Ponge
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
3. Critères de figement : L’identification des expressions figées en français contemporain
Sammanfattning : Although there are units larger than the word in language, linguists have not been able to agree on a definition of these units. This study examines a variety of notions, relevant in the study of ”fixed” or ”frozen” expressions in contemporary French. LÄS MER
4. A Struggle for the Realm : Late-medieval Swedish rhyme chronicles as ideological expressions
Sammanfattning : The period from the mid-fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century was characterised by recurrent political turmoil and conflict in Scandinavia in general, and in Sweden in particular. Political power was contested, not least because of the disputed conditions on which the Swedish realm should be governed as part of the Scandinavian union monarchy. LÄS MER
5. Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about fixedness, or the process whereby orthographic words group together and congeal into fixed expressions that might subsequently reduce and become single words. The discussion focuses on three levels: realization, conceptualization, and discourse. LÄS MER