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  1. 21. Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories

    Författare :Ulrica Skagert; Paul Schreiber; Mark Levene; Rosemary Sullivan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alice Munro; fate; possibility-space; compellation; phenomenology; Canadian literature; short story; realism; Alain Badiou; Maurice Natanson; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : With its perennial interest in the seemingly ordinary lives of small-town people, Alice Munro’s fiction displays a deceptively simple surface reality that on closer scrutiny reveals intricate levels of unexpected complexity about the fundamentals of human experience: love, choice, mortality, faith and the force of language. This study takes as its main purpose the exploration of Munro’s stories in terms of the intricacy of emotions in the face of commonplace events of life and their emerging possibilities. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Segrarnas sorgsna eftersmak : Om autenticitetssträvan i Stig Larssons romaner

    Författare :Peter Berglund; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Authenticity; change; late modernism; postmodernism; insignificance; literary impressionism; everyday life; everyday language; performativity; dialogue; ugliness; violence; humiliation; existentialism; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : At the heart of this thesis are the Swedish author Stig Larsson’s novels: Autisterna (The Autistic, 1979), Nyår (New Year, 1984), Introduktion (Introduction, 1986) and Komedin I (The Comedy I, 1989). The purpose is to illuminate how certain central activities in the novels contribute strongly to the actual formation of these works. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Imperial Freedmen and Roman Society : A study on the social standing of imperial freedmen as expressed in literary and epigraphic sources in the early Roman Empire

    Författare :Lisa Hagelin; Gerd Haverling; Gunhild Vidén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; imperial freedmen; emperor; status; social history; early empire; Pliny; Tacitus; Seneca; Latin epigraphy; Rome; Latin language; Latin; Latin; Latin;

    Sammanfattning : This study discusses the imperial freedmen’s standing in Roman society as it is expressed in literary and epigraphic sources. It has often been assumed that the traditional elite had a general negative attitude towards this group, and previous scholars have interpreted the social standing of the imperial freedmen very differently due to the discrepancy between the legal status and the social status of these freedmen. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Riskabla samtal : en analys av potentiella faror i skolans kvarts- och utvecklingssamtal

    Författare :Johan Hofvendahl; Jan Anward; Anna Lindström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Parent-student-teacher conference; conversation analysis; strategy; risk; Kvartssamtal; utvecklingssamtal; samtalsanalys; strategi; risk; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, conversation analysis (CA) is applied to study “risk strategies” in parent-teacher-student conferences in the Swedish nine-year compulsory school. The material consists of 80 conferences collected at two different points in time: 45 from the period 1992–93 (at that time called kvartssamtal, lit. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Automated question answering : template-based approach

    Författare :Eriks Sneiders; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :automated question answering; FAQ answering; question-answering system; template-based question answering; question template; natural language based interface;

    Sammanfattning : The rapid growth in the development of Internet-basedinformation systems increases the demand for natural langu-ageinterfaces that are easy to set up and maintain. Unfortunately,the problem of understanding natural language queries is farfrom being solved. LÄS MER