Sökning: "pragmatics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 66 avhandlingar innehållade ordet pragmatics.

  1. 1. A War of Words: defining Terrorism in Arab and Israeli Press 1972-1996 (2001) : a Study in Propaganda, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Författare :Torkel Lindquist; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Nyckelord :Arabic; Hebrew; Media; Torah; Koran; Semantics; Terrorism; Propaganda; Pragmatics;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  3. 2. The neurophysiology of grammatical constraints : ERP studies on the influence of prosody and pragmatics on the processing of syntax and morphology in Swedish

    Författare :Mikael Roll; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; linguistics; event-related potentials; ERP; pragmatics; language processing; prosody; syntax;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the interaction of information from word order, morphology, lexical semantics, and prosody in the on-line processing of Swedish sentences using Event-Related Potentials. Study I examines how the form, meaning, and syntactic position of objects influence their interpretation in ‘Object Shift’ contexts. LÄS MER

  4. 3. God in the act of reference : A conceptual analysis of reference and reality and its consequences for the debate on religious realism and nonrealism

    Författare :Erica Appelros; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; reference; realism; nonrealism; Cupitt; reality; play; make-believe; pragmatics; God; Donnellan; Bezuidenhout; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies; tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation addresses the problem of reference actualised in religiousrealism's claim that religious nonrealism is religiously inadequate since init "God" does not refer to a God existing independently of human conceptualisations. The study aims to show that the referential argument against religious nonrealism is not necessarily successful once the existential and referential presumptions of the argument are critically examined. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Spoken Lingua Franca English at a Swedish Technical University : An investigation of form and communicative effectiveness

    Författare :Beyza Björkman; Philip Shaw; John M. Swales; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English as a lingua franca ELF ; engineering; higher education; form; pragmatics; attitudes; communicative effectiveness; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : As a part of the process of globalization, an increasing number of higher education institutions are adopting English as the medium of instruction for parts of their education. Within most universities in continental Europe, there are English as a lingua franca (ELF) settings where English is spoken by users of a wide spectrum of first languages for various purposes, be it for academic activity or social interaction. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Japanese Imperative

    Författare :Axel Svahn; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; imperative; directive; semantics; pragmatics; grammaticalization; honorification; benefactivity; directive strategy; directive system; Japanese; imperativ; japanska; semantik; pragmatik; språkvetenskap; lingvistik; grammatikalisering; satstyper;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis explores Japanese imperative constructions from a general linguistic perspective, as well as examining the imperative as a cross-linguistic object of study. On the definitional side, a terminological apparatus for the description and analysis of imperatives and directives is presented. LÄS MER