Sökning: "pragmatics"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 66 avhandlingar innehållade ordet pragmatics.

  1. 6. Die Modalpartikeln ja, doch und schon : Zu ihrer Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik

    Författare :Elisabet Ormelius-Sandblom; Tyska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sentence mood; asser; illocutionary force; ja; German modal particles; doch; schon; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; XP; adjunct of VP; non-attitudinal; non-referential; affirmative; adversative; facticity; focus-background structure; theme-rheme structure; German language and literatur; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to show how modal particles can be integrated into a modular description of language where grammar and pragmatics are seen as two independent but interacting modules. The modular approach is chosen because of the problems connected with a functional approach. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Nuclear Intonation in Swedish : Evidence from Experimental-Phonetic Studies and a Comparison with German

    Författare :Gilbert Ambrazaitis; Fonetik; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; parallel encoding; contrastive topic; new information; given information; focus; information structure; pragmatics; nucleus; sentence accent; prosody; word accent; F0; early peak; perception; reaction time;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates Swedish intonation patterns and their interaction with word accent realisation in various pragmatic conditions, using German as a reference language. The point of departure is the wide-spread assumption that Swedish, as a language with a tonal word accent distinction, has a considerably smaller repertoire of nuclear intonation contours than German and other so-called intonation languages. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Language and Vision. Using visual information in real-world language situations

    Författare :Richard Andersson; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; commmunication; visual context; visual world; pragmatics; ecological validity;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the role of visual context information in communication. All accounts of language processing and communication agree that visual context is beneficial for understanding. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue

    Författare :Karin Axelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tag questions; fiction dialogue; direct speech; spoken conversation; pragmatics; corpus-based study; BNC; British English;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation

    Författare :Erika Berglind Söderqvist; Merja Kytö; Angela Hoffman; Marta Carretero; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Evidentiality; spoken language; English; corpus linguistics; gender; style; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. LÄS MER