Sökning: "sociolinguistics and literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 52 avhandlingar innehållade orden sociolinguistics and literature.
1. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. LÄS MER
2. Le verlan à l'écran : Emploi, représentation et traduction du verlan en suédois dans les sous-titres de films et séries français des quatre dernières décennies (1984-2020)
Sammanfattning : Verlan, the linguistic phenomenon which consists of inverting syllables in the same word, emerged in the 1970s in the outskirts of Paris. It was initially regarded as part of the sociolect Urban French Vernacular and associated with youth language as well as with the suburban estates. LÄS MER
3. Language and Literacy : Some fundamental issues in research on reading and writing
Sammanfattning : Mainstream research on reading and writing is based on the assumption, common in modern linguistics, that spoken language is primary to written language in most important respects. Unfortunately, the conceptual framework for the study of language and 'literacy' (encompassing both reading and writing skills) is built around this assumption. LÄS MER
4. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation
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
5. Languages and Linguistic Exchanges in Swedish Academia : Practices, Processes, and Globalizing Markets
Sammanfattning : Based on four separate studies, this thesis deals with Swedish academia and its dwellers, with an eye toward accounting for matters of languages and linguistic exchanges. The perspectives and thinking-tools of Pierre Bourdieu form the basis of the main leitmotif, albeit extended with insights from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. LÄS MER
