Sökning: "speakers"

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1. 1. Understanding virtual speakers

   Författare :Jens Nirme; The Educational Technology Group; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Verbal Comprehension; Multimodality; Audiovisual integration; Gesture; Educational Technology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses how verbal comprehension is affected by seeing the speaker and in particular when the speaker is an animated virtual speaker. Two people visually co-present – one talking and the other listening, trying to comprehend what is said – is a central and critical scenario whether one is interested in human cognition, communication or learning. LÄS MER

3. 2. Blindness and Second Language Acquisition : Studies of Cognitive Advantages in Blind L1 and L2 speakers

   Författare :Helena Smeds; Niclas Abrahamsson; Lars-Göran Nilsson; Loraine Obler; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early blindness; late blindness; L1 speakers; L2 speakers; cognitive advantages; second language acquisition; phonological short-term memory; recognition memory; episodic memory; speech perception in noise; accentedness in L2 speech; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate whether blind individuals display cognitive advantages over sighted individuals with regard to second language acquisition. Previous studies from neuropsychology have indicated that this is the case. LÄS MER

4. 3. Andraspråkstalare i arbete : En språkvetenskaplig studie av kommunikation vid ett svenskt storföretag

   Författare :Marie Nelson; Britt-Louise Gunnarsson; Ulla Börestam; Catrin Norrby; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; workplace interaction; immigrants; second language speakers; interactional sociolinguistics; ethnography; communicative network; relational talk; professional writing; social integration; Swedish language; Svenska språket; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the everyday communication of second language speakers in a major Swedish company. On the basis of eighteen interviews with permanently employed industrial and office workers, who came to Sweden as adults from countries outside the Nordic region where non-Germanic languages are spoken, five individuals were chosen for observation. LÄS MER

5. 4. To fix what’s not broken : repair strategies in non-native and native english conversation

   Författare :Charlotta Plejert; Richard Hirsch; Jan Anward; Jan Svennevig; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Repair; non-native speakers; native speakers; conversation analysis; foreign language conversation; language learning; English language.; Engelska språket; samtalsanalys; språkinlärning; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates conversations involving native speakers and non-nativespeakers of English. The non-native speakers partaking in the study have a welldeveloped knowledge of the foreign language. LÄS MER

7. 5. Diskurspartiklar hos ungdomar i mångspråkiga miljöer i Malmö

   Författare :Gudrun Svensson; Lena Ekberg; Catrin Norrby; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; varieties; liksom; typ; du vet; bara; ba; ju; grammaticalization; functional grammar; speech acts; native speakers; information structure; conversational analysis; non-native speakers; contemporary Swedish; adolescents; discourse particles; casual talk; disourse particles; Swedish language; Svenska språket Nordiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates the use of the discourse particles duvet (you know), ju (as you know), ba(ra) (just), liksom (like), and typ (sort of) among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Malmö. The data is drawn from a corpus of 6 hours’ spontaneous group conversations between female participants. LÄS MER