Sökning: "speech 2011"

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1. 6. 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

3. 7. Samtal om barn och pedagogisk dokumentation som bedömningspraktik i förskolan - En diskursanalys

   Författare :Lise-Lotte Bjervås; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; preschool children; pedagogical documentation; speech acts; modality; assumptions; hegemonic struggle; metaphor; interdiscursivity;

   Sammanfattning : The preschool, nowadays an intergral part of the educational system, is to be found within a welfare state and a knowledge economy, within a society characterized by the idea of lifelong learning. As a conse-quence of this, the preschool is also a part of a strong culture of assessment and measurement of children’s development and learning, and for this purpose there are different tools which may be used by teachers. LÄS MER

4. 8. Die Wiedergabe der Wirklichkeit : Textmuster, Kohärenzmarkierung und Redewiedergabe in deutschen und schwedischen Tageszeitungen

   Författare :Dag Sandahl; Tyska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; “The Reported Reality”; contrastive; German; Swedish; serious newspapers; genres; news; background material; three levels; text patterns; cohesion markers; grammatical and lexical means;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis, “Die Wiedergabe der Wirklichkeit” (“The Reported Reality”), explores from a contrastive perspective what linguistic strategies serious German and Swedish newspapers use in different text genres as they report from reality. Two German – die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and die Süddeutsche Zeitung – and two Swedish newspapers – Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet – are studied. LÄS MER

5. 9. From Acoustics to Articulation : Study of the acoustic-articulatory relationship along with methods to normalize and adapt to variations in production across different speakers

   Författare :Gopal Ananthakrishnan; Olov Engwall; Gérard Bailly; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Acoustic-Articulatory relationship; speaker normalization;

   Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis is the relationship between the articulation ofspeech and the acoustics of produced speech. There are several problems thatare encountered in understanding this relationship, given the non-linearity,variance and non-uniqueness in the mapping, as well as the differences thatexist in the size and shape of the articulators, and consequently the acoustics,for different speakers. LÄS MER

7. 10. Immigration, security and the public debate on US language policy : A critical discourse analysis of language attitudes in the United States of America

   Författare :Soraya Tharani; Anna-Brita Stenström; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; national identity; societal security; language policy; ethnolinguistic conflict; human rights; language rights; ethnicity; multilingualism; immigration; critical discourse analysis; language attitudes; English language; Spanish language; United States;

   Sammanfattning : The narrative of the United States is of a "nation of immigrants" in which the language shift patterns of earlier ethnolinguistic groups have tended towards linguistic assimilation through English. In recent years, however, changes in the demographic landscape and language maintenance by non-English speaking immigrants, particularly Hispanics, have been perceived as threats and have led to calls for an official English language policy. LÄS MER