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1. 1. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter : a study of animal designations in metaphoric usage in Swedish dialects

   Författare :Annika Karlholm; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Wörter und Sachen; animal designation; subject word; special designation; semiotics; cognitive semantics; metaphor; abstract similarity metaphor; correlational metaphor; image metaphor; linguistic metaphor; conceptual metaphor; tools; utility goods; culture; cognition; categorization; polysemy; homonymy; meaning development; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER

3. 2. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter

   Författare :Annika Karlholm; Institutionen för nordiska språk Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Wörter und Sachen; animal designation; subject word; special designation; semiotics; cognitive semantics; metaphor; abstract similarity metaphor; correlational metaphor; image metaphor; linguistic metaphor; conceptual metaphor; tools; utility goods; culture; cognition; categorization; polysemy; homonymy; meaning development; Nordiska språk; svenska språket; svenska dialekter; djurbeteckning; ämnesord; specialbeteckning; metaforer; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk; Dialectology; Dialektforskning;

   Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER

4. 3. Gjutningens arenor : Metallhantverkets rumsliga, sociala och politiska organisation i södra Skandinavien under bronsåldern

   Författare :Anna Sörman; Anders Andrén; Alison Klevnäs; Christopher Prescott; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age; southern Scandinavia; bronze casting; metalworking; craft production; craft organisation; workshops; social organisation; elite; heterarchy; prestige goods; social reproduction; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : Production and use of metalwork in southern Scandinavia during the Bronze Age (1700-500 BC) has above all been attributed to emerging elites. That bronze was a source and medium for social power is evident from its use in socio-political and ritual spheres, the multiple skills and elaborate aesthetics involved in its crafting, and the arenas for influence and control offered by the acquisition of metals through long-distance exchange. LÄS MER

5. 4. Essays on Economics of Natural Resource Management and Experiments

   Författare :Wisdom Akpalu; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Optimal taxation; Efficiency; Externality; Dynamic analysis; Firm behaviour; Fishery; Regulatory compliance; Common pool resources; Experiment; Ostracism; Contribution norm; Public goods; Ghana;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis has five self-contained essays. The titles and the abstracts of the various essays are as follows. Paper 1: Natural Resource use Conflict: Gold Mining in Tropical Rainforest in Ghana: Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. LÄS MER

7. 5. Transport and environment incentive policy instruments : effects and interactions

   Författare :Xing Liu; Lars Hultkrantz; James Odeck; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Congestion pricing; Equity effects; Modal choice; Social marginal cost; Externalities; Transport taxation; Carbon tax; Carbon leakage; Computable General Equilibrium Model; VTTS; Simultaneous decision model; Random utility model; Logistics cost minimization; Additionality; Klimp; Climate subsidy program; Subsidy; CDM; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies issues related to the evaluation of the effects and interactions of transport and environmental incentive policy instruments. Essay 1: Green cars sterilize congestion charges: a model analysis of the reduced impact of Stockholm road tolls calibrates a modal-choice model with data from the Stockholm road toll and uses it to study the sensitivity of congestion toll effects to some seemly subtle changes in the toll system design and external circumstances. LÄS MER