Sökning: "utterances"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 127 avhandlingar innehållade ordet utterances.

  1. 1. Livsfrågor och religionskunskap : En belysning av ett centralt begrepp i svensk religionsdidaktik

    Författare :Björn Falkevall; Staffan Selander; Karin Sporre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; religious education; curriculum studies; teacher education; questions of life; existential questions; dialogicity; utterances; chains of utterances; Subject didactics; Ämnesdidaktik; Didactics; didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on “livsfrågor” (questions of life) a typical Swedish concept introduced in the RE syllabus in the curriculum for compulsory schools in 1969. The study poses three questions: what can qualify as a “livsfråga”, why are they regarded important, and how do they fit into teaching? The main purpose is to study differences of the concept in two materials. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions

    Författare :Karin Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ancient ornithology; birds; bird symbolism; divination; double motivation; divine intervention; Homer s Iliad; identity; messenger; metaphorical utterances; oral tradition; parallelism; semiotics; species interactions; transformation; transmitter; Trojan war;

    Sammanfattning : As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. LÄS MER

  4. 3. (De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan

    Författare :Anna Wärnsby; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; semiotics; syntax; modal verbs; modality; English-Swedish Parallel Corpus; epistemic; deontic; dynamic; indeterminacy; Controllability; Transitivity; Data Mining; pragmatics; Engelska språk och litteratur ; semantics; Grammar; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the mechanisms of (de)coding modality, focusing on the interpretation of utterances containing the modals must, may, måste, and kan. The main research question posed in this study is what enables the interlocutors to interpret modal expressions so that communicative goals are achieved. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Reformulation et conversation : De la sémantique du topos aux fonctions interactionnelles

    Författare :Coco Norén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Romance languages - general; reformulation; repetition; paraphrase; the Theory of Argumentation Within Language; argumentation; topos; polyphony; connectors; conversation; interaction; politeness; rhetoric; Romanska språk - allmänt; Romance languages; Romanska språk; Romance Languages; Romanska språk;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the linguistic phenomenon of "reformulation" which occurs frequently in everyday conversation. The study is based on a corpus of nine dialogues (5 1/2h.) between French speakers in their twenties. In a first step, reformulation is described from a semantic point of view. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Situated Embodiment : Studies in the emergence of spatial meaning

    Författare :Jordan Zlatev; Chris Sinha; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : What does it mean to know a language? How do children acquire language, seemingly spontaneously? How is intersubjective linguistic meaning made possible? How are people able to understand utterances which they have not heard before? General questions such as these are of primal concern for modem theoretical linguistics. At the same time the dominant theoretical approach to answering them, generativism, has given rise to persistent anomalies and confusions. LÄS MER