Search for dissertations about: "conversational writing"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words conversational writing.

2. 1. Conversational Writing : A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication

   Author : Ewa Jonsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; CMC; computer-mediated communication; conversational writing; chat; computer chat; ICQ; IRC; Internet relay chat; multidimensional; Biber’s dimensions; synchronous CMC; supersynchronous CMC; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This study is a linguistic investigation of two genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC), namely two modes of conversational writing: ‘Internet relay chat’ (synchronous CMC) and ‘split-window ICQ chat’ (supersynchronous CMC). The study employs Douglas Biber’s multifeature multidimensional methodology, taking into account the six dimensions of textual variation in English identified in his 1988 book Variation across speech and writing (i. READ MORE

4. 2. I tweet like I talk : Aspects of speech and writing on Twitter

   Author : Peter Wikström; Erica Sandlund; Solveig Granath; Andrea C. Schalley; Ruth Page; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social media; Twitter; speech; writing; orality; literacy; CMC; remediation; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates linguistic and metalinguistic practices in everyday Twitter discourse in relation to aspects of speech and writing. The overarching aim is to investigate how the spoken–written interface is reconfigured in the digital writing spaces of social media. READ MORE

5. 3. Cognition and communication in children/adolescents with cochlear implant

   Author : Tina Ibertsson; foniatri och audiologi Logopedi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; cochlear implant; working memory; conversational skills; request for clarification; reading; hearinr impairment; writing;

   Abstract : A cochlear implant (CI) is a device that provides individuals with severe to profound hearing impairment (SPHI) with auditory stimulation, which makes it possible for them to develop skills related to spoken communication. We have little knowledge about how hearing with a CI influences cognitive and communicative development and there is a need for development of methods for assessment. READ MORE

6. 4. Generative lessons of exclusion : re-considering everyday-living experience and approaching its meaningful description

   Author : Susan Scott Flobecker; Lennart Svensson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; qualitative social science inquiry; empirical phenomenology; everyday experience; intersubjectivity; methodology; syncretic generativity; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : Generally addressed in this dissertation writing are the problematic of everyday experience as an empirical social science concern, the problematic of social science as an everyday pedagogical experience, the topic of sense formation as a generative psycho-social event, and the topic of intersubjectivity as meaningful social unity. Generally offered is an alternative understanding, approach and method for a particular kind of qualitative social science inquiry treating everyday experience and shared experience, the kind enlisting experiencer accounts and aiming to describe associated experiencer meanings. READ MORE

7. 5. Problems of language and communication in children; Identification and intervention

   Author : Barbro Bruce; foniatri och audiologi Logopedi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; auditive system and speech; Otorinolaryngologi; audiology; Medicin människa och djur ; Otorhinolaryngology; Interaction; Medicine human and vertebrates ; Intervention; Screening; Language and communication problems; audiologi; hörsel- och talorganen; ADHD; Identification; language development;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses identification and intervention of language and communication problems in children. The issue of identification is addressed in study I by investigating communicative ability in 18-month-old children, and in study II by exploring the prevalence of language and communication problems in children with complex problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). READ MORE