Search for dissertations about: "dimensional adjectives"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words dimensional adjectives.
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1. Swedish Dimensional Adjectives
Abstract : The purpose of this study is to give a thorough and detailed account and analysis of the semantics of twelve Swedish dimensional adjectives: hög ’high/tall’, låg ’low’, bred ’broad/wide’, smal ’narrow’ vid ’broad’, trång ’narrow’, tjock ’thick’, tunn ’thin’, djup ’deep’, grund ’narrow’, lång ’long’ and kort ’short’. Focus has been placed on their spatial, non-metaphorical sense. READ MORE
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2. Conceptual Contrasts : A Comparative Semantic Study of Dimensional Adjectives in Japanese and Swedish
Abstract : The present study explores the concepts behind Japanese and Swedish dimensional adjectives. The focus is on examining which similarities and differences in the conceptualisation across the two languages exist, if any at all. READ MORE
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3. The Road From Damascus : New Arrival Immigrant Families and The Swedish Preschool
Abstract : The overall aim of this doctoral thesis is to examine the perceptions that new arrival immigrant families have of Swedish preschool, and the perceptions of these families as expressed by the Swedish state preschool political discourse over the last fifty-year period. For this purpose, the study uses critical discourse analysis, as proposed by Norman Fairclough. READ MORE