Search for dissertations about: "foregrounding"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word foregrounding.

2. 6. Language policy from below : Bilingual education and heterogeneity in post-apartheid South Africa

   Author : Peter Plüddemann; Christopher Stroud; Nancy Hornberger; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bilingual education; mother tongue; language policy from below; heterogeneity; multilingualism; language ideology; South Africa; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism;

   Abstract : The present thesis on bilingual education, with its foci on linguistic heterogeneity and language policy 'from below', covers the first 15 years in the officially multilingual new South Africa. The post-apartheid era has seen South Africa's pro-multilingual Constitution and the language-in-education policy for schools being sidelined in favour of an English-oriented mindset. READ MORE

4. 7. Approaching Mathematical Discourse : Two analytical frameworks and their relation to problem solving interactions

   Author : Andreas Ryve; Kimmo Eriksson; Inger Wistedt; Anna Sfard; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Didactics of Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Analytical approaches; Communication; Concept maps; Contextualization; Discourse; Engineering students; Higher Education; Intentional analysis; Methodological framworks; Problem solving; Prospective teachers; Student teachers; Teacher education; Theoretical frameworks; MATHEMATICS; MATEMATIK; Matematik tillämpad matematik;

   Abstract : The driving force of conducting the two studies presented in this thesis is to examine ways that conceptual understanding and problem solving could be part of mathematics teaching, and through that, part of students' mathematical knowledge. The specific aims of the thesis are: 1) to characterize the classroom discourse of two, apparently similar, problem solving courses in teacher education and 2) to discuss the possibilities of developing two analytical approaches - the communicational approach to cognition and the dialogical approach - used for studying mathematical discourse. READ MORE

5. 8. Almost There : Approaches to Closure in the Works of Sylvia Plath

   Author : Anna Svensson; Rolf Lundén; Erik Löfroth; Steven Gould Axelrod; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : English language; Sylvia Plath; closure; endings; death; creative process; poetry; journals; life writing; Engelska; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This study of Sylvia Plath’s writings investigates aspects of representations of life and life stories. It is composed of three distinct analyses, the shared feature being their focus on the connection between narrative closure and closure in life. READ MORE

6. 9. Transitivity in discourse : A comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish

   Author : Ann Lindvall; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agentivity; affectedness; aspect; boundedness; cognitive semantics; definiteness; discourse semantics; dynamism; functionalism; givenness; Greek; language typology; lexical semantics; modality; Modern Greek; Polish; transitivity; Swedish; translation; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Abstract : This work assumes that various linguistic forms in different languages are related to common cognitive functions and semantic properties. A cognitive function - presumably universal - is information transmission. READ MORE

7. 10. Rewinding Internationalism. An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary

   Author : Nick Aikens; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; exhibitions; the curatorial; the political imaginary; internationalism; the 1990s;

   Abstract : ‘Rewinding Internationalism: An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary’ investigates the relationship between exhibition making, processes of inquiry and the political. The project originates from, and takes place through, my own practice as a curator and aims to articulate how this relationship can be understood as mutually generative. READ MORE