Search for dissertations about: "idioms"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word idioms.
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1. Studies in Corpora and Idioms : Getting the cat out of the bag
Abstract : “Idiomatic” expressions, usually called “idioms”, such as a dime a dozen, a busman’s holiday, or to have bats in your belfry are a curious part of any language: they usually have a fixed lexical (why a busman?) and structural composition (only dime and dozen in direct conjunction mean ‘common, ordinary’), can be semantically obscure (why bats?), yet are widely recognized in the speech community, in spite of being so rare that only large corpora can provide us with access to sufficient empirical data on their use.In this compilation thesis, four published studies focusing on idioms in corpora are presented. READ MORE
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2. Language Processing and Contextual Influence. A study of Swedish preschool children with language impairment
Abstract : Language Processing and Contextual Influence A Study of Swedish Preschool Children with Language Impairment The aim of the present work was to study different types of contextual influence on language performance in a variety of tasks: repetition of nonwords, narration, understanding of idioms and picture naming in a group of Swedish preschool children with language impairment (LI). The stress pattern of words and nonwords was found to have an impact on the repetition performance of the participants. READ MORE
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3. Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible, An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
Abstract : It is evident that the term hendiadys, which is derived from the classical rhetorial tradition has for hundred of years been frequently applied to constructions and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This study investigates on which constructions and components in the Hebrew Bible that the term hendiadys is applied to, and hence which phenomena that induces the use of the term. READ MORE
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4. Shun the Pun, Rescue the Rhyme? : The Dubbing and Subtitling of Language Play in Film
Abstract : Language-play can briefly be described as the wilful manipulation of the peculiarities of a linguistic system in a way that draws attention to these peculiarities themselves, thereby causing a communicative and cognitive effect that goes beyond the conveyance of propositional meaning. Among the various phenomena answering this description are the different kinds of puns, but also more strictly form-based manipulations such as rhymes and alliteration, in addition to a host of other, sometimes even fuzzier, subcategories. READ MORE
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5. Idioms Unlimited. A study of non-canonical forms of English verbal idioms in the British National Corpus
Abstract : The study is a corpus-based investigation of the semantic, lexical, and grammatical flexibility of English verbal idioms, focusing on qualitative analyses of examples of current British English usage. 300 verbal idioms - i.e. idioms that consist of a verb and a complement, e. READ MORE