Search for dissertations about: "language death"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words language death.

2. 1. The transience of American Swedish

   Author : Staffan Klintborg; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; transfer; pragmatic markers; nonce-borrowing; markedness; language loss; language death; language attrition; language alternation; divergence; convergence; continuum; contact linguistics; codeswitching; avoidance; American Swedish; automaticity; triggering; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns two languages in contact: English and Swedish. It is based on interviews with Swedes who came to North America with the last major wave of emigration. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. Mutual implications: otherness in theory and John Berryman's poetry of loss

   Author : Elias Schwieler; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; absence; anasemia; commentary; death; departure; dialogue; figural; literal; literature; loss; mutual implications; nostalgia; origin; otherness; perspective; philosophy; poetry; presence; subversive; theory; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English;

   Abstract : This thesis examines John Berryman’s poetry of loss together with four different theoretical perspectives. It is the purpose of the study to involve Berryman’s poetry and critical theory in a dialogue which attempts to break down the hierarchy that positions theory as the subject and literature or poetry as the object of study. READ MORE

6. 4. Ways of Being Free : Authenticity and Community in Selected Works of Rushdie, Ondaatje and Okri

   Author : Adnan Mahmutovic; Paul Schreiber; Claudia Egerer; Louise Bethlehem; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; existential angst; death; freedom; authenticity; individualism; communalism; orthodoxy; heritage; community; inoperative community; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : Iconized migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential “nervous conditions,” caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in literary criticism. READ MORE

7. 5. Crucifixion in Antiquity : An Inquiry into the Background of the New Testament Terminology of Crucifixion

   Author : Gunnar Samuelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; crucifixion; cross; death of Jesus; Bible; New Testament; church; Christianity; philology; semantics; Jesus; execution; death sentence; impaling; suspension punishment; Golgotha; Calvary; ancient language; classical languages; Classical Greek; Latin; Hebrew Aramaic; ancient Greece; Roman empire; Roman world; Jerusalem;

   Abstract : This study investigates the philological aspects of how ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic texts, including the New Testament, depict the practice of punishment by crucifixion. A survey of the ancient text material shows that there has been a too narrow view of the “crucifixion” terminology. READ MORE