Search for dissertations about: "paraphrase"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word paraphrase.
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1. Paraphrase and Rhetorical Adjustment: An Essay on Contextualism and Cohesion
Abstract : This thesis is dedicated to two distinct but convergent issues: the possibility of paraphrase and an account of context sensitivity on the basis of textual cohesion (or coherence). The possibility of explaining contextual specifications of meaning as a side effect of establishing textual cohesion is explored through an investigation into the nature of texts. READ MORE
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2. Detection and Aptness: A study in metaphor detection and aptness assessment through neural networks and distributional semantic spaces
Abstract : Metaphor is one of the most prominent, and most studied, figures of speech. While it is considered an element of great interest in several branches of linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics and stylistics, its automatic processing remains an open challenge. READ MORE
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3. Threads and Images : The Use of Scripture in Apophthegmata Patrum
Abstract : This study is devoted to the use of the Bible in the Greek systematic collection of Apophthegmata Patrum (AP). After an introductory survey of earlier research on the use of Scripture in general, and that of AP in particular, the main purpose of the investigation is formulated: to describe how the Bible text is contextualized, i.e. READ MORE
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4. Identical, But Still Different : On Artistic Appropriation in Visual Art
Abstract : In this dissertation about artistic appropriation I acknowledge that something indeed has happened in art. Visual art does not have to look in any special way anymore, or have historically validated content that can be visually grasped. Within this precondition artistic appropriation is situated. READ MORE
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5. The Textual History of Kavikumārāvadāna : The relations between the main texts, editions and translations
Abstract : This study consists of three main parts. Part I contains introductory matter and a presentation of the manuscript material which contains stories about Kavikumāra, one of the Buddha’s earlier lives, and a rough classification of the material. READ MORE