Search for dissertations about: "reader role"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the words reader role.

  2. 1. Thoughts in Motion : The Role of Long-Term L1 and Short-Term L2 Experience when Talking and Thinking of Caused Motion

    Author : Guillermo Montero-Melis; Emanuel Bylund; T. Florian Jaeger; Henriëtte Hendriks; Lars Fant; Barbara C. Malt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Linguistic relativity; language and thought; conceptualization; thinking for speaking; semantic typology; lexicalization patterns; events; caused motion; bilingualism; second language acquisition; transfer; adaptation; priming; Spanish; Swedish; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

    Abstract : This thesis is about whether language affects thinking. It deals with the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which proposes that the language we speak influences the way we think. This hypothesis is investigated in the domain of caused motion (e.g. READ MORE

  4. 2. Exploring the Effects of ICT on Environmental Sustainability: From Life Cycle Assessment to Complex Systems Modeling

    Author : Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei; Åsa Moberg; Göran Finnveden; Lorenz M. Hilty; Chris Preist; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Information and communication technology ICT ; sustainability assessment; electronic media; tablet; print media; magazine; Internet; energy; environmental impact; life cycle assessment LCA ; System Dynamics; agent-based modeling; differential equations; simulation modeling; complex and dynamic systems modeling; Informations- och kommunikationsteknik IKT ; hållbarhetsbedömning; elektroniska media; surfplatta; tryckta media; tidskrift; Internet; energi; miljöpåverkan; simulering; differentialekvationer; modellering av komplexa och dynamiska system; System Dynamics; livscykelanalys LCA ; agentbaserad modellering; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; Informations- och kommunikationsteknik; Information and Communication Technology; Industriell ekologi; Industrial Ecology; Tillämpad matematik och beräkningsmatematik; Applied and Computational Mathematics;

    Abstract : The production and consumption of information and communication technology (ICT) products and services continue to grow worldwide. This trend is accompanied by a corresponding increase in electricity use by ICT, as well as direct environmental impacts of the technology. Yet a more complicated picture of ICT’s effects is emerging. READ MORE

  5. 3. Demographic Journeys along the Silk Road : Marriage, Childbearing, and Migration in Kyrgyzstan

    Author : Lesia Nedoluzhko; Gunnar Andersson; Jan Hoem; Hill Kulu; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; marriage; childbearing; migration; ethno-cultural differences; Kyrgyzstan; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the limited demographic literature on Central Asia – the region through which led the great Silk Road – an ancient route of trade and cultural exchange between East and West. We focus on Kyrgyzstan and countries in its immediate neighborhood: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. READ MORE

  6. 4. Seven Years That Shook Economic and Social Thinking : Reflections on the Revolution in Communist Economics 1985-1991

    Author : Bengt Svensson; Thomas Jonter; Ulf Jonsson; Ronny Pettersson; Ann-Mari Sätre Åhlander; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; perestroíka; planned economy; labour theory of value; socialist market; market socialism; market economics; shock therapy; gradual transition; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

    Abstract : The main theme of this study is to analyze the Soviet economic theoretical debate in the period 1985 – 1991. This period of reconstruction gave possibilities of a more free debate. READ MORE

  7. 5. Gendered Migration Patterns within a Sex Segregated Labor Market

    Author : Maria Brandén; Gunnar Andersson; Elizabeth Thomson; Hill Kulu; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; family migration; gender; tied moving; regional mobility; earnings; occupation; sex segregation; co-residence; migration distance; education; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Abstract : When a couple moves, the woman is often placed at a disadvantage. Moves are more often motivated by men’s career advancement opportunities, and men tend to gain more economically from moving. In this thesis, these patterns are examined with an eye on the role of sex segregation on the labor market. READ MORE