Search for dissertations about: "African languages"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words African languages.

  2. 16. Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women

    Author : Lena Karlsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; autobiography; im migration; United States; diaspora; locational feminism; history; memory; place; home displacement; body; postmodern; subjectivity;

    Abstract : Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America. READ MORE

  4. 17. The Sango Language and Its Lexicon (S�nd�-y�ng� t� S�ng�)

    Author : Christina Thornell; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; lexical semantics; lexicology; language planning; language contact; functional linguistics; language typology; Ubangi language; pidgin creole; Sango; Central African Republic; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This doctoral dissertation is an overview of the recently arisen Sango language spoken in the Central African Republic. The overview contains a sociolinguistic and linguistic dimension with a lexical-semantic focus. READ MORE

  5. 18. Discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa : a corpus-based account of information structure and epistemic meaning

    Author : Karolina Zofia Grzech; Irina Nikolaeva; UK University of London Department of Linguistics School of Oriental and African Studies; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Quechua; Kichwa; Evidentiality; Discourse Markers; Information Structure; Linguistics; lingvistik;

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  6. 19. From Colonial Disruption to Diasporic Entanglements : Narrations of Igbo Identities in the Novels of Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani

    Author : Snezana Vuletic; Stefan Helgesson; Ansgar Nünning; Susan Arndt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; engelska;

    Abstract : With a general interest in Igbo identities, this study critically explores a set of questions which relate to the production, evolution and potential of ‘Igboness’ in literary fiction. The study approaches these questions while relying on two premises. READ MORE

  7. 20. Visual Poetic Memory : Ekphrasis and Image-Text in Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Wopko Jensma

    Author : Maria Ioana Zirra; Stefan Helgesson; Bo Ekelund; Stef Craps; Jahan Ramazani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual Memory; Ekphrasis; Image-text; 20th Century Anglophone Poetry; Seamus Heaney; Derek Walcott; Wopko Jensma; The Troubles in Northern Ireland; the Caribbean; Apartheid; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This dissertation traces ekphrastic and image-textual references to European, African and Caribbean visual memory in the work of the three Anglophone poets Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) and Wopko Jensma (South Africa). READ MORE