Search for dissertations about: "Discourse devices"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Discourse devices.
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1. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)
Abstract : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. READ MORE
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2. Hegemony and the Intellectual Function : Medialised Public Discourse on Privatisation in Sweden 1988-1993
Abstract : This dissertation offers a theorisation of the ways in which the intellectual function is performed through various subject positions. In the thesis, a post-Marxist approach to discourse theory is used to address questions of discursive shifts, hegemony and the intellectual function. READ MORE
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3. Language and interaction in online asynchronous communication in university level English courses
Abstract : Interaction involves people communicating and reacting to each other. This process is key to the study of discourse, but it is not easy to study systematically how interaction takes place in a specific communicative event, or how it is typically performed over a series of repeated communicative events. READ MORE
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4. The Rhetoric of Pravda Editorials : A Diachronic Study of a Political Genre
Abstract : The present study considers the diachronic changes that took place in Soviet political discourse as reflected in six selections of Pravda editorials from the 1920s through the 1950s, as well as slogans and headlines in that newspaper from 1917 through 1933. The principal goal of analyses conducted on various levels is to identify and investigate a number of tendencies demonstrating the gradual transformation of the language of revolution into totalitarian language. READ MORE
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5. Second language discourse in and out of classrooms : studies of learner discourse in the acquisition of Swedish as a second language in educational contexts
Abstract : A common theme for the papers in this thesis is a discourse perspective and an interactionist view on second language acquisition/learning and teaching. The results point at substantial differences between instructional activities as far as opportunities for meaningful interaction is concerned with important implications for language teaching. READ MORE