Search for dissertations about: "Discourse structure"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 117 swedish dissertations containing the words Discourse structure.
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1. Contributions to Shallow Discourse Parsing : To English and beyond
Abstract : Discourse is a coherent set of sentences where the sequential reading of the sentences yields a sense of accumulation and readers can easily follow why one sentence follows another. A text that lacks coherence will most certainly fail to communicate its intended message and leave the reader puzzled as to why the sentences are presented together. READ MORE
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2. Integrating Prosody into an Account of Discourse Structure
Abstract : In this thesis a study of discourse segmenting is carried out, which investigates both segment boundaries and segment content. The results are related to discourse theory. We study the questions of how the prosody and the text structure influence subjects' annotations of discourse boundaries and discourse prominence. READ MORE
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3. Discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa : a corpus-based account of information structure and epistemic meaning
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4. Creating spaces for action. ANC-women politicians' views on bridewealth and gender-related power
Abstract : The first aim of this work has been to analyse and understand the ways in which a group of ANC-women politicians reason about bridewealth/lobola – an institution about which they express differing views, in particular about whether or not it is oppressive to women. The main body of the empirical material is based on 27 interviews conducted in South Africa in the period 1996-1998. READ MORE
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5. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations
Abstract : This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. READ MORE