Search for dissertations about: "Discourse structure"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 117 swedish dissertations containing the words Discourse structure.

  2. 1. Contributions to Shallow Discourse Parsing : To English and beyond

    Author : Murathan Kurfalı; Robert Östling; Mats Wirén; Christian Hardmeier; Amir Zeldes; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; discourse; discourse relations; shallow discourse parsing; transfer learning; multilinguality; low-resource nlp; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    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

  4. 2. Integrating Prosody into an Account of Discourse Structure

    Author : Sofia Gustafson-Capková; David House; Elisabet Engdahl; Merle Horne; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Discourse structure; Discourse segment; Dialogue; Monologue; Swedish prosody; Speaking style; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    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

  5. 3. 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. 4. Creating spaces for action. ANC-women politicians' views on bridewealth and gender-related power

    Author : Frida Nilsson; Tom Burns; Birgitta Holm; Marianne Liljeström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; ANC-women; bridewealth lobola; discourse; discursive strategy; gender; gender-related power; hermeneutic approach; structure; agency; self-reflexivity; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi;

    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

  7. 5. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations

    Author : Mats Johansson; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Engelska språk och litteratur ; English language and literature; information structure; ground; focus; discourse topic; topic; theme; discourse; fronting; wh-clefts; it-clefts; pseudo-cleft constructions; cleft constructions; bidirectional translation corpus; translation; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; Swedish; English; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    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