Search for dissertations about: "Ecology and language"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Ecology and language.

  2. 11. "There's a bad time coming" : Ecological Vision in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence

    Author : Anne Odenbring Ehlert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Lawrence; D. H. 1885-1930 ; social criticism; literature and the environment; ecocriticism; literary ecology; ecological philosophy; holism; biocentrism; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study aims to shed new light on the relation between humankind and nature in D. H. Lawrence's fiction. While this may seem like well-trodden ground in Lawrence criticism, my reading is ecocritical and re-examines his texts through the perspective of today's environmental awareness. READ MORE

  4. 12. Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia : Using G.I.S. to reconstruct ancient ethnogenetic processes from archaeology, linguistics, geography, and ethnohistory

    Author : Love Eriksen; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Amazonia; archaeology; linguistics; anthropology; geography; ethnohistory; Arawak; GIS; ethnogenesis; terra preta; pre-Columbian; ethnicity; regional exchange system; material culture;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the socio-cultural and linguistic development of pre-Columbian Amazonia, with a particular focus on the period between 500 BC and AD 1500. In assembling and analyzing data from archaeology, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, and geography in a Geographical Information System (G.I.S. READ MORE

  5. 13. Learning English in a Multi-User Virtual Environment : Exploring Factors Affecting Participation

    Author : Airong Wang; Mats Deutschmann; Mercedes Rico Garcia; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Activity theory; Conversational Analysis; Discourse analysis; Ecology of language learning; Model of factors affecting participation; Multi-User Virtual Environment; Participation; Second Life; The sociocultural perspective on learning; Technology adoption;

    Abstract : Online language learning and teaching is a field that has received a significant amount of research attention. What factors could affect student participation in simpler online learning environments has been investigated by researchers, but there has been limited study of factors affecting participation in complex Multi-User Virtual Environments. READ MORE

  6. 14. Meeting diversities in maritime education. A blend from World Maritime University

    Author : Jan Horck; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; multi-cultural; culture; multi-language; language; IMO; WMU; maritime; pedagogy; Bronfenbrenner; MET;

    Abstract : To address a diversified student complement in academic studies is becoming more and more frequent in maritime education and training. Diversity challenges are also the reality onboard ships that muster a multicultural crew complement. READ MORE

  7. 15. Are you ready for a wet live-in? : explorations into listening

    Author : Janna Holmstedt; Ylva Gislén; Per Nilsson; Jörgen Dahlqvist; Jesper Olsson; Kristina Lindström; Åsa Ståhl; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; artistic research; listening; situated practices; sound in art; expanded art; expanded scenography; media ecology; acousmatic orality; a orality; storytelling; interspecies communication; more-than-human relations; co-habitation; sensorial estrangement; posthumanism; parasites; play; technology; dolphins; sonic sensibility; transliteracy; voice; performativity; new materialism; Michel Serres; Karen Barad; John Lilly; oceans; wet live-in; Artistic research; Listening; Situated practices; Sound in art; Expanded art; Expanded scenography; Media ecology; Acousmatic orality; A orality; Storytelling; Interspecies communication; More-than-human relations; Co-habitation; Sensorial estrangement; Posthumanism; Parasites; Play; Technology; Dolphins; Sonic sensibility; Transliteracy; Voice; Performativity; New materialism; Michel Serres; Karen Barad; John Lilly; Oceans; Wet live-in;

    Abstract : Listen. If I ask you to listen, what is it that I ask of you—that you will understand, or perhaps obey? Or is it some sort of readiness that is requested? What occurs with a body in the act of listening? How do sound and voice structure audio-visual-spatial relations in concrete situations?This doctoral thesis in fine arts consists of six artworks and an essay that documents the research process, or rather, acts as a travelogue as it stages and narrates a series of journeys into a predominantly sonic ecology. READ MORE