Search for dissertations about: "Engelska språket"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 164 swedish dissertations containing the words Engelska språket.

  2. 16. In the shoes of a soldier : Communication in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam narratives

    Author : Mats Tegmark; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This is a study of the American writer Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They Carried. Unlike previous O'Brien scholarship, which is either historical-biographical or formalistic, focusing on the contextual meaning or the literary merits of his narratives, this dissertation studies O'Brien's war narratives within a functional and communicative paradigm. READ MORE

  4. 17. Second Person Singular Pronouns in Early Modern English Dialogues 1560-1760

    Author : Terry Walker; Merja Kytö; Ulrich Busse; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; thou; you; variation; Early Modern English; speech-related genres; extra-linguistic factors; linguistic factors; macro-analysis; micro-analysis; corpus linguistics; historical pragmatics; historical sociolinguistics; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a corpus-based investigation examining thou and you from 1560 to 1760 in three speech-related genres: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy. Previous research has focused on Drama Comedy; especially little attention has been paid to Depositions. READ MORE

  5. 18. Contraction in British newspapers in the late 20th century

    Author : Margareta Westergren Axelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This investigation of verb contractions (e.g.I'm and it's) and NOT-contractions (don't and haven't) uses two samples of British newspaper text from 1994 and 1961. The 1994 material, compiled for this study, is carefully matched to the press categories of the well-known LOB corpus of written British English. READ MORE

  6. 19. The Language of English Newspaper Editorials from a 20th-Century Perspective

    Author : Ingrid Westin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; 20th-century English; corpus linguistics; diachronic studies; dimensions of variation; editorials; newspapers; textual dimensions; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This work is a corpus-based study of the language of English up-market ("quality") newspaper editorials, covering the period 1900-1993. CENE, the Corpus of English Newspaper Editorials, was compiled for the purposes of this study and comprises editorials from the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and The Times chosen to represent periods at ten-year intervals. READ MORE

  7. 20. Apologising in British English

    Author : Mats Deutschmann; Patricia Poussa; Terttu Nevalainen; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; apology; speech act; politeness; Brown Levinson; power; solidarity; sociolinguistic variation; pragmatics; BNC; corpus linguistics; British English; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English; Other Germanic languages; Sociology; Linguistic subjects;

    Abstract : The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. READ MORE