Search for dissertations about: "Japanese studies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 77 swedish dissertations containing the words Japanese studies.
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1. Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces
Abstract : This practice-led PhD-thesis draws on an existing Japanese movement practice called suriashi, which translates as sliding foot. Suriashi is a specific gender codified walking technique in classical Japanese dance and theatre, and an important method for acting on stage. READ MORE
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2. Spirit of Christ Inculturated- A Theological Theme Implicit in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works
Abstract : Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist. From 1950 to 1953, he studied French literature in Lyon, France. Returning from Lyon, Endo began his career as a novelist. His early works include: White Men, Yellow Men(1954), A Wonderful Fool(1959), The Women in the Bible(1960), Foreign Studies(1965), etc. READ MORE
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3. Japanese achievement, Chinese aspiration : a study of the Japanese influence on the modernisation of the Late Qing novel
Abstract : This dissertation concerns the early years of the modernisation of the novelin Japan and China, at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning ofthe twentieth century'. Taking as a starting point a speech made by ZhouZuoren (1885-1965) in 1918, the field of study is presented. Two of the foremostfigures in the process of modernisation, i.e. READ MORE
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4. Deictic Demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish : First and Third Language Perspectives
Abstract : The goal of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, it investigates the actual, native use of spatial-deictic demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish. READ MORE
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5. L1 Japanese Attrition and Regaining : Three Case Studies of Two Early Bilingual Children
Abstract : The present study reports three cases of LI Japanese loss and regaining (Shoko 3; 10, HI 5;5 and H2 7;0 at the time the subjects left Japan for non-Japanese environments) by two siblings (one of them was studied twice at two different times) who grew up as Japanese-English bilinguals from birth. It describes the lexical and syntactic changes of the language in details, discerns the nature of the loss, and investigates the relationship between attrition and age and pre-attrition proficiency. READ MORE