Search for dissertations about: "Linguistic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 492 swedish dissertations containing the word Linguistic.

2. 1. Authentic Language : Övdalsk, metapragmatic exchange and the margins of Sweden’s linguistic market

   Author : David Karlander; Kenneth Hyltenstam; Christopher Stroud; Tomas Riad; Judith T. Irvine; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; authenticity; history of linguistic thought; indexicality; linguistic anthropology; linguistic minorities; metalanguage; metapragmatics; philosophical anthropology; Övdalsk; autenticitet; filosofisk antropologi; indexikalitet; lingvistisk antropologi; metaspråk; metapragmatik; språkliga minoriteter; språkvetenskapens idéhistoria; älvdalska; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

   Abstract : This compilation thesis engages with practices that in some way place stakes in the social existence of Övdalsk (also älvdalska, Elfdalian, Övdalian), a marginal form of Scandinavian used mainly in Sweden’s Älvdalen municipality. The practices at hand range from early 20th century descriptive dialectology and contemporary lay-linguistics to language advocacy and language political debate. READ MORE

4. 2. Relativizing linguistic relativity : Investigating underlying assumptions about language in the neo-Whorfian literature

   Author : Ingrid Björk; Åke Viberg; Pär Segerdahl; Talbot J. Taylor; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Linguistics; Linguistic relativity hypothesis; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Language and thought; Neo-Whorfianism; Lingvistik; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Abstract : This work concerns the linguistic relativity hypothesis, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which, in its most general form claims that ‘lan-guage’ influences ‘thought’. Past studies into linguistic relativity have treated various aspects of both thought and language, but a growing body of literature has recently emerged, in this thesis referred to as neo-Whorfian, that empirically investigates thought and language from a cross-linguistic perspective and claims that the grammar or lexicon of a particular language influences the speakers’ non-linguistic thought. READ MORE

5. 3. Participant Reference in Three Balochi Dialects : Male and Female Narrations of Folktales and Biographical Tales

   Author : Maryam Nourzaei; Carina Jahani; Stephen H. Levinsohn; Henrik Liljegren; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; Coastal Balochi; Koroshi Balochi; Sistani Balochi; folktales; biographical tales; participant reference; default and marked encoding; orality; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study is to investigate how men and women in three Iranian Balochi dialects, Coastal Balochi, Koroshi Balochi and Sistani Balochi, refer to 3rd person participants in oral narratives of two genres: folktales and biographical tales. The stories that are analysed were recorded during several field trips to Iran and the approach used is that of Levinsohn (1994, 2015). READ MORE

6. 4. Linguistic style and persuasion

   Author : Rolf Sandell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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7. 5. The Role of Linguistic Context in the Acquisition of the Pluperfect : Polish Learners of Swedish as a Foreign Language

   Author : Bronisława Zielonka; Staffan Hellberg; Gisela Håkansson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; aspect; aktionsart; tense; pluperfect; indication of topic time; time of action; linguistic context; target verb; linguistic factors inhibiting facilitating acquisition; stepwise multiple regression; partial effect; order of acquisition; sequence of acquisition.; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk;

   Abstract : This work consists of two parts: the theoretical and the experimental. In the theoretical part, some general and some language specific theories of tense, aspect and aktionsart are presented, and the temporal systems of Swedish and Polish are compared. The theoretical part is not a mere review of the literature on the subject. READ MORE