Search for dissertations about: "Other Germanic languages"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Other Germanic languages.

2. 1. Modality and Subordinators in the Germanic Languages and beyond

   Author : Jackie Nordström; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Germanic languages; factuality; subordinators; modality; propositional modality; general subordinators; that; if; whether; indicative; subjunctive; epistemic modality; irrealis; realis; Swedish;

   Abstract : This thesis argues that general subordinators, such as the Germanic THAT and IF, denote propositional modality. Propositional modality stands for the “speaker’s attitude to the truth-value or factual status of the proposition” (Palmer 2001:24) and is otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. The Scandinavian sporting tour : A case study in geographical imagology

   Author : Pia Sillanpää; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tourism; tourism history; travel; travel writing; Geographical Imagology; image; Jämtland; Tröndelag; Scandinavian; British travellers; fishing; shooting; hunting; sporting gentlemen; imperialism; exploration; Other Germanic languages; Övriga germanska språk;

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6. 4. Victorian and Edwardian Travellers and the Mid-Nordic Region : A Study in Geographical Imagology and Tourism

   Author : Pia Sillanpää; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jämtland; Tröndelag; Scandinavia; British tourists; travel; tourism; hunting; fishing; shooting; History subjects; Historieämnen; Other Germanic languages; Övriga germanska språk;

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7. 5. Verb complementation in Swedish and other Germanic languages : studies in comparative syntax

   Author : Sture Ureland; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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