Search for dissertations about: "Sounds of English"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Sounds of English.

  2. 1. Outsiders and Others : Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse

    Author : Oscar von Seth; Claudia Lindén; Jack Halberstam; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermann Hesse; Peter Camenzind; Der Steppenwolf; outsiderness; otherness; queer friendship; homoeroticism; nonconformism; homosexuality; bisexuality; Bildungsroman; romantic friendship; heterosexual ambivalence; disability; animality; gender; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores how characters who embody outsiderness and/or otherness intersect with and connote queerness—such as, for instance, homoeroticism and nonconformism—in the novels Peter Camenzind (1904) and Der Steppenwolf (1927) by German-language author Hermann Hesse (1877–1962).In most of Hesse’s novels, the narrative revolves around a male protagonist who is characterized as an outsider. READ MORE

  4. 2. Sound and symbol in the dialogue of the works of Charles Dickens : a survey of the divergencies from normally received spellings in the dialogue of Dickens's works, together with an investigation into Dickens's methods of conveying an impression of divergent sounds of speech

    Author : Stanley Gerson; Stockholms universitet; []
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  5. 3. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson

    Author : Tove Solander; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Gabriele Griffin; Sara Danius; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shelley Jackson; senses; literary percepts; body art; object art; hypertext; fantastic fiction; minor writing; écriture féminine; queer theory; feminist theory; phenomenology; Gilles Deleuze; engelska; English; Aesthetics; estetik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. READ MORE

  6. 4. That voice sounds familiar : factors in speaker recognition

    Author : Erik J. Eriksson; Kirk P. H. Sullivan; Christopher Darwin; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; speaker recognition; accent; emotions; hearing; spectral moments; formant transitions; dialect; Cognitive science; Kognitionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Humans have the ability to recognize other humans by voice alone. This is important both socially and for the robustness of speech perception. This Thesis contains a set of eight studies that investigates how different factors impact on speaker recognition and how these factors can help explain how listeners perceive and evaluate speaker identity. READ MORE

  7. 5. English and other foreign linguistic elements in spoken Swedish : studies of productive processes and their modelling using finite-state tools

    Author : Anders Lindström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the question of what native speakers of Swedish do when items originating in English and several other foreign languages occur in their native language. This issue is investigated at the phonological and morphological levels of contemporary Swedish. READ MORE