Search for dissertations about: "Stephen H. Levinsohn"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Stephen H. Levinsohn.
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1. Participant Reference in Three Balochi Dialects : Male and Female Narrations of Folktales and Biographical Tales
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
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2. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)
Abstract : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. READ MORE
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3. From Oral to Written : A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives
Abstract : Wakhi is one of the endangered “Pamir” languages belonging to the East Iranian group of Indo-European. A total of around 72,000 Wakhi speakers live in the border areas of four countries: Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. This study focuses on the Wakhi spoken in Tajikistan, which for a long time was unwritten. READ MORE