Search for dissertations about: "Swedish Literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1221 swedish dissertations containing the words Swedish Literature.

2. 1. Pearl and Contemplative Writing

   Author : Annika Sylén-Lagerholm; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; dream visions in literature; mysticism and literature; Thomas Aquinas and literature; Pseudo-Dionysius in England; religion and literature; literature and theology; medieval English poetry; women and medieval literature; Middle English literature; Gawain author; contemplative writers in medieval England; Pearl author; Pearl; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. READ MORE

4. 2. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy

   Author : Jane Mattisson; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wessex -- Thomas Hardy; rural skills in literature; literature and society -- nineteenth century; epistemology and literature; evolution in literature; Pierre Bourdieu and literature; education in literature; sociolinguistics and literature; sociology and literature; Victorian fiction; Key words: Thomas Hardy; nineteenth-century fiction; history and literature -- nineteenth century; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : Abstract This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. READ MORE

5. 3. Swedish Dimensional Adjectives

   Author : Anna Vogel; Staffan Hellberg; Lena Ekberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dimensional adjectives; semantics; cognitive linguistics; Swedish; spatial; antonymy; prototype theory; polysemy; corpus-based; elicitation test; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to give a thorough and detailed account and analysis of the semantics of twelve Swedish dimensional adjectives: hög ’high/tall’, låg ’low’, bred ’broad/wide’, smal ’narrow’ vid ’broad’, trång ’narrow’, tjock ’thick’, tunn ’thin’, djup ’deep’, grund ’narrow’, lång ’long’ and kort ’short’. Focus has been placed on their spatial, non-metaphorical sense. READ MORE

6. 4. Developing narrative competence : Swedish, Swedish-German and Swedish-Turkish children aged 4–6

   Author : Josefin Lindgren; Ute Bohnacker; Sharon Unsworth; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; narratives; macrostructure; referent introduction; vocabulary; preschool children; bilingualism; Swedish; German; Turkish; MAIN; ENNI; CLT; berättande; makrostruktur; referentintroduktion; ordförråd; förskolebarn; flerspråkighet; svenska; tyska; turkiska; MAIN; ENNI; CLT; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the development of oral narrative competence from age 4 to 6 in Swedish monolinguals (N=72) and in both languages of Swedish-German (N=46) and Swedish-Turkish (N=48) bilinguals growing up in Sweden. Picture-based fictional narratives were elicited with Cat/Dog and Baby Birds/Baby Goats from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN, Gagarina et al. READ MORE

7. 5. Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish

   Author : Petra Hansson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intonation.; spontaneous speech; optimality theory; prominence; grouping; phrasing; Southern Swedish; Swedish; speech planning; speech production; speech perception; prosody; phonology; phonetics; Fonetik; fonologi;

   Abstract : One of the most important functions of prosody is to divide the flow of speech into chunks. The chunking, or prosodic phrasing, of speech plays an important role in both the production and perception of speech. READ MORE