Search for dissertations about: "The progressive"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 871 swedish dissertations containing the words The progressive.
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1. Progressive Women, Traditional Men : The Politics of 'Knowledge' and Gendered stories of 'Development' In the Northern Periphery of the EU
Abstract : This dissertation in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies is an ethnographic account of the meaning and politics of social scientific "knowledge production", exemplified in gendered stories of regional "development" in the inland northern Swedish province of Jämtland, after Sweden's 1995 entry into the EU and the cultural meanings they assign to men and women. European integration is experienced as an ongoing peripheralization of modernity, registered in visions of regional "development" centered on the heteronormatively defined ideal of jämställdhet (equality between men and women) and on the "resources" of place and history, forged in a cultural imaginary shared by social scientific researchers, state agencies, and grass-roots "practitioners". READ MORE
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2. The Progressive in 19th-Century English : A Process of Integration
Abstract : The present work is a corpus-based study of the English progressive during the 19th century. The study is based on Conce, a one-million-word corpus covering the period 1800–1900 and comprising seven genres, both speech-related and non-speech-related. READ MORE
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3. The Woke Franchise : Representing and Co-opting Resistance in Young Adult, Superhero, and Speculative Fiction
Abstract : In the last decade, U.S. popular literary culture has been under increasing pressure to include more racially and other marginalized groups. READ MORE
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4. Progressive constructions in Swedish
Abstract : This thesis aims to provide new insights into the semantic properties of some progressive constructions in Swedish and to provide better understanding of aspect in Swedish. The five included studies present analyses of previously understudied as well as more familiar progressive constructions, based on authentic language data. READ MORE
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5. The Autonomous and the Passive Progressive in 20th-Century Irish
Abstract : The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh, ‘letters were dispatched’) and the passive progressive (e.g. READ MORE