Search for dissertations about: "Thesis about language"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 611 swedish dissertations containing the words Thesis about language.
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1. Why the pond is not outside the frog? Grounding in contextual representations by neural language models
Abstract : In this thesis, to build a multi-modal system for language generation and understanding, we study grounded neural language models. Literature in psychology informs us that spatial cognition involves different aspects of knowledge that include visual perception and human interaction with the world. READ MORE
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2. Support, resistance and pragmatism : An examination of motivation in language policy in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Abstract : The Ukrainian society has gone through vast changes since independence in 1991 and in this thesis some of these social changes are discussed through the prism of language policy. The main topic of the study is language policy (conceptualised as language practices, language beliefs, and language management) in the eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv. READ MORE
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3. Viewpoints about Educational Language Policies : Multilingualism in Sweden and Switzerland
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4. Authentic Language : Övdalsk, metapragmatic exchange and the margins of Sweden’s linguistic market
Abstract : This compilation thesis engages with practices that in some way place stakes in the social existence of Övdalsk (also älvdalska, Elfdalian, Övdalian), a marginal form of Scandinavian used mainly in Sweden’s Älvdalen municipality. The practices at hand range from early 20th century descriptive dialectology and contemporary lay-linguistics to language advocacy and language political debate. READ MORE
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5. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language : From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs
Abstract : This dissertation explores the emergence of the linguistic use of pointing as first- and non-first-person pronoun in Greek Sign Language. Despite the similarity in form between the pointing gesture and pronominal pointing signs, children acquiring sign language pass through the same stages and acquire personal pronouns at about the same age as children acquiring spoken language. READ MORE