Search for dissertations about: "concepts of time"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 864 swedish dissertations containing the words concepts of time.

  2. 11. Julian, God, and the Art of Storytelling : A Narrative Analysis of the Works of Julian of Norwich

    Author : Godelinde Gertrude Perk; Berit Åström; Virginia Langum; Liz Herbert McAvoy; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English literature; narratology; Middle English; Julian of Norwich; medieval literature; women s writing; engelska; English; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study offers a narrative comparison of A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, the two texts created by the first known English woman writer, Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416). READ MORE

  4. 12. Towards a semantics of linguistic time : exploring some basic time concepts with special reference to English and Krio

    Author : Johan Nordlander; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Krio; distinction; tense; temporality; mood; modality; aspect; aspectuality; nucleus; dynamicity; verbal constituency; verbal situation; phase; stative; state; processive; process; eventive; event; telic; bounded; Kreolspråk; Sierra Leone; Krio språk ; syntax; Västafrika;

    Abstract : Using English and the West-African creole language Krio as the objects of investigation, this study proposes an analysis in which verbs and the paradigms pertaining to verbs are conceived of as being the only direct carriers of linguistic time encoding. The fundamental assumption is that nominals encode substance, be it concrete or abstract, and that verbals encode abstract substance with time. READ MORE

  5. 13. Civic Cultures in Eastern Europe : Communication spaces and media practices of Estonian civil society organizations

    Author : Liisa Sõmersalu; Göran Bolin; Anne Kaun; Maria Bakardjieva; Tobias Olsson; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; Estonia; Eastern Europe; space; activist media practices; civic cultures; media; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

    Abstract : What kind of routine media and communication practices do Estonian civil society organizations enact in their everyday work? What sort of symbolic and physical spaces are used, created, and accessed by Estonian civil society organizations and informal citizen groups when engaging internally and with their target groups? How do these spaces and practices evolve over time? These are the questions this dissertation addresses, with the aim of understanding the ways in which already-established and evolving civil society organizations navigate the highly-mediated everyday through their routine media practices and the spaces in which these practices are situated.Theoretically, this study takes a cultural approach to political participation with the concept of ‘civic cultures’ (Dahlgren 2009, p. READ MORE

  6. 14. Evaluation of passenger train concepts : Methods and results of measuring travellers' preferences in relation to cost

    Author : Karl Kottenhoff; KTH; []
    Keywords : TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Politicians would like the railways to help to solve futuretransport and environmental problems. People can travel to andfrom work and on business during the day on modern trains whichare faster than any other alternative on journeys ofintermediate length. READ MORE

  7. 15. Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile

    Author : Juris Rozītis; Prof. Baiba Kangere; Prof. Vieda Skultans; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bakhtin; chronotope; Displaced Person; émigré; exile; immigrant literature; Latvia; Latvian literature; Latvian history; life-story; narrative; novel; postwar Germany; refugee; setting; space; time; time-space; UNRRA; WWII; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. READ MORE