Search for dissertations about: "corpus, genre study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words corpus, genre study.

2. 1. A Local Grammar of Cause and Effect : A Corpus-driven Study

   Author : Christopher Allen; Geoffrey Barnbrook; Christopher Gledhill; Susan Hunston; UK Univeristy of Birmingham; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Local grammar; Biomedical English; Corpus-driven; Humaniora; Humanities;

   Abstract : This thesis puts forward a specialized, functional grammar of cause and effect withinthe sub-genre of biomedical research articles. Building on research into the localgrammars of dictionary definitions and evaluation, the thesis describes the applicationof a corpus-driven methodology to description of the principal lexical grammaticalpatterns which underpin causation in scientific writing. READ MORE

4. 2. The Subject of the Verbal Gerund : A Study of Variation in English

   Author : Susanna Lyne; Merja Kytö; Hilde Hasselgård; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; BNC; British National Corpus; corpus linguistics; genitive; genre; gerund; ing-form; Late Modern English; linguistic variation; multivariate analysis; possessive; prescriptivism; Present-day English; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This study deals with variation between possessive/genitive and objective/plain forms of the subject of the verbal gerund clause (VGC) in Present-day and Late Modern British English, as in Would you object to my [me] paying her a visit? and Poor timing of spoonfuls can lead to the child’s [the child] feeling frustrated. According to the traditional prescriptivist view, the possessive/genitive form is the preferred variant. READ MORE

5. 3. Engagement in Medical Research Discourse: A Multisemiotic Discourse-Semantic Study of Dialogic Positioning

   Author : Daniel Lees Fryer; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; engagement; medical research discourse; social semiotics; systemic functional linguistics; dialogic theory; linguistics; semiosis; multisemiosis; multimodality; intersemiosis; intermodality; corpus linguistics; genre; disciplinarity; ideology;

   Abstract : This study investigates how medical researchers engage with a background of prior and anticipated utterances in a collection of highly cited English-language medical research articles. Taking a multisemiotic, systemic-functional approach, I examine the verbal, visual, and mathematical resources used by medical research writers to construe, engage with, and position themselves in relation to a dialogic background of different voices, positions, and propositions. READ MORE

6. 4. ”Completely Headless”. Modification of adjectives in Swedish advanced learners' English

   Author : Viktoria Börjesson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish advanced learners; written English; spoken English; degree modification; adjectives; modifiers; reinforcers; attenuators; collocation; learner corpora; learner English; formal register; informal speech; genre awareness; academic writing; comparative study; contrastive interlanguage analysis;

   Abstract : This is a corpus-based, empirical study, which investigates Swedish advanced learners’ written and spoken English with regard to modification of adjectives, both reinforcing (e.g. totally different, very nice) and attenuating (e.g. READ MORE

7. 5. Adjectives complemented by that- and to-clauses : Exploring semantico-syntactic relationships and genre variation

   Author : Henrik Kaatari; Merja Kytö; Christer Geisler; Gerold Schneider; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : The present compilation thesis investigates adjectives complemented by that- and to-clauses. More specifically, the thesis is concerned with extraposed (e.g. it is likely that she will win and it is important to win) and post-predicate clauses (e. READ MORE