Search for dissertations about: "corpus linguistics"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 86 swedish dissertations containing the words corpus linguistics.

  2. 21. Organizational Trust : Discourse Analytical and Experimental Perspectives

    Author : Matteo Fuoli; Kognition och Discourse@Lund (SKD@L) Språk; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; organizational trust; corporate discourse; trust repair; evaluation; appraisal theory; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; experimentation; multi-method approaches; reliability; triangulation;

    Abstract : This thesis employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of linguistic analysis to investigate how business organizations use discourse as a strategic tool to build and repair stakeholders’ trust. In addition, the thesis makes a methodological contribution by developing a novel corpus annotation method that offers solutions to some of the most significant challenges involved in reliably identifying and quantifying evaluation. READ MORE

  4. 22. Audience design in interaction: studies on urban adolescent spoken languages

    Author : Julia Forsberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; Adolescent speech; English in Sweden; Referee design; Audience design; Map-task;

    Abstract : Speakers of a language carry with them a set of language ideologies, i.e. beliefs about norms and rules in relation to that language. One such ideology is a standard language ideology, which is generally associated with prescriptive beliefs connected to linguistic standardness and correctness. READ MORE

  5. 23. The acquisition of nominal compounding in Swedish

    Author : Ingmarie Mellenius; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nominal compounds; modifier; head; liaison form; language acquisition; conceptual combination; compounding; word formation; Swedish; child language; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : In Swedish, as in other North Germanic languages, compounds are very common and a majority of the novel words in Swedish are compounds. This thesis aims at a presentation of compounding in Swedish and the problems involved in describing compounding, but mainly at an empirically founded description of children's creation and use of novel compounds and developing comprehension of compounds, especially nominal compounds. READ MORE

  6. 24. Word Meaning Negotiation in Online Discussion Forum Communication

    Author : Jenny Myrendal; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; linguistics; pragmatics; computer-mediated communication; CMC; dialogue; semantic coordination; word meaning negotiation; discussion forum communication; conversation analysis; CA;

    Abstract : We all know that lexicons contain definitions of the meanings of words, but when we communicate with other people, these are not the kinds of meaning we use in interaction. In conversation, we coordinate with each other in a meaning-making process where we make use of a more flexible semantic quality associated with words, called meaning potential. READ MORE

  7. 25. Investigating Communicative Feedback Phenomena across Languages and Modalities

    Author : Loredana Sundberg Cerrato; David House; Marianne Gullberg; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with human communicative behaviour related to feedback, analysed across languages (Italian and Swedish), modalities (auditory versus visual) and different communicative situations (human-human versus human-machine dialogues). The aim of this study is to give more insight into how humans use communicative behaviour related to feedback and at the same time to suggest a method to collect valuable data that can be useful to control facial and head movements related to visual feedback in synthetic conversational agents. READ MORE