Search for dissertations about: "discourse function"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 79 swedish dissertations containing the words discourse function.
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21. Parents, Power, Poverty: On choice and responsibility on two parental communities
Abstract : This dissertation explores discourses about parenthood and subject ideals as they manifest in two Swedish parental web communities. The aim is to examine the perceived division of responsibility between the parents themselves and the institutions of the welfare state and furthermore to map out and deconstruct tensions between demands understood to be assigned to the parent and to society, respectively. READ MORE
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22. Fields of Gold : The Bioenergy Debate in International Organizations
Abstract : The concept of producing energy from biomass has, for the last two decades, occupied attention of policy-makers, private industries, researchers and civil societies around the world. The highly contested and contingent character of the biofuel production, its entanglement in the nexus of three problematic issues of energy, climate and agriculture, as well as its injection into the current socioeconomic arrangements, is what makes it timely to analyse. READ MORE
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23. 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
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24. Mastering the question : the acquisition of interrogative clauses by Finnish-speaking children
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to chart the development of interrogative syntax among Finnish-speaking children between the ages of 1 to 4 years living in Sweden. The material consists of language samples taken from eleven Sweden-Finnish children with Finnish as their first language. READ MORE
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25. Changing Identities : Language Variation on Czech Television
Abstract : This study examines different aspects of language variation in contemporary Czech television discourse. The modern Czech language is characterised by a specific linguistic situation in which speakers must choose between two varieties – Standard Czech (SC) and Common Czech (CC). READ MORE