Search for dissertations about: "discourse relations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 146 swedish dissertations containing the words discourse relations.
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1. The Communicative State : Political Public Relations and the Rise of the Innovation Hype in Sweden
Abstract : Government agencies in Sweden are experiencing a communicative turn where notions concerning branding, image and identity have become standardized tools and concerns. Public relations, with its focus on persuasion and creating relations with external actors, is part of this communicative turn. READ MORE
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2. Contributions to Shallow Discourse Parsing : To English and beyond
Abstract : Discourse is a coherent set of sentences where the sequential reading of the sentences yields a sense of accumulation and readers can easily follow why one sentence follows another. A text that lacks coherence will most certainly fail to communicate its intended message and leave the reader puzzled as to why the sentences are presented together. READ MORE
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3. Narratives and Bilateral Relations : Rethinking the "History Issue" in Sino-Japanese Relations
Abstract : The overarching aim of the thesis is to present a framework that makes possible an understanding of bilateral relations that challenges mainstream International Relations (IR) approaches through a study of the “history issue” in Sino-Japanese relations. A secondary aim is to provide an alternative understanding of this issue. READ MORE
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4. Risk, language and discourse
Abstract : This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice. Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). READ MORE
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5. The Architecture of Result Relations : Corpus and experimental approaches to Result coherence relations in English
Abstract : Two fundamental components of causality are the Cause and the Result. In linguistic work the distinction between these aspects is commonly blurred, presumably because the primary research focus has been on describing how language encodes causality. READ MORE