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  2. 1. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue

    Author : Karin Axelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tag questions; fiction dialogue; direct speech; spoken conversation; pragmatics; corpus-based study; BNC; British English;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. READ MORE

  4. 2. Konsten att uppfinna hjulet två gånger : om uppfinnandets teknik och estetik

    Author : Karin Havemose; Bo Göranzon; Lena Fritzén; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Invention; innovation; reflective practice; analogical thinking; dialogue; tacit knowledge; epistemology; History of technology; Teknikhistoria; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Industrial engineering and economy;

    Abstract : “There is no need to reinvent the wheel” – a cliché, often told when you want to come up with something new that in someway can be connected to something that already exist. This study shows the opposite – that inventions emanate from what is given. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Mimetic Mystery : A linguistic study of the genre of British and American detective fiction including a comparison with suspense fiction

    Author : Margit Bönnemark; Tuija Virtanen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

    Abstract : The present study is an analysis of the genre of detective fiction from a predominantly linguistic point of view.The main hypothesis is that the addresser's aims determine not only the content of a text but also its discursive and textual properties. READ MORE

  6. 4. Schooling Emotional Intelligence Through Narrative and Dialogue. Implications for the education of children and adolescents

    Author : Martina Campart; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arbetspsykologi; Industrial psychology; epistemic analysis; narrative modes of knowing; narrative modes of thought; modes of learning; conversation; applied psychoanalysis; Emotions; emotional intelligence; industripsykologi; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik;

    Abstract : Abstract The point of departure for this study is the author's experience as educator in a residential home for children (age 6-14) with social-emotional problems, in Italy, between 1980 and 1989. One important element of the pedagogical approach was the use of narratives (personal, of others, of fiction) to prompt children's interest/ motivation to reflect about issues of personal concern. READ MORE

  7. 5. Biblical Allusion in Three Charles Dickens Condition-of-England Novels

    Author : Yuanyuan Zhu; Åke Bergvall; Anna Swärdh; Dominic Rainsford; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical allusion; Charles Dickens; Condition-of-England novels; social critique; satire; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study investigates how Charles Dickens employs biblical allusion in three Condition-of-England novels: Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57). Drawing on the concepts of dialogism and stratification defined by M. M. Bakhtin and rhetorical situation by Lloyd F. READ MORE