Search for dissertations about: "genres"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 93 swedish dissertations containing the word genres.

2. 1. Gods, Grammars, and Genres : Towards an Ethics of English Studies in Imperial Sovereignty

   Author : Noah Roderick; Janice Neuleib; USA IL Normal Illinois State University Department of English; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grammar; genre; sovereignty; english studies; rhetoric; language; pedagogy; Engelska; English; Retorik; Rhetoric; Education; Pedagogik; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : In this dissertation, the author argues that the post-process movement towards genre-based writing pedagogies is reproducing the logic of neoliberal or free-market ideology. By analyzing the relationship between three paradigms of sovereignty (feudalism, the nation-state, and globalization) and institutionalized language, the author demonstrates that teaching writing as multiple and genred as opposed to teaching it as a single, abstract skill is no a more rational approach, but rather a differently rational approach. READ MORE

4. 2. Fixed and fluid : Negotiating genre metastability in instructional practice

   Author : Björn Kindenberg; Anders Philipsson; Iben Christiansen; Beverley Derewianka; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; genres; genre-based writing; history; genre metastability; case study; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

   Abstract : In this compilation licentiate thesis, two studies, concerned with genre and genre-based writing, are synthesized and discussed. Genres are often used as a pedagogical device for teaching the writing of educationally valued texts. READ MORE

5. 3. Value awareness in web site design

   Author : Emma Eliason; Karin Hedström; Carina Ihlström Eriksson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Inherited; Swedish municipalities; Value awareness; Genres; Web design; Informatics; Informatik; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Informatik; Informatics;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to develop knowledge about value-awareness in website design. To achieve the aim - this thesis investigates values in thedesign of Swedish municipality web sites through a perspective ofinherited values. It covers the designer perspectives’ intentions andreasons as well as user experiences and expectations. READ MORE

6. 4. Language Processing and Contextual Influence. A study of Swedish preschool children with language impairment

   Author : Christina Reuterskiöld; foniatri och audiologi Logopedi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; auditive system and speech; audiology; Otorhinolaryngology; naming; idioms; narration; genres; nonword repetition; context; language impairment; Otorinolaryngologi; audiologi; hörsel- och talorganen;

   Abstract : Language Processing and Contextual Influence A Study of Swedish Preschool Children with Language Impairment The aim of the present work was to study different types of contextual influence on language performance in a variety of tasks: repetition of nonwords, narration, understanding of idioms and picture naming in a group of Swedish preschool children with language impairment (LI). The stress pattern of words and nonwords was found to have an impact on the repetition performance of the participants. READ MORE

7. 5. Discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC): BUOYS, PALM-UP and SAME : Variation, functions and position in discourse

   Author : Sílvia Gabarró-López; Laurence Meurant; Gemma Barberà; Belgium Université de Namur; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Discourse markers; genres; segmentation of signed discourse; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

   Abstract : This dissertation aims to contribute to the field of discourse analysis by focusing on three discourse marker candidates, namely buoys, PALM-UP and the sign SAME, in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The first issue in the study of discourse markers is their identification, which has been based on three criteria: to be syntactically optional, to be non-truth-conditional and to constrain the inferential mechanisms of interpretation processes. READ MORE