Search for dissertations about: "givenness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word givenness.

  2. 1. One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish

    Author : Philip Diderichsen; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Accessibility; Referring expressions; Eye-tracking; Givenness; Spoken Danish; Visual World paradigm; Definiteness; Spoken language processing;

    Abstract : It is a hallmark of natural language use that the way we talk about something reflects how it is represented in the mind of our conversation partner. This thesis studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. READ MORE

  4. 2. Transitivity in discourse : A comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish

    Author : Ann Lindvall; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agentivity; affectedness; aspect; boundedness; cognitive semantics; definiteness; discourse semantics; dynamism; functionalism; givenness; Greek; language typology; lexical semantics; modality; Modern Greek; Polish; transitivity; Swedish; translation; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This work assumes that various linguistic forms in different languages are related to common cognitive functions and semantic properties. A cognitive function - presumably universal - is information transmission. READ MORE

  5. 3. A steady flameless light : the phenomenology of realness in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's The brimming cup, Her son's wife and Rough-hewn

    Author : Annika Ljung-Baruth; Hans Löfgren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study investigates the way in which experience comes to givenness in three novels by the early twentieth century American writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958). By utilizing a model of affectivity set up by the French phenomenologist Michel Henry, the investigation uncovers unthematized strata in The Brimming Cup (1921), Rough-Hewn (1922), and Her Son’s Wife (1926) in which subjectivity is phenomenalized as auto-affective and immanent. READ MORE

  6. 4. "Unsought, presented so easily" : A Phenomenological Study of Awe in the Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Author : Elisabet Dellming; Paul Schreiber; Kevin Hart; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gerard Manley Hopkins; poetry; awe; experience; phenomenol-ogy; the sensuous; metaphor; époche; invisible life; revelation; eschatology; English; engelska;

    Abstract : As a phenomenon, awe is not reducible to any combination of distinct elements such as wonder, fear or reverence, but combines all of these together with surprise or even anguish. The metaphors with which awe can be described therefore never fully define what it feels like to be affected by awe: awe is motion, elevation, lightness, and flight. READ MORE

  7. 5. Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : a phenomenological study

    Author : Joakim Sigvardson; Danuta Fjellestad; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Thomas Pynchon; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The investigation studies Thomas Pynchon’s givenness in terms of three strata of manifestation: the arty, the rhizomatic, and the acosmic.Utilizing a new affective turn implemented within the phenomenological movement by Michel Henry, the study proposes that alongside a rhizomatic mode of accessibility promoting transcendence, investigates the manifestation of this ontological withholding by carrying out the phenomenological reduction established by Edmund Husserl, and by elucidating the phenomenon of immanence in the literary text by means of a theory of auto-affection rooted in—but not reducible to—such methodological reduction. READ MORE