Search for dissertations about: "headlines"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word headlines.

2. 1. Reading expectations : How expectations influence our reading, eye movements, opinions, and judgments

   Author : Alexander Strukelj; Kognition och Discourse@Lund (SKD@L) Språk; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; antonyms; cognitive linguistics; confirmation bias; expectations; experimental pragmatics; eye movements: reading; eye tracking; headlines; implicit and explicit detection of incongruities; myside bias; opinion shift; paragraph reading; processing; reading; sentence judgment; visual analog scale;

   Abstract : The way we view the world is constantly affected by our expectations. The aim of this book is to determine how expectations affect the way we read. This will help us better understand how we process information, and how our expectations may change the way we read. The research is situated in experimental pragmatics and reading research. READ MORE

4. 2. The Rhetoric of Pravda Editorials : A Diachronic Study of a Political Genre

   Author : Ludmila Pöppel; Milan Bily; Anatolii Shaikevich; Dmitrii Dobrovolskii; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse; discourse analysis; language of revolution; totalitarian language; Soviet political language; Pravda editorials; rhetorical changes; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The present study considers the diachronic changes that took place in Soviet political discourse as reflected in six selections of Pravda editorials from the 1920s through the 1950s, as well as slogans and headlines in that newspaper from 1917 through 1933. The principal goal of analyses conducted on various levels is to identify and investigate a number of tendencies demonstrating the gradual transformation of the language of revolution into totalitarian language. READ MORE

5. 3. Playing the Matching Game : An Institutional Analysis of Executive Recruitment and Selection in Software Start-ups: Silicon Valley and Stockholm

   Author : Tiziana Sardiello; Christofer Edling; Mary Brinton; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; job-matching; executive recruitment; executive selection; entrepreneurship; start-up; software; institutionalism; institutional logics; Silicon Valley; Stockholm; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Software start-ups make media headlines daily, suggesting that it may take only a garage and two engineering students to begin such companies, and that these same people will constitute the core of the executive team until these organizations become multinational giants. Despite these spontaneous starts, newly formed entrepreneurial ventures have many obstacles to overcome in their resource and cultural environments when establishing their practices. READ MORE

6. 4. The Evolution of a New(s) Genre

   Author : Carina Ihlström Eriksson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Online newspapers; Genre; Evolution; Design; Audience; Publishers; Information technology; Informationsteknik; online newspapers; genre; evolution; design; audience; publishers;

   Abstract : This thesis describes and analyzes how the online newspaper genre has evolved since its inception on the Internet in the mid-nineties. The overall research question is: What characterizes the online newspaper genre evolution? The thesis is based on both synchronic and diachronic studies with a multimethod approach (including six different studies involving, e. READ MORE

7. 5. Contraction in British newspapers in the late 20th century

   Author : Margareta Westergren Axelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This investigation of verb contractions (e.g.I'm and it's) and NOT-contractions (don't and haven't) uses two samples of British newspaper text from 1994 and 1961. The 1994 material, compiled for this study, is carefully matched to the press categories of the well-known LOB corpus of written British English. READ MORE