Search for dissertations about: "humour"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word humour.
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1. Incongruity and humour
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2. Who is laughing now? Laughter-infused dialogue systems
Abstract : This thesis paves the way for including laughter in spoken dialogue systems in a domain-general and linguistically valid way using computational linguistics tools and methods. The thesis is concerned with three main areas. The first area concerns the placement of laughter in relation to speech and other behaviours. READ MORE
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3. Infinitely Demanding Entrepreneurship
Abstract : In both the study and the practice of entrepreneurship, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship is recurrently put forward as a key, or even the key, to resolving many of today’s social, ecological, and economic challenges. However, research shows that entrepreneurs who pursue social change risk overlooking or excluding certain worldviews, values, and ways of living. READ MORE
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4. This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything
Abstract : This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything is a documented artistic research project (Doctoral Thesis) in Performative and Mediated Practices, comprising a series of excavations and vivisections of W(w)hiteness through clowning, making and thinging. This work/play traverses the fields of critical whiteness studies, performance and clowning, visual and cultural anthropology and decolonial critique. READ MORE
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5. Shun the Pun, Rescue the Rhyme? : The Dubbing and Subtitling of Language Play in Film
Abstract : Language-play can briefly be described as the wilful manipulation of the peculiarities of a linguistic system in a way that draws attention to these peculiarities themselves, thereby causing a communicative and cognitive effect that goes beyond the conveyance of propositional meaning. Among the various phenomena answering this description are the different kinds of puns, but also more strictly form-based manipulations such as rhymes and alliteration, in addition to a host of other, sometimes even fuzzier, subcategories. READ MORE