Search for dissertations about: "language and power"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 175 swedish dissertations containing the words language and power.

  2. 6. The Craftsmen's Labyrinth and Geographies of Creativity

    Author : Jasna Seršić; Dominic Power; Johan Jansson; Ola Söderström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Craftsmen; Creativity; Continuity and Change; Crisis; Society; Space and Place; Perspective; Cartographic Reason; Labyrinth; Stonemasonry; Boatbuilding; Glassmaking; Ethnography; Narratives; Writing as a Way of Knowing; Mythopoiesis; Urbanology; Foundation of Cities; Democracy; Gift; Renaissance; Plato; Anaximander; Dante Alighieri; Divine Comedy; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : The question of creativity has persisted throughout the entire history of humans, and it has held an important role in our understanding of the creation of places and cultures. Despite the fact that craftsmen have historically contributed significantly to the creation of urban landscapes and their cultures, today they are marginalized from the prevailing discourses of creativity and place-making. READ MORE

  4. 7. Lock-free Concurrent Search

    Author : Bapi Chatterjee; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Wait-free; Help-aware; Non-blocking; Concurrency; Linearizability; Lock-based; Lock-free-kD-tree; Amortized Complexity; Data Structure; Binary Search Tree; Blocking; Search; Concurrent; kD-tree; Linked-list; Lock-free; Range Search; Language-portable; Help-optimal; Nearest Neighbour Search; Linearizable; Synchronization;

    Abstract : The contemporary computers typically consist of multiple computing cores with high compute power. Such computers make excellent concurrent asynchronous shared memory system. READ MORE

  5. 8. Logics and politics of professionalism : the case of university English language teachers in Vietnam

    Author : Mai Trang Vu; Asbjörg Westum; Nafsika Alexiadou; Carin Jonsson; Pavel Zgaga; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; professionalism; professionalisation; university English language teachers; higher education management; policy; embedded case study; Vietnam; Education; pedagogik;

    Abstract : Set against a changing backdrop of reforms in higher education and English language teaching (ELT), the thesis explores the notion of professionalism for university English teachers in Vietnam: What is defined as professionalism in this particular period of time? How is professionalism constructed in this context?The research approaches professionalism as a critical concept: A list of aspired traits and features are always value-laden and concern the question of power. From this premise, the thesis discusses a “kaleidoscope” relationship between different actors in the making of professionalism. READ MORE

  6. 9. The Organised Nature of Power : On Productive and Repressive Interventions Based on Considerations of Risk

    Author : Magnus Hörnqvist; Janne Flyghed; Richard Ericson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Power; Productive; Repressive; Risk; State; Foucault; Marx; Criminology; Kriminologi; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : Four interventions are analysed: the activity guarantee for long term unemployed, the customs control of border crossers, the cognitive skills training program and the conditions of incarceration among prison inmates. The interventions are performed by state organisations, based on considerations of risk and involve the exercise of power in a productive or repressive form. READ MORE

  7. 10. Apologising in British English

    Author : Mats Deutschmann; Patricia Poussa; Terttu Nevalainen; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; apology; speech act; politeness; Brown Levinson; power; solidarity; sociolinguistic variation; pragmatics; BNC; corpus linguistics; British English; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English; Other Germanic languages; Sociology; Linguistic subjects;

    Abstract : The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. READ MORE