Search for dissertations about: "language dominance"
Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words language dominance.
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11. Talk, text and institutional order : A study of communication in social welfare bureaucracies
Abstract : This work focuses on the role of talk and text in the processing of people in public organizations. It is a study of communication between citizens and officials in one such organization, namely, the Swedish social services. READ MORE
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12. Negotiating healthy eating : Lay, stakeholder and government constructions of official dietary guidance in Sweden
Abstract : This thesis approaches dietary guidance as socio-culturally produced and comprised in a specific historical context. The work is premised on the position that ideas and understandings of healthy eating are discursively constructed, and that we form our understandings of the world, ourselves and others through discourse. READ MORE
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13. That voice sounds familiar : factors in speaker recognition
Abstract : Humans have the ability to recognize other humans by voice alone. This is important both socially and for the robustness of speech perception. This Thesis contains a set of eight studies that investigates how different factors impact on speaker recognition and how these factors can help explain how listeners perceive and evaluate speaker identity. READ MORE
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14. Talking and taking positions : An encounter between action rsearch and the gendered and racialised discourses of school science
Abstract : This thesis concerns processes of power relations in and about the science classroom. It draws on action research involving science and mathematics teachers in the Swedish upper secondary school (for students between 16 and 19 years). For the analysis, feminist post-structuralism, gender, and discourse theories (e.g. READ MORE