Search for dissertations about: "meaning extension"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words meaning extension.

  2. 6. Frame dynamics and stakeholders in risk governance

    Author : Beatrice Bengtsson; Research Policy Institute (RPI); []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; GMOs; framing; EU; stakeholders; expertise; governance rationalities; policy; feed; boundary framing; frame extension; intertextuality; food chain; participation; EFSA; DG SANCO; risk assessment; risk management; threshold; risks.;

    Abstract : The EU governance of food safety and GM food and feed has gone through significant changes since the BSE crisis and food scares during the 1990s. This work focuses on one particular new feature; the role of stakeholders representing the food chain: biotech associations, farmer organizations, food and feed processors, consumer organizations and environmental NGOs. READ MORE

  4. 7. Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz: Exploring the musical language of Liturgical, Sacred, and Spiritual Jazz in a Postsecular Age

    Author : Uwe Steinmetz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Jazz; Postsecularity; Spiritual Jazz; Christian Music; Sacred Music; George Russell; Twelve Tone Tonality in Jazz;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to identify musical elements that contribute to the generation of religious meaning in jazz performance and to explore how religious experience can inspire jazz composition. In this study, the history of jazz, specifically tailored to the aspects of my inquiry is imbricated with relevant theories and musical interventions from my own artistic practice in composition and performance. READ MORE

  5. 8. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity

    Author : Carl Cassegård; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Japanese studies; literature; Adorno; Benjamin; modernity; critical theory; Sociology; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Adorno; Benjamin; Sociologi;

    Abstract : In sociology shock is often seen as emblematic of modernity. However, while Benjamin and Simmel famously portray the big city crowd - and by extension modernity itself - as an arena of shock, shock sensations are notable for their absence in depictions of the crowd as well as of modernity as a whole in much contemporary literature. READ MORE

  6. 9. Embedded Languages for Describing and Verifying Hardware

    Author : Koen Lindström Claessen; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; specification languages; formal verification; synchronous hardware description; functional programming; embedded languages;

    Abstract : Lava is a system for designing, specifying, verifying and implementing hardware. It is embedded in the functional programming language Haskell, which means that hardware descriptions are first-class objects in Haskell. READ MORE

  7. 10. Writing with an Attitude : Appraisal and student texts in the school subject of Swedish

    Author : Jenny W. Folkeryd; Caroline Liberg; Åke Viberg; Fröydis Herzberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Linguistics; text linguistics; reader text relationship; systemic linguistics; appraisal theory; literacy education; written language; applied linguistics; Lingvistik; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : Learning in school is in many respects done through language. However, it has been shown that the language of school assignments is seldom explicitly discussed in school. Writing tasks are furthermore assigned without clear guidelines for how certain lexical choices make one text more powerful than another. READ MORE