Search for dissertations about: "metaphor"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 141 swedish dissertations containing the word metaphor.

  2. 11. Metaphor, Formalism, and Linguistics

    Author : Claes Entzenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Estetik;

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  4. 12. Making Sense of Negative Numbers

    Author : Cecilia Kilhamn; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; mathematics education; metaphor; signed number; negative number; number sense; case study; longitudinal; social constructivism;

    Abstract : Numbers are abstract objects that we conceptualize and make sense of through metaphors. When negative numbers appear in school mathematics, some properties of number sense related to natural numbers become contradictory. The metaphors seem to break down, making a transition from intuitive to formal mathematics necessary. READ MORE

  5. 13. Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation : Implications of a Rich Intermedial Metaphor

    Author : Sven Bjerstedt; Teaterhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; jazz improvisation; storytelling; narrativity in music; intermedial metaphor; improvisation;

    Abstract : The phenomenon of intermedial conceptual loans is central to our understanding of the time-based arts. This thesis focuses on the usage of the term storytelling with regard to jazz improvisation. The aim of the investigation is to clarify how this concept is used by Swedish jazz practitioners. READ MORE

  6. 14. A Decontextual Stylistics Study of the Genji Monogatari : With a Focus on the "Yûgao" Story

    Author : Stina Jelbring; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Machiko Midorikawa; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Genji Monogatari; Yûgao; Japanese literature; Murasaki Shikibu; Heian Period; monogatari; waka; poetry; stylistics; narratology; poetics; genre; metaphor; allusion; symbol; translation studies; Japanology; Japanologi; Japanology; japanologi;

    Abstract : The dominant part of the research on the “Yûgao” (The Twilight Beauty) story of the Japanese eleventh-century classic the Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) is philological and often excludes a general literary analysis. This story has also been related to Japanese and Chinese literary influences, thereby placing the text in its literary context. READ MORE

  7. 15. A Passage to Organization

    Author : Mikael Holmgren Caicedo; Birgitta Olsson; Alexander Styhre; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; concatenation; instantiation; metaphor; metonymy; mimêsis; mûthos; organization; organizing; poetics; rhetoric; representation; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : How does action turn [into a] substantive and, if it does, how does it turn into action again to perdure or even change?In this endeavor I set out to study organizing and organization by asking myself how organizing becomes a product called organization and how that product turns into the very organizing whence it once was spawned. In other words, I set out to study what I denominate the movements between organizing and organization. READ MORE