Search for dissertations about: "paraphrase"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word paraphrase.

  2. 1. Paraphrase and Rhetorical Adjustment: An Essay on Contextualism and Cohesion

    Author : Palle Leth; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anaphora; coherence; cohesion; context sensitivity; contextualism; discourse relations; discourse structure; paraphrase; predicate reference; presupposition; rhetorical adjustment; rhetorical relations; semantics–pragmatics interface; text structure; transcendental; translation; word meaning;

    Abstract : This thesis is dedicated to two distinct but convergent issues: the possibility of paraphrase and an account of context sensitivity on the basis of textual cohesion (or coherence). The possibility of explaining contextual specifications of meaning as a side effect of establishing textual cohesion is explored through an investigation into the nature of texts. READ MORE

  4. 2. Detection and Aptness: A study in metaphor detection and aptness assessment through neural networks and distributional semantic spaces

    Author : Yuri Bizzoni; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; metaphor detection; deep neural network; distributional semantic spaces; metaphor aptness;

    Abstract : Metaphor is one of the most prominent, and most studied, figures of speech. While it is considered an element of great interest in several branches of linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics and stylistics, its automatic processing remains an open challenge. READ MORE

  5. 3. Threads and Images : The Use of Scripture in Apophthegmata Patrum

    Author : Per Rönnegård; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermogenes; Physiologus; Barsanuphius of Gaza; Dorotheus of Gaza; ergasia; chreia; referent; contextualization; monasticism; Septuagint; Early Christianity; Late Antiquity; desert fathers; reception history; Bible; Apophthegmata Patrum; Bibelvetenskap; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : This study is devoted to the use of the Bible in the Greek systematic collection of Apophthegmata Patrum (AP). After an introductory survey of earlier research on the use of Scripture in general, and that of AP in particular, the main purpose of the investigation is formulated: to describe how the Bible text is contextualized, i.e. READ MORE

  6. 4. Identical, But Still Different : On Artistic Appropriation in Visual Art

    Author : Rikard Ekholm; Claes Entzenberg; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual art; artistic appropriation; intention; context; meta-art; conceptual art; art theory; philosophy of art; Danto; Sturtevant; Levine; Mandiberg.; Estetik; Aesthetics;

    Abstract : In this dissertation about artistic appropriation I acknowledge that something indeed has happened in art. Visual art does not have to look in any special way anymore, or have historically validated content that can be visually grasped. Within this precondition artistic appropriation is situated. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Textual History of Kavikumārāvadāna : The relations between the main texts, editions and translations

    Author : Leif Asplund; Claus Oetke; Roland Steiner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; buddhism; avadana; editions; Sanskrit; Tibetan; manuscripts; philology; indology; Nepal; NGMPP; Indology; indologi;

    Abstract : This study consists of three main parts. Part I contains introductory matter and a presentation of the manuscript material which contains stories about Kavikumāra, one of the Buddha’s earlier lives, and a rough classification of the material. READ MORE