Search for dissertations about: "slavic studies"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words slavic studies.

  2. 6. Support, resistance and pragmatism : An examination of motivation in language policy in Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Author : Margrethe Søvik; Irina Sandomirskaja; Per-Arne Bodin; Lara Ryazanova Clarke; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language policy; language beliefs; language practices; language management; language conflict; motivation; language attitudes; combining methods; nation-building; linguistic rights; Ukraine; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The Ukrainian society has gone through vast changes since independence in 1991 and in this thesis some of these social changes are discussed through the prism of language policy. The main topic of the study is language policy (conceptualised as language practices, language beliefs, and language management) in the eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv. READ MORE

  4. 7. Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction : The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films

    Author : Henriette Cederlöf; Anna Ljunggren; Yvonne Howell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky; science fiction; heterotopia; paradigm shift; Soviet culture; 1970s; Gothic; adaptation; Stalker; Roadside Picnic; Dead Mountaineer s Hotel; Arkadij Strugatskij; Boris Strugatskij; paradigmskifte; science fiction; heterotopi; Sovjetunionen; 1970-talet; adaption; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with how science fiction reflects the shift in cultural paradigms that occurred in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and the 1970s. Interest was displaced from the rational to the irrational, from a scientific-technologically oriented optimism about the future to art, religion, philosophy and metaphysics. READ MORE

  5. 8. The Slavonic translation of the apocryphal infancy gospel of Thomas

    Author : Thomas Rosén; Sven Gustavsson; Irina Lysén; Per Ambrosiani; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apocryphon Infancy Gospel Slavonic Translation Greek; Apokryf Barndomsevangelium slavisk översättning grekiska; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; Slaviska språk; Slavic Languages; Greek; Grekiska;

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  6. 9. Between Death and Resurrection : Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead on the Eve of the Peasant Emancipation

    Author : Cecilia Dilworth; Anna Ljunggren; Robin Feuer Miller; Philip Bullock; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fyodor Dostoevsky; House of the Dead; Russian realism; prison literature; emancipation; serfdom; peasant fiction; folk culture; death and resurrection; ambivalence; laughter; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead (1860–1862), a semi-documentary rendition of life in a Siberian prison of the 1850s. The work is read against the background of the pivotal historical event coinciding with its writing and publication: the peasant emancipation of 1861. READ MORE

  7. 10. How do you do it anyway?

    Author : Morena Azbel Schmidt; Barbro Nilsson; Inkeri Vehmas-Lehto; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : Russian linguistics; translation studies; Swedish; participles; converbs; translation process; psycholinguistics; information processing; text analysis; text organisation;

    Abstract : This study investigates the translation process of three translator students and their production of translated non-fiction texts. The students are followed from an initial examination task over a period of time of 5 years. READ MORE