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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 996 uppsatser innehållade ordet Corpus.

  1. 6. Exploring the Impact of Genre on Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in L2 Written English

    M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Caitlyn Taylor; [2024]
    Nyckelord :SLA; EFL; lexical complexity; syntactic complexity;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the effect of genre on lexical and syntactic complexity. The corpus used for this study is made up of argumentative and narrative texts from the TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) online corpus. The study analyses texts written by 22 Norwegian EFL learners, 10 in year 8 and 12 in year 9. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Reporting Trends in Sustainability and Climate Change Discourse : A corpus study about reporting verbs in global news

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Pontus Jaktlund Gunnarsson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Corpus; Linguistics; Reporting Verbs; Media; Metonymy; Quantitative Analysis; Qualitative Analysis.;

    Sammanfattning : In news reports, journalists often make references to what spokespersons from public organizations have announced. While doing so, reporting verbs are not an uncommon occurrence (Li, Zhao & Lou, 2023: 2). LÄS MER

  4. 8. Could this phrase be more constructional? : A Construction Grammar approach to the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase from the television show Friends

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Linn Nordlander; [2024]
    Nyckelord :construction grammar; information structure; CXBMY; SAI; constructions; rhetorical questions; parody;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase (CXBMY), well-known from the television show Friends, to argue for its qualification as a construction. By analyzing the phrase’s formal and functional features, as well as its frequency in the COCA corpus, this thesis compares the findings to the definition of constructions by Goldberg (2006, p. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Relevant Dutch Lexical Influence in Contemporary Modern Japanese

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för japanska och kinesiska; Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Författare :Willem Koen; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Japanese Language; Dutch-Japanese; Dutch Lexical influence; Loanwords; Lexical exchange; Lexical influence; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : During the Edo Period of Japanese history, many loanwords entered the Japanese language through communication with the Dutch. Now, 164 years after the last significant linguistic exchange took place between the Dutch and the Japanese, it is interesting to see what lexical influence still exists in contemporary modern Japanese and which loanwords have fallen out of use. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Topics and Attitudes in COVID-19 Online News Comments about Italy and Sweden. Appraisal Framework applied to Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis

    Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Författare :Niklas Danielson; Arianna De Luca; [2023-11-22]
    Nyckelord :Online News Comments; COVID-19; CADA; Appraisal Framework; Corpus Linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : This study conducts a mixed-methods, comparative study of online news comments. The subject of the articles were the two countries of Sweden and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. LÄS MER