Sökning: "Lexical Semantics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 uppsatser innehållade orden Lexical Semantics.

1. 1. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Sandra Andersson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Lexical semantics; meaning; synonyms; semantic widening; metaphor; metonymy;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. LÄS MER

3. 2. Sense and Sensitivity: Exploring how Neural Machine Translation Systems Handle Slurs

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Författare :Tom Södahl Bladsjö; [2022-08-12]
   Nyckelord :Machine Translation; Descriptive Translation Studies; Slurs; Sensitive Language; Offensive Language; Lexical Semantics;

   Sammanfattning : The rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO has brought a surge in audiovisual content to be translated. While the translation industry at large have adopted machine translation (MT) as a tool to meet the rising demands, the subtitling industry has been reluctant to embrace this trend. LÄS MER

4. 3. Från Holocaust till Förintelsen : Etableringsprocessen av begreppet Förintelsen i svenskt språkbruk

   Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Författare :Johan Andrée; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Holocaust; Shoah; The Holocaust; Nazism; Jews; The Jewish genocide; Words; Concept; Construction concept; Genocide; History; Concept history; Transnational concept transfer; Semantics; Onomasiological analysis; Semasiological analysis; Lexical semantics; Holocaust; Shoah; Förintelsen; Nazism; Judar; Det judiska folkmordet; Ord; Begrepp; Konstruktionsbegrepp; Folkmord; Historia; Begreppshistoria; Transnationell begreppsöverföring; Semantik; Onomasiologisk analys; Semasiologisk analys; Lexikal semantik.;

   Sammanfattning : Jag har i min masteruppsats, utifrån ett begreppshistoriskt perspektiv med transnationell tillämpning, analyserat begreppsöverföringen och etableringen från begreppet Holocaust till det svenska ordet förintelsen med dess nya betydelse Förintelsen. Jag har även analyserat när, hur och vilka som befäste begreppet Förintelsen i svenskt språkbruk. LÄS MER

5. 4. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

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

   Författare :Andreas Johansson; [2022]
   Nyckelord :corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

   Sammanfattning : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. LÄS MER

7. 5. “Harsh realities” and “tender gazes”: Do perceptual extensions function metaphorically or literally? : A corpus-based investigation of haptic adjectives and the “extent of the literal”

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

   Författare :Esme Richardson-Owen; [2022]
   Nyckelord :cognitive linguistics; cognitive semantics; perceptual metaphor; lexical metaphor; double-function adjectives;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. LÄS MER