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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 445 uppsatser innehållade ordet Metaphor.
11. Translating Metaphors An Analysis of the Translation of Conceptual Metaphors from English to Swedish in an Academic Text
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay investigates the author’s translation of a non-fiction text about literary theory. The study examines the metaphors found in the original text and how they have been translated from English to Swedish. The analysis uses Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) description of conceptual metaphors to categorize the metaphors found in the text. LÄS MER
12. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierSammanfattning : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. LÄS MER
13. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : 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
14. The Voice of Nature : Ecological Personification in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name: An Ecolinguistic Analysis
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This study delves into the ways in which the displaced Palestinian characters in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name (2008) connect to their homeland through embodied metaphors, particularly through the personification of their native lands, which will be read with recourse to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). By utilizing ecolinguistics as an analytical lens and applying CMT, this study illuminates how both literary works significantly underscore the urgency and cruciality of the human-nature interconnection and interdependence amid tragedy and dispossession. LÄS MER
15. "Klimatomställningen är vår tids ödesfråga" : En kvalitativ studie av svenska politiska partiers gestaltning av klimatet i sina valmanifest år 2022
Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapSammanfattning : Under den svenska valrörelsen år 2022 riktades kraftig kritik mot de politiska partiernas smala debatt om vår tids viktigaste fråga, klimatet. Syftet med studien är därför att bidra med kunskap om hur klimatet gestaltas i politisk kommunikation i den svenska valrörelsen år 2022. LÄS MER
