Sökning: "Polysemy"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 23 uppsatser innehållade ordet Polysemy.

  1. 16. The many ways of lagom. A case study

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Martina Palmitessa; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The word lagom fills the Swedes with a certain sense of pride. It is felt to be a truly Swedish word which often is allowed to represent the notion of Sweden and the Swedish way of being. Not only is the usage of the word widespread in the Swedish language but it has an extensive range of senses. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Investigating polysemy Gender effects on love

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Elmedina Becarevic; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Polysemy, the study of multiple meanings of a lexeme, is part of the field of Lexical Semantics and has been preoccupying linguists for a very long time. Among the first methods of investigation were categorization (Lakoff 1987), and the study of dictionaries in hopes of finding semantic variation in polysemous lexemes (Fillmore and Atkins 1992). LÄS MER

  4. 18. The meaning of mean: Polysemy in disguise

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Mattias Dzieciniak; [2011]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Polysemy is quite a common phenomenon. Variation in meaning has been shown to be omnipresent in lnaguage (Lakoff 1987). Paul Grice (1957) touches upon this in his article ‘Meaning’. While primarily seeking to establish principles for all manner of human communication using language1, he uses the word mean to illustrate his examples. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Over in English A corpus driven cognitive linguistics study

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Christian Wiedel; [2010]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This essay builds upon the long tradition of work that has been done on the prepositional use of over. It tests three major linguists view on the polysemy of over on contemporary written English. Their theories use a number of senses of the lexeme and this study compares these senses using empirical and falsifiable methods. LÄS MER

  7. 20. A corpus-based study on the polysemy of the attributive adjective fucking

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Rasmus Tarland; [2010]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : While discussing the possibility of investigating the polysemy of an English profanity as the topic for this essay, Dylan Glynn, who is supervising this work, pointed to an (albeit old) edition of an Oxford English Dictionary resting on a shelf in his office in order to look up the definition[s] of the lexeme fuck. However, the entry was nowhere to be found, and this only added to the interest of the topic. LÄS MER