Sökning: "Pronoun"

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  1. 1. Dom-debatten och litteracitet

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Författare :Kalle Grahn; [2023]
    Nyckelord :NLS; dom-reform; Swedish; the National Test in Swedish and Swedish as Second Language; NLS; dom-reform; svenska; nationella proven i svenska och svenska som andra språk.;

    Sammanfattning : The Swedish debate regarding the reform of the third person pronoun plural has been examined with the NLS theory and with the perspective of literacy as not only a mental process but also as a social practice. The debate was initiated in autumn of 2016 by an article written by the teacher Henrik Birkebo in which he argued for a reform. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production

    M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Maiko Tsukanaka; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish Learner English Corpus SLEC ; Swedish-speaking learners of English; Error analysis; Subject-verb agreement; Transfer; Overgeneralization;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims to investigate possible factors contributing to subject-verb agreement errors in Swedish junior and senior high school students' English written production. The sample data is collected from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), which comprises student texts produced in a classroom setting. LÄS MER

  4. 3. An analysis of political discourse : First-person personal pronoun ‘I’ in Joe Biden’s speeches

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Författare :Dominika Stasz; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Represented ‘I’; Situated ‘I’; first-person pronoun; presidential speeches;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of the first-person personal pronoun ‘I’ in political discourse and, more specifically, the functions of Represented ‘I’ and Situated ‘I’, including subcategories, present in Joe Biden’s speeches. A corpus was compiled, consisting of 12 speeches that brought up the topic of the war in Ukraine. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Reader Address and its Translation in a Gardening Guide : Pronouns, Modals and Imperatives

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

    Författare :Micaela Nilsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Reader address; modal verb; imperative verb; pronoun you; second person pronoun; generic pronoun; translation;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the translation of three forms of reader address from English to Swedish in a gardening guidebook – the pronoun you as a second person reference and generic reference, modal verbs, and imperatives. The translation was made by the author of this study. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Male-biased language: a diachronic corpus study of neutralization strategy in gender-based linguistic reforms

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Evelina Eriksson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Corpus linguistics; generic pronouns; neutralization; linguistic reforms; epicene; gender-neutral language;

    Sammanfattning : This paper focuses on the use of English epicene pronouns in discourse which most individuals are exposed to on an everyday basis. Gender-based linguistic reforms have been implemented since the beginning of the 1970s, to achieve a more non-sexist language. LÄS MER