Sökning: "deontic"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 uppsatser innehållade ordet deontic.

  1. 1. Modal auxiliaries in English and Swedish A contrastive study of English can/could, may/might, and Swedish kunna and få

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Gustav Landälv; [2024-01-22]
    Nyckelord :Modal auxiliaries; English; epistemic modality; dynamic modality; deontic modality; can; could; may; might; kan; kunde; får; fick;

    Sammanfattning : The results suggest that English can and could, when expressing dynamic modality, are mainly translated as respectively kan and kunde. When omitted in the translation, the main verb with which they co occur is often a verb of perception, such as see, or a private verb involving a thought process, like understand or remember. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Use of Deontic Consequent Clauses with Conditional to and ba in Written Japanese: Effects on Comprehension and Perceived Proficiency

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Författare :William Karlsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :error analysis; deontic modality; conditional markers; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the effects of violating deontic constraints on the Japanese conditional markers to and ba. Via an online survey, native speakers reviewed sentences containing violations of these constraints, evaluating their own ability to understand the sentence and the proficiency of the sentences’ authors. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Morality of Luck : How Moral Luck Should Affect Our Blameworthiness and the Deontic Status of Our Acts

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Författare :David Westman; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Moral Luck; Blameworthiness; Deontic status; Control principle;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  5. 4. Modality in Spiritual Literature : A Corpus Aided Discourse Study on Sadhguru and Eckhart Tolle

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

    Författare :SHOWMIK JOY BHOWMIK; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Spirituality; mystics; modality; modal shading; epistemic; deontic; bigrams; CADS;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates and discusses how two spiritual teachers from different parts of the world interact with their devotees, what the probable impacts of their interaction are, and whether they speak similarly or differently based on the use of modal auxiliary verbs and pronouns. Linguistically speaking, the mystics mostly have to address their audience/readers in a particular manner with expressions which represent certainty, possibility, obligation and so on; thus, a study of such is necessary and modal auxiliary verbs represent such expressions. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Jag har tänkt på en sak" : En samtalsanalytisk studie om beslutsfattande och rättigheten att presentera ett förslag i en möteskontext

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Svenska

    Författare :Josefine Bresmar; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Management team meetings; meeting context; conversation analysis; decision-making; accounts; deontic rights; proposal; Ledningsgruppsmöten; möteskontext; samtalsanalys; beslutsfattande; redogörelser; deontiska rättigheter; förslag;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the decision-making process is constructed in management team meetings within an IT consulting company. The study also aims to examine how these decisions are initiated by people with different degrees of authority in the organization, as well as how the asymmetric relationship is established. LÄS MER