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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 33 uppsatser innehållade orden figures of speech.
1. The Battle of Words. Uncovering the Narratives of the Conflict in Ukraine
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiSammanfattning : What if the true battleground lies not in the physical confrontations but in the complex realm of narratives? This study explores the use of narratives employed by Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy while shedding light on their techniques and the construction of competing narratives in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. Drawing on narrative theory and Philip Smith's narrative genres, the study aims to examine the leaders’ competing understandings and their use of emotions and notions of threat in relation to the Ukrainian conflict. LÄS MER
2. Des pieds de la croix à l’art total : Etude des représentations de l’Eglise et de l’art sacré à travers l’ekphrasis huysmansienne
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : The term "ekphrasis" is indisputably problematic. In fact, depending on which definition one might use ekphrastic processes can either be broad, that is extended to any type of description as it was taught in rhetoric treaties during antiquity, or according to its modern definition circumcised to literary representations of works of art. LÄS MER
3. Directness and indirectness in the pursuit of love : A qualitative study on manifestations of directness and indirectness in the reality TV show Love on the Spectrum
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationSammanfattning : When it comes to human communication, there are several possible ways of expressing the same idea. This is often explained in terms of direct and indirect speech acts. LÄS MER
4. Att övertyga från orgelpallen – En retorisk studie av BWV 565
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Konstnärliga fakulteten i MalmöSammanfattning : I have often been told that composers from the baroque era used the models of classical rhetoric while they composed music. The question for this lecture recital has thus been to find out what this connection between rhetoric and music looks like, as well as to investigate which of the rhetorical models I, as an organist, could use in order to understand how Bach composed his music. LÄS MER
5. Voice Feature Extraction Using Siamese Neural Networks for Detecting Impersonators
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikSammanfattning : Voice impersonation is a technique that has often been used by criminals whose goal is to avoid being identified while committing a crime. There are, however, other interesting cases where the police confronts a suspect with an incriminating recording, and the suspect would deny being the true speaker in that recording, and claim that it belonged to an expert impersonator. LÄS MER
