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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 101 uppsatser innehållade orden social linguistics.
1. Mala vida : Un estudio semántico
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för moderna språkSammanfattning : This is a study of how the Spanish phrase mala vida is used in a historical corpus, the Corpus diacrónico de la academia Española, and an attempt to find out the meaning of this enigmatic phrase, based upon its patterns of use in this particular context. Furthermore, the study investigates mala vida as an attribute, in a particular serie of phrases that refer to people (hombres de mala vida, mujeres de mala vida, gente de mala vida), in the same corpus, in order to find out whom they refer to. LÄS MER
2. Our Bula Spirit Awaits You! The Usage of Interlingual Compound Words Consisting of English and the Fijian Greeting Bula in Fijian Tourism Advertisement Online
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This study investigates the Global English variety spoken in the South Pacific Island nation Fiji, often referred to as Fiji-English. Specifically, this paper examines how interlingual compound words consisting of the Fijian greeting bula + various English words are used in Fijian tourism advertisement on the social media platform Instagram. LÄS MER
3. National identity and foreign policy: An analysis of the performative in Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy and the Swedish national identity
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierSammanfattning : Viewing Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) as a paradigmatically case of national identity formulation, this thesis overarching aim is to answer the following research question: to what extent is Sweden’s national identity constructed through foreign policy? It assumes that there is a correlation between foreign policy and national identity, with background in earlier theoretical work of selected poststructuralists who all rely on the performativity theory of Judith Butler. It assumes that Sweden and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs have a self-perception of itself as feminist and gender equal. LÄS MER
4. The Impact of Social Support, Age, and Education in Second Language Acquisition of Adults
Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapSammanfattning : The topic of second language learning is frequently discussed in linguistics and social science, and several factors differentiate between second language learning in children and adults. Adults are faced with additional complications when learning a new language, including social factors, exposure to natural learning situations, and neurobiological factors. LÄS MER
5. Human and Robot Narrator: How Gestures Affect Comprehension and Recollection
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/KognitionsvetenskapSammanfattning : This thesis investigated if a human or a robot narrator affected listeners’ comprehension and memory recollection similarly in a narrative story. 103 participants (MeanAge = 35) were recruited to an online experiment to investigate if gestures affected the participants’ narrative comprehension and recollection more than a narrator that did not produce gestures. LÄS MER