Sökning: "Applied linguistics"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 94 uppsatser innehållade orden Applied linguistics.

  1. 21. Metaphors of populists – A cognitive linguistic study of conceptual metaphors in political speeches by Donald J. Trump and Nigel Farage

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Peter Warell; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Cognitive linguistics; metaphors; conceptual metaphors; source domain; target domain; MIP; politic speech; Donald Trump; Nigel Farage; populist; populism.;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of conceptual metaphors in political speeches by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Conceptual metaphor theory is applied as the framework for the study. Metaphorical linguistic expressions are identified with help of the method Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). LÄS MER

  3. 22. Building a Balanced Organizational Culture – Imagery in Corporate Storytelling : Metaphors and Translation

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

    Författare :Maria Eriksson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Cognitive Linguistics; Conceptual Metaphors; English; Management; Organizational Culture; Storytelling; Swedish; Translation Strategies;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of metaphors in corporate storytelling and the strategies that may be applied when translating these from English to Swedish. The conceptual metaphor theory was used as a starting point for the investigation of structural metaphors in particular. LÄS MER

  4. 23. The Stela of Tita : Renewed Considerations on a late Middle Kingdom Stela at Museum Gustavianum

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Författare :Emmaline Trossvik; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Middle kingdom; stelae; iconography; Egyptian titles; Gustavianum;

    Sammanfattning : Private funerary stelae are a vital bundle of material in Egyptological research that may reveal plenty of information in terms of e.g. social structures, religious practices and linguistics. LÄS MER

  5. 24. A comparative study of the grammatical gender systems of languages by means of analysing word embeddings

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Författare :Hartger Veeman; [2020]
    Nyckelord :word embeddings; grammatical gender; computational linguistics; language representations;

    Sammanfattning : The creation of word embeddings is one of the key breakthroughs in natural language processing. Word embeddings allow for words to be represented semantically, opening the way to many new deep learning methods. LÄS MER

  7. 25. A study of how students feed from feedback : An application of speech act and attribution theory within the field of linguistics

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Författare :Desirée Antblad; [2020]
    Nyckelord :speech act theory; attribution theory; feedback; EFL; pragmatics; motivation;

    Sammanfattning : This essay provides an analysis of five examples of written feedback on a speech assignment completed for an English as a foreign language (EFL) class by second-year students of upper secondary school. The essay aims to shed light on how feedback is formulated and how it is interpreted as a part of a textual dialogue between teacher and student. LÄS MER