Sökning: "English and Swedish idioms"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 24 uppsatser innehållade orden English and Swedish idioms.

1. 1. Reading between the lines : A quantitative study of Swedish upper secondary students’ idiom familiarity in English

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Författare :Viktoria Rösler; [2023]
   Nyckelord :idiom; familiarity; comprehension; Sweden; Upper secondary school; EnglisH;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates Swedish upper secondary students’ familiarity with English idioms, and whether or not there are differences depending on what level of proficiency the students are at. The participating students took an idiom familiarity test adapted from Nippold & Rudzinski (1993) which aimed at measuring students’ familiarity with a number of English idioms. LÄS MER

3. 2. Translation strategies for figurative language in non-fiction : Translating metaphors, idioms, and phrasal verbs from English to Swedish

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

   Författare :Vicky Taylor; [2022]
   Nyckelord :figurative language; translation; conceptual metaphors; idioms; phrasal verbs; translation strategies; literal translation; transference; meaning translation; omission; addition; Swedish; English;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines translation strategies for translating figurative language with a focus on metaphors, idioms, and phrasal verbs. Translators often state that figurative language presents challenges in the translation process. This is mainly because the translator must consider the language’s pragmatic, cognitive, and aesthetic functions. LÄS MER

4. 3. Idioms in the Classroom : A qualitative study of teaching English idiomatic expressions in Swedish schools

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Ana Popovic; [2020]
   Nyckelord :idioms; idiomatic expressions; figurative language; pedagogy;

   Sammanfattning : According to research, “out of the different types of nonliteral expressions, idioms are the most frequently encountered in discourse. Without a knowledge of idiomatic expressions a nonnative speaker can never fully understand an English movie, sitcom or even the news” (Burke, 1998: 149). LÄS MER

5. 4. Beating about the bush: written production and comprehension of L2 idioms

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Författare :Lina Palm; [2019]
   Nyckelord :figurative meaning; idiom; keystroke logging; language transfer; literal meaning; phraseology; second language acquisition; second language learning; translation; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : A study on the online process of producing idioms in writing and how second language learners manage the production and comprehension of idioms may provide a useful and comprehensive investigation of the production, comprehension and acquisition of language. The study in this paper investigated how Swedish (L1) second language learners of English (L2) produce and comprehend written idioms in the L2. LÄS MER

7. 5. This paper sure is a brass ring!  : A quantitative study on the effect of context for non-native students’ interpretation of English idioms.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Författare :Angelica Halling; [2018]
   Nyckelord :idiom; interpretation; non-native students; context; Sweden; figurative meaning; familiarity; transparency;

   Sammanfattning : Idioms are a big part of languages but can cause trouble for communication, especially for non-native speakers of a language. Interpreting idioms correctly means that one must derive a figurative meaning from words that individually mean something else. LÄS MER