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  1. 1. Bilingualism and Event Conceptualisation Patterns: Conceptual Transfer in Swedish-English Bilinguals

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Emma Knudsen; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Linguistic relativity; Conceptual transfer; Grammatical aspect; Endpoint encoding; Event conceptualisation; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper, the event conceptualisation patterns of Swedish-English bilinguals are examined. Swedish and English differ from each other with regard to the existence of grammatical aspect, which previous work has shown to affect how speakers conceptualise motion events. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Språkbruk i en japansk närbutik: en översättningsanalys av Konbini ningen

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

    Författare :Rebecca Sonesson; [2023-07-07]
    Nyckelord :Översättning; translation; japanese; keigo;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to analyse differences and similarities within translation strategies of the Japanese novel Konbini Ningen, with a specific focus on linguistic politeness. Linguistic politeness differs depending on various cultural factors. LÄS MER

  4. 3. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

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

    Författare :Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Nyckelord :English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Sammanfattning : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Trilingual spoken word recognition : Interlingual competition from one or two non-target languages in a sentence context

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Författare :Yulia Kashevarova; [2023]
    Nyckelord :trilingual speech processing; cross-linguistic competition; sentence context; BLINCS; BIA ;

    Sammanfattning : Persistent non-target language co-activation in spoken and visual language comprehension has been found both at the word-level and at the level of a sentence, although in the latter case, sentence bias has been observed to modulate the co-activation which can create lexical competition. In the case of trilingual speakers, both non-target languages may potentially compete with the third language (L3). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Actitudes hacia el uso de anglicismos : Un estudio sociolingüístico entre hispanohablantes residentes en Suecia

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Författare :Daniel Goldstein; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Anglicisms; linguistic attitudes; loanwords; language contact;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes towards anglicisms among Spanish speakers living in and having lived in Sweden for a minimum of five years. To participate in the study the informants had to have Spanish as their mother tongue as well as being relatively fluent in English. LÄS MER