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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 170 uppsatser innehållade orden Philosophy of Language.
11. Vad gör jag? : En vetenskaplig essä om förskollärarpraktiken och det sociokulturella lärandets ideologiska konturer
Master-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : This essay sets out to examine my own practical knowledge as a socioculturally inspired preschool teacher conditioned by a capitalist ideology. Louis Althusser’s concept of ideology,as something reproduced by daily human actions, is used and the focus rests on language, or rather language use, especially in relation to the ‘autistic child’ as met in the preschool context. LÄS MER
12. Mose Ting
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapSammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to apply the theories of metaphor from Conceptual Metaphor Theory on a work of allegorical interpretation of the Bible – more specifically, Gregory of Nyssa’s The Life of Moses – and discuss what theological questions and perspectives arises from that. My primary question is thus: how can Gregory of Nyssa’s way of interpreting, and giving meaning to, objects in The Life of Moses be understood through Conceptual Metaphor Theory? By analyzing nine physical objects, I show that Gregory throughout the work highlights aspects of sensory impressions, basic knowledge, and orientational factors, which governs how he accredits an object meaning symbolically. LÄS MER
13. The Challenges of Goenka’s Vipassana : How Participants of the Ten-Day Course Make Sense of the Intense Internal Experiences Induced by Vipassana Meditation
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskapSammanfattning : In this study, 28 individuals were interviewed about their experiences and interpretations of S. N. Goenka’s ten-day Vipassana course, which involves intense meditation practices. LÄS MER
14. The roots of Arab Islam as a state identity; A numismatic approach to the emergence of Arab Islam as a public identity in the Near East during the rule of ‘Abd al-Malik (685-705 C.E.)
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapSammanfattning : The ideas and interests of how to move forward with the new religion and its new caliphate during the first century of Islam, were often varied and were in conflict. In the year 77 A.H (696-697 C.E. LÄS MER
15. Bilingualism in Multimodal Language Processing: A priming study on processing of gestures in English temporal expressions
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/KognitionsvetenskapSammanfattning : At its core, language is multimodal (Kendon, 1986; McNeill, 1994), and information presented through different channels of information, such as visually, in the shape of gestures, or verbally, in the shape of speech or signs, together facilitate online language processing (Kelly, Healey, Özyürek, & Holler, 2015; Kelly, Özyürek, & Maris, 2010). This thesis extends previous studies on multimodal processing (Kelly et al. LÄS MER