Sökning: "Pronoun Use"

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  1. 1. Dom-debatten och litteracitet

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Författare :Kalle Grahn; [2023]
    Nyckelord :NLS; dom-reform; Swedish; the National Test in Swedish and Swedish as Second Language; NLS; dom-reform; svenska; nationella proven i svenska och svenska som andra språk.;

    Sammanfattning : The Swedish debate regarding the reform of the third person pronoun plural has been examined with the NLS theory and with the perspective of literacy as not only a mental process but also as a social practice. The debate was initiated in autumn of 2016 by an article written by the teacher Henrik Birkebo in which he argued for a reform. LÄS MER

  3. 2. An analysis of political discourse : First-person personal pronoun ‘I’ in Joe Biden’s speeches

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

    Författare :Dominika Stasz; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Represented ‘I’; Situated ‘I’; first-person pronoun; presidential speeches;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of the first-person personal pronoun ‘I’ in political discourse and, more specifically, the functions of Represented ‘I’ and Situated ‘I’, including subcategories, present in Joe Biden’s speeches. A corpus was compiled, consisting of 12 speeches that brought up the topic of the war in Ukraine. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Male-biased language: a diachronic corpus study of neutralization strategy in gender-based linguistic reforms

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Evelina Eriksson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Corpus linguistics; generic pronouns; neutralization; linguistic reforms; epicene; gender-neutral language;

    Sammanfattning : This paper focuses on the use of English epicene pronouns in discourse which most individuals are exposed to on an everyday basis. Gender-based linguistic reforms have been implemented since the beginning of the 1970s, to achieve a more non-sexist language. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Processing Predicate NPs: An EEG study

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Författare :Ann Hermansson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :pronoun resolution; agreement attraction; nominal predicates; EEG; ERPs; P600; anterior negativity; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Theories on discourse accessibility and givenness suggest that nominal discourse entities vary with regard to how likely they are to act as antecedents to anaphoric expressions. Many factors are thought to affect the accessibility of a nominal entity in the mental model, including its morphosyntactic form and grammatical role. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gender-neutrality in Written Discourse : A newspaper-based diachronic comparisonstudy of gender-neutral vocabulary

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Yuchen Zeng; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Gender-neutral vocabulary; Diachronic; Gender Asymmetry; Sexist language; Gender- inclusive Language.;

    Sammanfattning : This paper investigated the use of sexist language in English vocabulary by examininggender asymmetry and sexism in contemporary written discourse. The traditional sexistlanguage often reinforces gender stereotypes and inequalities. In English, the masculineterms are considered the unmarked form (the norm) while the feminine terms are marked. LÄS MER