Sökning: "Semantic prosody"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade orden Semantic prosody.

  1. 1. Murderbot Speaks : a Corpus Stylistics Look at Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Alvaro Gomez Sawicki; [2022]
    Nyckelord :murderbot; corpus; linguistics; corpus stylistics;

    Sammanfattning : The Murderbot Diaries is a series of science fiction books that deal with the experiences of Murderbot, a human-machine construct. This study uses a corpus stylistics methodology to analyse the language of the books and looks for changes that occur in said language. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The effects of emotional prosody on perceived clarity in degraded speech

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Författare :Rasmus Lindqvist; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Emotional prosody; Speech perception; Degraded speech; Noise vocoding; Pop-out effect;

    Sammanfattning : The ability to hear is important to communicate with other people. People suffering from hearing loss are more likely to also suffer from loneliness and depression (Mener et al., 2013; Mo et al., 2005). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Language change and collocations : A study of collocation patterns and semantic prosody during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Ozelot Oderfält; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Language change; Collocation patterns; Semantic prosody; Coronavirus; Corpus.;

    Sammanfattning : This essay is a corpus-based and quantitative study on language change that has occurred during global events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Global events especially affect the English language since it is a global language. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Good cop, bad cop? : A corpus analysis on the semantic prosody of the noun cop

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Simon Lund; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Corpus linguistics; semantic prosody; cop; corpus; Korpuslingvistik; semantisk prosodi; cop; korpus;

    Sammanfattning : The public opinion on the favourability towards the police varies greatly in the different populations in the United States. This is a corpus linguistic study that investigates a possible change in semantic prosody of the word cop. LÄS MER

  7. 5. All is well : An analysis of positivity through adjectives in two contemporary New Age self-help books

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

    Författare :Sonja Diar Fares; [2018]
    Nyckelord :adjectives; connotation; denotation; semantic prosody; associative meaning; self-help; New Age language; positivity; positive psychology; Abraham Hicks; Eckart Tolle; Adjektiv; semantik; konnotation; denotation; New Age språk; själv-hjälp; personlig utveckling; positiv psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : Self-help counselling is an important industry that not only influences its immediate users’ behavior but also society and social behaviors more generally. Since New Ageis a main branch of self-help, and since positivity is a dominant concept in (New Age) self-help discourse, it is worth analyzing how positivity might be achieved in terms of language use. LÄS MER