Sökning: "Slurs"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade ordet Slurs.

  1. 1. Do Homophobic Slurs Reinforce Heteronormativity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Homophobic Slurs and Epithets in Film

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

    Författare :Emelie Du Rietz; [2022-11-24]
    Nyckelord :Critical Discourse Analysis; dispositive analysis; film; heteronormativity; homophobia; Queer Linguistics; Segmented Film Discourse Representation Structures; slurs;

    Sammanfattning : Homophobic slurs can reinforce the hegemonic view of heteronormativity, namelythat heterosexuality is the preferable sexuality (Peake, 2013). The aim of this study was toexamine whether a societal heteronormative ideal is strengthened or created by the presenceof homophobic slurs in film scenes, and also whether or not this has changed over time. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Sense and Sensitivity: Exploring how Neural Machine Translation Systems Handle Slurs

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Författare :Tom Södahl Bladsjö; [2022-08-12]
    Nyckelord :Machine Translation; Descriptive Translation Studies; Slurs; Sensitive Language; Offensive Language; Lexical Semantics;

    Sammanfattning : The rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO has brought a surge in audiovisual content to be translated. While the translation industry at large have adopted machine translation (MT) as a tool to meet the rising demands, the subtitling industry has been reluctant to embrace this trend. LÄS MER

  4. 3. "Ni är inte hemma i soffan nu!" - Supporterkultur hos kvinnor i klacken i allsvenska herrfotbollslaget BK Häcken

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Mary van Viegen; [2022-05-31]
    Nyckelord :Women; Soccer supporter; Masculinity; Rituals; BK Häcken;

    Sammanfattning : When I was in the process of starting this essay I had no idea about what I wanted to investigate. I read the book Etnografiska hållplatser, a book about reflexivity and methodology while doing field studies and working with ones material, in a predecending course and it came to me! I knew that some among my women friends are soccer supporters for the local male soccer team. LÄS MER

  5. 4. What Defines a Bitch? : A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of the Evolution of Bitch in the Past Decade

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

    Författare :Carla Jurado Pérez; [2022]
    Nyckelord :sexist slurs; social media; Twitter; discourse analysis; bitch;

    Sammanfattning : This study analyses and discusses the evolution of the word bitch in Twitter discourse between the years 2010 and 2020. From its beginnings as a derogatory term used to criticise women’s appearance and behaviour in 2010 to being used as an empowering term for women to find a sense of community in 2020, this study notes the significant meanings identified in a specialised social media corpus. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Expressive Automatic Music Transcription : Using hard onset detection to transcribe legato slurs for violin

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Författare :Simon Falk; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Automatic Music Transcription; Signal Processing; Convolutional Neural Networks; Onset Detection; Music Information Retrieval; Automatisk musiktranskription; Signalbearbetning; Faltningsnätverk; Ansatsdetektion; Informationssökning av musik;

    Sammanfattning : Automatic Music Transcriptions systems such as ScoreCloud aims to convert audio signals to sheet music. The information contained in sheet music can be divided into increasingly descriptive layers, where most research on Automatic Music Transcription is restricted on note-level transcription and disregard expressive markings such as legato slurs. LÄS MER