Sökning: "anaphoric reference"

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  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Anaphoric demonstratives in student academic writing : A cross-disciplinary study of (un)attended this and these

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Elisabete Ferreira; [2019]
    Nyckelord :cohesion; demonstratives; anaphoric reference; disciplinary variation; student writing;

    Sammanfattning : Cohesive devices such as anaphoric reference play an important role in written discourse. This thesis investigates the extent to which the anaphoric demonstratives this and these are used as determiners (‘attended’) or pronouns (‘unattended’) by first-year undergraduate students from four different academic disciplines. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Pronoun translation between English and Icelandic

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Författare :Jakobsson Odd; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Pronoun; Machine Translation; Icelandic;

    Sammanfattning : A problem in machine translation is how to handle pronouns since languages use these differently, for example, in anaphoric reference. This essay examines what happens to the English third person pronouns he, she, and it when translated into Icelandic. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Keeping an Eye on the Context : An Eye Tracking Study of Cohesion Errors in Automatic Text Summarization

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för datavetenskap; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Författare :Evelina Rennes; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Automatic text summarization; cohesion errors; eye tracking; CogSum;

    Sammanfattning : Automatic text summarization is a growing field due to the modern world’s Internet based society, but to automatically create perfect summaries is not easy, and cohesion errors are common. By the usage of an eye tracking camera, this thesis studies the nature of four different types of cohesion errors occurring in summaries. LÄS MER