Sökning: "collocate"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 uppsatser innehållade ordet collocate.

  1. 1. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
    Nyckelord :semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

    Sammanfattning : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Semantics of Old Irish Landscape Vocabulary : Differentiation and Cognitive Linguistic Categorization

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

    Författare :Rebecca Madlener; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Old Irish; Historical Semantics; Landscape Semantics; Semantic Differentiation; Cognitive Semantic Categorization;

    Sammanfattning : This project investigates the cognitive linguistic categories that structure the Old Irish landscape lexicon. The semantics of basic landscape vocabulary are differentiated based on collocate analysis and close reading of relevant text passages. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Corpus-Driven Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of the Syrian War and Refugees in the American Media

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

    Författare :Ahmad Tarek Safar; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Corpus linguistics; CDA; Syrian war; Refugees; American media;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the discursive ways in which the Syrian war and the Syrian refugees are being portrayed in the American news media. It was conducted by combining the method Corpus Linguistics with the concepts of Critical Discourse Analysis. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Image of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants and Migrants in the British Media after the Refugee Crisis of 2015

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Författare :Tatsiana Samuseva; [2022]
    Nyckelord :refugees; asylum seekers; immigrants; migrants; collocates;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the discursive construction of the image of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants in a 1,472-million word corpus of UK press online articles published between January 2015 and December 2021. A corpus-based approach revealed the most frequent collocates of the four query terms, i.e. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Ut ur garderoben och in i katalogen : Ämnesordsindexering av HBTQI-litteratur i databasen Queerlit

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Författare :Rebecca Nordin; Alice Vardein Wolner; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Indexing; Queer theory; Queerlit; Sexual minorities; Subject headings; HBTQ-personer; indexering; Queerlit; queerteori; ämnesord;

    Sammanfattning : Introduction. This thesis seeks to investigate the construction and application of subject headings within Queerlit; a database designed to collocate Swedish works of fiction containing LGBTQI motifs. The aim of the study is to identify which principles guide the use of subject headings within Queerlit. LÄS MER