Sökning: "deixis in pragmatics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden deixis in pragmatics.
1. Promises, promises Mr. President : A study of commissive speech act usage in 21st century American presidential inaugural addresses.
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : Abstract The American president’s serving period always begin with an iconic inaugural address. It is a function wherein the president can unify the audience, ratify the ceremony, and present his political and administrative direction for his term. LÄS MER
2. Shakespeare's Language : Styles and meanings in King Lear relating to power
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This is a linguistic study that will apply theories as a way of understanding the contexts of aspects of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, as they relate to the possession, and exercise of power. It focuses on targeting and exploring the language of the play and how it impacts characters’ behaviour to gain or sustain power. LÄS MER
3. Lingvistisk analys av den ryska politiska anekdoten under 2000-talet: genreförändring?
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Slaviska språkSammanfattning : An analysis was made of the personal and non-personal post-Soviet political anecdotes. It is argued that post-Soviet political anecdotes have been created during 2000–2019. The starting point is that the Russian word анекдот carries particular, cultural information and does not have a systematic equivalent in Swedish ot English, i.e. LÄS MER
4. The use of semiotics and pragmatics in printed advertisements : How consumers make sense of advertisements in relation to established theories
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This essay is a study which is intended to explore how a well-known makeup company, M.A.C., uses semiotics and pragmatics in their advertisements and how the consumer’s reaction corresponds with what is proposed in the theories. LÄS MER
5. Comic Books - Images, Words and Language Acquisition : Using comic books as an alternative material for teaching the English language.
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : The purpose of the research described in this essay is, by analysing the content of comic books, to (1) evaluate comic books as material for teaching, (2) if possible, to create an exercise that could be used in the classroom in which comic books are used for teaching ESL and (3) to suggest innovative material and related tasks that could be used to introduce students to issues related to meaning, with the focus on “literal or speaker meaning”, “multimodality” and “deixis”, and drawing upon principles and concepts described within the disciplines of semiotics, semantics and pragmatics. Accordingly, the thesis questions of this essay are described as follows: If possible, how could comic books be used in the classroom as an alternative material for teaching the ESL? If possible, how could comic books be used to introduce students to issues related to meaning through linguistic approaches, with the aid of semantics, semiotics and pragmatics? Comic books, in theory and in practice, could be used in the classroom as an alternative material for teaching the English language and introduce students to issues related to meaning through linguistic approaches, with the aid including semantics, semiotics and pragmatics. LÄS MER
