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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden language scepticism.
1. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorikSammanfattning : The aim of this Master’s thesis is to achieve philosophical clarity on an interpretative problem I have been struggle with in Euripides’ Medea: That Medea murders her own children, while claimingto love them. Situated within the philosophical and literary tradition of ordinary language philosophy and ordinary language criticism, the thesis draws on ideas, theoretical discussions, and concepts from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Niklas Forsberg – but also Søren Kierkegaard. LÄS MER
2. THE EUROPEAN TAXONOMY A study of Swedish and Norwegian companies view on a European taxonomy
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This research investigates the effects of EU Taxonomy implementation on sustainability reporting practices among companies in Sweden and Norway. Using an exploratory multiple case study approach, qualitative interviews were conducted to understand personal perceptions and outcomes within Swedish and Norwegian companies. LÄS MER
3. Till naturen : Ekokritiska trådar i Thomas Tidholms författarskap
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : In the following essay, I examine the ecocritical aspects of the writings of Thomas Tidholm, Swedish poet and children’s author. I argue for the existence of “green threads” that permeate the authorship, and analyse them through three thematic chapters where several of Tidholm’s texts, for children and adults, are juxtaposed in order to expand, contrast and deepen one another. LÄS MER
4. Sprechen und Schweigen in der Lyrik von Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This thesis examines a selection of poems of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan for stylistic devices, used to express the dynamic of speaking and silence in the poems. The main question of the thesis is how speaking and silencing are represented in the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan and which influence has the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger on this representation. LÄS MER
5. Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : This study examined the metaphors used in contemporary American conservative discourse between October 2018 and March 2019, focusing on material published by conservative think tanks (CTTs) and tweets made by Republican senators in relation to climate change. For the CTTs, a domain-specific corpus (36,388 words) was compiled and a smaller corpus (3967 words) was assembled based on 135 tweets. LÄS MER