Sökning: "metaphorical adjectives"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden metaphorical adjectives.

  1. 1. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Andreas Johansson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

    Sammanfattning : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. LÄS MER

  3. 2. “Harsh realities” and “tender gazes”: Do perceptual extensions function metaphorically or literally? : A corpus-based investigation of haptic adjectives and the “extent of the literal”

    Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Esme Richardson-Owen; [2022]
    Nyckelord :cognitive linguistics; cognitive semantics; perceptual metaphor; lexical metaphor; double-function adjectives;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Terrific Paper: A Corpus Study of Amelioration and Pejoration in Adjectives Related to Fear

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Ilse de Wit; [2021]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The paper looks into the differences and similarities in amelioration and pejoration of adjectives related to the concept of fear. It specifically investigates awesome, awful, and terrific with the aim to find possible patterns and factors which influence change. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Describing scent : On the translation of hyphenated premodifiers in a text about perfume

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Evelina Magnusson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :translation studies; English; Swedish; hyphenated premodifiers; noun modification; explication; simplification;

    Sammanfattning : This small-scale study examines the translation of a text about perfumes, focusing on how hyphenated premodifiers in the English source text were translated into Swedish. A quantitative analysis was carried out, where the various premodifying structures present in the source text were identified and categorized according to their individual constituents and frequencies of the various categories were calculated. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Beautiful Forcefields!" : Promotional Metadiscursive Language in eSports Commentaries

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Författare :Johannes Byrö; [2017]
    Nyckelord :metadiscourse; eSports; promotional language; commentary; casters; evaluative adjectives; metaphors; metadiskurs; eSport; främjande språk; kommentar; kommentatör; värderande adjektiv; metaforer;

    Sammanfattning : For an eSports commentator, the ability to promote the rivalry between the competitors is just as important as fast and accurate commentary. Thus, it is of interest how an experienced commentator achieves this promotional language per some theoretical framework. LÄS MER