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1. Reporting Trends in Sustainability and Climate Change Discourse : A corpus study about reporting verbs in global news
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : In news reports, journalists often make references to what spokespersons from public organizations have announced. While doing so, reporting verbs are not an uncommon occurrence (Li, Zhao & Lou, 2023: 2). LÄS MER
2. Translating Metaphors An Analysis of the Translation of Conceptual Metaphors from English to Swedish in an Academic Text
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay investigates the author’s translation of a non-fiction text about literary theory. The study examines the metaphors found in the original text and how they have been translated from English to Swedish. The analysis uses Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) description of conceptual metaphors to categorize the metaphors found in the text. LÄS MER
3. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. LÄS MER
4. Språkets mytiska begynnelse
Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In this study, I examine how the Italian philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vicodescribes the relationships between language, thinking and environment in the interpretationof classical myths. The results of the investigation show that the traditional concepts of"pietas" and "religion", that Vico perceives in connection with the relationship between theslave and the master, are cognitively processed by Vico by applying rhetorical figures such asmetaphor and metonymy. LÄS MER
5. Translating metaphors : an English to Swedish translation analysis based on conceptual metaphor theory
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This paper analyzes the author’s own translation of a metaphor dense non-fiction text and investigates how metaphors have been translated from English to Swedish. The analysis mainly draws on Schäffner’s 2004 study that views metaphors on two levels, micro and macro, and Newmark’s 1981 prescriptive framework. LÄS MER
