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  1. 1. “LONGING WON’T BRING HIM BACK SOONER…” A Case Study of Gendered Language Use in American Recruitment Posters from the Second World War

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Erica Nilsson; [2020-09-08]
    Nyckelord :World War II; gender;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to analyse and compare American male and femalerecruitment posters from the Second World War. The sub-aims are to find out whether theslogans directed at men and women differed linguistically from each other, and if men andwomen were attributed differently. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Slurs and Meaning

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Författare :Amanda Jensen; [2020-05-25]
    Nyckelord :Slurs; Meaning; Slurs and Meaning;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the semantics-pragmatics divide in some recent articles about slurs.The semantic accounts suggesting a hybrid semantic meaning as well as the accounts that wish to include the notion of linguistic competence in semantic meaning are examined and found to have trouble finding a theoretically elegant explanation of the meaning of slurs. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Linguistic Differences in Real Conversations: Human to Human vs Human to Chatbot

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Eirini Silkej; [2020-03-02]
    Nyckelord :engelska; English learner; Natural language processing; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Linguistics and AI; Text messaging; Instant Messaging; IM; Chatbot; Mitsuku; Computermediated communication; CMC;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates how students communicate in writing when they know thattheir conversational partner is a human being in comparison to how they communicate whenthey know their partner is a chatbot. The participants are upper secondary students of English. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Beskrivning och översättning av no da samt analys av Murakami Harukis Nejimakidori och Fågeln som vrider upp världen

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Axel Eliasson; [2020-02-20]
    Nyckelord :japanska; no da; n da; Japanese nominal predicate; Swedish translation; Haruki Murakami; semantics; pragmatics;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to give a description of the functions of the Japanese nominalpredicate no da, which in short is used to signal that the participants of a communication arealready aware of the information presented. However, the thesis´ main point of interest lies inthe analysis of the choice of words when no da is translated into Swedish. LÄS MER

  7. 5. What’s up with Swedish Students’ Responses to Question-Based Greetings? : A Study of How Second Language Learners of English Master the Formulaic Greetings “How are you?” and “What’s up?”

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Andreas Karlström; [2020]
    Nyckelord :english; greetings; pragmatics; sociopragmatics; pragmalinguistics; pragmatics of politeness; second language learning; how are you? ; what s up? ;

    Sammanfattning : The extent to which Swedish learners of English master the formulaic language of greetings and their responses has not been well researched over the years. This study aims to fill the gap by examining how 66 Swedish senior high school students respond to two question-based English greetings: the formal “How are you?” and the informal “What’s up?”. LÄS MER