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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 97 uppsatser innehållade ordet pragmatics.
21. “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 litteraturerSammanfattning : The aim of this study is to analyse and compare American male and female recruitment posters from the Second World War. The sub-aims are to find out whether the slogans directed at men and women differed linguistically from each other, and if men and women were attributed differently. LÄS MER
22. Slurs and Meaning
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriSammanfattning : 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
23. Linguistic Differences in Real Conversations: Human to Human vs Human to Chatbot
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This study investigates how students communicate in writing when they know that their conversational partner is a human being in comparison to how they communicate when they know their partner is a chatbot. The participants are upper secondary students of English. LÄS MER
24. 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 litteraturerSammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to give a description of the functions of the Japanese nominal predicate no da, which in short is used to signal that the participants of a communication are already aware of the information presented. However, the thesis´ main point of interest lies in the analysis of the choice of words when no da is translated into Swedish. LÄS MER
25. 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 humanioraSammanfattning : 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