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6. 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
7. Mot en semantisk karta för kontinuativer i germanska språk
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikSammanfattning : Denna uppsats undersöker kontinuativer i elva germanska språk genom en kvantitiv och kvalitativ analys av korpusdata. Syftet är att undersöka om den lexikala förändring som beskrivs hos kontinuativer i svenska av Britse (2022) kan observeras i andra germanska språk. LÄS MER
8. Att röra sig mellan vardagsspråk och ämnesspecifikt språk i gemensamt läsande : - ett aktionsforskningsprojekt i gymnasieskolan
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ämnesdidaktikSammanfattning : The project has been implemented as teacher driven action research, where subject-specific reading was studied in classroom practitioners and analyzed by using Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). The purpose was, partly to research which linguistic domains the teachers used in the part detailed reading in Reading to Learn (R2L) and how the discursive movement looked, and partly if progression could be seen during a school year and in that case, how it affected the educators’ teaching. LÄS MER
9. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighetSammanfattning : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. LÄS MER
10. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)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