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  1. 6. Lusläsa eller läsa lusen av någon : En studie av elevers förståelse av idiomatiska uttryck i årskurs 4-6

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Oscar Dahl; Angeliqua Lafon; [2018]
    Nyckelord :idiom; fixed phrases; middle school; progression; Swedish; English; classroom education; idiom; fasta fraser; grundskola; progression; svenska; engelska; klassrumsarbete;

    Sammanfattning : Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka mellanstadieelevers förståelse av idiomatiska uttryck samt huruvida de känner igen idiomatiska uttryck till sin form och jämföra detta inom ämnena svenska och engelska. Vidare ämnar detta examensarbete att undersöka om det finns någon åldersprogression sett till elevernas förståelse av idiomatiska uttryck samt undersöka hur lärare arbetar med idiom. LÄS MER

  3. 7. A piece of cake? High school students' retention of idioms : A comparative study of teaching idioms by means of illustrations and definitions respectively

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sabrina Xerri; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Idioms; vocabulary acquisition; EFL; ESL; retention; illustrations in teaching.;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims at investigating teaching of idioms by means of illustrations and teaching of idioms by means of definitions. The informants of the experiment are learners of English in a Swedish high school. The 58 informants of this experiment were tested on a total of 19 idioms. LÄS MER

  4. 8. To make a mountain out of a molehill : A comparative study of the metonymical and metaphorical structures of three semantically identical, but lexically different, idioms in English, Swedish and German

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Anna Lodén; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; mapping; source domain; linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : This study revolves around the different underlying metaphorical or metonymical structures of three specific idioms, one English, one Swedish and one German, but with equivalent semantics. The structure of the source and target domains was analysed, as well as the mapping from source to target. LÄS MER

  5. 9. How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Hanna Lindblom; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Metaphor; metonymy; embodied motivation; idioms; body parts; comparative.;

    Sammanfattning : Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Translation of Humour in Media From English Speech to Swedish Subtitles: A Pilot Study of Selected Episodes in the Sitcom Friends

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

    Författare :Agata Leshkovich; [2016-09-26]
    Nyckelord :engelska; English; Swedish; Audiovisual translation; humour; culture; sitcom; Friends;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this pilot study is to analyse the translation of humour in selected episodes in the American sitcom Friends from speech to Swedish subtitles in terms of linguistic and cultural aspects. The study was conducted qualitatively by choosing several episodes and thoroughly analysing the translation of linguistic and culture-specific features in order to explore what strategies of translation were implemented on different kinds of jokes, noting the constraints of interlingual subtitling. LÄS MER