Essays about: "categorisation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 124 essays containing the word categorisation.

1. 11. Social Cleavages, Conflict, and the Fates of Autocratic Regimes

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Teodor Lundberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Autocracy; dictatorship; social cleavage; economic inequality; ethnic cleavage; conflict; non-state conflict; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This article focuses on two specific social cleavages, ethnic and economic inequality and analyses their respective effects within autocratic regimes. The primary mechanism that was tested was the relationship between these two, and non-state conflict, (defined as a conflict with more than 25 combat fatalities, and the state not directly taking part). READ MORE

3. 12. ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ Revalued : A Significant and Singular Fairy Tale in Oscar Wilde’s Work

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Quentin CAIZERGUES; [2022]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; The Fisherman and his Soul; fairy-tales studies; aestheticism; social critique; Victorian studies; Hans Christian Andersen; The Little Mermaid;

   Abstract : The period 1889-1891 has been regarded as crucial in Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) career. Having been somewhat unsuccessful as a writer during the 1880s, and turning to journalism to earn a living, Wilde in this period saw the publication of his dialogues which led to his sole novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (hereafter, Dorian), serialised in 1890 before being republished as a novel in 1891. READ MORE

4. 13. Object categorisation in French-Swedish early simultaneous bilinguals. : ARE GENDER EFFECTS MODULATED BY GRAMMAR OR CULTURE?

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

   Author : Marie Fournier; [2022]
   Keywords : Linguistic relativity; Grammatical gender; French; Swedish; Cultural gender effect;

   Abstract : If most scholars tend to agree that the native language of a speaker does influence the way they will understand the reality around them, the question becomes ambiguous when it comes to bilingual speakers’ cognition. How is their reality affected by the combination of their languages? This study aimed at exploring this question under the angle of grammatical gender. READ MORE

5. 14. Multilingual Categorisation of Landscape terms

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Debora Nilsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Multilingualism; word-to-referent mapping; categorisation; Landscape; semantic domains.;

   Abstract : This study investigates how multilinguals compared with monolinguals categorise landscape. The aim is to contribute to research already done with fresh data in a new setting. The thesis suggests that speakers with lower proficiency in a language will tend to choose vocabulary based on frequency and not semantic knowledge. READ MORE

6. 15. Skeuomorphs what art thou? A skeuomorphic perspective on material preference and categorisation in prehistory

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : Alice Larsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Skeuomorphism; material properties; material categorisation; material preference; material perception; material interpretation; affordance; cultural spheres; reflexive methodology; archaeological terminology; imitation; original; centre and periphery; metaphorical material; meaningful material; southwestern French Aurignacian; ivory beads; south Scandinavian neolithic; flint daggers; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : Past material categorisation and preference in archaeological research are often heavily influenced by modern material perception, through the use of modern language and modern terminological connotations. This thesis seeks to clarify material categorisation and preference in the past, by studying two different skeuomorphs; Aurignacian shell skeuomorphs made from ivory, and south Scandinavian metal dagger skeuomorphs made from flint. READ MORE