Essays about: "contrastive"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 97 essays containing the word contrastive.

  1. 1. Modal auxiliaries in English and Swedish A contrastive study of English can/could, may/might, and Swedish kunna and få

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Gustav Landälv; [2024-01-22]
    Keywords : Modal auxiliaries; English; epistemic modality; dynamic modality; deontic modality; can; could; may; might; kan; kunde; får; fick;

    Abstract : The results suggest that English can and could, when expressing dynamic modality, are mainly translated as respectively kan and kunde. When omitted in the translation, the main verb with which they co occur is often a verb of perception, such as see, or a private verb involving a thought process, like understand or remember. READ MORE

  3. 2. Leveraging Large Language Models for Firm-Intelligence: A RAG Framework Approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Niclas Wölner-Hanssen; [2024]
    Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; Large Language Models; Retrieval Augmented Generation; Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment; Contrastive Learning; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : In the wake of OpenAI's release of ChatGPT in November 2022, powered by the 175 billion parameter neural network GPT-3, the potential applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) in various sectors have become evident. One such application lies in hedge funds and trading desks where knowledge sharing is paramount. READ MORE

  4. 3. English Word Order in Written Production of Swedish Students

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap

    Author : Mohammad Taherinasab; [2023-05-11]
    Keywords : Error Analysis EA ; Contrastive Analysis CA ; Second Language Acquisition SLA ; EFL learners; word order;

    Abstract : This study investigates English word order errors in the written production of Swedish junior high school students. It analyzes 24 essays written by the 9th-grade students in a junior high school in Sweden in the spring semester of 2022. READ MORE

  5. 4. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  6. 5. INSERTIONS IN POPULAR HISTORY TEXTS - A contrastive study on translation from English to Swedish and from Swedish to English

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Gustav Landälv; [2023-02-27]
    Keywords : English; Swedish; readability; insertion; clause; phrase; syntactic position; popular history;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to compare the frequency of insertions in an English popular history text and a Swedish popular history text. Moreover, the purpose is to compare the English text with its Swedish translation and the Swedish text with its English translation as regards the status of the insertions as clauses, phrases or (in the translation) something else than a clause or a phrase. READ MORE