Essays about: "lexical gaps"
Found 3 essays containing the words lexical gaps.
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1. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE
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2. Understanding the 'mess' in text messages : An analysis of humorous text message exchanges shared in social media platforms
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : The concept 'mess-understanding' has circulated in online media and is so prevalent that it is now included in the Urban Dictionary. The folk concept of mess-understandings is a pun for misunderstandings arising in an online media context. READ MORE
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3. The 'dark continent' : A translation study focusing on lexical gaps and style and tone in a text about the South African bush
University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOLAbstract : Abstract The aim of this study was twofold. On the one hand, the aim was to discuss how lexical gaps can be solved or dealt with when a text about wildlife and nature different from that of the target culture is translated. READ MORE