Essays about: "semantic correspondence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words semantic correspondence.

  1. 1. “[E]en strict offensive och defensive alliance” and “the danger this King and the 2 Queens were in” : News Reporting in Early Modern Swedish and English Diplomatic Correspondence

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Niclas Vikström; [2017]
    Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; epistolography; Early Modern Swedish; Early Modern English; exploratory case study; Baron Christer Bonde; Charles X of Sweden; John Robinson; Sir Leoline Jenkins; diplomatic correspondence; textual superstructure; semantic macrostructure; narration of news; attributing of titles; multilingualism;

    Abstract : The study of early cross-linguistic diplomatic epistolography was first introduced in Brownlees' (2012) comparative study of Italian and English personal newsletters. Given the field’s young age and the strong need for both further research and the retrieving of new, untranscribed and unanalysed data, the present study set out to help move this field forward by examining, at both a textual superstructure and semantic macrostructural level, two sets of unchartered diplomatic newsletters which representatives at foreign courts despatched back to their respective home countries. READ MORE

  2. 2. Why you cannot go from and från the same place: a contrastive look at the prepositions from and från

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Elias Hermansson; [2016]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; från; from; prepositions; Contrastive analysis; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to describe the way the prepositions from and från work, both semantically and syntactically. However, the focus is on the translation from from into Swedish. READ MORE

  3. 3. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Niclas Vikström; [2015]
    Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE

  4. 4. The Frame Semantics of KILL: The Identity, gender, and ethnicity of fatal attributions in British and American news press

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Leila Chaar; [2012]
    Keywords : Frame Semantics; Lexical Semantics; KILL; Polysemy; Newspaper Discourse; Corpus-Driven Cognitive Linguistics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim with this study was to investigate the senses of the lexemes /assassinated/, /killed/, and /murdered/ in 21st century American and British newspaper discourse, which was done with the method of corpus-driven Cognitive Linguistics. The main research questions dealt with how the combination of grammatical and contextual features of the articles frame patients and agents of the verbs. READ MORE

  5. 5. An Instance based Approach to Find the Types of Correspondence between the Attributes of Heterogeneous Datasets

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation

    Author : Muhammad Atif Riaz; Sameer Munir; [2012]
    Keywords : Attribute Correspondence; Heterogeneous databases schema matching; Instance based matching.;

    Abstract : Context: Determining attribute correspondence is the most important, time consuming and knowledge intensive part during databases integration. It is also used in other data manipulation applications such as data warehousing, data design, semantic web and e-commerce. READ MORE