Essays about: "transitivity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word transitivity.

1. 1. The “Magic Gathering” of Comprehension Devices : A diachronic systemic functional linguistics analysis of MTG game card texts

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Isabella Schiller; [2024]
   Keywords : Systemic Functional Linguistics; Magic: The Gathering; keywords; card text; action; process; mood; transitivity; comprehension;

   Abstract : This study investigates the diachronic shift of revised card texts in the tabletop collectible card game ‘Magic: The Gathering’.  The lexicogrammatical patterns found are compared to theories on comprehension and learning, and to the development of the game. READ MORE

3. 2. The Killing Agent : A comparative transitivity analysis of US news headlines regarding killings of and by the civilian and the police officer

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Wendela Rikardsdotter; [2023]
   Keywords : Agency; America; Authority; News; Critical Discourse Analysis; CDA; Media; USA; Police Brutality;

   Abstract : Due to its status and reach, media discourse can shape its reader's perspective on social actors and events, for good and for worse. This thesis investigates 100 headlines retrieved via searches in the NOW corpus, of which 50 portray killings of police officers by civilians and 50 portray the opposite, killings of civilians by police officers. READ MORE

4. 3. The Dynamics of Preserving Transitive Choice and Preference: Transitivity in the context of Choice Blindness

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

   Author : Daniel Zander; [2023]
   Keywords : transitivity; choice blindness; preference; dynamics; mechanism; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : In most normative and prescriptive decision theories, transitivity is a presumed property of any preference relation, stating that for any choice alternatives x, y, z and preference relation R, if xRy and yRz, then xRz. However, what is normatively expected of an ideally rational agent may still be descriptively false under certain contexts and empirically motivated decision models. READ MORE

5. 4. Responsibility and the Media : A critical discourse analysis of climate change representations in the U.S and Nigerian news outlets

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sofia Fujiwara; [2022]
   Keywords : Systemic functional linguistics; critical discourse analysis; frame analysis; transitivity analysis; news discourse; climate change; responsibility; media; power; linguistics.;

   Abstract : Scientists have reached a consensus that human activities have contributed to global climate change, yet its outcomes affect societies disproportionately. Often the least responsible countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. READ MORE

6. 5. PORTRAYAL OF ADOPTION IN SWEDISH NEWS MEDIA. A transitivity analysis of social actors in the 2018 Chile adoption news story.

   University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Maria Saloranta; [2021-08-25]
   Keywords : News media; adoption; critical discourse analysis; transitivity analysis; portrayal; representation;

   Abstract : The current study researches how adoption stakeholders are portrayed in Swedish news media by applying a transitivity framework to analyze online news articles. The news articles in focus concern adoptions made in the 1970s from Chile to Sweden with possible ties to human trafficking. READ MORE