Essays about: "Diachronic change"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the words Diachronic change.

1. 1. Aviation Discourses in News : The influence of the political climate on climate politics

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Jonathan Rahn; [2022]
   Keywords : Climate Change Communication; Critical Discourse Studies; Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis; Diachronic Corpus Studies; Media Studies;

   Abstract : Climate change must be considered one of the most critical issues of the coming decades that poten- tially poses foundational threats to human societies. Aviation has relatively little impact on green- house gas emissions globally, but this picture changes when focusing on emissions of rich industrial states. READ MORE

3. 2. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
   Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

   Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE

4. 3. On Swear Words and Rap Music: : A Diachronic Study of the Changes in the Use of Swear Words in Rap Music from the 1970s to the 2010s

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Filip Nikitas Metallinos Log; [2022]
   Keywords : Rap; music; corpus; functional categories; swear words;

   Abstract : It has previously been shown that music features progressively more swear words and profanities per word uttered over time, and that rap music is at the forefront of this change. Therefore, this study explores whether there have been significant changes in swear word usage in rap music between the genre's conception (1970s-1980s), its commercialization (1990s-2000s), and its current black rights and personhood movements (2010s), totaling 50 years from 1970 to 2019. READ MORE

5. 4. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

   Author : Eldar Jusovic; [2022]
   Keywords : Semantics; Semantic change; Diachronic change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis; viral; WWW; dictionaries;

   Abstract : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. READ MORE

6. 5. WANNA BE ON TOP? The Hyperparameter Search for Semantic Change's Next Top Model

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Kate Viloria; [2021-09-22]
   Keywords : semantic change; language change; diachronic word embeddings;

   Abstract : Lexical semantic change (LSC) detection through the use of diachronic corpora and computational methods continues to be a prevalent research area in language change (Tahmasebi et al., 2018). READ MORE