Essays about: "Diachronic"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 65 essays containing the word Diachronic.

  1. 11. Mining the imagery : A text mining and news media content analysis of the Swedish country image in the Guardian, 2010-2020

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Axel Tjellander; [2022]
    Keywords : Sweden; country image; public diplomacy; text mining; distant reading; topic modelling; corpus assisted discourse analysis;

    Abstract : In the field of public diplomacy, it has increasingly become relevant to develop analytical operations in order to gain knowledge on the perceptions of foreign publics and their attitudes towards countries – a construct known as the country image. In recent time, research on public diplomacy has been increasingly occupied with the impact of media on country images due to the continuous expansion and fragmentation of the hybrid media landscape. READ MORE

  3. 12. 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

  4. 13. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Felicity Markdal; [2022]
    Keywords : Agender; Non-binary; Phenomenology; Genderqueer; Alchemy; Eidetic reduction; Queer theory; Husserl; Braidotti; Irigaray;

    Abstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Many Layers of Sergei Parajanov : A Life’s Work Reprised

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Anna Strohmeyer; [2022]
    Keywords : Parajanov; dissident; censorship; sexual identity; poetic cinema; Soviet; post-Soviet; individual freedom; artistic freedom; prison art; queer studies; diachronic case study; political prisoner; historical revisionism; erasure;

    Abstract : Abstract This thesis examines the various biographical threads, which created the complex fabric of Sergei Parajanov’s life and work, especially his films. His origins, education, marriages, family life, and friendships forged in film school and in the various studios, where he worked, are used to frame his cinematic productions. READ MORE

  6. 15. The limits of unmarkedness : A semantic analysis of adjunct clauses in Middle Egyptian documentary texts

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Egyptologi

    Author : Mirka Perón Flodström; [2022]
    Keywords : Middle Egyptian; adjunct clause; marked; unmarked; semantics; diachronic;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to semantically analyze the use of marked and unmarked adjunct clauses in Middle Egyptian documentary texts in order to investigate the limits of choosing an unmarked form in more informal language use. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in the analysis. READ MORE