Essays about: "Welsh"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the word Welsh.

  1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

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

    Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
    Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

    Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Discursive Construction of "Welsh" in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle : Thematic Roles and Mental Models

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Åberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Discourse Analysis; Mental models; Predication; Briton; Welsh; Anglo-Saxon; Colonialism; Thematic roles.;

    Abstract : With the recent rise in interest in critical readings of our history, scholars have begun noticing that historical documents such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle may have functioned as propaganda (e.g., Yorke, 2006; Konshuh, 2020). The present study examines how Britons (i. READ MORE

  4. 3. Imagining Arms : Rationality and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Swedish Defense Requirements Engineering

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : John Welsh; [2023]
    Keywords : Requirements Engineering; Rationality; Science and Technology Studies; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Defense Systems;

    Abstract : Despite significant efforts at improving requirements engineering in the development of military systems, defense procurement is still plagued by expensive, well-publicized failures. Central to requirements engineering is the concept of rationality – more reason is assumed to eventually ‘solve’ the problem of defense requirements engineering. READ MORE

  5. 4. Turkey and crimes against humanity : A case study on Turkish treatment of civilian population

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Muminovic Fata; [2021]
    Keywords : crimes against humanity; Turkey; coup d’etat; Syrian civil war; Kurdish-Turkish conflict; human rights;

    Abstract : Despite the developments in the international arena to ensure and protect human rights, evidence from around the world showcase examples of organized and systematic violations of human rights in the form of war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity. Turkey is one of the countries that has shown decline in the last ten years when it comes to respect for human rights. READ MORE

  6. 5. “It’s like having three children when it comes to cooking with my husband”

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Kenza Podieh; [2021]
    Keywords : gender; doing gender; undoing gender; Community Supported Agriculture; voice centred relational method; Wales; socio-cultural domain; corporeal domian;

    Abstract : Within the last decades, alternative food production networks (AFN), which oppose the well-documented social, economic, and environmental flaws of the conventional food production system, have received increased attention by scholars. Yet, notions of gender often remain overlooked. READ MORE