Essays about: "applied linguistic"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 89 essays containing the words applied linguistic.
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11. A leadership analysis of George Orwell's Animal Farm
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This essay aims to research the writing of George Orwell by analysing the four main pigs in his novel Animal Farm from a linguistic and rhetorical perspective. The paper's purpose is to explore occurrences of chosen phenomena tied to linguistic and rhetorical theory, with the goal to create an understanding of how Orwell portrays his characters exercising leadership and how their communicative strategies differ or coincide. READ MORE
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12. QUEER JAPANESE. The modern-day language usage of Japanese LGBTQ+ people
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Gendered language is a well-known feature of Japanese, but how is it applied by a speaker who does not fit the cisgender or heteronormative standards in society? In a 2010 study, Hideko Abe published a book titled Queer Japanese, which addressed this exact question. Although incredibly thorough and informative, the book is now over a decade old, and the findings may no longer be accurate. READ MORE
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13. The influence of the ideological significance of the concept of "language" in inclusion policies for asylum seekers and refugees : A bottom-up approach
University essay from Södertörns högskola/StatsvetenskapAbstract : This dissertation investigates how the vision of the linguistic reality influences asylum seekers and refugees inclusion policies with attention on attitudes, prejudices and phenomena of "banal nationalism" and "banal colonialism" related to languages. By focusing on micro- level actors, i.e. READ MORE
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14. Readability Assessment with Pre-Trained Transformer Models : An Investigation with Neural Linguistic Features
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Readability assessment (RA) is to assign a score or a grade to a given document, which measures the degree of difficulty to read the document. RA originated in language education studies and was used to classify reading materials for language learners. Later, RA was applied to many other applications, such as aiding automatic text simplification. READ MORE
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15. Distillation or loss of information? : The effects of distillation on model redundancy
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : The necessity for billions of parameters in large language models has lately been questioned as there are still unanswered questions regarding how information is captured in the networks. It could be argued that without this knowledge, there may be a tendency to overparametarize the models. READ MORE
