Essays about: "contemporary language use"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 75 essays containing the words contemporary language use.

  1. 21. An Outline of the Semantic Network of the Preposition Up in American English : A Corpus Study

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Tais Fernandes Mariano; [2019]
    Keywords : Corpus Analysis; Semantic Networks; Preposition Up; American English; Second Language Learning;

    Abstract : In this study an outline is presented of the semantic network of the preposition up in American English in sentences extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which was done to determine what the most common uses and meanings of the preposition are, as well as to determine if most of its possible meanings are concrete or abstract. The results show that there is a salient use and also prototypical meaning of up, and that these are major factors that impact the semantic network of the preposition. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Superman Speaks and the Wonder Woman Keeps Quiet : Men and Women's Speech in Contemporary Superhero Movies

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Rebecka Åhl; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This qualitative study aims to investigate how gender is reflected through language in the two superhero movies Wonder Woman and Man of Steel. Emphasis is put on five linguistic markers that have been found to differ between female and male speakers. These markers are: amount of speech, interruptions, questions, minimal responses and hedges. READ MORE

  4. 23. Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Ida-Maria Chvostek; [2019]
    Keywords : United States of America; conservative think tanks; critical metaphor analysis; IPCC; framing;

    Abstract : This study examined the metaphors used in contemporary American conservative discourse between October 2018 and March 2019, focusing on material published by conservative think tanks (CTTs) and tweets made by Republican senators in relation to climate change. For the CTTs, a domain-specific corpus (36,388 words) was compiled and a smaller corpus (3967 words) was assembled based on 135 tweets. READ MORE

  5. 24. Named-entity recognition in Czech historical texts : Using a CNN-BiLSTM neural network model

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Helena Hubková; [2019]
    Keywords : named entity recognition; Czech historical texts; historical newspapers; CNN-BiLSTM neural network;

    Abstract : The thesis presents named-entity recognition in Czech historical newspapers from Modern Access to Historical Sources Project. Our goal was to create a specific corpus and annotation manual for the project and evaluate neural networks methods for named-entity recognition within the task. READ MORE

  6. 25. Red English: Duality and Representation in Contemporary Native American Poetics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Jennifer Ellen Hall; [2019]
    Keywords : Native American; Poetry; Contemporary Poetry; Post-Colonialism; Tommy Pico; Layli Long Soldier; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores representations of duality across the work of contemporary Native American poets. Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. READ MORE