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1. 1. What it Means to Decentralize the Web - A Study of the Implications and Feasibility of a Decentralized Web

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för informatik

   Author : Jakob Borglund; Torsten Strömberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Decentralized Web; Re-decentralization; Web3; Blockchain; Peer-to-Peer; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Although based on decentralized principles, the World Wide Web has become highly centralized with a few multinational tech corporations hosting and providing all of the services most people use the internet for. This has led to the unproportionate power some companies hold over the world’s people and has wide consequences, not least is reduced integrity. READ MORE

3. 2. The Role of English in South Korean Social Mobility : A Sociolinguistic Study on Korean Native Speakers’ Perspectives, Language Ideologies, and Identities with Respect to English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Danja Schierenbeck; [2022]
   Keywords : Korea; English; Vertical Social Mobility; Identity; Language Ideology; Overt Prestige;

   Abstract : English has been a central language in various sectors of South Korean (henceforth Korean) society for over a century, with historical events and contexts resulting in a glorification of the language as both an essentiality for success and an indicator of superiority and modernity (Park, 2009; Cho, 2017). With English becoming omnipresent in recent times due to an increasing focus on globalisation within Korean society, most families rigorously pursue English education to ensure optimal chances of employment. READ MORE

4. 3. Japanese Native Speakers’ Derogatory Language Use Against Men and Women

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Oliver Braun; [2021]
   Keywords : impoliteness; gender; insults; derogatory language; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the differences between how Japanese native speakers use insults and derogatory language toward men and women. Initially, impoliteness is described as an area of sociolinguistics that explores face-threatening acts, the offensiveness of which is modified by various factors, such as the interlocutors’ relationship and gender. READ MORE

5. 4. Establishing and preserving social relations in classroom discourse : A study of a teacher’s redress to FTAs that enhance and maintain teacher-student rapport

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Julia Rudolfsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Rapport; FTAs; Speech Acts; Politeness Strategies; face; classroom discourse;

   Abstract : This study examines how a Swedish upper secondary school EFL teacher avoids performing Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in instances of reprimanding and giving oral feedback to students. The results and discussion show that the teacher evades potential FTAs caused by statements and demands by using indirectness in the form of questions and requests. READ MORE

6. 5. President Trump’s use of ‘Impoliteness Strategies’ in Twitter outputs targeted at U.S. politicians (from 15 June 2015, to 24 May 2019)

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Albin Hamnö; [2020]
   Keywords : U.S. President Donald Trump; Twitter; Impoliteness strategies; Impoliteness triggers; Impoliteness functions; Quantitative analysis; Degree of offence;

   Abstract : This paper enters into a field of linguistics dedicated to analysing the use of strategies in performing impolite, intentionally targeted, language output. Specifically, it evaluates the purpose(s) of U.S. President Donald Trump’s impolite output on social media platform Twitter. READ MORE