Essays about: "homonyms"

Found 4 essays containing the word homonyms.

1. 1. ‘How great!’ : A morpho-syntactic and semantic study on the two roots aA and wr

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Josefin Törnqvist; [2017]
   Keywords : Morpho-syntax; semantics; greatness; homonyms; synonyms; linguistics; roots;

   Abstract : Egyptology is a discipline in which new research and new approaches are continuously necessary and – in most cases – provided. In this constant flow of new research, some subject areas are left untouched. READ MORE

3. 2. No Laughing Matter : A study of the use of comedy in public service announcements

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

   Author : Josefin Johansson; [2017]
   Keywords : Public service announcements; Advertisements; Advertising; Semantics; Pragmatics; Ambiguity; The United Kingdom; The United States; Australia;

   Abstract : This essay is a study which is intended to explore how public service announcements in broadcast media use humour as a method of conveying their core messages in a manner which is both memorable and persuasive; to consider why humour is chosen as a strategy; and to identify the similarities and differences in the use of humour in PSAs and commercial broadcast advertising. Six video commercials were analysed in total: three PSAs and three advertisements. READ MORE

4. 3. Where Did All the Double Entendres Go? : A study of televised double entendres’ linguistic similarities and differences in connection to social norms and cultural differences between the United Kingdom and the United States.

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Rebecca Flander; [2016]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This essay will examine fourteen selected clips of double entendres, also referred to as sexual innuendoes, from English-speaking films and TV-shows between the 1960s/1970s and 2010s. The aim was to determine whether the double entendres’ linguistic similarities and differences could be connected to generational differences and/or cultural differences between the United Kingdom and the United States. READ MORE

5. 4. A Study of Metaphors in the Heart of Darkness and their Swedish Translations

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Johanna Olsson Tillström; [2009]
   Keywords : Translation; Vinay Dalbernet; Metaphors; Conceptualization; Lakoff; Conrad; Heart of Darkness;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to compare metaphors from the 1970 edition of Joseph Conrsd's Heart of Darkness (originally published in 1902) with their Swedish translations in Mörkrets Hjärta, by Einar Hecksher (2006), to see how mwtaphors have been translated from English into Swedish, i.e. READ MORE