Essays about: "language and national character"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words language and national character.

  1. 1. From Enshrined Language of the State, to Secondary Language of Tourism, Trade and Education : The Development of Policies Regarding the Russian Language in the South Caucasus Region, During and After the Soviet Union

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Felix Sigeback; [2023]
    Keywords : South Caucasus; language policy; postcolonialism; Russia; Armenia; Georgia; Azerbaijan; Russian; Soviet studies; post-Soviet studies;

    Abstract : The aim of my own research is to bind together the limited research done regarding the topic,and to use the research of Russian in the Baltic post-soviet state of Lithuania as a backdrop and comparison. The analysis is postcolonial and comparative, using the concepts of linkage and leverage of Levitsky and Way. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ideology, Allegory, and Identity: : A Study of American Political Cartoons, 1770-1815

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Fanny Vårenius; [2022]
    Keywords : National identity; Political cartoons; Allegorical representations; War of 1812; United States; War of independence; Visual narratives; Pictorial cultures; Caricatures; National stereotypes;

    Abstract : In 1776, war broke out in the Colonies of New England between British Subjects, colonists, and those emplyed by the crown to uphoald law and order across the Atlantic. The union that wuld emerge from the war would have to develop what the colnial powers they migrated from had been adding on for centuries: an understanding of national character. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Irony

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Simon Torffvit; [2022]
    Keywords : irony; humor; principle of relevance; literature teaching; English as a Foreign Language; EFL; maxims of conversation; close reading; The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this paper, I explore how Douglas Adams’ comedic 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be used to improve English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ understanding of irony. Specifically, the study is based on criteria for the English 5 course in Swedish upper secondary school and is performed using a combined theoretical framework of Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson’s principle of relevance and Paul Grice’s maxims of conversation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Text Block Prediction and Article Reconstruction Using BERT

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Andreas Estmark; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Kungliga biblioteket (National Library of Sweden, KB) uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines to extract and segment texts from their archive of daily newspaper articles. These systems are good at extracting and segmenting text on the paragraph level and lower (i.e. READ MORE

  6. 5. Spegla : ett gestaltningsförslag över det vattennära stråket längs Skeppsbrokajen, över Strömbron och längs Strömkajen

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

    Author : Ellen Bramler; Malin Ciftci; [2020]
    Keywords : kaj; gång- och cykelbro; vatten; Strömbron; Skeppsbrokajen; Strömkajen;

    Abstract : En promenad från Skeppsbrokajen mot Strömkajen erbjuder idag utblickar över långa vattenrum och siluetten men dess potential som stadens offentliga vattennära huvudstråk är delvis outnyttjad. Biltrafik och parkering upptar stor yta och antalet platser att stanna upp vid som främjar möten är begränsat. READ MORE