Essays about: "linguistic landscape analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words linguistic landscape analysis.
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1. Media Strategies of Russian Opposition in Exile: Values, Visibility, and Virtual Mobilisation
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis examines the media strategies employed by leading figures and organizations in the Russian political opposition landscape, namely Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), Dmitry Gudkov's Secretariat of European Russians, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Russian Action Committee, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, and Ilya Ponomarev. Using critical discourse analysis as its core methodology, the study aims to unravel the complex dynamics between stated values and media strategies. READ MORE
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2. The Semantics of Old Irish Landscape Vocabulary : Differentiation and Cognitive Linguistic Categorization
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This project investigates the cognitive linguistic categories that structure the Old Irish landscape lexicon. The semantics of basic landscape vocabulary are differentiated based on collocate analysis and close reading of relevant text passages. READ MORE
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3. Estonian-Russian Identities in the Conflict Zone : Postcolonial Readings of Andrei Ivanov’s “Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces”
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Slaviska språkAbstract : This thesis examines the changing identities of the Estonian Russophone minority based on the literary works of Estonian Russophone writers. It analyses Andrei Ivanov’s short novel Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces applying the concepts of Baltic postcolonial identities and hybridity. READ MORE
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4. Commanding the Swedish roads : Non-verbal performatives in the grammar of road signs
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Road signs form a non-verbal semiotic system – by many encountered on a daily basis – that dictates the actions of the users of the road, in order to create a safe and efficient traffic environment. It is clear that road signs are not just ‘saying’ things but ‘doing’ something. READ MORE
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5. Ukrainian Language Policy: The Status of Russian in English Language Medium Ukrainian and Russian Newspapers and in the Linguistic Landscape of Four Regions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : Following a long-standing sociolinguistic pursuit to investigate language policy through complex non-linear models that analyze historical, structural, political and social processes that produce, contextualize, circulate and negotiate particular ideologies, beliefs and myths about languages and their values through meaning-making activities, this master’s thesis aims to apply an interpretive approach to corpus-assisted discourse analysis and appropriate elements of nexus analysis to an investigation of the status of the Russian in the language policy of Ukraine during the period of 2010 to 2015. Regarding language policies as a complex social phenomenon, this study of Ukrainian monolingual language policy is focused on investigating nexuses involving policymaking, its interpretation by various political players, and implementation aiming to answer the question of how established and circulating discourses mediate, negotiate and regulate relations between Ukrainian and Russian languages. READ MORE
