Essays about: "linguistics and sociolinguistics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 essays containing the words linguistics and sociolinguistics.
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1. IŻ SWÓJ JĘZYK MAJĄ! An exploration of the computational methods for identifying language variation in Polish
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriAbstract : Computational approaches to language variation continue to contribute in a relevant way to various fields, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics. Being able to accommodate variation within natural language increases the robustness of NLP models and their usefulness in real-life applications; simultaneously, detecting and describing variation and trends that govern it is one of the main goals of sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, meaning that some of the advances in NLP can contribute to these fields as well. READ MORE
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2. QUEER JAPANESE. The modern-day language usage of Japanese LGBTQ+ people
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Gendered language is a well-known feature of Japanese, but how is it applied by a speaker who does not fit the cisgender or heteronormative standards in society? In a 2010 study, Hideko Abe published a book titled Queer Japanese, which addressed this exact question. Although incredibly thorough and informative, the book is now over a decade old, and the findings may no longer be accurate. READ MORE
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3. "When You're a Star" : Analysing Accusations of Sexism and Misogyny against President Donald Trump
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : Donald J. Trump is unarguably a controversial United States president for a number of reasons, and one of these is that he has attracted widespread criticism from the media and elsewhere with regard to comments he has made about specific women, or women in general. READ MORE
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4. The Aragonese resistance : A qualitative study on the attitudes and motivations of new speakers of an endangered language in Zaragoza
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : While the number of Aragonese speakers is in steady decline in the rural areas of Spain where it was traditionally spoken, the efforts of grassroots movements since the end of Franco’s dictatorship in 1975 have contributed to create a community of new speakers in Aragon’s largest cities, mostly thanks to courses for adults organized by cultural associations. The capital, Zaragoza, which has been practically monolingual for centuries, after Spanish became the language of power and prestige in the 15th century, is now home to several thousand Aragonese speakers. READ MORE
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5. Prudes versus sluts : An analysis of how attitudes are expressed through colloquial terminology
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This paper performs a corpus-based critical discourse analysis on the terms“vamp”, “slut”, “prude” and “spinster” and how they are used in context fromthe 1920s to the 2000s. They were categorized according to what attitudeswere connected to them, positive, neutral and negative. READ MORE
