Essays about: "modern linguistics"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 26 essays containing the words modern linguistics.
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16. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE
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17. Modern semiotics in an internet mediated world
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : English has become the dominant language for internet users throughout the world and the internet has had its own impact on the English language. The main aim for this essay is to compare and contrast different online discussion forums and other related online discourses in order to show how meaning is created and to identify any differences that may exist depending on the forum. READ MORE
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18. Happily Ever After : A Linguistic Study of the Portrayals of the Female Characters in One Old and One New Disney Film
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study seeks to answer the following research questions: which stereotypical linguistic profile characteristics and/or typical linguistic profile characteristics, if any, can be found in the old film and the new film respectively? Does the time difference between the films seem to have affected the female characters’ language use, if so in what way? Works by Lakoff (2004), Coates (2004) and Holmes (2013) are used to create a profile for stereotypical female speech and a profile for typical female speech. These profiles are applied to the transcripts of two Disney Princess films; one old film representing the classical Disney Princess films, and one new film representing the modern Disney Princess films. READ MORE
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19. To Knock the Eye Out of a Friend : Assessment of an Orthographic Reform Upon the English Language
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)Abstract : This essay is a theoretical qualitative study, which examines the possibility for a spelling reform into English. The history of orthographical changes into British English, as well as Brown’s categorisation of spelling reforms, is reviewed. Four spelling reform proposals are analysed and compared. READ MORE
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20. Hebrew Information Structure
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This paper will examine information structure used in Modern Hebrew, a Semitic language spoken in Israel. More specifically, the study will look into the methods used by Modern Hebrew native speakers to differentiate between old (active) information and new information in spontaneous speech. READ MORE
