Essays about: "negotiation of meaning"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 33 essays containing the words negotiation of meaning.

  1. 16. Street Music, City Rhythms : The urban soundscape as heard by street musicians

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Jonathan Adam; [2018]
    Keywords : Street music; ethnography; soundscape; sound studies; urban soundscape; rhythmanalysis;

    Abstract : The soundscape plays a key, if often overlooked, role in the construction of public urban space. Street music – a conscious deliberate propagation of sound in public space – opens an entryway into comprehending the role of sound in the city, and what it reveals about the city’s inhabitants. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Social Constructs of Natural World Heritage: An Ethnographic Investigation into the Conflicts of a Danish UNESCO Destination

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Alicia Schneider; Signe Baeksted Jörgensen; [2017]
    Keywords : appropriation; spatial consumption; commodification; politics of representation; power; spatial conflicts; destination development; Stevns Klint; UNESCO; Nature World Heritage; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper will investigate the conflicts that can arise during destination development following a World Heritage inscription. Previous literature mentions that conflicts arise, but focuses on a more managerial perspective, and fails to account for the characteristics of those conflicts. READ MORE

  4. 18. Negotiating Identity : A sociolinguistic analysis of adult English speaking immigrants in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Mojca Visnjar; [2017]
    Keywords : Identity negotiation; linguistic repertoire; Spracherleben; chronotope; language ideology.;

    Abstract : Due to increased transnational migration and globalisation, English has come to have a high status in Sweden, and is used in daily communication. The purpose of this research is to investigate how immigrants with English as their first language, negotiate their identity in Sweden, how they construct the need to (not) speak Swedish, and, finally, how their linguistic trajectories inform us about their linguistic ideologies and reported practices. READ MORE

  5. 19. You Call me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing : A Study into the Current Use and Semantic Properties of the Noun Bitch

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Vanja Elizabeth Liv Vinter; [2017]
    Keywords : lexical semantics; semantic prosody; semantic change; corpus linguistics; reappropriation;

    Abstract : This paper analyses and discusses the present-day use of the noun bitch, as the term in contemporary usage seems to have started to deviate from the lexical definition. Traditionally considered an insult when applied to a woman, bitch has recently started being used as a self-imposed label rather than an applied one. READ MORE

  6. 20. The proof is in the pudding/steak : Halal food consumption, moral overtones and re-negotiation of categories among Muslim believers in Stockholm County

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Mariapia Rosa Campanella; [2016]
    Keywords : halal food; Muslims Stockholm; food morality;

    Abstract : The main objective of my thesis is showing how consumers who live in Stockholm County deal with the daily practice of halal food providing. I then analyse the main contradiction that emerges from my research, meaning the opposition between those who by ‘halal’ and those who do not. READ MORE