Essays about: "non-standard language"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 26 essays containing the words non-standard language.
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11. It Don't Matter...Or Does It? The Significance of Non-Standard Grammar Features in Relation to Reading Comprehension
University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The development of English into a dynamic and diverse compound of language varieties has led to a spread of non-standard grammar features. Such linguistic development affects language education, and thus the significance of common non-standard grammar features needs to be explored. READ MORE
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12. Spelling Normalization of English Student Writings
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Spelling normalization is the task to normalize non-standard words into standard words in texts, resulting in a decrease in out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in texts for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as information retrieval, machine translation, and opinion mining, improving the performance of various NLP applications on normalized texts. In this thesis, we explore different methods for spelling normalization of English student writings including traditional Levenshtein edit distance comparison, phonetic similarity comparison, character-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and character-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods. READ MORE
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13. Twisting the standard : Non-standard language in literature and translation from English to Swedish
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Non-standard language, or dialect, often serves a specific purpose in a literary work and it is therefore a challenge for any translator to recreate the non-standard language of the source text into a target language. There are different linguistic tools an author can use in order to convey non-standard language, and the same is true for a translator – who can choose from different strategies when tasked with the challenge of translating dialectal features. READ MORE
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14. English with an accent : A study of attitudes among Swedish adolescents regarding British and Middle Eastern varieties of English
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : This study examines the attitudes of adolescent Swedes towards speakers of British and Middle Eastern varieties of English. Due to the ongoing wars in the Middle East and elsewhere, and thus the stream of refugees seeking sanctuary in Sweden and other European countries, many children from diverse backgrounds have been and will be enrolled in Swedish schools. READ MORE
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15. Performing Poetry - A Linguistic Study of Benjamin Zephaniah’s "Propa Propaganda"
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of this study is to examine the extent and type of non-standard language use in Benjamin Zephaniah’s poetry collection Propa Propaganda. It also investigates variables such as identity, situation and style by comparing the poet’s artistic language use with his speech in other contexts such as a debate and a speech. READ MORE
