Essays about: "referent"

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  1. 6. Multilingual Categorisation of Landscape terms

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Debora Nilsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Multilingualism; word-to-referent mapping; categorisation; Landscape; semantic domains.;

    Abstract : This study investigates how multilinguals compared with monolinguals categorise landscape. The aim is to contribute to research already done with fresh data in a new setting. The thesis suggests that speakers with lower proficiency in a language will tend to choose vocabulary based on frequency and not semantic knowledge. READ MORE

  3. 7. Toward establishing CO2-securitization’s warning process and likely non-conclusion

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sören Floderus; [2022]
    Keywords : Securitization; Climate; Warning process; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : For understanding undue politicization, Wilhelm Agrell and Gregory Treverton in their book National Intelligence and Science (2015) describe ‘Intelligence Modes of Science’ at work in also science’s policy-maker-analyst interface, while analytical social epistemology points at medialization as additional background. In this paper, securitization’s process is used as frame for exploring how IPCC’s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, claim at its conclusion (Brauch, 2009) fares in the area of CO2/climate, for an independent account and with an eye for Swedish processes in particular as they’ve been covered. READ MORE

  4. 8. Why is human trafficking excluded from the EU’s cybersecurity? : An explorative study about cybersecurity and human trafficking in the European Union

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Linda Nieminen; [2021]
    Keywords : human trafficking; cybersecurity; the European Union; security; feminist theory; hegemonic masculinity;

    Abstract : Combatting human trafficking is one of the top priorities in the European Union and Europol. Nonetheless, Europe is one of worlds’ leading regions for most trafficked human beings. Human trafficking is often connected to organised crime such as drug trafficking, cybercrime and child pornography and occurs across borders. READ MORE

  5. 9. The securitization of climate change in the United States : A case-study of the Biden-Harris administration’s first hundred days in office

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anna Säll; [2021]
    Keywords : Climate change; Security; Securitization; Copenhagen School of Security Studies; United States; President Biden; Vice-President Harris; Special Envoy for Climate Kerry;

    Abstract : The Biden-Harris administration’s discussion of climate change is analyzed during the transformative time of the administration’s first hundred days in office. The theoretical framework of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies (CS) is used to develop the coding frame to perform a qualitative content analysis of empirical material consisting of speeches and other documents of the administration. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Intelligence Threat - An analysis of the concept of security in Swedish policies

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristoffer Levin; [2021]
    Keywords : Concept of Security; Baldwin; Sweden; National security policy; Intelligence threat; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study set out to investigate the concept of security and the intelligence threat set in a Swedish context regarding its national and intelligence security policies. The aim of this paper is to examine whether or not there is any ambiguity of the concept of security. READ MORE