Essays about: "second-person"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word second-person.

  1. 1. Reader Address and its Translation in a Gardening Guide : Pronouns, Modals and Imperatives

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Micaela Nilsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Reader address; modal verb; imperative verb; pronoun you; second person pronoun; generic pronoun; translation;

    Abstract : This study examines the translation of three forms of reader address from English to Swedish in a gardening guidebook – the pronoun you as a second person reference and generic reference, modal verbs, and imperatives. The translation was made by the author of this study. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Effect of No-da on Politeness in Japanese

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Annie Ingelsson; [2021]
    Keywords : no-da; politeness; Japanese language; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the effect the no-da construction has on the politeness of two sentence types: requests and quotations followed by opinion. The purpose is, more specifically, to examine whether claims regarding the effect no-da has on these sentence types, made by Kuno (1973) and McGloin (1980), can be supported or not. READ MORE

  4. 3. Spectators’ Experience of Watching Dance without Music: A cognitive semiotic exploration of kinesthetic empathy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik

    Author : Khatia Chikhladze; [2021]
    Keywords : empathy; kinesthetic empathy; qualitative kinetic dynamics; qualities of movement; vitality affects; emotional arousal; respiration; skin conductance; consciousness; phenomenology; intentionality; classical ballet; contemporary dance.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Empathy is our ability to experience and understand the mental states of others. In movement perception, and in particular in dance spectatorship, it has been argued that we experience observed movements through our own bodies: kinesthetic empathy. READ MORE

  5. 4. Translating a guidebook: addressing reader expectation : A small-scale corpus study of direct reader address in a Swedish-English translation

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Carina Sjöberg-Hawke; [2018]
    Keywords : direct reader address; English; first-person; guidebooks; imperatives; interpersonal; personal pronouns; reader expectation; secondary reader; second-person; Swedish; target reader; text conventions; tourist text; translation; translator strategy;

    Abstract : This study analyses the comparative frequency of “direct reader address” in English and Swedish walking guidebook texts. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of specific linguistic features that constitute “direct reader address”, the study aims to highlight the importance of considering reader expectation of a text, i.e. READ MORE

  6. 5. ANALYSIS OF PRENOMINAL MODIFICATION IN SARADA KINENBI

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Máté Sall Vesselényi; [2015-10-29]
    Keywords : japanska; modification; relative clause; tanka; Japanese;

    Abstract : Previous research on prenominal modification in tanka is scarce and has only taken partial aspects into consideration, namely, pronouns as modified elements and verbs as modifying elements, using only classical waka from the Man’yōshū as material. In light of this, the present study included all parts of speech that appear either as modifying elements or modified elements and analyzed prenominal modification in the renowned modern tanka collection Sarada Kinenbi. READ MORE