Essays about: "semantics and linguistics"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the words semantics and linguistics.

1. 21. Language Use in Two Types of Suicide Texts

   University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Tatiana Prokofyeva; [2013]
   Keywords : Language use Suicide texts Discourse Analysis Linguistics;

   Abstract : Suicide texts are the traces left by their authors for the public allowing them to understand the causes of the desire to commit suicide, regardless of whether such notes preceded successful suicide attempts or not. The types of such texts can vary dramatically in emotional expressiveness, be it a suicide note handwritten by the author or a short post typed on a web forum dedicated to suicides. READ MORE

3. 22. The Frame Semantics of KILL: The Identity, gender, and ethnicity of fatal attributions in British and American news press

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Leila Chaar; [2012]
   Keywords : Frame Semantics; Lexical Semantics; KILL; Polysemy; Newspaper Discourse; Corpus-Driven Cognitive Linguistics; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The aim with this study was to investigate the senses of the lexemes /assassinated/, /killed/, and /murdered/ in 21st century American and British newspaper discourse, which was done with the method of corpus-driven Cognitive Linguistics. The main research questions dealt with how the combination of grammatical and contextual features of the articles frame patients and agents of the verbs. READ MORE

4. 23. The Language of Tourism : How the Tourism Industry Promotes Magic

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

   Author : Lotta Persson; [2012]
   Keywords : tourism discourse; advertising; linguistics; semantics and pragmatics.;

   Abstract : To lure potential customers to buy a holiday away from home, most marketers incorporate certain semantic and pragmatic features into their promotional material: words and images are chosen with utmost care. The present study is conducted in order to reveal these semantic and pragmatic features and equally, to show how they highlight the concept of “magic”. READ MORE

5. 24. Predicting the N400 Component in Manipulated and Unchanged Texts with a Semantic Probability Model

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för datorlingvistik

   Author : Johannes Bjerva; [2012]
   Keywords : Computational semantics; EEG corpus; Model integration; N400; Datorlingvistisk semantik; EEG-korpus; Modellintegrering; N400;

   Abstract : Within the field of computational linguistics, recent research has made successful advances in integrating word space models with n-gram models. This is of particular interest when a model that encapsulates both semantic and syntactic information is desirable. READ MORE

6. 25. Lexis, Discourse Prosodies and the Taking of Stance : A Corpus Study of the Meaning of ‘Self-proclaimed’

   University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Mikael Altemark; [2011]
   Keywords : self-proclaimed; corpus linguistics; pragmatics; semantics; extended lexical unit; discourse prosody; stance; intersubjectivity;

   Abstract : This study is concerned with the description of the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the attributive adjective self-proclaimed, employing corpus-linguistic methodology to explore its meaning from user-based data. The initial query provided the material from which a lexical pro-file of the target word was constructed, systematically describing collocational data, semantic preferences, semantic associations and discourse prosodies. READ MORE