Essays about: "speech community"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 37 essays containing the words speech community.

1. 26. Crime, Community and the Negotiated Truth : Court Narratives of Capital Crime in the District Courts of Jämtland-Härjedalen 1649—1700

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Simon Berggren; [2017]
   Keywords : 17th century; Capital punishment; Community; Court narratives; Crime; District court; Judicial discourse; Jämtland; Social control; Peasantry.; 1600-tal; Allmoge; Dödsstraff; Häradsrätt; Jämtland; Kriminalitet; Rättsdiskurs; Rättsnarrativ; Social kontroll;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study the court narratives of serious crimes in the district courts of Jämtland-Härjedalen in the latter half of 17th century. This is done by studying the negotiated aspects of criminal court proceedings; how did stories of crime, guilt and character come together in the records to form narratives that became accepted truths by the local community and the authorities? Investigations of serious crime have been sampled from the collected records of five district courts in the period 1649–1700. READ MORE

3. 27. MPUNTUO: A KEYWORD APPROACH: EXPLORING INDIGENOUS DISCOURSES ON DEVELOPMENT IN AKROFUOM, GHANA

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Benita Abenaa Nyarko Uttenthal; [2015]
   Keywords : Mpuntuo; development; extended case study; keyword approach; participation; representation; agency;

   Abstract : In Mpuntuo: A Keyword Approach, Malmö University Communication for Development Master’s Degree candidate, Benita Uttenthal presents research exploring indigenous knowledge of the term development using an extended case study method of the critical case of the Ghanaian Ashanti community of Akrofuom, from which her family originates. Inspired by Raymond Williams’ classic work, Keywords, which was uniquely applied in Andrew Kipnis’ Suzhi: A Keyword Approach, Uttenthal embarks on a keyword study of the Ashanti term Mpuntuo, which is commonly translated in English as Development. READ MORE

4. 28. Accelerated Deep Learning using Intel Xeon Phi

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV)

   Author : André Viebke; [2015]
   Keywords : Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Supervised Deep Learning; Intel Xeon Phi; Convolutional Neural Network; CNN; High Performance Computing; CHAOS; parallel computing; coprocessor; MIC; speed up; performance model; evaluation;

   Abstract : Deep learning, a sub-topic of machine learning inspired by biology, have achieved wide attention in the industry and research community recently. State-of-the-art applications in the area of computer vision and speech recognition (among others) are built using deep learning algorithms. READ MORE

5. 29. Securitizing Communicable Disease: A case study of discursive threat-construction during the 2014 Ebola epidemic

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Elvira Sophia Schröder; [2015]
   Keywords : Securitization; global public health; Ebola virus disease; Copenhagen School; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to explore the securitization of communicable disease in the case of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa 2014. Applying the Copenhagen School’s theory of securitization, this thesis conducted a discourse analysis of speech acts occurring at different levels of the global community in relation to the outbreak. READ MORE

6. 30. New insights on speech signal modeling in a Bayesian framework approach

   University essay from KTH/Kommunikationsteori

   Author : Adria Casamitjana Diaz; [2015]
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   Abstract : Speech signal processing is an old research topic within the communication theory community. The continously increasing telephony market brought special attention to the discipline during the 80’s and 90’s, specially in speech coding and speech enhancement, where the most significant contributions were made. READ MORE