Essays about: "thesis about meaning of word"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words thesis about meaning of word.

1. 1. Tragic Tales of ‘Victims’ and ‘Villains’ – A Study on Narratives and Emotions in Danish Rape Trials

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Kristine Louise Kristensen; [2023]
   Keywords : narrative; trial; rape; emotion; genres; story characters; rape myths; court ethnography; Law and Political Science; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Given the fact that rape is difficult to prove in court and trials primarily are based on the defendant’s word against the plaintiff’s, it becomes highly significant to study the narratives about rape presented in criminal trials. This thesis is an ethnographic-inspired study conduct-ed in Danish courts from January to May 2023. READ MORE

3. 2. Interesting, funny, weird or just incomprehensible? A study on Swedish Japanese learning students’ comprehension, thoughts and attitudes towards Wasei-eigo

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Therese Rogland; [2019]
   Keywords : wasei-eigo; gairaigo; loanwords; Japanized-English; comprehension; thoughts; attitude; categories; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates to what extent Swedish students of Japanese can understand wasei-eigo, as well as their thoughts and attitudes toward it. It further investigates if some word categories are more incomprehensible than others and what aspects can determine their comprehension. READ MORE

4. 3. Emotions in Environmental Discourses - Analysing the Insect Decline in Germany

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Holli Gruber; [2018]
   Keywords : Emotions; Environmental Discourses; Environmental Communication; Insect Decline;

   Abstract : Insects are not really beloved by many people, although their importance for humankind and the planet’s ecosystem is out of question. The lack of resonance and emotional attachment towards insects have an immense impact on how politics deal with the fact that the number of insects is decreasing and the ecological balance is threatened as a consequence. READ MORE

5. 4. Concept, Space, Home: A Conceptual History of Social Space, Functionalist Homes, and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

   Author : Niklas Rönnerfalk; [2017]
   Keywords : Concepts; Home; Space; Conceptual History; Spatial Turn; Koselleck; Lefebvre; Semantics; Dialectics; Phenomenology; Public Private-Relations; Modernity; Modernization; Modern; the Social; Functionalism; Architecture; Stockholm Exhibition of 1930; Sattelzeit; Onomaseology; Socio-Spatiality; Social Space; the People´s Home; Acceptera; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : The field of Conceptual History is often criticized for considering only a small slice of the historical vocabulary it intends to historicize. What about the discourse of the silenced, working at home, robbed of a pen? Concepts are indicative of many contexts of meaning: in this thesis, therefore, propelled by the foregoing question and statement, it is argued that the main protagonist of German, conceptual history, i. READ MORE

6. 5. Ongoing Semantic Change in Seven Swedish Words : A questionnaire-based study

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Elena Luzhkova; [2015]
   Keywords : sociolinguistics; semantics; semantic change; Swedish; questionnaire; age; sociolingvistik; semantik; semantisk förändring; svenska; frågeformulär; ålder;

   Abstract : The lexical semantics of a language is an area of linguistics that has many important implications for the life of modern society. It is important to understand how language change works and why this change occurs. READ MORE