Essays about: "thesis in applied linguistics"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the words thesis in applied linguistics.

  1. 6. Metaphors of populists – A cognitive linguistic study of conceptual metaphors in political speeches by Donald J. Trump and Nigel Farage

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Peter Warell; [2020]
    Keywords : Cognitive linguistics; metaphors; conceptual metaphors; source domain; target domain; MIP; politic speech; Donald Trump; Nigel Farage; populist; populism.;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of conceptual metaphors in political speeches by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Conceptual metaphor theory is applied as the framework for the study. Metaphorical linguistic expressions are identified with help of the method Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). READ MORE

  3. 7. A comparative study of the grammatical gender systems of languages by means of analysing word embeddings

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Hartger Veeman; [2020]
    Keywords : word embeddings; grammatical gender; computational linguistics; language representations;

    Abstract : The creation of word embeddings is one of the key breakthroughs in natural language processing. Word embeddings allow for words to be represented semantically, opening the way to many new deep learning methods. READ MORE

  4. 8. Improving an Italian TTS System : Voice Based Rules for Word Boundaries' Phenomena

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Laura Rossetti; [2017]
    Keywords : Natural language processing; Text-to-speech; NLP; TTS; unit selection; rules; Italian; computational linguistics; speech technology;

    Abstract : This thesis project aimed at improving a commercial Italian Unit Selection system by obtaining a higher agreement between the internal target representation produced by the text analysis component and the recordings in the speech database. Precisely this has been done by implementing new transformation rules that are applied on the input text during the text normalization and just after the grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) module. READ MORE

  5. 9. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jessica Presits; [2017]
    Keywords : linguistics; colour semantics; basic colour terms; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; piros; vörös; Hungarian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE

  6. 10. Arising plurals in Swedish: A study of Swedish s-plurals

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : William Zetterberg; [2017]
    Keywords : linguistics; grammar; morphology; allomorphy; plural; s-plural; plural-s; language change; sociolinguistics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of Swedish speakers’ use of s-plurals in the formation of both indefinite and definite plurals. The topic is investigated using a quantitive method in the form of an online questionnaire. READ MORE