Essays about: "universals"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word universals.
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1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriAbstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE
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2. A contrastive study on the translation of hyphenated compounds in fashion writing
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study examines the translation of hyphenated compounds from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text about fashion. The translation is performed by the author of this study, which is important to keep in mind. READ MORE
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3. Cooperation and Friction: The Sustainable Development Goals as a system of belief within a United Nations specialized agency
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : Across the world are small local agencies connected to the United Nations. Unlike the larger bureaucratic organs that make up the UN, these smaller specialized agencies do not work to frame the founding ideals of the UN which are decided on at the highest levels within the institution, but to interpret, carry out, and monitor different mandates or programs at the local level. READ MORE
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4. Colexification and semantic change in colour terms in Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European languages
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Colour terms is a highly interesting field when investigating linguistic universals and how language vary cross-linguistically. Colour semantics, the investigation of the meaning of colour, consists in largely of two opposing sides: the universalists, proposing that colour terms are universal (Berlin & Kay 1969) and the relativists claiming a variation in meaning cross-linguistically (Wierzbicka 2008). READ MORE
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5. Universals in the usage of and attitudes to onomatopoeia
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : This study compares the usage of- and attitudes towards sound imitating expressions, onomatopoeia, in English and Japanese. It looks at previous research on onomatopoeia conducted on English and Japanese to establish a working definition for onomatopoeia and a categorization of the types of meanings each expression can have. READ MORE