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Садівничий, Володимир Олексійович, Владимир Алексеевич Садовничий та Volodymyr Oleksiiovych Sadivnychyi. "Загальномовні експресиви як вияв публіцистичності поезії". Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3721.

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Sikhwari, Matodzi Godfrey. "The expressions of gratitude in Tshivenda." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53635.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates how gratitude expressions may be expressed in Tshivenda. Studies on the expressions of gratitude have been conducted in various languages. Politeness is a pragmatic mechanism in which a variety of structures work together according to the speaker's intention of achieving smooth communication. Speech acts on the other hand is the same as an illocutionary act (intention of the sender). The same world can be used to perform different speech acts. The findings in this study is based on situations in whi

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Mankowitz, Poppy. "Quantifier expressions and information structure." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17137.

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Linguists and philosophers of language have shown increasing interest in the expressions that refer to quantifiers: determiners like 'every' and 'many', in addition to determiner phrases like 'some king' and 'no cat'. This thesis addresses several puzzles where the way we understand quantifier expressions depends on features that go beyond standard truth conditional semantic meaning. One puzzle concerns the fact that it is often natural to understand 'Every king is in the yard' as being true if (say) all of the kings at the party are in the yard, even though the standard truth conditions predi

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Su, Kim Nam. "Statistical modeling of multiword expressions." Connect to thesis, 2008. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/3147.

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In natural languages, words can occur in single units called simplex words or in a group of simplex words that function as a single unit, called multiword expressions (MWEs). Although MWEs are similar to simplex words in their syntax and semantics, they pose their own sets of challenges (Sag et al. 2002). MWEs are arguably one of the biggest roadblocks in computational linguistics due to the bewildering range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and statistical idiomaticity they are associated with, and their high productivity. In addition, the large numbers in which they occur demand specialized

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Pettersson, Christopher. "Differences in Animal Metaphorsbetween English and Japanese : A CMT study of English and Japanese idiomatic expressions." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-181617.

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Antonsson, Emelie. "Understanding the Meaning of English Idiomatic Expressions in Song Lyrics : A Survey Regarding Swedish University Students’ Understanding of Idiomatic Expressions in English Song Lyrics." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17887.

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The general field of interest for this study is the Swedish public’s level of awareness of non-literal and figurative language, such as idioms and metaphors, in English. The English language can be considered to be evolving into Sweden’s second language, since it is present in so much more than school, for example, on television, computers and radio. This study aims to gain an insight into the degree of understanding of common idiomatic expressions in popular English song lyrics by native Swedish speakers. University students were chosen as the sample group and twelve of them were asked to exp

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Holmqvist, Julia. "Idiomatic Expressions in Fiction : A Textual Analysis of the Use and Effects of Idioms in Donna Tartt's The Secret History." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-25941.

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Dungal, Fridur Rún. "The effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on students’ comprehension of idiomatic expressions in English as a second language." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45645.

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In the present investigation, 99 compulsory school students in Sweden were asked to define nine English idioms chosen for their variation in inherent transparency and frequency. The participants were divided into two groups, where Group 2 was provided with context of varying degrees of support, while Group 1 was not. All students answered a biographical questionnaire. Thus, the effects of intrinsic (transparency and frequency) and extrinsic factors (contextual support, extra-curricular activities (ECAs) and age) could be examined. Results show that transparency and frequency do affect idiom co

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Orava, Anderson Heidi. "Kick the Bucket or Cash in One's Chips : An analysis of some English slang expressions for dying." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148566.

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This research analyses some of the slang expressions with the meaning ‘to die’ found in Dictionary of Modern Slang with regard to metaphor and metonymy and whether they have been active when creating the identified slang expressions. It further examines the frequency of these expressions in a large language corpus, and identifies the processes involved in the most frequent expressions. The main findings show that the domain ‘departure’ is the most frequent domain for metaphorical conceptualizations of dying, which suggests that death, like life, can be viewed as a journey. One can speculate th

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Lidbäck, Jonathan. "Functions of taboo expressions in YouTube discourse: The case of iDubbbzTV." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-77931.

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The purpose of this study is to identify relationships between usage of taboo expressions in a selected YouTube clip, and how the audience of iDubbbzTV react to these taboo expressions and how they use them themselves. The data used in this study is in the form of spoken and written language which is transcribed and collected from a selected iDubbbzTV YouTube clip and its comment section. This qualitative study of the usage of taboo expressions in YouTube discourse shows that many cases of taboo expressions are used together with jokes and also sometimes serve as call-backs. Some taboo express

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Bellung, Ingemar. "Une étude linguistique contrastive : L'emploi des expressions du "futur" dans deux langues, français - suédois." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-18210.

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Ce travail comprend, aprés l'introduction, une présentation concernant la forme de travail, un résumé sur l'histoire et l'emploi du "futur" dans de contextes historiques et grammaticaux. L'étude a traité les deux langues, le français et le suédois de manière contrastive. La base du corpus est une lecture littéraire française et suédoise traduites dans les deux langues respectives. L'auteur a analysé la manière, de la part de traducteurs, de traiter le futur simple (Fs) vis-à-vis des périphrases suédoises avec un sens de futur. L'étude a abouti à un ensemble d'exemples d'expressions de futur si

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Schultz, Malin. "Translating the Special Language of Football from English to Swedish : A Study on Terminology and Metaphor." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26277.

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By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the present study aims to investigate what strategies may be used in the translation of a text on football from English to Swedish, with focus on terminology and the metaphor FOOTBALL IS WAR. Special attention is paid to the trait of football language as a special language. Dictionaries and parallel texts, as well as different sources on football language and translation theory, such as Bergh & Ohlander (2012), Levin (2008) and Newmark (1988) were consulted in the translation and the subsequent analysis. As expected, the results show that

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von, Rettig Anna. "Translating Expressive Prose using CAT Tools : An investigation into discerning the effects of segmentation in student translations." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Tolk- och översättarinstitutet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104351.

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Computer Assisted Translation tools continue to become more ubiquitous, but translation students do not necessarily receive much training in using them, and may therefore find translating when using them very different to translating freehand. An experiment was conducted where a three Master’s students were each asked to translate two texts; one in a CAT tool and the other freehand, and the resulting target texts were inspected to determine whether they may have been affected by the segmentation performed by the CAT tool compared to freehand translations of the same text, and if so, how. There

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Ericsson, Tina. ""It is certain that it can be argued a million times over" - expressions of epistemic modality in L1 and L2 writing." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8323.

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<p>This corpus-based study analyzes different types of epistemic markers used in argumentative essays by University students. More specifically it compares Swedish L2 writers and English L1 writers. The scope of the analysis covers epistemic modal verbs, lexical verbs and adverbs. A number of markers are counted to see which expressions are preferred by L1 and L2 writers respectively and if the frequency rates differ between the two groups. Further, it discusses whether the non-native writers use epistemic markers appropriate to an academic register, and an attempt is made to see whether the L

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Björkegren, David. "Vad spelar språkriktigheten för roll? : En studie om hur fyra svensklärare uppfattar och arbetar med språkriktighet." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72925.

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This study examines how four teachers of Swedish perceive the knowledge requirement that says that a student should mainly be able to follow the rules concerning standard written language, how often they teach standard language and to what extent students’ written language affect assessment. The results show that the teachers of Swedish agree that the most important aspect of a text is how it is perceived in its entirety, as well as its flow and how well a reader can understand the text. Some nonstandard expressions are allowed by the teachers, while others are not. The study also shows that t

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Heberle, Melissa. "Expressões idiomáticas de natureza verbal no DHE (Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/77876.

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Através da presente pesquisa, inserida no âmbito dos estudos lexicais, particularmente com ênfase nos estudos metalexicográficos, verifica-se a qualidade do tratamento dispensado às expressões idiomáticas de natureza verbal em um dicionário geral de língua, o Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, edição 2006. Analisando aspectos ligados aos níveis estruturais de um dicionário (superestrutura, macroestrutura e microestrutura) no que diz respeito ao registro de fraseologias, confirma-se o tratamento ainda insuficiente das fraseologias nesse tipo de dicionário à medida que tais unid

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Lindmark, Carolina. "Hungrig som en gnu och snäll som en karamell : En korpusstudie över nutida liknelser i svenska bloggtexter." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118017.

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Studien kartlägger vanliga adjektivliknelser i svenska bloggtexter ur två aspekter, vilka adjektiv och substantiv som förekommer tillsammans i konstruktionen ADJEKTIV som en/ett SUBSTANTIV samt deras grad av konventionalisering. Tidigare forskning visar att liknelser är svårdefinierade, vilket tas upp i bakgrunden. Materialet är hämtat från fem korpusar med svensk bloggtext. Resultaten visar att de vanligaste adjektivliknelserna föredrar att knyta an till ett eller några substantiv. Däremot finns det visst utrymme för produktivitet. Studien är en preliminär kartläggning över hur pass konventio

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Leirvåg, Tanja. "Översättningsprocessen vid översättning av fasta fraser hos professionella och icke-professionella översättare : En empirisk undersökning." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Tolk- och översättarinstitutet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58759.

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Processen vid översättning av fasta fraser har hittills inte skänkts mycket uppmärksamhet inom den processorienterade översättningsvetenskapen. Denna deskriptiva studie försöker bidra med empiriskt material angående vissa aspekter av översättningsprocessen vid översättning av svenska fasta fraser till tyska. I undersökningen med sex tvåspråkiga försökspersoner, varav tre yrkesverksamma översättare och tre personer utan översättningserfarenhet, användes en kombination av en produktbaserad metod och processinriktade metoder som skrivloggning med Translog och retrospektion för att finna ut vilka

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Ådin, Hanna. "Goggle-Eyes : en främmandegörande barnboksöversättning utifrån Bermans negativa analysverktyg." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Tolk- och översättarinstitutet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149144.

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Denna magisteruppsats är baserad på översättningen av de två första kapitlen i ungdomsboken Goggle-Eyes (1989) av den brittiska författaren Anne Fine. Uppsatsen undersöker effekterna av en främmandegörande översättningsstrategi med utgångspunkt i Antoine Bermans negativa analysverktyg och med avseende på undvikandet av förlust av ikoniska och klangfulla ord och förlust av uttryck och idiom inklusive namn. Analysen visar att det i många fall är möjligt att bevara ikoniska och klangfulla ord vid översättningen, utan att effekten på måltexten blir främmandegörande, medan bevarandet av uttryck och

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Coetzer, Amanda. "Connecting expressions and verb phrases in the essay writing of first-year students : pedagogical implications for course design." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3175.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (English Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019<br>The aims of the study were to compare connector use and verb phrase use between two achievement groups. The achievement groups comprised the Highs, students whose essays were highly rated (124 essays; word length 59702), and the Lows, students whose essays were rated poorly (126 essays; word length 60524). The analytical frameworks for the analysis of appropriate use were taken from Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad and Finegan (1999).The analytical frameworks for inappropriate use were designed by the researcher. Connectors comp

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