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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Languages and Literature"”.
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Evaluation of pre-packaged agricultural drip irrigation kits
… of this thesis is to conduct user testing and performance evaluation of two different agricultural pre-packaged drip irrigation kit (PDIK) systems: Chapin Bucket Kit and International Design Enterprises (IDE) drip kit. PDIK systems are a cost-effective type of appropriate technology for the …
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The challenges in the intellectualisation of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa: what will it take to give the indigenous languages a directive in the implementation and monitoring of language policy in South Africa?
… normal person we use to communicate our ideas and hopes, convey our beliefs and thoughts, explore our traditions and experiences, and improve the community of ours as well as the laws that regulate it. In the Bill of Rights, the right of official language selection was recognized, and the …
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A critical analysis of the Kiba (song-dance-drama) discourse
… not as a generic hypothetical theory of music and dance, but as a theory that describes actual performance. The research aims to achieve this not only through the description of what practitioners do in actual performance, but also through analysing the language behaviour and principles that …
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Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881)
The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of interviews and stories, drawings, paintings and photographs of and xam and !kun individuals, collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd between 1870 and 1881 in Cape Town. My dissertation focuses on the !kun children's material in the archive, created …
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Ressources linguistiques pour la gestion de l'intersubjectivité dans la parole en interaction : Analyses conversationnelles et phonétiques
… issues of intersubjectivity, i.e. mutual understanding for all practical purposes. Intersubjectivity is understood in a procedural sense, and as built into the infrastructure of interaction, where each next action embodies aspects of how the previous action was understood. This understanding can …
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Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute
… dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. …
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Pamfletter! : En diskursiv praktik och dess strategier i tidig svensk politisk offentlighet
… argumentative strategies for legitimation and delegitimation in political pamphlets published in 1769 and in 1809–1810, each period representing the onset of democracy and freedom of the press. The aim of the study is twofold. The empirical aim is to examine the political language in the …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. Rebétiko as a music style developed in the Greek-speaking world and its diaspora in the early twentieth century. It consists of …
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Nuclear Intonation in Swedish : Evidence from Experimental-Phonetic Studies and a Comparison with German
… thesis investigates Swedish intonation patterns and their interaction with word accent realisation in various pragmatic conditions, using German as a reference language. The point of departure is the wide-spread assumption that Swedish, as a language with a tonal word accent distinction, has a …
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Children's Gestures from 18 to 30 Months
… to communicate by means of both spoken language and gesture. There are few studies of gesture in children of these ages, making it essential to ask a number of basic questions: What sort of gestural actions do the children perform? How does the use of gesture change over time, from 18 to 30 …
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Word Order in Övdalian : A Study in Variation and Change.
… in Sweden. Initially, an overview of the history and current status of the language of Älvdalen is given, and the focus of the dissertation is on certain syntactic phenomena that have been well studied from a comparative and diachronic perspective in other Scandinavian languages but not in …
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Humor i romantisk text : om Jean Pauls estetik i svensk romantik: C.F. Dahlgrens Mollbergs epistlar (1820), C.J.L. Almqvists Amorina (1822) och C. Livijns Spader Dame (1825)
… romanticism. The strange mixture of the high and the low, the sacred and the profane that is typical for them has been an interesting challenge for literary scholars. For instance, in older research one sometimes spoke of poor handwork, or bad taste of the writers or it was explained that …
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M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's Plays in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Russian Drama
The subject of Saltykov-Shchedrin’s drama and theatre has long been neglected as an area of research both in Russia and in the West. This thesis studies certain characteristic features of the dramatist’s oeuvre; it begins with an attempt to define the term drama. The analysis of …
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Unlocking the psychology of character: imagery of the subconscious in the works of F.M. Dostoevskii
… the works of Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii and how it can be used to analyse the psychology of his characters and the author himself. While studies exist on the role of, for example, dreams in Dostoevskii’s works, this thesis aims to comprehensively examine the author’s experience and use of …
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Mystification as a cultural and humoresque phenomenon in modern Czech literature against the background of European cultures (with special reference to Jára da Cimrman)
… of this dissertation is mystification in Czech literature and culture on the background of European culture. In order to define mystification, the dissertation illustrates various types of mystification from ancient times to modern day. The dissertation describes the categorisations that …
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Words, ideas and music : a study of Tchaikovsky's last completed work, the Six Songs, Opus 73
… talents impacted on his song output in general, and on this cycle of songs in particular, providing us also with new insights into his personality. The composer selected and sequenced the poems used for the Opus 73 set to form the cycle of texts himself. The resulting songs are underpinned by a …
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Les formes du type je parlE dans l'interlangue d'apprenants du FLE et la fréquence dans l'input (licentiatavhandling)
Abstract in French L'objectif de cette étude exploratoire est de voir si l'utilisation des formes interlangagières du type "je parlE" ou "je veux habite" par des apprenants suédophones adultes du français langue étrangère seraient influencées par la fréquence des formes dans l'input. L'étude est …
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