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- Adamsson Eryd, Henrietta, 1983
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”See there I’m stuck now!” Samtalsdeltagares orientering mot att tala svenska i amerikasvenska dialektintervjuer
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is a qualitative investigation of a communicative project called tala svenska (speak swedish) in American Swedish dialect interviews. The aim of the study is to analyze and describe the communicative project. Based on this aim the study investigates the interviews as activities with accompanying frames, roles and phases. Interactional resources and how those are being used in doing the communicative project, and the activity, are also a part of the analysis. The material consists of audio and video recordings of American Swedish dialect interviews and the analysis is based on 12 recordings with 10 interviewees/participants and 6 interviewers. The participants are of different ages and have different reasons for speaking Swedish. Some of them have visited Sweden and speak Swedish on a regular basis, while some do not have anyone to talk Swedish to and have never visited Sweden. The analysis of the interviews, and the speakers’ usage of the interactional resources, show that in doing the joint communicative project of speaking Swedish, the participants and the interviewers use different strategies. Based on activity roles, the participants orient themselves toward achieving speaking Swedish, while the interviewers act toward the participants’ speaking by using intentional passivity. In the American Swedish dialect interviews the communicative project, i.e. speaking Swedish, is made visible through the participants use of the interactional resources code alternation, repair, meta comments and metalinguistic comments. Through marked and unmarked code alternation and through side sequences made by code alternation the participants orient themselves toward the communicative project of speaking Swedish as a part of the activity American Swedish dialect interviews. Repair and metalinguistic comments are being used to mark code alternation and that makes the communicative project tala svenska visible by speakers focusing on speaking Swedish. Code alternated side sequences that are meta comments or side sequences that do a different activity than the ongoing dialect interview, make the communicative project tala svenska visible by speakers uttering them in another code, i. e. leaving the inner frame and inner activity both by action and code.
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- Blensenius, Kristian, 1980
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Progressive constructions in Swedish
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims to provide new insights into the semantic properties of some progressive constructions in Swedish and to provide better understanding of aspect in Swedish. The five included studies present analyses of previously understudied as well as more familiar progressive constructions, based on authentic language data. Constructions with a verb followed by a verbal present participle, e.g. försvinna skrikande ‘disappear screaming’, are analyzed in the first study, and they are labeled progressive participial. It is shown that the verb and the participle, taken together as a construction in a construction-grammar sense, yield progressive reading. More familiar constructions, standardly considered progressive in the literature, are studied in the remaining papers, primarily from a two-componential theory of aspect. The second study analyzes the constructions hålla på att ‘hold on to’ + infinitive verb and hålla på och ‘hold on and’ + finite verb. While the difference between them is usually taken to be primarily stylistic, it is shown that only hålla på att is a progressive marker in a canonical sense. Posture-verb pseudocoordinations, e.g. sitta ‘sit’/stå ‘stand’/ligga ‘lie’ + och ‘and’ + finite verb, are analyzed in the third study. It is shown that posture-verb pseudocoordinations are not progressive like e.g. hålla på att but instead locative and, in some cases, episodic. The fourth study returns to the hålla på construction, primarily assessing the pseudocoordinative hålla på och variant in detail, noting its restrictions in terms of compatibility with certain types of VP. It is shown that hålla på och does not combine with VPs with homogeneous internal structure, and a pluractional analysis is proposed instead. Finally, as a way to find out the nature of hålla på att constructions, the fifth study investigates constructions of the type from the perspectives of e.g. finiteness and aspect.
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Grammatik, kritik, didaktik. Nordiska studier i systemisk-funktionell lingvistik och socialsemiotik
- 2018
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Systemisk-funktionell lingvistik (SFL) och socialsemiotik är teoretiska och metodologiska program och perspektiv som kan tillämpas på ett vitt fält av språkvetenskapligt arbete. I den här volymen presenteras utvalda bidrag från Trettonde nordiska konferensen för systemisk-funktionell lingvistik och socialsemiotik (NSFL 13), som hölls vid Göteborgs universitet 11–12 oktober 2017. I enlighet med volymens titel, Grammatik, kritik, didaktik, som också var konferensens, visar bidragen på SFL:s och socialsemiotikens tillämpbarhet i och relevans för i huvudsak tre områden: grammatisk forskning, språkvetenskaplig analys med en kritisk ansats och didaktisk forskning. De sju publicerade artiklarna täcker in en lång rad av undersökningsobjekt och rör sig i rummet mellan flera olika språk och länder, från lärargrupper på svenskspråkiga Facebook via texter om Gud på norska till återvunna föremål i Sydafrika. Volymen visar på bredden och djupet i systemisk-funktionell och socialsemiotisk språkanalys.
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- Horn, Anna Catharina
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Lov og tekst i middelalderen. Produksjon og resepsjon av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates fifteen out of a total of thirtynine extant manuscripts containing The Norwegian Code of the Realm (1274), henceforth the Code. They are all dated before 1400. The fifteen manuscripts display some kind of harmonization of two particular chapters in the sections on assault and land rent, respectively. I work from the hypothesis that these manuscripts share a common background in a particular exemplar and/or scribal milieu. The thesis has two aims. One is to further our understanding of the relation between the preserved MSS of the Code. The other is to develop a method for analysis of texts which display contamination, or texts that have been transmitted using several exemplars. The analyses are based on parameters that are tied to the production and reception of the Code. The new method is composed of elements from both textual criticism and material philology. The object of study is raised from the level of the word, phrase, or clause to that of the graphic unit of the chapter, defined by elements as initials and rubrics. The chapter is the crucial component upon which the structure of the Code is built. First, a selection of variables regarding codicology, layout, and script are analyzed. Based on the scribes’ ability to execute these features, the manuscripts are sorted into three levels of proficiency. Second, the analysis of the structure of the text shifts to a focus on the order of the chapters. Thus, the structures of the fifteen manuscripts are put into a diagram. The variants are revealed as patterns, which show that the manuscripts have additional variants in common. Nearly all variants relating to rearrangement or interpolation turn out to be attested in earlier regional laws, although by the time when the Code was promulgated, these should presumably have been rendered obsolete. This suggests that the manuscripts derive from a milieu where the Code was seen as a symbiosis of old and new rules, and that older law codes were used as exemplars together with the new Code in order to produce the most convenient Code.
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- Hult, Ann-Kristin, 1977
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Ordboksanvändning på nätet : en undersökning av användningen av Lexins svenska lexikon.
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Antalet studier i ordboksanvändning har ökat de senaste decennierna. Detta är en följd av det ökade intresset inom både teoretisk och praktisk lexikografi för hur användare faktiskt använder ordböcker och hur man på bästa sätt anpassar ordböcker efter deras behov. En annan avgörande omständighet i sammanhanget är den tekniska utvecklingen och framtagningen av elektroniska ordböcker som har öppnat upp nya möjligheter att undersöka autentisk ordboksanvändning. I denna avhandling redogör Ann-Kristin Hult för en undersökning av användningen av internetordboken Lexins svenska lexikon, LSL. LSL är en enspråkig inlärningsordbok för relativt avancerade nybörjare. LSL genomgick en omfattande revidering 2008–2011 och studien baseras på material från både före och efter revideringen. Användningen av LSL undersöks utifrån tre perspektiv: 1) kvantitativ analys av uppslagningar på ordbokens webbsida, 2) kvantitativ/kvalitativ enkätstudie om användarna och deras användning av LSL och 3) kvalitativa näranalyser av några enskilda informanter och deras aktiviteter på webbsidan. Genom en kombination av metoder kan en mer komplett och nyanserad bild av faktisk ordboksanvändning uppnås. Denna undersökning är ett exempel på hur en sådan kombinatorisk undersökning kan genomföras. De olika metoderna genererar resultat som kompletterar varandra och detta har gett en mer rättvisande beskrivning av användningen av LSL.
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- Jakobson, Liivi
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Skriftlig lärarrespons för vuxna nybörjare i svenska som andraspråk : teoretiska perspektiv, responspraktik och uppfattningar
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This compilation thesis serves to fill a research gap in teacher written feedback on second language (L2) writing and pronunciation by focusing on adult beginners of culturally diverse backgrounds. Basically, this thesis seeks to answer three questions: 1. What do teachers focus on and in what manner is feedback given?, 2. What are the teachers’ beliefs about feedback?, and, 3. What are the students’ preferences concerning feedback? The study presented in the first article concerns international students and elaborates on a model for analyzing teacher feedback practices regarding writing and pronunciation and the students’ ranking of that feedback. Based on the need for a holistic perspective recognized in the first study, the second article presents and discusses the research gap regarding feedback in adult beginner-learner L2 contexts and proposes a hermeneutic approach in the field of L2 research. In article three and four, a new feedback analysis model based on hermeneutics was applied for the design of a questionnaire, which includes the Likert scale and ranking. These studies investigated teachers’ (article three) and students’ (article four) perceptions and priorities regarding feedback. Data from the students’ questionnaires indicated that the students evaluated feedback on grammatical structures in writing as top priority. They generally valued all feedback manners, but clearly preferred specific praise and specific criticism. Results from the teachers’ questionnaires, combined with interviews, showed that they evaluated almost all categories as important but the ranking showed that there was a variation between teachers’ perceptions, which was influenced by a lack of time, and communication with the students, together with technical problems in web-based contexts. The analysis indicates several factors contributing to the complexity of feedback and, thus, providing feedback requires intuition and dexterity on the part of teachers. It is suggested that aligning students’ expectations and teachers’ practices and beliefs is especially important in distance-learning contexts in order to facilitate new understanding for clarifying the meaning of feedback.
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- Jansson, Håkan, 1957
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Purism på glid? : Studier i nutida isländskt ordbruk
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to investigate changes in vocabulary use in modern Icelandic. This is done by surveying loanwords not conforming to loanword patterns dominant in standard Icelandic since the rise of purism in the second half of the 19th century, and by mapping of the use of colloquialisms and colloquial word forms in written language. The surveys are based on a corpus study and a study of recorded speech. This research serves as a departure point for further investigation of words and word forms. The investigation has shown three categories of words that depart from earlier, purist influenced practice: (1) unorthodox words with sound-alike spelling or non-standard word formation; (2) words formed with foreign morphemes; and (3) foreign words with Icelandic spelling. The spoken language survey shows an increased use of loanwords over the time span covered (1990, 2000 and 2010). It also shows that the older interlocutants are more prepared to adhere to purist norms, while the younger ones are less hesitant to use loans. The observed tendency of change in those vocabulary use patterns is seen in the light of four underlying factors briefly explored: (1) social relations in general, (2) the organisation of education and the extent to which it involves exposure to foreign languages, (3) the development of travel, concerning both Icelanders’ trips abroad and foreigners’ visits to Iceland, and (4) the new electronic public sphere, that allows ordinary language users to communicate without the involvement of “gatekeepers”, who control language usage in other kinds of media.
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- LaBontee, Richard, 1985
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Strategic Vocabulary Learning in the Swedish Second Language Context
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This large-scale research project represents an exploratory investigation into the reported vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) used by adult, beginner Swedish L2 learners living and studying in Sweden. A questionnaire instrument, the Swedish Vocabulary Learning Strategy Survey (SVLSS) built explicitly for data collection in this context is developed and used over the course of five studies regarding learners’ approaches to Swedish L2 vocabulary learning. Results from the first study are used to establish a preliminary item list for the SVLSS from collected interview and learning task data. Pilot results (SVLSS 1.0, 1.1) guide revisions to access- ibility, readability, and item list, resulting in a 74-item questionnaire (SVLSS 1.2). The second study adopts a six-category VLS taxonomy for the instrument that is extracted through the guidance of exploratory factor analysis. Findings are used to conduct revisions aimed at supporting the adopted taxonomy, and again to improve accessibility, and readability. The third study situates the SVLSS instrument within a comparative review of other VLS questionnaires, guiding extended revisions started in study two. Revision results in the acceptance of an updated VLS taxonomy, and in the 69-item SVLSS (2.0). The fourth study explores what the target demographic believes it means ‘to know a word’ as a means of better these learners’ vocabulary learning experience. The fifth study uses the SVLSS 2.0 to explore possible patterns in learners’ VLS use across demographic grouping variables, offering two emergent learner profiles. Findings across these studies indicate that adult, beginner learners of Swedish L2 vocabulary report using strategies for establishing new word information more than any other VLS type, suggesting that the need to acquire vocabulary knowledge before it can be used in other strategic manners is high for this demographic. Also, significant differences between learners’ use of VLS are seen even amongst relatively minor differences in learners’ beginner proficiency levels, adult age groups, and amounts of time spent learning the language. A synthesis of findings suggest that these learners value communicative practices for learning words, though may not be able to reflect this in their learning behavior at earlier levels of Swedish. This report concludes with suggested use guidelines and planned updates for the SVLSS instrument, as well as suggested and planned future research for the field of Swedish L2 VLS use.
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Svenskans beskrivning 35 : förhandlingar vid trettiofemte sammankomsten. Göteborg 11–13 maj 2016
- 2017
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sedan 1963 har det vid olika universitet i Sverige och Finland regelbundet arrangerats sammankomster för svenskans beskrivning. Forskningsprojekt och forskningsresultat om svenska språket har presenterats och diskuterats.Den trettiofemte sammankomsten ägde rum den 11–13 maj 2016 i Göteborg och samlade ca 160 deltagare. Konferensen anordnades av Institutionen för svenska språket vid Göteborgs universitet. Det övergripande temat för sammankomsten var Ord och detta belystes i 68 presentationer – plenarföredrag, sektionsföredrag, posterpresentationer och workshoppar. I denna volym finns två av plenarföredragen och 26 av de övriga presentationerna publicerade.
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