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- Grönberg, Anna Gunnarsdotter, 1967
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Ungdomar och dialekt i Alingsås : Young people and dialect in a small town in West Sweden
- 2004
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis presents a study of sociolinguistic variation among students from five municipalities, all attending an upper secondary school in Alingsås, a town of 25,000, northeast of Göteborg, Sweden. The material consists of recorded interviews with 97 students. The informants are categorized according to social variables representing different aspects of background and identity: Sex, type of study programmes (vocational, intermediate, preparatory for university), demogeographical areas and Alingsås neighbourhoods (divided on the basis of urbanization and socio-economic factors), and lifestyle based on two-dimensional mapping (concerning taste, leisure, mobility, plans for the future, etc.). The lifestyle analysis both complements and includes traditional sociolinguistic variables. Eight phonological and lexical variables are analyzed. The variants are found to be associated with traditional local dialect, regional and supraregional standard, Göteborg vernacular, general and Göteborg youth language. Correlations with demogeographical area generally show a pattern going from southwest to northeast (along the E20 highway and the railway from Göteborg). One area does not fit into the continuum, in Sollebrunn (NW of Alingsås), where particularly female informants tend to use standard and innovations to a higher extent than informants in Herrljunga, which is situated the same distance from Göteborg (but NE of Alingsås). Gender is the second most important social factor, in two different ways. There are general differences in linguistic behaviour between sexes, but also differences between groups when gender is combined with study programme and lifestyle. There are major differences from one social group to another when it comes to expressing gendered identity through linguistic means.
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- Holmberg, Per, 1964
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Emotiv betydelse och evaluering i text
- 2002
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis investigates the concept of emotive meaning, which has been used in numerous versions during the last decade to explain and de¬scribe linguistic evaluation. It examines how emotive meaning is con¬structed within the frames of different semantic theories, how it works in empirical studies, and the thesis aims, furthermore, to expose alterna¬tive possibilities to understand and study evaluation, which tend to be overlooked in earlier research. The construction of emotive meaning is shown to be based on two theoretical assumptions commonly adopted within semantic theory: firstly that meaning can be explained with reference to something out¬side language (i.e. correspondence), secondly that the meaning of a larger whole can be deduced from the meaning of its parts (i.e. com¬positionality). Accordingly, the central questions of this theoretical discourse are what evaluation corresponds to, and how evaluating words are to be delimited. This perspective is proved to be less fruitful for a study of evaluation which goes beyond some cardinal example words in their typical contexts. One possibility put forward by this thesis is to take as a point of departure the question of what people are doing when using language to evaluate. This alternative perspective is applied by the use of Systemic Functional Linguistics in an analysis of a conversation. The analysis shows how the evaluating activities of the speakers can be described on various levels without necessarily ascribing emotive meaning to decontextualized words.
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- Larsson, Ida, 1977
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Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish.
- 2009
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis concerns the syntactic-semantic development of the perfect tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. Cross-linguistic variation is tied to the properties of the present tense, the auxiliary, and the aspectual composition of the participle. Possessive and temporal HAVE are assumed to involve prepositional elements in languages like Swedish and English: possessive HAVE involves a possessive preposition and temporal HAVE a temporal preposition. This accounts for the difference between the two types of HAVE, as well as for the restricted semantics of the perfect in Swedish and English. Participles differ both with regard to the parts of the verb phrase they include and the presence/absence of tense and aspect. The thesis contains a study of the early occurrences of perfect-type constructions with HAVE in Old Germanic, an investigation of the use of BE + active participle in older Swedish and of the loss of BE in Early Modern Swedish. A distinction between resultant state participles and target state participles is shown to be relevant for the analysis of the construction with BE + active or passive participle in older Swedish. The loss of BE is analysed as a change in the properties of the participial stativizer. In Present-Day Swedish, resultant state participles are formed only from verbs with an external argument, but these include also certain verbs with unaccusative behaviour. The perfect tense is argued to have developed from a resultant state construction which expresses bounded or resultative aspect. The establishment of the perfect in the linguistic community can be observed as a change in the relative frequency of perfects and resultant state expressions over a considerable period of time.
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- Melkersson, Rickard, 1976
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Skrifterna från Hoppet. C.H. Braads ostindiska resa 1748–49
- 2013
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis deals with the writings of Christopher Hinric Braad (1728–81), employee of the Swedish East India Company, and more specifical¬ly with the manuscripts from his first journey, from Gothenburg to Canton, in the years 1748–1749. Despite their great historical and philological value, witnessed by many authors, none of these texts has been the subject of an edition, nor of any exhaustive research. The thesis establishes a chronology between the documents, and their genetic relationships are also analysed. Three of the manuscripts are chosen as the target for a graphonomic analysis of problematic issues in the writing system: the autographic travel book and journal (Uppsala University Library X389 and X390) and the non-autographic copy of the former (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Braad). Parts of these documents have been transcribed and have been included in the thesis. In order to deal with the issues in the material, the graphonomic theory is broadened with perspectives borrowed from semiotics. The graphonomic analysis manages to resolve a few issues as to the graphematic status of some of the graph-types, but furthermore it shows the importance of distinguishing between the verbal and the merely visual phenomena in the writing system. Some of the graph-types prove to be significant in a non-verbal way, although their status on the verbal level is only allographic.
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