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- Klemetz, Viktor, et al.
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Nationell luftövervakning : Sakrapport med data från övervakning inom Programområde Luft t. o. m. 2021
- 2023
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Naturvårdsverket ansvarar för den nationella luftövervakningen i bakgrundsmiljö. I rapporten redovisas resultat från verksamheten inom Programområde Luft avseende mätningar (genomförda av IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet (IVL),Institutionen för Miljövetenskap vid Stockholms universitet (SU), Institutionen för Mark och Miljö vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Chalmers tekniska högskola och Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (SMHI) till och med 2021 samt regionala modellberäkningar (utförda av SMHI) till och med 2020. För flertalet av de luftföroreningskomponenter som övervakas inom den nationella miljöövervakningen har det, sedan mätningarna startade för mellan 20 och 45 år sedan, generellt skett en avsevärd förbättring avseende såväl halter i luft som deposition i bakgrundsmiljö.Utvecklingen har dock varierat i något olika utsträckning beroende på komponenter och lokalisering i landet. Föroreningsbelastningen är oftast lägre ju längre norrut i landet man kommer.För de flesta ämnen som det finns miljökvalitetsnormer (MKN) respektive miljömål för ligger halterna avsevärt lägre än angivna gräns- och målvärden. Halterna av marknära ozon överskrider i dagsläget MKN för hälsa vid ett flertal mätstationer i södra Sverige.För såväl partiklar (i form av PM2,5) och bensen (i urban bakgrund) är risken låg att haltnivåer överstiger miljömålens preciseringar.
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- Allende, Ana, et al.
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Maximum levels of cross-contamination for 24 antimicrobial active substances in non-target feed. Part 2: Aminoglycosides/aminocyclitols: apramycin, paromomycin, neomycin and spectinomycin
- 2021
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In: EFSA Journal. - : Wiley. - 1831-4732. ; 19:10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The specific concentrations of apramycin, paromomycin, neomycin and spectinomycin in non-target feed for food-producing animals, below which there would not be an effect on the emergence of, and/or selection for, resistance in bacteria relevant for human and animal health, as well as the specific antimicrobial concentrations in feed which have an effect in terms of growth promotion/increased yield, were assessed by EFSA in collaboration with EMA. Details of the methodology used for this assessment, associated data gaps and uncertainties, are presented in a separate document. To address antimicrobial resistance, the Feed Antimicrobial Resistance Selection Concentration (FARSC) model developed specifically for the assessment was applied. However, due to the lack of data on the parameters required to calculate the FARSC for these antimicrobials, it was not possible to conclude the assessment until further experimental data become available. To address growth promotion, data from scientific publications obtained from an extensive literature review were used. Levels in feed that showed to have an effect on growth promotion/increased yield were reported for apramycin and neomycin, whilst for paromomycin and spectinomycin, no suitable data for the assessment were available. It was recommended to carry out studies to generate the data that are required to fill the gaps which prevented the calculation of the FARSC for these four antimicrobials.
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- Andersson, Marta, et al.
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A sentiment-annotated dataset of English causal connectives
- 2020
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In: Proceedings of the 14th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. - 9781952148330 ; , s. 24-33
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the semantic prosody of three causal connectives: due to, owing to and because of in seven varieties of the English language. While research in the domain of English causality exists, we are not aware of studies that would cover the domain of causal connectives in English. Our claim is that connectives such as because of link two arguments, (at least) one of which will include a phrase that contributes to the interpretation of the relation as positive or negative, and hence define the prosody of the connective used. As our results demonstrate, the majority of the prosodies identified are negative for all three connectives; the proportions are stable across the varieties of English studied, and contrary to our expectations, we find no significant differences between the functions of the connectives and discourse preferences. Further, we investigate whether automatizing the sentiment annotation procedure via a simple language-model based classifier is possible. The initial results highlights the complexity of the task and the need for complicated systems, probably aided with other related datasets to achieve reasonable performance.
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- Andersson, Marta, 1973-, et al.
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Conventionalized impoliteness in English and Polish The case of ‘you idiot!’
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Conventionalized impoliteness in English and Polish: The case of ‘you idiot! Daniel Van Olmen & Marta Andersson(Lancaster University, Uppsala University) Keywords: address, conventionalization, evaluative meaning, impoliteness, questionnaire Earlier research has argued that the YOU+NP! patterns in (1) and (2) are constructions (in a Construction Grammar sense; Goldberg 2006): they constitute distinct forms dedicated to the function of addressee evaluation (see also Davies 1986 among others). This assessment may be positive (e.g. you angel!) but the construction has been shown, with corpus data, to exhibit a strong bias toward insults in usage in English and a very strong one in Polish. (1) “Thanks a lot, you stupid bitch!” screamed Vultureman. Chilla was enraged by the unprovoked profanity. (enTenTen18)(2) Już mam ochotę wrzeszczeć: ty mendo, … ja ci pokażę, ja cię kwasem obleję!‘I feel like screaming: you douche, … I'll show you, I'll pour acid on you!’ (plTenTen19) Following Terkourafi (2005) on politeness formulae and against the dominant view in the field that (im)politeness is primarily socio-pragmatic in nature rather than inherent in linguistic form (e.g. Van der Bom and Mills 2015), these results have been taken to suggest that YOU+NP! is conventionalized considerably for negative addressee evaluation, even more so in Polish than in English. This association with impoliteness has, moreover, been attributed to the pragmatic explicitness and thus directness (Culpeper and Haugh 2014) of referring to the target with ‘you’.This paper seeks to put the claims about English versus Polish and about the impact of ‘you’ to the test, by conducting an online questionnaire asking native speakers to assess, on seven-point Likert scales, the well-formedness (1=very unnatural, 7=very natural) and evaluative meaning (1=very negative, 4=neither positive nor negative, 7=very positive) of stimuli in short, general scenarios. The stimuli, which are as similar as possible for both languages, differ in the presence/absence of ‘you’ and in the nouns, ranging from negatively and positively evaluative ones (e.g. NE ‘idiot’, PE ‘angel’) over neutral ones denoting humans and things (e.g. NH ‘waiter’, NT ‘pan’) to pseudo-nouns (e.g. P ‘wabe’; cf. Jain 2022). The hypotheses that we intend to test are: (i) without ‘you’, NEs, PEs and NHs are judged the more well-formed addresses but, with ‘you’, just the evaluative nouns stand out and especially NEs while NHs score lower and NTs and Ps higher for well-formedness with than without ‘you’;(ii) NEs’ evaluative meaning is deemed (even) more negative with than without ‘you’ and NHs, NTs and Ps too are seen as (more) negative with ‘you’ (than without it);(iii) these two tendencies are stronger in Polish than in English. The collection of the data, which will undergo statistical analysis (ANOVAs, Bonferroni-corrected post hoc t-tests), is ongoing. Our preliminary results, however, appear to be in line with the hypotheses. Evidence for (i) shows that YOU+NP! is an evaluative construction, even able to turn unlikely NPs into (evaluative) addresses. Support for (ii) confirms that ‘you’ increases the effect of already negatively evaluative NPs and that YOU+NP! is conventionalized considerably for impoliteness, coercing non-evaluative NPs into a negative (rather than positive) interpretation. Evidence for (iii) indicates that this conventionalization is more established in Polish than in English. ReferencesCulpeper, Jonathan and Michael Haugh (2014), Pragmatics and the English Language, Basingstoke: Palgrave.Davies, Eirlys E. (1986), English vocatives: A look at their function and form, Studia Anglica Posnaniniensis 19(1), 92-106.Goldberg, Adele (2006), Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Jain, Kate H. (2022), You Hoboken! Semantics of an expressive label marker, Linguistics and Philosophy 45(2), 365-391.Terkourafi, Marina (2005), Pragmatic correlates of frequency of use: The case for a notion of “minimal context”, in S. Marmaridou, K. Nikiforidou and E. Antonopoulou (eds), (2005), Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging Trends for the 21st Century, Berlin: De Gruyter, 209-233.Van der Bom, Isabelle and Sara Mills (2015), A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data, Journal of Politeness Research 11(2), 179-206.
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- Andersson, Marta, 1973-
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Multimodal expression of impoliteness in YouTube reaction videos to transgender activism
- 2024
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In: Discourse, Context & Media. - : Elsevier. - 2211-6958 .- 2211-6966. ; 58
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examines the genre of YouTube reaction videos as a distinct form of cultural production and social influence in online communication. Despite its prevalence and popularity, the genre has received limited scholarly attention, particularly with regard to reactions to ideological activism. This paper aims to fill this gap by conducting a social semiotic discourse analysis of videos reviewing the activism of transgender community on TikTok. The analysis demonstrates how intersecting non-verbal and technologically enabled modes, such as gaze, gestures, facial expressions, and various audio-visual effects, contribute to the expression of impoliteness arising from a sense of superiority over the target, shared with non-targeted viewers. Overall, the paper provides insights into the dynamics of online culture wars and the multimodal manifestations of impoliteness in contemporary social media discourse.
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- Andersson, Marta, 1973-
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'So many virologists in this thread!' Impoliteness in Facebook discussions of the management of the pandemic of Covid-19 in Sweden - the tension between conformity and distinction
- 2022
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In: Pragmatics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1018-2101 .- 2406-4238. ; 32:4, s. 489-517
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper embarks on a functional analysis of impolite language use in discussions about the response to the pandemic of Covid-19 on the official Facebook page of the Swedish national public television broadcaster in the spring of 2020. Having combined the existing models of impoliteness (Culpeper 2016) with the Appraisal theory (Martin and White 2005) in a both quantitative and qualitative investigation, the study finds remarkable differences between supporters and opponents of the Swedish tactic in terms of enactment of value orientations categorized as different attitudes within the Appraisal framework. More specifically, opponents tend to voice more subjective and affectual sentiments, whereas supporters generally derive their attitude from the Swedish institutional norms and cultural standards, resulting in more judgement. As the study concludes, these findings are related to the inherent dichotomy of the Swedish welfare state paradigm, which integrates the concepts of both state and individual citizen liability.
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- Andersson, Marta, et al.
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Subjectivity (Re)visited : A Corpus Study of English Forward Causal Connectives in Different Domains of Spoken and Written Language
- 2021
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In: Discourse processes. - 0163-853X .- 1532-6950. ; 58:3, s. 260-292
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- Through a structured examination of four English causal discourse connectives, our article tackles a gap in the existing research, which focuses mainly on written language production, and entirely lacks attests on English spoken discourse. Given the alleged general nature of English connectives commonly emphasized in the literature, the underlying question of our investigation is the potential role of the connective phrases in marking the basic conceptual distinction between objective and subjective causal event types. To this end, our study combines a traditional corpus analysis with 'predictive' statistical modeling for subjectivity variables to investigate whether and how the tendencies found in the corpus depend on the systematic preferences of the language user to encode subjectivity via a discourse connective. Our findings suggest that while certain conceptual structures are quite fundamental to the usages of English connectives, the connectives per se do not seem to have a steady part in categorization of causal events. Rather, their role pertains to the level of intended explicitness bound to specific rhetorical purposes and contexts of use.
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- Andersson, Marta
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The climate of climate change : Impoliteness as a hallmark of homophily in YouTube comment threads on Greta Thunberg's environmental activism
- 2021
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In: Journal of Pragmatics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0378-2166 .- 1879-1387. ; 178, s. 93-107
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- This paper investigates impoliteness and value homophily (‘thinking alike’) in the context of YouTube-based ideological discussions beneath the videos critical towards the Swedish environmental activist – Greta Thunberg. Drawing on the idea of rapport management, the study finds a remarkable scale of homophily as the postings follow recurrent patterns of face and sociality rights attacks echoing the same point of view. Consequently, while impoliteness has been recognized as widespread in social media for reasons such as anonymity and social detachment, this paper offers an insight into how the phenomenon contributes to the process of consolidation and homogenization of views through social comparison. As the study concludes, impoliteness in ideological discussions on YouTube may serve as the glue to ad hoc social contact between like-minded individuals –ultimately leading to social identification in relevant groups and formation of homophilous online communities.
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