Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi by Issue Date
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Multilingual text generation from structured formal representations
(2013-01-11)This thesis aims to identify the optimal ways in which natural language generation techniques can be brought to bear upon the problem of processing a structured body of information in order to devise a coherent presentation ... -
Att hantera praktiken – om sfi-studerandes möjligheter till interaktion och lärande på praktikplatser
(2013-02-13)The overall aim of this work is to explore and problematize adult second language students’ opportunities for interaction and language learning at work placements. The study is designed as four case studies where students ... -
I see what you mean
(2013-04-03)This thesis aims to identify linguistic factors that affect readability and text comprehension, viewed as a function of text complexity. Features at various linguistic levels suggested in existing literature are evaluated, ... -
Skrifterna från Hoppet. C.H. Braads ostindiska resa 1748–49
(2013-05-17)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 ... -
Vägar till förståelse. Andraspråkstalare i samtal med en studie- och yrkesvägledare.
(2013-05-29)The aim of this work is to explore how shared understanding is achieved in career counseling with second language clients. Video-recorded counselling sessions are analysed along with participant interviews and other secondary ... -
Hårt arbete och sträng vila
(2014-05-21)The objective of this thesis is to investigate collocations (like hard work) from the lexicographical and lexicological perspectives. In the lexicographical study the general role of collocations in dictionaries is discussed, ... -
”Herravälde. Är det bara killar eller?” Andraspråksläsare möter lärobokstexter i historia för gymnasieskolan.
(2014-05-23)This thesis explores and characterizes Swedish high school students’ encounters with history textbook texts, with a focus on students having Swedish as their second language. Reading history textbooks entails comprehending ... -
Modala hjälpverb i språkhistorisk belysning
(2014-08-29)In this thesis, the syntactic and morphological characteristics of modal verbs in Swedish have been investigated in order to identify and examine the changes these verbs have undergone. The survey was conducted as a ... -
The Game of Health Search
(2014-10-31)Almost two of three Swedes use internet to search for health related information on diseases, treatments and care givers. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are increasingly used to carry out these activities, ... -
Purism på glid? Studier i nutida isländskt ordbruk
(2015-02-25)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 ... -
Progressive constructions in Swedish
(2015-09-18)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 ... -
Studies in computational historical linguistics: Models and analyses
(2015-10-22)Computational analysis of historical and typological data has made great progress in the last fifteen years. In this thesis, I work with vocabulary lists for addressing some classical problems in historical linguistics ... -
Steg för steg. Naturvetenskapligt ämnesspråk som räknas
(2015-11-13)In this work, I present a linguistic investigation of the language of Swedish textbooks in the natural sciences, i.e., biology, physics and chemistry. The textbooks, which are used in secondary and upper secondary school, ... -
Lov og tekst i middelalderen. Produksjon og resepsjon av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov
(2016-02-19)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 ... -
Ordboksanvändning på nätet. En undersökning av användningen av Lexins svenska lexikon.
(2016-12-16)In this thesis a study of the use and users of the Swedish online, monolingual, learner’s dictionary Lexins svenska lexikon, LSL, is presented. The target group of LSL is learners at a relatively advanced beginner’s ... -
Inflätat och överlappande. Flerspråkighet och språkanvändning bland svensktalande ungdomar i Europa
(2017-03-01)The overall aim of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding and extended knowledge about the multilingualism and language use of teenagers with Swedish backgrounds who live abroad and participate in Swedish ... -
Extraction from relative clauses in Swedish
(2017-04-18)This dissertation presents an empirical study of extraction from relative clauses (ERC) in Swedish, where a phrase outside a relative clause (RC) is related to a gap or a resumptive pronoun inside the RC. The aim of the ... -
Så fångas de misstänktas ord. Förhör och dokumentationspraktiker på Skattebrottsenheten
(2017-12-20)This aim of this thesis is to contribute to our understanding of the factors shaping institutional talk and documentation, using empirical data from the field of investigative interviewing. The study analyses how Swedish ... -
Automatic proficiency level prediction for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(2018-05-17)With the ever-growing presence of electronic devices in our everyday lives, it is compelling to investigate how technology can contribute to make our language learning process more efficient and enjoyable. A fundamental ...