Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori by Title
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A Study of Actual and Non-Actual Motion Expressions in Telugu: A path towards a post-Talmian Motion Event Typology
(2024-11-05)This compilation thesis investigates the expressions of actual and non-actual motion (henceforth AM and NAM, respectively) in Telugu (Dravidian). AM refers to a situation where a physical object moves from one place to ... -
A Universal of Human Interaction? – Manual Movement as Interactional Practice in Spoken and Signed Conversation
(2016-05-13)When humans interact, they may make use of a range of resources, such as head movements, facial expressions, manual movement, body posture and speech. It is assumed that participants both produce and perceive this stream ... -
All There Is: On the Semantics of Quantification over Absolutely Everything
(2017-12-22)This thesis concerns the problem of providing a semantics for quantification over absolutely all there is. Chapter 2 argues against the common view that Frege understood his quantifiers in Begriffsschrift to range over all ... -
Att afrikanisera vetenskaplig kunskap: MIM och malariaforskningen i postkolonialt dilemma
(2010-01-15)Priebe, Gunilla, Att afrikanisera vetenskaplig kunskap – MIM och malariaforskningen i postkolonialt dilemma [Africanising Scientific Knowledge – MIM and malaria re¬search in Postcolonial Dilemma]. Doctoral thesis in ... -
Att tala om vem man är. En språkvetenskaplig studie av transitivitet, agentivitet och engagemang i unga kvinnors erfarenhetsberättelser
(2011-11-25)This dissertation deals with the relationship between language and identity in narratives of personal experience told by young women in different settings. The aim of the investigation was to find out if there are ... -
Audience design in interaction: studies on urban adolescent spoken languages
(2018-10-25)Speakers of a language carry with them a set of language ideologies, i.e. beliefs about norms and rules in relation to that language. One such ideology is a standard language ideology, which is generally associated ... -
Citeringens praktiker – Det vetenskapliga publicerandet som teori, metod och forskningspolitik
(2013-09-05)The thesis investigates the scientific citation and its various functions in the scientific community and develops it as a tool for research in theory of science, scientometrics and science studies. Through empirical and ... -
Computational Models of Language and Vision: Studies of Neural Models as Learners of Multi-Modal Knowledge
(2024-05-16)This thesis develops and evaluates computational models that generate natural language descriptions of visual content. We build and examine models of language and vision to gain a deeper understanding of how they reflect ... -
Concept Formation in Mathematics
(2011-05-19)This thesis consists of three overlapping parts, where the first one centers around the possibility of defining a measure of the power of arithmetical theories. In this part a partial measure of the power of arithmetical ... -
Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges
(2022-05-09)Person-centered care (PCC) is generally understood to involve shaping healthcare processes, decisions, and plans according to the individual values, preferences, or goals of each patient. This is in contrast to more ... -
Contributions to the Metamathematics of Arithmetic: Fixed Points, Independence, and Flexibility
(2017-05-11)This thesis concerns the incompleteness phenomenon of first-order arithmetic: no consistent, r.e. theory T can prove every true arithmetical sentence. The first incompleteness result is due to Gödel; classic generalisations ... -
Detection and Aptness: A study in metaphor detection and aptness assessment through neural networks and distributional semantic spaces
(2019-01-31)Metaphor is one of the most prominent, and most studied, figures of speech. While it is considered an element of great interest in several branches of linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics and stylistics, its ... -
Enthymemes in Dialogue: A micro-rhetorical approach
(2014-09-03)In dialogue we frequently present arguments which are based on commonly accepted non-logical inferences. In rhetorical theory, this type of argument is called an enthymeme, and a pattern of reasoning that it is based on ... -
Explorations of the Relationship Between the right to Make Decisions and Moral Responsibility in Healthcare
(2020-11-18)People intuitively think that there is a strong connection between having a right to make decisions and to be morally responsible for those decisions. This thesis explores the relationship between these notions in the ... -
Exploring Evidence-Based Practice Through New Forms of Engagement
(2023-12-15)This thesis is concerned with how to connect Science and Technology Studies (STS) with Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) through new forms of engagements. EBP is commonly associated with efforts to improve quality of welfare ... -
Forensic comparison of voices, speech and speakers – Tools and Methods in Forensic Phonetics
(2017-05-16)This thesis has three main objectives. The first objective (A) includes Study I, which investigates the parameter fundamental frequency (F0) and its robustness in different acoustic contexts by using different measures. ... -
Four Questions Concerning Love and Friendship
(2016-10-07)This thesis contributes to the contemporary, analytic philosophical debate about love and friendship. Part of this debate concerns the apparent paradox that, while the fact that a person is your loved one doesn’t make ... -
Från utvald till utbildad – Persona i utredningar om svensk forskarutbildning 1945-2004
(2017-02-28)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how the doctoral student has been portrayed in official government reports concerning Swedish research training from 1945 to 2004. In this dissertation, the concept of scientific ... -
From sounds to speech and gestures Case studies of linguistic interaction in children with ASC
(2016-02-05)This thesis investigates the interrelationship between segmental phonology, prosody and gesture, as well as important factors for language development in individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC), i.e. precursors. ...