Resumen Desde la metodología del Análisis del Discurso Ideológico (ADI) desarrollado por Teun van Dijk, esta tesis de maestría presenta una investigación sobre un grupo de textos de información turística de Costa Rica que utilizan lo que podemos llamar un discurso ecológico o medioambiental. La investigación pretende estudiar cómo se utiliza el discurso ecológico en dichos textos ya que su presencia ...

Even though there are many studies devoted to the analysis of linguistic attitudes, it is not so frequent to find analyses that explore the attitude towards specific lexical phenomena. This work concentrates on the acceptability and perception of a series of lexical expressions, characteristic from Murcia (Spain) –a highly stigmatised variety–, both in utterances with other vernacular traits and in ...

This chapter reviews a small but growing body of research that examines neuroplasticity stemming from multilingualism, specifically discussing some similarities and differences in brain structure and function stemming from in processing three or more languages, as a departure from bilingualism. The evidence comes from studies using magnetic resonance imaging to examine patterns of grey matter structure ...

This essay discusses Johan Turi's images (most of them undated) and his text published in 1910, recently translated by Thomas A. DuBois as An Account of the Sámi. It is the first book in Sámi in which the colonized talks back to their colonizers. Together, Turi's Account and his paintings and drawings, some of which are published here for the first time, provide detailed descriptions of the lives ...

The current pilot study was set to evaluate the feasibility and potential benefit of a personalized computerized cognitive training (CCT) intervention to improve cognitive function among people living with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Seventy three adults who self-reported cognitive dysfunction more than 3 months after a diagnosis of COVID-19 took part in an 8-week training study. ...

En este trabajo de máster presentaremos la manera en que los hablantes dominicanos perciben su propia variedad del español y otras variedades. Para ello nos basaremos en la distinción entre actitudes afectivas y actitudes cognitivas. Se analizará la variedad dominicana a través de una encuesta, realizada a hablantes nativos del país. También se analizará un pequeño grupo de extranjeros pertenecientes ...

In this thesis I research the use of a diacritic mark know as a titlo and its use in Old East Slavic. Available literature suggests that titlos were used by Muscovite scribes to abbreviate words that denoted objects which were regarded as particularly sacred. However, literature on Old Rusian and Middle Russian handwriting, and Slavic paleography suggest that titlo-abbreviations may have been used ...

Det har lenge vært vanlig å tolke Bröderna Lejonhjärta (1973) av Astrid Lindgren med utgangspunkt i den doble tiltalen. I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvorvidt det går an å lese romanen med utgangspunkt i en tredje tolkningsinngang. Denne tolkningsinngangen bygger på en hypotese om at Gud har drømt fram Nangijala. I arbeidet med å undersøke denne hypotesen har jeg benyttet meg av unaturlig narratologi ...

The goal of this master’s thesis is to study pragmatics in the context of aviation communication, within specific interactions between pilots and air traffic controllers, with the intention of discovering possible shortcomings related to how these speakers communicate their intentions that lead to dangerous situations. This study will look at transcripts from two separate aircraft incidents where ...

Ein zentraler Teil des Kernelements interkulturelle Kompetenz (interkulturell kompetanse) im norwegischen Lehrplan für Fremdsprachen ist das Verständnis von kultureller Vielfalt (forståelse av kulturelt mangfold). In dieser Masterarbeit wird untersucht, inwiefern und wie eine Lehrwerksreihe für Deutsch als Fremdsprache auf Niveau 1 und 2 in der weiterführenden Schule (videregående skole) die kulturelle ...