Through the application of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)— and paying extra attention to the utilization of ideological squaring, actor descriptions, and lexicalization— this thesis aims to discuss the Church of Sweden’s “official” discourse regarding its humanitarian and social engagement with refugees and refugee issues the year 2017. Wherein, the author attempts to discuss what the collected material— from the internet-based function Support migration, and personal semi-structured interviews with Church personnel— can tell one about the Church’s views on its self-identity, social engagement, as well as ecumenical and interreligious relations, in an increasingly diverse Swedish society. Central for this thesis is how ideology functions, and how “us and them” divisions are constructed, within the discourse, regarding the Church’s refugee work. It can be argued that a key finding of this thesis is how the Church’s discourse generally sets itself against popular contemporary categorizations of refugees as threats, in addition to classic “us and them” distinctions that often serve to demonize the religious and cultural other— which have become observable within contemporary debates regarding refugees in the Global North. Instead, it could be argued that, at least regarding these issues, the Church of Sweden provides an alternative and critical voice in these matters. However, “us and them” divisions can still be observable. Where, for instance the “us” of the Church that is presented as a moral force in society— which has a responsibility to guard human dignity— is set in opposition against “them”, which are depicted as external marginalized voices which threaten both its mission and identity.

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The transportation sector continues to be a primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, contributing more than any other sector in the United States in 2017. Medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks trail only passenger cars as the largest GHG contributor in this sector [1]. The intense operating requirements of these vehicles create a reliance on the diesel engine that is projected to last for many decades. Therefore, it is vital that the efficiency and environmental sustainability of diesel engines continue to be advanced.<br><br>Cylinder deactivation (CDA) is a promising technology to improve diesel engine fuel efficiency and aftertreatment thermal management for emissions reduction. This work presents original experimental results demonstrating fuel efficiency improvements of CDA implemented on a modern engine at idle operating conditions through testing of various CDA configurations. Idle calibration optimizations result in up to 28% fuel consumption reduction at steady-state unloaded idle operation and 0.7% fuel consumption reduction over HD-FTP drive cycles at equivalent emissions levels. The low-load thermal management performance of CDA is also investigated through creep and extended idle transient cycles, during which CDA is shown to reduce fuel consumption by up to 40% with similar thermal management performance and reduced NOx and soot emissions. <br><br>Variants of CDA implementation are explored through an experimental comparison of deactivation strategies. The effort described here compares charge trapping strategies through examination of in-cylinder pressures following deactivation because: (1) choice of trapping strategy dictates the in-cylinder pressure characteristics of the deactivated cylinders, and (2) deactivated cylinders can affect torque, oil consumption, and emissions upon reactivation. Results discussed here suggest no significant differences between the strategies. As an example, the in-cylinder pressures of both trapping strategies are shown to converge as quickly as 0.8 seconds after deactivation.<br><br>Finally, the NVH effects of CDA are characterized through studies of torsional vibration, linear vibration, and acoustics. CDA causes frequency content at reduced frequencies compared to conventional operation, which has effects on all aspects of NVH. This creates possible constraints on achievable fuel efficiency and thermal management performance by restricting CDA usage. An alternate form of CDA, dynamic cylinder activation (DCA), is explored as a possible option of avoiding undesirable frequency output while maintaining the desired engine performance. <br>

The purpose of this study is to examine how immigrant authorsare mediated in texts. The study is based on three magazines which are directed towards the library sector. These texts have been published from the year 2000 to the year 2012. The study focuses on two of these magazines, namely Bibliotek i Samhälle and Biblioteksbladet. The study focuses on authors who write in the swedish language, but who still seem to be perceived as immigrant authors. The method used in this study is critical discourse analysis (CDA) according to Norman Fairclough. How the studied authors are being described are presented with quotations from the texts. These quotations are analysed from semantic relations. Further analysis displays first how immigrant authors are legitimated. Second it displays how immigrant authors are paraphrased in the texts. The results show that the texts focuses on the two authors Jonas Hassen Khemiri and Theodor Kallifatides. The texts paraphrasethe immigrant authors as participants of debates about the society,in a way that undermines the category of the immigrant author, aswell skilled in language and as public persons in book fairs. The final discussion stress that nothing indicates that the examined texts presuppose that some authors should be seen as immigrantauthors. The results of this study therefore do not support the results of earlier studies that have declared that some authors seem to be treated as immigrant authors. / Program: Bibliotekarie

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T16:17:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carina_ Lingnau.pdf: 2098920 bytes, checksum: 4e57fc81b8ba78964014141cb52e213b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-30 / The Black and Education Contest was the first affirmative action allocation research about education and the black which lasted from 1998 to 2007 and was promoted by the cooperation among ANPEd, Ação Educativa and had financial support from the Ford Foundation. During this time it had been promoted four editions of the contest and each generated a publication that brought together articles written by researchers participating in the Black and Education Contest. This dissertation has as research excerpt the articles written in the publications about Black and Education Context focused on the history of black education resulting from research compiled in the editions of books 1,3 and 4 of the Black and Education Contest, since Publication 2 had no article on this theme. The general objective of the study was to analyze the texts produced in the publication books of the Black and Education Contest focused on the history of black education and the specific objectives were: to understand the process of formation of subjects who wrote texts in books produced by Black & Education Contest centered on history of black education; relate productions of the Black & Education Contest with the formation of researchers focused on the history of education and knowing the context of the research and production of the Black & Education Contest. As methodology we used Fairclough (1989, 2001), Van Dijk (1993), among others, to analyze the articles based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). In the discussions we used Hall (1997), Certeau (1982), Ricouer (1984), Bhabha (1990, 1998) Munanga (2004), among others. To have access to the versions that were out of the contest reports, articles and books we prepared semi-structured forms via email as well as narrative interviews using the concepts of Bauer and Gaskell (2002). We interviewed the researchers who wrote the texts in the publications of Contest Black and Education centered on the theme History of Education. We also interviewed other persons involved in the Contest Black & Education. We conducted documental research and bibliographical survey. The results of the work were new versions of the history of education of african-brazilians as well as remnants of hegemonic discourses ideological traces of the analyzed articles. Furthermore, we found that of the 61 graduates from Contest, currently 38 are inserted professionally in higher education institutions of which 10 are advising in post-graduate studies, indicating the occupation of a privileged discursive space by symbolic elites and the need of affirmative actions for the entry of these researchers in academic spaces, which can collaborate with research on ethnic and racial themes. / O Concurso Negro e Educação foi a primeira ação afirmativa de dotação de pesquisa sobre o negro e educação, no período de 1998 até 2007. Foi promovido pela cooperação entre ANPEd, Ação Educativa e teve apoio financeiro da Fundação Ford. Nesse intervalo de tempo foram elaboradas quatro edições do Concurso e cada uma delas gerou uma publicação que reuniu os artigos escritos pelos pesquisadores participantes do Concurso de Dotação para pesquisa. Esta dissertação teve como recorte os artigos publicados pelo Concurso sobre a história da educação do negro resultantes das pesquisas nas edições dos livros 1, 3 e 4 do Concurso Negro e Educação. O objetivo geral do trabalho foi analisar os textos escritos nos livros do Concurso Negro e Educação, centrados na história da educação do afro-brasileiro e os objetivos específicos consistiram em: conhecer o processo de formação dos sujeitos que escreveram textos nos livros produzidos pelo Concurso Negro e Educação centrados no tema história da educação do negro; relacionar os artigos do Concurso Negro e Educação com a formação de pesquisadores voltada para a História da Educação e conhecer o contexto de produção das pesquisas e do Concurso Negro e Educação. Para o desenvolvimento teórico-metodológico nos valemos das contribuições de Fairclough (1989, 2001), Van Dijk (1993), entre outros, para analisarmos os artigos com base na Análise do Discurso Crítica (ADC); nas discussões utilizamos Hall (1997), Certeau (1982), Ricoeur (1984), Bhabha (1990, 1998), Munanga (2004), entre outros. Para termos acesso a versões do Concurso que estavam fora dos relatórios, documentos, artigos e livros foram elaboradas entrevistas semi-estruturadas em formulários via email assim como entrevistas narrativas utilizando a concepção de Bauer e Gaskell (2002) com os sujeitos que escreveram os textos nos livros do Concurso Negro e Educação, centrados no tema História da Educação. Também entrevistamos outras personalidades envolvidas no processo do Concurso Negro e Educação. Fizemos pesquisa documental e levantamento bibliográfico. Os resultados da investigação demonstram traços ideológicos hegemônicos nos discursos dos artigos analisados. Na investigação percebemos o significado do Concurso Negro e Educação como política de ação afirmativa para formação de pesquisadores na temática étnico-racial. Isso é expressivo, pois verificamos que dos 61 egressos do Concurso, 38 atualmente estão inseridos profissionalmente em instituições de ensino superior, dos quais 10 orientam em cursos de pós-graduação stricto sensu, o que indica a ocupação de um espaço discursivo privilegiado, antes dominado pelas elites simbólicas. A totalidade do material coletado e analisado permite afirmar que o Concurso Negro e Educação ampliou as possibilidades de produção de pesquisas sobre a temática.

During the past recent years the Police presence on social media in Sweden has grown. These new tools and resources have resulted in a change of practise in communication. This qualitative study intends to identify how the Swedish Police have portrayed themselves on the social media platform Instagram, in relation to organizational identity theory and strategic communication theory, during the period 1 January to 26 October 2018. This has been done by applying a multimodal critical discourse analysis method to 13 Instagram posts, posted on the official national swedish Police Instagram account, @Polisen. The results show that the Swedish Police mainly portray themselves using values such as efficiency, collectivity, availability, functionality, masculinity and dedication. Meanwhile there is a lack of self criticism, hierarchy and ethnic variety. The results also show that the police do achieve their strategic goals to some degree, while there is also a non-disclosed marketing agenda present in regards to the Swedish Police Academy.

Natural resource development has tremendous potential to create inclusive economic growth in countries well-endowed with oil, mineral, and agricultural resources. At the same time, natural resource development can cause negative environmental externalities, and, in several cases, extractives companies can engage in labor abuse. The intersection of the government’s and the corporation’s interest can lie in Corporate Social Responsibility Projects.This thesis will analyze an alternative model of CSR: community development agreements (CDAs). CDAs are voluntary, or sometimes government mandated, agreements between the project developer and the project affected community that define company commitments to issues such as environmental impact mitigation, benefit sharing, and local employment, for example. The objective of this thesis is to review the theoretical underpinnings of CDA process, analyze the application of CDAs in several case studies, and develop a framework of best practices for CDAs based on those analyses.

<p>This thesis is concerned with three language debates that reached their most crucial peaks in Sweden at the beginning of the twenty-first century: (i) the debate on the promotion of the Swedish language, (ii) the debate on language testing for citizenship, and (iii) the debate on mother tongue instruction. The main scope of the thesis is to take a theoretically multi-pronged approach to these debates trying to shed light on the following aspects: Why did such debates emerge when they did? Which discourses were available in those specific historical moments? Who are the social actors that intervened in these debates? What is at stake for them? What do they claim? What systems of values, ideas and beliefs – i.e. ideologies – underlie such claims? What are the effects in terms of identities, objects of political intervention, commonsensical knowledge and authority that these discourses and ideologies produce?</p><p>Taking Sweden as a case in point, the thesis adds to the existing literature another example of how language debates are the manifestation of conflicts between different language ideologies that struggle for hegemony, thus attempting to impose one specific way of envisaging the management of a nation-state in a time of globalisation. In their outer and most patent facets, these struggles deal with the relationships between languages in today’s Sweden, and how the state, through legislation, should – or should not – regulate such relationships in order to (re)produce some kind of linguistic order. However, the thesis also illustrates that when social actors appeal to a linguistic order, they not only draw boundaries between different languages in a given society, but they also bring into existence a social world in which the speakers of those languages come to occupy specific social positions. These linguistic and social hierarchies, in turn, are imbricated in an often implicit moral regime of what counts as good or bad, acceptable or taboo in that society.</p>

This thesis is concerned with three language debates that reached their most crucial peaks in Sweden at the beginning of the twenty-first century: (i) the debate on the promotion of the Swedish language, (ii) the debate on language testing for citizenship, and (iii) the debate on mother tongue instruction. The main scope of the thesis is to take a theoretically multi-pronged approach to these debates trying to shed light on the following aspects: Why did such debates emerge when they did? Which discourses were available in those specific historical moments? Who are the social actors that intervened in these debates? What is at stake for them? What do they claim? What systems of values, ideas and beliefs – i.e. ideologies – underlie such claims? What are the effects in terms of identities, objects of political intervention, commonsensical knowledge and authority that these discourses and ideologies produce? Taking Sweden as a case in point, the thesis adds to the existing literature another example of how language debates are the manifestation of conflicts between different language ideologies that struggle for hegemony, thus attempting to impose one specific way of envisaging the management of a nation-state in a time of globalisation. In their outer and most patent facets, these struggles deal with the relationships between languages in today’s Sweden, and how the state, through legislation, should – or should not – regulate such relationships in order to (re)produce some kind of linguistic order. However, the thesis also illustrates that when social actors appeal to a linguistic order, they not only draw boundaries between different languages in a given society, but they also bring into existence a social world in which the speakers of those languages come to occupy specific social positions. These linguistic and social hierarchies, in turn, are imbricated in an often implicit moral regime of what counts as good or bad, acceptable or taboo in that society.