Abstract: In this thesis, the general use and specific instances of F-words in modern music lyrics have been studied based on the corpora extracted from songs in Billboard year-end charts from 2013 to 2022, which represented the most popular songs in English-speaking countries. By screening the actual meaning and contexts of those F-words in the lyrics, I extracted those special instances in which F-words were used to express rebellious feelings to challenge social norms and fight against authority powers. The theme of those rebellious F-words was first studied by the quantitative analysis by years, which shows a clear time dependence associated with the social and political environments. Notably, there was a significant increase in the use of rebellious F-words in lyrics during the intense social and political crises of 2019-2020. A comparative investigation was then carried out across four distinct music genres: rap, rock, R&B, and pop. Among these, rap music stood out with a higher prevalence of rebellious F-words. However, the impact of these words was diminished due to their frequent occurrence, resulting in a reduced level of audience reaction and shock value. The following textual analysis of grammatical features and literary devices associated with those F-words provided evidence that more assertive and aggressive expressions, such as imperative sentences, were favored when incorporating rebellious F-words in the lyrics. This study provides a comprehensive overview of how modern pop music expresses and conveys rebellious power through the use of profanity.

The aim of this thesis is to study how words denoting age are used in newspaper texts. I have chosen mainly to study the following Swedish focus words for females and males of different ages (flicka, kvinna, tjej, dam; pojke, man, kille and herre) as they relate to age. Furthermore, age lexemes – different variations of Swedish expressions of age – are investigated and finally also a number of new Swedish expressions that are used to describe age – kids, förtis, grups, tweenie, mappie, senior and what I call “plus gradings” – e.g. 50 +. The study is particularly concerned with where and how age is referred to and how the chosen focus words relate in different ways to age and sex – and finally also with how these things have changed over time. I have examined newspaper corpora from three separate years – 1965, 1987 and 2000. My theoretical perspective is social constructivist, age being understood as something that is constructed and negotiated in language use. As for method, I adopt a corpus linguistic approach – large corpora and quantitative language patterns in frequencies and lexical content. Thus, my investigation is aimed at the focus words, the age lexemes and the terms in their linguistic contexts, primarily as regards adjective attributes, lexical relations and collocations. My conclusion is that the examined expressions occur in different contexts and are used in different ways, but are not always related to age or age differentiation. I have noticed a couple of tendencies; one relates to vagueness when it comes to age and one relates to a semantic division of labour. The focus words are both used as synonyms and as oppositions, and they refer to referents belonging to different age groups. At the same time there is a clear division of labour between them in that variation in many contexts relates more to subject and contextual pattern than to different chronological ages. Ihave also noticed that chronological age is generally used when something is unusual, deviant or when the context has to do with crime, sports, (change of or debut in) a profession, birthday announcements etc. / Den här avhandlingen undersöker hur ålder används språkligt i tidningstext. Utgångspunkten är hur ålder har förändrats. Framförallt är det fokusorden flicka, pojke, man, kvinna, kille, tjej, dam och herre som i relation till ålder undersöks i avhandlingen. Därutöver studeras ålderslexem - olika variationer av de språkliga uttrycken ålder och år och slutligen även ett antal nya begrepp som förekommer i relation till ålder – kids, förtis, grups, tweenie, mappie, senior och det jag kallar för plusgraderingar – t ex 50 +. Frågor jag ställer mig har med var och hur ålder förekommer och hur de utvalda fokusorden relateras på olika sätt till ålder och till kön – och slutligen hur detta har förändrats över tid. Jag har studerat tidningskorpusar från tre olika årtal – 1965, 1987 och 2000. Teoretiskt utgår jag från ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv där ålder ses som någonting som konstrueras och förhandlas i språkanvändningen. Metodologiskt utgår jag från ett korpuslingvistiskt synsätt - stora textkorpusar och kvantitativa språkliga mönster i frekvenser och lexikalt innehåll. Jag studerar alltså fokusorden, ålderslexemen och de nya begreppen i sina språkliga kontexter, och då framförallt adjektivattribut, lexikala relationer och kollokationer. Jag kommer fram till att de olika språkliga uttrycken förekommer i olika typer av kontexter och på olika sätt, men att det långt ifrån alltid har med ålder eller med åldersdifferentiering att göra. Två olika tendenser är tydliga som har med åldersvaghet och arbetsfördelning att göra. De olika fokusorden både likställs och differentieras, och de används om referenter i olika ålderskategorier. Samtidigt är det en tydlig arbetsfördelning mellan dem där variationen i många sammanhang har mer med ämnen och innehållsliga mönster att göra, än med olika kronologiska åldrar. Jag har också kunnat konstatera att kronologisk ålder generellt används när någonting är ovanligt eller avvikande utifrån en åldersnorm eller när kontexterna har med idrott, debut eller byte av profession, födelse- och dödsannonser etc.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:24:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Solange Contrera.pdf: 2749850 bytes, checksum: 872ee389d66d45fe5e452144a28da49a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-06 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The main aim of this researcher was to verify whether, in modern English teaching books, authentic bundles were used or not, and whether, in books of the last decades, in a diachronic perspective, if it was done or not. The main theoretical underpinning for the research is provided by Corpus Linguistic, which is the area that is concerned with the collection and analysis of criteriously selected corpora, which could be read by computers with the aim of linguistic research. The researcher was also based on the theoretical underpinning of the Teaching Approaches known as: (1) audiolingual; (2) communicative; and (3) corpus Informed to investigate the use of authentic language in the development of the English books. The research questions investigated in this study were: (1) to the analysis of convergent and divergent lexical bundles in this study corpus, (2) to discover which is the frequency of those lexical bundles; (3) to the analysis the convergent and divergent bundles in each text of the English books; and (4) and to verify which are the books composed by a degree of superior linguistic authenticity in relation to the others investigated. The corpora selected for the research are as follows: (a) the study of corpus, formed by five English books designed for a foreign language, for the intermediate level, composed of 25.485 words; (b) the reference corpora: British National Corpus (BNC), composed of 100 million words, and the Google Corpus, composed of 1 trillion words. The researcher analyzed, the degree of authenticity in the constancy of the language used in the English books analyzed -some that were, and others that are still in use in English teaching bringing a contribution to the Corpus Linguistics field / A pesquisadora teve como objetivo principal verificar se os autores de livros didáticos atuais e voltados para o ensino de língua inglesa, de fato, empregam lexicogramática autêntica e se os autores de livros didáticos de décadas passadas, numa perspectiva diacrônica, também o fizeram. Para tanto, encontrou suporte teórico na Lingüística de Corpus, uma área cujos pesquisadores se preocupam com a coleta e com exploração criteriosas de corpora em formatos legíveis por computador com o objetivo de pesquisar uma língua. A pesquisadora fundamentou-se também nos pressupostos teóricos das abordagens de ensino de língua estrangeira conhecidas como (1) audiolingualismo, (2) comunicativismo e (3) informada por corpus para investigar o uso de língua autêntica no desenvolvimento dos livros didáticos. As questões de pesquisa norteadoras deste estudo concernem (1) à análise de pacotes lexicais convergentes e divergentes no corpus de estudo, (2) à descoberta de qual é a freqüência desses pacotes lexicais, (3) à análise dos pacotes convergentes e dos divergentes em cada texto dos livros didáticos e, por fim, (4) à constatação de quais são os livros compostos por um grau de autenticidade lingüística superior em relação aos demais investigados. Os corpora selecionados para a pesquisa são estes: (a) o corpus de estudo, formado por cinco livros didáticos para o ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira, para o nível intermediário, compostos por 25.485 palavras, e (b) os corpora de referência: o British National Corpus (BNC), composto por 100 milhões de palavras, e o Google Corpus, composto por 1 trilhão de palavras. A pesquisadora almejou, ao analisar o grau de autenticidade da língua constante desses livros didáticos uns que foram, e outros que ainda são utilizados no ensino de inglês trazer uma contribuição para a área da Lingüística de Corpus

<p>The aim of this thesis is to study how words denoting age are used in newspaper texts. I have chosen mainly to study the following Swedish focus words for females and males of different ages (<em>flicka, kvinna, tjej, dam; pojke, man, kille</em> and <em>herre</em>) as they relate to age. Furthermore, age lexemes – different variations of Swedish expressions of age – are investigated and finally also a number of new Swedish expressions that are used to describe age – <em>kids, förtis, grups, tweenie, mappie, senior</em> and what I call “plus gradings” – e.g. 50 +.</p><p>The study is particularly concerned with where and how age is referred to and how the chosen focus words relate in different ways to age and sex – and finally also with how these things have changed over time. I have examined newspaper corpora from three separate years – 1965, 1987 and 2000. My theoretical perspective is social constructivist, age being understood as something that is constructed and negotiated in language use. As for method, I adopt a corpus linguistic approach – large corpora and quantitative language patterns in frequencies and lexical content. Thus, my investigation is aimed at the focus words, the age lexemes and the terms in their linguistic contexts, primarily as regards adjective attributes, lexical relations and collocations.</p><p>My conclusion is that the examined expressions occur in different contexts and are used in different ways, but are not always related to age or age differentiation. I have noticed a couple of tendencies; one relates to vagueness when it comes to age and one relates to a semantic division of labour. The focus words are both used as synonyms and as oppositions, and they refer to referents belonging to different age groups. At the same time there is a clear division of labour between them in that variation in many contexts relates more to subject and contextual pattern than to different chronological ages. Ihave also noticed that chronological age is generally used when something is unusual, deviant or when the context has to do with crime, sports, (change of or debut in) a profession, birthday announcements etc.</p> / <p>Den här avhandlingen undersöker hur ålder används språkligt i tidningstext. Utgångspunkten är hur ålder har förändrats. Framförallt är det fokusorden <em>flicka, pojke, man, kvinna, kille, tjej, dam</em> och <em>herre</em> som i relation till ålder undersöks i avhandlingen. Därutöver studeras ålderslexem - olika variationer av de språkliga uttrycken ålder och år och slutligen även ett antal nya begrepp som förekommer i relation till ålder – <em>kids, förtis, grups, tweenie, mappie, senior</em> och det jag kallar för plusgraderingar – t ex 50 +.</p><p>Frågor jag ställer mig har med var och hur ålder förekommer och hur de utvalda fokusorden relateras på olika sätt till ålder och till kön – och slutligen hur detta har förändrats över tid. Jag har studerat tidningskorpusar från tre olika årtal – 1965, 1987 och 2000. Teoretiskt utgår jag från ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv där ålder ses som någonting som konstrueras och förhandlas i språkanvändningen. Metodologiskt utgår jag från ett korpuslingvistiskt synsätt - stora textkorpusar och kvantitativa språkliga mönster i frekvenser och lexikalt innehåll. Jag studerar alltså fokusorden, ålderslexemen och de nya begreppen i sina språkliga kontexter, och då framförallt adjektivattribut, lexikala relationer och kollokationer.</p><p>Jag kommer fram till att de olika språkliga uttrycken förekommer i olika typer av kontexter och på olika sätt, men att det långt ifrån alltid har med ålder eller med åldersdifferentiering att göra. Två olika tendenser är tydliga som har med åldersvaghet och arbetsfördelning att göra. De olika fokusorden både likställs och differentieras, och de används om referenter i olika ålderskategorier. Samtidigt är det en tydlig arbetsfördelning mellan dem där variationen i många sammanhang har mer med ämnen och innehållsliga mönster att göra, än med olika kronologiska åldrar. Jag har också kunnat konstatera att kronologisk ålder generellt används när någonting är ovanligt eller avvikande utifrån en åldersnorm eller när kontexterna har med idrott, debut eller byte av profession, födelse- och dödsannonser etc.</p>

Le discours produit lors d’une visite touristique naît de différentes modalités de communication dont la visite assistée par un dispositif socio-technique et la visite-conférence dirigée par un médiateur. Ces deux modalités présentant des caractéristiques communes propres au genre discursif de la visite médiée, offrent aussi des différences significatives pour constituer un corpus d’étude subdivisé par les modalités de production et les langues sources : des textes écrits par des professionnels du domaine et des textes enregistrées en présence de visiteurs, en français et en espagnol. Plusieurs interrogations se posent dont celle d’une taxonomie des genres de discours liés au domaine spécialisé étudié, celle d’une unité de segmentation textuelle s’affranchissant du caractère scriptural ou oral du mode de production du texte, et celles liées à la catégorisation d’un texte dans un genre discursif. En effet, les valeurs des paramètres de caractérisation doivent permettre l’introduction d’un prototype indispensable à la catégorisation et à l’indexation textuelle du genre étudié.Cette recherche s’inscrit donc dans le cadre théorique de la linguistique textuelle et de l’analyse des pratiques discursives comme indices des praxis sociales, mais la méthodologie employée élargit cette base théorique à la linguistique contributionnelle post-gricéenne qui légitime l’introduction de la contribution comme unité de segmentation textuelle. En outre, le traitement quantitatif d’une compilation de textes sélectionnés trouve ses fondements au sein même de l’analyse de discours et de la linguistique de corpus. La méthode suivie, qui introduit les règles de segmentation textuelle dont l’annotation manuelle qualitative, et l’analyse quantitative permettent de proposer un modèle d’organisation de chaque genre considéré. Au-delà du grand intérêt que présente la caractérisation de nouveaux discours spécialisés, ce travail introduit d’un côté une méthode d’analyse à l’origine du développement d’un programme de segmentation, d’annotation et d’indexation ; et une valorisation didactique dans l’enseignement des langues sur objectifs spécifiques ; et d’un autre côté le développement d’interfaces proposant de nouvelles modalités de médiation dont le discours est pensé en amont de leur réalisation. / The discourse produced in a guided tour stems from different communicative modalities which include the visit assisted by a socio-technical device and the visit guided by an education and visitor service officer. These two modalities show common characteristics of a guided tour; they also offer significant differences. These differences allow us to compile a corpus divided according to its modalities of production and the languages: written text by professionals of the tourism sector, in French and in Spanish. Several issues arise such as the genre taxonomy of the discourse linked to the specific field studied, the unit of the text segmentation which has to free itself from the scriptural or oral feature of the text production, the textual categorisation and indexation of the studied genre. Indeed, the characterisation parameter value must introduce an essential prototype in order to categorise and index the texts of the studied genres. Therefore, as a sign of social praxis, this research suits the text linguistic and discourse analysis theoretical framework. In addition, the selected methodology enlarges this theoretical background to the post-Gricean linguistics of contribution which allows to define the contribution as the unit of textual segmentation. Furthermore, the quantitative analysis of a selected text compilation is rooted in the discourse analysis and corpus linguistic approaches. The method followed here, which introduces textual segmentation rules such as qualitative manual annotation and quantitative analysis suggests structural patterns of each considered genre. Beyond the notable interest of categorising new specialized discourses, this investigation introduces a new analytical method. On the one hand, the methodological framework is the source of a segmentation, annotation, and indexation software development. On the other hand, it is the source of an application development recommending new modalities of guided tours where the priority is given to the elaboration of the discourse.

This thesis deals with basic colour terms (in the conception of B. Berlin and P. Kay) in Czech and Russian idioms. The theoretical framework applied in this research incorporates the main tenets of cognitive semantics (the language is anthropocentric, it is interrelated with the mind, the lexical meaning is motivated by bodily experience of speakers, the categorization as a crucial way of reality interpretation). According to it the semantics of colour terms are presented as a structured mental category that consists of individual concepts (meanings), which are inter- linked with one another. The core of this thesis presents the analysis of the Czech and Russian dictionaries and the corpus data, in terms of which the prototypes of each colour term are revealed and visual schemes of their metaphorical and metonymic meaning extension are charted. The findings lead to designate the similarities and the differences in the meaning of studied terms, in particular to determinate some features, which are peculiar for linguistic worldview of Czech and Russian.

The concept of "family" has undergone major changes over the past 50 years. This thesis examines changes in attitudes and values that can be detected in German and Swedish during this time. In order to investigate these changes in the concept of "family" I have analyzed how the German focus word Familie and the Swedish focus word familj are used in newspaper articles from the 1960s, 1980s and early 2000s. The empirical data consists of German and Swedish newspaper corpora from the three different periods. The theoretical point of departure is a social constructionist perspective, where family is considered to be something constructed and negotiated in language use. The method is corpus linguistic discourse analysis: compound words, collocations and multi-word patterns that include the focus words are analyzed using large text corpora. The study is both about changes in HOW the words familj and Familie are used and WHAT is said about the family in public language use. The thesis shows changes in both Swedish and German language use. I conclude that two different sub-concepts are being constructed and negotiated: the family as a GROUP OF PERSONS and family as a WAY OF LIVING TOGETHER. As regards the family as a group of persons this sub-concept has undergone major changes during the period studied. Differences in Swedish and German language use indicate more and sometimes earlier changes in the Swedish concept of family. The sub-concept of family as a way of living together is more constant. The observed changes can also be seen against a background of Swedish and German conceptual norms of family that do not change to the same extent. New family structures such as nätverksfamiljer (reconstituted families) and regnbågsfamiljer (rainbow families) are partly constructed as deviations from these conceptual norms. The thesis also shows that the sub-concept of family as a group of persons has become even more complex, especially in Swedish language use and particularly in so-called bio boxes, where pets are mentioned as family members and couples without children label themselves as familj. / Begreppet ”familj” har genomgått stora förändringar de senaste 50 åren. I den här avhandlingen studeras vilka förändringar i synsätt och värderingar som kan upptäckas i det tyska och det svenska språkbruket under denna tid. För att undersöka dessa förändringar i begreppet ”familj” analyseras hur det tyska fokusordet Familie och det svenska fokusordet familj används i tidningstext från 1960-talet, 1980-talet och början av 2000-talet. Det empiriska materialet består av tyska och svenska tidningskorpusar från de tre olika perioderna. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten är ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv, där familj betraktas som någonting som konstrueras och förhandlas i språkanvändning. Metoden är korpuslingvistisk diskursanalys: med hjälp av stora textkorpusar analyseras sammansatta ord, kollokationer och flerordsmönster där fokusorden ingår. Det handlar här både om förändringar i HUR orden familj och Familie används och i VAD som sägs om familj i offentligt språkbruk. Avhandlingen visar på förändringar i både den svenska och den tyska språkanvändningen. Jag kommer fram till att två olika delbegrepp konstrueras och förhandlas: familj som PERSONGRUPP och familj som SAMLEVNADSFORM. När det gäller familj som persongrupp genomgår det delbegreppet stora förändringar under den studerade tidsperioden. Förändringarna visar sig vara större och ibland tidigare i det svenska materialet än i det tyska materialet. Delbegreppet familj som samlevnadsform är mer konstant. De förändringar som kan observeras sker också mot en bakgrund av svenska och tyska normbilder av familj, som inte förändras i samma grad. Nya familjebildningar som nätverksfamiljer och regnbågsfamiljer konstrueras delvis som avvikelser från dessa normbilder. Avhandlingen visar också att delbegreppet familj som persongrupp blir allt mer mångfacetterat, särskilt i svenskt språkbruk och i synnerhet i s.k. faktarutor, där även husdjur nämns som familjemedlemmar och par utan barn får etiketten familj.

The present thesis is based on my experience as one of the contributors to The Large Academic Dictionary German-Czech. It attempts to discuss the role of word formation in German-Czech dictionaries in that it focuses on presentation of word formation in outer texts, macrostructural ordering procedures, treatment of word forming elements, special word formation parts of dictionary entries and possibilities of typography as a means word formation description in a bilingual dictionary. The approach taken is both contemplative and transformative. The thesis rests on the study of existing German-Czech dictionaries published mostly after 1945, partly between 1802 and 1945 as well. Concrete function-based proposals centred on the supposed target users of the LADGC are discussed here. A considerable part of the thesis deals with German derived nouns in Ge-...(-e) seen from a corpus linguistic view.