京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(人間・環境学) / 甲第19808号 / 人博第779号 / 新制||人||187(附属図書館) / 27||人博||779(吉田南総合図書館) / 32844 / 京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻 / (主査)教授 東郷 雄二, 教授 藤田 耕司, 教授 田窪 行則 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Human and Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM

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Each year the Swedish Language Council compiles a list consisting of new words andcompounds that have been used frequently during the past year. The new Swedish wordsvajpa appeared on the latest list published in december 2015. Svajpa is imported from theEnglish word swipe which means to drag your finger across a mobile phone or a computerscreen. The aim of the study has been to investigate the establishment of svajpa in Swedishnewspapers and web and to find out Swedish journalists’ attitudes to svajpa. Furthermore, Ianalyze in which contexts the new word is used. By ’context’ I am referring to what kind ofnewspaper (e.g. major urban or local newspapers) and which sections in the newspapers(such as finance or technology) the word appears. The first 100 listings from Google areanalyzed by a similar classification to study recurring themes and patterns of usage. Thetheoretical assumptions for this study are language conservation, language planning,establishment and attitudes to language. To find out the establishment of svajpa a corpusstudy has been used as a method using the search tool Mediearkivet Retriever Research.Further, the search tool Google has been chosen as a complement. A survey has also beenconducted to find out the journalists' attitudes to svajpa. The new word was used for the firsttime in 2009 in the Swedish newspaper Pir. Additionally, the result shows that svajpa hasbecome increasingly established since 2015. Svajpa is used in many different contexts onGoogle, such as blog texts and language articles. Furthermore, svajpa is particularly used toswipe on mobile or tablet and on the dating app Tinder. The journalists' attitudes to svajpashows high recognition. Most of the interviewed journalists are familiar with svajpa and usethe word themselves. The answers also shows that it is most common to use svajpa in moreinformal settings rather than at work.

Le complément différé se présente comme une unité à la fois prosodiquement ou graphiquement autonome et syntaxiquement dépendante d’un énoncé antérieur, appelé énoncé support. Notre objectif au cours de cette thèse est de concevoir une modélisation de la production des compléments différés. Nous effectuons pour cela une étude des caractéristiques syntaxiques de 893 compléments différés, extraits de corpus écrits et oraux. Nous observons ainsi la présence d’éléments averbaux (noms, prépositions, etc.) parmi les gouverneurs des compléments différés. Cela contredit les notions antérieures, telles que l’épexégèse de Bally (1944:§75), qui n’envisageaient ces unités que sous la gouvernance d’un verbe. En outre, nous mettons en évidence les différents usages que les locuteurs font du complément différé au cours de l’interaction, et montrons ainsi sa polyvalence et son intérêt en tant qu’outil à la disposition des locuteurs. Le complément différé peut en effet servir au locuteur à ajouter une nouvelle information, mais aussi à préciser, modifier ou corriger une information apportée par l’énoncé support, à questionner son interlocuteur ou à lui répondre. De même, son autonomie prosodique ou graphique ainsi que sa dépendance syntaxique à l’énoncé support jouent un rôle dans sa réception et son interprétation, et nous montrons que produire un complément différé n’équivaut strictement ni à produire un complément non différé, ni à produire une unité syntaxiquement autonome. Nous proposons finalement une modélisation de la production des compléments différés, illustrant leur rattachement à l’énoncé support ainsi que l’implication du locuteur vis-à-vis de l’information qu’ils apportent. / The postponed complement is a prosodically or graphically independant unit which is syntactically dependent on a previous utterance, called support utterance. In this thesis, we aim to develop a modeling of the production of postponed complements. For this purpose, we conduct a study of the syntactic features of 893 postponed complements from written and oral corpora. We note the presence of non-verbal elements (nouns, prepositions, etc.) among the syntactic governors of postponed complements. This contradicts earlier notions, such as Bally's epexegesis (1944:§75), which only conceived these units under the governance of a verb. In addition, we highlight the different uses that speakers make of the postponed complement during an interaction, and we thus demonstrate its versatility and interest as a tool available to the speakers. A postponed complement can be used by the speaker to add new information, but also to specify, modify or correct the information provided by the support statement and to question or answer the interlocutor. Its prosodic or graphic autonomy and syntactic dependence on the support utterance also play a role in its reception and interpretation, and we show that producing a postponed complement is strictly equivalent neither to producing a non-postponed complement nor to producing a syntactically autonomous unit. Finally, we propose a model of the production of postponed complements, illustrating its connection to the support statement as well as the speaker's involvement towards the information provided.

<p>This corpus based investigation deals with the present-day usage of and the semantic relation between the two verbs rise and arise. Concordance lines containing various forms of the two verbs in question have been taken from six different (sub)corpora and were examined in view of their collocational and semantic characteristics. The basic aims were to investigate the nowadays status of the verbs rise and arise and whether they (still) can be regarded as synonyms. The results show that both verbs can sometimes be used synonymously. Their general semantic relation appeared to be near-synonymy. Furthermore, both verbs seem to have developed a semantic specialisation, which is regarded a counterargument for the thesis that the verb arise is on the verge of dying out.</p>

Over the last few decades, the interpersonal dimensions of academic writing have received growing attention in the field of applied linguistics. As an important concept in academic writing, engagement has been a topic of interest to reveal how writers interact with readers to, for example, guide reasoning through arguments and to abide by conventions of politeness. Previous research has suggested that the higher students’ academic level is, the more similar their use of engagement elements in writing will be. Previous research has also suggested that for non-native speakers, cultural factors as well as interlanguage, influence how engagement features are used in written English. The primary aim of this study was to investigate which engagement patterns could be found in L1 Swedish and L1 English students’ academic writing in English, with the focus on linguistics as a subject. Using the methods of corpus linguistics, this project also strove to identify the ways patterns of engagement differed between L1 Swedish and L1 English students, and in what ways patterns of engagement varied between the students at B-levels and C-levels in written English of linguistics studies. The data for the study came from SUSEC, which is a corpus of written English that consists of texts collected at Stockholm University in Sweden and at King’s College in England. In line with previous research, the results indicate that the L1 Swedish students use more elements of engagement than the L1 English students. Results also suggest that C-level students use fewer reader pronouns than B-level students, and that Swedish C-level students use more directives than Swedish B-level students. Overall, the comparison of students with two different first languages revealed several differences on how engagement is used, which can serve to inform future research on academic writing.

This diploma thesis deals with prenominal and postnominal adjectives in Italian. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part, the theoretical one, describes the basic characteristics of Italian adjectives which are being classified. It also focuses on the prenominal and postnominal adjectives and on the factors that influence their position in classification. The second part, the practical one, works with the web corpus called itWaC. Using the web corpus, there are frequency lists of adjectives in positions ART-ADJ-NOUN and ART-NOUN-ADJ being created. It results in creation of one final list that includes the adjectives appearing in the position both before and after the noun. Then the chosen adjectives are being analyzed in order to verify the initial theoretical knowledge and to specify the changes in meaning, related to the position change of the adjectives.

This corpus based investigation deals with the present-day usage of and the semantic relation between the two verbs rise and arise. Concordance lines containing various forms of the two verbs in question have been taken from six different (sub)corpora and were examined in view of their collocational and semantic characteristics. The basic aims were to investigate the nowadays status of the verbs rise and arise and whether they (still) can be regarded as synonyms. The results show that both verbs can sometimes be used synonymously. Their general semantic relation appeared to be near-synonymy. Furthermore, both verbs seem to have developed a semantic specialisation, which is regarded a counterargument for the thesis that the verb arise is on the verge of dying out.