Sweden has long been known for an extensive and generous migration policy in relation to the rest of the European countries. Since the 2015 migration crisis Sweden took a turn by implementing several measures in order to restrain the comprehensive immigration. The topic of migration has since been highly debated, not in the least within parliamentary debates. Thus the purpose of this study is to examine whether three of the Swedish parliamentary parties the Moderates, Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats use a securitizing discourse on the topic of migration in parliamentary debates during the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. The essay used a qualitative text analysis to conduct the study. The results showed that a securitizing language was used by the Moderates and the Sweden Democrats while the Social Democrats showed little to no indications. The analysis of the two securitizing parties could also confirm their use of two specific securitizing strategies. The study also concluded that the general migration discourse of each of the securitizing parties showed an increase of strengthened positions towards refugees through the analyzed years.

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Uppsatsen All makt åt Estrid, vår befriare - En kvalitativ textanalys av Estrids varumärkesidentitet undersöker företaget Estrids marknadsföring. Analysen har genomförts med hjälp av en kvalitativ textanalys, med fokus på semiotik och retorik. De marknadsföringskanaler vi valt att titta närmare på är Estrids officiella hemsida samt Instagram-konto. Studien ämnar att undersöka företagets varumärkesidentitet, detta utifrån marknadsföring av Estrids huvudsakliga produkt samt se hur denna förhåller sig till företagets värderingar och vision samt feminina normer.   Vårt empiriska material består av två texter från företagets Om oss sida samt sex stycken inlägg från deras Instagram-konto, för att analysera materialet använder vi oss bland annat av semiotiska verktyg samt retorik- och argumentationsanalys. För att uppfylla syftet har vi utgått från en huvudsaklig frågeställning; Vad har Estrid för varumärkesidentitet och på vilket sätt presenteras den i företagets marknadsföring? Vårt teoretiska ramverk består bland annat av varumärkesteori, konsumentens användning av varumärken för att uttrycka sin identitet samt genusteori och stereotyper. Att använda sig av politiskt betonade frågor i sin marknadsföring ser vi hos ett flertal företag. Estrid pratar om kvinnor och deras rätt till sin egen kropp. Men hur fungerar det när de problem man säger att man vill lösa också är anledningen till att företaget existerar och går med vinst? Vi kan se hur Estrid säger emot sig själva i en och samma text, samt se hur lätt det är för företag att använda sig av fina ord utan att gå djupare in i vad det innebär i praktiken. När företaget har en chans att lyfta och diskutera en viss problematik menar man istället att det inte längre finns något problem tack vare företagets existens. Vad blir resultatet av detta? Det vi i vår uppsats kommit fram till sammanfattas relativt bra i en kommentar på Estrids facebooksida; “[...] Bara vi är överens om att om alla var tillfreds med sina great pair of hairy legs, bushy toes or fluffy armpits, så hade ni gått i konkurs. Så bäst för er att vissa fortsätter känna pressen [...]” (Facebook, 2020). / The essay All power to Estrid, our liberator - A qualitative text analysis of Estrid´s brand identity examines Estrids marketing. The analysis has been carried out by a qualitative text analysis where we focus on semiotics and rhetoric. The marketing channels that we have chosen to take a closer look at are Estrid´s official website and Instagram account. The study intends to examine the company's brand identity, based on Estrid´s marketing of their main product and observe how this portrays the company's vision and values as well as feminine norms. The empirical material consists of two texts from Estrid´s About us page and six posts from their Instagram account. To analyze the material we have, among other things, used semiotic tools as well as rhetoric and argumentation analysis. In order to fulfill the essay's purpose it is based on the following question; What is Estrid brand identity and in what way is it presented in the company's marketing? Our theoretical framework includes brand theory, the consumers use of brands to express their identity as well as gender theory and stereotypes.  We can see how a number of companies use politically emphasized issues in their marketing. Estrid for an example talks about women and their right to their own body. But how does it work when the problem you want to solve is the reason why the company can exist as well as make a profit out of it. We can see how Estrid talks against itself in one and the same text as well as how easy it is for companies to use pretty words without going deeper into what it means in practice. The company has a chance to raise awareness and discuss a certain issue, but instead they mean that there is no longer a problem thanks to the company's existence. What will this result in? What we have come to in our essay is summarized relatively well by a comment on Estrid’s Facebook page; “[...] Only if we agree that if everyone was happy with their great pair of hairy legs, bushy toes or fluffy armpits, you would have gone bankrupt. So best for you that some continue to feel the pressure[...]” (Facebook, 2020). The quote is translated from Swedish to English.

A dramatic analysis and directorial reflection on Temple Theaters' production of Charles L. Mee's BIG LOVE, a modern rendering of Aeschylus' THE SUPPLIANT WOMEN. This thesis explores the entire process of directing the production, from research and text analysis, to visual collaboration and rendering, to casting and rehearsal, to tech and production. Ultimately, it is the author's intention to reveal a specific directorial perspective of BIG LOVE and the corresponding creative process utilized to render this interpretation. / Theater

<p>Nowadays an increasing number of people consume, share, and interact with information online. This results in posting and counter-posting on online media by different ideological groups on various polarized topics. Consequently, online media has become the primary platform for political and social influencers to directly interact with the citizens and share their perspectives, views, and stances with the goal of gaining support for their actions, bills, and legislation. Hence, understanding the perspectives and the influencing strategies in online media texts is important for an individual to avoid misinformation and improve trust between the general people and the influencers and the authoritative figures such as the government.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Automatically understanding the perspectives in online media is difficult because of two major challenges. Firstly, the proper grammar or mechanism to characterize the perspectives is not available. Recent studies in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have leveraged resources from social science to explain perspectives. For example, Policy Framing and Moral Foundation Theory are used for understanding how issues are framed and the moral appeal expressed in texts to gain support. However, these theories often fail to capture the nuances in perspectives and cannot generalize over all topics and events. Our research in this dissertation is one of the first studies that adapt social science theories in Natural Language Processing for understanding perspectives to the extent that they can capture differences in ideologies or stances. The second key challenge in understanding perspectives in online media texts is that annotated data is difficult to obtain to build automatic methods to detect the perspectives, that can generalize over the large corpus of online media text on different topics. To tackle this problem, in this dissertation, we used weak sources of supervision such as social network interaction of users who produce and interact with the messages, weak human interaction, or artificial few-shot data using Large Language Models. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Our insight is that various tasks such as perspectives, stances, sentiments toward entities, etc. are interdependent when characterizing online media messages. As a result, we proposed approaches that jointly model various interdependent problems such as perspectives, stances, sentiments toward entities, etc., and perform structured prediction to solve them jointly. Our research findings showed that the messaging choices and perspectives on online media in response to various real-life events and their prominence and contrast in different ideological camps can be efficiently captured using our developed methods.</p>

Syftet med det här arbetet är att få en ökad insikt om hur begreppet jonbindning presenteras isvenska läromedel för gymnasieskolan. Läromedel som analyserats är läroböcker och didaktiskavideoklipp. Studien omfattar en undersökning om vilka element i läromedel förhåller sig till envetenskaplig representation och vilket innehåll som istället är känt i ämnesdidaktisk litteratur för attskapa alternativ förstärka missuppfattningar kring jonbindning. I studien analyseras dessutomskillnaderna mellan innehållet i böcker och videoklipp. Detta genomfördes genom en komparativinnehållsanalys.De flesta läromedel visar att den centrala idén är elektronövergången mellan en metall och enickemetall, ofta kopplat till visuella representationer av jonpar. Den här representationen kan bidratill missuppfattningen att jonföreningars består av diskreta molekylära enheter. I hälften avläromedel beskrivs otydligt att den elektrostatiska interaktionen är den drivande kraften ijonbindning. Läroböckerna har en mer homogen utformning och bättre grafiska lösningar, medanvideoklipps kvalitet och innehåll är mer varierad.Vissa videoklipp visar att det är möjligt att förklara jonbindningen utan att användaelektronövergången och bildning av jonpar. Man kan spekulera om lärarna som producerade demest didaktiska videoklippen har då varit medvetna om den vanligaste problematiken som orsakarmissuppfattningar om jonbindningen.

Thesis (M.A.)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores how the theoretical framework pertaining to reading as advanced by Davies (1995) can be employed to develop reading skills in Xhosa and to assist learners to see reading as a process. Teaching reading to language learners has many problems. The critical thinking relevant to reading and analysis of the text in teaching reading are examined. The study explores the current genre approach in the analysis of Xhosa Bona Magazine with its articles. The research of certain scholars like Davies, Wallace, Swales, and Cope and Kalantzis will be explored, in particular, the hierarchy of five levels of text, as advanced by Davies. Reading is an integral part of the school curriculum, and to use reading texts depends on the purpose for which the educator wants to use it, i.e. to develop reading comprehension skills, to present new vocabulary and structures, or as a basis for language practice. This study examines reading in Outcomes-base Education (O.B.E.) as a current issue in South African education, to determine how the specified outcomes relate to the framework for the development of reading skills. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek hoe die teoretiese raamwerk vir die analise van tekste vir leesbegrip soos voorgestel deur Davies (1995) aangewend kan word in die ontwikkeling van leesvaardigheid in Xhosa en in die hulp aan leerders om lees as 'n proses te verstaan. Die onderrig van leesvaardigheid word gekenmerk deur talle probleme. Hierdie studie ondersoek die kritiese denke wat relevant is vir leesbegrip en die analise van tekste in Xhosa ter sprake in die onderrig van leesvaardigheid. Die studie aanvaar die huidige perspektiewe van die genre-benadering vir die analise van die Xhosa BONA tydskrifartikels. Die werk van bepaalde navorsers soos Davies, Cope en Kalantzis, Swales en Wallace salondersoek word en, in die besonder, Davies se raamwerk van hierargiese vlakke vir die beskrywing en analise van tekste. Lees is 'n integrale deel van die skoolkurrikulum, en die gebruik van tekste vir die doeleindes van leesonderrig hou verband met die meer spesifieke doelstelling waarvoor die onderwyser die tekste wil gebruik, bv. om leesbegripvaardighede te ontwikkel, om nuwe woordeskat en strukture te ontwikkel, of as basis vir taalgebruikoefening. Hierdie studie salook leesonderrig in uitkomsgebaseerde onderrig onder die loep neem, as 'n huidige vraagstuk in taalonderrig, ten einde te bepaal hoe die spesifieke uitkomste verband hou met die raamwerk vir die ontwikkeling van leesvaardighede.