This diploma thesis aims to analyse the lexical aspect of the contemporary Dutch language, particularly the influence of foreign languages on the state of Dutch advertising language. A short summary of the changes in language throughout the 20th century is described in the first part of the thesis. The chapters which follow are dedicated to the current specifics of the Dutch vocabulary and the current possibilities of its expanding, including the problematics,of lexical borrowings in Dutch. The specific aspects of advertising and its language also have to be introduced because of the possible consequences on the results of the analysis. In the practical part of the thesis, the own corpus, methodology and hypothesis are presented on the basis of the described secondary literature. Finally, the corpus analysis follows where all relevant results of the lexical analysis are discussed, both qualitatively and partly quantitatively.

La thèse se compose de 5 articles. Le premier article considère une économie monétaire à horizon infini avec actifs financiers collatéralisés. La Banque Centrale fait des prêts à court et à long terme aux ménages. Les agents peuvent déposer ou/et emprunter à court ou à long terme. Néanmoins un plafond est imposé sur les emprunts de long terme. Tous les agents ont accès aux marchés financiers. Toutefois les agents doivent posséder suffisamment de collatéral en biens de consommations pour vendre un actif financier. Les agents font face à des contraintes de liquidité aussi bien lorsqu’ils achètent des biens de consommation que des actifs financiers. Sous des hypothèses de ”Gains `a l’échange”, l’existence de l’équilibre est démontrée. Dans un tel cadre, plusieurs propriétés des équilibres sont démontrées, notamment l’existence d’une trappe à liquidité. Le deuxième considère un modèle d’équilibre général à la Ramsey avec agents hétérogènes, contraintes d’emprunt, et offre de travail exogène. D’abord, l’existence d’un équilibre est démontrée même si les capitaux ne sont pas bornés uniformément et si les fonctions de production ne sont pas stationnaires. Ensuite (i) nous définissons la bulle du capital physique comme la différence strictement positive entre son prix et sa valeur fondamentale (ii) nous montrons qu’une bulle existe si, et seulement si, la somme des rendements du capital est finie. Enfin, lorsque les fonctions de production sont linéaires, tout équilibre intertemporel est efficient. De plus, on peut avoir des équilibres à la fois efficients et avec bulle. Le troisième étudie la nature de la bulle financière dans un modèle d’équilibre général à l’horizon infini avec agents hétérogènes, contraintes d’emprunt endogènes. Nous démontrons l’existence d’un équilibre sans aucune condition sur des dotations initiales des agents. Nous disons qu’il y a une bulle financière à l’équilibre si le prix d’actif financier est supérieur à sa valeur fondamentale. Nous démontrons que les trois conditions suivantes sont équivalentes : (i) Il y a une bulle, (ii) le coût d’emprunt est strictement positif, (iii) les taux d’intérêt sont bas, i.e., la somme des taux d’intérêt au cours du temps est finie. Nous donnons aussi une condition sur les variables exogènes pour que la bulle financière apparaisse à l’équilibre. Le quatrième concerne l’interaction entre le marché financier et le secteur productif. Pour étudier cela, nous construisons un modèle d’équilibre général à horizon infini avec agents hétérogènes, contraintes d’emprunt endogènes dans lequel les agents investissent en actif financier ou/et en capital physique. Il y a une firme qui maximise son profit. D’abord, l’existence d’un équilibre est démontrée. Nous montrons que si la productivité est suffisamment élevée, l’économie ne tombe jamais en récession. Si la productivité est basse, l’économie va tomber en récession avec un nombre infini de fois. Cependant, dans certains cas, l’actif financier pourrait bénéficier à l’économie en finançant l’achat du capital physique. Grâce à cela, une récession économique pourrait être évitée. [...] / No English summary available.

Neste estudo investigamos de que forma os alunos do Ensino Médio, participantes de um grupo de pré-iniciação científica, podem se apropriar das ferramentas necessárias à elaboração de artigos de divulgação científica. Nesse processo, tentamos visualizar como se deu a internalização dos conceitos e a absorção da linguagem científica e entender as possíveis aproximações com a educação científica, especificamente no aspecto da produção escrita de artigos. Para estudar esse processo, desenvolvemos uma seqüência de atividades para que pudessem construir o conhecimento e, ao mesmo tempo, transmiti-lo por meio da escrita de artigos. Também utilizamos questionários para conhecê-los melhor e exibimos um filme para que os estudantes pudessem entender os modos como a divulgação científica aparecia na mídia. Para responder à nossa questão, foram utilizados como dados potenciais os artigos escritos individualmente pelos estudantes no decorrer de um ano. A análise dos dados revelou um tímido domínio das ferramentas culturais, porém sem apropriação das mesmas, já que nossos alunos somente reproduziram o que lhes foi passado. / In this study we investigated how high school students, who participated to a group of scientific initiation program, might borrow some tools that are considered relevant to write science communication texts. In this process we tried to comprehend how internalization of concepts and scientific language happened and understand how the approximation to the scientific education was possible in relation to the writing of articles mainly. We developed a series of activities to study this process in a way that they might help to build the knowledge and transmit it simultaneously using articles written by them. Also, we used some questionnaires in order to know better our group and their colleagues opinions and we showed a movie to them in order to they could recognize the scientific communication on the media. In order to answer our research problem, written articles which were done by our group were used as potential data during the study. The data analysis revealed us a little domain of cultural tools and no borrowing to them. It probably happened due to our students reproduced the instructions received during the study only.

This study examines the functions of the borrowed discourse marker (DM) whatever in Chiac, an Acadian French dialect spoken in the southeastern region of New Brunswick (Canada). Analyzing data from two relatively homogenous corpora, a detailed description of the properties of whatever in its most frequent role, that of an approximation marker, is provided. In this role, it can signal that the speaker is unable to recall a particular word or detail relating to previous content or mark indifference towards the accuracy of the statement. When whatever marks a forgotten element, it is often preceded or followed by a sign of hesitation or is followed by a reformulation which clarifies what the speaker intended to say. This contrasts with the use of whatever to mark imprecision. This research uses contextual clues to differentiate various usages of whatever, and as such, it offers a methodology for the analysis of the polyvalent DM whatever. / Graduate

<p>This thesis looks from a historical perspective at the morphological-semantic motivation of words denoting persons with foreign suffixes that have been borrowed into and also formed in German, whereby, among other things, the role of motivation in relation to the borrowing and retention of lexical items is elucidated.</p><p>In a theoretical section peculiarities and problems in the word formation of loan items are discussed, and motivation is defined as a synchronous-semantic category. In the analysis words denoting persons that have seven different foreign suffixes, deriving principally from Latin, are examined with material primarily from dictionaries.</p><p>The study shows that especially for the frequent suffixes in German there is a consistently large proportion of motivated words. It is generally the case that the words are motivated on their first appearance in the material, and changes in their motivation are on the whole infrequent. The analysis further proves that motivated formations often disappear from the material, and words are mostly retained after the loss of their motivation.</p><p>The reason that the words for the most part are motivated in German when borrowed, is that suffixed words denoting persons are generally closely related in their semantic structure to another word in the original or donor language. In German, a relatively large proportion of motivated formations for one suffix does not always correlate with high frequency or with high productivity of the suffix. Furthermore, many of the words examined do not belong to the common vocabulary, which restricts their motivation from a socio-linguistic point of view and can to some extent contribute to their disappearance.</p>

This thesis looks from a historical perspective at the morphological-semantic motivation of words denoting persons with foreign suffixes that have been borrowed into and also formed in German, whereby, among other things, the role of motivation in relation to the borrowing and retention of lexical items is elucidated. In a theoretical section peculiarities and problems in the word formation of loan items are discussed, and motivation is defined as a synchronous-semantic category. In the analysis words denoting persons that have seven different foreign suffixes, deriving principally from Latin, are examined with material primarily from dictionaries. The study shows that especially for the frequent suffixes in German there is a consistently large proportion of motivated words. It is generally the case that the words are motivated on their first appearance in the material, and changes in their motivation are on the whole infrequent. The analysis further proves that motivated formations often disappear from the material, and words are mostly retained after the loss of their motivation. The reason that the words for the most part are motivated in German when borrowed, is that suffixed words denoting persons are generally closely related in their semantic structure to another word in the original or donor language. In German, a relatively large proportion of motivated formations for one suffix does not always correlate with high frequency or with high productivity of the suffix. Furthermore, many of the words examined do not belong to the common vocabulary, which restricts their motivation from a socio-linguistic point of view and can to some extent contribute to their disappearance.

This thesis examines the effects of international capital flows on economic growth by using a dynamic general equilibrium framework based on a three-sector Ramsey Model. In order to detect the impact of financial integration on production, allocation of resources across three sectors and consumption, two different economic environments are modelled. While the first model represents a closed economy with financial autarky, the second model examplifies a financially integrated open economy with partial capital mobility. Each of the models is calibrated to Turkish economy based on the data of the year 2006. The simulation results demonstrate that the presence of international capital flows, despite being limited by a borrowing constraint, reverses the impact of economic growth on production and resource allocation. It is found that even though the importance of production in tradable-goods sector diminishes in the absence of international capital flows, it increases in the open economy model. Moreover, the findings show that while production in the closed economy model simply adjusts to domestic demand, that of the open economy model is not constrained by it. This can be explained by the augmentative effect of partial capital flows on the impact of foreign demand on domestic production.

This study is among the first to provide insight into the assessment of the Swedish central bank’s (Riksbank) three unconventional monetary policies (UMPs) and their influence on Swedish commercial banks. The three UMPs include forward guidance (FG), quantitative easing (QE) and negative interest rate policy (repo rate). Riksbank introduced the UMPs in order to revive inflation and support Sweden’s economic recovery. The banks’ ability to certainly forecast their operations is highly dependent on the communication availed by the Riksbank on its expected future monetary policies through FG. QE is paramount because this is when commercial banks sell government bonds to the Riksbank. Repo rate determines interest rates set by banks. Four indicators (uncertainty, government bond yields, bank interest rates, borrowing and lending) were used in this study to investigate the perception of the commercial banks on the three UMPs. There are limited studies on Swedish banks’ perception of the UMPs which leaves a research gap in this area.Previous studies indicate that dominant banks in terms of asset shares and deposits are more sensitive to monetary policy shocks. The four dominant commercial banks studied include: Nordea, Handelsbanken, Swedbank and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. This thesis considers the evidence of the results from previous empirical studies. Empirical material for this study was collected through semi-structured interviews from respondents by the Riksbank and the four commercial banks. A deductive approach was used to interpret the information collected.Our results presents various perceptions of the dominant commercial banks on the three UMPs in relation to the four indicators. Some commercial banks perceived the increased transparency and clarity during the increased FG to have reduced their uncertainty. Other banks perceived that FG had increased their uncertainty. They questioned the credibility of the FG since they could not predict Riksbank’s monetary policies with the FG availed. In regards to the perception of QE on uncertainty, an increased signalling channel during QE implementation had resulted in a decline of their uncertainty since they were experiencing a surplus of liquidity in the banking sector. However, they stated other factors that increased market volatility during QE. The increased market volatility during QE increased their uncertainty. The four commercial banks agreed that the demand for government bonds increased while the yields of the government bonds declined. They perceived these changes to have been influenced by QE. The commercial banks’ lending, deposit and interbank interest rates have declined systematically correlating the trend of the declining repo rate. The four banks experienced a decline in their average net interest income, an improved flow of credit through higher lending volumes and stable lending margins to households and firms. Commercial banks perceived these changes to have resulted from the declining market interest rates because of the negative repo rate.Riksbank can use this study to assess the effectiveness of its UMPs on commercial banks based on the perception of the employees from these respective banks. This study discusses implications of the findings for commercial banks and the Riksbank, as well as academics in the realm of implementations and influences of UMPs.

Thesis (MPhil )--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the advent of the information age, government ministries in Lesotho, as well as nongovernmental agencies, are trying to gain publicity in terms of services they offer to the general public. The Ministry of Employment and Labour (MEL), for example, resorted to using radio programmes in order to inform the public about the services it offers. These range from career guidance and counselling, pre- and post-employment advice, information about occupational health and safety and HIV/AIDS, providing facts about what type of vacancies are available locally and internationally, to instilling the spirit of dialogue among relevant stakeholders in matters related to labour, employers and employees. During various weekly radio presentations, presented in Sesotho, several departments are able to go on-air and present services that their departments offer to the general public and what the public can do in the event they are given a disservice by the concerned department. In the process of doing so, many technical terms are used. These often take the form of code switches into English, translations from English into Sesotho and borrowings from English. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the use of code switching, translation and borrowing makes it possible for factory workers in Lesotho to understand the message that is being delivered to them in a clear and unmistakable manner that will influence a change of behaviour on the part of factory workers. In order to ascertain the level of comprehension of technical terms, participants completed a questionnaire in which they gave their understanding of various technical terms selected from transcribed MEL radio broadcasts. The findings of this study show that the use of code switching, translation and borrowing from English limit the understanding of what is being communicated, making the radio broadcasts less effective in disseminating information on matters related to HIV/AIDS, the plight of factory workers according to the ratified conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO), legal terms related to contracts of employment, their commencement and termination, conditions of work, the level of the unemployed versus the employed, skills needed to venture into the country’s labour market and occupational health and safety guidelines as reflected in the Labour Code of Lesotho. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met die aanbreek van die inligtingsera probeer staatsministeries in Lesotho, asook nieregeringsorganisasies, om publisiteit te verkry vir die openbare dienste wat hul lewer. Die Ministerie van Werksverskaffing en Arbeid (MWA) het byvoorbeeld besluit om gebruik te maak van radioprogramme om die publiek in te lig aangaande sy dienste. Hierdie dienste wissel van beroepsvoorligting en -berading, voor- en na-indiensnemingsadvies, inligting oor bedryfsgesondheid en -veiligheid en HIV/VIGS, die verskaffing van feite oor beskikbare plaaslike en internasionale vakaturetipes, tot die kweek van ’n dialoog-gees onder relevante belanghebbendes in arbeid-, werkgewer- en werknemersake. Tydens verskeie weeklikse radio-aanbiedings, aangebied in Sesotho, kan ’n aantal departemente hulle openbare dienste adverteer, asook die prosedure wat gevolg kan word deur lede van die publiek wat veronreg is deur die gegewe departement. Hierdie boodskappe bevat verskeie tegniese terme, dikwels aangebied in die vorm van kodewisselings na Engels, vertalings uit Engels na Sesotho, asook Engelse leenwoorde. Die doel van hierdie tesis is om vas te stel of die gebruik van kodewisseling, vertaling en woordleen fabriekswerkers in Lesotho daartoe in staat stel om die boodskap wat gekommunikeer word te verstaan in ’n duidelike, ondubbelsinnige wyse wat tot ’n gedragsverandering onder die fabriekswerkers sal lei. Ten einde die begripsvlak vir tegniese terme vas te stel, het deelnemers ’n vraelys voltooi waarin hulle hul begrip van verskeie tegniese terme (geselekteer uit getranskribeerde MWA-radiouitsendings), weergegee het. Die bevindinge van hierdie studie dui daarop dat die gebruik van kodewisseling, vertaling en woordleen uit Engels die begrip van wat gekommunikeer word, beperk. Dít maak die radiouitsendings minder effektief in die verspreiding van inligting oor HIV/VIGS; die saak van fabriekwerkers (met inagname van die gesanksioneerde konvensies van die Internasionale Arbeidsorganisasie); regsterme wat verband hou met arbeidskontrakte, spesifiek hul aanvang en terminasie, asook werksomstandighede; die vlak van werkloses teenoor werkendes; die vaardighede wat benodig word om die land se arbeidsmark te betree; en bedryfsgesondheid en –veiligheidsriglyne, soos gereflekteer in die Arbeidswet van Lesotho.

Bien qu’ancien, l’engouement de l’Occident pour le tatouage ne paraît pas perdre de sa vigueur. Ainsi trouve-t-on dans ses villes quantité de studios de tatouage, Salons ou magazines spécialisés. L’iconographie de la marque semble être le fruit d’un étonnant syncrétisme, dont l’imaginaire « sauvage » est une importante partie. Tatouages maoris ou calligraphies arabes, dragons ou animaux sauvages, non issus de la culture occidentale, sont en effet des motifs très en vogue. Véritable mode d’expression cutané, le tatouage ethnique indique un certain regard sur le monde, sur l’Autre, comme le chemin que l’on choisit d’emprunter dans l’approche du « sentiment d’être soi ». Depuis les cabinets de curiosités du seizième siècle, le monde occidental collectionne l’Ailleurs en lui attribuant des qualifications parfois approximatives. Paroxysme de l’altérité, le « sauvage » s’oppose en tous points à une contemporanéité résolument urbaine. Il paraît en effet exister une « poétique du sauvage », faite de fantasmes exotiques, et trouvant dans le monde contemporain un écho particulier. Examinant au plus près la thématique des tatouages ethniques et la mettant en relation avec l’engouement grandissant de l’Occident pour les arts premiers et l’exotisme rêvé de l’Autre et de l’Ailleurs, cette thèse tente de déterminer quel est le rôle de cette « poétique du sauvage » dans la construction de soi. Recueillant les témoignages de tatoués ethniques et de tatoueurs, elle met au jour cinq grands types de motivations qui s’entrecroisent et s’inscrivent toutes dans le cadre du récit personnel. / Ancient as it may be the popularity for tattoo does not seem to wane in the West. Indeed, we can find a great number of tattoo studios, exhibitions or magazines in our cities. The iconography of the brand seems to be the result of an amazing syncretism of which the "wild" imagery is an important part. Maori tattoos, Arabic calligraphy, dragons and wild animals, not from Western culture, are indeed very popular patterns. True mode of expressions of the skin, the ethnic tattoo indicates a certain view of the world, a view of the Other, as the path one chooses to follow in order to search for a "sense of self". Since the cabinets of curiosities of the sixteenth century, the Western world collects the Elsewhere in assigning qualifications that are, sometimes, approximate ones. Paroxysm of otherness, in every aspect, the "savage" is in opposition to a decidedly urban contemporary reality. Indeed, a "poetics of the wild" made of exotic fantasies, seems to find an echo in the modern world and is particularly popular. Looking closer to the theme of ethnic tattoo and linking it with the growing popularity in the West for the tribal arts and dreams of the exotic Other and elsewhere, this thesis attempts to determine the role of this "poetics of the wild" in self-construction. Including testimonies from ethnic tattooed individuals, tattoo artists, it uncovers five major types of motivations that are intertwined and that are all part of a personal narrative.