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1	Eld och lågor, eller? : En kvantitativ studie om tolkningen av idiom / Fire and flames, or? : A quantitative study about the understanding of idiom Ahlstrand, Caroline January 2022 (has links) The amin with this paper is to investigate how a few of today’s idioms are interpreted, if there are any difference between generations in the interpretation and if the younger generation in higher extent than the older tends to interpret them in other ways. This have been investigated trough a quantitative web-based survey there the respondents were asked to state their interpretation of twelve idioms, also answer a few questions regarding their use of idioms. The collected material has been transformed into precent units. The respondent’s answers were categorized by age, one group with respondents born 1990 or earlier and one group with respondents born 1990 or later. The research shows that idioms, of both groups, interprets by original meaning in high extent since more than a good half answer according standard interpretation. With the exception of a few idioms there least 50 % of the younger group stated another interpretation than the original. Idiom fixed phrases conventionalized phrases opacity Idiom fasta fraser konventionaliserade fraser ogenomskinlighet General Language Studies and Linguistics
2	An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf Burman, Anna-Karin January 2014 (has links) This small study concerns occurrences of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the Old English poem Beowulf. The first 224 lines of Beowulf were searched for non-literal passages. Thefound passages were sorted into the groups conventionalized metaphor, metonymy and innovativemetaphor. The conceptual metaphors were in turn sorted into target domains and source domains and grouped within the domains. These were then compared to Modern English and Modern Swedish metaphors and conceptual metaphors with the help of dictionaries and corpus studies. Beowulf was also looked at as a small corpus. Words which were suspected to be used inmetaphorical senses were searched for in the full text and the results were examined and comparedwith modern language usage. It was found evident that Old English and Modern English, as well as Modern Swedish, have many conceptual metaphors in common both when in comes to experiential metaphors and culturally grounded metaphors. metaphors metonymy conceptual metaphor Old English Beowulf conventionalized metaphors innovative metaphors target domains source domains corpus studies and experiential metaphors. General Language Studies and Linguistics
3	Host-Microbial Symbiosis Within the Digestive Tract of Periplaneta americana. Jahnes, Benjamin C. January 2020 (has links) No description available. Evolution and Development Microbiology Biology Periplaneta americana American cockroach cockroach gut microbiota Bacteroides Germ free gnotobiotic conventionalized colonization isolation microbiome gut bacteria symbiosis coprophagy gut development midgut hindgut model model system

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