The aim of this essay is to show how the word apartheid is used in Swedish newspapers 2001–2013, when it’s not referring to the former system of racial segregation in South Africa. One part of the study focuses on the linguistic structure of the metaphorical use and the other part analyses the phenomena that are described with the metaphor apartheid. A corpus study is carried out in Korp from Språkbanken and finds 329 tokens of the word apartheid that indicate semantic broadening or metaphorical use. 156 of them are compounds, in which apartheid can appear as either head or modifier. The most frequent phenomenon to be conceptualized as apartheid is the political situation in Israel/Palestine. Other frequent themes are ethnic/religious/national groups of people, gender, migration and immigration and the former racial segregation in the U.S.

The aim of this dissertation is to critically evaluate the set of chosen dictionaries, concretely the set of five Czech-French contemporary pocket dictionaries. The evaluation concerns not only the overall composition but mainly the choice of respective entries in order to determine to which extent they satisfy supposed users and meet their requirements. The data are analyzed from the point of view of frequency based on the chosen corpus as well as from the point of view of potential user's needs. Besides the study, the present dissertation also includes the theoretical part which presents typology of dictionaries and the key terms from the field of lexicography are explained. This part also focuses on questions concerning dictionary composition. Furthermore the chapters about corpuses and frequency dictionaries are included. The theoretical observations from the first part are taken into consideration in the second part as well as in the overall evaluation of results.

The topics of this thesis are Spanish, Czech and Slovak phrasemes that contain words to do with the human body or its parts. The theoretical part of this work delimitates the concepts of phraseme, idiom etc. It describes the different attitudes to this topic in the Spanish and Czech linguistic tradition. The theoretical background serves as a base for the practical section which is dedicated to a dictionary and analysis of Czech and Spanish idioms. The practical section studies the dictionary from different points of view. It is focused on the frequency of use of the idioms in Spanish and Czech, the possibilities of translation and etymology of certain expressions.

This diploma thesis introduces the definition of plagiarism, distinguishes the types of plagiaries which often take place in praxis and the ways of determining the suspected texts. The means of detection are essential; therefore a whole chapter is dedicated to those. For the detection purposes, it is vital to pre-process the data to reduce the demand factor of the program. There is a preview of some programs which are already being used for the detection of plagiarism. The following chapter introduces some selected indications which have been implemented in the Matlab environment to create a detector of plagiaries in text documents. The created program is described in chapter eight. The applied indications and the detector response are described in a chapter called Indications testing. The testing proved the quality of these indications. The results together with pros and cons of the particular methods are discussed in the conclusion.

This thesis describes ideas and theories behind machine translatinon, informs the reader about existing machine translation system Moses and by utilizing it proposes system, which is able to learn and later translate from Czech language into Slovak language.

An emergency is a speeded-up emergence, a state of change that accelerates beyond the control of the system in which it takes place and results in either death or necessary development, for an establishment of a new rhythm.     This work is an investigation on the limits and possibilities of contemporary corpus practices. My aim for it is to be reflective of my own ambivalence towards the field in which my silversmithing practice is situated, and to promote the urgency of collaborative craft, in traditional as well as contemporary contexts. This investigation has resulted in the collaborative corpus project Poetic Justice, together with Klara Brydewall Sandquist, promoting two separate feminist agendas, in order to elevate them both and underline their entanglement. One being to manifest and justify women’s anger, and the other to oppose the cult of the individual genius and suggest alternate possibilities in relation to historical corpus in the contemporary field of craft. It is also a way for us to highlight the urgency of supporting, elevating and celebrating each other’s practices and purposes, through a closely intertwined way of working that investigates where objects begin and end, in space as well as in time.

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Die Textfunktion beschreibt den vom Emittenten intendierten Effekt eines Textes auf den Rezipienten. Sachbücher etwa sind in erster Linie informativ, Werbeanzeigen appellativ, Testamente deklarativ, Verträge erfüllen eine Obligationsfunktion und Danksagungen eine Kontaktfunktion. Wie sieht es aber mit Computerspielen aus? Können diese als Texte auf ihre Textfunktion untersucht werden? Laut den Game Studies ist Immersion das erklärte Ziel der Spielentwickler, wobei Aufmerksamkeitslenkung eine bedeutende Rolle einnimmt. Ist denn Immersion auch linguistisch als Textfunktion nachweisbar? Um dies herauszufinden, werden Computerspiele – gemäß dem Textanalyseschema von Brinker, Cölfen und Pappert \(^8\)2014 – zunächst als Texte definiert. Im Rahmen dieser Analyse werden auch Kohärenz und Kohäsion untersucht und sprachliche Mittel werden als Indizien betrachtet, die auf die Funktion hinweisen. Im Fokus stehen dabei Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit, emotionale Sprache, die Kodierung von Regeln und Herausforderungen sowie Referenzen auf das Interface. Im Speziellen werden Adventure und Role Playing Games (im Offline- und Single Player Modus) als Textsorten untersucht, weil diese Spiele üblicherweise viel Text enthalten. Zur Textsortenabgrenzung wird zunächst ein Spiel genauestens mittels AntConc untersucht, um anschließend das gesamte Korpus (23 Spiele, 70.060 Types, 1.183.536 Tokens) unter Verwendung von LancsBox vergleichend zu analysieren. Zusammenfassend kann diese Masterarbeit als eine der ersten Studien eines vernachlässigten, aber gegenwärtigen und an Bedeutung gewinnenden Bereichs linguistischer Forschung betrachtet werden, der Linguistik, Computerspiele und Immersion zu verbinden versucht. Die Hypothese, dass es gewisse sprachliche Praktiken in Computerspiel-Texten gibt, anhand derer der Rezipient beeinflusst und gelenkt wird, um in das Spiel hineinzutauchen, konnte auf Basis des Korpus bestätigt werden. / The textual function describes how the creator of a text wants the recipient to understand it. A non-fiction book, for example, is informative, an advertisement is appellative, a testament is declarative, contracts fulfill an obligation and an acknowledgment establishes contact. How about computer games? Provided that they can be considered texts, can their textual function be described? According to Game Studies, the aim of game developers is for the player to be immersed in a game by controlling attention. Can immersion also be proven linguistically? In order to ascertain this, computer games - according to the text analysis scheme of Brinker, Cölfen and Pappert \(^8\)2014 - are first defined as texts. In the context of this analysis, coherence and cohesion are also examined, and linguistic devices are considered as indications that point to the textual function. The focus is on orality and writtenness, emotional language, the encoding of rules and challenges, and references to the interface. Specifically, Adventure Games and Role Playing Games (offline and single player mode) are examined as text types because these games usually contain a significant amount of text. To delineate text types, one game is examined in detail using AntConc. Subsequently, the entire corpus (23 games, 70,060 types, 1,183,536 tokens) is analyzed comparatively using LancsBox. In summary, this master thesis can be viewed as one of the first studies on a neglected but contemporary area of linguistic research that tries to combine linguistics, computer games and immersion. The hypothesis that there are certain linguistic practices in computer game texts by means of which the recipient is influenced and guided to immerse into the game could be confirmed on the basis of the corpus.

Die Arbeit setzt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten der Nutzung korpusbasierter Statistiken in quantitativen typologischen Untersuchungen auseinander. Die einzelnen Abschnitte der Arbeit können als Teile einer sprachunabhängigen Prozesskette angesehen werden, die somit umfassende Untersuchungen zu den verschiedenen Sprachen der Welt erlaubt. Es werden dabei die Schritte von der automatisierten Erstellung der grundlegenden Ressourcen über die mathematisch fundierten Methoden bis hin zum fertigen Resultat der verschiedenen typologischen Analysen betrachtet. Hauptaugenmerk der Untersuchungen liegt zunächst auf den Textkorpora, die der Analyse zugrundeliegen, insbesondere auf ihrer Beschaffung und Verarbeitung unter technischen Gesichtspunkten. Es schließen sich Abhandlungen zur Nutzung der Korpora im Gebiet des lexikalischen Sprachvergleich an, wobei eine Quantifizierung sprachlicher Beziehungen mit empirischen Mitteln erreicht wird. Darüber hinaus werden die Korpora als Basis für automatisierte Messungen sprachlicher Parameter verwendet. Zum einen werden derartige messbare Eigenschaften vorgestellt, zum anderen werden sie hinsichtlich ihrer Nutzbarkeit für sprachtypologische Untersuchungen systematisch betrachtet. Abschließend werden Beziehungen dieser Messungen untereinander und zu sprachtypologischen Parametern untersucht. Dabei werden quantitative Verfahren eingesetzt.

Zugl.: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2008