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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of Anglicisms in the language of Ukrainian young adults, the motives of English borrowings&rsquo / usage, and the attitude of young people towards the presence of Anglicisms in the Ukrainian language. The study examined the language of young adults, newspapers and magazines, and popular TV programmes. Note fields, audio-recordings, and questionnaire were chosen for investigation of borrowings integrated in the Ukrainian language. The study revealed a constant usage of Anglicisms by young adults in Ukraine, despite their place of residence and occupation, focusing on the main areas where borrowings are used. It was suggested that English borrowings have become a significant part of the language used by young people in Ukraine.

M. Tech. Language Practice / This case study investigated the Afrikaans communication of Grade 10 Afrikaans home language pupils from a dual-medium Free State high school. The participants on whom this study focusses were therefore constantly exposed to an alteration between English and Afrikaans, and the researcher believed their communication would be filled with English code-switched words. It was speculated that these pupils would code-switch often due to the fact that the communication in the school constantly moved between Afrikaans and English. The researcher set out to determine (1) in what way and how often the English code-switching used by these pupils affected the spoken meaning of their communication. She also wanted to know (2) which type of English code-switched words were used most frequently and (3) if these words occurred mostly on intra-sentential or extra-sentential level. Another aim of the study was to (4) establish what aspects of these pupils' spoken Afrikaans were affected by English code-switching and how many times they were affected.

This thesis presents a definition of eurolect and a corpus-based analysis of Czech eurolect. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses mainly on the distinction between existing concepts of the specific language of translations originating in EU institutions and on the definition of its main characteristics. As the process of translation in EU institutions is unprecedented, this thesis provides its detailed description. The analysis of Czech eurolect and its main features was conducted on several sub-corpora comprising of EU translations and reference corpora comprising of Czech journalistic texts from before and after 2004.

A produção de Le Corbusier a partir da década de 1930 sofre grande mudança se for comparada ao período das \"casas brancas\". Na historiografia não há consenso na análise do referido período, ou mesmo aqueles que tecem as análises extensivas ao racionalismo corbusiano para este período tem certa dificuldade. Partindo desta constatação, este trabalho oferece alternativas de interpretação através da vínculação da produção arquitetônica e urbanística com a produção artística de Le Corbusier. / Le Corbusier\'s production since the thirties passes through great transformation when compared with the period of the \"white houses\". There is no agreement between historians in their analysis of the period and even those who try to analyse it through the optics of the corbusian rationalism have difficulties. This work offers alternative interpretations linking Le Corbusier\'s architectural and urban production with his artistic production.

Gilbert Sorrentino est souvent présenté comme un auteur postmoderniste. Pourtant, loin du nivellement postmoderniste, il privilégie des principes modernistes selon une posture moralisante et exclusive. Ce travail, qui porte sur la couleur et sur le visuel, s’appuie notamment sur cinq œuvres : The Sky Changes, Steelwork, Splendide-Hôtel, Aberration of Starlight, Crystal Vision. Les valeurs intermédiaires du gris impliquent une indécision qui renvoie à l’informe et au mal. Le poids d’une éducation religieuse est sensible dans l’opposition des valeurs sombres, qui sont associées au péché, et de l’éclair lumineux qui s’oppose à l’apathie grise pour redonner vie et forme à l’espace. La radicalité de Sorrentino s’exprime par un goût pour les contrastes colorés, notamment dans Splendide-Hôtel. Noir et blanc forgent un contraste plastique extrême, comme dans la peinture de Franz Kline. La posture élégiaque de l’auteur s’appuie sur l’opposition entre le rouge et le gris. Le goût pour la synthèse mène à une schématisation des formes et des couleurs, proche du Minimal Art. On note un tropisme vers l’abstraction immatérielle et immuable. L’auteur se limite aux termes génériques pour dire la couleur. Ce respect des spécificités du langage évoque le purisme de Clement Greenberg. Écrit à partir de sources disparates (le Rider deck conçu par A. E. Waite et Steelwork), Crystal Vision instaure une tension entre la symbolique noble du tarot et la réalité misérable du roman. En posant une dichotomie entre le visible profane et l’invisible sacré, la vision de Sorrentino rejoint la sensibilité platonicienne et médiévale. La transposition ironique des images participe d’un idéalisme déçu. / Gilbert Sorrentino is often presented as an emblematic postmodernist writer. This study focuses on colour and the visual in five works in particular : The Sky Changes, Steelwork, Splendide-Hôtel, Aberration of Starlight and Crystal Vision. Far from the egalitarianism of postmodernism, modernist principles go along with a moralizing and exclusive viewpoint. Intermediate values of grey imply uncertainty which refer to the amorphous and to evil. The burden of a religious education is felt in the opposition between dark values, which refer to sin, and flashing light which breaks into the mournful grey, giving life and form to space. The radicalism of Sorrentino’s aesthetic position shows in his taste for contrasts in colour, namely in Splendide-Hôtel. Black and white set up a sharp contrast, as in Franz Kline’s paintings. The elegiac stand of the author is asserted by the opposition between red and grey. A taste for synthesis leads to a simplification of shapes and colours which evokes the Minimal Art movement. A propensity for immaterial and immutable abstraction is noticed. Sorrentino expresses colour by using generic terms, thus taking account of the inability of language to encompass the real. This respect of the language idiosyncrasy matches Clement Greenberg’s purism. Crystal Vision is based on two ill-assorted sources (A. E. Waite’s Rider deck and Steelwork) which produces a tension between the high symbolism of the cards and the sordid reality of Steelwork. By setting a dichotomy between the secular visible and the sacred invisible, Sorrentino goes towards the platonic and medieval mind. The ironic transposition of images proceeds from a defeated idealism.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: JoAnne Kleifgen. Dissertation Committee: Clifford Hill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-175).

A produção de Le Corbusier a partir da década de 1930 sofre grande mudança se for comparada ao período das \"casas brancas\". Na historiografia não há consenso na análise do referido período, ou mesmo aqueles que tecem as análises extensivas ao racionalismo corbusiano para este período tem certa dificuldade. Partindo desta constatação, este trabalho oferece alternativas de interpretação através da vínculação da produção arquitetônica e urbanística com a produção artística de Le Corbusier. / Le Corbusier\'s production since the thirties passes through great transformation when compared with the period of the \"white houses\". There is no agreement between historians in their analysis of the period and even those who try to analyse it through the optics of the corbusian rationalism have difficulties. This work offers alternative interpretations linking Le Corbusier\'s architectural and urban production with his artistic production.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att se hur bruket av engelska ser ut i de två nordiska språken svenska och isländska, samt om det finns några skillnader i fråga om förhållningssätt till engelsk påverkan. Inte bara accepterade lånord inkluderas, utan även mindre etablerat bruk av engelska såsom fraser, utrop och liknande. Det bruk av engelska som undersökningen intresserar sig för är sådant som är relativt nytt i språket, vilket här definieras som ord och uttryck som kan tros ha börjat användas tidigast i mitten av 1970-talet, alternativt ökat mycket i användning efter nämnda tidpunkt. Undersökningen är uppdelad i två delar där den ena fokuserar på hur bruket ser ut och den andra på hur det uppfattas. För att undersöka bruket har ett material bestående av bloggtexter samlats in och analyserats. Texterna har samlats in från elva svenska och lika många isländska bloggar. Den slutgiltiga textmassan består av sammanlagt 66 512 ord där 33 399 ord utgör det svenska materialet och 33 113 utgör det isländska. Attitydundersökningen har genomförts med hjälp av enkät och intervjuer. Enkäten har besvarats av 132 svenskar och 128 islänningar. Av dessa deltog åtta, fyra från varje språk, i en efterföljande intervju. Resultat av bloggundersökningen visar att det i båda språken är vanligast att låna in substantiv, vilka utgör drygt hälften av den totala mängden engelska ord och uttryck. En stor skillnad mellan de två språkens material är att det isländska materialet innehåller en betydligt högre andel ord och uttryck som anpassas enligt inhemsk stavning och böjning. Av det totala bruket av engelska i den isländska textmassan utgör anpassade lån 36 %, medan motsvarande siffra i det svenska materialet är 12 %. Detta märks också i attitydundersökningen där islänningar är betydligt mer positivt inställda till anpassning av engelska. Vissa ser det som en förutsättning för att kunna använda ett ord eller uttryck. Attitydundersökningens resultat visar också att både svenskar och islänningar värdesätter kunskaper i engelska högt. Hälften av informanterna i varje språkgrupp anser att engelska används för mycket i Sverige/på Island, medan den andra hälften inte tycker det. Många anser att de själva använder mycket engelska i vardagen, något som vissa anser är positivt och andra negativt. Särskilt bland de isländska informanterna finns många som uttrycker missnöje över i vilken utsträckning de använder engelska ord och uttryck när de talar isländska.