"Detta och sommarnatten är jag satt att förvalta" : En stilistisk studie av tre romaner av Stig Claesson

I uppsatsen studeras stilen i Stig Claessons romaner Vem älskar Yngve Frej, På palmblad och rosor samt Henrietta ska du också glömma. Syftet är undersöka syntax, disposition och innehållsaspekter som motiv, symboler och tema och jämföra resultatet med tidigare forskning. I uppsatsen studeras också romanernas textbindning. Undersökningen visar att Claesson använder sig av repetition avseende både syntax, motiv och innehåll vilket skapar en väl sammanhållen, långsamt framskridande och rytmisk text med betydelseglidningar.

Los Principales Problemas Fonéticos y Fonológicos en la enseñanza del Español para Extranjeros

The purpose of this study is to investigate the most common phonetic and phonological difficulties in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. The study has been based on the following questions: Which difficulties can teachers encounter when teaching phonetics and phonology? Which difficulties can students encounter when learning phonetics and phonology? How is phonetics and phonology taught? In order to be able to investigate the difficulties, a questionnaire has been handed out to five experienced teachers. The results of the questionnaires, together with the theory, has been analysed in the analysis. The outcome of the analysis shows that several difficulties can be detected in both the teaching and in the learning process. The results of the questionnaires also show us that the teachers mostly teach phonetics the same way: through repetition and imitation, the conductive method, and very few think outside of the box to encounter new methods.

Pensionärsjävlar : revolt mot eller ett upprepande av negativa ålderskoder?

Old bastard – rebellion against or a repetition of negative age codes? In contemporary media and scientific contexts, it has become increasingly popular to launch today’s elderly as different from previous generations of older people, especially emphasized is that today’s elderly will have more attitude and set higher demands on society. The TV-series Pensionärsjävlar is based on this idea of today’s and tomorrow’s elderly as different and more rebellious than previous generations. The purpose of this article is to analyze and discuss how age and age codes are used as a prerequisite for, but also are challenged in the series. The result shows that chronological age is almost absent in the series, instead age coding is performed by physical attributes and verbal acts. Most common attributes are those connected to decreased functionality, such as walker, wheelchair, walking stick etcetera. The most common taboo joked about is sexuality, and other common themes are decreased functionality,child/youth- like behavior and traffic. In the article I discuss how these themes and attributes are negotiated in relation to age.  

Vilka faktorer påverkar användningen av den interaktiva skrivtavlan i matematikundervisningen enligt lärare? : En intervjustudie med sex lärare i årskurs 1-5

Syftet med studien är att få ökad kunskap om lärares erfarenheter av och uppfattningar om att använda den interaktiva skrivtavlan i matematikundervisning samt hur den påverkar elevers lärande i matematik. Studien visar att skrivtavlan används huvudsakligen som ett demonstrationsverktyg för läraren vid exempelvis genomgångar och repetition. Den tillhörande dokumentkameran används flitigt. Skrivtavlan används också för att visa film och TV-program och ibland för att söka på internet. Eleverna interagerar med skrivtavlan när de till exempel löser uppgifter i matematik. Detta sker både enskilt och i par. Interaktion mellan elev och skrivtavlan sker även då surfplattor kopplas upp mot skrivtavlan. Det är vanligt att eleverna redovisar arbeten med hjälp av skrivtavlan. De faktorer som skapar möjligheter till användning är skrivtavlans unika egenskaper och ”Det får igång eleverna”. Skrivtavlans unika egenskaper innebär till exempel funktionen som gör det enkelt att spara och plocka fram sparade dokument samt enkelheten i att snabbt byta aktivitet. Citatet ”Det får igång eleverna” avser skrivtavlans påverkan på elevers delaktighet och fokus, faktorer som upplevs öka när skrivtavlan involveras i undervisningen. De faktorer som upplevs som hinder är lärarens kunskap om verktyget och tekniska problem. Tiden är ett hinder för lärarnas egen kunskapsinhämtning men kan också verka som möjlighet då tid kan skapas för enskilda elever när skrivtavlan används i ett stationssystem i undervisningen.

Ellipsis as a marker of interaction in spoken discourse

In this article, we discuss strategies for interaction in spoken discourse, focusing on ellipsis phenomena in English. The data comes from the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca, and we analyse education data in the form of seminar and workshop discussions, working group meetings, interviews and conversations. The functions ellipsis carries in the data are Intersubjectivity, where participants develop and maintain an understanding in discourse; Continuers, which are examples of back channel support; Correction, both self- and other-initiated; Repetition; and Comments, which are similar to Continuers but do not have a back channel support function. We see that the first of these, Intersubjectivity, is by far the most popular, followed by Repetitions and Comments. These results are explained as consequences of the nature of the texts themselves, as some are discussions of presentations and so can be expected to contain many Repetitions, for example. The speech event is also an important factor, as events with asymmetrical power relations like interviews do not contain so many Continuers. Our clear conclusion is that the use of ellipsis is a strong marker of interaction in spoken discourse.

Topic- and mode-sensitive interaction strategies : Functions of ellipsis in oral communication

In this article, we discuss ellipsis as an interactive strategy by analysing the author’s textchat corpus and the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca. It is found that there were fewer repetitions in the textchat data, and this is explained as a consequence of the textchat mode. Textchat contributions are preserved as long as the chat is active or has been saved, and therefore users can scroll through and review the discussion, compared to the more fleeting nature of oral conversation. As a result, repetition is less necessary. The frequency of other functions identified could be attributed to the topic of discourse. Discussions involve much ellipsis used to develop discourse, although some were self-presentations with repetition used to confirm details. Back-channel support and comments were often low because speakers instead used forms like yeah as supportive utterances.