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  • 1.
    Li, Shu
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    Reclaiming The Inner Chambers: Song Lyrics Set in The Boudoir by Women Writers of Late Imperial China2024Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    This dissertation centers on the song lyric, a genre known for its femininity in classical Chinese literature. This feminine aesthetic quality, characterized by the theme of love and the image of a lovelorn woman, derives from the song lyric’s inherent association with the boudoir poetics, which was created, practiced and developed by male literati to represent and appreciate feminine beauty. As women writers appeared in unprecedented number and constituted an important of the literary landscape from the seventeenth century, the song lyric became one of their most adopted genres. It is therefore of interest and significance to investigate how the women writers interacted with the male-constructed boudoir poetics in their song lyric writing.

    To explore this question, this study draws on the concept of negotiation, which was first introduced into the field by Maureen Robertson in her analysis of women’s shi poetry. The act of negotiation is a contestatory process where the dominant convention established by male writers was accepted in general, but crucially also adjusted by women writers to assert their own subjectivity. Based on Robertson’s definition, this dissertation seeks to examine the concept’s applicability and adoption in the context of women’s song lyric writing. The study also borrows from Rosi Braidotti the notion of the nomadic feminist subject, which emphasizes both the difference among women and the multiplicity of the individual subject without a fixed inner core, to better elucidate the reason for, as well as the goal of women writers’ negotiation.

    Through a comparative and gender-sensitive reading of 55 song lyrics by 19 poets from the late imperial China, it is demonstrated how women writers broke away from the literati boudoir convention through negotiation, how they reconstructed their inner chambers as a space of diversity based on their lived experience and situatedness, and how they represent the female subjects in their poems as an entity of multiplicity and subjectivity.

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  • 2.
    Shakely, Farhad
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    We Drank the Wine from His Hand: Studies on the time, life and poetry of the Kurdish Sufi poet Malā-yē Jazīrī2024Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    This study is about the Kurdish Sufi poet Malā-yē Jazīrī (1570–1640), whose poems are considered to mark the beginning of classical Kurdish poetry.

    To understand the poet’s time and poetry, the political, religious and cultural background is presented, which represents an important phase of Kurdistan’s history. Jazīrī lived in a period when several semi-independent Kurdish principalities were established and flourished as a result of the rivalry between the Safavids and the Ottomans. He lived in the city of Jazīra, the capital of Botan principality, and was close to the princely family of Azīzān, especially Prince Šaraf-Xān III, for whom he composed two panegyrics.

    Two important philosophical and Sufi schools of thought were present and active during Jazīrī’s lifetime, and they had a great impact on his thought and poetry. These were the Naqšbandī order and Ibn ʿArabī’s doctrine of Waḥdat al-wujūd.  

    Manuscripts and printed editions of Malā-yē Jazīrī’s Dīwān are presented, and formal and linguistic aspects of Jazīrī’s poetry are studied, particularly how he applied the Arabic prosodic system to Kurdish poetry. Various aspects of Jazīrī’s poetry are also examined with a focus on his Sufi ideas and the aesthetic expression of his philosophical and spiritual experience. 

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  • 3.
    Ağbaht, Mahmut
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    The Arabic Dialect of Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba/Shaykh Taba (northern Lebanon) in its Regional context2023Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    This study provides the first grammatical description of a sedentary type of Arabic from Akkar (محافظة عكار), the northernmost governorate of Lebanon. It deals with the Arabic dialect spoken in Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba/Shaykh Taba (الشيخ طابا) and covers the main features of its phonology (with focus on pausal phenomena) and morphology, as well as selected semantic fields within the lexicon. In addition to general comparative notes in relation to dialects of Levant and beyond, the study provides a comparison in Phonology to four dialects in the governorate of North which borders Akkar to the south. These are Tripoli, Bišmizzīn, Kfar-Ṣghāb and Zgharta. It also includes a comparison in Morphology to Tripoli, Bišmizzīn and Kfar-Ṣghāb.Furthermore, the study examines where ŠṭA stands within Henri Fleisch’s survey of the Lebanese dialects.

    Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba has a rather complex pausal system, which affects not only consonants and vowels, but also diphthongs. There are also pause-conditioned morphophonological alternations. Besides filling a gap in our knowledge of Arabic dialects in Lebanon, this work adds a new case study of pausal forms to Arabic and Semitic. The results of the investigation of pause in Šɛ̄xṭɔ̄ba, as well as a few other case studies, lead us to identify pausal forms involving retentions, as well as new pausal processes, and thus to propose a revision to the current classification of the pausal forms in modern Arabic dialects.

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  • 4.
    Kulmizev, Artur
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    The Search for Syntax: Investigating the Syntactic Knowledge of Neural Language Models Through the Lens of Dependency Parsing2023Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    Syntax — the study of the hierarchical structure of language — has long featured as a prominent research topic in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Traditionally, its role in NLP was confined towards developing parsers: supervised algorithms tasked with predicting the structure of utterances (often for use in downstream applications). More recently, however, syntax (and syntactic theory) has factored much less into the development of NLP models, and much more into their analysis. This has been particularly true with the nascent relevance of language models: semi-supervised algorithms trained to predict (or infill) strings given a provided context. In this dissertation, I describe four separate studies that seek to explore the interplay between syntactic parsers and language models upon the backdrop of dependency syntax. In the first study, I investigate the error profiles of neural transition-based and graph-based dependency parsers, showing that they are effectively homogenized when leveraging representations from pre-trained language models. Following this, I report the results of two additional studies which show that dependency tree structure can be partially decoded from the internal components of neural language models — specifically, hidden state representations and self-attention distributions. I then expand on these findings by exploring a set of additional results, which serve to highlight the influence of experimental factors, such as the choice of annotation framework or learning objective, in decoding syntactic structure from model components. In the final study, I describe efforts to quantify the overall learnability of a large set of multilingual dependency treebanks — the data upon which the previous experiments were based — and how it may be affected by factors such as annotation quality or tokenization decisions. Finally, I conclude the thesis with a conceptual analysis that relates the aforementioned studies to a broader body of work concerning the syntactic knowledge of language models.

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    1. Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings in Transition-Based and Graph-Based Dependency Parsing – A Tale of Two Parsers Revisited
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings in Transition-Based and Graph-Based Dependency Parsing – A Tale of Two Parsers Revisited
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    2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019, s. 2755-2768Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    Transition-based and graph-based dependency parsers have previously been shown to have complementary strengths and weaknesses: transition-based parsers exploit rich structural features but suffer from error propagation, while graph-based parsers benefit from global optimization but have restricted feature scope. In this paper, we show that, even though some details of the picture have changed after the switch to neural networks and continuous representations, the basic trade-off between rich features and global optimization remains essentially the same. Moreover, we show that deep contextualized word embeddings, which allow parsers to pack information about global sentence structure into local feature representations, benefit transition-based parsers more than graph-based parsers, making the two approaches virtually equivalent in terms of both accuracy and error profile. We argue that the reason is that these representations help prevent search errors and thereby allow transitionbased parsers to better exploit their inherent strength of making accurate local decisions. We support this explanation by an error analysis of parsing experiments on 13 languages.
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Språkteknologi (språkvetenskaplig databehandling)
    Forskningsämne
    Datorlingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-406697 (URN)000854193302085 ()
    Konferens
    2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), November 3-7, Hong Kong, China
    Forskningsfinansiär
    Vetenskapsrådet, 2016-01817
    Tillgänglig från: 2020-03-11 Skapad: 2020-03-11 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-07-30Bibliografiskt granskad
    2. Do Neural Language Models Show Preferences for Syntactic Formalisms?
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Do Neural Language Models Show Preferences for Syntactic Formalisms?
    2020 (Engelska)Ingår i: 58Th Annual Meeting Of The Association For Computational Linguistics (Acl 2020), ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL , 2020, s. 4077-4091Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    Recent work on the interpretability of deep neural language models has concluded that many properties of natural language syntax are encoded in their representational spaces. However, such studies often suffer from limited scope by focusing on a single language and a single linguistic formalism. In this study, we aim to investigate the extent to which the semblance of syntactic structure captured by language models adheres to a surface-syntactic or deep syntactic style of analysis, and whether the patterns are consistent across different languages. We apply a probe for extracting directed dependency trees to BERT and ELMo models trained on 13 different languages, probing for two different syntactic annotation styles: Universal Dependencies (UD), prioritizing deep syntactic relations, and Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD), focusing on surface structure. We find that both models exhibit a preference for UD over SUD - with interesting variations across languages and layers - and that the strength of this preference is correlated with differences in tree shape.
    Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
    ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, 2020
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik Datavetenskap (datalogi)
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-423307 (URN)000570978204034 ()978-1-952148-25-5 (ISBN)
    Konferens
    58TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2020), JULY 5-10, 2020
    Tillgänglig från: 2020-10-23 Skapad: 2020-10-23 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-07-30Bibliografiskt granskad
    3. Attention Can Reflect Syntactic Structure (If You Let It)
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Attention Can Reflect Syntactic Structure (If You Let It)
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    2021 (Engelska)Ingår i: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, s. 3031-3045Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    Since the popularization of the Transformer as a general-purpose feature encoder for NLP, many studies have attempted to decode linguistic structure from its novel multi-head attention mechanism. However, much of such work focused almost exclusively on English - a language with rigid word order and a lack of inflectional morphology. In this study, we present decoding experiments for multilingual BERT across 18 languages in order to test the generalizability of the claim that dependency syntax is reflected in attention patterns. We show that full trees can be decoded above baseline accuracy from single attention heads, and that individual relations are often tracked by the same heads across languages. Furthermore, in an attempt to address recent debates about the status of attention as an explanatory mechanism, we experiment with fine-tuning mBERT on a supervised parsing objective while freezing different series of parameters. Interestingly, in steering the objective to learn explicit linguistic structure, we find much of the same structure represented in the resulting attention patterns, with interesting differences with respect to which parameters are frozen.
    Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
    Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Språkteknologi (språkvetenskaplig databehandling)
    Forskningsämne
    Datorlingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-462768 (URN)10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.264 (DOI)000863557003010 ()978-1-954085-02-2 (ISBN)
    Konferens
    16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics,19-23 April, 2021, on line
    Forskningsfinansiär
    Google
    Tillgänglig från: 2022-01-02 Skapad: 2022-01-02 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-07-30Bibliografiskt granskad
    4. Schrödinger's tree: On syntax and neural language models
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Schrödinger's tree: On syntax and neural language models
    2022 (Engelska)Ingår i: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, E-ISSN 2624-8212, Vol. 5, artikel-id 796788Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
    Abstract [en]

    In the last half-decade, the field of natural language processing (NLP) hasundergone two major transitions: the switch to neural networks as the primarymodeling paradigm and the homogenization of the training regime (pre-train, then fine-tune). Amidst this process, language models have emergedas NLP’s workhorse, displaying increasingly fluent generation capabilities andproving to be an indispensable means of knowledge transfer downstream.Due to the otherwise opaque, black-box nature of such models, researchershave employed aspects of linguistic theory in order to characterize theirbehavior. Questions central to syntax—the study of the hierarchical structureof language—have factored heavily into such work, shedding invaluableinsights about models’ inherent biases and their ability to make human-likegeneralizations. In this paper, we attempt to take stock of this growing body ofliterature. In doing so, we observe a lack of clarity across numerous dimensions,which influences the hypotheses that researchers form, as well as theconclusions they draw from their findings. To remedy this, we urge researchersto make careful considerations when investigating coding properties, selectingrepresentations, and evaluating via downstream tasks. Furthermore, we outlinethe implications of the different types of research questions exhibited in studieson syntax, as well as the inherent pitfalls of aggregate metrics. Ultimately, wehope that our discussion adds nuance to the prospect of studying languagemodels and paves the way for a less monolithic perspective on syntax in thiscontext.
    Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
    Frontiers Media S.A., 2022
    Nyckelord
    neural networks, language models, syntax, coding properties, representations, natural language understanding
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Språkteknologi (språkvetenskaplig databehandling)
    Forskningsämne
    Datorlingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492066 (URN)10.3389/frai.2022.796788 (DOI)000915268600001 ()36325030 (PubMedID)
    Forskningsfinansiär
    Uppsala universitet
    Tillgänglig från: 2023-01-01 Skapad: 2023-01-01 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-07-30Bibliografiskt granskad
    5. Investigating UD Treebanks via Dataset Difficulty Measures
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Investigating UD Treebanks via Dataset Difficulty Measures
    2023 (Engelska)Ingår i: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, s. 1076-1089Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    Treebanks annotated with Universal Dependencies (UD) are currently available for over 100 languages and are widely utilized by the community. However, their inherent characteristics are hard to measure and are only partially reflected in parser evaluations via accuracy metrics like LAS. In this study, we analyze a large subset of the UD treebanks using three recently proposed accuracy-free dataset analysis methods: dataset cartography, 𝒱-information, and minimum description length. Each method provides insights about UD treebanks that would remain undetected if only LAS was considered. Specifically, we identify a number of treebanks that, despite yielding high LAS, contain very little information that is usable by a parser to surpass what can be achieved by simple heuristics. Furthermore, we make note of several treebanks that score consistently low across numerous metrics, indicating a high degree of noise or annotation inconsistency present therein.
    Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
    Dubrovnik, Croatia: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
    Nyckelord
    computational linguistics, syntax, universal dependencies, parsing, natural language processing
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik Datavetenskap (datalogi)
    Forskningsämne
    Datorlingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-508035 (URN)
    Konferens
    The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6, 2023
    Tillgänglig från: 2023-07-18 Skapad: 2023-07-18 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-08-11Bibliografiskt granskad
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  • 5.
    Mo Welin, Erik
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    Conflicting Times: Multiple Temporalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction2023Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    This dissertation explores the intersection of temporality and politics in contemporary Chinese science fiction. Building on previous research on Chinese science fiction, science fiction studies, as well as narrative theory and historical theory, the investigation focuses on eight key texts written by the writers Han Song, Liu Cixin, and Baoshu. Mainly approaching the texts through the conceptual and analytical tools of multiple temporalities and temporal orders, the investigation discusses how these texts reconfigure time and narrate conflicts between different temporalities, as well as how these temporal antagonisms take on a political significance in the context of post-89 China. 

    Whereas discussions on temporality since 1989 has often been framed in terms of a crisis of historical consciousness and a diminishing future-horizon, which François Hartog has defined as an age of “presentism,” Chinese official discourse has continued to be dominated by a teleological and highly future-oriented conception of time. Approaching science fiction as a temporal genre this study explores how Chinese science fiction has reconfigured temporality in the post-89 period, and challenged the hegemonic teleological temporal order associated with the politics of nation-building. 

    The analysis begins by analyzing how the texts narrate variations of non-progressive temporalities, including a cyclical temporal order of recurrence and a presentist temporal order, that conflict with the teleological temporal order. In the following chapter, the study focuses on how the most successful Chinese science fiction novel, The Three Body Problem Trilogy, narrates a conflict between an apocalyptic temporal order and the teleological temporal order represented by the discourse of “The End of History.” The next two chapters focuses on how alternate histories introduce a contingent temporal order that disrupt teleological time, and how the existential time of the protagonists relate to various temporalities in the texts. More broadly, the investigation suggests that contemporary Chinese science fiction can be read as an expression of multiple temporalities in the post-89 context, which challenges and disrupts hegemonic discourses, and reveal these texts as ideological battlegrounds for multiple conceptions of time and timeframes. 

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  • 6.
    Robbers, Maja
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    Orientation and motion in the world’s languages: From field studies to cross-linguistic comparison2023Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    Human life frequently involves spatial orientation and motion, and natural languages express manifold aspects of spatial perception in diverse ways. The articles included in this thesis delve into several of these aspects and explore space and motion from multiple perspectives, ranging from a dedicated field study of within-language variation systems to cross-linguistic comparisons of various orientation and motion aspects. A field study of Yine, an Arawakan language spoken in the Peruvian Amazonas, points to relative reference frame use by younger speakers, as opposed to riverine orientation in the speech of senior community members. The central questions addressed in two comparative studies revolve around the distinctions among languages in terms of which form classes are employed to express Place/Goal/Source coding and related motion aspects with different types of Ground arguments. A study of basic location and motion expressions in 35 languages demonstrates that motion verbs are more often pivotal than grammaticized markers for Goal and Source, and that coding asymmetries arise from the use of both also within languages. A dedicated paper on the novel computer-assisted sampling technique employed to obtain the sample of 35 languages discusses how informativity loads in grammatical descriptions can be pre-screened to facilitate data assessment. It is shown how this method can be employed to create genealogically balanced samples which give access to the variety of coding strategies present in the world’s languages. Another part of the cumulative dissertation addresses the question of how these form classes interact with various contextual factors and describes previously underresearched Source expressions based on iconic ordering of elements in detail. The findings of the thesis address the nuanced nature of orientation and motion expressions across languages. The exploration of these topics is underpinned by an array of typologically and areally diverse languages, and descriptive gaps in lesser-explored languages are highlighted throughout the thesis. The research underscores the importance of scrutinizing languages that have previously received only limited attention due to a lack of descriptions, and it offers insights into underresearched languages that are hoped to contribute to the development of a general typology of motion and orientation.

    Delarbeten
    1. Towards a typology of spatial deictic expressions A conflation of interrogative and declarative spatial morphology
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Towards a typology of spatial deictic expressions A conflation of interrogative and declarative spatial morphology
    2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Language Typology and Universals, ISSN 1867-8319, E-ISSN 2196-7148, Vol. 72, nr 3, s. 335-371Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
    Abstract [en]

    In response to the typology of spatial interrogatives (Stolz et al. 2017b), the morphologically corresponding spatial deictic declaratives pursuant to the three basic relations PLACE - GOAL - SOURCE are brought into focus for a comparison of both related paradigms. A canonical model (Corbett 2005) is applied to assess paradigms of spatial deictic forms. Logical outcomes considering all possible distributions of (a)syncretic patterns are discussed. To prepare our data for statistical evaluations, both parallels and differences between the two related paradigms are surveyed. Our corpus data is presented to outline what a typology of spatial deictic paradigms should encompass.
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    Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019
    Nyckelord
    spatial relations, deixis, typology, canonical morphology
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-396642 (URN)10.1515/stuf-2019-0014 (DOI)000489499700003 ()
    Tillgänglig från: 2019-11-07 Skapad: 2019-11-07 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-08-21Bibliografiskt granskad
    2. River-based and egocentric spatial orientation in Yine
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>River-based and egocentric spatial orientation in Yine
    2022 (Engelska)Ingår i: Linguistics Vanguard, E-ISSN 2199-174X, Vol. 8, nr S1, s. 53-65Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
    Abstract [en]

    In linguistic studies on spatial reference frames, South American languages are still underrepresented. This explorative study offers a qualitative discussion of strategies that were found to encode location and orientation of objects in Yine, an Amazonian language of Peru. Geocentric and egocentric frames were attested as equally dominant strategies to provide spatial information in a picture-matching task, the results of which are split by age group of speakers. Senior Yine speakers mainly used river-oriented geocentric and intrinsic frames, whereas young adult speakers relied on egocentric and intrinsic frames exclusively. Left/right/behind relators were predominantly interpreted in allocentric-intrinsic frames by speakers of both groups but egocentric-extrinsic frames also arose in spatial descriptions elicited from younger speakers.
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    Walter de GruyterWalter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022
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    Arawakan, cross-generational analysis, frames of reference, sociotopography, spatial cognition
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-467373 (URN)10.1515/lingvan-2020-0015 (DOI)000749465300005 ()
    Tillgänglig från: 2022-02-14 Skapad: 2022-02-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-01-15Bibliografiskt granskad
    3. Inferred Source of motion and bipartite Source expressions
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Inferred Source of motion and bipartite Source expressions
    (Engelska)Manuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Nyckelord
    Coding asymmetries, Goal-Source asymmetries, motion events, motion verbs, Goal bias
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-509559 (URN)
    Tillgänglig från: 2023-08-21 Skapad: 2023-08-21 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-08-21
    4. Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling
    (Engelska)Manuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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    Sampling, methodology, bibliographic bias, computer-assisted linguistics, linguistic typology
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
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    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-509563 (URN)
    Tillgänglig från: 2023-08-21 Skapad: 2023-08-21 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-08-21
    5. A variety-driven approach to Goal-Source (a)symmetries
    Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>A variety-driven approach to Goal-Source (a)symmetries
    (Engelska)Manuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Nationell ämneskategori
    Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
    Identifikatorer
    urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-509565 (URN)
    Tillgänglig från: 2023-08-21 Skapad: 2023-08-21 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-08-21
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  • 7.
    Bertils, Klara
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    Feber i interaktion: Kropp, kunskap och legitimitet i svenska primärvårdssamtal2022Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis explores the social and interactional dimensions of fever and body temperature. Using the theoretical and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, this thesis investigates how patients and healthcare professionals talk about fever, measure body temperature and negotiate the significance of temperature measurements in acute primary care encounters. The analysis pays close attention to verbal, embodied, and material interactional resources. Data are drawn from a larger corpus of video-recorded Swedish acute primary care consultation (Uppsala University Interaction Corpus (UUIC): Primary Care) and consist of 97 encounters between healthcare professionals and adult patients presenting with respiratory tract symptoms. The main focus is on patients’ interactions with registered nurses and healthcare assistants. 

    The three analytical chapters deal with different aspects of body temperature during the consultation. First, talk about fever in patients’ problem presentations is investigated. The analysis suggests that patients and nurses treat fever as an urgent matter when establishing patients’ reasons for seeking care. Patients reference fever when they present their condition as worthy of medical attention and treatment, and fever may be posed as a component of a candidate diagnosis. Second, a multimodal analysis of temperature measurement shows how participants jointly accomplish a transition from the patient-as-subject to the patient-as-object for investigation. The analysis illustrates how patients and nurses rely on changes in body orientation and gaze when initiating, attending, and accomplishing such activity shifts as well as how visible manipulation of the thermometer constitutes a crucial resource in the rearrangement of activity-appropriate participation frameworks. Third, talk about expected and reported results of temperature measurement are investigated. Here, it is demonstrated that patients can both claim and be offered an epistemic position of independent expertise regarding body temperature. The corpus also includes cases where patients challenge the nurse's interpretation of a numerical measurement by suggesting an alternative way of understanding the measurement. Such cases expose how seemingly "objective" references for establishing normality can be invoked and contested.

    By describing and shedding light on the linguistic and social dimensions of a routine clinical task, this study contributes to the field of medical interaction as well as to broader topics in language and social interaction such as self-presentation, epistemic orientation and negotiation, and the multimodal organization of jointly achieved activities.

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    Douglas, Samuel
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    Scripta Imagine: Buildings, Transformations, and Rhetorical Ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae2022Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    Statius’ Silvae, his collected epideictic poems in five volumes, have long been recognised as a descriptive tour-de-force, with its extensive depictions of buildings, people, and art. Modern critical responses to these have been varied, identifying a wide variety of influences and stylistic tendencies in these works. This thesis takes six poems notable for their focus on structures and examines the ways in which their unusual descriptive tendencies reflect first-century AD thought about ekphrasis, panegyric, and poetry. The poems in question are Silvae 1.1 about an equestrian statue of Domitian, Silvae 1.3 about the villa of Manilius Vopicus, Silvae 1.5 about the baths owned by Claudius Etruscus, Silvae 2.2 about the villa of Pollius Felix at Sorrento, Silvae 3.1 about the building of a temple to Hercules, and Silvae 4.3 about the new road connecting Naples to the Via Appia. Each of these poems describes a structure with reference to how it was built or the materials used in its construction. These poems represent the first time in Roman literature that such details have been extensively described, but they anticipate later traditions of elaborate description in their choices of subject and style.

    This thesis examines these poems in the light of first century AD understanding of ekphrasis, an educational term used for a passage of extended description. It argues that there is evidence that this is a widely understood concept in this period and that this concept underpins the use of building description in the Silvae. If these sections can be labelled as ekphrastic, their role in the poems overall can be seen as parallel to similar descriptions in rhetorical panegyric in that they provide evidence to support the praise of the poems’ dedicatees. Furthermore, the status of these passages as ekphrasis suggests connections to similarly descriptive texts which serve to re-contextualise the actions of the dedicatees as epic, divine, or world-changing acts. This is all done through the close emphasis on the viewed experience of the narrator whose viewing provides a model for the reader of the text.

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    Eliasson, Pär
    Uppsala universitet, Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.
    Towards a New Language: Christology in Early Modern Marathi, Konkani, and Hindustani2022Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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