Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori: Recent submissions
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Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence
(2018-12-07)Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more ... -
Audience design in interaction: studies on urban adolescent spoken languages
(2018-10-25)Speakers of a language carry with them a set of language ideologies, i.e. beliefs about norms and rules in relation to that language. One such ideology is a standard language ideology, which is generally associated ... -
Mapping vowels: Variation and change in the speech of Gothenburg adolescents
(2018-09-03)Until now, sociolinguistic investigations of Gothenburg have been scarce. This compilation thesis provides some of the first steps in a quantitative investigation of language variation and change in the city. Its results ... -
Self-similarity in the foundations
(2018-05-24)This thesis concerns embeddings and self-embeddings of foundational structures in both set theory and category theory. The first part of the work on models of set theory consists in establishing a refined version of ... -
On the Need for an Ethical Understanding of Health Care Accountability
(2015)In Sweden, like in many other Western countries, public health care is challenged by increasing demands for care and by continuing budget deficits. Person-centered care (PCC) has been introduced as a new strategy to ... -
Trusting and distrusting in dialogue: A study of authentic medical consultations
(2016)The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the understanding of trusting as a dynamic relational process that can vary with circumstances. Based on an analysis of a number of physician–patient consultations in a ... -
Meaning Potentials in Words and Gestures
(2016)This paper addresses the question of what and how gestures and speech, respectively, contribute to the construction of meaning. A point of departure of is the notion of “meaning potential” which we apply to both unimodal ... -
An exploration of the nature, functions and subcategories of the discourse functional category Interactive in spoken Xhosa
(2016)It is a generally accepted view among discourse analysts that the so-called ‘discourse particles’ are extremely variable in meaning and multi-functional and consequently highly context-dependent for their understanding. ... -
On the attribution of affective-epistemic states to communicative behavior in different modes of recording
(2015)Face-to-face communication is multimodal with varying contributions from all sensory modalities, see e.g. Kopp (2013), Kendon (1980) and Allwood (1979). This paper reports a study of respondents interpreting vocal and ... -
Multimodal Communicative Feedback in Swedish
(2015)This study investigates multimodal communicative feedback among speakers of Swedish. We find that the most common way of providing feedback in Swedish is by a multimodal combination of a gestural verbal and a vocal-verbal ... -
Multimodal human-horse interaction in therapy and leisure riding
(2015)Horseback-riding in general, and equine-assisted therapy in particular, are widely used for leisure and rehabilitation purposes. However, few scientific studies on human-horse interaction are available. The aim of this ... -
On Stages of Conflict Escalation
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Multimodal health communication in two cultures – A comparison of Swedish and Malaysian Youtube videos
(2017)Youtube video health information about overweight and obesity, was analyzed in two different countries – Sweden and Malaysia. The videos were analyzed by using Activity based Communication Analysis, Critical Discourse ... -
Pragmatics: From language as a sign system to language use
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Interview with Shan Bo
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Fluency or Disfluency?
(2017)In this paper, I investigate the concepts of ”fluency” and ”disfluency” and argue that the application of the two concepts must be relativized to type of communicative activity. It is not clear that there is a generic sense ... -
Is digitalization dehumanization? - Dystopic Traits of Digitalization
(2017)Most phenomena in the world have both positive and negative aspects (pluses and minuses). This is also true of digitalization. However, lately a lot more emphasis has been placed on the positive potentials of digitalization ... -
CLASP Papers in Computational Linguistics
(Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), 2017-11)The past two decades have seen impressive progress in a variety of areas of AI, particularly NLP, through the application of machine learning methods to a wide range of tasks. With the intensive use of deep learning methods ... -
All There Is: On the Semantics of Quantification over Absolutely Everything
(2017-12-22)This thesis concerns the problem of providing a semantics for quantification over absolutely all there is. Chapter 2 argues against the common view that Frege understood his quantifiers in Begriffsschrift to range over all ... -
Forensic comparison of voices, speech and speakers – Tools and Methods in Forensic Phonetics
(2017-05-16)This thesis has three main objectives. The first objective (A) includes Study I, which investigates the parameter fundamental frequency (F0) and its robustness in different acoustic contexts by using different measures. ...