Premodification is an area of the English language that is currently expanding in numbers and usage, which can have a future impact on translation. This study investigates how English premodifiers are translated into Swedish. The two aims of this study are to answer the questions: how frequently are premodifiers translated directly into premodifier...
As the medical domain is faced with a large body of unstructured textual data, machine learning and natural language processing approaches are increasingly used to extract relevant information from medical texts. This study provides a first overview of automatic pathology report classification for Swedish cancer pathology reports, using a dataset o...
Loanwords are one of the most obvious signs of languages influencing each other. The rapid growth of globalisation and the emergence of social media has only contributed to the ease with which we come into contact with other languages in our daily lives. This study investigates attitudes to English loans when they are used in Swedish news texts. T...
Code-switching occurs when bilingual or multilingual speakers combine and mix their different languages. The communication may seem unstructured and confusing for an outsider but the switching between languages has a purpose and a function. The aim of this thesis is to briefly exemplify three reasons for code-switching in conversations between bili...
Background: "Direct-to-consumer (DTC) telemedicine" is increasing worldwide and changing the map of primary health care (PHC). Virtual care has increased in the last decade and with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, patients' use of online care has increased even further. In Sweden, online consultations are a part of government-supported health care t...
Skönlitteratur ska inkluderas i svenskundervisningen men samtidigt minskar elevernas läsförståelse. Skolan har ett dubbelt uppdrag i form av kunskaps- och värdegrundsuppdraget som ska genomsyra hela verksamheten. Syftet med studien är att undersöka svensklärares erfarenheter av och uppfattningar om att använda skönlitteratur för att möta skolans du...
Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur grundskollärare i lågstadiet arbetar med digitala verktyg i svenskundervisningen. Studien undersökte vilka uppfattningar som finns kring digitala verktyg samt vilka möjligheter och utmaningar lågstadielärare anser sig möta samt vilket stöd de får för att implementera digitala verktyg. Metoden som använde...
Studiens syfte är att undersöka elevtexter som bedömts olika av undervisande lärare ochexterna bedömare i relation till delar av bedömningsanvisningarna för nationella provet isvenska årskurs 9 år 2003. Materialet i studien består av åtta elevtexter,bedömningsanvisningarna de undervisande lärarna och de externa bedömarna hafttillgång till samt de b...
Published in Folia Linguistica
This paper examines the development of the periphrastic passive voice construction in Swedish between 1300 and 1750, from the point of view of constructional change. The development involves the rise of a new auxiliary, bliva ‘remain’, originally a lexical loan from Middle Low German, which after a period of variation replaces the older auxiliary v...
Published in Frontiers in Communication
It is often said that story retelling tasks, where children listen to a model story and then retell it, are easier than story telling tasks, where children are not provided with a model. However, previous studies have rarely used comparable stimuli and procedures for the different tasks, creating possible confounds with task effects. Additionally, ...
