This essay is a textbook study where I aim to review four textbooks regarding some historical events in the subject History. The textbooks are used in junior high school and the historical events are as follows: the genocide that happened in Congo during the leadership of king Leopold II, the genocide on Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Holocaust and the Vietnam War.By performing this study I wanted to answer these three questions:What differences and similarities can be found in how the events circumscribed?How much space do the various events have and has it evolved through the years 1980-2009?How can this be explained?The study has been analyzed from a post-colonial perspective and the recurring patterns that appear show how the texts are post-colonial. This means that the authors of the textbooks are writing about the same subjects, but in very different ways..

Denna studiesyftar till att undersöka typer av relationer mellan modaliteterna skrift och bild som tillsammans bildar en text. Centrala begrepp så som multimodalitet, literacy och det vidgade textbegreppet behandlasi teoridelen och återkopplas till i diskussionen. Metoden som valts är en innehållsanalys av text med Unsworths (2006) analysverktyg som utgångspunkt. Femläromedel har analyserats varav två storböcker, två lillböcker och en läsebok. I ett första skede har typer av relationer undersökts i de olika läromedlen och därefter har en jämförande analys gjorts för att undersöka eventuellaskillnader, i linjemedsyftet.

Syftet med vår undersökning har varit att få en ökad förståelse för vilken betydelse de estetiska kommunikationsformerna har i det pedagogiska arbetet och vilket syfte de estetiska kommunikationsformerna har i den pedagogiska verksamheten. Genom undersökningen ville vi därigenom öka kunskapen om hur arbetet med de estetiska uttrycksformerna kan utvecklas i förskolan. Våra frågeställningar har varit: Vilken betydelse har de estetiska kommunikationsformerna i det pedagogiska arbetet? Vilket syfte har de estetiska kommunikationsformerna i den pedagogiska verksamheten? De teorier som vi använt oss av berör våra centrala begrepp som är; auditiv, visuell, kinestetisk, multimodalitet, pedagogroller och miljö. Dessa har kopplats till, samt ifrågasatt resultatet av pedagogernas beskrivning av sitt arbete med de estetiska kommunikationsformerna.

Annual reports are by many considered to be companies primary way to inform their world where the CEO's words are read most carefully by shareholders. The purpose of this paper is to examine the design of the CEO's words in annual reports in light of the financial crisis in 2008. The study seeking explanations for change, similarities and differences in the various texts based on three themes which are results, future and confidence. In this qualitative study five CEO's words are explored by means of a discourse analysis, all from large Swedish industrial companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Some of the results shown is that the CEO tends to talk about the company's results in a self-serving manner and CEO speaks more aboutm the results before than after the crisis.

Annual reports are by many considered to be companies primary way to inform their world where the CEO's words are read most carefully by shareholders. The purpose of this paper is to examine the design of the CEO's words in annual reports in light of the financial crisis in 2008. The study seeking explanations for change, similarities and differences in the various texts based on three themes which are results, future and confidence. In this qualitative study five CEO's words are explored by means of a discourse analysis, all from large Swedish industrial companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Some of the results shown is that the CEO tends to talk about the company's results in a self-serving manner and CEO speaks more aboutm the results before than after the crisis.

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to see how technology is presented in different fictional picture books that are available in preschool. Six fictional picture books that have connection to technology in picture and text have been analysed. In order to show how technology can be made visible in fictional picture books, the relation between picture and text has been analysed through a technology perspective. Furthermore, the pictures and the texts have been analysed separately in order to show what they show respectively in terms of technology. The fictional picture book has a potential to be a basis for making technology visible in preschool, which is a step in a new direction.

In this study I compare the use of reporting verbs in direct speech in Swedish and Polish literary prose. The aim is to examine how differences in usage are reflected in translations to and from Swedish and to what extent the translator adapts the text to the target language and its literary conventions.I have compared the material on two levels: source text versus source text in Polish and Swedish respectively, to see what kind of speech verbs are most commonly used, and source text versus target text, to study the strategies the translators have used and to what extent reporting verbs are altered or not.I have also studied quotation verb + adverbial phrase or prepositional phrase, to investigate if they are more frequent in the two target texts or adapted to the literary concentions of the target language. .

Att kommunicera är en mänsklig rättighet, men det är inte alltid självklart i alla situationer för personer som kommunicerar med alternativ och kompletterande kommunikation (AKK). Det övergripande syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur personer som kommunicerar med bliss upplever sina kommunikativa möjligheter i olika livsskeden. Fyra män i åldrarna 18-45 som hade kommunicerat med bliss i flera år intervjuades genom en semistrukturerad intervjuform. Datan från intervjuerna kategoriserades utifrån de tematiska områdena inlärning, möjlighet till kommunikativ utveckling, social interaktion och bemötande. Resultatet visade att deltagarna uttryckte att de inte mindes sin tidiga blissinlärning.

The inhuman element in Djuna Barnes?s works has been widely acknowledged. So far the research has, however, concerned itself primarily with animality, thus neglecting the importance of things and thingliness in her texts. In this essay I outline a new way of approaching Barnes were things are taken into account as a vital element in her literary world, using theories on prostheses, fetishes and souvenirs. In Nightwood and four of the short stories, ?A Night Among the Horses?, ?Aller et Retour?, ?Cassation?, and ?The Grande Malade?, I examine clothing, interiors, collections, statues and dolls as objects that in different ways harbour meaning, dream, riddle, memory, history, longing and desire.

This paper examines which media messages related to happiness that can be found in interviews with famous people in the four largest lifestyle magazines in Sweden for the age group 16-34. The magazines are Cosmopolitan, Elle, Café and King. Depending on which magazine the reader chooses to read he/she will be presented with different roads to happiness. Common for all examined magazines are happiness factors related to personal goals, determination and work. Often in a causal connection where the goal orientation and determination is tied together with success in work and career for the interview persons.

Denna uppsats är en jämförelse av två kartläggningar av prostitution på Internet: ?När prostitutionen flyttade in i vardagsrummet? skriven av Niclas Olsson vid Malmö Prostitutionsenhet och ?Slutrapport från projektet nätprostitution? skriven av Marie Johansson och Pia Turesson vid Prostitutions- och Spiralenheten i Stockholm.   Med hjälp av en diskursanalys utarbetad av Norman Fairclough kan man bland annat klarlägga hur en texts satskonstruktioner konstruerar samma texts objekt och subjekt. Genom en diskursanalys har denna uppsats konstruktioner/bilder/definitioner av ?sexsäljare?/ ?prostituerad?, ?socialsekreterare? och den hjälp som socialsekreteraren erbjuder sexsäljaren, analyserats.    Analysen och jämförelsen har visat att författarna till de båda texterna har skildaförhållningssätt till prostituerade, sig själva som socialsekreterare och den hjälp de erbjuder sin målgrupp. Det förhållningssätt ?Slutrapport från projektet nätprostitution? visar upp ligger nära ett förhållningssätt som i uppsatsen beskrivs som den Svenska offentliga hållningen till prostitution.

The Sweden democrats are a political party that has had a time of success duringthe last year. However many people believe them to be a racist party, in contrastto how they view themselves and their political message. How is it possible thatthe views of the same party differ to this extent, it seems to be a large ambiguityin their message. Rhetoric is a tool that everybody uses in some way or anotherand can be crucial to how a political party is perceived by people. Can thereforethe use of rhetoric be a factor that has contributed to the different perception of theparty and if so, in which way?With the help of theories such as semiotics, classical rhetoric and antiestablishmentstrategy, different texts, such as motions, and pictures published bythe Sweden democrats can be analyzed to find ways they use rhetoric.In the analysis it was obvious that they used rhetoric, even though therhetorical quality differed between the leading persons in the party and the peoplewho represented the Sweden democrats in the local government.

Symbols in the hands of politicians can be a powerful tool of manipulation. The usage of symbols in speeches or texts can change a person?s will, without him or her ever knowing it.We have compared the usage of symbols in the articles surrounding the ratification of the constitution in 18th century America with that of today?s European Union, to see if any similarities between these two cases exists, and what implications this could have for the future of the EU. We have divided the symbols in both cases into different categories so as to enable us to compare the cases to each other. With the help of Masters Theory and the writings of Benedict Anderson and Murray Edelman we have concluded that there indeed exist some similarities between 18th century America and the EU.

This thesis deals with subject-based hierarchical search-services on the World Wide Web. The purpose is to investigate how systems of this kind facilitate information retrieval through subject-based information seeking. Its starting point is taken from the study of texts and qualitative analyses of search-services on the World Wide Web. Important aspects and features of the Internet and the World Wide Web are explained as well. Three systems are examined: Mölndals Stadsbiblioteks Länkkatalog, Svesök, and Alta Vista.

Mångbesökare är ett begrepp som används för att beskriva patienter som söker vård ofta inom både primärvård och akutsjukvård. Begreppet mångbesökare är ofta negativt laddat på grund av sjukvårdspersonalens och medias förutfattade meningar där mångbesökarna beskrivs som patienter som söker vården i onödan, det vill säga utan medicinskt fog. Ofta redovisas höga kostnader för mångbesökarna och problemet med att gruppen söker många olika vårdgivare. Syftet med studien är att beskriva vad som kännetecknar patienter vilka betraktas som mångbesökare och hur de kan uppleva sin situation. Studien är en litteraturstudie av tre artiklar med kvantitativ ansats, en avhandling med kvantitativ ansats, samt fyra artiklar med kvalitativ ansats.