The attacks of September 11, 2001 have done more to focus attention on the conjunction of religion and conflict than any other event in recent history. Although much international research has focused since then on the role of Islam, religiously inspired violence is also found in countries as diverse as Thailand, Burma, or Sri Lanka, where Buddhism plays a central role. This paper addresses how these realities are reflected in two Swedish high school textbooks on religion. The thesis calls into question the manner in which Buddhism is presented in schoolbooks as the most probable candidate to be a conflict-free religion.Using Fairclough?s discourse analysis theoretical framework and Hellspong?s structural analysis, the thesis critically examines the relationship between text, the discourse practice in which text is produced and the wider social practices.

Det nord-australiska pama-njunganspråket djambarrpuy?u har studerats med avseende på finita egenskaper. Det går att påstå att det finns en finithetsdistinktion i djambarrpuy?u eftersom det finns satser som kan uttrycka vissa egenskaper (t ex tempus, modus, aspekt och nominativt/ergativt subjekt) samtidigt som det finns satsliknande konstruktioner som inte kan uttrycka detta. Ett möjligt samband mellan finita kriterier i djambarrpuy?u är förmåga att fungera som talhandling och förmåga att overt kunna uttrycka nominativt/ergativt subjekt, men detta behöver studeras närmare.