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The academic discourse on the need for a shared political public sphere at the level of the European Union has in recent years produced the conventional wisdom that such an emerging transnational community of communication is already observable in the mass media. However, the empirical indicators on which this notion is based tend to accommodate parallel national public spheres rather than a genui
Although a substantial body of theoretical as well as empirical work emphasizes the role of the mass media in constructing what could serve as a political public sphere at the European level, strikingly little is known, in qualitative terms, about opinion-making journalists’ underlying views and orientations on the European integration process. The point of departure in the present paper is that o
To test whether it was possible to conduct a Stated Preference study by mail, six different types of questionnaires were sent out to previously contacted bus passengers. Several quality comparisons showed that binary choices worked best. Another study showed that the experiences of travellers are of great importance to their evaluations.
The subjct of this book is the first person in thought and language. The main question is what we mean when we say 'I'. Related to it are questions about what kinds of self-consciousness and self-knowledge are needed in order for us to have the capacity to talk about ourselves. The emphasis is on theories of meaning and reference for 'I', but a fair amount of space is devoted to 'I'-thoughts and t
Studier i svensk språkhistoria 8 är en rapport från konferensen Svenska språkets historia 8 som avhölls i Lund 21-22 maj 2004. Temat för konferensen var Språkförändring på olika nivåer i språket. Tanken var att fokusera på språkförändringsmekanismer i ett brett perspektiv och på alla språkliga nivåer. I detta syfte hade konferensen fyra plenarföreläsningar; en vardera inom fonologi, lexikon, synta
This essay concerns the complementation of the English emotive verbs like, love, hate and prefer. In English, gerund-participial and infinitival complements often receive semi-synonymous semantic interpretations when complementing emotive verbs. All the while, both complement types supposedly convey separate semantic interpretations, resulting in that they commonly appear in contexts expressing ha
