In this article, I define exclamatives pragmatically, as a speech act which contains an assertion, and where there is a mismatch between this assertion and a presupposition. The assertion normally expresses a higher degree than expected, i.e. they are scalar. The speech act is instantiated in various ways in the Scandinavian languages. The aim of this article is to describe and characterise the sy

Ethnographically inspired methods have in recent years been successfully applied in Information Science (IS) research on different forms of social media related practices (c.f. Sundin & Francke 2009a; 2009b, Kjellberg 2010). This paper aims to contribute to an emerging discussion on the use of this methodological approach for analysing and comprehending consequences of the 2.0-turn in public l

During the second world war between one-half to two million Roma people were killed. The Roma and Sinti ethnic groups had to wait until 1982 before West Germany would recognize them as victims of the Nazi policy of extermination during the war. This has resulted in that the suffering of the Roma does not form a part of the common knowledge today. This essay conveys a discourse analysis, with the p

I föreliggande studie har fyra professionella musikalartister intervjuats, som alla har medverkat i en svensk uppsättning av musikalen Spring awakening. Studien berör hur de arbetar med den personliga instuderingsprocessen fram till att de sceniska repetitionerna börjar. Det är en kvalitativ intervjustudie som syftar till att öka medvetenheten kring den förberedande instuderingsprocessen inom genr

Deponering av avfall har sedan 1951 skett vid Filbornadeponin i Helsingborg. På grund av bristfällig tätning i botten av deponin sker läckage av lakvatten till grundvattnet. Ett område väster om Filbornadeponin har undersökts med hjälp av multielektrodsmätning i 11 profiler och skruvborrning i 14 punkter. Detta i syfte att åt NSR AB kartlägga geologi och utbredning av en föroreningsplym av lakvatt

This essay revolves around two questions: what is the nature of politics, and what kind of political order ensures a high rate of citizen participation? By using Cantal Mouffes theory on the political this essay shows how different understandings of the nature of politics can lead to diverging views on what forms democracy should take. Two such understandings are identified; one that sees the natu

AimsThe pathophysiology of orthostatic hypotension (OH), a common clinical condition, associated with adverse outcomes, is incompletely understood. We examined the relationship between OH and circulating endostatin, an endogenous angiogenesis inhibitor with antitumor effects proposed to be involved in blood pressure (BP) regulation.MethodsWe compared endostatin levels in 146 patients with OH and 1

BACKGROUND: The comparative efficacy and safety of ticagrelor versus clopidogrel in older patients with myocardial infarction (MI) has received limited study. METHODS: We performed an observational analysis of all patients ≥80 years (n=14 005) who were discharged alive with aspirin combined with either clopidogrel (60.2%) or ticagrelor (39.8%) after a MI between 2010 and 2017 registered in the nat