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| | Faculty of Humanities - Courses in the Department of Icelandic |
 | | Among the subjects touched upon will be morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, information retrieval, spell and grammar checkers, speech recognition, speech synthesis, frequency studies, etc. Students will be trained in using simple programs for linguistic analysis. |
 | | The main objective of this course is to examine language use with special emphasis on theoretical aspects that should be of use in various jobs such as teaching, work in the media, publishing etc. The use of the Icelandic language from the perspective of pragmatics and discourse analysis will be explored. |
 | | The frame of reference is the literary tradition of Miguel Cervantes, Laurence Sterne, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, John Barth, and others but the main emphasis will be on Icelandic works of fiction by i.e.Eiríkur Laxdal, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Elías Mar, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Guðbergur Bergsson, Jakobína Sigurðardóttir, Pétur Gunnarsson, Vigdís Grímsdóttir, Sjón and Hermann Stefánsson. |
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