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Educational Attainment of Mexican American Immigrants: A Longitudinal Analysis in Six Texas Gateways
(2022-05-23)
This paper analyzes data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to examine trends in educational attainment from 2000 to 2018 in six Texas gateway cities: El Paso, San Antonio, McAllen, Dallas Fort Worth, Houston, ...
PARSING CODE-SWITCHED TAGLISH LANGUAGE BY CREATING CONSTITUENTS
(2019-12-10)
When extracting meaning from language, a common first step is to break down language into constituents, or words that work together as a unit. This task, known as parsing, typically follows a specific grammar in order ...
THE FUNCTIONS OF REPORTED SPEECH IN DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 1977-12)
The study of the functions of reported speech makes five major contributions to the current literature on discourse. (l) It highlights the multifunctional characteristics of reported speech; (2) it correlates these functions ...
INTERLANGUAGE LEXICOLOGY OF ARAB STUDENTS OF ENGLISH A COMPUTER LEARNER CORPUS-BASED APPROACH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-08)
Since the very early emergence of machine-readable corpora into the linguistics scene in the 1960s, the direction of a considerable body of linguistic research began to shift from syntax and phonology, the, by then, focus ...
PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF ENGLISH TEXT STRUCTURE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-05)
This study is an integration of two frequently independent fields of inquiry in linguistics, text analysis and pragmatics. It brings together the focus in text analysis on the structural and cohesive aspects of monolog ...
SYNOPTIC ASYMMETRY: AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-12)
In interdisciplinary studies, the question arises of how best to mesh interrelated disciplines. Here, linguistics (in the complementary disciplines of discourse analysis and perspective) is inter-phased with New Testament ...
ASPECTS OF THE KAM LANGUAGE, AS REVEALED IN ITS NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-08)
Discourse analysis has long been understudied in Kam. This research aims to initiate the exploration of this new field by examining various aspects of Kam narrative discourse and reveal its structural properties through a ...
A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF 1 PETER
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2005-05)
The study focuses on two problems. The first concerns the structure of the text. The text is considered to be notoriously difficult to outline. The second problem is the function of the participle in 1 Peter. The letter ...
THEME IN GREEK HORTATORY DISCOURSE: VAN DIJK AND BEEKMAN-CALLOW APPROACHES APPLIED TO 1 JOHN
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-05)
Two independently motivated linguistic models of text analysis (the cognitively-based model of Van Dijk and the literary-semantic approach of Beekman and Callow) are used to show that the First Epistle of John is actually ...
THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF CULTURAL INFORMATION, LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE, AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS IN A HALBI MYTH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-07)
The mythology of the Halbi people reveals and reflects their cognitive orientation (and, in the process, validates their cultural values). The Halbis' myths are expressed through the linguistic form of narrative discourse ...