Browsing Laurel Smith Stvan. Ph.D. by Author "Stvan, Laurel Smith"
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Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?.
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Chicago Linguistic SocietyLinguistics Department, 1993) -
Advice online: Advice-giving in an American Internet health column
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Cambridge, 2008) -
Corpora for University Language Teachers
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, 2009-09) -
Corpus linguistics of the vernacular: “catching a cold” in text types that complement Google Books data
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2014-04-11) -
The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English
Stvan, Laurel Smith (John Benjamins, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One overlooked and highly polysemous English noun phrase form is the bare singular, i.e. a null determiner with a singular count noun complement. Occurring in all ... -
Health Literacy: A Single Meaning or Three Senses Conflated?
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunidad Valenciana (IULMA), 2008) -
How About It? The Role of Accent and Context in Determining Discourse Function
Stvan, Laurel Smith (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics (MITWPL)Linguistics Department, Northwestern University, 2000) -
Lexical Conflation and Edible Iconicity: Two Sources of Ambiguity in American Vernacular Health Terminology
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Walter de Gruyter, 2007) -
Pragmatics: A multidisciplinary perspective
Stvan, Laurel Smith (International Cognitive Linguistics AssociationDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009) -
Review of The Language of Speech and Writing
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Linguist List, 2001-12-01) -
Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of "stress"
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Equinox, 2013)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances ... -
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, July 20-22)Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ... -
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
Stvan, Laurel Smith (Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-06-07)Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...