Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Author "Stvan, Laurel Smith"
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Review of The Language of Speech and Writing
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Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English
Yang, Meng; 0009-0009-2699-2056 (2023-08-23)This dissertation examines a group of Metalinguistic Comparatives (MCs) in Mandarin Chinese, exploring what they suggest about the universality of comparatives. I show that Chinese MCs encode a more fine-grained scalarity ... -
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 ... -
Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights From Information Structure
Mwamzandi, Mohamed Yusuf (Linguistics, 2014-07-14)Cross-linguistic pragmatic studies have shown non-canonical word order can often be explained if information structure is taken into consideration. This dissertation explores word order variation in Swahili (SVO, Bantu) ... -
Talking To Strangers--a Sociolinguistic Experiment: Variation In Initial Dyadic Interactions Between Spanish-speakers In Early 21st Century Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dziugis, Mary Ann (Linguistics, 2011-03-03)What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal ... -
#TWITTERDISCOURSEMARKERS: A CORPORA BASED STUDY OF THE PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF HASHTAGS
Browning, Darcey Nicole (2017-08-11)In this dissertation, I posit that hashtags can function as discourse markers, where space constraints of 140 characters on Twitter complicate their realization. Through the progression of research questions that shape ... -
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 ... -
“‘WELL I DON’T LIKE ABORTION’ WELL THEN DON’T HAVE ONE”: A CORPUS-ASSISTED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE STANCE FUNCTIONS OF SOME DISCOURSE MARKERS IN MEDIATED ABORTION DEBATE
Fleckenstein, Kristen; 0000-0002-5403-7760 (2019-07-22)This dissertation examines the use of discourse markers as a stance-taking resource in written discourse on abortion. Drawing from four corpora collected from editorials, blogs, Twitter, and Reddit, I focus on the discourse ...