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UNRAVELLING MURDER AND MAYHEM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF A WIRU DIVINATION ACCOUNT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The endeavor to understand another emic view of reality offers a conceptual challenge to any observer-analyst. This paper presents the author's reflections upon his encounter with another culture and language and his ... -
The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: It is well-known that African American Vernacular English (hereafter AAVE) displays regional variation. In the case of the (th) variable, Wolfram (1969) found that ... -
The variable elision of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese: a case study
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: European varieties of Portuguese exhibit a process whereby unstressed vowels, particularly schwa, optionally undergo elision: an item such as idade ‘idea’ can be ... -
The Verbs Of Esther: A Discourse Analysis Of A Post-exilic Text
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of a Post-Exilic Text seeks to describe the narrative main clause verbs, the quotation formula verbs, and the verbs in quotations found in the text of Esther. These verbs provide ... -
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(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 ... -
Voice And Valence-altering Operations In Falam Chin: A Role And Reference Grammar Approach
(Linguistics, 2011-03-03)This dissertation describes and analyzes voice and valence-altering operations in Falam Chin, a Tibeto-Burman language of Burma. The data is explained within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), which supplies ... -
Vowel Hiatus and Faithfulness in Tohono O'odham Reduplication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology PressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000) -
We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going to Die, and Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both ... -
“‘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
(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 ... -
Western Attitudes toward the Korean Language: An Overview of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Mission Literature
(University of Hawaii Press, 2002-06)Descriptions of Korea’s linguistic situation written by Westerners during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only reveal native and foreign attitudes toward the Korean language but also provide insight into ... -
White Miao Consonant Contrasts
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1974-04-28) -
White Miao Phonation Types and Tone Contrasts
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1976-09-06) -
White Miao Tone Contrasts
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1976) -
White Miao: Tones, Consonants and Vowels
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1977-07-30) -
Who builds it, who benefits? Deepening student and faculty knowledge about wikipedia’s scholarly value
(Springer Nature, 2023-02)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Students and faculty can jointly play a role in how Open Educational Resources are created and deployed by assigning students to expand Wikipedia pages. By producing ... -
WORD ORDER IN BIBLICAL HEBREW POETRY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)Syntacticians generally focus on prose texts of a language when studying word order rather than examining poetry. The general consensus is that the stylization of poetry exercises too great an influence on the text to allow ...