Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Author "Stvan, Laurel Smith"
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The Acquisition Of Chinese Nominal Classifier Systems By L2 Adult Learners
Liang, Szu-Yen (Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The present study explores how L2 adult learners of Chinese acquire Chinese classifiers and provides pedagogical suggestions for more effective teaching of Chinese. 29 native speakers of Korean, 29 native speakers of English ... -
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) -
American Sign Language Verb Categories In Constructed Action
Rogers, K. Larry (Linguistics, 2012-07-25)The American Sign Language construction commonly known as "role-shift" superficially resembles mimic forms, however unlike mime, role-shift is a type of depicting construction in ASL discourse (Roy 1989). The signer may ... -
Are We Speaking The Same Language? The Use Of The Mother Tongue By Native English Speaking Teachers In English As A Foreign Language Classrooms
McFadden, Presley Doyal (Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The question of whether or not to use students' first language in second language acquisition is not a new one (Harbord, 1992; Duff and Polio, 1990). However, the way this question is addressed by the students themselves ... -
Articulations Of Identity Within High School Cliques: Language Choices In Boyat And Emo Filipino Youth Groups
Almubayei, Dalal Saleh (Linguistics, 2010-07-19)This dissertation adds to work exploring where language stands in the shaping of adolescent speakers' social identities, since identities emerge through discursive and social practices, and social selves are produced through ... -
Azerbaijani-Russian Code-switching And Code-mixing: Form, Function, And Identity
Zuercher, Kenneth (Linguistics, 2010-03-03)From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan ... -
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) -
A Corpus Study Of Requests In Naturally Occurring Spoken American English: A Context Analysis Approach
Brown, Lynnelle RhinierGiven the variety of ways that speakers of American English can make requests, relatively little has been discovered on why speakers choose the forms they do. Using data from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American ... -
A Corpus-based Analysis Of Discourse Anaphora In English And Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach
Kim, Sok-hun (Linguistics, 2013-07-22)This dissertation explores discourse anaphora in English and Korean by using a neo-Gricean pragmatic approach with corpus-based data. Very little study of Korean discourse anaphora has yet taken place at the inter-sentential ... -
"Does Your Throat Hurt More In The Morning Or Throughout The Day?" "Yes.": Intercultural Medical Discourse
May, Sarah Elizabeth (Linguistics, 2008-04-22)An increasing number of immigrants to the United States do not use English as their first, or even second, language. Members of the medical community who treats such patients often do not speak the range of home languages ... -
The Emergence Of Pragmatic Softeners In Spanish By Instructed Learners Of Spanish In The Study Abroad And Immersion Contexts
Welch, Catharine (Linguistics, 2009-09-16)This dissertation explores and expands the term pragmatic softening as produced and perceived by L2 learners of Spanish. The learners included 36 intermediate-level learners studying in a U.S.-based immersion academy and ... -
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) -
Overseas Language Learning Experience: Student Beliefs About Their Teachers' Qualifications
Bailey, Frank Bradford (Linguistics, 2007-08-23)This study investigates ESL student beliefs about ESL teachers' overseas experience (OE), language learning experience (LLE), and overseas language learning experience (OLLE), the combination of the two, as well as student ... -
Politeness Devices In The Tuvan Language
Voinov, VitalyWhereas a few core areas of the Tuvan language (such as phonology and morphology) have been fairly well described by linguists, pragmasemantic topics in the language, including politeness, have until now not been probed ... -
Pragmatics: A multidisciplinary perspective
Stvan, Laurel Smith (International Cognitive Linguistics AssociationDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009)