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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 ... -
A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE 1998 UNITED STATES SENATE CANDIDATES' PRE-ELECTION DEBATES
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2000-08)Every two years, candidates for national-level public office participate in pre-election debates as part of their campaign. In debates, candidates attempt to distinguish themselves from their opponents and persuade the ... -
A Discourse Analysis Of The Periphrastic Imperfect In The Greek New Testament Writings Of Luke
(Linguistics, 2010-07-19)Motivated by Bloomfield's belief that linguistic variation is not without motivation, this paper seeks to determine the distinction between the morphological imperfect and periphrastic imperfect of Koine Greek within the ... -
"Does Your Throat Hurt More In The Morning Or Throughout The Day?" "Yes.": Intercultural Medical Discourse
(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
(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 ... -
EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF TWO DIAGNOSTICS OF KOREAN UNACCUSATIVITY
(2016-01-14)According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH), intransitive verbs can be divided into two classes: unaccusative verbs (e.g. fall) and unergative verbs (e.g. dance) (Burzio 1986, Perlmutter 1978). Several approaches have ... -
EMPLOYING A PARALLEL CORPUS-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING SEMANTIC PROSODY AND COLLOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR TO ARABIC EFL LEARNERS
(2021-08-10)This dissertation is intended to investigate if, and to what extent, a web-interface parallel corpus known as Reverso Context can assist Arabic EFL learners in addressing two aspects of word knowledge: semantic prosody and ... -
FACILITATIVE OR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ADULT LEARNERS TO ACQUIRE ORAL PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)Social interaction in the language classroom has been said to contribute to the acquisition of oral proficiency in a target language by presumably facilitating comprehension and learner production through negotiation of ... -
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 ... -
A GRAMMAR OF TWO PACOH TEXTS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-12)The goals of this grammar are threefold: first to learn more about the Pacoh language of Viet Nam and leave a record of the results for future students of Pacoh; second, to learn more about discourse structure, and third, ... -
A Grammar Of West Coast Bajau
(Linguistics, 2007-09-17)This dissertation is a description of the grammar of West Coast (WC) Bajau, a western Austronesian language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia by some 60,000 people. Drawing extensively from elicited data as well as a corpus of ... -
(im)politeness In Casual Conversations Among Female Mandarin Speakers: A Practice-based Perspective
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The fact that people have the choice to use different words and attitudes to convey messages of various significance has been attributed to politeness concerns. However, what constitutes politeness varies from culture to ... -
THE IMPACT OF E-MAIL USE ON FOURTH GRADERS' WRITING SKILLS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-12)The growing interest in computer use at home and in the workplace has led to the incorporation of computer skills into school curricula. Numerous claims assert the benefit of computers, but questions remain concerning the ... -
INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF RELATIVE CLAUSE PROCESSING DIFFICULTY: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN
(2016-05-11)This study investigates the influence of syntactic, semantic, and frequency-of-occurrence information, as well as role of memory in the comprehension of complex sentences. This was done by examining the processing of Russian ... -
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 ... -
INTERRELATIONS OF PROSODY, CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND DISCOURSE PRAGMATICS IN TARIFIT BERBER
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)The interconnections that exist among prosody, clause structure, and discourse pragmatics have been noted by many linguists (e.g., Halliday 1967; Givon 1983; Longacre 1983). These interconnections have included such phenomena ... -
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 ... -
Kangri In Context: An Areal Perspective
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)This study is a grammatical description and analysis of the dialect of Pahari known as Kangri, spoken in and around Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It presents data for Phonology, Tone, Stress, Morphology, and Syntax ... -
LEARNING EFFICIENCIES FOR DIFFERENT ORTHOGRAPHIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAN CHARACTERS AND VIETNAMESE ROMANIZATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)In order to address the question of whether or not to abandon Han characters (Hanji), it is important to evaluate empirically the efficiency of Han writing. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of learning ... -
LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THREE GUJARATI FOLKTALES
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-05)This study represents an attempt to place linguistic analysis in the cultural setting. The linguistic aspect of this study is presented in the framework of discourse grammar following the model developed by Longacre (1976, ...