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“‘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 ... -
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 ...