Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“‘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 ...