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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 ... -
PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF ENGLISH TEXT STRUCTURE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-05)This study is an integration of two frequently independent fields of inquiry in linguistics, text analysis and pragmatics. It brings together the focus in text analysis on the structural and cohesive aspects of monolog ... -
APPLICATION OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE TO THE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PROBLEMS IN TZELTAL (MAYAN) GRAMMAR
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-05)Underlying the dominant theory of language today is the assumption that language is innate to homo sapiens. Theoretical and analytic work at all levels of linguistic inquiry are predicated upon this assumption. The present ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
THEME IN GREEK HORTATORY DISCOURSE: VAN DIJK AND BEEKMAN-CALLOW APPROACHES APPLIED TO 1 JOHN
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-05)Two independently motivated linguistic models of text analysis (the cognitively-based model of Van Dijk and the literary-semantic approach of Beekman and Callow) are used to show that the First Epistle of John is actually ... -
ASPECTS OF KOREAN NARRATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-05)A dominant trend in linguistics has been sentence grammar, which deals with structures leading up to the sentence level. With more studies on semantics and pragmatics, however, there has been a growing concern for discourse ... -
SYNOPTIC ASYMMETRY: AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-12)In interdisciplinary studies, the question arises of how best to mesh interrelated disciplines. Here, linguistics (in the complementary disciplines of discourse analysis and perspective) is inter-phased with New Testament ... -
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, ... -
PROTO EAST MINDANAO AND ITS INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)This study reconstructs Proto East Mindanao, the ancestor language from which the East Mindanao languages have developed. This is accomplished by tracing the development from the ancestor language through the intermediate ... -
CONVERSATION AND THE SPEECH SITUATION: A TAGMEMIC ANALYSIS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)Until recently, conversation, considered even now by some to be outside the scope of linguistics, has been neglected in linguistic research. Chapter One of this dissertation argues that the popular distinction between ... -
PHILOSOPHY OF NORMATIVE DISCOURSE AND PERSUASION: A STUDY OF GA'DANG EXHORTATION AND ARGUMENTATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)This work applies the insights of textlinguistics to the study of normative or persuasive discourse. Although textlinguistics is already somewhat interdisciplinary in character, it was found to be too narrow to account for ... -
A SPEECH ACT THEORY BASED INTERPRETATION MODEL FOR WRITTEN TEXTS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1984-12)In recent years, so called Speech Act Theory (a branch of the philosophy of language) has focused on such concepts as 'intention' (or 'intentionality'), 'interaction' and 'comprehension'. The author believes that this ... -
SEX-BASED DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT: A TAGMEMIC SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)This work applies insights from sociolinguistics, text-linguistics, social psychology, women's studies, informal logic, and tagmemic theory to the task of investigating sex-based textual differences in argumentative text. ... -
PROTO-QUICHEAN KINSHIP
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)The Quichean languages are comprised of a family of related languages of the Mayan stock, spoken principally in the highlands of Guatemala in Central America. Some of the kinship terminologies currently in use by the ... -
COMPUTER ASSISTED DIALECT ADAPTATION: THE TUCANOAN EXPERIMENT
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)This dissertation provides the theoretical basis for a computer program that adapts textual material from one language of the Tucanoan family to another. Tucanoan languages are spoken by small groups living in southeastern ... -
ON THE INTERACTION OF LINGUISTIC TEXTS AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)This study examines some aspects of the interaction of linguistic texts and human knowledge. The quest for greater context in linguistics suggests the focus of this study, viz., the effect of a text on the knowledge of its ... -
SOME MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE FOCUS SYSTEM IN ISNAG
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)This study attempts to specify how the syntactic form signals the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the focus system in the Isnag language. It specifies the correlation between the semantics and grammar of focus by proposing ... -
THE STRUCTURE OF THAI NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)This study presents the interrelated concerns of Thai narrative discourse which include macrostructure, texture, constituent structure, and cultural information. The macrostructure is the global meaning of a discourse which ... -
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The goal of this work is to discover information that will improve the selection and design of listening comprehension materials for adult second language learners. Chapter 1 treats adult versus child language learning and ...