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Like As An Exemplifier: A Description Of Its Construction And The Relations It Can Mark, Helena L. Osborne
Like As An Exemplifier: A Description Of Its Construction And The Relations It Can Mark, Helena L. Osborne
English Theses & Dissertations
This thesis analyzes data where like marks exemplification in naturally occurring discourse. The data for this study were obtained from thirteen interviews and consist of 193 utterances in which exemplifying like links two clauses. Each token consists of two components, each consisting of at least one clause (SV FINITE), linked by like. Based on Vincent's (2007) definition of exemplification, one component introduces a general situation and the other provides an example of that situation. This thesis presents several types of evidence that exemplifying like is a component in an exemplification construction. First, the semantic relation between components is …
Communicative Patterns And Framing Of Worldviews Among Malaysian Chinese., Susan Tan Siew Choo
Communicative Patterns And Framing Of Worldviews Among Malaysian Chinese., Susan Tan Siew Choo
Student Works (2010-2019)
This study explores the world views of two groups of Malaysian Ethnic Chinese: Chinese language dominant subjects and English language dominant subjects using an analysis of four aspects of the Family Descriptor Scale which was adapted from Pyong Min Gap’s (1995) unity scale. It sets out to answer the following research questions: whether there are differences in the patterns of communication among Chinese language dominant Chinese Malaysians and English language dominant Chinese Malaysians; in what ways the cultural and/or psychological aspects of framing affect respondents’ discourse, and to what extent the frames reflect the world view of the respondents. The …
Satire's Club: Reality, Reason, And Knowledge In Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis
Satire's Club: Reality, Reason, And Knowledge In Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis
Theses Digitization Project
Satire has been credited with possessing the power to deconstruct the distinctions we make between opposing concepts and thus lead us to reevaluate established views. Structuralist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed that language relies on sets of opposites, or binary pairs, to create meaning. Building on this idea, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida explored the hierarchies he believed were inherent in all binary pairs, arguing that on concept in each pair occupies a superior position in our consciousness.
The Coke Side Of Life:An Exploration Of Pre-Schoolers' Constructions Of Product And Selves Through Talk-In-Interaction Around Coca-Cola, Olivia Freeman
The Coke Side Of Life:An Exploration Of Pre-Schoolers' Constructions Of Product And Selves Through Talk-In-Interaction Around Coca-Cola, Olivia Freeman
Articles
Abstract Purpose – This paper proposes the activity-based focus group as a useful method with which to generate talk-in-interaction among pre-schoolers. Analytically, it aims to illustrate, how transcribed talk-in-interaction can be subjected to a discourse analytic lens, to produce insights into how pre-schoolers use ‘Coca-Cola’ as a conversational resource with which to build product-related meanings and social selves. Design/methodology/approach - Fourteen activity-based discussion groups with pre-schoolers aged between two and five years have been conducted in a number of settings including privately run Montessori schools and community based preschools in Dublin. The talk generated through these groups has been transcribed …
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
The present study set out to examine the lexical profiles of L1 (n = 30) and proficient L2 students' presentations (n = 30), aiming at finding out the overall lexical composition of successful academic presentations. It was also of interest to see how some of the presentations' lexical features compared to findings about the lexical composition of students' productively used vocabulary in writing. In addition to this, the analysis focused on the lexical composition of both groups' oral production in an attempt to uncover patterns of lexical uses that may need to be discussed in oral communication courses, specifically targeting …
Language And Linguistics, J. J'Fellers, Theresa Mcgarry
Language And Linguistics, J. J'Fellers, Theresa Mcgarry
ETSU Faculty Works
Excerpt: The ways in which language and linguistics figure in women’s science fiction reference communication both within human societies and among humans and other societies.
Laadan, Theresa Mcgarry
Laadan, Theresa Mcgarry
ETSU Faculty Works
Excerpt: Laadan is a language that was designed to express women’s perceptions.
Suzette Haden Elgin, Theresa Mcgarry
Suzette Haden Elgin, Theresa Mcgarry
ETSU Faculty Works
Excerpt: Suzette Haden Elgin is an American author who has published numerous science fiction novels, short stories, and poems.