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We Can Do This / Juntos Sí Podemos: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Government-Sponsored Covid-19 Public Service Announcements (Psas) In English And Spanish, Katalina R. Peterson

Scripps Senior Theses

Communication inequities are known to negatively impact people from socioeconomically and linguistically disadvantaged backgrounds during public health crises (Gomez-Aguinaga et al., 2021). In the United States, Hispanics—especially those who speak Spanish—have been among the communities most disproportionately affected by COVID-19 (National Center for Health Statistics, 2022). The pandemic has underscored the importance of understanding the linguistic and discursive strategies implemented by institutions entrusted with disseminating public health information to reach diverse audiences, especially the most vulnerable. This paper analyzes the linguistic practices used to create public service announcements (PSA) produced in English and Spanish by health agencies at both the …

Conceptual Metaphor Usage In Glenn Youngkin’S 2021 Gubernatorial Campaign, Sara Rose Hotaling

Political Science & Geography Faculty Publications

In “Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language,” Lakoff and Johnson suggest that conceptual metaphors pervade everyday language and produce the reality of our world. Conceptual metaphors act similarly within the occupational register of political campaigns in that they both support and construct a set of beliefs that become the reality of politicians, political parties, and constituents. In this language research, the conceptual metaphors employed by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin during his 2021 gubernatorial campaign were identified, analyzed, and categorized. The corpus of this research consists of two gubernatorial debates, three campaign speeches, and one television interview. An example of conceptual metaphor …

The Lived Experiences Of Esl Nontraditional Rrts While Preparing To Challenge The National Board For Respiratory Care Clinical Simulation Exam, Jose A. Lammoglia

Theses and Dissertations

This applied dissertation was designed to provide information to respiratory therapy graduates from two-year associate in science programs, faculty, and administrators about the cognitive and noncognitive strategies employed by graduates to prepare and pass the CSE. To date, no available information on the role played by the lived experiences of Rt graduates while preparing to challenge the CSE. The researcher developed a questionnaire to conduct a qualitative phenomenological descriptive lived experience survey of ESL Hispanic nontraditional graduates from associate of science programs in South Florida who took the NBRC national board examinations between January 2015 and March 2022. An analysis …

Information Structure In Moklen, Daniel Peter Loss

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study investigates aspects of information structure in Moklen, an endangered Austronesian language of Southern Thailand. The two objectives were to study the syntactic and informational properties of intonation units and to study the relationship between information status and changes in word-form. With respect to the first objective, Hypothesis 1 held that clausal intonation units would conform to the one-new-idea constraint, while Hypothesis 2 held that variations in argument structure could be accounted for by the given-before-new principle. Regarding changes in word-form, Hypothesis 3 held that use of monosyllabic alternants would correspond to “given” information statuses. To assess these hypotheses, …

ปัจจัยด้านวรรณยุกต์และโน้ตดนตรีที่มีต่อการใช้เสียงก้องพร่าในการร้องเพลงภาษาไทย, ธนกร อัยกร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษานี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาปัจจัยระดับเสียงของวรรณยุกต์และโน้ตดนตรีที่ทำให้เกิดเสียงก้องพร่าในการร้องเพลงภาษาไทยโดยใช้เทคนิคโวคอลฟราย และ 2) ศึกษาลักษณะทางกลสัทศาสตร์ของเสียงก้องพร่าที่ปรากฏในการร้องเพลงภาษาไทยโดยใช้เทคนิคโวคอลฟราย เก็บข้อมูลจากผู้ร่วมวิจัยที่ประกอบอาชีพร้องเพลง ทั้งหมด 10 คน เพศชาย 5 คน เพศหญิง 5 คน อายุตั้งแต่ 20 – 30 ปี บันทึกเสียงผู้ร่วมการทดลอง จากการร้องเพลงภาษาไทยที่ผู้วิจัยแต่งขึ้นใหม่ที่มีการควบคุมวรรณยุกต์อย่างสมดุล ผู้ร่วมวิจัยได้รับอนุญาตให้ออกแบบวิธีการร้องด้วยตนเอง และให้เลือกใช้เสียงก้องพร่า (รู้จักในชื่อเทคนิคโวคอลฟราย) ได้ตามอัธยาศัย จำแนกเสียงก้องพร่าจากการฟังประกอบการพิจารณาแผนภาพคลื่นเสียงเพื่อวิเคราะห์การปรากฏในแต่ละวรรณยุกต์และโน้ตดนตรี ใช้วิธีการทางสถิติด้วย Man – Whitney U Test เพื่อยืนยันข้อแตกต่างที่พบ ศึกษาลักษณะทางกลสัทศาสตร์ของเสียงก้องพร่าทั้งหมด เพื่อระบุประเภทย่อยซึ่งอ้างอิงจากการศึกษาของ Keating et al (2015) รวมถึงวัดค่าระยะเวลาเสียงก้องพร่าจากเสียงสระทั้งหมด ผลการศึกษาปฏิสัมพันธ์ของวรรณยุกต์และโน้ตดนตรีต่อการเกิดเสียงก้องพร่าในการร้องเพลงไทย พบว่า เสียงก้องพร่านั้นสามารถปรากฏได้ในทุกช่วงระดับเสียง แต่ปรากฏในช่วงโน้ตเสียงต่ำมากที่สุดอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ และโดยภาพรวม ผู้ร่วมวิจัยเพศชายมีการเลือกใช้เสียงก้องพร่ามากกว่าในทุกช่วงระดับเสียง นอกจากนี้ ในช่วงโน้ตเสียงต่ำ เสียงก้องพร่าปรากฏมากที่สุดกับกลุ่มวรรณยุกต์ต่ำสำหรับผู้ร่วมวิจัยทั้งสองกลุ่ม แต่ในช่วงโน้ตเสียงกลาง ผู้ร่วมวิจัยเพศหญิงใช้เสียงก้องพร่าในกลุ่มวรรณยุกต์สูงมากที่สุด ผลการศึกษาลักษณะทางกลสัทศาสตร์ของเสียงก้องพร่าในการร้องเพลงไทย พบว่า โน้ตดนตรีมีอิทธิพลต่อการปรากฏของเสียงก้องพร่าในแต่ละวรณยุกต์ ส่งผลให้ประเภทย่อยของเสียงก้องพร่าค่อนข้างกระจายตัว เพื่อให้เกิดความเหมาะสมกับระดับเสียงที่แตกต่างกัน ทั้งในแง่ของระดับเสียงโน้ตดนตรีและระดับเสียงของวรรณยุกต์ และถึงแม้มีการกระจายตัวค่อนข้างมาก แต่โดยภาพรวม เสียงก้องพร่าแบบโวคอลฟราย ปรากฏในสัดส่วนที่มากที่สุด ซึ่งผู้ร่วมวิจัยทุกคนใช้เสียงก้องพร่าแบบโวคอลฟรายในช่วงโน้ตเสียงต่ำ อีกทั้งโน้ตดนตรียังส่งผลให้ค่าระยะเวลาเสียงก้องพร่าแตกต่างกัน นอกจากนี้ ในช่วงโน้ตเสียงต่ำและกลาง วรรณยุกต์เอกและโท ส่งผลให้ระยะเวลาเสียงก้องพร่ามากกว่าวรรณยุกต์อื่นๆ แต่ในช่วงโน้ตเสียงสูงกลับพบว่าวรรณยุกต์ตรี ส่งผลให้ระยะเวลาของเสียงก้องพร่านั้นมากกว่าในวรรณยุกต์อื่นๆ

The Relationship Between Definiteness Theories And Nominal Expressions In Thai Narratives, Nimit Kumwapee

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This objective of this study is to 1) propose the definiteness rankings of Thai nominal expressions according to different definiteness theories and 2) examine the correlation between different definiteness theories with regards to the definiteness degrees of different types of nominal expressions. This study examines the relationship between 16 types of Thai nominal expressions and four definiteness theories (Uniqueness, Familiarity, Identifiability, and Accessibility), analyzing 6,007 nominal expressions from Thai-Zlatev Corpus, Aakanee Website, and Thai Folktale Database. The distributional patterns with respect to Uniqueness, Familiarity, and Identifiability shows that zero pronouns tend to denote unique, familiar and identifiable entities while nominalization …

The Effects Of Pictorial-Based Homophones In English On Thai Consumer Judgements, Sijaporn Jenjirawattana

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of the study are 1) to investigate the effect of pictorial-based homophone priming on the purchasing decisions of Thai consumers for products advertised in English; and 2) to examine the effectiveness of pictorial-based homophones as primes in a non-native context among Thai speakers of English, compared to native English speakers. Three homophone pairs selected for the study were “sail-sale”, “deer-dear”, and “hole-whole.” These pairs were presented in two forms including pictorial and textual. Each homophone pair, in each form, was utilized in the experiment to explore their distinct meanings and attributes. Two groups of participants consisted of 30 …

Solving The Cherry-Picking Problem In Legislative History Use – A Corpus-Based Approach For Empirical Intentionalist Legal Interpretation Analysis, Brett James Hashimoto, James Heilpern

Faculty Publications

The use of legislative histories under intentionalist/purposivist theories of statutory interpretation is frequently criticized because it can be easily biased (see, e.g., Scheppele, 2012). To date, corpus-based statutory interpretation has relied almost exclusively on textualist theory of legal interpretation. However, corpus linguistic methods are not necessarily bound to any one theory (e.g., Biber & Reppen, 2015). The present study analyses two legislative histories as corpora and compares them against a general corpus of English to determine if interpretative theory makes a meaningful difference in two example cases (Costello v. United States, 2012; Taniguchi v. Kan Saipan Pacific, 2012). Senses of …

Corpus Of Founding Era American English: Designing A Corpus For Interpreting The United States Constitution, Brett James Hashimoto

Faculty Publications

The original meaning of words or phrases is often in dispute in Founding Era legislation, especially the US Constitution. The Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA) accurately provides evidence for the meaning of contested terms during the Founding Era. COFEA consists of 126,394 texts and over 136 million words. This corpus has been and is being used by legal researchers and interpreters in scholarly research as well as various courts, including the Supreme Court. This paper describes the motivation for the creation of COFEA and describes the process of designing and collecting the corpus.

Rapid Prediction Of Verbs Based On Pronoun Interpretation Is Modulated By Individual Differences In Pronoun Processing, Jeffrey Jack Green

Faculty Publications

How quickly can pronoun interpretation affect the prediction of a following verb? Readers were presented with implicit causality contexts in which a specific pronoun and following verb were predictable. N400 and reaction time results indicated that predictable verbs were facilitated relative to unpredictable verbs when following predicted pronouns, suggesting that verbal predictions were rapidly updated based on pronoun interpretation. There was also some evidence for rapid updating of verb predictions after unexpected pronouns, but this was modulated by individual differences. Some readers appear to have placed higher weight on top–down implicit causality predictions to interpret unexpected pronouns, and others on …

An Analysis Of Ukrainians’ Language Attitudes And Ideology: A Conflict-Catalyzed Identity Shift, Kateryna Kravchenko, Joseph A. Stanley

Faculty Publications

Literature Review:

• Positions of Russian language have traditionally been strong
• “The State has to ensure the comprehensive development and functioning of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of social life throughout the entire territory of Ukraine” (Constitution of Ukraine, art. 10)
• The majority of Ukrainians (74%) have never experienced discrimination against Russian speakers by Ukrainian speakers, and 67% have never experienced discrimination against Ukrainian speakers by Russian speakers (Masenko, 2009, pp. 117-119).
• After 2014, slight changes in attitudes: more positive views towards Ukrainian, worsening of attitudes towards Russian (Kulyk, 2016)

Utahns Sound Utahn When They Avoid Sounding Utahn, Joseph A. Stanley

Faculty Publications

Today’s sociolinguistic variable: realization of post-tonic, unstressed /tən/ – e.g. mountain, button, kitten, satin – Hereafter, a Wellsesque inspirated label: MOUNTAIN – Three main variants:

1. [tʰɨn] • aspirated alveolar stop + reduced vowel + nasal • AmE citation form, formal, careful • Probably accessible by most speakers.

2. [ʔn̩] • glottal stop + syllabic nasal • AmE standard, casual, typical. • The most common for probably all speakers.

3. [ʔɨn] • glottal stop + reduced vowel + nasal • Non-mainstream: found in Utah, New York, and scattered elsewhere (Roberts 2006, Freeman et al. 2012, Eddington & Brown 2021, Davidson …

Forum On “The Emotional Landscape Of English Medium Instruction (Emi) In Higher Education”, Sara Hillman, Wendy Li, Özgür Şahan, Kari Sahan, Indika Liyanage, Tiefu Zhang, Rui Yuan, Sarah Hopkyns, Christina Gkonou, Pramod K. Sah

All Works

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La Descortesía En Los Comentarios Digitales De La Prensa Deportiva. El Tenis, Mucho Más Que Un Juego, David Sánchez-Jiménez

Publications and Research

Comments on sports news published on the digital platforms of newspapers have turned these spaces into forums for debate in which homogeneous social communities are established. The aim of this research is to find out how the participants of these platforms interact in the sports press and what impoliteness strategies they use when evaluating the text of the news and the comments of other users. For this purpose, a qualitative textual analysis of a corpus of 1,000 digital comments produced on the Australian Open 2022 final in four of the most widely distributed Spanish newspapers with the highest national circulation, …

Translanguaging In The Mtb-Mle Classroom: A Case Of An Island School With Multilingual Learners, Marvin C. Casalan

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics

Several studies on the development of translanguaging as a linguistic resource in a multilingual classroom have been done. The findings of the research imply that using translanguaging in English language teaching and learning is a useful method, especially in a classroom where English is taught as a second or foreign language. The primary goal of this research, on the other hand, is to look into the languages presented in an MTB-MLE as a subject and investigate the linguistic hybridity of the mother tongue used in the classroom as a language exercise, and find out the teacher’s perspectives on teaching a …

Perkembangan Kanal Oud Batavia Abad Xvii–Xx: Tinjauan Sejarah Perkotaan, Heru Mulyanto

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Urban environmental problems such as flooding and water pollution have actually occurred in Jakarta (formerly Batavia) since the Dutch colonial era. Batavia was one of the cities with a myriad of urban planning problems, such as canal flooding which continues to this day. This article was written to find the root of the water problem in Jakarta by reviewing the development of canal construction from the Oud Batavia to the Nieuwe Batavia era. This study was conducted to identify the colonial government’s methods for dealing with flooding and repairing problematic canals. Thus, this research is expected to provide an insight …

Bingkai Heteroseksisme Dalam Karya Sastra Indonesia Kontemporer Bertemakan Homoseksualitas, Lee Yeon

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Since the early 2000’s, Indonesian literary works raising the issue of homosexuality have been increasing in number. However, the proliferation of discourse on homosexuality cannot be necessarily interpreted as Indonesian literature’s increasing sympathy with homosexuality. Adequate discussion is needed regarding perceptions, perspectives, and attitudes towards homosexuality in literary works with the theme of homosexuality. In relation to this, we found that works raising the issue of homosexuality have not been able to escape from the framework of the prevailing social order and norms, namely heterosexism. This study aims to see how the idea of heterosexism works in narrating and embodying …

Dampak Strategi Koping Masyarakat Jawa Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19, Faruq Faruq, Hanum Midya Syahrina, Nureyzwan Sabani, Siti Rahmawati, Laksmy Dewi Sukmakarti, Nanik Prihartanti

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The Coping Strategy is a way that is considered effective in overcoming the problems experienced by the Indonesian people during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the Javanese people. The implementation of the coping strategy will have a positive impact on the lives of the Javanese people in carrying out daily activities. The research method used in this study is qualitative to uncover the meaning of social problems experienced by individuals or communities, with the focus of research being the impact of implementing the coping strategy of the Javanese community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data collection technique used in this study …

Lexico-Grammatical Analysis Of Translated Japanese Immigration Law, Kasumi Arciaga

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics

Legal language is a specialized language. However, it is not universal, although its uniqueness and specialty in every legal language are ubiquitous. The lexical and grammatical aspects of legal texts have not been the subject of much attention as there is an evident dearth of research on this aspect of the legal language. The present study is, therefore, the first study that has looked at lexical and grammatical features of the Japanese immigration law, which has been translated into English. The sum of 70,000 words in selected immigration acts, which were translated from 2020 to 2021, was used as data …

Analysis Of Core Claims, Assumptions, And Silences: A Basis For Re-Designing The Enacted K-12 English Curriculum And Reconceptualizing Communicative Competence, Alejandro S. Bernardo

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics

This paper examines the core claims, assumptions, and silences of the enacted K-12 English curriculum in the Philippines, guided by three important questions: What does the curriculum claim will happen to those using or exposed to it? What does the curriculum say about the English language and learning it? What does the curriculum say nothing about? These questions generate an understanding of how Philippine English (PE) and communicative competence are conceptualized in the written English curriculum currently running in the country. How the enacted curriculum (dis)regards Philippine English and how it (mis)construes communicative competence are problematized in this paper that …