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Test Excavations at the Tankersley Creek Site, A Multicomponent Campsite in Titus County, Texas
(Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation Highway Design Division, 1981-07)
Test excavations of the Tankersley Creek Site, 41TT108, in Titus County, Texas, uncovered a multi-component campsite ranging in time from the Early La Harpe Aspect to Caddo IV times. Component I was the earliest recognized ...
OPTIMIZATION OF CROSS FLOW FAN HOUSING FOR AIRPLANE WING INSTALLATION
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 1984-07)
The research dealt primarily with the optimization of the cross flow fan housing for its installation in an airplane wing. A cross flow fan was installed in a NACA 0018 wing section and various housing shapes were tested ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...