Browsing Laurel Smith Stvan. Ph.D. by Title
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Pragmatics: A multidisciplinary perspective
(International Cognitive Linguistics AssociationDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009) -
Review of The Language of Speech and Writing
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Semantic incorporation as an account for some bare singular count noun uses in English
(2009)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This work investigates inter-related syntactic and semantic issues concerning bare singular count nouns (BSCNs) in English. I explore differences in interpretation, ... -
Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of "stress"
(Equinox, 2013)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances ... -
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, July 20-22)Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ... -
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ... -
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-06-07)Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ... -
Who builds it, who benefits? Deepening student and faculty knowledge about wikipedia’s scholarly value
(Springer Nature, 2023-02)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Students and faculty can jointly play a role in how Open Educational Resources are created and deployed by assigning students to expand Wikipedia pages. By producing ...