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Cheyenne
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1960) -
White Miao Consonant Contrasts
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1974-04-28) -
White Miao Tone Contrasts
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1976) -
White Miao Phonation Types and Tone Contrasts
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1976-09-06) -
White Miao: Tones, Consonants and Vowels
(University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, 1977-07-30) -
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 ...