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A Discourse Analysis Of The Periphrastic Imperfect In The Greek New Testament Writings Of Luke
(Linguistics, 2010-07-19)
Motivated by Bloomfield's belief that linguistic variation is not without motivation, this paper seeks to determine the distinction between the morphological imperfect and periphrastic imperfect of Koine Greek within the ...
Speech Act, Evidentiality, and Implicature in the Korean Topic-Construction
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal ...
Nous and On in Semi-formal French: Pragmatic Uses of Institutionality and Distancing
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-16)
French linguists have long noted the substitution of the indefinite pronoun on for the 1st person plural pronoun nous, in both formal and informal situations. Studies of informal conversation have found this replacement ...
We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going to Die, and Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both ...
Interactional Entanglements: A Frame Analysis of Negotiated Identities in Ethnographic Research on the Language Classroom
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
This study examines interactional entanglements that occurred during ethnographer-participant interactions in a language classroom. It draws upon Goffman's notion of framing to analyze how research participants use deixis ...
Azerbaijani-Russian Code-switching And Code-mixing: Form, Function, And Identity
(Linguistics, 2010-03-03)
From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan ...
Articulations Of Identity Within High School Cliques: Language Choices In Boyat And Emo Filipino Youth Groups
(Linguistics, 2010-07-19)
This dissertation adds to work exploring where language stands in the shaping of adolescent speakers' social identities, since identities emerge through discursive and social practices, and social selves are produced through ...