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    • Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English 

      Yang, Meng; 0009-0009-2699-2056 (2023-08-23)
      This dissertation examines a group of Metalinguistic Comparatives (MCs) in Mandarin Chinese, exploring what they suggest about the universality of comparatives. I show that Chinese MCs encode a more fine-grained scalarity ...
    • Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English 

      Williams, Emily AE; 0000-0002-6283-3126 (2022-08-12)
      This dissertation provides a descriptive account of the use of ‘artificial operators’ on Reddit. I adopt the term artificial operators to refer to written symbols (e.g., #, ™, ©, ®) with overlapping linguistic and ...
    • EMPLOYING A PARALLEL CORPUS-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING SEMANTIC PROSODY AND COLLOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR TO ARABIC EFL LEARNERS 

      Alzahrani, Alhassan Abdullah J; 0000-0003-4547-6582 (2021-08-10)
      This dissertation is intended to investigate if, and to what extent, a web-interface parallel corpus known as Reverso Context can assist Arabic EFL learners in addressing two aspects of word knowledge: semantic prosody and ...
    • LEARNING EFFICIENCIES FOR DIFFERENT ORTHOGRAPHIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAN CHARACTERS AND VIETNAMESE ROMANIZATION 

      Chiung, Wi-Vun Taiffalo (University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)
      In order to address the question of whether or not to abandon Han characters (Hanji), it is important to evaluate empirically the efficiency of Han writing. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of learning ...
    • ATTITUDES OF NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PROFESSORS TOWARD UNIVERSITY ESL STUDENTS 

      Wright, Shirley A. (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2000-08)
      This study focuses on native English-speaking business professors to explore issues of stereotyping and error gravity in terms of university ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Specifically, this dissertation has ...
    • THE FUNCTIONS OF REPORTED SPEECH IN DISCOURSE 

      Larson, Mildred Lucille (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 ...
    • PHILOSOPHY OF NORMATIVE DISCOURSE AND PERSUASION: A STUDY OF GA'DANG EXHORTATION AND ARGUMENTATION 

      Walrod, Michael Ross (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 ...
    • LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THREE GUJARATI FOLKTALES 

      Christian, Imanuel Gulabbhai (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, ...
    • ASPECTS OF KOREAN NARRATION 

      Hwang, Shin Ja Joo (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 ...
    • APPLICATION OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE TO THE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PROBLEMS IN TZELTAL (MAYAN) GRAMMAR 

      Walter, Stephen Leslie (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 ...
    • PROTO EAST MINDANAO AND ITS INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS 

      Gallman, Andrew Franklin II (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 

      Manabe, Takashi (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 ...
    • THE STRUCTURE OF NOMINALIZATION IN BURMESE 

      Hopple, Paulette M. (University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)
      Nominalized sentential elements have long been observed in Tibeto-Burman languages, but the role and extent of nominalized patterns have not been explored as a base of formative structuring. This dissertation examines ...
    • THE CODE MODEL OF COMMUNICATION: A POWERFUL METAPHOR IN LINGUISTIC METATHEORY 

      Blackburn II, Perry Louis (University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)
      The concept of communication is a fundamental notion in the metatheory of linguistics. This study explores the historical development and influence of a particular model of communication, labeled the ‘code model’. This ...
    • A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF 1 PETER 

      Starwalt, Ervin Ray (University of Texas at Arlington, 2005-05)
      The study focuses on two problems. The first concerns the structure of the text. The text is considered to be notoriously difficult to outline. The second problem is the function of the participle in 1 Peter. The letter ...
    • A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE 1998 UNITED STATES SENATE CANDIDATES' PRE-ELECTION DEBATES 

      Johnson-Evans, Deborah Ann (University of Texas at Arlington, 2000-08)
      Every two years, candidates for national-level public office participate in pre-election debates as part of their campaign. In debates, candidates attempt to distinguish themselves from their opponents and persuade the ...
    • PALATALIZATION IN ALBANIAN: AN ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF STOPS AND AFFRICATES 

      Kolgjini, Julie M. (University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
      Palatalization is a very common process cross-linguistically; it has been widely attested in both Indo-European (e.g. Slavic) and non-Indo-European languages (e.g. Bantu and Chinese). Palatalization can be broken down into ...
    • THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF CULTURAL INFORMATION, LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE, AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS IN A HALBI MYTH 

      Woods, Frances Margaret (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 ...
    • CONVERSATION AND THE SPEECH SITUATION: A TAGMEMIC ANALYSIS 

      Frank, David Benjamin (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 ...
    • BI-CONSONANTAL REDUPLICATION IN AMHARIC AND ETHIO-SEMITIC 

      Unseth, Peter Edward (University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-05)
      This dissertation is a study of the consonant reduplication process in Amharic, a process which is herein named “Bi-Consonantal Reduplication.” In this process, the last two consonants of a root are repeated, a process ...