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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Forms of address"”.
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A linguistic study of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic
… analysis within a sociolinguistic framework of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic. The thesis consists of four main parts and three appendixes. Part One is devoted to an account of the social and linguistic background, methods of data collection, followed by a chapter on …
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Forms of address in Jordanian Arabic with some additional references to speech fellowships
… within a socio-linguistic framework, of linguistic forms of address regularly observed in Jordanian Speech, having regard particularly to the status and role-relations of interlocutors. The linguistic characteristics of such relations are stated in lexical, grammatical and phonological …
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Language use and gender in the Italian parliament
… in the Italian parliament. The increase of female politicians in the public sphere in Italy and throughout the world justifies the investigation of their language use, in relation to that of their male counterparts. In this project, I analyse the use of three linguistic phenomena: 1. …
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Pronouns of address in informal contexts: a comparison of two dialects of Colombian Spanish
The paradigm of forms of address in Modern Spanish is subject to dialectal variation. Many Latin American varieties of Spanish, i.e. Costa Rican, Argentinean, Chilean, among others, display a tripartite system of second person pronouns comprised of tú, usted and vos. The case of Colombian Spanish …
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The Complexity of Pronominal Address in Spanish: The Case of Hispanic Communities in Philadelphia and Their Linguistic Landscape
This thesis examines the use of Spanish, specifically the use of Pronouns of Address (PoA), in the linguistic landscape and oral communication within Hispanic communities in Philadelphia. Based on the hypothesis that language is a complex, dynamic, and adaptive system, this study analyzes how a …
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Meeting Like This: Dramaturgies of Encounter in the Context of the Climate Crisis
… Zoë Svendsen, and Mojisola Adebayo – who offer alternatives to what the thesis will call ‘deficit models’ of climate-engaged theatre, and the unequal, unidirectional and explanatory dynamics they suppose. Through interviews with these artists, and inductive analysis of their work, the …
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Constructing Science and Status in Charles Darwin’s Cross-Class Correspondence Network
… exchanged between Charles Darwin and individuals of differing socio-economic statuses to examine problems of social definition and intellectual categorisation in science in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain. One means by which historians have sought to recover forms of non-elite …
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Exploring the confluence of confianza and national identity in Honduran voseo: a sociopragmatic analysis
This dissertation explores the dynamics of language variation and the process of language change from a Speaker-based approach (cp. Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968) through the analysis of a linguistic feature that has received much scholarly attention, namely, Spanish pronominal forms of address …
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Videos in motion: Processes of Transnationalization in the Southern Nigerian Video Industry: Networks, Discourses, Aesthetics
On the ground of a three years-long multi-sited, ethnographic research conducted in Southern Nigeria, Italy and the United Kingdom, my PhD dissertation analyzes the processes of transnationalization that have affected the southern Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood) during the first decade of …
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The value of home narratives in shaping identities and making sense of experiences in a host culture
… the late 1990s Finland had experienced an influx of foreign students and workforce from African countries. The demographic scene of so far homogenous and predominantly white Finland had changed. Finland became a lot more diversified culturally than it was when I first arrived in 1990. With this …