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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Linguistic choices."”.
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Bilingual interactions, linguistic choices, and the nature of bilingual grammar: Korean students in the United States
… to the understanding of the nature of the sociolinguistic grammar of bilingual language use. Specifically the main goal will test the claims of a theoretical methodology—that is, Optimality Theory (OT)-inspired—that imposes order on the vast array of sociolinguistic functions of code-switching …
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Exploring the positioning of multilingual Kaaps and Cape Flats English-speaking university students' linguistic choices and identities
… phenomenon not only influences people's language choices but also encourages them to adopt dominant identities. As a result, many speakers, including myself, grapple with balancing our identities with our cultural heritage and our connections to indigenous communities. This study delves into the …
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Shifts, Voices and Positionings in Political Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Creating Allies and Enemies Through Linguistic Choices
Finally, this study reveals ways in which politicians display their ideology and (ab)use power to manipulate audiences through the political message.
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A sociolinguistic study of language use and identity amongst Galician young adults
The following is a sociolinguistic study carried out in 2009 in a region with a particular linguistic background, Galicia, in northern Spain. The study examines the relationship between language and identity amongst Galician students and recent graduates aged 18 to 25 years, looking specifically at …
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… understanding of genre conventions and effective linguistic choices. The second aim is to investigate whether there are differences in writing by men and women in these two genres. This question is motivated by observed gender differences in participation in science. Hyland’s 2005 metadiscourse …
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Language and behaviour : pragmatics and parole
This thesis applies linguistic analysis to one of the most difficult and under-theorised problems in criminology: recidivism on parole (Weisberg, Mukamal, & Segall, 2011, p. 3). During the parole hearing, inmates’ suitability for early release is judged according to parole board members’ intuitions …
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
"A speaker's linguistic and cultural identity as well as length of residence in a second language environment proved major factors contributing to her/his choices of discourse strategies in the L2. Data suggested that contact with a second language and community also influences the speaker's …
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How extra-linguistic goals affect common ground formation
… ground between interlocutors relies on their linguistic cooperation, manifesting as shortened references produced during a given conversation. However, people have goals for their conversations, and these extra-linguistic goals can influence a variety of linguistic choices. If extra-linguistic …
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"""Walking the line"": bilingual sorbs, emotions, and endangerment in eastern Germany"
… bilingualism. By focusing on the dynamics of linguistic vitality, my arguments offer an alternative to classic discussions of code-switching. The significant contribution of this work is a detailed analysis of what Sorbs call “mish-mash.” Sorbs create mish mash through a range of practices not …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… feminist and media history. My attempt will be a linguistic analysis of Suffragette periodicals: the main aim is to study the language strategies used for their propagandistic goals, how they significantly challenged the representation of suffrage activists in mainstream press and their relevance …
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Misrepresentation and Construction of Meaning in Translation of News Texts in the Context of Conflict and Intervention: the Application of Systemic-Functional Linguistics
… is conducted through the analysis of individual linguistic choices. The second and overlapping aim is to investigate the relationship between translated target news texts and their potential source texts in the context of the issue of source-target relationship in the area of news translation. …
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Iranian (Persian)-Francophone Women in Diaspora and the Literature of Exile Reconstructing Self Through Writing
… the narrative structure, thematic elements, and linguistic choices within the literature of these Iranian Francophone women writers’ literature. Furthermore, this research will investigate the role of these authors in advocating for women's rights and amplifying women's voices through their …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… theoretical frameworks from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman�s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis reveals that participants …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… theoretical frameworks from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman�s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis reveals that participants …
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Translation and dramaturgy : translating Casina for performance
… a concept which suggests that the linguistic choices of the translator can render the script inherently performable or unperformable in the semiotic system of performance. Nevertheless, practitioners, in the current ‘dramaturgical turn’, are now demonstrating a heightened …
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Academic And Language Socialization Of Russian Ma Tesl Students At Us Universities: Struggles, Triumphs, And New Identities
… More specifically, the study examines the linguistic choices of the students that helped them construct various identities in different academic settings. The data for the study stem from in-depth interviews and reflective journals. The results of the study allow the researcher to gain more …
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Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971
… Indigenous individuals adjusted their language choices in response to institutional language policy? (b) How Canadian Indian Policy more generally affected those language choices? (c) How these choices impacted relations between Indigenous and settler peoples? And (d) how local language …
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Aspects of Japanese computer-mediated communication : linguistics and socio-cultural perspectives
… Channel 2 and Yahoo within CMC. Based on the linguistic characterisation of the CMC language, the thesis further discusses qualitatively politeness and impoliteness behaviours in the two target BBS websites with contrasting linguistic features.</p> <p>This study points out that one theory of …
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Journalistic strategies in conflict reporting and the representations of ethnic and religious identities in Jos, Nigeria : towards solutions-review journalism
… (to know their role performance in terms of linguistic choices), the study makes two major contributions that demonstrate the ‘strategic’ role of journalists in the conflict. First, it establishes that a number of strategies were used: their choice of words to ‘moderate’ or ‘water down’ …
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Interactive generation of effective discourse in situated context : a planning-based approach
… system that plans how to manipulate the non-linguistic context of a scene in order to make it more favorable for references to task-related objects. This strategy distributes a hearer's cognitive load of interpreting a reference over multiple utterances rather than one long referring …
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