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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"systemic functional grammar"”.
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Word prediction in assistive technologies for Aphasia rehabilitation in using Systemic Functional Grammar
… of a word prediction strategy based on Systemic Functional Grammar, which incorporates syntactic and contextual analysis; and its potential for aiding language production in assistive technologies</p>
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A multimodal perspective on modality in the English language classroom
… explore the notion of ‘context’ and drawing on systemic functional grammar discuss how modal forms function in discourse to realise interpersonal relations. Moving my research to the English language classroom I collect ethnographic classroom data and using social semiotic multimodality as an …
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Restoring the history of the subaltern: a corpus-informed study of ‘The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave’
Drawing from Halliday’s (2004) account of Systemic Functional Grammar and Hoey’s (2005) theory of Lexical Priming the aim of this thesis is to propose a critical method of examining the language used by the subaltern to talk about their experiences. First, I discuss how the linguistic theories …
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A Systemic-Functional Approach to Communicative course Design in English Language Teaching
… of this thesis that the language taught in a functional notional course may be meaningful, but it is not in any real sense communicative. The aim of the thesis, therefore, is to develop a new approach to communicative course design, through the application of the most communicative linguistic …
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Range and variability of reporting verbs in Doctoral Theses of Humanities students
… scholarly works. Social Constructionism and Systemic Functional Grammar were the theoretical underpinnings that guided this largely qualitative study because the use of reporting verbs in the construction of text is a shared experience, negotiated within a social and cultural setting. Data …
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Fundamentos teoricos, desarrollo y proyecciones actuales de la linguistica del texto
… tagmemics, E. Coseriu, and Generative Grammar. In the second part, "El desarrollo de la linguistica del texto", we have defined the limits of text linguistics by means of a terminological revision of the terms texto and discurso . Following that, our line of research has focused on the …
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A corpus-trained parser for systemic-functional syntax
… grammatical theory adopted for this purpose is systemic functional grammar (SFG), despite the fact that it is traditionally used for natural language generation. The parser will use a probabilistic systemic functional syntax (Fawcett 1981, Souter 1990), which was originally employed to …
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“Is this Bizarro World?” : The adaptation of characterisation and intertextuality in German audiovisual translation
… limitations of dubbing and subtitles, as well as Systemic Functional Grammar (e.g. Halliday 2014) and multimodal codes (e.g. Chaume 2012), to explain salient decisions taken by translators. Through so doing, it is demonstrated that characterisation can be analysed in dubbed and subtitled texts and …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
… framework (2008) and the transitivity system in systemic-functional grammar (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014), respectively. Second, I investigate how they talk about themselves in terms of self-appraisals using Martin and White’s appraisal framework (2005). Last, I explore how they are talked to …
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Unpacking dominant discourses in higher education language policy
The overall purpose of the thesis is to investigate dominant discourses operating in the changing of HE concerning questions of language policy. It has been studied at a national level, analysing reports and government bills, and at an institutional level, analysing university language policy, …