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Penton, Dave. "Linguistic data models : presentation and representation /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002875.
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Moilanen, Karo. "Compositional entity-level sentiment analysis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559817.
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This thesis presents a computational text analysis tool called AFFECTiS (Affect Interpretation/Inference System) which focuses on the task of interpreting natural language text based on its subjective, non-factual, affective properties that go beyond the 'traditional' factual, objective dimensions of meaning that have so far been the main focus of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. The thesis presents a fully compositional uniform wide-coverage computational model of sentiment in text that builds on a number of fundamental compositional sentiment phenomena and processes discovered by detailed linguistic analysis of the behaviour of sentiment across key syntactic constructions in English. Driven by the Principle of Semantic Compositionality, the proposed model breaks sentiment interpretation down into strictly binary combinatory steps each of which explains the polarity of a given sentiment expression as a function of the properties of the sentiment carriers contained in it and the grammatical and semantic context(s) involved. An initial implementation of the proposed compositional sentiment model is de- scribed which attempts direct logical sentiment reasoning rather than basing compu- tational sentiment judgements on indirect data-driven evidence. Together with deep grammatical analysis and large hand-written sentiment lexica, the model is applied recursively to assign sentiment to all (sub )sentential structural constituents and to concurrently equip all individual entity mentions with gradient sentiment scores. The system was evaluated on an extensive multi-level and multi-task evaluation framework encompassing over 119,000 test cases from which detailed empirical ex- perimental evidence is drawn. The results across entity-, phrase-, sentence-, word-, and document-level data sets demonstrate that AFFECTiS is capable of human-like sentiment reasoning and can interpret sentiment in a way that is not only coherent syntactically but also defensible logically - even in the presence of the many am- biguous extralinguistic, paralogical, and mixed sentiment anomalies that so tellingly characterise the challenges involved in non-factual classification.
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Szink, Terrence L. "A computer-aided analysis of the Semitic of the Ebla tablets." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=888832061&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Wong, Sydney Jing Tian. "Linguistic patterns of code switching in mainland China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/120.
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Chinese-English code switching (CS thereafter) has become a common phenomenon in mainland China in the last decades of years. Most research focuses on sociolinguistic perspectives of CS in mainland China. However, there is rarely research aiming at exploring linguistic patterns of CS. To fill the research gap, this study attempts to perceive into the linguistic patterns of Chinese-English CS. Myers-Scotton' s Matrix Language Frame model (MLF model thereafter) is used as a framework in this study. On one hand, it can help me to classify data and explain why the data comes into being. One the other hand, CS between two typologically different languages can test the universality of the MLF model. Two hundred and seven Chinese-English bilingual utterances are quantitatively classified and qualitatively described as the basis of the analysis of this study. In this study, a whole picture of linguistic patterns of Chinese-English CS was presented. I further analyze some counterexamples against the MLF model, such as creative forms, which conform to neither the grammar of Chinese nor that of English. Thus, it is revealed that the MLF model cannot offer explanations to those innovative forms. I argue that the innovative forms in the corpus of this study belong to artistic CS. Artistic codeswitching utterances mainly exist as lyrics or buzzwords on the Internet, which are intentionally created by people. These forms are invented to be different and attract people,s attention, so usually they do not conform to grammars and common language codes. No wonder that the MLF model cannot explin the artistic CS. Other limitations of the MLF model are also discussed in this dissertation.
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Pacheco, Lucivânia Marques [UNESP]. "A referência anafórica por encapsulamento: gramática e discurso." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110531.
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000790269.pdf: 1126811 bytes, checksum: 30c309b349d483a49005fc9ad6150993 (MD5)O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o funcionamento do encapsulamento anafórico, levando em consideração as instâncias em que esse fenômeno se processa. Com base nos postulados da Gramática Discursivo Funcional, de Hengeveld e Mackenzie (2008), este trabalho pretende mostrar que há uma instância da referenciação que se marca no Componente Gramatical e outra – a da identificação da porção textual de um encapsulamento anafórico – que se resolve no Componente Contextual, postulado conforme Hengeveld e Mackenzie (Inédito). Dialogando com dos trabalhos de Connlly (2007), Cornish (2009) e Stassi-Sé (2012), esse trabalho aponta a necessidade de uma redefinição do Componente Contextual. Essa proposta se confirma por meio da análise de ocorrências de referência por encapsulamento encontradas em textos do gênero artigo de opinião que circulam em duas revistas semanais (Veja e Caros Amigos Online). A análise dessas ocorrências aponta que o fenômeno da referenciação anafórica por encapsulamento articula propriedades de natureza sociocognitiva, discursiva, semântica e morfossintática e que algumas regularidades do seu funcionamento encontram explicação por meio dos níveis e camadas da GDF
The goal of this work is to analyze the functioning of anaphoric encapsulation, taking into account the instances in which this phenomenon takes place. Based on the postulates of Functional Discourse Grammar of Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008), this study aims to show that there is an instance of referencing that is marked in grammar and another component - the identification of the textual portion of an anaphoric encapsulation - that is solved in the Contextual Component, as postulated by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (Unpublished). By means of a dialogue with the works of Connlly (2007), Cornish (2009) and Stassi-Sé (2012), this study highlights the need for a redefinition of the Contextual Component. This proposal is confirmed by the analysis of reference encapsulation occurrences found in personal opinion texts circulating in two weekly magazines (Veja and Caros Amigos Online). The analysis of those events suggests that the phenomenon of anaphoric referencing through encapsulation articulates properties of socio-cognitive, discursive, semantic and morphosyntactic nature and that some regularities of its functioning are explained through the levels and layers of the FDG
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樊詩琪. "漢語語篇中主位推進模式理論研究 = A study of thematic progression theory in Chinese discourse." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/980.
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Law, Yee Wah Mary. "The study of register differentiation of two types of press text : opinion article & feature news." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2003. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/488.
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Lin, Tzu-Chun. "Communicative patterns in the discussion meetings of a Buddhist society." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186212.
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The study develops an interpretative theory to explain the communicative processes underlying the Discussion Meetings of a Buddhist group, SGI-UK, in Aberdeen, using the inductive strategies of grounded theory. The primary data comprised recorded interactions among group members in the meetings. In the process of the analysis, conceptual codes and categories emerged from the data, and the relationships between them were established, thereby creating the theory. After further elaboration, the theory identified the underlying dynamic process: the continuous interaction between ritualised discourse and religious schemata. Ritualised discourse signifies convergent communicative tools and behaviours that centre on narratives. Religious schemata are individual members' mental representations which construct event in a range of social, ideological and cultural ways. Ritualised discourse both maintains and, in turn, is shaped by, these schemata, and thus manifest the ecological nature of the linguistic interactions
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Barreto, Eccia Alécia. "A expressão do aspecto habitual : um estudo na fala e na escrita de Itabaiana/SE." Pós-Graduação em Letras, 2014. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5771.
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This study aims at identifying the traits and the contexts that characterize the habitual aspect occurrence in a sample of speech and writing Itabaiana/SE community in order to contribute to the aspectual descriptive model and support Portuguese language teaching. We begin with a compositional point of view, predicting the interaction between grammatical and lexical components for its expression. In addition, we propose a guided approach by American cognitive functionalism (BYBEE, 2010; GIVON, 2011) combined with the notion of aspectual gradience proposed by Bybee et al. (1994). We understand that linguistic phenomena are derived from cognitive processes and human communication occurs on the basis of experiments involving participants and non-homogeneous contexts (BYBEE, 2010). In order to investigate the traits and contexts that influence the use of habitual aspect within the samples, we controlled the linguistic factors as well as formal, cognitive and discursive character: I) aspectual modifier (presence or absence); II) aspectual traits: durativity [+ / - durative], dynamism [+ / - dynamic], homogeneity [+ /- homogeneous]; III) Vendler s actional classes + cognition + (activity, status, accomplishments, achievements and cognitive); IV) tense - imperfect, past perfect; and other tenses that proved to be relevant to compose the habitual aspect; V) verb: Simple or periphrastic; VI) gradations of modality: degree 1, degree 2, degree 3 and degree 4; VII) specification of reiteration: (+ / - specifiable); VIII) type of textual sequence: narrative, opinionated, descriptive texts and essays; VIX) discourse topic: intertopic level, inter-clausal level and intratopic level; X) agentivity: active and passive subjects. For the study proposed by us, we take the corpus of analysis the following databases: Itabaiana / SE s Intellectual Speakers (ARAUJO; BARRETO; FREITAG, 2012) and Itabaiana / SE s Narrative and Opinionated Texts Writing Database (ARAUJO; PEIXOTO; FREITAG, 2012), which are linked to the Group of Studies in Language, Interaction and Society (GELINS). Data were subjected to statistical analysis, from which we noted that arrangements traits are more prototypical to the expression of habitual aspect in Itabaiana / SE, what may present a proposal for gradience. Thus, 396 contexts of habituation were analyzed. The quantitative data suggest that there were changes in trajectories, which require stages with a reduced stability of the system as there are overlapping forms (PP and IP) that can perform the same function: the expression of habitual aspect. The quantitative results suggest a continuum of shapes PP and PI for the expression of habituation. Besides presenting some peculiarities, stative aspectual modifier + verb + PP update the habitual aspect, in which the situation is seen as unique and durative, uninterrupted in its duration, but being repeated indefinitely, taking into account that its last limits are not visible. Furthermore, the structures with action verbs + PI or aspectual modifier + nonstative verb + PI also update the habitual aspect, therefore, the situation is not perceived as unique, but as repeating indefinitely. Moreover, through Vendler s (1957) decomposition of aspectual classes, developed by Bertinetto (2001), we conclude that stative verbs promote the emergence of habitual aspect in interaction with PP due to its trait [- dynamic] and the presence of aspectual modifier. In contrast, action verbs promote the interaction with PI aspect and, in some cases, with the presence of an aspectual modifier because they share the trait [+ dynamic].O presente trabalho tem por objetivo identificar os traços e contextos que caracterizam a ocorrência do aspecto habitual, em uma amostra de fala e escrita da comunidade de Itabaiana/SE, a fim de contribuir para o modelo descritivo aspectual e subsidiar aplicações para o ensino de língua portuguesa. Partimos de uma visão composicional de aspecto, prevendo a interação entre componentes gramaticais e lexicais para a sua expressão. Propomos uma abordagem guiada pelo funcionalismo cognitivista norte-americano (BYBEE, 2010; GIVÓN, 2011), articulada com a noção de gradiência aspectual, proposta por Bybee et al. (1994). Assumimos a perspectiva de que os fenômenos linguísticos derivam de processos cognitivos e que a comunicação humana ocorre em função das experiências, que envolvem participantes e contextos não homogêneos (BYBEE, 2010). Para investigarmos os traços e contextos que influenciam o uso do aspecto habitual, dentro das amostras, controlamos os fatores linguísticos, de caráter formal, cognitivo e discursivo: i) modificador aspectual (presença ou ausência); ii) traços aspectuais: duratividade [+/ - durativo], dinamismo [+ / - dinâmico], homogeneidade [+ / -homogêneo]; iii) classes acionais de Vendler + cognição (atividade, estado, accomplishments, achievements e cognitivo); iv) tempo verbal pretérito imperfeito, pretérito perfeito; e outros tempos verbais que se mostraram relevantes para compor o aspecto habitual; v) forma verbal: simples ou perifrástica; vi) gradações de modalidade: grau1, grau 2, grau 3 e grau 4; vii) especificação da reiteração: (+ / - especificável); viii) tipo de sequência textual: narrativo, opinativo, dissertativo e descritivo; vix) tópico discursivo: nível intertópico, nível inter-oracional e nível intratópico; x) agentividade: sujeito ativo e sujeito passivo. Para o estudo que propomos, tomamos como corpus de análise os bancos de dados Falantes Cultos de Itabaiana/SE (ARAUJO; BARRETO; FREITAG, 2012) e Banco de Dados de Escrita Textos Narrativos e Opinativos (ARAUJO; PEIXOTO; FREITAG, 2012), da comunidade de Itabaiana/SE, vinculados ao Grupo de Estudos em Linguagem, Interação e Sociedade (GELINS). Os dados foram submetidos à análise estatística, a partir da qual evidenciamos quais arranjos de traços são mais prototípicos para a expressão do aspecto habitual na comunidade de Itabaiana/SE, podendo apresentar uma proposta de gradiência. Foram analisados 396 contextos de habitualidade. Os dados quantitativos sugerem as trajetórias de mudança que pressupõem estágios de menor estabilidade do sistema, na medida em que ocorre a sobreposição de formas (PP e PI) para o desempenho de uma mesma função: a expressão do aspecto habitual. Os resultados quantitativos sugerem um continuum das formas de PP e PI quanto à expressão da habitualidade. Além de apresentar algumas especificidades, como, por exemplo, modificador aspectual + verbo estativo + PP atualizam o aspecto habitual, em que a situação é vista como única e durativa, sem interrupções no seu tempo de duração, mas se repetindo indeterminadamente, já que os limites finais não são visíveis. Também as estruturas com verbos de atividade + PI ou modificador aspectual + verbo não estativo + PI também atualizam o aspecto habitual, fazendo com que a situação seja percebida não como única, mas como se repetindo indeterminadamente. Além disso, por meio da decomposição das classes aspectuais de Vendler (1957) elaborada por Bertinetto (2001), concluímos que os verbos estativos favorecem a emergência do aspecto habitual em interação com PP devido ao seu traço [ dinâmico] e pela presença do modificador aspectual. Em contrapartida, verbos de atividade favorecem o aspecto habitual em interação com PI e, em alguns casos, com a presença de um modificador aspectual, por compartilharem o traço [+ dinâmico].
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Tong, Mei Yee. "An analysis of Chinese and English editorials." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/642.
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Purvis, Tristan Michael. "A linguistic and discursive analysis of register variation in Dagbani." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3322533.
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Eley, Georgina Jane. "Clem Sunter's transformational leadership discourse: a linguistic analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61994.
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Since the 1970s, two distinct leadership styles have been recognised in the fields of business and organisational research - transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leadership is seen to resemble managerial-type leadership where followers fulfil their duties in return for rewards that satisfy their self-interest, such as pay or promotion. Transformational leadership, as the label suggests, is leadership that is seen to transform followers from their everyday selves to their better selves (Yukl 1998). Transformational leaders motivate followers by appealing to their higher-order needs, offering incentives for compliance such as feelings of personal empowerment, a sense of moral self-actualisation and an emphasis on the individual's contribution to the community at large (Harvey 2004). These leaders have been observed to emerge and thrive within contexts fraught with socio-political and economic turbulence, where they maximise the uncertainty of the environment to instigate change. Transformational leaders are seen to be especially adept at using discourse to foster strong, persuasive interpersonal relations with their followers. This research reports on, particularly, the interpersonal dimension of Clem Sunter's transformational discourse; he being a prominent South African scenario planner and business leader. It is essentially a qualitative study that describes Sunter's discourse in three of his texts written in 1996. The end to Apartheid in 1994 and transition from White to Black governance meant that the socio-political climate of 1996 South Africa was conducive to the rise of a transformational leader like Sunter. Although the country was, ostensibly, a democracy in 1996, much social transformation was still needed at the time Sunter produced his texts. The analysis are grounded mainly in Systemic Functional Linguistics, specifically APPRAISAL theory and, to some extent, Critical Discourse Analysis theory. However, the analyses do not follow a classic CDA analysis approach, but draw rather from more recent CDA work (cf. Fairclough 2003), such as the analysis of value assumption types within the texts. This analysis clearly demonstrates that Sunter's discourse is congruent 11 with the principal insights of transformational leadership. More than this, it is argued that these findings suggest a close link between transformational leadership and the goals of the latest social order of new capitalism, a link not made in the relevant research to date. The analysis of modes of operation of ideology in the texts (cf. Thompson 1990), also deriving from CDA, reinforces this, indicating that Sunter's transformational discourse promotes and maintains the kinds of power inequalities that underpin new capitalism. The APPRAISAL analysis of Affect choices in the text reveals a high frequency of disquiet, i.e. Sunter's discourse is seen to generate feelings of insecurity and fear. This feature, interestingly, is completely inconsistent with current transformational leadership theory, but would have been an effective motivational technique given the instability of the South African socio-political context in 1996. In addition, the APPRAISAL analysis of Judgement reveals that Sunter evokes high levels of tenacity and appeals to readers' morality, ethics and feelings of group-efficacy - all higher-order needs. The argument here too is that the socio-political context enabled Sunter to stimulate disquiet and tenacity in an effective configuration to mobilise change in his reader and promote the goals of new capitalism. The thesis concludes with a reflection on the limitations of the study and makes various recommendations for future research.
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Krige, Jana. "Constructing victims and perpetrators of sexual violence in Drum magazine between 1984 and 2004 : a discourse analytical study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85867.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis reports on the ways in which rape perpetrated by males on females is constructed in news stories and the advice column, Dear Dolly, published in the South African publication, Drum magazine. The data collected for the study spans from 1984 to 2004, encompassing both 10 years before and 10 years after a democracy. The paper uses critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003) as main analytical tool and but also draws on critical feminist theory (Bourke 2007) and other strands of discourse analysis such as Van Dijk‟s (1998) socio-cognitive approach. The findings suggest that there is on the one hand a decrease in explicit victim blaming after 1994, but that subtle and opaque victim blaming is still evident in the news stories, letters to the advice column, and the responses from the columnist. These rape discourses presented in Drum magazine after 1994 are as Bakhtin (1981) suggests made up of multiple voices articulating different gendered discourses. Discourses that make women responsible for their safety and protection against rape are prevalent while at the same time rape is constructed as a “horror story” and the perpetrator as the “monster”. In this thesis, I argue that even though the use of less explicit victim blaming might seem like a positive move in the representation of rape and gender, this is not always the case. The more subtle forms of victim blaming avoid contestation and consequently often go unchecked (Fairclough 2003: 58). This makes the manufacturing of consent easier and makes it more difficult to counteract dominant discourses. I subsequently call for more studies on this underrepresented topic in discourse analysis in South Africa.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis doen verslag oor die maniere waarop verkragting met mans as oortreders en vroue as slagoffer gekonstrueer word in nuus stories en in die advies kolom Dear Dolly in die Suid-Afrikaanse publikasie, Drum magazine. Die data verteenwoordig die tydperk vanaf 1984 tot 2004 (insluitend tien jaar voor en 10 jaar na demokrasie). Die tesis gebruik kritiese diskoers analise (Fairclough 2003) as hoof analitiese instrument maar leen ook van kritiese feministiese teorie (Bourke 2007) en ander tipes diskoersanalise soos Van Dijk (1998) se sosiokognitiewe benadering. Die bevindinge van die tesis stel voor dat daar aan die een kant ‟n afname in is in die eksplisiete blamering van slagoffers na 1994, maar dat subtiele en ondeursigtige blamering van slagoffers nog steeds voorkom in die nuusstories, briewe na die advies kolom en in die antwoorde van die kolomskrywer. Die diskoerse wat in Drum magazine na 1994 gevind word bestaan soos Bakhtin (1981) voorstel uit vele verskillende stemme wat verskillende diskoerse oor geslagsverhoudinge verteenwoordig. Diskoerse wat vroue verantwoordelik hou vir hul eie veiligheid en beskerming kom wyd voor, terwyl verkragting ook gekonstrueer word as ‟n “erotiese riller” en die oortreders gekonstrueer word as monsters. In hierdie tesis stel ek voor dat hoewel die gebruik van minder eksplisiete slagoffer blamering lyk soos ʼn positiewe beweging in die representasie van verkragting en geslagsgelykheid, is dit nie noodwendig die geval nie. Subtiele vorme van slagoffer blamering is moeiliker om te bevraagteken en word dikwels nie krities beskou nie (Fairclough 2003: 58). Dit maak die produksie van konsent makliker en maak dit moeiliker om dominante diskoerse teë te gaan. Gevolglik stel ek voor dat baie meer studies oor hierdie onderverteenwoordige onderwerp in diskoersanalise in Suid-Afrika gedoen moet word.
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Sakurai, Kazuhiro, and 櫻井和裕. "An OT-LFG analysis of language change." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46732482.
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Fortilli, Solange de Carvalho [UNESP]. "Predicados matrizes adjetivais de orações subjetivas no Português brasileiro: gramaticalização e dessentencialização." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/100097.
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Neste trabalho, analisam-se orações subjetivas encaixadas em matriz adjetival no português brasileiro. Por meio da observação de que a cópula que costuma anteceder alguns encaixadores pode não estar expressa, chegamos à ideia de que tais construções vêm passando por mudanças linguísticas tanto na fala como na escrita. À ausência de cópula na oração matriz soma-se, em alguns casos, um novo comportamento do adjetivo, que passa a ter a função de modificador, estágio alcançado quando há a perda do complementizador que une a oração principal à subjetiva. Partimos da hipótese de que, quando todas essas transformações ocorrem, o complexo oracional já se tornou uma sentença simples modificada por um parentético epistêmico, o que nos parece indicativo de dois processos específicos de mudança linguística: a Gramaticalização do adjetivo encaixador e a Dessentencialização da oração matriz. Ainda sobre o adjetivo, interessa-nos investigar seu papel semântico, partindo da observação de que aqueles que se sujeitam às transformações estão ligados a formas específicas de avaliação por parte do falante. A fim de contemplar as modalidades falada e escrita do português brasileiro, analisamos entrevistas do banco de dados Iboruna, de responsabilidade do Projeto ALIP (Amostra Linguística do Interior Paulista), e textos da versão on line do caderno Ilustrada do jornal Folha de São Paulo. Atentos ao fato de que nosso trabalho envolve um possível processo de mudança em curso, também observamos o comportamento dessas construções em outras fases da língua portuguesa, tarefa que se cumpriu pela análise de dados provenientes de textos escritos dos séculos XVIII, XIX e XX. Os resultados mostram que os processos de mudança ocorrem principalmente com construções que envolvem adjetivos epistêmicos, que sempre...
In this paper, we analyze constructions with subjective clauses in Brazilian Portuguese. Through observation that copulation which usually precedes some matrix adjectives predicates can not be expressed, we come to the idea that such constructions have undergone changes language both in speech and in writing. Besides the absence of copula verb, in some cases, there is a new behavior of the adjective, which is replaced by the modifier role, stage reached when there is loss of the complementizer that unites subjective clause to the main clause. Our hypothesis is that when all these changes occur, the complex clausal already become a simple sentence modified by a parenthetical epistemic, which seems indicative of two specific processes of linguistic change: the Grammaticalization of the adjective and the matrix predicate Dessentencialization. On the adjective, we are interested in investigating their semantic role, based on the observation that those who are subjected to transformations are linked to specific forms of evaluation by the speaker. In order to address the modalities of spoken and written Portuguese Brazilian, analyzed interviews database Iboruna, the responsibility of the Project ALIP (Sample Language of Interior Paulista), and texts of the online version of newspaper Folha de São Paulo. Our work involves a possible process of change, we also observed the behavior of these constructions in other phases of the Portuguese language, a task that is accomplished by analyzing data from written texts from XVIII, XIX and XX centuries. The results show that the processes of change occur mainly with constructions involving epistemic adjectives that always bind the embedded clauses with verb in finite form, more likely to become absolute sentences. When already grammaticalized, the modifier can occur at any... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Thomson, Elizabeth Anne. "Exploring the textual metafunction in Japanese a case study of selected written texts /." Access electronically, 2001. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070927.134630/index.html.
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Ng, Kok Man Jeffrey. "A comparison of the language use in sports writing : soccer and golf news." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2002. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/368.
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Farag, S. M. "A linguistic analysis of spoken and written narrative discourse." Thesis, Aston University, 1986. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10270/.
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Fortilli, Solange de Carvalho. "Predicados matrizes adjetivais de orações subjetivas no Português brasileiro : gramaticalização e dessentencialização /." São José do Rio Preto, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/100097.
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Banca: Eduardo Penhavel de Souza
Banca: Angélica Terezinha do Carmo Rodrigues
Resumo: Neste trabalho, analisam-se orações subjetivas encaixadas em matriz adjetival no português brasileiro. Por meio da observação de que a cópula que costuma anteceder alguns encaixadores pode não estar expressa, chegamos à ideia de que tais construções vêm passando por mudanças linguísticas tanto na fala como na escrita. À ausência de cópula na oração matriz soma-se, em alguns casos, um novo comportamento do adjetivo, que passa a ter a função de modificador, estágio alcançado quando há a perda do complementizador que une a oração principal à subjetiva. Partimos da hipótese de que, quando todas essas transformações ocorrem, o complexo oracional já se tornou uma sentença simples modificada por um parentético epistêmico, o que nos parece indicativo de dois processos específicos de mudança linguística: a Gramaticalização do adjetivo encaixador e a Dessentencialização da oração matriz. Ainda sobre o adjetivo, interessa-nos investigar seu papel semântico, partindo da observação de que aqueles que se sujeitam às transformações estão ligados a formas específicas de avaliação por parte do falante. A fim de contemplar as modalidades falada e escrita do português brasileiro, analisamos entrevistas do banco de dados Iboruna, de responsabilidade do Projeto ALIP (Amostra Linguística do Interior Paulista), e textos da versão on line do caderno Ilustrada do jornal Folha de São Paulo. Atentos ao fato de que nosso trabalho envolve um possível processo de mudança em curso, também observamos o comportamento dessas construções em outras fases da língua portuguesa, tarefa que se cumpriu pela análise de dados provenientes de textos escritos dos séculos XVIII, XIX e XX. Os resultados mostram que os processos de mudança ocorrem principalmente com construções que envolvem adjetivos epistêmicos, que sempre... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: In this paper, we analyze constructions with subjective clauses in Brazilian Portuguese. Through observation that copulation which usually precedes some matrix adjectives predicates can not be expressed, we come to the idea that such constructions have undergone changes language both in speech and in writing. Besides the absence of copula verb, in some cases, there is a new behavior of the adjective, which is replaced by the modifier role, stage reached when there is loss of the complementizer that unites subjective clause to the main clause. Our hypothesis is that when all these changes occur, the complex clausal already become a simple sentence modified by a parenthetical epistemic, which seems indicative of two specific processes of linguistic change: the Grammaticalization of the adjective and the matrix predicate Dessentencialization. On the adjective, we are interested in investigating their semantic role, based on the observation that those who are subjected to transformations are linked to specific forms of evaluation by the speaker. In order to address the modalities of spoken and written Portuguese Brazilian, analyzed interviews database Iboruna, the responsibility of the Project ALIP (Sample Language of Interior Paulista), and texts of the online version of newspaper Folha de São Paulo. Our work involves a possible process of change, we also observed the behavior of these constructions in other phases of the Portuguese language, a task that is accomplished by analyzing data from written texts from XVIII, XIX and XX centuries. The results show that the processes of change occur mainly with constructions involving epistemic adjectives that always bind the embedded clauses with verb in finite form, more likely to become absolute sentences. When already grammaticalized, the modifier can occur at any... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Jones, Tamiryn. "Linguistic strategies used in the construction of performance assessment discourse in the South African workplace." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80171.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the construction of Performance Assessment Discourses in three companies in the Western Cape, South Africa. The specific interest of is in how Performance Assessment Interviews (PAIs) are performed in terms of content, form, structure and social practice, and how managers and employees experience and make sense of this organizational practice. The study further investigates how individuals express their membership to communities of practice (CofPs) within the workplace, and seeks to identify obstacles (boundaries) in terms of acquiring and maintaining membership. This study is conducted within the broader framework of discourse analysis (DA) and employs genre theory and small story analysis as analytical tools. The 31 participants in this study are managers and employees of three participating companies in the Western Cape. They are L1 speakers of Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and isiZulu, and are representative of a wide range of employment levels (lower-level employees to top management). Each individual participated in either a one-on-one interview or in a focus group discussion, which were audio-recorded and transcribed. During these interviews and discussion groups, individuals frequently resorted telling small stories in order to explicate their feelings, perceptions and positions on certain matters. The data confirms that several generic features of PAIs are identifiable and across all three companies, but that some unique features are also reported. Furthermore, the analysis shows that Performance Assessments are sites of struggles as dominant and competing discourses emerge from the data. Additionally, the study reveals that acquiring membership to CofPs in a diverse workplace is a complex endeavour and that language plays a determining role in acquiring membership, as well as in the construction of workplace identities. In conclusion, this study argues for further linguistic research within professional setting in South Africa, and suggests that CofP theory be revised and further developed to be more descriptive of diverse communities.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek hoe Prestasiebestuur (PB) diskoerse in drie maatskappye in die Wes-Kaap gekonstrueer word. Die studie stel spesifiek belang in hoe prestasiebestuur gesprekke (PBG) uitgevoer word in terme van inhoud, vorm, struktuur en die sosiale praktyke wat daarmee saamhang. Verder word die manier waarop bestuurders en werkers PBGs ervaar en interpreteer ondersoek. Die studie ondersoek ook hoe individue hul lidmaatskap tot praktyk gemeenskappe (verskeie groeperinge wat praktyke deel) binne die werksplek beskryf en die struikelblokke identifiseer wat hulle verhoed om lidmaatskap te verwerf en te behou. Hierdie studie is uitgevoer binne die breër raamwerk van diskoersanalise (DA) en gebruik genre analise en klein verhaal analise as ontledingsmetodes. Die 31 deelnemers in die studie is bestuurders en werkers van drie deelnemende maatskappye in die Wes-Kaap. Hulle is eerstetaalsprekers van Afrikaans, Engels, Xhosa en Zoeloe en is verteenwoordigend van ʼn wye reeks posisies (vanaf junior posisies tot topbestuur). Elke individu het deelgeneem aan óf ʼn individuele onderhoud óf ʼn groepsbespreking. Hierdie onderhoude en besprekings is opgeneem en getranskribeer. Tydens die onderhoude en besprekings het die deelnemers telkens van ‘klein verhale’ gebruik gemaak om hul ervaringe en gevoelens te verwoord. Die data bevestig dat verskeie generiese eienskappe in PBGs geïdentifiseer kan word in al drie maatskappye maar dat daar wel sommige unieke eienskappe voorkom. Verder wys die analise uit dat binne PBs daar baie teenstellings bestaan en dat daar dominante en mededingende diskoerse in die data geïdentifiseer kan word. Die studie wys ook dat lidmaatskap tot ʼn praktykgemeenskap in ʼn diverse werksomgewing ʼn komplekse onderneming is. Dit blyk ook dat taal ʼn bepalende rol speel in die verwerwing van lidmaatskap, sowel as die manier waarop professionele identiteit gekonstrueer word. Verdere navorsing in professionele kontekste binne ʼn linguistiese raamwerk word aanbeveel. Die waarde van klein verhaal analise om diskoerse in professionele kontekste te ondersoek word beklemtoon en voorstelle word gemaak oor hoe die konsep ‘praktykgemeenskappe’ verder ontwikkel kan word om dit meer relevant te maak in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks.
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Ji, Donghong. "Conceptual relevance : representation and analysis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711639.
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Sanches, Isabela Canella. "Citações no vestibular da FUVEST : a apropriação da palavra do outro e argumentação /." Araraquara, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154413.
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Orientador: Marina Célia MendonçaBanca: Assunção Aparecida Laia Cristovão
Banca: Jauranice Rodrigues Cavalcanti
Resumo: Esta proposta de pesquisa está embasada nos estudos bakhtinianos do discurso. De acordo com Bakhtin, pode-se depreender que em todo enunciado há diálogo, ou seja, todo enunciado apresenta uma relação de sentido com outro enunciado, e esse é o princípio do dialogismo. Entendemos que todo discurso é constituído considerando o discurso do outro, estabelecendo, assim, relações de sentido. Destarte, todos os enunciados são dialógicos, sendo todo discurso ocupado pelo discurso alheio. A partir disso, analisamos o aparecimento da palavra do outro nas redações do vestibular da FUVEST, mais especificamente na forma de citações. Focamos nosso estudo na observação do aparecimento de citações nas melhores redações da FUVEST nos anos de 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 e 2012. Em seguida, após o levantamento desses dados, procuramos entender de que modo foi feita a apropriação da palavra do outro, ou seja, se por meio do discurso direto ou indireto. Para isso, utilizamos os escritos do Círculo de Bakhtin concernentes ao discurso de outrem e sobre as questões de estilo. Nesse sentido, este trabalho justificou-se pela necessidade de descobrir de que maneira as citações aparecem nas melhores redações da FUVEST. Além disso, ainda pensando na constituição dialógica do sujeito, utilizamos escritos sobre a relação constitutiva entre leitura e escrita e como essa relação influi na elaboração do conteúdo citado pelo candidato. Como resultado, entendemos, a partir da... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This research proposal is based on Bakhtin's discourse studies. According to Bakhtin, it can be deduced that in every statement there is dialogue, that is, every statement presents a relation of meaning to another statement, and this is the principle of dialogism. We understand that every discourse is constituted considering the discourse of the other, thus establishing relations of meaning. Thus, all statements are dialogic, and every discourse is occupied by the discourse of others. From this, we analyze the appearance of the word of the other in the writing test from FUVEST entrance exam, more specifically in the form of quotations. We focused our study on the observation of quotations in the best compositions of FUVEST in the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Then, after the survey of these data, we try to understand how the appropriation of the word of the other was made, that is, whether through direct or indirect discourse. For this, we use the writings of the Circle of Bakhtin concerning the discourse of others and about questions of style. In this sense, this work is justified by the need to find out how quotations appear in the best writings tests from FUVEST. In addition, still concerning the individual's dialogic constitution, we used works about the constitutive relationship between reading and writing and how this relationship influences the elaboration of the content quoted by the candidate. As a result, we unders... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Teixeira, Maria Luiza de Sousa [UNESP]. "A indeterminação pragmática e semântica do sujeito." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110997.
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000798817.pdf: 1210223 bytes, checksum: f290066e6c73aadafee105fa27ee429d (MD5)A indeterminação da função sintática sujeito tem sido definida, de maneira geral, como um conceito semântico que envolve a noção de falta de referência. Neste trabalho, entretanto, objetivamos demonstrar que a indeterminação é um processo notadamente pragmático de diferentes formas de codificação morfossintáticas. Com base no aparato teórico da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), admite-se a referência como um conceito pragmático que está intrinsecamente relacionado ao fato de o falante poder, querer ou não querer identificar um referente. Logo, o referente é construído dentro da interação, através de práticas discursivas e cognitivas social e culturalmente situadas. É no discurso, portanto, que o falante expressa a indeterminação. Com vistas a formular um conceito de indeterminação que se centre na complexidade pragmático-semântica-sintática, a descrição dessa codificação gramatical feita neste trabalho parte de córpus formado por diferentes gêneros textuais de base argumentativa da modalidade escrita da língua portuguesa do Brasil. A partir da leitura integral dos textos analisam-se as motivações dadas pela situação comunicativa para que a indeterminação seja marcada morfossintaticamente. Além da descrição de um conjunto bastante diversificado de formas indeterminadoras em língua portuguesa, os resultados permitiram identificar diferentes tipos de indeterminação, conforme ela seja definida só para o falante, só para o ouvinte ou para ambos os interactantes, o que nos levou a propor três tipos de indeterminação do sujeito. A análise integrada dos níveis pragmático, semântico e morfossintático viabilizada pelo aparato teórico da GDF permitiu esclarecer, ainda, a relação entre indeterminação e indefinição. Embora a proposta apresentada de três possibilidades indeterminadoras (Tipo 1, Tipo 2 e Tipo 3) não vise a objetivos didáticos, são apresentadas ...
The indeterminacy of the syntactic function subject has been defined, generally, as a semantic concept involving the notion of lack of reference. In this study, however, we aimed to demonstrate that indeterminacy is a remarkably pragmatic process of different forms of morphosyntactic coding. Based on the theoretical approach of the Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), the reference is assumed as a pragmatic concept that is intrinsically related to the fact that the speaker is able to, is willing or is not willing to, identify a referent. Thus, the referent is built into the interaction through discursive and cognitive practices which are socially and culturally situated. Thus, it is in the speech that the speaker expresses the indeterminacy. In order to formulate a concept of indeterminacy that focuses on its pragmatic, semantic and syntactic complexity, the description of the grammatical coding of indeterminacy is based on a sample of different textual genres of argumentative basis of written Brazilian Portuguese. Besides the description of a very diverse forms of indeterminacy strategies, the results showed different types of indeterminacy, as defined only to the speaker, to the listener only, or to both, which led us to propose three types of subject indeterminacy. The integrated analysis of pragmatic, semantic and morphosyntactic levels enabled by the theoretical approach of FDG also allowed the clarification of the relationship between indeterminacy and vagueness. Although this proposal has no intended didactic goals, some possible applications of this research for teaching purposes are discussed
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Baker, Tami Lynn. "Historical linguistic analysis of traditional English Christmas carols." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0325101-141215/unrestricted/BakerT0416.pdf.
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Karageorgou, Ioanna. "Fitness Discourse on Instagram: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21671.
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Fitness relates to several life aspects, such as health and exercise. Because of its vast popularity, it is often referred to as a ‘fitness trend’ where the body has a central role. Due to technological advances, fitness has found its way into mobile applications and Social Network Sites (SNSs), prompting the linguistic analysis of these environments. This study investigates how female fitness is discussed by female personal trainers (PTs) online. A mixed approach of quantitative methodology (Corpus Linguistics) and qualitative textual analysis (Discourse Analysis) was adopted. Following Baker’s corpus-driven approach (2006), a specialised corpus was compiled with a total of 440 posts (51,779 tokens) from the Instagram accounts of three female professional PTs. Various patterns were presented under four themes: mind and body, physical strength, empowerment, and the FITNESS IS A JOURNEY metaphor. The most salient patterns discussed were health, aesthetics, weight-loss, and body-representation. There was strong evidence of other trends (‘fitspiration’, ‘HAES’, and ‘body positivity’) which promote a positive body image and strength (physical and mental) as a health indicator. In sum, the findings provide a female PT’s perspective on fitness and show how female fitness is promoted by encouraging positive narratives around fitness, the body and ourselves.
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Mouedden, Ahmed. "Linguistic models, linguistic-stylistic analysis and the teaching of the English language through text types to very advanced Moroccan university students." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282204.
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Kemmer, Laura. "Event-related brain potential investigations of left and right hemisphere contributions to syntactic processing." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3369000.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 16, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Arcimavičienė, Liudmila. "Morality models through metaphors: a cross-linguistic analysis." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100517_160515-95452.
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The present study has attempted the analysis of public discourse and its moral expectations through metaphor at a contrastive level in the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The study deals with the identification of morality models in public discourse in English and Lithuanian. The materials of the study consist of analytical political articles extracted from the online archives of two following websites: (1) www.economist.com, (2) www.politika.lt. The collected data amounts to 415, 670 words in total. Three methods of analysis were applied to the collected data: qualitative, quantitative and contrastive. The analysis reveals that political affairs in both cultures are framed by the same conceptual metaphors. The structural composition of the conceptual metaphors has been examined in terms of the following thirteen SOURCE domains: MOTION, RELATIONSHIP, STRENGTH, HEALTH, SPORTS, WAR, ESSENCE, BUSINESS, DIRT, SENSES, WHOLENESS, THEATRE, and ANIMALS. The cross-mapping between SOURCE domains and TARGET domains is held by different epistemic correspondences, which leads to the variability of MORALITY models across the two languages, i.e. English and Lithuanian. British politics tends to be more varied in its moral expectations, which derive from three types of Morality Systems: Pragmatic, Rational and Integrated. Thus, the moral expectations governing British political discourse are based on the Complex Morality Model. By contrast, Lithuanian politics is... [to full text]Ši disertacija – tai kontrastyvinio pobūdžio lingvistinis darbas, kurio tyrimų objektas yra viešasis anglų ir lietuvių kalbų diskursas politine tema. Darbo tikslas – nustatyti, kokiais moralės modeliais vadovaujamasi Didžiosios Britanijos ir Lietuvos viešajame diskurse politine tematika, remiantis metaforos analize. Moksliniam tyrimui buvo renkami analitiniai straipsniai, kuriuose aprašomi Lietuvos (www.politika.lt) ir Didžiosios Britanijos (www.economist.com) politiniai įvykiai ketverių (Britanijos atveju) ir dvejų (Lietuvos atveju) metų laikotarpiu. Visame sinchroniniame tyrime taikomas trianguliacijos metodas, leidžiantis ištirti metaforos raišką įvairiais aspektais, derinant kokybinius (aprašomąjį, analitinį ir kognityvinį) tyrimus su kiekybiniu tyrimu. Buvo nustatyta trylika universalių metaforų: JUDĖJIMAS, JĖGA, KARAS, GYVŪNAI, SANDARA, JUSLĖS, VISUMA, SPORTAS, SVEIKATA, SANTYKIAI, PURVAS, VERSLAS ir TEATRAS. Gretinamoji analizė rodo, kad anglų kalbos metaforos skiriasi nuo lietuvių kalbos metaforų savo epistemine sandara. Anglų kalbos metaforų analizė rodo vertinimą, grindžiamą kompleksiniu moralės modeliu. Toks politinių įvykių vertinimas byloja apie progresyvią demokratinę politinę sistemą, pasižyminčią dinamiškumu, vertinimų kaita ir įvairove. Lietuvių kalbos metaforų analizės metu nustatytas vyraujantis pragmatinis metaforos moralės modelis su labai nežymiai išreikštais kitais metaforos moralės modeliais. Toks Lietuvos politinių įvykių vertinimas rodo pragmatinės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Kearsley, Logan R. "A Hybrid Approach to Cross-Linguistic Tokenization: Morphology with Statistics." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5984.
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Tokenization, or word boundary detection, is a critical first step for most NLP applications. This is often given little attention in English and other languages which use explicit spaces between written words, but standard orthographies for many languages lack explicit markers. Tokenization systems for such languages are usually engineered on an individual basis, with little re-use. The human ability to decode any written language, however, suggests that a general algorithm exists.This thesis presents simple morphologically-based and statistical methods for identifying word boundaries in multiple languages. Statistical methods tend to over-predict, while lexical and morphological methods fail when encountering unknown words. I demonstrate that a generic hybrid approach to tokenization using both morphological and statistical information generalizes well across multiple languages and improves performance over morphological or statistical methods alone, and show that it can be used for efficient tokenization of English, Korean, and Arabic.
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Yale, Robert Nathan. "INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNICATION: A QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1183663224.
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Müller, Torsten. "Football, language and linguistics time-critical utterances in unplanned spoken language, their structures and their relation to non-linguistic situations and events /." Tübingen : Narr, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=mlhiAAAAMAAJ.
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Millett, Ronald. "Holistic Scoring of ESL Essays Using Linguistic Maturity Attributes." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/762.
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Automated scoring of essays has been a research topic for some time in computational linguistics studies. Only recently have the particular challenges of automatic holistic scoring of ESL essays with their high grammatical, spelling and other error rates been a topic of research. This thesis evaluates the effectiveness of using statistical measures of linguistic maturity to predict holistic scores for ESL essays using several techniques. Selected linguistic attributes include parts of speech, part-of-speech patterns, vocabulary density, and sentence and essay lengths. Using customized algorithms based on multivariable regression analysis as well as memory-based machine learning, holistic scores were predicted on test essays within ±1.0 of the scoring level of human judges' scores successfully an average of 90% of the time. This level of prediction is an improvement over a 66% prediction level attained in a previous study using customized algorithms.
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Du, Toit Tamzin. "Multisemiotic resources in student assessment : a case study of one module at Stellenbosch University." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86668.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates multimodal assessment in the South African higher education context. The communication landscape of students is becoming increasingly multimodal, resulting in a shift away from higher education institutions’ preferred mode (that is, the written mode). This is partly as a result of the digital era in which we live, as the verbal, visual and audio modes co-exist to make meaning, thereby creating new forms of text (Iedema 2003: 33). Although there is a common acceptance that the communication landscape has changed, higher education institutions still seem to consider the written text and written communication as the most dominant form of meaning-making (Lea 2004: 743). Thus, there is a disparity between the types of literacies with which students arrive at university, and the types of literacies that they are expected to use in university. I argue that this disparity is problematic for education, and maintain that pedagogies be transformed in order to resolve this issue. In this way, students will be able to “benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, and economic life” (Cazden et al. 1996: 60). Data for this research includes assignments that were produced by second-year students of Applied English Language Studies, a subject offered by the Department of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University. These assignments include a multimodal component as well as a formal, written component. Analysis of their assignments revealed that students show great dexterity in their creations of multimodal texts. Apart from their design skills, it was revealed that students have knowledge of a wide variety of social discourses, which is currently mostly ignored in the education context. Thus, I propose that this knowledge, along with the digital and visual design skills with which students arrive at university, be valorised and utilised as an entry point for the teaching of linguistic literacy. This proposal is partly supported by schema theory, a cognitive theory of learning, which entails that existing knowledge is used as a platform on which to build new knowledge.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek multimodale assessering in die Suid-Afrikaanse hoër onderwys konteks. Die kommunikasie landskap van studente word al hoe meer multimodaal wat ʼn skuif weg van die voorgekeurde modaliteit (die geskrewe) in hoër onderwys teweegbring. Dit is gedeeltelik a.g.v. die digitale era waarin ons leef waarin die verbale, visuele en klank modaliteite saam gebruik word om betekenis te skep; dus word nuwe vorme van teks geskep (Iedema 2003: 33). Alhoewel daar algemeen aanvaar word dat die kommunikasie landskap verander het, beskou hoër onderwys instansies nog steeds die geskrewe teks en geskrewe kommunikasie as die dominante vorm van betekenisskepping (Lea 2004: 743). Daar is dus ʼn gaping tussen die tipes geletterheid waarmee studente by die universiteit opdaag en watter daar van hulle verwag word om te gebruik in die universiteit. Ek voer aan dat hierdie gaping problematies is vir opvoedkunde en stel voor dat pedagogie verander moet word om dit aan te spreek. Op hierdie manier kan studente voordeel trek op maniere wat hul toelaat om ten volle deel te neem aan publieke, gemeenskaplike en ekonomiese lewe (Cazden et al. 1996: 60). Data vir hierdie navorsing sluit opdragte in wat deur tweede jaar Applied English Language Studies (ʼn vak wat deur die Departement Algemene Taalwetenskap by Stellenbosch Universiteit aangebied word) studente uitgevoer is. Die opdragte sluit ʼn multimodale element sowel as ʼn formele geskrewe element in. Analise van die opdragte wys dat studente vaardigheide het in die produksie van multimodale tekste. Behalwe die produksie vaardighede wys die analise ook dat hierdie studente kennis het van ʼn wye reeks sosiale diskoerse wat op die oomblik meestal geïgnoreer word in die opvoedkundige konteks. Ek voer dus aan dat hierdie kennis sowel as die digitale- en visuele produksie vaardigheide waarmee studente by die universiteit opdaag, gevalideer en gebruik word as ingangspoort vir die aanleer van talige geletterheid. Deels word die voorstel deur skema teorie ondersteun, ʼn teorie wat in kognitiewe benaderinge tot leer ontwikkel het en wat voorstel dat bestaande kennis gebruik kan word as ʼn platform om nuwe kennis te bou.
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Kegel, Jens. ""Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?" eine semiotische und linguistische Gesamtanalyse der Rede Goebbels' im Berliner Sportpalast am 18. Februar 1943 /." Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/75253266.html.
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Blankenship, Kevin L. "Linguistic power and persuasion : an analysis of various language style components." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221304.
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This study examined the effect of tag questions, hesitations, and hedges on participants' attitudes toward an advocacy, perceptions of the speaker, message, and cognitive responses regarding the message. Results from 351 participants showed that although linguistic power markers affected attitudes when participants were motivated to process the message, the markers did so through different processes. The use of hesitations in an advocacy affected influenced attitudes by affecting participants' perceptions of the speaker, whereas the use of hedges influenced attitudes by affecting participants' perceptions of the message. The use of tag questions in a message influenced attitudes, but this study failed to find the mechanism this effect. The overall finding suggest a more complex relation among linguistic power components and aspects of a persuasive appeal than once thought and researchers should consider the different aspects underlying the effects of linguistic power components on persuasion.Department of Psychological Science
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Gray, Tyler. "Measuring Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Using Books and Tweets." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1130.
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Written language provides a snapshot of linguistic, cultural, and current events information for a given time period. Aggregating these snapshots by studying many texts over time reveals trends in the evolution of language, culture, and society. The ever-increasing amount of electronic text, both from the digitization of books and other paper documents to the increasing frequency with which electronic text is used as a means of communication, has given us an unprecedented opportunity to study these trends. In this dissertation, we use hundreds of thousands of books spanning two centuries scanned by Google, and over 100 billion messages, or ‘tweets’, posted to the social media platform, Twitter, over the course of a decade to study the English language, as well as study the evolution of culture and society as inferred from the changes in language.
We begin by studying the current state of verb regularization and how this compares between the more formal writing of books and the more colloquial writing of tweets on Twitter. We find that the extent of verb regularization is greater on Twitter, taken as a whole, than in English Fiction books, and also for tweets geotagged in the United States relative to American English books, but the opposite is true for tweets geotagged in the United Kingdom relative to British English books. We also find interesting regional variations in regularization across counties in the United States. However, once differences in population are accounted for, we do not identify strong correlations with socio-demographic variables.
Next, we study stretchable words, a fundamental aspect of spoken language that, until the advent of social media, was rarely observed within written language. We examine the frequency distributions of stretchable words and introduce two central parameters that capture their main characteristics of balance and stretch. We explore their dynamics by creating visual tools we call ‘balance plots’ and ‘spelling trees’. We also discuss how the tools and methods we develop could be used to study mistypings and misspellings, and may have further applications both within and beyond language.
Finally, we take a closer look at the English Fiction n-gram dataset created by Google. We begin by explaining why using token counts as a proxy of word, or more generally, ‘n-gram’, importance is fundamentally flawed. We then devise a method to rebuild the Google Books corpus so that meaningful linguistic and cultural trends may be reliably discerned. We use book counts as the primary ranking for an n-gram and use subsampling to normalize across time to mitigate the extraneous results created by the underlying exponential increase in data volume over time. We also combine the subsampled data over a number of years as a method of smoothing. We then use these improved methods to study linguistic and cultural evolution across the last two centuries. We examine the dynamics of Zipf distributions for n-grams by measuring the churn of language reflected in the flux of n-grams across rank boundaries. Finally, we examine linguistic change using wordshift plots and a rank divergence measure with a tunable parameter to compare the language of two different time periods. Our results address several methodological shortcomings associated with the raw Google Books data, strengthening the potential for cultural inference by word changes.
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Lai, Catherine. "A formal framework for linguistic tree query /." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001594.
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Rodriguez, D. L. "תחת : a cognitive linguistic analysis of the Biblical Hebrew lexeme." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6641.
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Thesis (MA (Ancient Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis spreek die probleem aan van polisemie in die beskrywing van die Bybels- Hebreeuse lekseem תחת in die Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Tradisioneel word die lekseem meestal as ‘n voorsetsel beskou. In hierdie ondersoek word aangetoon dat die lekseem ook as as ‘n naamwoord, bywoord of voegwoord gebruik kan word. ‘n Kritiese analise van standaard Bybels-Hebreeuse woordeboeke toon aan dat hierdie bronne mank gaan ‘n leksikografies begronde raamwerk in terme waarvan polisimiese lekseme ge-orden kan word. Wat nodig is vir hierdie doeleindes, is leksikale beskrywings eerder as ‘n lys “oënskynlike” betekenisse. Dit word verder duidelik aangetoon dat vertalingsekwivalente nie altyd gelykgestel kan word aan die betekenis van ‘n lekseem nie – ‘n praktyk wat al jare lank onkrities aanvaar word. Kognitief-linguistiese instrumente ten opsigte van kategorisering en leksikale semantiek word dan ingespan om die lekseem תחת beter te beskryf. Hierdie studie verteenwoordig so ‘n kognitief-linguistiese analise van die polisemiese dimensies van die semantiese netwerk van תחת , wat ook bruikbaar kan wees in digitale leksikografie. Die voorgestelde netwerk word gekomplementeer deur semantiese diagramme wat die betekenis grafies uitbeeld in plaas daarvan om dit met behulp van vertalingsekwivalente te beskryf. Die betekenisonderskeidings wat getref word, is die volgende: substantief (onderkant), plek (spesifieke plek “spot”), substitusie (in die plek van), uitruiling (in ruil vir), oorsaaklikheid (omdat) en implisiete perspektief (x onder [die spreker]). Hierdie betekenisonderskeidings word georganiseer met behulp van ‘n grafiese netwerk wat die semantiese verhouding tussen die verskillende nuanse illustreer. Die semantiese netwerk stel ook ‘n ontwikkelingsprofiel van die lekseem voor. Hierdie diagram bied ‘n moontlike verklaring waarom תחת ‘n bepaalde reeks polemiese onderskeidings simboliseer.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis addresses the problem of polysemy in describing the biblical Hebrew lexeme תחת in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Traditionally treated as mainly a preposition, it is demonstrated in this study that תחת can also be used as a noun, adverb or conjunction. A critical analysis of standard biblical Hebrew lexica reveals that they typically lack a clear lexicographic framework with which polysemous lexemes can be organized. Ideally, this would offer lexical explanations to users of a lexicon rather than supply lists of alleged meanings. Further, it is also made clear that target language glosses can no longer be accepted as "meaning", a practice which has been uncritically accepted for years. In order to move beyond English glosses, cognitive linguistic tools for categorization and lexical semantics are utilized. This thesis contributes a cognitive linguistic analysis of the polysemous lexeme תחת and a semantic network of תחת that can be useful for digital lexicography. The proposed network is complemented by frame semantic diagrams which describe meaning imagically rather than only with a target language gloss. The various senses established are: substantive (underpart), place (spot), substitution (in place of), exchange (in exchange for), vertical spatial (under), approximately under (at the foot of), control (under the hand), causation (because), and implied perspective (x below [the speaker]). These senses are organized in the proposed network showing the semantic relationship between the senses. The semantic network also provides an evolutionarily plausible explanation of how תחת came to symbolize so many distinct polysemies.
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Woode, Andrew Charles Anthony. "Medieval Occitan grammatical writings : the adaptation of Latin linguistic analysis to vernacular languages." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275256.
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Nyaga, Susan Karigu. "Managing linguistic diversity in literacy and language development : an analysis of teachers' attitudes, skills and strategies in multilingual Kenyan primary school classrooms." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79899.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates teachers' language practices in multilingual classrooms with regard to their attitudes, skills and strategies in their management of linguistic diversity among learners in their first year of primary school. Both the critical interpretive theoretical paradigm adopted and the qualitative research approach employed in the execution of the study presupposed gathering rich data, which a case study design of research assured. The data for the study was gathered from four year one classrooms purposively selected based on parameters that were deemed of interest in this study. These included, but were not limited to, the location of the school, the linguistic diversity among learners in the classrooms and the literacy traditions of the first languages spoken by the learners in the target classrooms. Although the specific context provided real input to the study, the findings may be relevant to language-in-education issues in many other African countries, and even in multilingual communities beyond. The study reveals yawning discrepancies between language policy and practice; between teachers' beliefs about linguistic diversity and their actual language behaviour in the classrooms; and between the definitions of mother tongue provided by the Ministry of Education and teachers' re-interpretations of these definitions in the various contexts studied. The study further indicates that teachers are working in an environment that is not supportive of effective policy implementation. This very limited policy implementation support is reflected in teacher training and preparation, teacher placement criteria, text book production and school examinations. This study indicates that even a sound understanding of linguistic diversity among teachers and their best intentions to give learners a sound foundation, is only the beginning of literacy development of young learners in Kenya. It recommends a new and incisive look at critical aspects of the education system in an effort to synchronise the different levels at which policy and practice need to meet. Various well-informed choices need to be made in the creation of a supportive environment for effective policy implementation. This should include among other things a change in the language-in-education policy to move away from early-exit to late-exit mother tongue education, and more first language maintenance in bilingual or multilingual classrooms. If learners are to benefit from mother tongue instruction in line with current research in the field, much needs to be done. Based on the insights gained in this study, a revision of teacher education curricula to include the management of linguistically diverse learners and improved language awareness is suggested, as is flexible curriculum delivery, scrapping of formal examinations in the early years and introduction of alternative assessment methods in these levels. In later years, bilingual (in some cases even multilingual) tests are bound to lower the drop-out rate and produce more understanding and less rote learning. The aim should be to assure multilingual, multiliteracy development and academic achievement for all learners regardless of their particular linguistic backgrounds.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek onderwysers se taalpraktyke in veeltalige klaskamers ten opsigte van hulle houdings, vaardighede en strategieë in die hantering van talige diversiteit onder leerders in hulle eerste jaar van primêre onderrig. Sowel die vertolkende teoretiese paradigma wat gevolg word as die kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering wat die studie aanneem, het daarop gereken dat ingesamelde data ryk sou wees aan inligting; die navorsingsontwerp, naamlik dié van gevallestudie, verseker die verkryging van sulke data. Die studie is gebasseer op inligting wat ingesamel is in vier klaskamers van leerlinge in die eerste skooljaar. Die betrokke navorsingsterreine is telkens doelbewus gekies op grond van die parameters wat belangrik was vir die studie. Dit sluit in, maar is nie beperk tot, die ligging van die skool, die talige diversiteit van die leerders in die klaskamers en die geletterdheidstradisies van die onderskeie eerstetale van die leerders in die geteikende klaskamers. Alhoewel hierdie spesifieke konteks verseker het dat die studie in 'n werklike situasie geanker is, is die bevindinge waarskynlik relevant tov taal-in-onderrig kwessies in verskeie ander Afrikalande, en selfs ook in veeltalige gemeenskappe elders. Hierdie studie onthul gapende ongerymdhede in die verhouding tussen taalbeleid en praktyk; tussen onderwysers se oortuigings rakende talige diversiteit en hulle werklike taalgebruik in die klaskamers; en tussen die omskrywings van moedertaal wat deur die Ministerie van Onderwys voorsien word en die onderwysers se herinterpretasie van hierdie omskrywings binne die verskillende kontekste wat ondersoek word. Die studie dui verder daarop dat onderwysers in ʼn omgewing werk wat nie die effektiewe implementering van beleid ondersteun nie. Sodanige beperkte ondersteuning in die implementering van die beleid word weerspiëel in die opleiding en voorbereiding van onderwysers, die plasingkriteria van onderwysers, die publikasie van handboeke en skooleksamens. Hierdie studie toon aan dat selfs 'n goeie begrip van talige diversiteit onder onderwysers en hulle beste voornemens om aan leerders ʼn vaste grondslag te bied, net 'n eerste tree is in die geletterdheidsontwikkeling van jong leerders in Kenia. Dit stel ʼn nuwe en indringende ondersoek van kritiese aspekte van die onderwyssisteem voor as ʼn poging om die verskillende vlakke waar beleid en praktyk mekaar behoort te ontmoet, te sinchroniseer. Verskeie goed ingeligte besluite sal geneem moet word in die skep van ʼn omgewing wat bevorderlik is vir effektiewe beleidimplementering. Dit sou onder andere ʼn verandering in die taal-in-onderwys beleid insluit om weg te beweeg van die vroeë wegbeweeg moedertaalonderrig na later wegbeweeg van moedertaalonderrig, sowel as meer instandhouding van die eerstetaal in twee- of veeltalige klaskamers. Vir leerders om baat te vind by moedertaalonderrig in oorstemming met huidige insigte uit navorsing in die veld, moet nog baie gedoen word. Gebaseer op die insigte wat in hierdie studie verkry is, word onder andere hersiening van die onderrigkurrikula vir onderwysers voorgestel sodat die hantering van talig-diverse groepe leerders asook verbeterde taalbewustheid daarby ingesluit is. Dieselfde geld ontwikkeling van buigbare kurrikula, die skrapping van formele eksaminering in die vroeë skooljare en die instelling van alternatiewe assesseringsmetodes op hierdie vlakke. In die later jare sal tweetalige (in sommige gevalle selfs veeltalige) toetse beslis die uitvalsyfer verlaag, asook meer begrip en minder leë memorisering tot gevolg te hê. Die doel moet wees om veeltalige, multi-geletterheidsontwikkeling en akademiese prestasie vir alle leerders te verseker ongeag hulle spesifieke talige agtergrond.
The African Doctoral Academy (ADA) at Stellenbosch University through the Partnership for Africa's Next Generation of Academics (PANGEA), for providing the funds
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Dobržinskienė, Rasa. "The pragmatic linguistic analysis of the communicates of TV commercials." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120601_102751-46957.
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The object of the thesis – the communicates of TV commercials. The objective of the research – based on the speech act theory, to analyze micro acts (linguistic act sub-units of smaller scale) involved in TV commercials broadcast in Lithuania, their intentions (functions), and to reveal specifics of linguistic structure expression, and its interaction with image and sound. TV commercials have never been analyzed based on the speech act theory before. Moreover, linguistic act classification has been applied to TV commercials for the first time ever. There is examined the structure of advertising macro act, developed typology of micro acts. Detailed classification of micro acts highlights intentions of sayings of broadcast television commercials. The intentions convey the intents of message sender (addresser). It’s noticed that image and / or sound can convey particular intentions, which consist with intentions of linguistic acts or complement them. Expression of the linguistic relation between addresser and addressee is actual for analysis of linguistic acts of broadcast TV commercials. It depends on the objective group of the consumers. The research of micro acts of broadcast TV commercials realizing that speech act theory encompassed by pragmatic linguistics can be purposefully used for analysis of TV commercials.Disertacijos tiriamasis objektas – transliuojamųjų televizijos reklamų komunikatai. Tyrimo tikslas – remiantis kalbinių aktų teorija, išanalizuoti Lietuvoje transliuotų televizijos reklamų komunikatų mikroaktus (smulkesnes kalbinių aktų atmainas), jų intencijas (funkcijas), atskleisti kalbinės struktūros raiškos specifiką bei sąveiką su vaizdu ir garsu. Iki šiol transliuojamosios televizijos reklamos nebuvo analizuotos remiantis kalbinių aktų teorija, be to, pirmą kartą joms tirti pritaikyta kalbinių aktų klasifikacija. Disertacijoje nagrinėjama transliuojamųjų televizijos reklamos makroakto struktūra, sukuriama atitinkama mikroaktų tipologija. Smulkus mikroaktų skirstymas išryškina transliuojamųjų televizijos reklamų pasakymų intencijas, kuriomis perteikiami reklaminio pranešimo siuntėjo (adresanto) ketinimai. Atkreipiamas dėmesys į tai, kad reklamos vaizdu ir / ar garsu taip pat galima perteikti tam tikras intencijas, kurios sutampa su kalbinių aktų intencijomis ar jas papildo. Transliuojamųjų televizijos reklamų kalbinių aktų analizei aktuali adresanto ir adresato kalbinė raiška, kuri priklauso nuo to, į kurią tikslinę vartotojų grupę kreipiamasi. Atliktas transliuojamųjų televizijos reklamų mikroaktų tyrimas atskleidžia, kad pragmatinės lingvistikos kalbinių aktų teorija gali būti tikslingai taikoma analizuojant televizijos reklamas.
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Ueda, Michele Cristina Barquete [UNESP]. "O ethos das obras de autoajuda para terceira idade." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122114.
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Neste trabalho, analisa-se o ethos do discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade. Para tanto, adota-se o aparato teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, com ênfase nas reflexões de Dominique Maingueneau sobre a noção de ethos discursivo. De acordo com o autor, o ethos diz respeito à imagem que o sujeito enunciador do discurso projeta de si pelo modo como enuncia. O corpus da pesquisa é composto por três obras de autoajuda para a terceira idade que foram escritas originalmente em língua portuguesa. Como o ethos pode ser apreendido por diversos indícios presentes na superfície textual, neste estudo, analisa-se o ethos especialmente por meio de itens lexicais modais. A opção pela análise da modalidade se deve ao fato de essa categoria estar relacionada a uma expressão de subjetividade do enunciador, o que favorece a análise da imagem que o sujeito enunciador projeta de si. A análise dos itens modais, que está baseada em trabalhos funcionalistas sobre o tema, especialmente o de Hengeveld (2004), conta com o levantamento e com a classificação dos itens lexicais modais presentes nas obras do corpus, considerando-se, para a classificação, dois critérios, isto é, o domínio semântico e o alvo de avaliação de cada item modal. A análise do ethos, que também leva em conta outros aspectos da superfície do discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade, como ocorrências de verbos no imperativo e emprego do item lexical “velho”, revela que o tom autoritário predomina nesse discurso. A análise ainda evidencia que o discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade é menos um discurso otimista que oferece aos idosos fórmulas para alcançar uma velhice feliz e mais um discurso autoritário que se destina a ensinar a sociedade a ajudar e a entender a pessoa idosa
This paper aims to analyze the ethos of self-help books targeting the third age, considering grammar and lexical items contained in the text. The considerations with regard to ethos described and followed in this research belong to the French Discourse Analysis, with special emphasis on Dominique Maingueneau’s reflections in this regard. According to him, ethos is about the image projected by the subject of enunciation considering the way they enunciate. The corpus of the research is composed of three self-help books for the third age that were originally written in Portuguese. The ethos can be captured through many evidences contained in the text. Thus, in this study we chose to analyze the ethos mainly through modal elements found in the corpus. The analysis of modality was chosen as this category is related to enunciator’s subjectivity expression regarding their enunciate. Therefore, modal elements are a privileged focus of linguistic-discursive investigation in order to analyze the ethos. The study of modality was carried out mainly based on Hengeveld’s functional considerations (2004) about the theme. The choice of functional component to analyze data is justified because this line of research provides relevant information on the subject and considers, in its analyses, the discursive context with modal elements. The analysis of ethos also takes into account other aspects of the surface of self- help discourse for the third age, like the occurrences of verbs in the imperative and the employment that the lexical item “old” reveals about the authoritative tone that dominates this discourse. The analysis also shows that the self-help discourse for the elderly is less an optimistic speech that offers seniors formulas to achieve a happy old age and more authoritarian discourse that is designed to teach the society to help and understand the elder
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Ueda, Michele Cristina Barquete. "O ethos das obras de autoajuda para terceira idade /." São José do Rio Preto, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122114.
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Orientador: Anna Flora BrunelliCoorientador: Sandra Denise Gasparini Bastos
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, analisa-se o ethos do discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade. Para tanto, adota-se o aparato teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, com ênfase nas reflexões de Dominique Maingueneau sobre a noção de ethos discursivo. De acordo com o autor, o ethos diz respeito à imagem que o sujeito enunciador do discurso projeta de si pelo modo como enuncia. O corpus da pesquisa é composto por três obras de autoajuda para a terceira idade que foram escritas originalmente em língua portuguesa. Como o ethos pode ser apreendido por diversos indícios presentes na superfície textual, neste estudo, analisa-se o ethos especialmente por meio de itens lexicais modais. A opção pela análise da modalidade se deve ao fato de essa categoria estar relacionada a uma expressão de subjetividade do enunciador, o que favorece a análise da imagem que o sujeito enunciador projeta de si. A análise dos itens modais, que está baseada em trabalhos funcionalistas sobre o tema, especialmente o de Hengeveld (2004), conta com o levantamento e com a classificação dos itens lexicais modais presentes nas obras do corpus, considerando-se, para a classificação, dois critérios, isto é, o domínio semântico e o alvo de avaliação de cada item modal. A análise do ethos, que também leva em conta outros aspectos da superfície do discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade, como ocorrências de verbos no imperativo e emprego do item lexical "velho", revela que o tom autoritário predomina nesse discurso. A análise ainda evidencia que o discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade é menos um discurso otimista que oferece aos idosos fórmulas para alcançar uma velhice feliz e mais um discurso autoritário que se destina a ensinar a sociedade a ajudar e a entender a pessoa idosa
Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the ethos of self-help books targeting the third age, considering grammar and lexical items contained in the text. The considerations with regard to ethos described and followed in this research belong to the French Discourse Analysis, with special emphasis on Dominique Maingueneau's reflections in this regard. According to him, ethos is about the image projected by the subject of enunciation considering the way they enunciate. The corpus of the research is composed of three self-help books for the third age that were originally written in Portuguese. The ethos can be captured through many evidences contained in the text. Thus, in this study we chose to analyze the ethos mainly through modal elements found in the corpus. The analysis of modality was chosen as this category is related to enunciator's subjectivity expression regarding their enunciate. Therefore, modal elements are a privileged focus of linguistic-discursive investigation in order to analyze the ethos. The study of modality was carried out mainly based on Hengeveld's functional considerations (2004) about the theme. The choice of functional component to analyze data is justified because this line of research provides relevant information on the subject and considers, in its analyses, the discursive context with modal elements. The analysis of ethos also takes into account other aspects of the surface of self- help discourse for the third age, like the occurrences of verbs in the imperative and the employment that the lexical item "old" reveals about the authoritative tone that dominates this discourse. The analysis also shows that the self-help discourse for the elderly is less an optimistic speech that offers seniors formulas to achieve a happy old age and more authoritarian discourse that is designed to teach the society to help and understand the elder
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Haase, Marcus. "WHEN WORDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES: AN EXAMINATION OF LINGUISTIC CORRELATES OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1620659259937997.
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Kilpert, Diana Mary. "Language and value : the place of evaluation in linguistic theory." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002635.
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It is a central claim of modern linguistic theory that linguists do not prescribe, but describe language as it is, without pronouncing on correctness or judging one variety better than another. This attempt to exclude evaluation is motivated by a desire to be ' politically correct', which hinders objective analysis of language, and by an ill-advised imitation of the natural sciences, which obstructs the discipline's progress towards becoming a science in its own right. It involves linguists, as users of a valued variety, in self-deception and disingenuousness, distances them from the concerns of the ordinary language user, and betrays a failure to understand the involvement of social values in language, the nature of language itself, and the limits of linguistic science. On a wider scale, linguistics reflects society's devaluing and mechanisation of language. Despite growing concern expressed in the literature, and the incoherence that becomes apparent when linguists attempt to address social problems using a theory that regards language as an autonomous object, newcomers to the discipline continue to be taught that anti-prescriptivism is the natural corollary of a scientific approach to language. This thesis suggests that the way out of these difficulties is to rethink the meaning of ' theory' in linguistics. If we take the reflexivity of language seriously, building on M.A.K. Halliday's notion of 'linguistics as metaphor', we are reminded that a linguistic theory is made of language. Metalanguage must use the experiential and interpersonal meaning-making resources of everyday language. It follows that a linguistic theory cannot escape being evaluative, because evaluation is an inherent part of interpersonal meaning. If we fail to notice our own metalinguistic evaluation, this is because language disguises its evaluative meanings, or perhaps we are just not used to thinking of them as part of the grammar. To achieve clarity about the involvement of value in language, we need to turn our metalanguage back on itself - 'using the grammar to think with about the grammar' . Some ways of doing this are demonstrated here, turning the resources of systemic functional linguistics on linguists' own language. The circularity of this process should be seen not as a drawback but as a salutary reminder that linguistics is an interpretive rather than a discovery process. This knowledge should help us revalue language and make a place for evaluation in linguistic theory, paving the way for a socially responsible and productive linguistics.
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Costa, SÃlvia Cristina Duailibe. "(In) competÃncia lingÃÃstica: observaÃÃes e constataÃÃes na prÃtica de professores de lÃngua inglesa em formaÃÃo inicial." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3898.
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Este estudo insere-se na Linha de Pesquisa em LingÃÃstica Aplicada, tem como foco a formaÃÃo inicial de professores de lÃnguas e volta-se, mais especificamente, para um exame do processo de formaÃÃo desses docentes no que tange à aquisiÃÃo da competÃncia lingÃÃstica de futuros professores de lÃngua inglesa. Pretendeu-se identificar quais e de que natureza eram as principais deficiÃncias em termos de competÃncia lingÃÃstica dos futuros professores estudados e analisar suas possÃveis implicaÃÃes na sala de aula do EstÃgio Supervisionado do Curso de Letras da Universidade Federal do MaranhÃo (UFMA). Esta pesquisa està centrada nas teorizaÃÃes sobre competÃncia lingÃÃstica dos seguintes autores: Hymes (1972), Canale e Swain (1980), Bachman (1990) e Almeida Filho (1992). Foi considerada, ainda, a classificaÃÃo proposta no Quadro Comum Europeu de ReferÃncia para o ensino de LÃnguas. AlÃm disso, recorreu-se à proposta da AnÃlise de erros fundamentada nas teorias de Corder (1967) e Dulay, Burt e Krashen (1982). Optou-se, do ponto de vista metodolÃgico, por um estudo de base qualitativa e interpretativista, orientado por uma abordagem de cunho etnogrÃfico, aliado Ãs contribuiÃÃes da AnÃlise de erros. O contexto de pesquisa foi o do Curso de Licenciatura em Letras da UFMA, constituÃdo por uma turma de dezesseis alunos do segundo semestre de 2008, da Disciplina PrÃtica de Ensino de InglÃs. Foram selecionadas trÃs aulas de cada aluno, com as quais se obteve um total de quarenta e oito aulas de observaÃÃo. Foram aplicados dois questionÃrios: um antes e outro depois das observaÃÃes. O primeiro teve o objetivo de traÃar um perfil dos estagiÃrios e o segundo, mais especÃfico, analisar as percepÃÃes dos estagiÃrios a respeito dos erros cometidos em nÃvel da sua competÃncia lingÃÃstica. O foco foi a competÃncia gramatical, entretanto, foram observadas tambÃm deficiÃncias de ordem ortogrÃfica e lexical. Constatou-se que todos os alunos observados apresentaram erros em suas produÃÃes orais e escritas e examinou-se como os futuros professores atuavam frente aos erros e sua correÃÃo e as repercussÃes disso no que se refere à formaÃÃo desses docentes e a dinÃmica das aulas.This study is inserted in the Line of Research in Applied Linguistics. It has as focus the initial formation of foreign language teachers and is turned, more specifically, toward an examination of the process of formation of those teachers in what it refers to the acquisition of the linguistic ability of future English language teachers. The objective was to identify which and of what nature were the main deficiencies in terms of linguistic ability of the studied future teachers and to analyze their possible implications in the classroom of the Supervised Period of training of the Course of Letters of the Federal University of MaranhÃo (UFMA). This research is centered in the theories on linguistic ability of the following authors: Hymes (1972), Canale and Swain (1980), Bachman (1990) and Almeida Filho (1992). The classification proposed in the European Common Framework of Reference for the Education of Languages was also considered. Moreover, the Error analysis based on the theories of Corder (1967), Dulay, Burt and Krashen (1982) were as well considered. The method used is of qualitative and interpretative basis, guided by an approach of ethnographic nature associated with the contributions of the Error analysis. The investigation context was the Course of Graduation as a Licentiate in Letters of UFMA, consisting of a group of sixteen students of the second semester of the year 2008, of the subject Practice of Teaching of English. Forty eight classes have been observed, this is, three classes of each student. Two questionnaires have been applied, one before and the other one after the observations. The first one had the objective to trace the profile of the trainees and the second, more specific, to analyze the perceptions of the trainees regarding the errors committed in the level of their linguistic ability. The focus was the grammatical ability, however, orthographic and lexical deficiencies have been also observed. It was noticed that all the students observed have presented some kind of deficiency in their oral and written productions and it was examined how the future teachers behave before the errors and their correction and the repercussion of that in what it refers to the formation of those teachers and the dynamics of the classes.
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Jennings, Matthew. "Nevertheless, She Persisted: A Linguistic Analysis of the Speech of Elizabeth Warren, 2007-2017." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/457.
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A breakout star among American progressives in the recent past, Elizabeth Warren has quickly gone from a law professor to a leading figure in Democratic politics. This paper analyzes Warren’s speech from before her time as a political figure to the present using the quantitative textual methodology established by Jones (2016) in order to see if Warren’s speech supports Jones’s assertion that masculine speech is the language of power. Ratios of feminine to masculine markers ultimately indicate that despite her increasing political sway, Warren’s speech becomes increasingly feminine instead. However, despite associations of feminine speech with weakness, Warren’s speech scores highly for expertise and confidence as its feminine scores increase. These findings relate to the relevant political context and have implications for presumptions of masculine speech as the standard for political power.
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Karman, Barbara A. "Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366049215.
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Al-Liheibi, Fahd M. M. "Aspects of sentence analysis in the Arabic linguistic tradition, with particular reference to ellipsis." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1494/.
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Robuste, Taísa Barbosa. "Construções [v1+ver] no português brasileiro contemporâneo sob perspectiva construcional /." São José do Rio Preto, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/180393.
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Orientador: Sebastião Carlos Leite GonçalvesBanca: Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza
Banca: Marize Mattos Dall'Aglio-Hattnher
Banca: Taísa Peres de Oliveira
Banca: Michel Gustavo Fontes
Resumo: Esta tese é amparada por pressupostos gerais de teorias identificadas com correntes funcionalistas da linguagem (DIK, 1989, 1997; NUYTS, 2007; dentre outros), sobretudo o Funcionalismo da Costa Oeste Americana (TRAUGOTT, 2010; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 2003; GIVÓN, 1984, 1995; BYBEE, 2016; dentre outros), e conceitos específicos relacionados a teorias cognitivistas, especialmente a identificada com a Gramática de Construções (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; CROFT, 2001, 2007; LAKOFF, 1987), numa vertente que vem sendo denominada Modelos Baseados no Uso (BERLOW; KEMMER, 2000; BYBEE, 2016) ou Linguística Cognitivo-funcional (NUYTS, 2007). Mais diretamente, nos valemos de premissas da Gramática de Construções - que defende como princípio fundamental que a forma básica de uma estrutura sintática é a construção, considerada um pareamento simbólico de uma estrutura gramatical complexa com seu significado (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; CROFT, 2007) - para analisar, sob uma perspectiva sincrônica e com base em dados de língua escrita e falada do português brasileiro contemporâneo, as construções [v1+ver], sendo v1 substituível pelos verbos ir, querer e deixar. Partimos da hipótese de que essas construções resultam de um processo de construcionalização instanciado por uma série de micropassos de mudanças. A busca pela comprovação dessa hipótese perpassa o mapeamento das propriedades de composicionalidade, esquematicidade e produtividade das construções e permite cumprir o objetivo...
Abstract: This thesis is supported by general assumptions of functionalist-related theories of language (DIK, 1989, 1997, NUYTS, 2007, among others), especially the Functionalism of the American West Coast (TRAUGOTT, 2010, TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 2003; GIVÓN, 1984, 1995; BYBEE, 2016; among others), and specific concepts related to cognitive theories, especially the one identified with the Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; CROFT, 2001, 2007; LAKOFF, 1987), in a field that has been called Usage-Based Models of Language (BERLOW; KEMMER, 2000; BYBEE, 2016) or Cognitive-Functional Linguistics (NUYTS, 2007). More specifically, we rely on premises of the Construction Grammar, which holds as a fundamental principle that the basic form of a syntactic structure is the construction, conceived as a symbolic pairing of a complex grammatical structure and meaning (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006, CROFT, 2007); we do so in order to analyze, from a synchronic approach, based on written and spoken language data from the contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, the constructions [v1+ver], being v1 replaceable by the verbs ir, querer, and, deixar. Our point of departures is the hypothesis that these constructions are the result of a constructionalization process that occurs through a series of micro-step changes. In order to prove this hypothesis, we map the compositionality, schematicity, and productivity properties of these constructions. This allows the accomplishment of the thesis'central objective: to explore the relation between constructional change, constructionalization, and (inter)subjectivization (TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013, TRAUGOTT, DASHER, 2002; TRAUGOTT, 2010). We identify and analyze four uses of constructs [v1+ver], which are: i) Constructions of purposeful movement; ii) Tense and Aspect periphrastic constructions; iii) Modal epistemic constructions, and; iv) Discourse Marker ...
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