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Geldenhuys, Natasjia. "The language of forms: A discourse analysis of municipal application forms." University of the Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6952.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>This thesis focuses on the genre of municipal documents (application forms) and the variety of written and visual languages that make up their corpus to reveal the various lexical semantics used in the forms as communication tool between individuals and the larger organisations. It was important to review not only how other researchers have dissected such documents, but also what they have used to study their corpus. The thesis also provides a thorough overview of literature pertaining to forms from the municipal and governmental sector as it relates to social sem

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Engelbrecht, Alta. "Kultuurstereotipering in moedertaal-taalhandboeke in Afrikaanse, Nederlandse en Vlaamse gemeenskappe." Thesis, Pretoria : [S.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10052009-180721.

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Thornborrow, Joanna. "Discourse, power and ideology : some explorations in critical discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1991. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21500.

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This thesis consists of an inquiry into the articulation between language, ideology, and power, which is approached from two different angles. Firstly, it deals with theories of ideology as representation, and secondly, investigates the effect of ideology and power on structures of discursive interaction. Thompson (1984) has argued for the necessity of accounting for the relationship between meaning and power in the study of ideology, a relationship which does not seem to be adequately addressed by theories of representation on the one hand, or by theories of social interaction, on the other.

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Bam, Robert Graham. "A corpus-driven quantitative analysis of translated and original texts in 'Die Burger'." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50242.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the emergence of the global village concept over the last two decades, the role of the act of translation has increased in importance. As people became aware of the value and significance of texts in foreign languages, it ignited an interest in the act of translation. Translations were no longer regarded as inferior, but rather worthy of study. Prior to the emergence of interest in translation, the translation process had received little attention, but now slowly became the focus point as researchers sought to unr

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Cheung, Wai-ling Sonia. "A contrastive discourse analysis of warnings /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23424369.

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Vos, Maria. "Kry (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans : a minimalist analysis." Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85879.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the grammatical properties and syntactic derivation of KRY (“get”)-passives in Afrikaans. Analyses of the corresponding phenomenon in other West-Germanic languages are examined and used as background for the study. The aim of the study is to provide a minimalist analysis of the internal structure of Afrikaans KRY-passives; no such analysis has to date been attempted within the framework of Minimalist Syntax. As an introduction to the phenomenon in Afrikaans, some grammatical background about kry and its synt

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Boholm, Max. "Risk, language and discourse." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-180310.

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This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice. Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). Lexical, grammatical and semantic contexts of the nouns risk, safety and security, and the adjectives risky, safe and secure are analysed and compared. Similarities and differences are observed, suggesting partial synonymy between safety (safe) and security (secure) and sema

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Mlotsa, Faith Busisiwe. "Learner involvement in discourse : a contextualised discourse analysis of undergraduate online discussions." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7881.

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Bibliography: leaves 128-134.<br>The study analyzes the discourse from online discussions in a Language and Communication Economics course at the University of Cape Town. The study critiques claims made by several researchers in Computer Mediated Communication that CMC as mode of Communication enhances interaction and produces hybrid discourse.

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Choi, Jane Boyun. "A corpus-based discourse analysis of Korean discourse markers an analysis of spoken and written use /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481658111&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Grove, Karen. "Interpreting services in the Western Cape legislature : an explorative analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20137.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>The purpose of this study was to attempt to ascertain the standard of interpreting services in the Western Cape Legislature. The study gives a brief overview of the legislation regarding language, and is furthermore underpinned by a literature review. The everelusive concept of quality in interpreting is also considered. The empirical component of the study encompassed interviews and open-ended discussions with language practitioners, interpreters and users, which in this case are the members of parliament. In addition, interpreters gave

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Marko, Georg. "Penetrating language a critical discourse analysis of pornography." Tübingen Narr, 2005. http://d-nb.info/986878383/04.

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Kruger, Erin. "A nanosyntactic analysis of passive participles in Afrikaans." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17783.

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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--Stellenbosch University, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the internal structure of the passive participle in Afrikaans from within the framework of Nanosyntax. The ternary mode of classification, adopted by Caha (2007), Embick (2003;2004) and Kratzer (2000), is taken as background for the analysis of the Afrikaans passive participle; the analysis is done according to the nanosyntactic account of verb event structure which was first proposed by Ramchand (2008), and adopted by Lundquist (2008) in his study of the passive participle in Swedish.

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Cheung, Wai-ling Sonia, and 張慧玲. "A contrastive discourse analysis of warnings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30409202.

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Burris, Jessica Margaret. "Finding Feminism in American Political Discourse : A Discourse Analysis of Post-Feminist Language." UNF Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/395.

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The term “feminist” is a widely used label that is often embraced by women who do not advocate feminism. The wide use of the feminist label in contrast to the declining presence of feminist activism indicates a problem with the development of a third wave of feminism in the United States. In this study, I evaluated trends in feminism in the United States through an analysis of public political discourse. A semantic discourse analysis of political discourse from 1870 to 2011 evaluated a shift in the use of inclusive and exclusive pronoun usage by female political speakers. Speeches compiled for

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Green, Benjamin Stephen. "A skopos-based analysis of Breytenbach’s Titus Andronicus." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20107.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Breyten Breytenbach's Afrikaans translation of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is a little known member of the corpus of Afrikaans Shakespeare plays. Published without annotations in South Africa in 1970 and performed in Cape Town in the same year, it has never been performed again and the text has attracted no academic review or led to any subsequent editions. However, situated in 1970 in the heyday of the Apartheid regime, the play's production broke attendance records in Cape Town and was accompanied by substan

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Hoogbaard, Sherrilyn. "'n Ondersoek na die armoede-diskoers en die uitings patriargie, bloedskande en apartheid in Triomf van Marlene Van Niekerk." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 1996. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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Ferris, Fiona Severiona. "A multisemiotic discourse analysis of race in apartheid South Africa: The case of Sandra Laing." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5231.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>In this thesis I investigate the reconstruction of the life history of Sandra Laing and the recreation of the apartheid context by analyzing two artefacts. These main artefact for investigation is the movie Skin, by Anthony Fabian which is based on the book "When She Was White: A Family Divided By Race" by Judith Stone, which is the second artefact for investigation. The latter artefact is based on the life of Sandra Laing. Sandra Laing was born to white parents in the apartheid era, but she did not ascribe to the physical description of a person who was cla

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Li, Citing. "Chinese EFL learners' pragmatic and discourse transfer in the discourse of L2 requests." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43085763.

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Yang, Wenhui. "A discourse analysis of trade negotiations." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/861.

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Foung, Kin Wai Dennis. "A critical discourse analysis of political speeches." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/979.

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Mak, On Tat. "Discourse analysis on an online advertisement on skincare." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2003. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/485.

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Shi, Yili. "Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1117097.

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Noun phrases (NPs) with the same reference may take a number of different forms. For example, in English a particular conference can be referred to as a conference, the conference, that conference, this conference, that, this, or it. This dissertation attempts to account for the use of such referring expressions in Chinese, based on Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's (1993) Givenness Hierarchy, and compares the discourse use of Chinese referring expressions with those of English.The Givenness Hierarchy is given below:THE GIVENNESS HIERARCHY:inuniquelytypefocus > activated > familiar > identifiabl

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Gregory, Amy Ellen. "A discourse-pragmatic analysis of indicative and subjunctive mood use in Costa Rican Spanish /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Wiersma, John David. "The use of the historical present in Mark based on discourse analysis." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Secova, Maria. "Discourse-pragmatic features of spoken French : analysis and pedagogical implications." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/681.

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My research focuses on selected discourse features of spoken French, especially those typical of present-day youth language. The dissertation has two main parts: 1) Analysis of features typical of spoken language, based on my corpus of recorded data from young people aged 20 to 30, speaking to each other in spontaneous informal conversations. The analysis focuses particularly on features with discourse-pragmatic functions, including discourse markers, general extenders, presentational constructions and dislocated structures. I also address the question of how some of these typically spoken fea

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Kohler, Alan Thomas, and Alan Thomas Kohler. "What Lies Beneath: The Revelatory Power of Metonymy in Discourse, Language Planning, and Higher Education." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626665.

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Metonymic and metaphoric language are thoroughly present in everyday language, so much so that they hold in themselves strong explanatory capacity to uncover and even influence underlying individual or social/cultural ideological systems and beliefs about the world around us (Catalano & Waugh, 2013; 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The mapping systems involved in both metonymy and metaphor provide access to conceptual and social heuristics that help us make inferential and referential shortcuts (Littlemore, 2015), and thus these figurative constructs are directly implicated as “natural in

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Liu, Jing. "Mini-lectures of Chinese native speakers of English : a comparative discourse analysis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9318.

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Munajat, Rama. "Discourse-based analysis of surface-marking strategy shift in Sundanese foregrounding written narrative segments : a pattern of Indonesian structural influence." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1370881.

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This present study examines the structural impact of language contact on discourse information marking in narrative. It focuses on the surface patterns and underlying linguistic principles used to describe the foregrounding events in traditional and modem short stories, written in Indonesian (the official language of Indonesia) and Sundanese (the native language of West Java province). These two languages have been in an intensive contact since 1945.The data indicate that aspect sets apart background from foreground, whereas tense distinguishes ordinary from significant within the background a

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Kerr, Ronald George. "Changing discourse, the discourse of change : a critical analysis of discourse in the fields of English language teaching, governance and development." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418437.

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Hong, Hyo-chang. "Discourse functions of Old English passive word order variation." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259301.

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The purpose of this study was to determine discourse and functional motivation for passive word order variation as shown in three of the major Early Old English prose texts, Orosius, Pastoral Care, and Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The main variation of Early Old English passive word orders are of three types, which this study showed to be distinct in the extent to which passive subjects represent information structure. This study further shows that, while thematicity functions as a main motivating factor for the use of passives, positional variation of passive verbal elements

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Lo, Bianco Joseph. "Officialising language : a discourse study of language politics in the United States." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2001. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20020902.101758/index.html.

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Allan, Margaret D. "Migrant ESOL learners : a Foucauldian discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22335.

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This study aims to contribute uniquely to both the debate and the literature on diversity and difference within the college sector in Scotland. It investigated how migrant ESOL learners are supported within one large college in Glasgow, and adopted a qualitative approach underpinned by a previously under-used strand of Foucault’s theory of practices of the self to interpret the language and practices of both ESOL learners and their lecturers. It analysed how the college situates the migrant learners’ experience by examining the discourses of two focus groups of learners and staff, as well as s

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Shelton, Abigail Leigh. "An analysis of the particle WA in Japanese narrative discourse." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407512818.

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Doray, Michele Brigitte Antoinette. "Gender differentiated discourse : a study of teacher discourse in the adult ESL classroom /." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Language and Intercultural Education, 2005. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16608.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate similarities and differences in the classroom discourse of male and female ESL teachers in the academic stream of one Western Australian tertiary institutions ELICOS program. Language and gender research generally suggests that males and females have different and quite distinctive communicative styles. This study attempts to examine if this finding is also manifested in male and female teachers discourse in adult ESL classrooms in the three main aspects of classroom interaction; giving explicit instructions, asking questions and providing verbal fe

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Jantjies, Wesley. "The discourse marker mos in rural varieties of Afrikaans in the Western Cape: A descriptive study of syntactic patterns and pragmatic function." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1927.

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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis considers the linguistic item mos as it occurs in the speech of non-standard Cape Afrikaans speakers from the rural areas of the Western Cape, namely Montague, Worcester, Robertson, Touwsrivier, De Doorns, and Beaufort West. The syntactic and pragmatic properties of mos are described, as well as its prevalence in discourse in relation to particular social factors. Properties and functions of adverbs and discourse markers, as discussed by Ponelis (1985), Schiffrin (1987, 2001), and Fraser (1993

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Li, Citing, and 李茨婷. "Chinese EFL learners' pragmatic and discourse transfer in the discourse of L2 requests." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43085763.

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Robertson, Julie. "Accommodative phonostylistic variation in conversational interaction." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=62162.

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Hicks, Diana. "English language teaching teacher's guides : a critical discourse analysis of three texts." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/a13246cc-dda1-4a94-b061-7c3a415ee82e.

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Cahl, Gregory Elkan. "An analysis of dominant discourse in Grade 8 English Home Language textbooks." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23458.

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Post-Apartheid South Africa has heralded a period of intense curriculum reform, explicitly aimed at fostering social transformation and a shift from the uncritical rote-learning which dominated Apartheid-era schooling. There have been three major curriculum shifts since 1994 and each change has required the production of new textbooks for every single school subject, usually within highly limited time-frames. This study focuses on textbooks produced for the most recent iteration of the Language curriculum, that is, the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement, commonly known as CAPS. The study d

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Slater, Nigel G. "The language of acute pain assessment : a corpus-based critical discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29253/.

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Title: The language of acute pain assessment: a corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis approach Aim: Through use of real time interactions between healthcare workers and patients in an acute hospital setting this study sets out to investigate how health care workers help or hinder patients to express their pain during the pain assessment process. Background: Pain has long been an issue for investigation and there are a multitude of assessment options available. However, despite using an assessment framework, the ability of patients to use language to express pain has been shown to be more pr

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Litman, Diane Judith. "Plan recognition and discourse analysis: an integrated approach for understanding dialogues /." Rochester, NY : University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science, 1985. http://doi.library.cmu.edu/10.1184/OCLC/14397594.

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Nengovhela, Rofhiwa Emmanuel. "The role of symbolism in Tsivenda discourse : a semantic analysis." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2312.

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Berlinger, Randi S. "Negotiating Identities Through Langauge,Learning, and Conversation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194420.

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This ethnographic study explored everyday lived experiences of a group of Latina women in school and in the community in an Adult Basic Education (ABE) setting. I examined the functions of discourse in ABE in literacy events (Heath, 1983). In this way, I gained insights into literacy practices through ethnography of communication (Heath, 1983; Hymes, 1972, 1977; Philips, 1993; Saville-Troike, 2003). Narratives provided insights about what was communicated in everyday interactions.In a "teaching to the test" ideological environment, the Latina participants in this study shared knowledge and exp

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Donno, Julian. "American Progress - A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21695.

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19th century America is shaped greatly by territorial expansion into NativeAmerican lands. A famous painting which represents this process is called AmericanProgress by John Gast. This study argues that the display of power between the settlersand the Native Americans in the painting mirrors the dominant discourse on 19th centurywestward expansion. So, the analysis is concerned with how the settlers are constructed,how the Natives are displayed and how this results in a power hierarchy. These findingsare then compared to 19th century discourse on the westward movement. The analysis isguided by

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Fortenbery, Elizabeth C. "Women, language, and respect in rural St. Vincent and the Grenadines /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6526.

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Hannan, Mairead. "The discourse of ESL policy : the impact of the 'Literacy Crisis' /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6868.

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Chan, Sui Ping. "Organization of teacher/pupil discourse in a communicative language classroom." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1994. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/25.

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Backhouse, Rene. "An analysis of the grammatical structure of small clauses in Afrikaans : a minimalist approach." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95928.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main goal of this study is to provide a grammatical analysis of small clauses in Afrikaans. A proper analysis of this phenomenon has not yet been attempted in the literature on Afrikaans syntax. However, within the framework of generative grammar, including the most recent versions of Minimalist Syntax, extensive research has been conducted on the small clause phenomenon for a wide range of other languages. In these studies, various types of small clause constructions have been identified. For the purpose of this study, a sys

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Zeydan, Sultan. "The Analysis Of Contrastive Discourse Connectives In Turkish." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610231/index.pdf.

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This thesis is a descriptive study of four contrastive discourse connectives in Turkish. The main aim of this study is to analyze the connectives with respect to their meaning and predicate-argument structure and lay out the similarities and differences among contrastive discourse connectives with the help of quantitative analysis. Although the study is limited with contrastive connectives, it will have implications on how to resolve discourse structure in general and illustrate how lexico-syntactic elements contribute to discourse semantics.

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Nagendra, Geetha. "An activity theoretical analysis of synchronous electronic discourse a case study /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36776968.

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