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Dakalo, Takalani. "A descriptive analysis of the Tshimanda dialect : A linguistic approach." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/640.

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Thesis (M.A. (Translation studies and linguistics)) --University of Limpopo, 2009<br>This mini-dissertation describess the phonological structure of Tshimanḓa dialect, comparing it with the standard Tshivenḓa. The study shows the historical background of Tshimanḓa dialect and also points out that Tshimanda is a dialect spoken by Vhalaudzi of Lwamondo, Gwamasenga, Tshimbupfe and Luonde in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study has revealed two aspects which characterise Tshimanda dialect. Tshimanda dialect is characterized by the omission of two speech sounds, namely, ‘l’ and ‘w’. In some in

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Watermeyer, Susan Jean. "Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21730.

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Bibliography: pages 181-189.<br>I have attempted to give a broad description of the variety of English used by first-language (White) Afrikaans-speakers in the Western Cape. The first chapter outlines the aims of the thesis with respect to the study of English as a world phenomenon. Important work on other varieties of English, notably that of William Labov and that of Lesley Milroy, is discussed, with emphasis on variationist studies. The chapter also includes a description of the methods used for the collection of data. I did not use questionnaires but rather conducted 'participation intervi

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Al-Saqqaf, Abdullah Hassan Shaikh. "A descriptive linguistic study of the spoken Arabic of Wadi Hadramawt, Yemen." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312419.

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Al-Saqqaf, Abdullah [Verfasser]. "A descriptive linguistic study of the spoken Arabic of Wadi Hadramawt, Yemen / Abdullah Al-Saqqaf." München : GRIN Verlag, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1214950817/34.

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Aslam, Irfan. "Semantic frame based automatic extraction of typological information from descriptive grammars." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17893.

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This thesis project addresses the machine learning (ML) modelling aspects of the problem of automatically extracting typological linguistic information of natural languages spoken in South Asia from annotated descriptive grammars. Without getting stuck into the theory and methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the focus has been to develop and test a machine learning (ML) model dedicated to the information extraction part. Starting with the existing state-of-the-art frameworks to get labelled training data through the structured representation of the descriptive grammars, the problem ha

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Alanís, Iliana. "A descriptive analysis of a Texas two-way bilingual program and its effects on fifth-grade academic and linguistic achievement /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Mandola, Malgorzata. "Les équivalents français des noms géographiques polonais : l’exonymisation en français des toponymes du territoire de la Pologne." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN20025/document.

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Les études linguistiques les plus récentes admettent que les noms propres sont souvent traduits, ou adaptés, par opposition aux anciennes théories sur la non-traduisibilité des noms propres.Ce qui distingue les toponymes du reste de l’onomastique, ce sont les implications politiques, sociologiques et historiques qui concernent une bonne partie des noms géographiques. Dire « Breslau » pour la ville polonaise « Wrocław » peut avoir une connotation négative selon le contexte. Et pourtant, nous rencontrons très fréquemment cette forme surInternet. De plus, on observe avec la mondialisation la mult

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Mheta, Gift. "A contextual analysis of compound nouns in Shona lexicography." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2459_1320660934.

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This research is in the area of lexicography and investigates the relationship between Shona terminology development and the culture of the language community for which the terminology is intended. It is a contextual analysis of compound nouns found in Shona terminological dictionaries. The study specifically explores how lexicographers together with health, music, language and literature specialists make use of their knowledge about Shona cultural contexts in the creation of compound nouns. Thus, this research foregrounds Shona socio-cultural contexts and meaning generation in terminology dev

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Folgoat, Adriana. "La dynamique linguistique des relations spatiales en créole réunionnais et sa contribution à la question de l'illettrisme." Thesis, La Réunion, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LARE0035/document.

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Notre thèse, intitulée La dynamique linguistique des relations spatiales en créole réunionnais et sa contribution à la question de l'illettrisme, s'inscrit en linguistique descriptive et choisit d'interroger la problématique de la spatialité avec les outils et les méthodes de la linguistique fonctionnelle en synchronie dynamique pour le créole réunionnais (Martinet : 1989, Staudacher-Valliamée : 1999). Les enquêtes réalisées sur le terrain créolophone réunionnais rassemblent un corpus de 24 idiolectes dans un échantillonnage représentatif de plusieurs classes d'âge, de lieux géographiques et d

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Tsui, Amy Bik-May. "A linguistic description of utterances in conversation." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1986. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7569/.

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This thesis is an attempt to characterize the utterances in conversation. Following the principles of Sinclair & Caulthard (1975), it proposes a descriptive framework which is based on the concepts of 'class', 'structure' and 'system'. Chapter One argues against the position that utterances are multi-functional and the illocutionary forces they carry are largely indeterminate, hence they are not describable in categorial terms. It points out that such a position is a misconception arising from the lack of consistent criteria when characterizing utterances. It then examines studies in three maj

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Ng, Siu-cheung. "Linguistic features of Cantonese classifiers in medical description." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31573290.

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Ng, Siu-cheung, and 吳劭璋. "Linguistic features of Cantonese classifiers in medical description." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31573290.

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Edelbrock, Allison J. "Estudio descriptivo de la traducción de tres cuentos de Roberto Bolaño al inglés dentro del marco de la lingüística cognitiva." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588950966953305.

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Harre, Catherine Elizabeth. "Tener + past participle : a case-study in linguistic description." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315143.

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Emami, Mohammad. "The dynamics of literary translation : a case study from English to Persian." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5955.

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This thesis aims to elucidate the translation process by devising a way of retrieving evidence of this process from its output. It further aims to assess the claims made by some scholars concerning the possible existence of Translation Universals. In order to isolate the interaction of texts and contexts, a corpus of American short stories was created, with their translations into Persian published after the 1979 Revolution. Three complementary methodologies gave a rounded picture: (1) Corpus-based Descriptive Translation Studies; (2) The pragmatic and rhetorically-based approach of Thinking T

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Arnold, Douglas John. "Theoretical and descriptive issues in machine translation." Thesis, University of Essex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290765.

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Cane, Graeme. "A linguistic description of spoken Brunei English in the 1990s." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1993. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21242.

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The thesis discusses the variety of English that is spoken today in Brunei Darussalam and assesses its status as a 'New English'. Using a corpus of spoken data which was recorded and transcribed by the author, the thesis attempts to produce an empirically based linguistic description of the grammatical, lexical and discourse features found in spoken Brunei English and to discuss the ways in which these features differ from the equivalent features in Standard British English. The final part of the study is concerned with the pedagogical and language planning implications of recognizing the exis

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Azam, Yasir. "Compounding in Malay : a descriptive analysis." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20257/.

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This study concerns Malay compounding. The aim is to have an in-depth description and analysis of the topic which will create a more comprehensive and systematic understanding of the phenomenon in the language. Various features and issues in relation to compounding are identified and explored in order to achieve this aim. Given that Malay compounds and phrases are structurally similar, the question of whether compounding is a morphological or syntactical product is first entertained. Discussion on this issue favours the understanding that compounds can be distinct objects from those of structu

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Barasa, David. "Ateso Grammar: A descriptive account of an Eastern Nilotic Language." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25182.

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This study discusses the structure of Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language. Based on interview and recorded data from fieldwork conducted in both Uganda and Kenya, where Ateso is spoken, the study provides the first comprehensive description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language. The main findings of this study are as follows: The key feature of Ateso's phonological structure is that vowel alternation strategies are constrained by three harmony rules: root-control, feature-control, and, finally, mid-vowel assimilation. While Ateso shares this structure with the other Eastern Ni

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Miyashita, Mizuki. "Tohono O'odham syllable weight: Descriptive, theoretical and applied aspects." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280102.

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This dissertation is a model of a unified study of three linguistic aspects: description, theory and application. Tohono O'odham syllable weight is investigated within these linguistic aspects. I propose that O'odham diphthongs are categorized into two groups based on their weight: light (monomoraic) diphthongs and heavy (bimoraic) diphthongs. This is opposed to generally understood diphthong classifications (i.e., falling vs. rising). My conclusion is supported by empirical facts, including morpho-phonological and phonetic phenomena. The generalization is theoretically accounted for within th

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Selting, Margret. "Descriptive categories for the auditive analysis of intonation in conversation." Universität Potsdam, 1987. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4198/.

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A system of descriptive categories for the notation and analysis of intonation in natural conversation is presented and discussed in relation to other systems currently suggested for incorporation in discourse analysis, The categories are based on purely auditive criteria. They differ from e.g. tonetic approaches by relying more on transcribers' and analysts' perception of the form and internal cohesiveness of contours, especially with respect to rhythmicality and/or pitch contour (gestalt). Intonation is conceived of as a relational phenomenon; the role of intonation in conversational utteran

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Yoo, Chang-Keol. "A cognitive linguistic description of purpose and result connectives in biblical Hebrew." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80086.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study represents an investigation of a set of BH connectives (רוּבֲעַבּ, ןַעַמְל, and ןֶפּ) as well as other grammatical constructions relevant to the lexical items. This investigation seeks to establish the datatypes which are relevant for distinguishing the meanings and/or senses that the BH connectives רוּבֲעַבּ, ןַעַמְל, and ןֶפּ may display. A literature overview of BH linguistics and existing BH lexica demonstrate that although current resources provide some useful information, there still lacks an adequate framework

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JESUS, BIANCA FREITAS DE. "SAY IN PORTUGUESE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TRANSLATION, DESCRIPTION AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27758@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>Os profissionais que traduzem textos do inglês para o português deparam-se com uma exigência dos clientes quanto à tradução de diálogos: diversificar os verbos de elocução, com o intuito de evitar a repetição do verbo dizer. Em resposta, esta pesquisa visa à elaboração de um glossário dos verbos que introduzem discurso relatado, chamados de verbos de elocução. Para tanto, conduzimos um estudo descritivo com base em corp

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Alrashed, Abdulmajeed S. "Descriptive Analysis of Qassimi Arabic| Phonemic Vowels, Syllable Structure and Epenthetic Vowels, and Affrication." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752080.

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<p> The present study seeks to provide a descriptive analysis of three phonological topics in Qassimi Arabic (QA)—a local variety of Najdi Arabic spoken mainly in Qassim, Saudi Arabia—based on data collected from a total of twenty-two native QA speakers. The topics are phonemic vowels, syllable structure and epenthetic vowels, and affrication. The participant recruitment was the same for all the three topics, but each topic was investigated using its own materials and methods. </p><p> Regarding the phonemic vowels in QA, the study based the results on 157 words collected from th

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Fleck, David W. "Sugerencias metodológicas para realizar trabajo de campo lingüístico en la Amazonía." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101354.

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En el presente artículo, propongo una metodología y ofrezco algunas recomendaciones de carácter práctico para realizar trabajo descriptivo con lenguas poco estudiadas, a partir de mi propia experiencia de campo en la Amazonía occidental. Los temas desarrollados aquí incluyen la evaluación y uso de la literatura lingüística disponible, la preparación para la permanencia en el campo, el trato con los hablantes de la lengua en cuestión, las técnicas de recolección de datos y la escritura del trabajo descriptivo. El énfasis del artículo se centra en la búsqueda de estrategias para que la recolecci

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Pollard, Jane Maree. "Mesostructure : towards a linguistic framework for the description of topic in written texts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302563.

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Marley, Dawn. "A sociolinguistic description of Perpignan." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10926/.

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This thesis reports on a research project conducted in Perpignan in 1988. The object of the project was to discover and describe the varieties of language present in the town, patterns of language use and language attitudes among inhabitants. Perpignan has been part of France and therefore officially French-speaking for over three hundred years, but it is historically a Catalan-speaking town, and Catalan is still spoken there, although it is now a minority language. Several other minority languages are also spoken, due to the presence of immigrant communities, most notably Spanish, Portuguese

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Lutalo, Kiingi Sam. "A descriptive grammar of morphosyntactic constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL)." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2014. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/10566/.

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The Ugandan Deaf Community, consisting of approximately 25,000 sign language users, has seen significant developments in its recent history. Government recognition of sign language, establishment of schools for the deaf, and the beginnings of research into Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL) have been important milestones. While Deaf Ugandans are entering university level education for the first time, a number of challenges to the community remain. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the linguistic structures of UgSL in order to produce a description of the language’s morphosyntax. There is a cl

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Mahdi, Q. R. "The spoken Arabic of Basra, Iraq : a descriptive study of phonology, morphology and syntax." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332105.

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Otsuki, Kyoko. "Cross-linguistic study of elliptical utterances in task-oriented dialogues with classroom implications." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5821.

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Ellipsis is a phenomenon whereby constituents which are normally obligatory in the grammar are omitted in actual discourse. It is found in all types of discourse, from everyday conversation to poetry. The omitted constituents can range from one word to an entire clause, and recovery of the ellipted item depends sometimes on the linguistic and sometimes on the non-linguistic context. From a practical point of view, the contribution of ellipsis in the context is twofold. First, it is one of several important means of achieving cohesion in a text. Secondly, ellipsis contributes to communicative a

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Wagner, Karl Olaw Christian. "An Intonational Description of Mayan Q'eqchi'." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4151.

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Q'eqchi' is one of many Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala, C.A. This study provides the first Tone Break and Indices (ToBI) transcription system (Silverman et al., 1992) labeling of Q'eqchi' within the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model of intonation (Liberman, 1975; Pierrehumbert, 1980; Ladd, 1996). As an exploratory study into the basic intonation patterns of the language, observations were made on a variety of phenomenon relating to the intonational structure and contour pattern of the language. Three native male speakers of Q'eqchi' each provided 75 spoken sentences designed to best obser

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Alotaibi, Ahmad S. "The copula in Arabic : description and analysis." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21096/.

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This thesis provides a description and analysis of the copula in Arabic. More precisely, it concerns the copula in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). First, the thesis describes the copula syntactically. This includes defining the copula in Arabic, stating strategies used to form copular sentences, indicating possible complements of the copula and clarifying contexts in which the copula is absent. Second, the thesis classifies copular sentences in MSA into four types: equational sentences, predicational sentences, specificational sentences and identificational sentences. However, it concludes that

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Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine. "J. L. Krapf and his role in researching and describing East-African languages." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-95605.

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Dealing with the bibliographies and publications about and by J. L. Krapf, especially in the archives of the Basle Mission I was astonished and I got the feeling that such an amount and such a variety of work could not have been done by one person only. At fist, Krapf was a missionary by profession. He and Rebmann were called the pioneers of the East-African mission. Beyond this, however, different missionary societies were encouraged by the publications and proposals of Krapf to work in East Africa, e.g. the Church Missionary Society in the service of which Krapf and Rebmann started their wor

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Richardson, Andrew. "A grammatical description of the English gerund and related forms." Thesis, University of Essex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290738.

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Szeto, Yee-Kim. "A semantic description of aspectual and temporal reference in Chinese." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5417.

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Bakker, Egbert J. "Linguistics and formulas in Homer scalarity and the description of the particle per /." Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/17806201.html.

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Wang, Xiulu. "Bridging the political and the personal : a descriptive study of literary translation in contemporary China." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55907/.

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With the development of Descriptive Translation Studies (e.g. Even-Zohar, 1978; Toury, 1995), and more importantly, with the ‘cultural turn’ and the subsequent ‘power turn’ in Translation Studies (e.g. Bassnett and Lefevere, 1990; Tymoczko and Gentzler, 2002), it is now generally recognized that translation is not a mere linguistic phenomenon, but a complex social and political process involving competing values and ideologies. This thesis aims at presenting a manifold and multifaceted vision of literary translation in contemporary China, while at the same time, remaining critically aware of o

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Kiernan, Patrick James. "Models of conversation and narrative : towards a pedagogical description." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/170/.

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This is the first of three modules concerned with narrative and identity in English language teaching in Japan. This module makes the case for developing a pedagogical model of spoken discourse, particularly spoken narrative, to aid the teaching of English in foreign language contexts such as Japan. It is proposed that this model should take account of the learners L1, in this case Japanese. Rather than teaching the model, however, it is suggested that the model would ideally be applied using a task-based approach.

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Chang, Nam Fung. "Yes prime manipulator : a descriptive study of a Chinese translation of British political humour." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4219/.

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This is a descriptive study of Chang Nam Fung's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's Yes Prime Minister, a text characterized by British political humour. Adopting a target-oriented approach, it aims primarily to uncover the regularities which mark the relationships between function, process and product of the translated text, thus adding to the limited inventory of case studies in the field. Targeted mainly towards readers in mainland China, the translation was done at a time (1987-1992) when the political scene in the People's Republic went through cycles of repression and r

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Kent, Carolyn E. (Carolyn Elizabeth). "A Tagmemic Analysis of Coherence in the Writing of Descriptive Texts by College Students." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331512/.

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For this study an attempt was made to bridge the disciplines of linguistics and composition in order to examine factors contributing to textual coherence. Pairs of descriptive texts written by fifty college students were examined in order to identify the factors which differentiate quality and topic. Students were asked to compose a descriptive paragraph on the topic of fall. They were then encouraged to use their five senses, given leaves, and asked to compose a paragraph describing the leaves. The pairs of texts thus elicited were evaluated for preference by readers. The ANOVA revealed a si

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Mackie, Lisa Lilly. "Fragments of Piscataway : a preliminary description." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50f99887-6377-49cb-8b83-2ef46fd97283.

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The goal of the present project is to provide a preliminary descriptive analysis of the language found in a short manuscript in the Special Collections of the Georgetown University Library. The manuscript is a five-page Catholic catechism written in an Eastern Algonquian language. It is the only extant record of the language which is presumed to be Piscataway (also called Conoy). The identification of the language is based on the attribution of authorship to Father Andrew White, a seventeenth-century English Jesuit missionary. By providing as much of a description as possible through morpholog

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Trawinski, Beata [Verfasser], and Frank [Akademischer Betreuer] Richter. "Polish Comitative Constructions. Empirical Investigation and Formal Description / Beata Trawinski ; Betreuer: Frank Richter." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1161805230/34.

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Nakao, Shuichiro. "A Grammar of Juba Arabic." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/225334.

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Wieser, Hans Peter. "The discursive production of morality in the gossip genre: elements for a micro and macrosocial description of casual conversation." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4147.

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nÃo hÃ<br>O presente trabalho ocupa-se da produÃÃo de sentidos moralizantes no discurso oral coloquial, especificamente no gÃnero fofoca, sob a perspectiva da relaÃÃo dialÃtica entre os eventos discursivos e os contextos situacionais e socioculturais. O objetivo da pesquisa, entÃo, Ã descrever, interpretar e explicar as caracterÃsticas linguÃsticas da fofoca e seus efeitos sociais em contextos situacionais e socioculturais relevantes. Sendo um produto da tensÃo entre dois sistemas sociais â a interaÃÃo, que privilegia os participantes presentes, e a sociedade, que postula sua neutralidade â, o

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Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine. "J. L. Krapf and his role in researching and describing East-African languages." Swahili Forum; 3 (1996), S. 161-171, 1996. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11641.

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Dealing with the bibliographies and publications about and by J. L. Krapf, especially in the archives of the Basle Mission I was astonished and I got the feeling that such an amount and such a variety of work could not have been done by one person only. At fist, Krapf was a missionary by profession. He and Rebmann were called the pioneers of the East-African mission. Beyond this, however, different missionary societies were encouraged by the publications and proposals of Krapf to work in East Africa, e.g. the Church Missionary Society in the service of which Krapf and Rebmann started their wor

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Sperlich, Wolfgang B. 1948. "Namakir: a description of a central Vanuatu language." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2314.

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This is a description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Namakir, a language of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian, which is spoken on some six small islands of the Shepherd Islands, central Vanuatu. My perspective on Namakir is that of a person trained in linguistics, who carried out linguistic fieldwork for the purpose of grammatical description. In addition I contributed to ethnographic work as well as compiling data for a dictionary, part of which is appended to the present description. Namakir is a conservative language which retains many features that make Oceanic languages uni

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Khamkhien, Attapol. "A corpus-based investigation of macro and micro structures in applied linguistics research articles in the TCI database : descriptive and pedagogic dimensions." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106946/.

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Previous studies have used a genre approach and move-based analysis as a tool for unpacking discourse organisation of text. Likewise, corpus-based approaches, as a bottom-up method, have been applied to investigate vocabulary patterns, their distribution and typical linguistic characteristics within the text. These two approaches are considered complementary, offering insights into the discourse patterns of a genre. Few studies, however, have attempted to combine these two methodological perspectives and then develop a pedagogic intervention based on the description. This study integrated move

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Law, Daniel A. "A Grammatical Description of the Early Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/404.

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The purpose of this thesis is to describe the grammatical system of Classical Ch'olti', the language of the Classic Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions, as attested in inscriptions of the Early Classic (approximately AD 200-600). Around 300 Lowland Maya Hieroglyphic inscriptions have been dated to the Early Classic or before, nearly one third of these remain unpublished. Previous work on the monumental inscriptions of the Early Classic (Mathews 1985; Proskouriakoff 1950) has examined Early Classic monuments primarily as works of art. Mora-Marin (2001) examined the language of inscriptions found on

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Chan, Siu Ling June. "Mixed code in Hong Kong : a hypothesis and a description." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1997. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/114.

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Yamamoto, Kyosuke. "A semantic approach to Ilocano Grammar." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/242310.

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