Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Developmental pragmatics / Dissertations / Theses

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Developmental pragmatics.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Developmental pragmatics'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 8 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Developmental pragmatics.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Matsumura, Shoichi. "A study of the second-language socialization of university-level students : a developmental pragmatics perspective." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0016/NQ56585.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Flores-Salgado, Elizabeth. "A pragmatic study of developmental patterns in Mexican students making English requests and apologies." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/28866.

Full text

Abstract:

"September 2008".<br>Thesis (DAppLing)--Macquarie University, Division of Linguistics and Psychology, Dept. of Linguistics, 2009.<br>Bibliography: p. 189-196.<br>The purpose of this research was to analyse the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency levels were asked to respond in English to 24 different situations which called for the speech acts of request and a

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Wong, Tze-Peng. "Changes in the conversational skills of preschool children with complex developmental difficulties." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6828.

Full text

Abstract:

Caregiver-child conversation is an important platform for children’s development of language and conversational skills and can form the basis for an approach to intervention for children with pragmatic difficulties. While most intervention studies have focused on reporting overall improvements in children’s language and conversational skills as a result of changes in caregiver behaviour, there is limited fine-grained understanding of children’s ability to achieve conversational topic contingency as a result of specific changes in their caregivers’ use of conversational topic turns and/or the f

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Manis, Hannah C. "Relationship Between Joint Attention and Language in Multiparous and Uniparous Households." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/497.

Full text

Abstract:

The present study was designed to examine differences in the effect of the number of children in the household (also known as “parity”) on the relationship between initiating joint attention (IJA) and language development. We reasoned that infants who are only children (i.e., in uniparous homes), relative to infants who have one or more siblings (i.e., in multiparous homes), would have more opportunity to engage in IJA, and would, therefore, acquire a larger number of object labels. We tested the hypotheses that: 1) there would be a positive correlation between the number of IJA bids and langu

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Rumšas, Armandas. "Development of pragmatic presuppositions in fictional texts." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20111227_091918-30488.

Full text

Abstract:

In the framework of new stylistics as developed by Roger Fowler, this scientific work researches the impact of the background knowledge of the reader on the interpretation of the beginning of a literary text. The functioning of pragmatic presuppositions in poetry and non-poetic fiction (novels) is explored; 437 poems and 223 novels are analyzed, and the obtained data is compared with the statistical values of the development of pragmatic presuppositions in six genres of non-fictional texts, 300 texts in total. All the sample of the thesis represents works of the twentieth century English-writi

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Mazzocconi, Chiara. "Laughter in interaction : semantics, pragmatics, and child development." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2019. https://theses.md.univ-paris-diderot.fr/MAZZOCCONI_Chiara_va2.pdf.

Full text

Abstract:

Le rire est une vocalisation universelle à travers les cultures et les langues. Il est omniprésent dans nos dialogues et utilisé pour un large éventail de fonctions. Le rire a été étudié sous plusieurs angles, mais les classifications proposées sont difficiles à intégrer dans un même système. Malgré le fait qu’il soit crucial dans nos interactions quotidiennes, le rire en conversation a reçu peu d’attention et les études sur la pragmatique du rire en interaction, ses corrélats neuronaux perceptuels et son développement chez l’enfant sont rares. Dans cette thèse, est proposé un nouveau cadre po

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Wilson, Elspeth Amabel. "Children's development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker's epistemic state." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270302.

Full text

Abstract:

In learning language, children have to acquire not only words and constructions, but also the ability to make inferences about a speaker’s intended meaning. For instance, if in answer to the question, ‘what did you put in the bag?’, the speaker says, ‘I put in a book’, then the hearer infers that the speaker put in only a book, by assuming that the speaker is informative. On a Gricean approach to pragmatics, this implicated meaning – a quantity implicature – involves reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state. This thesis examines children’s development of implicature understanding. It seek

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Lennemyr, Marcus. "Kemi med inriktning för hållbar utveckling i förskolan : Hållbar utveckling – meningsfullt lärande om källsortering." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-38778.

Full text

Abstract:

Den här studien inriktar sig på hur förskollärare jobbar med ämnet kemi. Inom ämnet kemi kommer fokus att ligga på utbildning inom hållbar utveckling och hur förskollärarna skapar en intressant och meningsfull utbildning för barnen. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur pedagoger arbetar med de spontana stunderna med barnen, till exempel när de ska slänga mat, att berätta för barnen vart maten tar vägen sen. Vad händer med maten och hur det de gör påverkar miljön på ett meningsfullt sätt. Kvalitativ intervju har använts som metod i studien där fokus kommer att ligga på förskollärarens tanka

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Symeonidou, Irene. "The development of theory of mind and pragmatics in adolescents." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10042122/.

Full text

Abstract:

Theory of Mind (ToM) or ‘mentalising’ is our human ability to attribute the beliefs, thoughts, desires, intentions and feelings to others, and predict or explain behaviour in terms of these mental states. In the last couple of decades research has shown that brain areas involved in ToM (the ‘Social Brain’), undergo changes not only during childhood, but also during adolescence. Numerous studies have provided evidence for structural and functional changes in the Social Brain during childhood and adolescence. Recent findings from behavioural studies suggest a protracted development of ToM throug

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Yu, Shengming. "The pragmatic development of hedging in EFL learners /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2009. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-en-b23749398f.pdf.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2009.<br>"Submitted to Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-245)

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Varchavskaia, Paulina 1977. "Early pragmatic language development for an infant robot." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87181.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116).<br>by Paulina Varchavskaia.<br>S.M.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Neiva, Frâncila Weidt. "Towards pragmatic interoperability to support scientiﬁc workﬂows development". Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/4839.

Full text

Abstract:

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-06-06T19:26:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 francilaweidtneiva.pdf: 2052447 bytes, checksum: 38a6c7716f86751a479e86abc113ef19 (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-06-07T13:33:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 francilaweidtneiva.pdf: 2052447 bytes, checksum: 38a6c7716f86751a479e86abc113ef19 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-07T13:33:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 francilaweidtneiva.pdf: 2052447 bytes, checksum: 38a6c7716f86751a479e86abc113ef19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Neiva, Frâncila Weidt. "Towards pragmatic interoperability to support scientific workflows development." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6136.

Full text

Abstract:

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-01-26T10:38:41Z No. of bitstreams: 0<br>Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-01-26T10:56:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 0<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-26T10:56:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-09-30<br>CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>Fornecer suporte a interoperabilidade apenas considerando a forma e o significado (i.e. sintaxe e semântica) na troca de dados não é suficiente para se atingir uma colaboração ef

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Hübscher, Iris. "Preschoolers' pragmatic development: how prosody and gesture lend a helping hand." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/593503.

Full text

Abstract:

While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children’s early access to meaning, little is known about the possible facilitating role of prosody and also of co-speech gestures in children’s pragmatic development in the preschool years. Previous work on developmental pragmatics has focused on the acquisition of morphosyntactic and lexical forms, and there is a need to adopt a more integrative multimodal perspective. The overarching aim of this thesis is to experimentally investigate, through a set of cross-sectional

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Arvidsson, Caroline. "Development of audience design in adolescents' reference production." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-193908.

Full text

Abstract:

Compared to adults, children are less effective at designing their utterances to suit the informational needs of their audience. This listener-catering behaviour, known as audience design, has been hypothesized to rely on domain general cognitive mechanisms, such as working memory and cognitive flexibility. Considering that adolescence is an important period of sociocognitive growth, research on the development of audience design beyond childhood is surprisingly scant. The aim of this study was to trace the development of audience design in early and middle adolescence, and test its reliance o

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Yumun, Elif. "The Development Of Pragmatic Competence: A Study On Requests." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12609955/index.pdf.

Full text

Abstract:

ABSTRACT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: A STUDY ON REQUESTS Elif, Yumun M.A., Department of English Language Education Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Deniz Zeyrek September 2008, 224 pages The purpose of the study was to investigate the pragmatic competence of Turkish learners of English in requests at two levels of English proficiency. Another aspect of the study was to identify the overall and situational proficiency of the learners in performing the speech act of requests and to figure out development and transfer factors. Additionally, the extent to which the cha

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Rose, Marda C. "Pragmatic development of L2 Spanish proposals in planning talk." Thesis, Indiana University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3599236.

Full text

Abstract:

<p> This study examines proposals made during planning talk—a speech act that has received little attention in previous literature—to determine the applicability of the stages of second language (L2) pragmatic development posited by Kasper and Rose (2002). Although Kasper and Rose suggest that formulas play a prominent role in L2 pragmatic development, few studies have considered the applicability of their stages to a non-formulaic speech act. The current study investigated proposal production in the planning talk of 69 participants: 46 learners of Spanish enrolled at five levels o

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Pyne-Mercier, Lee David. "The Maputo Corridor : politics and pragmatic development in Southern Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18795.

Full text

Abstract:

The Maputo Corridor is the most significant development project undertaken by the South African government since 1994. The Corridor is an extremely complex project, bringing together a variety of actors from South Africa, Mozambique, and beyond. The project includes the rehabilitation and upgrading of major transport and communications infrastructure between Witbank and Maputo, institutional reform to expedite border-crossing, and incentives for labour-intensive investment in the areas adjacent to the Corridor. The Maputo Corridor is also the first build-operate- transfer highway in the region

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Geib, Ellen F. "The Role of Joint Attention in Pragmatic Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders." Thesis, Seattle Pacific University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10827170.

Full text

Abstract:

<p> All children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) present with some form of impairment in social communication. Social cognitive learning theory suggests children’s early joint attention skills provide a foundation for future language development. Preliminary research suggests social cognitive behaviors such as joint attention in the context of parent scaffolding may serve as a mechanism for language development in children with ASD. The current study utilized a parent-child free play task to explore the relations among parent and child attention and responsivity and child pragmatic

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Conroy, P. W. "Understanding developments in computer technology : A pragmatic and synthetic interpretation." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382990.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Powis, Benjamin. "Penetrating localities : participatory development and pragmatic politics in rural Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43090/.

Full text

Abstract:

This research sets out to explore the interface between the new politics of localisation and the political process in India. Governments and donors have increasingly emphasised the locality as the primary unit of development and politics. This new trajectory has been manifest in the increase of community-based organisations and mechanisms of participatory governance at the local level. From the late 1990s, the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh emerged as one of the most important examples of this new developmental politics and this research sets out to explore how local dynamics changed as

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Armstrong, Meghan Elizabeth. "The development of yes-no question intonation in Puerto Rican Spanish." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345565869.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Jeary, Sherry. "The derivation of a pragmatic requirements framework for web development." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2010. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/16240/.

Full text

Abstract:

Web-based development is a relatively immature area of Software Engineering, producing often complex applications to many different types of end user and stakeholders. Web Engineering as a research area, was created to introduce processes that enable web based development to be repeatable and to avoid potential failure in the fast changing landscape that is the current ubiquitous Internet. A survey of existing perspectives from the literature highlights a number of points. Firstly, that web development has a number of subtle differences to Software Engineering and that many web development met

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Eccles, Mitchell John. "Pragmatic development of service based real-time change data capture." Thesis, Aston University, 2013. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/19148/.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis makes a contribution to the Change Data Capture (CDC) field by providing an empirical evaluation on the performance of CDC architectures in the context of realtime data warehousing. CDC is a mechanism for providing data warehouse architectures with fresh data from Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases. There are two types of CDC architectures, pull architectures and push architectures. There is exiguous data on the performance of CDC architectures in a real-time environment. Performance data is required to determine the real-time viability of the two architectures. We prop

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Smith, Darrell J. "Pragmatic approach to the development of robust real-time protocols." Thesis, Aston University, 1998. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/7988/.

Full text

Abstract:

This research is concerned with the development of distributed real-time systems, in which software is used for the control of concurrent physical processes. These distributed control systems are required to periodically coordinate the operation of several autonomous physical processes, with the property of an atomic action. The implementation of this coordination must be fault-tolerant if the integrity of the system is to be maintained in the presence of processor or communication failures. Commit protocols have been widely used to provide this type of atomicity and ensure consistency in dist

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Brantley, Mary Katherine. "Re-framing the Specificity Debate in the Lansod Sector around Pragmatics : an Action Research Project Exploring the Development of Flexible Pragmatic Skills instead of “General English” for Second-year Students in Culture and Media." Thesis, Lille 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LIL3H020.

Full text

Abstract:

Cette recherche-action concerne le contenu et les objectifs langagiers dans le secteur de Langues pour spécialistes d'autres disciplines (LANSAD). Les discussions sur le contenu de ces cours se focalisent souvent sur le niveau de spécificité adapté pour ces cours en lien avec une perspective de langue sur objectifs spécifiques. Cependant, dans ce travail nous remettons en question l´utilité d´un continuum de spécificité avec d’un côté la langue spécifique et de l´autre la langue générale, notamment à cause de l'ambiguïté du terme « langue générale. » Nous suggérons que le développement d'une c

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Böhmer, Heiner. "Barbara Wehr / Frédéric Nicolosi (edd.), Pragmatique historique et syntaxe. Actes de la section du même nom du XXXIe Romanistentag allemand (Bonn, 27. 9. – 1. 10. 2009)." De Gruyter, 2013. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A71158.

Full text

Abstract:

In dem seit Herbst 2012 vorliegenden Band, der von der Mainzer Italianistin und Franko-Romanistin Barbara Wehr und einem Mitarbeiter (Frédéric Nicolosi) herausgegeben wurde, sind 14 Beiträge versammelt, die zwei hauptsächliche Forschungsinteressen bedienen: Einerseits wird in allen Aufsätzen ganz allgemein erprobt, wie sich die pragmatisch orientierte und die strukturell bestimmte historische Syntaxanalyse gegenseitig befruchten können, um genaue Beschreibungen formaler Eigenschaften mit differenzierten funktionalen Erörterungen zu verbinden; andererseits liegt das Gros der Artikel des Bandes

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Coombes, Andrew Charles. "A pragmatic approach to the formal development of safety-critical systems." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259882.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Kans, Aaron. "From VDM to ABC : a pragmatic approach to formal software development." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336380.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Snider, Keith F. "Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration." Diss., This resource online, 1997. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10052007-143410/.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Modyanova, Nadezhda N. "Semantic and pragmatic language development in typical acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, and Williams syndrome with reference to developmental neurogenetics of the latter." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57547.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2009.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The elucidation of the biological bases of a complex trait like human language proceeds from identification of precise behavioral phenotypes to investigation of the underlying genes. The human behavioral parts of this dissertation focus on underst

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Högberg, Hanna. "Investigating developmental effects in and-enrichment." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-251.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>Two propositions connected by and have the same truth-value, irrespective of the order of the conjuncts. However, in a sentence like “I put my socks and shoes on” it becomes obvious that the order of the conjuncts affects the meaning of the sentence. This study concerns the contribution of pragmatics to and by implicit enrichment to and then or and thus. It includes three experiments that investigate and-enrichment in adults and children. Nine five-line stories concerning everyday events were used. After each story the participants were to respond “yes” or “no” to a statement which referred

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Rinaldi, Wendy Frances. "Understanding pragmatic meaning : a study of secondary school students with specific developmental language disorder." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021777/.

Full text

Abstract:

This study explores the hypothesis that there are particular difficulties for secondary school students with specific developmental language disorder (SDLD) in understanding contextual, pragmatic meaning in relation to non pragmatic (semantic) meaning. It compares sixty-four SDLD students, aged between twelve and fourteen years, with chronolgical-age-matched and language-age-matched non-language impaired students. Language age is measured by a test of non-pragmatic meaning comprehension. Incorporating the development of new procedures, the study examines the students' comprehension of two type

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Zhou, Jing, and 周兢. "Pragmatic development of mandarin-speaking children from 14 months to 32 months." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31242777.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Schauer, Gila A. "Interlanguage pragmatic development of German learners of English : a longitudinal multimedia investigation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416895.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Zhou, Jing. "Pragmatic development of mandarin-speaking children from 14 months to 32 months." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B23294322.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Ren, Wei. "The effect of study abroad on L2 pragmatic development : a longitudinal investigation." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551306.

Full text

Abstract:

The present study investigates the effect of study abroad on Chinese learners' L2 pragmatic development longitudinally. Using the Multimedia Elicitation Task (MET) and the Appropriateness Judgment Task (AJT), the study collected data from 20 Chinese graduate students studying abroad (SA) and 20 Chinese graduate students studying at home (A H) at three different points during one academic-year. The SA students also completed a retrospective verbal report (RVR) in each phase of the data collection. Overall the study has evidenced the complexity in the effect of study abroad on learners' L2 pragm

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Williamson, Mark. "Sustainable development of the space environment : a pragmatic approach to policy formulation." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2017. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/7466/.

Full text

Abstract:

The published works described in this thesis commentary form the basis of a submission for a PhD degree in Space Policy. The body of work represents an original and coherent contribution to the space profession in the general subject areas of space policy and environmental sustainability. At its most fundamental level, the research embodied within the published works is designed to address the question of whether it is possible to establish an optimal balance between expansion of activity in space and protection of the fragile space environment. The texts submitted in support of this thesis re

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Hart, Erin Elizabeth. "A Comparative Analysis of the Patterns of Language Development between Children with Williams syndrome and Children with Down syndrome." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1972.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis advisor: Penny Hauser-Cram<br>Williams syndrome (WS) is a genetic disorder marked by a microdeletion of approximately 25 genes on chromosome 7. Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic disorder marked by a chromosomal abnormality in which an additional copy of chromosome 21 is present in some or all cells. A comparative analysis of language acquisition between populations of children with WS and populations of children with DS yielded largely different patterns in language development. Phonology was found to be largely intact in children with WS, while children with DS struggled to produce intel

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Collins, Anna. "Metapragmatic awareness in children with typical language development, pragmatic language impairment and specific language impairment." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/metapragmatic-awareness-in-children-with-typical-language-development-pragmatic-language-impairment-and-specific-language-impairment(67bb77e7-bda0-40d2-ac62-772bbab8bb25).html.

Full text

Abstract:

Metapragmatic awareness (MPA) is the ability to explicitly reflect upon the pragmatic rules that govern conversation. There is a paucity of research on how MPA develops in childhood and whether it is impaired in children with pragmatic impairments. Despite this, MPA is often cited as an intervention tool for children with pragmatic language impairments (cwPLI) and children with specific language impairments (cwSLI). There are currently no published assessments of MPA ability and practice would benefit from application of a formalised assessment methodology. This thesis reports the phases of de

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Parada, Jairo Jesus Sturgeon James I. "A pragmatic institutional economics approach to economic development and institutions the case of Colombia /." Diss., UMK access, 2006.

Find full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Economics. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006.<br>"A dissertation in economics and Social Science Consortium." Advisor: James I. Sturgeon. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Jan. 29, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-256). Online version of the print edition.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Meriano, Olivia. "Communication skills development after a drama program for children with social-pragmatic communication difficulties." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59516.

Full text

Abstract:

The current study set out to describe a drama-based group intervention (InterAct) for children with social (pragmatic) communication difficulties and examine the outcomes, with a particular focus on methodologies suitable to measuring potential change. Those with difficulties in this area may have limitations in the skills that are important for achieving successful interactions with others. As a result, they are likely to struggle to develop and maintain meaningful relationships and are at a higher risk of being socially isolated or depressed. InterAct was conducted over 10 weeks and utilized

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Ciftci, Hatime. "Pragmatic Competence in EFL Context: Suggestions in University Office Hour Discourse." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5927.

Full text

Abstract:

Office hour interactions at universities are one type of communicative activity in which international instructors and their Turkish EFL students are involved as a form of academic or institutional discourse (Drew & Heritage, 1992). In such real world communication, both parties employ several linguistic strategies and attend to various interactional goals to address the academic concerns at hand (Chiang, 2011; Chiang & Mi, 2008; Limberg, 2007; 2010; Reindhart, 2010; Skyrme, 2010). Embracing a discourse analytic approach, this study investigated the primary functions and topics of office hour

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Zeberlein, Jennifer Catherine. "Examination of the Accuracy of the Social Language Development Test for Identification of Social Language Impairments." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1398975745.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Gagné, Andréanne. "Narrative discourse in French-speaking school-age children with and without specific language impairment : development, factors contributing to competency, and pragmatics." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115868.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis is comprised of three manuscripts, each concerned with the narrative abilities of school-aged French-speaking children as assessed with the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI). The three studies involved the same three groups of participants: one group of 12 children with SLI between the ages of eight year three months and nine year nine months, 12 typically-developing children of the same age and 12 typically-developing children matched on language abilities. Each child completed narrative tasks, language abilities tasks and cognitive tasks during one experimental session a

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Igualada, Pérez Alfonso. "Gesture-speech temporal integration in language development." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670094.

Full text

Abstract:

In everyday interactions, speakers integrate gestures and speech sounds at a temporal level. One of the linguistic functions of temporally synchronous gesture-speech combinations is to provide prominence to specific parts of a discourse. While a bulk of evidence has explored the gesture-speech co-expressiveness at a semantic level, little is known about the children’s ability to use synchronized gestural and prosodic prominences in the benefit of language. This PhD thesis investigates gesture-speech temporal integration abilities in development and its beneficial impact for children’s language

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Schneider, Jennifer L. "CENTERING AESTHETICALLY WITHIN PLACE: A GEOSTORY COMPOSED FROM AN ARTS-BASED PRAGMATIST INQUIRY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1573255985836785.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

HUHN, CHRISTIE MARIE. "PRETEND TELEPHONE DISCOURSE: A COMPARISON STUDY OF CHILDREN'S ACTUAL TELEPHONE DISCOURSE SKILLS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990811836.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Guerriero, A. M. Sonia (Antonia Michela Sonia). "The development of argument representation : a crosslinguistic discourse-pragmatic analysis of English and Japanese child language." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100614.

Full text

Abstract:

Children's learning of language-universal and language-specific principles of argument representation was the topic under investigation in the three studies comprising this thesis. Another objective was to investigate whether a discourse-pragmatic approach could be employed to explain children's patterns of argument omission and production, developmentally and crosslinguistically. To answer these questions, referential choice in the spontaneous language of monolingual English-speaking and monolingual Japanese-speaking children and their mothers was developmentally investigated whereby a senten

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Madigan, Sharon M. "The development, delivery and evaluation of a pragmatic nutrition education intervention for primary care health professionals." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422198.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!