Search for dissertations about: "language variation"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 139 swedish dissertations containing the words language variation.
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21. Apologising in British English
Abstract : The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. READ MORE
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22. Expressions of Future in Present-day English: A Corpus-based Approach
Abstract : This corpus-based study of the use of expressions of future in English has two aims: to examine how certain expressions of future are used in Present-day English, and to explore how electronic corpora can be exploited for linguistic study.The expressions focused on in this thesis are five auxiliary or semi-auxiliary verb phrases frequently discussed in studies of future reference in English: will, ’ll, shall, going to and gonna. READ MORE
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23. Second Person Singular Pronouns in Early Modern English Dialogues 1560-1760
Abstract : This dissertation is a corpus-based investigation examining thou and you from 1560 to 1760 in three speech-related genres: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy. Previous research has focused on Drama Comedy; especially little attention has been paid to Depositions. READ MORE
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24. Group Decision-Making. Language and Interaction
Abstract : The dissertation investigates group decision-making from a linguistic perspective, which means that the linguistic interaction in group decision-making is put in focus, but also that linguistic methods are used to perform the investigation. The main research questions are i) what are group decisions, ii) how are group decisions made, linguistically, and iii) how does group decision-making relate to other social activities? The dissertation has five main parts. READ MORE
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25. Syntactic variation in English quantified noun phrases with all, whole, both and half
Abstract : The overall aim of the present study is to investigate syntactic variation in certain Present-day English noun phrase types including the quantifiers all, whole, both and half (e.g. a half hour vs. half an hour). READ MORE