Browsing Linguistics by author "Department of Linguistics"
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Children's Silences in Mareeba Aboriginal English
Watts, JanetPublished 2009-11-01This thesis examines the role of silence in conversations between teacher’s aides and 5-6 year old Indigenous Australian children at school. Recent studies of conversation among adult Aboriginal Australians have observed ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Gender and codemixing in Hong Kong
Wong, Kwok-Lan JamiePublished 2006-01-01This paper investigates the relationship of gender and codemixing behaviour in Hong Kong. Data were obtained through the use of a questionnaire and a language diary experiment from 10 young women and 10 young men who had ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu
Hammond, JeremyPublished 2010-01-14Whitesands is an under-described language of southern Vanuatu, and this thesis presents Whitesands-specific data based on primary in-situ field research. The thesis addresses the distinction of noun and verb word classes ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Holding the (wo)man”: a corpus analysis of patriarchal discourses and appraisal of AFLW players in the Herald Sun newspaper
Kemble, MelissaPublished 2019-01-01Open AccessThesis -
Intimacy, Power and Pleasure: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Online Personal-ads for Casual Sex
Grover, CameronPublished 2015-05-12This thesis explores the linguistic construction of sexual identities in online personal-ads for male-male casual sex. Specifically, it will investigate how POSTERS of Craigslist advertisements for casual sex construct ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Knowledge and Multisemiosis in Undergraduate Physics
Doran, YaeganPublished 2010-01-01Physics is arguably the most fundamental of the sciences, yet many students disengage with it at a very early level. This thesis lays the groundwork to understanding why this is the case by using Systemic Functional theory ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Language of Clinical Empathy
Watson, OliviaPublished 2012-01-01This Honours thesis examines the language of clinical empathy in an attempt to broaden understanding of what constitutes effective communication in medicine. Linguistic theories of appraisal, affiliation and intonation are ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Loanword Adaptation: A study of some Australian Aboriginal Languages
McManus, HopePublished 2009-08-10This thesis is a case study of some aspects of the adaptation of English words in several Australian Aboriginal languages, including Martu Wangka, Gamilaraay and Warlpiri. I frame my analysis within Smith’s (to appear) ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Negative Evidence in Linguistics: The case of Wagiman Complex Predicates
Wilson, AidanPublished 2006-01-01In this thesis I will justify the use of negative forms of evidence as a permissible means of analysing grammatical constructions. I do this by presenting a test case, a grammatical construction that is not entirely ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Non-predicating adjectives: a semantic account
de Zwaan, AlanPublished 2010-01-14This thesis provides a semantic account of non-predication in the adjectives of English. Particular attention is paid to adjectives that are only non-predicating when they modify certain types of nouns; both agentive nouns ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Semantics of ja and ye: Semantic variation in Marathi motion verbs
Ward, NickPublished 2010-02-05Ja and ye ('go' and 'come' respectively, from the Indian language Marathi) are first semantically examined as basic verbs of physical motion. Then instances which vary from this basic 'sense' of the words are analysed with ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Syntactic Derivations of Samoan Predicates
Collins, JamesPublished 2010-01-01This thesis gives a formal syntactic account of Samoan verbal classes. Samoan verbs may be divided into classes based on their observable syntactic behaviour (for example, case assignment, incorporation) or on their semantic ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations
Walkley, AmeliaPublished 2010-02-03Individuals may write themselves, their communities and their friendships into being on social network sites (Sundén 2003) (boyd 2008). That is, they write themselves into being by providing information about themselves ...Open AccessThesis, Honours
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