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Ideophones and depictive constructions: Towards an explanation of functional overlap
Published 2023-07-05This thesis attempts to account for the functional overlap that exists between ideophones and depictive secondary predicates. Discussions of depictives are largely absent from the functional and typological literature, and ...Open AccessThesis -
Climate change advocates and deniers? Triangulating methods to investigate the language of left- and right-leaning Twitter users
Published 2023-01-19This thesis examines left- and right- leaning users on Australian Twitter in an effort to understand the language use of the different parties to online climate change discourse. The data are taken from Australian Twitter ...Open AccessThesis -
‘Trump at the Gates of Democracy’: A corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting on the January 6th Event in the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald
Published 2022-06-22A corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting on the January 6th Event (also known as the '2021 United States Capitol attack') in the two Australian broadsheet newspapers The Australian and The Sydney Morning HeraldOpen AccessThesis -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in Australian print news: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis
Published 2021-08-23This thesis investigates the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in mainstream Australian newspapers. It combines approaches from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine ...Open AccessThesis -
Sundanese TRANSITIVITY: a first step into the description
Published 2021-07-05This is a dissertation submitted as partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Applied Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney. It focuses on the ...Open AccessThesis