Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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Topic and focus in Ngardi
Published 2005-10-21This paper examines the discourse pragmatics of the non- configurational (free word order) Australian language Ngardi. Ngardi is a Ngumbin language spoken by a small number of people east of the Kimberleys. I examine ...Open AccessThesis -
The diachronic evolution of directional constructions in Mandarin
Published 2006-01-01This thesis investigates the diachronic evolution of directional constructions found in Mandarin and other modern varieties of Chinese. What I call directional constructions are usually called 'directional complements' ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Gender and codemixing in Hong Kong
Published 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 -
Negative Evidence in Linguistics: The case of Wagiman Complex Predicates
Published 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 -
Spatial Reference in Momu
Published 2007-01-01Spatial reference - how we communicate notions such as location, motion and direction - is an important area of current research. Recent studies involving detailed analysis of geographically and typologically diverse ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Psychotic victims: Risk, compassion and blame in mental health discourses
Published 2008-01-11Recent theories of evaluative language, such as Appraisal theory, aim to use fine-grained qualitative analysis to look at the way social reality is constructed and reflected in text, and how we are aligned through the use ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Longitudinal Study of Ngarrindjeri
Published 2008-02-26This thesis aims to follow the changes that occur in Ngarrindjeri, a language from South Australia, over a period of 130 years. Over this period of time the speakers underwent great social and cultural change, with the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Prepositions and preverbs in Hellenistic Greek
Published 2008-03-14This thesis traces the history of usage of a group of words (‘P-words’) that were adverbial particles in Proto-Indo-European and became in Greek, as in many other IE languages, both prepositions and verbal prefixes. It ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Loanword Adaptation: A study of some Australian Aboriginal Languages
Published 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 -
Children's Silences in Mareeba Aboriginal English
Published 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 -
Syntactic Derivations of Samoan Predicates
Published 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 -
Knowledge and Multisemiosis in Undergraduate Physics
Published 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 Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu
Published 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 -
Non-predicating adjectives: a semantic account
Published 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 -
Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations
Published 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 -
The Semantics of ja and ye: Semantic variation in Marathi motion verbs
Published 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 -
The Language of Clinical Empathy
Published 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 -
Intimacy, Power and Pleasure: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Online Personal-ads for Casual Sex
Published 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 -
Let's Talk about Sex Education: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Advice Column Discourses
Published 2018-01-01This thesis examines sex education discourses in magazines in an attempt to understand how language helps uphold and/or challenge attitudes in sex education. Specifically, it investigates the advice columns of Dolly, an ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Holding the (wo)man”: a corpus analysis of patriarchal discourses and appraisal of AFLW players in the Herald Sun newspaper
Published 2019-01-01Open AccessThesis