Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations
Published 2009Individuals 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