Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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