Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
The Sociolinguistic State of Alemannic Dialects
Published 2021-03-18The various dialects of Alemannic, a set of German dialects spoken in South-Western Germany, North-Eastern France, and Switzerland, are spoken by, in general, a decreasing number of people in these regions. However, the ...Open AccessThesis -
“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 -
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 -
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