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Bonanni, Kimberley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational outcomes for students with ADHD are often negative. To better understand this problem, the purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the representation of individuals with ADHD in contemporary American English. Data was obtained from the Corpus of American Contemporary English (COCA), using all sections except the academic…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, North American English, Language Usage
Baierschmidt, Junko – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Lexical inferencing is considered a listening strategy that is commonly employed by advanced EFL (English as a Foreign Language) listeners and a factor that contributes to successful listening comprehension. However, investigations of the factors that influence inferencing success in listening as well as how much each factor contributes to success…
Descriptors: Inferences, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Dunn, Jonathan Edwin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation analyzes the problem of metaphor identification in linguistic and computational semantics, considering both manual and automatic approaches. It describes a manual approach to metaphor identification, the Metaphoricity Measurement Procedure (MMP), and compares this approach with other manual approaches. The dissertation then…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Measures (Individuals)
Alghbban, Mohammed – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The appropriate handling of the metaphorical meaning during translation, along with maximizing its level of equivalence in the target language, is going to be my central focus through the course of this dissertation. Unlike many contributions that attempt to reconcile the problem of translating metaphor, this study has come to approach the subject…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Translation, Second Languages, Semantics
Hsieh, I-Ta Chris – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation concerns the distribution of negative polarity items (henceforth, NPIs) in conditionals and conditional-like constructions. NPIs include words such as any and ever and idioms such as "give a damn" and "lift a finger"; these expressions have only a limited distribution. In this dissertation, the distribution of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Figurative Language, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Polley, Carl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Patterns of conceptualization reflected in figurative language are motivated by embodied experience, and comparisons of emotion metaphors in English, Mandarin Chinese and other languages have shown widespread similarity in such metaphors cross-culturally (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999; King 1989; Yu 1996; Kovecses 2005). Nonetheless, we can also…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Emotional Response, English, Mandarin Chinese
Nickels, Edelmira L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Linguistics research has demonstrated the commonness and functions of metaphors to carry cognitive frames, which influence the way people understand and act on information. This work conveys the results of three analyses employed to describe cognitive frames: forms of linguistic metaphors used, functions of systematic metaphors that emerged, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Language Usage, Politics
Al-Zuraiki, Mokhtar – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the use and linguistic behavior of the "al-raqs ala ru'oos al-tha'abeen" "dancing on the heads of snakes" metaphor and metaphors about unity in pro-government and anti-government discourse in Yemen. It adopts an intertextual, discourse-based approach that, following Oakley and Coulson (2008),…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes
Frana, Ilaria – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the semantic interpretation of various types of DPs in so-called concealed-question (CQ) constructions, as "Bill's phone number" in the sentence "John knows Bill's phone number". The peculiar characteristic of DP-CQs is that they are interpreted as having the meaning of an embedded question. So, for instance, the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Questioning Techniques, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
Punske, Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation uses syntactic, semantic and morphological evidence from English nominalization to probe the interaction of event-structure and syntax, develop a typology of structural complexity within nominalization, and test hypotheses about the strict ordering of functional items. I focus on the widely assumed typology of nominalization…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Role, Syntax
Casali, Michael A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined D.W. Winnicott's construct object usage and related transformational metaphors from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. The paper "The Use of an Object" was positioned historically among extant theoretical models and employed to investigate the semantic evolution of key Winnicottian concepts. Biographical accounts revealed…
Descriptors: Models, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Psychiatry
Tsai, Yaping – ProQuest LLC, 2009
One important task of any semantic theory of plurals is to account for the collective/distributive ambiguity. The goal of this dissertation is to achieve greater understanding of plurality and the collectivity/distributivity distinction from a cross-linguistic perspective by examining the phenomenon of distributivity in Mandarin Chinese. I show…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Mandarin Chinese
Murugesan, Arthi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Natural language poses several challenges to developing computational systems for modeling it. Natural language is not a precise problem but is rather ridden with a number of uncertainties in the form of either alternate words or interpretations. Furthermore, natural language is a generative system where the problem size is potentially infinite.…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Sentences, Semantics, Syntax
Lee, Hyewon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In recent years, L2 researchers from the sociocultural and cognitive linguistic perspectives have emphasized the importance of properly organized explicit and in-depth grammar instruction for second or foreign language learning. Such instruction is believed to lead learners to systematic understanding of the target features faster and more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure, Verbs
Abdelghany, Hala – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the syntax-prosody interface in Standard Arabic, focusing on the ambiguity of a modifier (relative clause or adjective phrase) in relation to the two nouns in a complex noun phrase. Ambiguity resolution tendencies for this construction differ across languages, contrary to otherwise universal parsing tendencies. One…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sentences, Silent Reading, Phonology
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