Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Multiracial Heritage Speakers and the Denial of Racial Authenticity
(Georgetown University, 2022)This study examines the role raciolinguistic ideologies play in the racial exclusion and denial ofracial authenticity of one-white parent mixed-race individuals through the qualitative sociolinguistic and discourse analysis ... -
Read all about it: A linguistic analysis of the media's construction of rape
(Georgetown University, 2016)This paper investigates the way the media discusses the topic of rape, with respect to both its overall distribution and description in a spoken news corpus, as well as a qualitative analysis of a more recent article. Past ... -
Reassembling Ethnicity: Stylistic Variation in African American English Prosody
(Georgetown University, 2012)This dissertation investigates the social meaning of prosodic rhythm (using the Pairwise Variability Index, or PVI) and falsetto phonation in African American English (AAE), and how these paralinguistic features vary within ... -
Reciprocity in Online Social Interactions: Three Longitudinal Case Studies of a Video-mediated Japanese-English ETandem Exchange
(Georgetown University, 2018)Reciprocity is a key principle of eTandem, a telecollaborative arrangement where learners of different native languages meet online and use one language during half of the session and then do the same for the other language. ... -
Referenceless Evaluation of Natural Language Generation from Meaning Representations
(Georgetown University, 2021)Automatic evaluation of NLG usually involves comparison to human-authored references which are treated as the ground truth. However, these references often fail to adequately capture the range of valid output for an NLG ... -
Reframing Metalinguistic Awareness for Low-Literate L2 Learners: Four Case Studies
(Georgetown University, 2016)The present dissertation seeks to expand the notion of metalinguistic awareness by exploring how it relates to L2 literacy and L2 learning, and also what it means to be “low-literate” in adult L2 English acquisition. The ... -
Responding (or not) on Facebook: A sociolinguistic study of Liking, Commenting, and other reactions to posts
(Georgetown University, 2015)Although social-networking sites have become increasingly dialogic – with automated response buttons and spaces for comments available under almost every bit of content – the audience patterns and hearership norms that ... -
Rethinking Post-Entry Language Assessment Policies in the Context of U.S. Higher Education: A Socially Responsible Approach
(Georgetown University, 2021)Many higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United States have developed what is called post-entry language assessment (PELA) policies. The stated goal of PELA policies is to help admitted international students succeed ... -
The Role of Individual Differences in L1 and L2 Processing of Bridging and Predictive Inferences
(Georgetown University, 2014)Second language acquisition (SLA) and psycholinguistic researchers are interested in how inferences are processed in first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading to better understand how learners negotiate for ... -
The Role of Instructors' Sociolinguistic Language Awareness in College Writing Courses: A Disourse Analytic / Ethnograpic Approach
(Georgetown University, 2012)Grounded in literature on the miseducation of students whose native varieties of English differ most noticeably from the standard academic variety (Delpit 2006; Labov 1972a; Rickford 1999; Smitherman 1999; Wolfram, Adger, ... -
Second Language Acquisition of Variable Use of the Nominative and Accusative Case Morphemes in Korean: A Corpus Study
(Georgetown University, 2018)The goal of this dissertation is to examinethe the second language (L2) acquisition of variable use of nominative/accusative case morphemes by English- or Japanese-speaking adult learners of Korean. -
Second Language Motivation: Its Relationship to Noticing, Affect, and Production in Task-Based Interaction
(Georgetown University, 2011)Second language (L2) motivation has been characterized as a complex construct comprised of cognitive, affective, and behavioral components (Gardner, 1985, 2001, 2006). This research explored whether components of L2 ... -
SECOND LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN ENGLISH
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation investigates how later second language (L2) learners process derivational and inflectional morphology to explore whether later L2 learners can develop lexical or syntactic representations qualitatively ... -
Second Language Writing Complexity in Academic Legal Discourse: Development and Assessment under a Curricular Lens
(Georgetown University, 2020)In the past three decades, the construct of second language (L2) writing complexity has been theorized and refined in both second language acquisition (SLA) (Crossley, 2020; Housen, De Clercq, Kuiken, & Vedder, 2019; Lu, ... -
Sentence First, Arguments After: Mechanisms of Morphosyntax Acquisition
(Georgetown University, 2018)Natural languages contain complex grammatical patterns. For example, in German, finite verbs occur second in main clauses while non-finite verbs occur last, as in dein Brüder möchte in den Zoo gehen (“Your brother wants ... -
She, he and they trending on Twitter: Polyvocal pronouns and more-public messages
(Georgetown University, 2013)This paper uses ethnographic and quantitative methods to examine the use of standard, third-person personal pronouns and 'singular they' for a specific referent in a Twitter corpus. The corpus, collected from the Twitter ... -
Signaling of Discourse Relations: Anchoring Discourse Signals across Genres
(Georgetown University, 2019)Discourse Relations, also known as coherence or rhetorical relations, characterize the semantic or pragmatic relationships between clauses or sentences in discourse. Such relations are established in order to facilitate ... -
A Sociolinguistic Study of Postvocalic /s/ Variation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela: Race/Color, Place and Stance
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation research investigates the relationship between language and identity in the neighborhood of City of God (Cidade de Deus) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More specifically, it employs a mixed-methods approach ... -
Sociolinguistic variation in Smith Island English : existential it
(Georgetown University, 1988)
