Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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Talking back to Newt Gingrich : discourse strategies in the construction of language ideologies
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Task-Based Teacher Training: Implementation and Evaluation in Central American Bilingual Schools
(Georgetown University, 2019)Much of what we know about the role of teachers in task-based classrooms comes from a body of research that has examined the various issues teachers face when attempting to implement TBLT for the first time (e.g. Carless, ... -
Teacher Positionality vis-à-vis Latinx English Language Learners: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Identity, Agency and Policy Appropriation
(Georgetown University, 2020)Latinx students account for 78% of the English Language Learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools (U.S. Department of Education, 2017), while the majority of U.S. public school teachers schools are White, non-Latinx women who ... -
Telling Disability: Identity Construction in Personal and Vicarious Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2014)This study examines the construction of disability identities in personal and vicarious narratives. Sociolinguistic research on narrative focuses largely on personal narrative (Schiffrin 1996); some studies claim that ... -
The Effect of Iconicity on Phonetic and Phonological Processes in American Sign Language
(Georgetown University, 2023)This dissertation addresses a gap in the linguistics literature regarding the effects of iconicity on synchronic phonetic and phonological processes in American Sign Language (ASL). This is done through one study of ... -
The Enregisterment of Dialects in Japanese YouTube Comments: A Comparative Analysis
(Georgetown University, 2018)This study contextualizes the explosive valorization and commodification of dialect in Japan since the 1980s, known as the “dialect boom”, in terms of Japanese social and economic issues and the growing public interest in ... -
The Measure of Our Commitment Is Our Commitment to Measurement: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Language of Data in the Public Discourse of U.S. Secretaries of Education
(Georgetown University, 2019)The College Transparency Act of 2019 has proposed establishing a federal student-level data network that would compile data on individual students and facilitate data sharing between the U.S. Department of Education, other ... -
The Morphosyntax of Pronominal Possessors and Diminutives in Mehri
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation investigates the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase in Mehri, a Modern South Arabian (Semitic) language spoken in Yemen and Oman. Using the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM), I focus on ... -
The Morphosyntax of the Maltese Determiner Phrase
(Georgetown University, 2019)Based in the Distributed Morphology and Minimalist frameworks, this dissertation provides an in-depth analysis of the DP in Maltese, an area of the language that has largely gone untouched by generative frameworks. In doing ... -
The Relative Effects of Phonetic and Phonological Salience in Speech Sound Processing
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation examines the relative effects of phonetic salience and phonological prominence on speech sound processing. Three test cases, respectively, investigate the processing of consonants versus vowels by speakers ... -
The Shifting Purpose and Audience of Community-Based Heritage Language Education: Making Space for Mixed Heritage Families
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation explores the construction of the “mixed-heritage” category in Polish community-based heritage language education (HLE) and its effect on school purposes and school operations. As the number of heritage ... -
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Japanese Addressee-honorific Markers
(Georgetown University, 2019)Despite the long tradition of studies on the Japanese honorific system, formal analyses of addressee-honorific markers have not been carried out until very recently. Although not explicitly claimed, it was more or less ... -
There's No Pride in Anti-Semitism": Framing the 2019 DC Dyke March Ban of the Jewish Pride Flag through Facebook Comments
(Georgetown University, 2020)In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together ... -
“They Tell Me Frequently That I’m Going to Hell, Which Is Fine”: LGBTQ+ Young Adults’ Evaluative Retellings of Exclusionary Everyday Interactions
(Georgetown University, 2022)This study examines LGBTQ+ young adults’ evaluative retellings of exclusionary everyday interactions through the frameworks of appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005) and the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity ... -
Tools and Techniques for Corpus-based Analysis of Non-native Speech Patterns
(Georgetown University, 2021)This study examines the problem of describing non-native speech from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Recent data storage and manipulation techniques have allowed for the development of rich phonological corpora, but ... -
Towards Proto-Persian : an Optimality Theoretic historical reconstruction
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The transformation of spatal experience in narrative discourse
(Georgetown University, 2011) -
Transnationalism and Identity in Study Abroad: Multilingual Sojourners in Barcelona
(Georgetown University, 2019)Study abroad (SA) research has interrogated the assumption that a temporary sojourn abroad implies immersive access to language leading to dramatic language gains. The robust finding that SA outcomes and experiences vary ... -
The tribalism frame in U.S. press coverage of the Kenya post-election crisis of 2007-2008
(Georgetown University, 2011) -
TWEETING TO THE CHOIR: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND NEGOTIATING POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY ON TWITTER
(Georgetown University, 2012)Social networking has emerged as a tool used by churches and religious leaders for their ministries and other purposes. That, coupled with the increasing media attention being paid to religious organizations with a large ...
