Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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War during reconciliation? A study of presidential speeches on the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict bridging war and reconciliation
(Georgetown University, 2013)This paper examines the discourse produced by Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in six presidential speeches delivered across five years from 2008 to 2012. It draws on political discourse analysis (van Dijk, 1997), ... -
When Hate Speech Leads to Hateful Actions: A Corpus and Discourse Analytic Approach to Linguistic Threat Assessment of Hate Speech
(Georgetown University, 2019)Inspired by recent acts of mass violence motivated by hate, this work considers hate speech from a sociolinguistic perspective by combining corpus analysis and discourse analytic methods. The goals of this work are twofold. ... -
Writing in a Task-Based Individualized Curriculum: Effectiveness of Direct and Indirect Written Corrective Feedback
(Georgetown University, 2020)The effects of written corrective feedback have been extensively investigated for various domains of instructed second language acquisition with many studies demonstrating clear benefits (e.g. Riazi, Shi & Haggerty, 2018). ... -
Written Feedback in Second Language Acquisition: Exploring the Roles of Type of Feedback, Linguistic Targets, Awareness, and Concurrent Verbalization
(Georgetown University, 2010)Very few studies have shown that written feedback facilitates L2 learning (although see Bitchener, 2008, Bitchener & Knoch, 2008, and Sheen, 2007), and studies exploring the relative effectiveness of different types of ... -
Za-perfectives in Russian motion verbs
(Georgetown University, 2012)The linguistic expression of spatial and temporal relations shows considerable structural parallels (Bach, 1986; Filip, 1999; Langacker, 1987; Talmy, 2000; Verkuyl, 1993). Prefixes with spatial origins mark the perfective ...
