Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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Heritage Language Education: Administrative and teachers perceptions of community- based and school-based classrooms across the United States
(Georgetown University, 2022)Thus far, K-12 and higher education heritage language (HL) programs have been treated as an adjunct to traditional world language classrooms which have been constructed for second language learners (Carreira & Chik, 2018). ... -
A Hybrid Approach to Inferring a Consistent Temporal Relation Set in Natural Language Text
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation investigates the temporal relation identification -
I Don't Know What It Is, but I Know It When I Hear It: Speaking Proficiency and the ACTFL OPI
(Georgetown University, 2015)The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) that is used by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) to assess speaking proficiency has become quite popular since its debut in the 1980s. As the OPI has ... -
"I Have the Deck": Power and Style in the Discursive Production of Leadership by Individuals of Marginalized Gender and Sexual Identities in the U.S. Navy
(Georgetown University, 2019)In 2011, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed and gay and lesbian service members were allowed to serve openly. In 2016, all occupational specialties throughout the military became open to women. As gender and sexual minorities ... -
Identities and Lyrics: Quantitative Analysis of Phonological Variation in Korean Hip-Hop English Lyrics
(Georgetown University, 2009)This paper extends the sociolinguistic investigation of Hip-Hop language and its performative usage more generally by examining English in the lyrics of three Korean Hip-Hop groups: Dynamic Duo, Epik High, and Drunken ... -
Identity Construction through Positioning in Mealtime Narratives of Kazakh-speaking Village Residents.
(Georgetown University, 2018)Mealtime narratives are a site for constructing a community’s social worlds (e.g., Ochs and Taylor 1995). Extending this research direction, I examine mealtime narratives among Kazakh-speaking Kazakhs, an under-researched ... -
Illocution on Twitter: The Construction and Analysis of a Social Media Speech Act Corpus
(Georgetown University, 2020)In the years since J.L. Austin (1962) first proposed Speech Act Theory (SAT), the literature has taken it in many directions. One recurring point of discussion is the extent to which the direct illocutionary force of an ... -
Implicit corrective feedback in computer-guided interaction : does mode matter?
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In the Face of Blindness: Negotiating Relationship and Identity in Blind/Sighted Interaction
(Georgetown University, 2012)This dissertation contributes to an interactional sociolinguistic understanding of the dynamics of interability discourse, specifically between blind and sighted interlocutors, focusing on the challenges that blindness ... -
Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 japanese
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Inferred Propositions and the Expression of the Evidence Relation in Natural Language: Evidentiality in Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo and English
(Georgetown University, 2012)<italic>Evidentiality</italic> has usually been defined as the grammaticalized expression -
Instant Messaging in Korean Families: Creating Family through the Interplay of Photos, Videos, and Text
(Georgetown University, 2020)Extending previous research on family interaction (e.g., Tannen, Kendall, and Gordon 2007; Gordon 2009) and online multimodal discourse (e.g., Gordon forthcoming), I use interactional sociolinguistics to analyze instant ... -
The Interaction of Lexical and Discourse-Level Categories in Second Language Phonetics
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation examines the interaction between lexical and discourse level categories in second language speech; specifically, the interaction of tone and intonation in the speech of Mandarin learners of English. The ... -
The interaction of modality and tense in Korean
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation examines the interpretations of modal expressions in Korean, focusing on their interaction with tense. I look at two specific modal constructions in Korean that clearly show modal-tense interactions. One ... -
Intertextual media references as resources for managing frames, epistemics, and identity in conversation among friends
(Georgetown University, 2016)Gordon (2009) has demonstrated that intertextuality (e.g., Bakhtin 1981, 1986; Kristeva 1986; Becker 1994; Hamilton 1996; Tannen 2007) and framing (e.g., Bateson 1972; Goffman 1974; Tannen & Wallat 1987/1993) are intrinsically ... -
Investigations of the Properties of Narrative Schemas
(Georgetown University, 2018)Narrative schemas are generalizations of frequently re-occurring sequences of events linked through co-referring entities in text (Chambers & Jurafsky, 2009). The use of such schemas in the unsupervised analysis of text ... -
Knitting As Politics: How One Traditionally Non-Political Community Engages With Political Discourse
(Georgetown University, 2020)This discursive linguistic study examines how indie yarn dyers in a knitting community on Instagram position themselves in relation to a political ban. In June of 2019, a popular knitting pattern website, Ravelry, released ... -
L2 acquisition of number marking: a bidirectional study of adult learners of Korean and Indonesian
(Georgetown University, 2015)This study investigates the L2 acquisition of the Korean and Indonesian number systems by adult learners in light of the Feature-Reassembly Approach (henceforth FRA, Lardiere 2009). In considering this approach, Montrul ... -
Language alternation practices in Arabic-English online language learning exchanges: How translanguaging enriches interaction and creates involvement
(Georgetown University, 2021)The meanings and uses of the terms codeswitching and translanguaging in relation to multilingual contexts have become increasingly hazy and contentious. This study empirically addresses this tension by examining video-based ... -
Language and cognition in monolinguals and bilinguals: a study of spontaneous and caused motion events in Korean and English
(Georgetown University, 2015)In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relationship between second language (L2) learning and linguistic relativity. As a result, research has been prolific in investigating (a) whether bilinguals ...
