Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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Needs for a Future in French: A Needs Analysis of Undergraduate French Majors at Georgetown University
(Georgetown University, 2022)This exploratory study investigated the needs of undergraduate French and Francophone Studies majors at Georgetown University. This needs analysis sought to answer three questions: 1) What are the communicative needs of ... -
Negotiating Power through Tag Questions in Crisis Negotiations
(Georgetown University, 2016)Crisis negotiation is a unique form of law enforcement–civilian interaction, as the crime is ongoing at the time of the exchange. Consequently, crisis negotiators have the opportunity to positively influence the outcome ... -
The Neurocognition of Adult Second Language Learning: An fMRI Study
(Georgetown University, 2014)Learners achieved very high proficiency in vocabulary and reasonably high proficiency in grammar, though morphosyntactic agreement was difficult to master. FMRI activation was found in areas associated with first language ... -
Non-native argumentative writing by Vietnamese learners of English : a contrastive study
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Object Honorification in Korean Verbs
(Georgetown University, 2022)This thesis investigates the morphosyntactic mechanism behind the realization of the honorification of direct and indirect objects on verbs in Korean. Unlike subject honorifics, object-honorific verbs do not have a designated ... -
THE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION: METHOD, TARGET COMPLEXITY, AND TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE
(Georgetown University, 2012)This dissertation investigates optimal conditions for form-focused instruction (FFI) by considering effects of internal (i.e., timing and types of FFI) and external (i.e., complexity and familiarity) variables of FFI when ... -
Orienting to Topic in Clinical Discourse Elicitation of Everyday Conversation
(Georgetown University, 2013)Talking topically, as it is understood intuitively and evoked metadiscursively, requires constructing an intersubjective orientation to talk that must be continually renewed. Analysis of interactants' ability to orient to ... -
Out of the Country, Out of the Closet: Positioning in Gay Immigrants' Coming-Out Stories
(Georgetown University, 2017)Queer coming out is widely discussed and theorized in the West. While the research on coming out has explored many of its aspects ranging from parental reactions (Denes & Afifi, 2014; Fields, 2001) to online identity ... -
Parallel Architecture, Parallel Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Nominal and Verbal Domains
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation explores parallels between Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Determiner Phrase (DP) semantics, syntax, and morphology–including similarities in case-assignment, subject-verb and possessor-possessum agreement, ... -
Phonetic variation in Washington DC: Race, neighborhood, and gender
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation explores the speech of African American and European American residents in the District of Columbia, approaching from both variationist and discourse-analytic perspectives. The study investigates the ... -
Phonetics and Phonology of 'Voiced-Aspirated' Stops: Evidence from Production, Perception, Alternation and Learnability
(Georgetown University, 2019)There has been a long-standing debate regarding the featural representation of 'voiced-aspirated’ stops. Traditional models, including Laryngeal Realism (Honeybone, 2005; Iverson & Salmons, 1995; Beckman et al., 2013), assume that -
Phonological Variation at the Intersection of Ethnoracial Identity, Place, and Style in Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation examines phonological variation in Washington, DC, which has remained under-explored in urban sociolinguistics. The paucity of research on language in DC relates to its dialectal marginality, its unique ... -
Positioning, Storylines, Master Narratives, and Intertextuality: Student Veteran Discourse about Decisions, Transitions, and Communities of Practice
(Georgetown University, 2022)While existing research recognizes the importance of transitions in military members’ lives, there are few, and to my knowledge no micro-level discourse analytic, studies illuminating how military veterans talk about their ... -
Power and Solidarity in Moral, Affective, and Epistemic Positioning: Constructing Identities in Everyday Vietnamese Family Discourse
(Georgetown University, 2020)Expanding scholarship on Vietnamese interaction (e.g., Luong, 1990; Sidnell and Shohet, 2013) and discursive identity construction in families (e.g., Tannen, Kendall, and Gordon, 2007), this study explores everyday ... -
Power through Participation: A sociolinguistic approach to identifying leadership in executive education classroom discourse
(Georgetown University, 2017)Studies of power in professionals’ relationships are generally situated in the workplace (e.g. Holmes & Chiles, 2010; Schnurr & Chan, 2011). Inspired by this work, I extend the study of power to interactions between ... -
A Principled Cognitive Linguistics Account of English Phrasal Verbs
(Georgetown University, 2014)There have long been attempts to discover some systematicity in the semantics of English phrasal verbs. However, previous research has focused exclusively on the contribution of the multiple meanings of the prepositions ... -
Problematizing Minority Voices: Intertextuality and Ideology in the Court Reporter's Representation of Rachel Jeantel's Voice in the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman Murder Trial
(Georgetown University, 2017)In 2012, Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, who, after a month-long highly-publicized trial, was acquitted of second-degree murder. In this study, I examine the testimony of Martin’s childhood friend and key ... -
Quantitative Authorship Attribution of Users of Mexican Drug Dealing Related Online Forums
(Georgetown University, 2012)As the violence in the Mexican drug war escalates, a proliferation of social media sites about drug trafficking in Mexico was followed by the murder of some of their users, and the eventual disappearance of many of those ... -
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 ...
