Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Abstract This thesis explores the use of the interpersonal resources of English in argumentative/persuasive essays (APEs) constructed by undergraduate international students from East-Asian regions (EAS), in particular, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and also by Australian-born English speakers (ABS). High-graded essays (HGEs) were compared with the low-graded essays (LGEs) in order to identify the relationship between their deployment of interpersonal features and the academic grades given by markers. In addition, the essays constructed by the EAS writers were compared with those written by ABS writers. A major complaint of academic staff about ESL Asian students concerns their lack of analytical, critical voice and formality in their arguments. The linguistic evidence for this explored in this thesis is based mainly on interpersonal systems of interaction and evaluation recently developed within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Iedema et al., 1994; Iedema, 1995, 2003, 2004; Martin, 2000a, 2003c; White, 1998, 2004; Martin and Rose, 2003; Macken-Horarik and Martin, 2003; Martin and White, 2005). Within interaction, the thesis draws on work dealing with the metaphorical realisations of commands in a bureaucratic administration context. Evaluation is based on appraisal theory, which is concerned with the linguistic inflection of the subjective attitudes of writers, and also their evaluative expressions and intersubjective positioning. In order to explore the use of interpersonal resources from a perspective of writer and reader interaction, this study incorporates a social interactive model derived from ‘Interaction in writing’ alongside Bakhtin’s (1981, 1986) dialogic literacy. Under this broad interdisciplinary approach, the interpersonal aspects in APEs are examined from three main perspectives: Interactive (schematic structures), Interactional (the metaphorical realisation of commands), and InterPERSONAL meanings (the three main appraisal systems: ATTITUDE, ENGAGEMENT, and GRADUATION). The sample comprised six overseas students and six Australian-born native English speakers. They were all participants in the English for Academic Purposes class in the Modern Language Program offered by a regional university in southern New South Wales. These students were required to write APEs as a part of their course. Discourse analysis was applied to the essays at the genre, discourse semantic and the lexico-grammatical levels. Interviews were undertaken with markers to identify the relationship between text analysis results and markers’ comments on the essays and the grades. The results indicated that students’ use of interpersonal resources is a good indicator for judging quality of APEs. The analysis reveals significant differences in the extent to which HGEs are interactive by showing awareness of audience in argument structure, and making interactional choices focusing on command and interPERSONAL choices of appraisal systems. These differences are reflected in the use both of strategies of involvement by being interactional, and strategies displaying distance by being formal. The differences are also reflected in the presentation of personal opinions by being evaluative and of intersubjective claims supported by evidence. While there were no significant differences between the EAS and ABS writers in terms of the argument structure, ABS texts are more interactional, having a high degree of authority and conviction characterised by a formal tone. ABS writers also display a stronger voice through frequent exploitation of GRADUATION resources of appraisal. Overall, it can be said that while EAS students display problems with raising their own voices in argument, ABS students display problems in supporting persuasion. Educational implications for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing curriculum design include the desirability of enhancing a context-sensitive approach in writing, raising audience awareness of language teachers in relation to the interpersonal use of English, and promoting the dialogic nature of argument by reconciling individual creativity with social voices and community conventions.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 33)

Thesis--Gothenburg. / Russian or Swedish. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-147).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1932. / Bibliography: p. 233-238.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 26, 2010). Thesis advisors: Dr. Trudy Lewis and Dr. Marly Swick. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Gothenburg. / Russian or Swedish. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-147).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (January 15, 2010)

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Edited by Eli Goldston, Herbert C. Morton, and G. Neal Ryland. / Part 1 was originally published as the winter 1969 issue of Daedalus; part 2 contains 8 new articles and a new preface.

Submitted by Isabela Canella Sanches (isabelacan@gmail.com) on 2018-06-29T15:50:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação mestrado COM GRIFOS PRONTA OFICIAL.pdf: 11142356 bytes, checksum: 9e7ba990b2158c2d9f13c0a113444bdc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Priscila Carreira B Vicentini null (priscila@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-06-29T17:16:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 sanches_ic_me_arafcl.pdf: 11071808 bytes, checksum: 03e615990804c4537fe4968ff17a2059 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-29T17:16:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 sanches_ic_me_arafcl.pdf: 11071808 bytes, checksum: 03e615990804c4537fe4968ff17a2059 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / Esta proposta de pesquisa está embasada nos estudos bakhtinianos do discurso. De acordo com Bakhtin, pode-se depreender que em todo enunciado há diálogo, ou seja, todo enunciado apresenta uma relação de sentido com outro enunciado, e esse é o princípio do dialogismo. Entendemos que todo discurso é constituído considerando o discurso do outro, estabelecendo, assim, relações de sentido. Destarte, todos os enunciados são dialógicos, sendo todo discurso ocupado pelo discurso alheio. A partir disso, analisamos o aparecimento da palavra do outro nas redações do vestibular da FUVEST, mais especificamente na forma de citações. Focamos nosso estudo na observação do aparecimento de citações nas melhores redações da FUVEST nos anos de 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 e 2012. Em seguida, após o levantamento desses dados, procuramos entender de que modo foi feita a apropriação da palavra do outro, ou seja, se por meio do discurso direto ou indireto. Para isso, utilizamos os escritos do Círculo de Bakhtin concernentes ao discurso de outrem e sobre as questões de estilo. Nesse sentido, este trabalho justificou-se pela necessidade de descobrir de que maneira as citações aparecem nas melhores redações da FUVEST. Além disso, ainda pensando na constituição dialógica do sujeito, utilizamos escritos sobre a relação constitutiva entre leitura e escrita e como essa relação influi na elaboração do conteúdo citado pelo candidato. Como resultado, entendemos, a partir da análise do corpus, que grande parte das redações apresenta citação, seja de textos da coletânea oferecida pela prova, seja de textos externos à prova e que constituem a bagagem sócio-histórica e cultural do aluno. O uso de citações é mais recorrente em determinados anos do que em outros e defendemos que isso está relacionado ao tema de redação propost. Ademais, depreendemos, com base no que foi estudado, que o conteúdo citado e que é externo à prova ainda se apoia em textos representantes de um discurso reproduzido na escola. Também que o tipo de discurso mais utilizado pelos candidatos quando citam é o discurso indireto. Observamos, portanto, a relação dialógica proposta pelo Círculo de Bakhtin e entendemos que ela se faz presente quando o candidato elabora a redação durante a prova do vestibular, sendo evidenciada pelo uso da citação. / This research proposal is based on Bakhtin's discourse studies. According to Bakhtin, it can be deduced that in every statement there is dialogue, that is, every statement presents a relation of meaning to another statement, and this is the principle of dialogism. We understand that every discourse is constituted considering the discourse of the other, thus establishing relations of meaning. Thus, all statements are dialogic, and every discourse is occupied by the discourse of others. From this, we analyze the appearance of the word of the other in the writing test from FUVEST entrance exam, more specifically in the form of quotations. We focused our study on the observation of quotations in the best compositions of FUVEST in the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Then, after the survey of these data, we try to understand how the appropriation of the word of the other was made, that is, whether through direct or indirect discourse. For this, we use the writings of the Circle of Bakhtin concerning the discourse of others and about questions of style. In this sense, this work is justified by the need to find out how quotations appear in the best writings tests from FUVEST. In addition, still concerning the individual’s dialogic constitution, we used works about the constitutive relationship between reading and writing and how this relationship influences the elaboration of the content quoted by the candidate. As a result, we understand, from the analysis of the corpus, that most of the writings present a quotation, either from the texts of the collection of texts offered by the exam, or from texts external to the exam that constitute the student’s socio-historical and cultural background. The use of quotations is more used in certain years than in others, and we defend that this is related to the proposed writing theme, since some are more concrete, some more abstract, opening different possibilities to the candidate. In addition, we conclude, based on what has been studied, that the quoted content which is external to the exam is still based on texts representing the literary and cultural canon. Also, the type of discourse most used by the candidates when citing is indirect discourse. We thus observe the dialogical relationship proposed by the Bakhtin Circle and we understand that it is present when the candidate elaborates the essay during the vestibular test, being evidenced by the use of the quotation