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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Examining narrow focus stretches of speech by speakers of british english and their importance in EFL teaching and learning

Díaz Silva, Luz January 2014 (has links)
Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua Inglesa / The present investigation examined narrow focus stretches of speech by speakers of British English, and their importance in EFL teaching and learning. This study is relevant to EFL teaching and learning since it opens a scope of knowledge that has not been much explored yet. The corpus of this study was composed of natural speech by British speakers of English. It consisted specifically of eight conversations between two native speakers of the language, who tackled diverse topics and who interacted with each other in a natural manner. This posed a very complex scenario for the researcher, as the division into intonation groups became one of the most difficult tasks carried out in the analysis. Although many variables made it laborious to work with this type of data, the findings were revealing: More than 50% of cases were patterns in narrow focus. This can be a starting point for further research with this kind of corpus regarding intonation.
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Gender-linked differences in the use of emotion-related vocabulary in EFL students' written discourse

Silva Bravo, Leandro January 2016 (has links)
Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua InglesaEPS / The present study explores the relationship between gender and the use of emotion vocabulary in a sample of male and female 4th year EFL university students. To do so, a descriptive quantitative study was conducted over 40 reflective essays produced by the students. The results show the presence of some small gender differences related to the higher frequency of use of emotion lemmas and, additionally, a more psychological orientation in the display of emotion lemmas by females. Moreover, a comparative analysis of emotion vocabulary use was performed between a group of native speakers of English and the EFL students. The results indicate that the EFL students produced comparatively less emotion lemmas than the native English sample; however, no gender differences between the participants were observed in this comparison. The findings suggest that individual psychological features and vocabulary size are more relevant factors in emotion vocabulary use than gender.
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The identity of the British inmigrants in Valparaíso in The Star of Chile: (1904-1906)

Araya Machuca, Lucía, Cárdenas Soto, Jenisse, Escaida Solis, Constanza, Failla Cubillos, Saggia, Martínez Altamirano, Luz, Rojas Madrid, Michela, Soto Blamey, Malva, Arancibia Lagos, Cristián January 2017 (has links)
Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa / The study of identity has been widely examined within several fields of linguistics and also among the social sciences. However discourse analysis applied to newspapers is a relatively recent field. Thus, the present study based on the framework of evaluation in language developed by Martin and Rose (2008) focuses on the means by which editorials of the newspaper The Star of Chile convey a sense of identity of the British community in Valparaíso at the turn of the 20th century. To develop this study, five editorials of the The Star of Chile from the years 1904, 1905 and 1906 were selected for the analysis. Each of them representing relevant aspects of the British immigrants’ culture, religious and political beliefs, and significant historical events of that time. The analysis included the tracking of the participants and the options used by the author for their appraisal with the aim of unveiling their identity. The results elucidate how the British immigrants perceived themselves and how they depicted those outside their immediate community at the beginning of the twentieth-century in Valparaiso. Additionally, the present research also offers valuable glimpses of information into the contributions of the British colony in Chile.
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The use of mental space builders in political discourse as a device for manipulation. A comparative study of four instances of political speech

Soto Medina, Álvaro January 2014 (has links)
Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua Inglesa
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Un análisis discursivo-pragmático de la ironía verbal : su ocurrencia y funcionamiento en la conversación semi-espontánea de series dramáticas y comedias televisivas

Flores Cortés, Gemita January 2007 (has links)
Uno de los objetivos principales de este estudio es examinar y analizar tanto el modo en que el ironista expresa sus significados como los elementos que el oyente observa en el enunciado del hablante para llevar a cabo procesos interpretativos y calcular los significados implicados. Ambos procesos suponen la utilización de diversos tipos de conocimiento, entre los cuales se encuentran la conciencia que los demás participantes de la interacción poseen la misma información y el hecho que los participantes colaboran en la conversación de modo relevante y ostensivo (Sperber y Wilson 1986)
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La expresión de significados evaluativos en foros de opinión en inglés en Internet

Iturriaga Gamboa, Cristina January 2010 (has links)
Durante las últimas décadas, los avances tecnológicos en el campo de las comunicaciones han generado grandes cambios en la forma de intercambio de información entre los seres humanos. Estos cambios se ven reflejados en el creciente número de personas que cada día pasan a formar parte de una comunidad global interconectada cuya expansión y consolidación parece no detenerse. Al respecto, Internet representa una de las herramientas de información y comunicación masiva más utilizada en variados ámbitos del quehacer humano y social. Esta herramienta posee importantes características tales como la libertad de expresión y flexibilidad de acceso a la información. Estas características han abierto un valioso espacio para quienes, por ejemplo, sin ser científicos, críticos especializados o periodistas profesionales, desean expresar sus opiniones respecto de una gran cantidad de temas planteados diariamente en variados foros interactivos en Internet. En la presente investigación, se ha emprendido un estudio de carácter empírico y cuantitativo de las expresiones evaluativas empleadas en foros interactivos generados en sitios web, en los cuales se vierten e intercambian juicios y opiniones de carácter técnico y no técnico acerca de temas presentados por una persona iniciadora de discusión. El propósito principal ha sido dar cuenta de la frecuencia de ocurrencia de las distintas categorías de significados evaluativos expresados en los textos interactivos escritos como ‗respuestas‘ a los temas planteados en los foros de opinión referidos. Para este efecto, se ha empleado, y modificado parcialmente, el modelo descriptivo de las categorías evaluativas propuesto por Martin y White (2005), aplicable tanto en el nivel oracional como en el nivel textual –especialmente- y discursivo.

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