Title: Dialectal elements in Czech acted cinema of the 30s and 40s Author: Petr Farkaš Department: Film Studies Department Supervisor: Doc. PhDr. Ivan Klimeš Abstract: The subject of this diploma thesis is a reflection on the possible uses of spoken language in films aimed at dialect as one of the substandard forms of Czech national language. In particular, the thesis focuses on the use of Moravian dialectal elements in the language of the film characters in Czech acted cinema made in the 1930s and 1940s. It evaluates the Moravian applied dialect from the phonetic and lexical point of view and analyses its function. The aim of the thesis is an evaluation and generalization of the possible uses of dialectal elements in cinematographic work. Keywords: folklore, dialect, artwork language, stylization of spoken language, spoken language in films.

"August 2003" / Bibliography: p. [1-29] / xii, 210, [166] p. : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This study examines engagement in English as a foreign language (EFL) literacy practices as opportunities for making meanings with texts and for learning English as a foreign language. The study also proposes practical implications for EFL instruction. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of Linguistics, 2004

This study investigated the construct of comprehensible English in the context of oral proficiency assessment for international teaching assistants. I carried out a three-part mixed method design to explore instructor rater judgments, results of a speech analysis, and how specific speech variables might have influenced judgments on the assessment criteria. Each step focused on a failed/passed assessment comparison made possible through archived data from which 10 individuals initially failed the oral proficiency test but within the same year retook the task and received a passing score. Part A evaluated the perspective of the instructor raters through the rating scale judgments provided on the assessment evaluation forms. In the second part of the study, I coded and scored grammatical, temporal, and phonological variables that occurred on two-minute excerpts of a field-specific summary task from the set of 10 failed and then subsequently passed assessments performed by the same individuals. I inspected the speech analysis results to evaluate differences in the values of specific speech variables on the set of failed performances in comparison to the set of passed performances. In Part C, I conducted 10 case studies to compare each individual's rating scale judgments and rater comments on grammar, fluency, and pronunciation from their failed and their passed assessment with the results from the speech analysis of grammatical, temporal, and phonological variables. The case study approach facilitated a broad inspection of the interrelation among the rater perspectives on the assessment criteria and the speech analysis results. The study findings showed evidence of an interrelation between temporal and phonological variables on rater judgments of comprehensibility, as well as the role of pronunciation as a criterion for oral proficiency assessments. I concluded with implications for future research on the interrelation among speech variables that influence listener perceptions of comprehensibility and the use of pronunciation as a speaking assessment criterion. / text

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This paper is a qualitative case study of a Korean first grade child. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of a first grade Korean child’s oral language interactions with teachers, parents, peers, and community members and to examine how a child’s oral language impacts his literacy learning in English. The data were collected over five months from three different settings: the school, the Korean Language School, and the home. Data methods were interviews, observations, field notes, surveys, audio and video recordings, documents, and informal assessments in Korean and English. Data analysis was based on the analytical categorization and the constant comparison analysis. The results of this study revealed that opportunities to engage in social interactions between a child and his teachers, parents, and peers through oral conversation contributed to the language and literacy learning of the child observed. The analysis of the data showed that literacy development in English was influenced by three factors: individual factors, home and school environmental factors, and community and cultural environmental factors. Individual factors were personal motivation, the first language effect, and background knowledge. Home and school environmental factors included parents’ support, peer group activity, and teacher’s role. Finally, community and cultural environmental factors were mass media and Korean culture and identity. The results of the study supported Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and Bronfenbrenner’s ecology system theory that learning occurs through social interactions in cooperated groups and their environments. / Department of Elementary Education

"August 2003" / Bibliography: p. [1-29] / xii, 210, [166] p. : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This study examines engagement in English as a foreign language (EFL) literacy practices as opportunities for making meanings with texts and for learning English as a foreign language. The study also proposes practical implications for EFL instruction. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of Linguistics, 2004

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:39:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 389444 bytes, checksum: 2481082396453bfe2ed330f791808531 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000-08-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work is a study of the full and null realizations of the anaforic subject in the language spoken in the community of João Pessoa, through quantitative methods based on the variationist theory. The main objective of this work is to describe such aspect of the Portuguese language spoken in Brazil, observing the role of linguistic and extralinguistic features within the variation process. Through the analyses of collected data, the research tried to identify the contexts that privileged or not the studied variation. It was observed that full pronominal subject was found in 2.943 analysed data, among the people chosen by IVARB programme, in the studied linguistic and extralinguistic groups, emphasizing the results of Duarte (1992) s which was used as a comparative model for the analyses presented in this research. / Este trabalho é um estudo do apagamento versus preenchimento do sujeito na fala da comunidade de João Pessoa, sob a perspectiva do modelo de análise variacionista. Fundamentado nos estudos labovianos, o principal objetivo desta pesquisa é descrever esse aspecto do português do Brasil, observando o papel dos fatores linguísticos e extralinguísticos intervenientes no processo de variação. O corpus usado é a fala da comunidade de João Pessoa PB. A partir da análise dos dados, procurou-se seguir um caminho que possibilitasse identificar os contextos que mais favoreceriam ou não a variante em estudo. Verificou-se então, ao final, que, em 2.943 dados analisados, ocorreu favorecimento ao preenchimento do sujeito em relação aos seguintes grupos linguísticos e extralinguísticos, selecionados pelo programa IVARB: pessoa do discurso, tempo verbal, tipo sintático da oração e faixa etária, demonstrando, assim, o predomínio, na fala do sujeito, do preenchimento do sujeito pronominal, o que vem ratificar os resultados apresentados no trabalho feito por Duarte (1992),o qual serviu de instrumento para o estudo comparativo feito nesta análise.

Orientador: Charlotte Marie Chambelland Galves / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T22:07:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida_NormaLuciaFernandesde_D.pdf: 6510856 bytes, checksum: a46eb2168392d42baaaf6b9d7d9c8ef0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Este trabalho é uma descrição do sujeito nulo numa variedade de língua pouco estudada, o português popular falado em comunidades rurais baianas. O objetivo geral é verificar se ainda há categorias vazias na posição de sujeito nessa variedade de língua, tendo os seguintes objetivos específicos: a) descrever sócio-historicamente as comunidades; b) identificar os contextos de maior manutenção do sujeito nulo; c) observar se há, no PB, no que se refere a esse fenômeno, uma ou mais gramáticas em atuação, através da comparação de grupos etários e de resultados encontrados em estudos com dialetos urbanos; d) verificar se há evidência do encaixamento de uma possível mudança no sistema, representada pelo uso de duplos sujeitos / Abstract: This work is a deseription of the null subjeet on a little studied language variety, the ordinary Portuguese spoken in bahian rural communities. The general goal is to cheek if there are still empty categories as subject on this language variety, by having the following specifie goals: a) deseribe the communities socially and historieally; b) identify the contexts of greater maintenance of the null subject; e) observe if there is, in BP (Brazilian Portuguese), about this phenomenon, one or more grammars in action, through the comparison of age groups and results found in studies with urban dialects; d) cheek if there is evidence of the insertion of a possible change in the system, represented by the use of double subjects / Doutorado / Doutor em Linguística

Analysis on most heavily overused and underused syntactic features shows that, when compared with native speakers, Hong Kong students favour the use of present tense, tentative style, simple noun phrase structure and explicit clause-relation marking in oral presentations. They prefer using present tense constructions, adopting pronouns for nominal functions and using an interactive tone in written essays. In both the learner speech data and the learner writing data, quite a number of the overused and underused syntactic features are closely related to the differences between speech and writing found in Biber (1988), hinting at Hong Kong students' inadequate sensitivity to mode differences in English. / Analysis on textual dimensions suggests that Hong Kong students' oral presentations differ from comparable native-speaker oral production by being more written-like in terms of the use of explicit/situation-dependent reference and the inclusion of abstract/non-abstract information. Hong Kong students' written essays deviate from comparable native-speaker written production by being more spoken-like in terms of the involved/informational focus and the use of explicit/situation-dependent reference. Moreover, both the learner speech data and the learner writing data bear some resemblance to common native-speaker genres in the opposite mode. / The present study clearly demonstrates that Hong Kong students have limited sensitivity to the conventional usage of syntactic features in spoken and written English. The teaching profession should help the students develop better sociolinguistic competence when teaching grammar, speaking and writing. Future research on second language acquisition should also focus more on the learners' sociolinguistic development so that second language learners' communicative ability can be better understood. / This thesis investigates Hong Kong secondary school students' sensitivity to differences between spoken and written English by examining their use of 67 syntactic features. A model specifying how native speakers vary their use of syntactic features across speech and writing, Biber (1988), has been adopted as the theoretical framework. Fifty-two oral presentations delivered by Form 6 students and 52 public examination essays written by Form 7 students, both of which total about 10,000 words, have been analysed. The students' performance is compared with native speakers' performance in similar spoken and written production on the level of syntactic features and the level of textual dimensions. / Chui, Sze Yan. / "December 2010." / Adviser: Gerald Nelson. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-266). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese; some appendixes also in Chinese.