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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Linguistics. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-166). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss&rft%5Fval%5Ffmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss:MQ99269

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study uses an interdisciplinary approach in the analytical framework combining Systemic Functional Linguuistic theoty (SFL) (Martin 1992; Halliday 19994) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) (Wodak 7 meyer 2001; Fairclough 1989, 1993, 1995, 2001). Further, the study draws on christie's (1997, 2001, 2002, 2005) work on classroom discourse analysis, which in turn builds on Bernstein's (1990, 1996, 2000) model on pedagogic practice and interaction, to examine dominanceand power relationsin the classroom. The interdisciplinary approach enabled this study to evaluate Al-Thadi university students' English language competence, linguistically and textually. / South Africa

The Mandarin potential complement construction is a language specific structure. This is different from most of the languages in the world including English where modal notions are expressed by modal verbs and auxiliaries. It is a syntactic construction used to convey potential possibility in Mandarin and Cantonese. The various behaviors of the modal expressions in these three languag，i.e., English, Cantonese and Mandarin, raise interesting questions in second language acquisition research. The present study aims to explore how Cantonese speaking learners and English speaking learners process the Mandarin potential complement construction. Acceptability judgment test and corpus study were conducted to examine typical learning difficulties and essential acqu isition patterns in the course of acquiring the Mandarin potential complement construction. Given that the Mandarin potential complement construction is less marked than the Cantonese counterpart but more marked than English modal expressions, I hypothesized that Cantonese speaking learners wou ld have more native-like performance than English speaking learners. Surprisingly, this hypothesis was not completely confirmed in the present study. I will spell out the subjects, performance from the perspectives of language transfer theory, markedness theory and subset principle theory.

The main intention of this dissertation The linguistic analysis of a baroque text is to present some from charakteristic signs of Czech language of 17th century. I have keeped at disposition a copy of the text Cvičení v dokonalosti a ctnostech křesťanských (The Exercising of Christian perfection and quality). Thist text of Alphons Rodericius was translated by the priest and linguist Jiří Konstanc and printed in 1664. In my work I get some informations about morphology and syntax of the baroque czech language and compare them with the present situation. There are many differences between baroque and present Czech language, for example the ending {--}ův in plural masculines or some forms of possessive adjectives. We can find many differences also by the conjunctions, e.g. anobrž, alebrž, an. In the syntax level we can see an effect of Latin or German. There are many complicated sentences, the verb stands often at the end of a sentence. We can find many other examples. At the end of this work I bring a small dictionary, where I make clear some words, which can make problems. This work doesn´t bring comprehensive informations, there are many other problems in this religious text.

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The diploma thesis offers a philological analysis of František Vrba's translation into Czech of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper is composed of three major parts: "Theoretical background", "Hypothesis and Method", and "Analysis". The analysis addresses matters of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, metrical and cultural nature. The analysis focuses on The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale as convenient manifestations of stylistic variation, cross-generic links and structural correspondences and contrasts in The Canterbury Tales. The aim of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate the quality of František Vrba's Czech translation.

Orientador: Lidia Almeida Barros / Banca: Aparecida Negri Isquerdo / Banca: Karylleila Andrade Klinger / Banca: Maria José Bocorny Finatto / Banca: Paula Tavares Pinto / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo mais amplo elaborar uma proposta de formato de dicionário enciclopédico toponímico e, para isso, utilizamos como corpus o repertório das unidades léxicas que designam o nome dos elementos geográficos referentes à água, ou seja, os hidrônimos. Os hidrônimos que fazem parte de nossa pesquisa se referem aos elementos hidrográficos arroio, baía, cabeceira, cabo, cachoeira, canal, catarata, corixão, corixo, córrego, foz, lago, lagoa, nascente, represa, riacho, ribeira, ribeirão, rio, riozinho, salto, sanga, vazante, volta. Esses hidrônimos foram obtidos no banco de dados do projeto Atlas Toponímico do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul - ATEMS. Para alcançar o objetivo principal da nossa pesquisa refletimos sobre o estatuto do mapa como texto fonte de pesquisa toponímica e como nele estão registrados os sintagmas toponímicos; analisamos alguns dicionários toponímicos brasileiros publicados para entender como funcionam e quais os objetivos de obras como essas; organizamos um sistema conceptual dos hidrônimos de Mato Grosso do Sul com base no amparo teórico da Terminologia, considerando as relações hierárquicas e não hierárquicas existentes entre as unidades léxicas que fazem parte de nosso corpus; propomos três modelos de microestrutura de verbetes: dois principais, um para verbetes cujas entradas designam conceitos relativos a elementos hidrográficos e a conceitos-chave do conjunto terminológico, outra para a constituição dos verbetes que têm como entradas os sintagmas toponímicos e uma terceira remissiva; organizamos um sistema de remissivas prevendo a presença de sintagmas toponímicos variantes e indicando ao consulente qual verbete deve procurar para encontrar a informação que deseja. Por fim, organizamos uma amostragem de verbetes como demonstrativo do que poderá vir a ser o dicionário. Desenvolvemos essas ações para chegar ao objetivo principal de apresentar uma proposta ... / Abstract: This research has broader objective to elaborate a propose of format of toponymic encyclopedic dictionary and for that we use as corpus the repertoire of the lexical units that designate the names of the geographical features related to water, i.e. hydronym. The hydronyms that are part of our research refer to elements hydrographic stream, bay, marsh, head, cape, waterfall, canal, cataracts, corixão, corixo, stream, estuary, lake, pond, spring, dam, creek, river, stream river, little river, jump, sanga, ebb back. These hydronyms were obtained at database toponymic of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul project - ATEMS. To achieve the main objective of our research we reflect on the status of the map as text source toponymic research and how in it is recorded the toponymic syntagma; we analyze some Brazilian toponymic dictionaries already published to understand how they work and what the goals of a work like this; we organize a conceptual system of hydronym of Mato Grosso do Sul based on theoretical support of Terminology considering the hierarchical and non-hierarchical relationships between the lexical units that are part of our corpus; we propose three microstructure models of headwords: two main, one for headwords whose entries describe concepts related to hydrographic elements and key concepts of terminology and another set for the establishment of the headword that have as inputs the toponymic syntagmas, and a third remitting; we organize a system of reference foreseeing the presence of the variant toponymic syntagmas and indicating to person who is consulting the dictionary which headword he/she should look for to find the information who wants. Finally, we organize a sampling of entries as demonstration of what it could come to be the dictionary. We develop these actions to reach the main goal of presenting a proposal of model of dictionary to toponymic syntagmas, as regards the superstructure, the macrostructure and microstructure ... / Doutor

Orientador: Anna Flora Brunelli / Coorientador: Sandra Denise Gasparini Bastos / Banca: Pedro Luis Navarro Barbosa / Banca: Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves / Resumo: Neste trabalho, analisa-se o ethos do discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade. Para tanto, adota-se o aparato teórico-metodológico da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, com ênfase nas reflexões de Dominique Maingueneau sobre a noção de ethos discursivo. De acordo com o autor, o ethos diz respeito à imagem que o sujeito enunciador do discurso projeta de si pelo modo como enuncia. O corpus da pesquisa é composto por três obras de autoajuda para a terceira idade que foram escritas originalmente em língua portuguesa. Como o ethos pode ser apreendido por diversos indícios presentes na superfície textual, neste estudo, analisa-se o ethos especialmente por meio de itens lexicais modais. A opção pela análise da modalidade se deve ao fato de essa categoria estar relacionada a uma expressão de subjetividade do enunciador, o que favorece a análise da imagem que o sujeito enunciador projeta de si. A análise dos itens modais, que está baseada em trabalhos funcionalistas sobre o tema, especialmente o de Hengeveld (2004), conta com o levantamento e com a classificação dos itens lexicais modais presentes nas obras do corpus, considerando-se, para a classificação, dois critérios, isto é, o domínio semântico e o alvo de avaliação de cada item modal. A análise do ethos, que também leva em conta outros aspectos da superfície do discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade, como ocorrências de verbos no imperativo e emprego do item lexical "velho", revela que o tom autoritário predomina nesse discurso. A análise ainda evidencia que o discurso de autoajuda para a terceira idade é menos um discurso otimista que oferece aos idosos fórmulas para alcançar uma velhice feliz e mais um discurso autoritário que se destina a ensinar a sociedade a ajudar e a entender a pessoa idosa / Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the ethos of self-help books targeting the third age, considering grammar and lexical items contained in the text. The considerations with regard to ethos described and followed in this research belong to the French Discourse Analysis, with special emphasis on Dominique Maingueneau's reflections in this regard. According to him, ethos is about the image projected by the subject of enunciation considering the way they enunciate. The corpus of the research is composed of three self-help books for the third age that were originally written in Portuguese. The ethos can be captured through many evidences contained in the text. Thus, in this study we chose to analyze the ethos mainly through modal elements found in the corpus. The analysis of modality was chosen as this category is related to enunciator's subjectivity expression regarding their enunciate. Therefore, modal elements are a privileged focus of linguistic-discursive investigation in order to analyze the ethos. The study of modality was carried out mainly based on Hengeveld's functional considerations (2004) about the theme. The choice of functional component to analyze data is justified because this line of research provides relevant information on the subject and considers, in its analyses, the discursive context with modal elements. The analysis of ethos also takes into account other aspects of the surface of self- help discourse for the third age, like the occurrences of verbs in the imperative and the employment that the lexical item "old" reveals about the authoritative tone that dominates this discourse. The analysis also shows that the self-help discourse for the elderly is less an optimistic speech that offers seniors formulas to achieve a happy old age and more authoritarian discourse that is designed to teach the society to help and understand the elder / Mestre

Orientador: Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves / Banca: Edson Rosa Francisco de Souza / Banca: Marize Mattos Dall'Aglio-Hattnher / Banca: Taísa Peres de Oliveira / Banca: Michel Gustavo Fontes / Resumo: Esta tese é amparada por pressupostos gerais de teorias identificadas com correntes funcionalistas da linguagem (DIK, 1989, 1997; NUYTS, 2007; dentre outros), sobretudo o Funcionalismo da Costa Oeste Americana (TRAUGOTT, 2010; TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 2003; GIVÓN, 1984, 1995; BYBEE, 2016; dentre outros), e conceitos específicos relacionados a teorias cognitivistas, especialmente a identificada com a Gramática de Construções (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; CROFT, 2001, 2007; LAKOFF, 1987), numa vertente que vem sendo denominada Modelos Baseados no Uso (BERLOW; KEMMER, 2000; BYBEE, 2016) ou Linguística Cognitivo-funcional (NUYTS, 2007). Mais diretamente, nos valemos de premissas da Gramática de Construções - que defende como princípio fundamental que a forma básica de uma estrutura sintática é a construção, considerada um pareamento simbólico de uma estrutura gramatical complexa com seu significado (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; CROFT, 2007) - para analisar, sob uma perspectiva sincrônica e com base em dados de língua escrita e falada do português brasileiro contemporâneo, as construções [v1+ver], sendo v1 substituível pelos verbos ir, querer e deixar. Partimos da hipótese de que essas construções resultam de um processo de construcionalização instanciado por uma série de micropassos de mudanças. A busca pela comprovação dessa hipótese perpassa o mapeamento das propriedades de composicionalidade, esquematicidade e produtividade das construções e permite cumprir o objetivo... / Abstract: This thesis is supported by general assumptions of functionalist-related theories of language (DIK, 1989, 1997, NUYTS, 2007, among others), especially the Functionalism of the American West Coast (TRAUGOTT, 2010, TRAUGOTT; DASHER, 2002; HOPPER; TRAUGOTT, 2003; GIVÓN, 1984, 1995; BYBEE, 2016; among others), and specific concepts related to cognitive theories, especially the one identified with the Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006; CROFT, 2001, 2007; LAKOFF, 1987), in a field that has been called Usage-Based Models of Language (BERLOW; KEMMER, 2000; BYBEE, 2016) or Cognitive-Functional Linguistics (NUYTS, 2007). More specifically, we rely on premises of the Construction Grammar, which holds as a fundamental principle that the basic form of a syntactic structure is the construction, conceived as a symbolic pairing of a complex grammatical structure and meaning (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006, CROFT, 2007); we do so in order to analyze, from a synchronic approach, based on written and spoken language data from the contemporary Brazilian Portuguese, the constructions [v1+ver], being v1 replaceable by the verbs ir, querer, and, deixar. Our point of departures is the hypothesis that these constructions are the result of a constructionalization process that occurs through a series of micro-step changes. In order to prove this hypothesis, we map the compositionality, schematicity, and productivity properties of these constructions. This allows the accomplishment of the thesis'central objective: to explore the relation between constructional change, constructionalization, and (inter)subjectivization (TRAUGOTT; TROUSDALE, 2013, TRAUGOTT, DASHER, 2002; TRAUGOTT, 2010). We identify and analyze four uses of constructs [v1+ver], which are: i) Constructions of purposeful movement; ii) Tense and Aspect periphrastic constructions; iii) Modal epistemic constructions, and; iv) Discourse Marker ... / Doutor