This dissertation seeks to ask and answer the following question. What is the semantic and/or syntactic value of the articular infinitive in New Testament Greek? It is argued that the article primarily serves as a function word when used with the infinitive. That is, when the article appears in conjunction with the infinitive, it expresses a grammatical-structural relation that may not otherwise be apparent. The article does not determine the infinitive as definite. Therefore, it is not correct to say (as many do) that the article can have the same significance with the verbal noun as it does with any other noun (e.g. anaphora, marker of definiteness, substantivizer, etc.). Nor is it correct to say that the article adds no meaning at all to the infinitive. On the contrary, the structural significance of the article is prominent when the articular infinitive appears in the New Testament. Chapter one introduces this thesis as well as setting forth the history of research and my methodology. Chapter two demonstrates that the Greek article differs from the other kinds of determiners in that it often is used without its semantic weight as a determiner. In such cases the article appears as a pure function word. Chapters three and four demonstrate how this thesis arises from an inductive study of the articular infinitive in New Testament Greek. The inductive study is broken down by the major formal characteristic that divides articular infinitives: those governed by prepositions (chapter 4) versus those that are not governed by prepositions (chapter 3). Chapter five compares and contrasts New Testament usage with analogous constructions in the LXX to see if the thesis is consistent with this body of literature. Chapter six summarizes the implications that the thesis has for New Testament Greek grammar and for exegesis in the New Testament. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

The main a i m of this stud y is to contri bute t o the e x pl i cation of the central discourse notion , ' co herence ' , by comparing t he d e ns i ties of differen t te xtual features in more cohe rent a nd l e s s cohe rent studen t a c ademic writing . The l a tte r ty pe of writing i s defined as that sub-genre of e x posi t ory wr i ting tha t is required f rom studen ts in the study o f "co ntent " sub j ects , with composition writi ng e xcluded . A corpus o f studen t academ i c te x t s was assessed i mpressionistic al ly f or c ohere nce by three rater s, using Bamberg ' s Ho lis t i c Coherence Sca l e ( Bamberg 1983 ; 1984) as a gu id e , an d s o eac h t e x t ' s Holi stic Coherence Rat ing (HCR ) was der i v ed . The te x t ual fea tu r es investiga t ed are r e f erence and c onjuncti ve cohes i o n and errors in these domains, a n d also relat i onal coherence, th i s l atter term ref erring to the wa y s in whic h the funct i onal units of te x t cohere wit h one another in terms of binary r elation s (c f . Crombie 1985a; 1985 b) such as Reason-Res ult a nd Means- Purpose. One of the k e y bac kground assumptions of the study is that te xts are c ommunicati ve phenomena , and a f ter a cr i tical review of various approac hes t owards the e x p li cation of ' coherence ' in text l inguistics and in quanti t ative ( corpus-based) writing research, an a n al y t i cal f ramework is developed in which subcategories of reference and conjunctive cohesion, and errors in these domains, are defined not only formally, but also in terms of how they function in the conte x t of communication - with specific reference to the pragmatic conte x t of student academic writing . Relational coherence is also included i n this framework, and the study develops a measure for the quantification of the amount of relational coherence in a text - the Relational Coherence Quotient. Sample analyses demonstrating the application of the framework to the texts form part of the study. The main findings of the study are: that the application of the analytical framework identifies considerably more features that correlate significantly with Holistic Coherence Ratings than do two other quantitative writing research approaches; that the functionally defined features correlate more significantly with the HCR ' s than the formally defined features; and that the most strongly significant correlation with HCR ' s was revealed by relational coherence, as quantified by the Relational Coherence Quotient. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Litt. et Phil.(Linguistics)

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The linguistic intergroup bias is a phenomenon where people use more abstract language to talk positively about in-groups and negatively about out-groups (Maass, Salvi, Arcuri, & Semin, 1989). This has been established for many in-groups, but has not been extended to age-related stereotypes. This study extended the linguistic intergroup bias to attitudes towards older adults. It was predicted that statements about what participants liked about their peers and disliked about older adults would be more abstract than statements about what participants disliked about their peers and liked about older adults. Results supported these predictions. Also, a new measure of linguistic abstractness was tested, but was found not to be useful in this context. / Department of Psychological Science

The analysis of advertising English reveals the function of language in the communicative process and shows how language can be used as a means of manipulation. Only an explicit formulation of how the advertiser uses language, and a reflection about its effect, can protect the individual from being manipulated through language and make him less susceptible to the appeals that advertising has.It is the purpose of this paper to analyse a selected group of advertisements from magazines published currently in the United States in order to determine how language and other persuasive devices operate in those dimensions of advertisements which are set up by the model of communication. While in the first three chapters advertising in general is stressed with respect to linguistic and non-linguistic means, the fourth chapter on the aesthetic function describes explicitly the morphological and syntactical levels of the linguistic means involved. A purely morphological and syntactical analysis is not possible, as there is no clear-cut distinction between these levels and the semantic dimension.

Set against the changing historical context of consultancy services to Victorian teachers since 1872, this study examines the role of a curriculum consultant working with primary teachers in two different consultancy situations. The role of the consultant is construed as that of a dialogue partner with teachers, and specific attention is paid to the consultancy dialogue to analyse how the consultant’s language choices contributed to the construction of interpersonal relations with teachers. Consultancy literature gives a primary place to the establishment of mutual trust and respect with teachers and offers a number of processes that consultants might adopt to achieve this goal. However, it appears that no linguistic analysis has been undertaken of the consultancy discourse that provides any detailed picture of how the language behaviour of the consultant is implicated in this important process. The resources of systemic functional linguistic and appraisal theories are used by the consultant-researcher to analyse the texts. The linguistic data suggest that relationships with teachers are built around two elements: camaraderie and solidarity. Camaraderie accounts for the prevailing positive dispositions that underlie the relations between people, like teachers, who share the same profession. Solidarity has to be constructed anew in each consultation through the sharing of the consultant’s appraisals that indicate to teachers the mindset, the nature and intensity of the consultant’s point of view concerning the issues under consideration.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2001. / Typescript. Bibliographical references: leaf 301-309.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 339-351) and indexes.