Presidential speech has defined some of the greatest moments in American history. However, over the last thirty years the public has grown frustrated with presidential oratory. This project identifies the strategies Reagan, Bush, and Clinton employed to tackle the public’s increasing disenchantment with presidential rhetoric. Using rhetorical analyses of speech drafts, content analyses of weekly radio addresses, and interviews with former presidential speechwriters, this project identified the proactive and reactive ways in which presidents and their speechwriters craft speeches to appeal to a disillusioned public. Results indicate that presidents can employ “executive rhetoric” to appeal to the presidential office and obscure the office-holder. By doing so, presidents can simultaneously preserve the value of speech, and restore—if not expand—presidential power. / text

The present study undertook to address two questions: (1) are there any age-relatable relationships between the spoken and written syntax of adolescent students within a mainstream secondary school? (2) are there any relationships associated with the educational attainment of these students? To this end, the study analysed 180 pairs of spoken and written non-narrative texts, eliciting each such pair from students attending a mainstream English secondary school. This bespoke corpus was further designed so as to be balanced across three year groups (Year Seven, Year Eight, Year Nine) and two National Curriculum attainment levels (Level 4, Level 5). Syntactic packaging was chosen as the study’s analytical focus; defined here as comprising how clauses are combined via coordination and subordination. To help ensure a more in-depth analysis, an extended set of measures was employed, ranging from the general (e.g. the number of clauses per t-unit) to the more specific (e.g. the number of non-finite adverbial clauses per t-unit and per clause). So analysed, the study found that adolescent students at the present age and attainment levels can and do differentiate their spoken and written syntax, at least for these texts and these measures. It also found this differentiation to be something that varied according to the particular kind of packaging. Thus, for example, the spoken texts exhibited greater numbers of t-units per t-unit complex, together with a greater prominence of finite adverbial and post-verbal complement clauses. Thus, also, the written texts exhibited a greater overall prominence of non-finite clauses. And, thus, both modalities exhibited similar proportions of relative clauses. Finally, this differentiation was found to be developmentally static, with participants handling their spoken and written syntax for these measures in much the same way, regardless of their age or attainment level. Overall, these findings are interpreted in terms of the participants tapping into the differential production conditions of the two modalities but without necessarily fully exploiting these conditions. Furthermore, when placed in the context of the wider evidence base, the findings point to two general conclusions. Firstly, they indicate students at the present age and attainment levels to be at a stage where their syntactic output is in line with that of more mature discourse. Secondly, they indicate modality to be an aspect of student syntax that is characterised by a potentially high degree of sensitivity to the wider discourse context.

The topic of this master's thesis is the analyzis of a general conception of linguistics in ancient Egypt, with a narrow focus on the ancient Egyptians' knowledge of phonetics and phonology as well as language production and perception. These findings are compared with the information with which non-egyptological disciplines work. We analyse the ancient Egyptian material culture. This analysis also focuses on primary written records provided with the author's own translation and linguistic annotation using the Leipzig Glossing Rules. This study has a potential to help the fields outside of Egyptology better to understand the notions of ancient people's phonetic/phonological knowledge. It is clear from the sources discussed that the Egyptians considered the heart to be the seat of the speech center in today's conception, although there is evidence that they saw the connection between speech and the brain. Written sources also provide information on the categorization of hieroglyphic characters according to phonetic value, which points to the existence of segmental perception of the ancient Egyptians. However, there are no explicit mentions of vocal folds and voice formation, the essence of speech and language was seen by the Egyptians in the magical-religious sphere. Part of the thesis is a summary...

Submitted by Thiago Bronzeado de Andrade (thiago@ch.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-06-08T12:34:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Sandra Cabral Lopes.pdf: 19559264 bytes, checksum: b39099cbcf0067be5e37164c8c8e7872 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Araújo (milaborges@ch.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-06-11T13:33:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Sandra Cabral Lopes.pdf: 19559264 bytes, checksum: b39099cbcf0067be5e37164c8c8e7872 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-11T13:33:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Sandra Cabral Lopes.pdf: 19559264 bytes, checksum: b39099cbcf0067be5e37164c8c8e7872 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-27 / CAPES / In the process of teaching the Portuguese language as a mother tongue in Brazil, it is common to find, in different educational levels, the influence of speech in writing, whether on textual-discursive aspects, or on morphosyntactic and orthographic aspects. Thus, in this study we investigate the interference of speech in 7th and 8th grade students‟ writing, enrolled in a public school in Guarabira-PB, with a focus on the elision of the rhotic in syllable codas. The aim is to show the linguistic and social factors favorable to the realization/elision of the consonantal segment -R at the end of syllables. The corpus consists of 88 texts, 44 written before and 44 written after an educational intervention. As the factor groups which may interfere on the elision of –R, we consider educational level, sex, word class, position of –R in the word, length of the word and precedent context. As conditioners to rhotic elision, the results point out the variables school level (7th grade), word class (verb), position in the word (ending), length of the word (non-monosyllables), and precedent context (high and low vowels). It was still possible to see, from an educational intervention considering these results, that a systematic work paying attention to the phonological consciousness turns to be productive in the context where orthographic specificities of the Portuguese language are taught. The work is based on three main areas of theoretical studies: phonetics/phonology (BISOL, 2005; SILVA, 2014, 2011; HORA & PEDROSA, 2012; CÂMARA Jr., 2008), variational and applied sociolinguistics (BAGNO, 2007; LABOV, 1992; BORTONI-RICARDO, 2004, 2005) and notions related to the processes involved in the acquisition and development of the writing system, including the implications of speech in writing over the course of schooling (SCLIAR-CABRAL, 2013; MARCUSCHI & DIONISIO, 2007; STAMPA, 2009; FERREIRA & TEBEROSKY, 1999). / No ensino de Língua Portuguesa como língua materna, é comum encontrarmos, em diferentes graus de escolaridade, a influência da fala na escrita, seja nos aspectos textuais-discursivos, seja nos aspectos morfossintáticos e ortográficos. Dessa forma, neste trabalho buscamos investigar a interferência da fala na escrita de alunos do 7º e 8º anos do EF, matriculados em uma escola da rede pública do município de Guarabira-PB, por meio do apagamento do rótico em posição de coda silábica. Nosso propósito é evidenciar os contextos linguísticos e extralinguísticos favoráveis à realização ou não do segmento consonantal –R no final das sílabas. O corpus é constituído de 88 produções textuais, sendo 44 elaboradas antes e 44 após uma proposta de intervenção pedagógica. São considerados, como grupos de fatores que interferem ou não no apagamento do –R, o grau de escolarização, o sexo, a classe de palavras, a posição na palavra, a extensão da palavra e o contexto precedente. Como condicionadores ao apagamento do rótico, os resultados apontam as variáveis ano escolar (7º ano), classe de palavras (verbo), posição na palavra (final), extensão do vocábulo (palavra não monossilábicas) e contexto precedente (vogais altas e vogal baixa). Ainda foi possível perceber, a partir de uma proposta de intervenção considerando esses resultados, que um trabalho sistemático que atente, dentre outros fatores, para o trabalho com a consciência fonológica torna-se produtivo no contexto de ensino das especificidades ortográficas da língua portuguesa. Como base teórica, consideramos os estudos fonético-fonológicos (BISOL, 2005; SILVA, 2014, 2011; HORA e PEDROSA, 2012; CÂMARA Jr., 2008), os estudos da sociolinguística variacionista e educacional (BAGNO, 2007; LABOV, 1992; BORTONI-RICARDO, 2004, 2005) e noções relacionadas aos processos envolvidos na aquisição e desenvolvimento da escrita, incluindo as implicações da fala na escrita ao longo da escolarização (SCLIAR-CABRAL, 2013; MARCUSCHI e DIONISIO, 2007; STAMPA, 2009; FERREIRA e TEBEROSKY, 1999).

Submitted by CAROLINE CARNIELLI BIAZOLLI null (carolbiazolli@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-11-11T01:12:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_BIAZOLLI, C. C._2016.pdf: 4711489 bytes, checksum: 37cec25fadb86ba318a6d9be7db00cdc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by LUIZA DE MENEZES ROMANETTO null (luizaromanetto@hotmail.com) on 2016-11-17T12:42:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 biazolli_cc_dr_arafcl.pdf: 4711489 bytes, checksum: 37cec25fadb86ba318a6d9be7db00cdc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-17T12:42:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 biazolli_cc_dr_arafcl.pdf: 4711489 bytes, checksum: 37cec25fadb86ba318a6d9be7db00cdc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O propósito desta tese é avaliar como a questão de continua – estilístico e fala/escrita – e de gêneros textuais contribui para o entendimento de processos em variação. Para isso, investiga-se o fenômeno variável da posição de clíticos pronominais, observando-se como as variantes previstas – pré-verbal e pós-verbal, no caso de lexias verbais simples, e pré-complexo verbal, intra-complexo verbal, com ênclise ao primeiro verbo ou próclise ao segundo, e pós-complexo verbal – se manifestam em quatro gêneros textuais jornalísticos (entrevista na TV, noticiário de TV, carta do leitor e editorial), produzidos nos primeiros anos do século XXI e marcados por diferenças relacionadas às suas concepções discursivas, aos seus meios de produção e a outras características situacionais. Desenvolve-se um estudo descritivo-comparativo entre o português europeu (PE) e o português brasileiro (PB), fundamentado nos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Teoria da Variação e Mudança Linguísticas (WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2006[1968]; LABOV, 1966, 1982, 1994, 2001a, 2003, 2008[1972]) e em conceitos relativos a estilo (LABOV, 1966, 2008[1972]; BELL, 1984, 2001), gêneros textuais (BAKHTIN, 1992[1979]; MARCUSCHI, 2005, 2008, 2010; BIBER; CONRAD, 2009), modalidades de uso da língua (CHAFE, 1982; 1985; BIBER, 1988; MARCUSCHI, 2008, 2010) e normas linguísticas (COSERIU, 1979[1952]; BAGNO, 2003, 2011, 2012; FARACO, 2008, 2011, 2012). Antes de se chegar às análises qualitativas que versam sobre influências externas no fenômeno em foco, detalham-se os possíveis condicionamentos linguísticos favorecedores das formas alternantes de colocação pronominal, valendo-se do tratamento estatístico oferecido pelo programa Goldvarb X (SANKOFF et al., 2005). Os resultados sinalizam que, no PE, a posição dos pronomes clíticos está intimamente relacionada a fatores estruturais, enquanto no PB tal objeto parece também ser sensível à ação de elementos não linguísticos. Desse modo, com base nos registros da variedade brasileira do português, mostra-se a coerência de se unir à observação de motivações linguísticas uma investigação sobre o maior número possível de aspectos vinculados às situações comunicativas. Confirma-se, portanto, que o continuum estilístico, correlacionado aos próprios gêneros e ao continuum fala/escrita, funciona como caminho de difusão de fenômenos em variação. Por último, cumpre destacar que o presente estudo colabora com a profícua discussão, vigente na literatura linguística, acerca da colocação pronominal e, de modo mais amplo, além de auxiliar no aprofundamento teórico relacionado às variações diafásica, diamésica e sociocultural, coopera com a pesquisa sociolinguística desenvolvida em Portugal e no Brasil, acrescentando mais resultados à descrição dessas variedades e da língua portuguesa como um todo. / The aim of this work is to evaluate how the question of continua – stylistic and speech/writing – and how textual genres contribute to the understanding of the variation process. It was investigated the variable phenomenon of the placement of pronominal clitics, observing how the predicted variables – pre-verbal and post-verbal, in the case of simple verbal lexical items, and pre-verbal complex, intra-verbal complex, with enclisis in the first verb or proclisis in the second, and post-verbal complex – are manifested in four journalistic textual genres (TV interview, TV news, readers’ letter and editorial), produced in the first years of the 21st century and marked by differences related to their discursive conceptions, to their means of production and other situational characteristics. It was developed a descriptive-comparative study between the European Portuguese (EP) and the Brazilian Portuguese (BP), founded in the theoretical-methodological assumptions of the Theory of Variation and Linguistic Change (WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2006[1968]; LABOV, 1966, 1982, 1994, 2001a, 2003, 2008[1972]) and in concepts related to style (LABOV, 1966, 2008[1972]; BELL, 1984, 2001), textual genres (BAKHTIN, 1992[1979]; MARCUSCHI, 2005, 2008, 2010; BIBER; CONRAD, 2009), modalities of language use (CHAFE, 1982; 1985; BIBER, 1988; MARCUSCHI, 2008, 2010) and linguistic norms (COSERIU, 1979[1952]; BAGNO, 2003, 2011, 2012; FARACO, 2008, 2011, 2012). Before the qualitative analysis about the external influences in this phenomenon, it was detailed the possible linguistic conditioning which favour the alternating forms of pronominal collocation using the statistic treatment offered by Goldvarb X (SANKOFF et al., 2005). The results show that in EP, the placement of pronominal clitics is intimately related to structural factors, while in BP, it also seems to be sensitive to the action of non-linguistic elements. In this way, according to the data of Brazilian Portuguese, it is observed the consistency to join the observation of linguistic motivations and the investigation about the highest number of aspects bounded to communicative situations. It is validated, thus, that the stylistic continuum, correlated to the genres and to the continuum speech/writing, works as a way of diffusion of variable phenomena. At last, it is required to highlight that this study collaborates with the fruitful discussion – current in the linguistic literature – about the pronominal collocation and, in a broader way, it also auxiliaries in the further theoretical development related to the diaphasic, diamesic and sociocultural variations, cooperates with the sociolinguistics research developed in Portugal and in Brazil, adding more results to the description of these varieties and to the Portuguese language as a whole.