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  • 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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On the Use of the General Extenders in British English Discourses / Om användningen av general extenders i brittisk engelska diskurser

Essa, Muntasir January 2019 (has links)
General extenders are examined in a collection of spoken data drawn from the two sub-corpora Business and Leisure of the British National Corpus. This study investigates the use of the 110 instances of or something, and everything, and and stuff in native speakers’ discourses. The speakers are males and females aged 15-59 years. This study focuses on the frequency and functions of general extenders, and explores whether there is a relationship between the use of GEs and speakers’ ages as well as the gender of speakers. For the purposes of this study, both quantitative and qualitative methods are used. The analysis shows that the most frequent form is or something (representing 65.45% of the data), followed by and everything (20.90%) and and stuff (13.63%). This study reports that general extenders are multifunctional, and that they indicate ideational and interpersonal functions. However, there is considerable variation in the use of general extenders. These forms are mainly used to implicate a category. The predominant use of these forms occurs in young speakers’ discourses, and their frequency decreases as the speakers get older. In addition, this study points to the differences between female and male speakers in using general extenders, and that females use these expressions more frequently than males. / General extenders undersöks i språkbrukares tal som härrör från två sub-corpora Business och Leisure från British National Corpus. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka 110 instanser av or something, and everything, och and stuff hos brittiska mäns och kvinnors tal i åldersspannet 15-59 år. Denna studie fokuserar på general extenders frekvenser samt funktioner, och undersöker huruvida om deras användningen är korrelerade med språkbrukarnas ålder och kön. I denna studie används både kvantitativa och kvalitativa analysmetoder. Resultaten visar att den vanligaste formen är or something som motsvarar 65.45% av datan, följt av and everything 20.90%, medan den lägsta användningen gäller and stuff 13.63%. Denna studie visar att general extenders är multifunktionella det vill säga de indikerar ideella och interpersonella funktioner. Språkbrukare använder dock general extenders huvudsakligen för att implicera en kategori. Den övervägande användningen av general extenders sker i unga talares diskurser, deras frekvens minskas i äldre språkbrukares tal, samt kvinnor använder dem mer än män gör.

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