"May 2002" / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of English, Linguistics and Media, Department of Linguistics, 2003. / Bibliography: p. 399-419. / Introduction -- Brief overview of above-clause analysis in Japanese -- Methodology and conventions of analysis -- Marco Polo text -- Bean Scattering Day text -- University lecture text -- Family conversation text -- Generalisation and a university tutorial text -- Conclusion. / This thesis is concerned with the construction of texture in Japanese, in particular with resources related to the general area of cohesion and particular aspects of participant tracking. An investigation is here presented as to the degree to which conventional views adequately represent Japanese in the light of authentic data. Such statements as "WA marks Given information", "GA marks New information", "zero is a pronoun in Japanese" are common throughout the literature characterising Japanese texts, but there is reason to believe that they stem, at least in part, from a naive transfer of English grammars, in particular, those with a narrow focus on the sentence. This thesis proposes a new framework for the description of Japanese; and in this proposal, an essential dimension is a detailed account of relevant contextual factors, both linguistic and nonlinguistic. The aim is to offer a description of Japanese more defensible to Japanese speakers, that is, to represent Japanese "in its own terms". -- Chapter 1 sets out problems and issues in the related literature on Japanese cohesion. It also addresses issues that are seen to be most pressing in relation to the description of Japanese. The chapter gives a brief account of the resources for cohesion and referential tracking and the particular deployment in Japanese, so that it offers a provisional account of the meaning potential for Japanese speakers. -- Chapter 2 reviews several standard treatments of cohesion and participant tracking in Japanese. This review is organised around two different kinds of resources, that is, those pre-predicate elements (such as WA, GA and other particles), and those post-predicate elements (such as conjunctive particles and certain sentence final expressions). -- Chapter 3 explains the method undertaken here and the conventions of analysis employed in subsequent desclipiions of texts from five separate contexts. Methods are set so as not only to view choices synoptically, but also to try to give careful description of choices in the logogenetic reality of text. That means the choices are viewed as being available to the speaker, writer or reader, as they unfold in text time. -- In each of Chapters 4,5,6 and 7, one of the following four texts, a (1) Marco Polo Text, (2) Bean Scattering Day Text, (3) University Lecture Text and (4) Family Conversation Text, is analysed and discussed in detail. The texts are chosen for the detailed examination of four different registers, representing a continuum from most written-like to most spoken-like, as well as continua of other kinds (like hierarchically differentiated social distance and formality differentiated). Each chapter has two major components, the first of which looks at subject realisations from the perspective of referential progression, and the second of which looks at the text from the perspective of subjectJreferent sequencing. Furthermore, these issues concerning subject are mapped against the macro structures individually for the three "writerly" texts (Texts (1) - (3)). -- In Chapter 8, generalisations are proposed, based on the results of the investigations of these four texts; and then, those principles, as they have emerged from the preceding arguments, are tested on a further study: (5) the University Tutorial Text, a text which combines characteristics across the continuum from most written to most spoken. (It is both strongly dialogic as well as involving sustained spoken 'turns'.) In Chapter 9, findings of the analytical chapters are further distilled. The outline for a new, although provisional, model of cohesion in Japanese is set out. These findings suggest future directions for research projects as well. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / xix, 591 p

"November 2001". / Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Linguistics and Psychology, Dept. of Linguistics, 2002. / Bibliography: p. 285-291. / Introduction -- Language from a systemic functional perspective -- Social networks: a review of literature relevant to the Scotland Island study -- Methodology -- Analysing relational ties: a social network perspective -- A systemic functional approach to analysing social reality -- Discussion and conclusion. / This research is concerned with the study of language and the social order. Working within the systemic functional theory of language, and utilising the concept of a social network to model the social order, the primary aim is to put on display the relationship between the linguistic system and social order, between language and culture. Systemic functional grammar (Halliday, 1995; Halliday and Hasasn, 1985/9; Halliday and Matthiesen, 1997; Eggins and Slade 1997), with its emphasis on language as a social semiotic, is used to analyse the language used by a group of four women engaged in casual conversation in a small Australian island community. Here the analysis reveals how the women negotiate their social reality when speaking to each other. It shows how their social relations are shaped within a text (Hasan, 1996), and explores the notion that, despite the seemingly trivial, unconscious nature of casual interactions, power and solidarity are continually being negotiated by the participants (Halliday, 1994; Eggins and Slade, 1997). More specifically, this research examines the notion that through lexico-grammatical and semantic selections participants are able to negotiate dominant positions in interaction. Social Network analysis has been used to examine the relationship between the individual and the group. It offers a quantifiable analytical tool for describing the character of an individual's everyday social relationships (Milroy, 1987). A social network analysis is used in the present study to map the social relationships in the tight-knit network, or speech fellowship, of these women (creating a map of the context of situation in SFL terminology). Change in the social relationships and language choices is modeled by revisiting the participants 15 months later in a contextually similar environment and re-analysing the network and linguistic options. Systemic functional linguistics is then used to highlight the interdependency of language and social order. Through systematic accounts of language and the context in which it is embedded this reciprocal nature is displayed and language and social order can be seen, not as two distinct entities, but rather as one phenomena seen from two different perspectives (Halliday, 1978; Mathiessen, 1993). / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / v, 291 p. ill

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed 10th June, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2007. / A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the, College of Arts, School of Humanities and Languages, University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Department of Linguistics. / Thesis by publication. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Also available in print.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / Bibliography / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis reports on an investigation into the acquisition of grammatical gender in second language (L2) German by learners with Afrikaans, English or Italian as their first language (L1). The aim of the study was to determine how similarities and differences between the L1 and L2 in terms of grammatical gender affect the acquisition of this aspect of the target L2. Previous research has shown that the L2 acquisition of grammatical gender is influenced by the morphological similarities and differences between gender marking in the L1 and L2 (see, for example, Sabourin, Stowe and De Haan 2006). Two experimental tasks were designed to determine to which extent the grammatical gender of nouns is accurately reflected on determiners and adjectives. Throughout, the L1 Italian group performed better than the other two groups. Since Italian (like German) expresses grammatical gender on determiners and nouns, while neither English nor Afrikaans does, the results indicate that the acquisition of grammatical gender in an L2 is easier for learners whose L1 also expresses grammatical gender. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis lewer verslag oor ’n ondersoek na die verwerwing van grammatikale geslag in Duits as tweedetaal (T2) deur volwasse beginnerleerders met Afrikaans, Engels of Italiaans as moedertaal (T1). Die doel van die ondersoek was om vas te stel hoe ooreenkomste en verskille tussen die T1 en T2 in terme van grammatikale geslag die verwerwing van hierdie betrokke aspek van die teikentaal beïnvloed. Vorige navorsing het bevind dat die T2-verwerwing van grammatikale geslag beïnvloed word deur die morfologiese ooreenkomste en verskille tussen geslagsmarkering in die T1 en T2 (sien byvoorbeeld Sabourin, Stowe en De Haan 2006). Twee eksperimentele take is ontwerp om vas te stel tot watter mate die grammatikale geslag van naamwoorde akkuraat uitgedruk word op determineerders en adjektiewe. Die T1 Italiaanse groep het deurgaans beter gevaar as die ander twee groepe. Aangesien Italiaans (soos Duits) grammatikale geslag uitdruk op determineerders en adjektiewe, terwyl dit nie die geval in Engels en Afrikaans is nie, dui die resultate daarop dat die verwerwing van grammatikale geslag in 'n T2 makliker is vir leerders wie se T1 ook grammatikale geslag uitdruk.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-27T14:36:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-08-30Bitstream added on 2014-08-27T15:57:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000723026.pdf: 485630 bytes, checksum: 47cf773e7614b8c4debc2f0fdec8263f (MD5) / Este estudo trata da relação temporal na lusofonia e tem por objetivo central fornecer uma descrição dessa categoria semântica, morfossintaticamente expressa por advérbios, sintagmas ou orações. A fim de cumprir nosso objetivo, tomamos como base a perspectiva teórica da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional, desenvolvida por Hengeveld & Mackenzie (2008), a partir do modelo da Gramática Funcional de Dik (1989, 1997a, 1997b). O universo de investigação desta pesquisa é constituído por ocorrências reais de uso extraídas do corpus “Português oral”, elaborado pelo Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, em parceria com outras duas universidades. Essas ocorrências são, por sua vez, submetidas a uma série de parâmetros de análise que perpassam os quatro níveis de análise propostos pela Gramática Discursivo-Funcional: Interpessoal, Representacional, Morfossintático e Fonológico. Os resultados mostram que o Tempo Absoluto ocorre com muito mais frequência do que o Tempo Relativo e, além disso, a codificação de ambos se dá, preferencialmente, por meios não-oracionais, isto é, por Palavras e Sintagmas. Além disso, o Tempo absoluto expressa relações simultâneas entre o evento e a expressão temporal, enquanto o Tempo relativo codifica relações de anterioridade e posterioridade temporal. Dessa forma, como a teoria da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional entende que expressões temporais absolutas podem ocupar a posição de modificador na camada do Episódio e expressões temporais relativas ocupam essa mesma posição na camada do Estado-de-Coisas, em português, relações de simultaneidade expressam-se na camada do Episódio e relações de anterioridade e posterioridade expressamse na camada do Estado-de-Coisas / This study is proposed to investigate the temporal relationship in Lusophone and aims to provide a central description of this semantic category, morphosyntactically expressed by adverbs, phrases or clauses. In order to accomplish our object, we take as basis the theoretical perspective of Functional Discourse Grammar, developed by Hengeveld & Mackenzie (2008), from the model of Functional Grammar Dik (1989, 1997a, 1997b). The research universe consists of actual occurrences extracted from the corpus “Português Oral”, organized by the Linguistics Centre of University of Lisbon, in partnership with two other universities. These occurrences were subjected to a number of parameters, which pervade the four levels of analysis proposed by the Functional Discourse-Grammar: Interpersonal, Representational, Morphosyntactic and Phonological. The results show that Absolute Time occurs much more frequently than Relative Time and, in addition, the dominant strategy of coding in both types are non-clausal means, that is, words and phrases. Furthermore, absolute Time expresses a simultaneous relation between the event and temporal expression, while relative Time encodes anteriority and posteriority relations. Therefore, as the theory of Functional Discourse-Grammar understands that absolute temporal expressions can occupy modifier position at Episode layer and relative temporal expressions occupy this same position at Stateof-affairs layer, in Portuguese, simultaneity takes place at Episode layer; anteriority and posteriority takes place at State-of-affairs layer