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Thesis (MEd Religion Studies) -- University of South Australia, 1992

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The analysis of human communication, in all its forms, increasingly depends on large collections of texts and transcribed recordings. These collections, or corpora, are often richly annotated with structural information. These datasets are extremely large so manual analysis is only successful up to a point. As such, significant effort has recently been invested in automatic techniques for extracting and analyzing these massive data sets. However, further progress on analytical tools is confronted by three major challenges. First, we need the right data model. Second, we need to understand the theoretical foundations of query languages on that data model. Finally, we need to know the expressive requirements for general purpose query language with respect to linguistics. This thesis has addressed all three of these issues. / Specifically, this thesis studies formalisms used by linguists and database theorists to describe tree structured data. Specifically, Propositional dynamic logic and monadic second-order logic. These formalisms have been used to reason about a number of tree querying languages and their applicability to the linguistic tree query problem. We identify a comprehensive set of linguistic tree query requirements and the level of expressiveness needed to implement them. The main result of this study is that the required level of expressiveness of linguistic tree query is that of the first-order predicate calculus over trees. / This formal approach has resulted in a convergence between two seemingly disparate fields of study. Further work in the intersection of linguistics and database theory should also pave the way for theoretically well-founded future work in this area. This, in turn, will lead to better tools for linguistic analysis and data management, and more comprehensive theories of human language.

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 Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Antoinette Gagne.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of European Studies, 1998? / Amendments pasted on front end paper. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-355).