Cette thèse a pour objet de rapprocher la notion de « style » telle qu’elle est employée d’une part en linguistique et de l’autre en sociologie. Elle veut apporter un éclairage sur le rôle que peut jouer le linguiste dans la compréhension des phénomènes sociaux. Pour cela, une enquête par entretiens nous a permis de constituer un corpus étoffé, comportant une grande variété d’exemples, rendant ainsi possible l’analyse de styles sociaux et discursifs dans leur diversité. A cet effet, nous mobilisons la notion de « style », à l’origine réservée à l’écriture, mais qui, aujourd’hui, connaît un usage extensif. Nous distinguons deux acceptions récurrentes, esthétiques et pragmatiques, à partir desquelles nous proposons notre propre définition applicable à des productions langagières orales. Le concept sociologique de « style de vie » constitue un élément central de ce travail. Ce concept définit le style de vie à partir de « libres choix » des individus. Nous interrogeons le rapport entre le discours direct et le « style », envisagé d’un point de vue sociologique (un « vecteur » de style) ou linguistique (un procédé stylistique). Par ailleurs, nous analysons les structures langagières « préformées » ou « préfabriquées » dont l’emploi relève, comme l’utilisation du discours direct, d’un procédé stylistique, car c’est le locuteur qui choisit librement ce mode d’expression. Nous plaidons ainsi pour une meilleure prise en compte des phénomènes langagiers par la sociologie, en particulier celle des styles de vie, le linguiste contribuant aussi à la compréhension de l’Homme en tant que locuteur et acteur social. / The objective of this doctoral dissertation is to bring together the different ideas of “style,” as employed in linguistics and sociology. Its intention is to shed light on the role that the linguist can play in understanding social phenomena. To do so, my interview-based investigation constitutes a large and various study, making possible an analysis of diverse social and discursive styles. To this effect, I’ve employed the concept of “style,” originally confined to writing, but which currently has an extensive use. I distinguish two recurrent meanings, the aesthetic and pragmatic, from which I propose my own definition applicable to oral language productions. The sociological concept of “life style” constitutes a central element of this work. This concept defines life style as based on the free choice of individuals. I interrogate the relationship between direct discourse and style envisioned from a sociological point of view (a “vector” of style) or a linguistic perspective (a stylistic process). Moreover, I analyze “preformed” or “prefabricated” language structures whose use is deployed as a direct discourse from a stylistic process, for it is the speaker who can freely choose this mode of expression. This dissertation thus argues for a better understanding of language phenomena through sociology, in particular thatof life styles. The linguist contributes also to human understanding while being a speaker and social actor.

The aim of this study is to compare and contrast the use of hyperbole or exaggeration in spoken Czech and English language. The research is based on comparative approach to two samples accounting for 100 hyperbolic instances in Czech and 100 instances of hyperbole in English. The Czech sample has been randomly excerpted from the oral part of the Czech National Corpus ORAL2008, whereas the English sample has been randomly excerpted from the "spoken context-govern" and "spoken demographic" sections of The British National Corpus. The two samples are subject to analysis. Firstly, the formal realization of hyperbole is examined. Secondly, the occurrences are classified semantically (quantitative versus qualitative hyperbole) and, thirdly, the lexico-semantics is examined (hyperbolic source domains). By this, the present study tests the hypothesis of universal hyperbolic source domains by examining the situation in Czech and English. Finally, the occurrence of conventionalized instances of hyperbole as opposed to creative instances of hyperbolic nonce-usages is examined. Last but not least, it is the aim of this study to provide the overall frequency figures of hyperbole in both languages.

This diploma thesis Analysis of the Czech translation of Yuri Vynnychuk's collection of short stories Chachacha is devoted to the analysis of translation solutions of selected linguistic features in two short stories - Chachacha and Kulparkiv, aneb Chachacha 2. The goal of this work is to assess translation methods of Rita Kindlerová, describe its possible positives and negatives. Introductory chapters deal with the biography of Yuri Vynnychuk, his classification in a literal context, general characteristics of his work and consequently the stylistic analysis of two excerpted texts. An integral part of the work is definition of theoretical base for translatological analysis. Main parts of the work are focused on the analysis of translation of specific linguistic features, which are the stylistic dominants of selected texts: stylization of speech, style differentiation, phraseme and selected culture- specific items with an emphasis on proper nouns.

The subject of the present study is a comparison of two postmodifying constructions in noun phrases - finite relative adnominal clauses with the subject gap and nonfinite participial clauses - in spoken academic discourse: natural and social science. The comparison is based on the fact that both constructions realize the same clause element, i.e. a postmodifier in a noun phrase. The aim of the present study is thus to present major characteristics and functions of finite relative clauses and their reduced counterparts with respect to their distribution across the two subregisters of spoken academic discourse. The study is divided into three main parts: the theoretical background (Chapter 2) which defines the major characteristics and functions of the two postmodifying constructions and their mutual relationship, as are presented in the literature; the main part (Chapters 3 and 4) which provides the analysis of finite relative clauses and participial postmodifiers; and conclusion in Chapter 5.

Les récents progrès dans le domaine du traitement du langage ont apporté un intérêt significatif à la mise en oeuvre de systèmes de dialogue parlé. Ces derniers sont des interfaces utilisant le langage naturel comme medium d'interaction entre le système et l'utilisateur. Le module de gestion de dialogue choisit le moment auquel l'information qu'il choisit doit être échangée avec l'utilisateur. Ces dernières années, l'optimisation de dialogue parlé en utilisant l'apprentissage par renforcement est devenue la référence. Cependant, une grande partie des algorithmes utilisés nécessite une importante quantité de données pour être efficace. Pour gérer ce problème, des simulations d'utilisateurs ont été introduites. Cependant, ces modèles introduisent des erreurs. Par un choix judicieux d'algorithmes, la quantité de données d'entraînement peut être réduite et ainsi la modélisation de l'utilisateur évitée. Ces travaux concernent une partie des contributions présentées. L'autre partie des travaux consiste à proposer une modélisation à partir de données réelles des utilisateurs au moyen de l'apprentissage par renforcement inverse / Recent advancements in the area of spoken language processing and the wide acceptance of portable devices, have attracted signicant interest in spoken dialogue systems.These conversational systems are man-machine interfaces which use natural language (speech) as the medium of interaction.In order to conduct dialogues, computers must have the ability to decide when and what information has to be exchanged with the users. The dialogue management module is responsible to make these decisions so that the intended task (such as ticket booking or appointment scheduling) can be achieved.Thus learning a good strategy for dialogue management is a critical task.In recent years reinforcement learning-based dialogue management optimization has evolved to be the state-of-the-art. A majority of the algorithms used for this purpose needs vast amounts of training data.However, data generation in the dialogue domain is an expensive and time consuming process. In order to cope with this and also to evaluatethe learnt dialogue strategies, user modelling in dialogue systems was introduced. These models simulate real users in order to generate synthetic data.Being computational models, they introduce some degree of modelling errors. In spite of this, system designers are forced to employ user models due to the data requirement of conventional reinforcement learning algorithms can learn optimal dialogue strategies from limited amount of training data when compared to the conventional algorithms. As a consequence of this, user models are no longer required for the purpose of optimization, yet they continue to provide a fast and easy means for quantifying the quality of dialogue strategies. Since existing methods for user modelling are relatively less realistic compared to real user behaviors, the focus is shifted towards user modelling by means of inverse reinforcement learning. Using experimental results, the proposed method's ability to learn a computational models with real user like qualities is showcased as part of this work.

The aim of the present study was to explore teachers’ experiences of student anxiety in the subject of English in Swedish upper secondary schools. Five teachers were interviewed to find out about their experiences of what causes anxiety in their students and what strategies they have found work best in order to decrease speaking anxiety. The results showed that the anxious students are usually those with a high performance level and good English knowledge. All participants agreed that the reason for anxiety is that performing in speech is perceived as embarrassing. Students tend to see all speaking activities as tests of their knowledge and are afraid of what reactions they may receive. The most distinct way to identify anxiety turned out to spot students’ withdrawal from all speaking activities in English. The best strategy to reduce speaking anxiety according to all participants was careful formation of groups, since smaller groups with only the closest friends is the best way to work for these students. Interestingly, while all teachers mentioned the benefits of recordings and podcasts, only one teacher used this method exclusively instead of oral presentations. / Syftet med denna studie var att ta reda på lärares erfarenheter av elevers oro inför att tala engelska i svenska gymnasieskolor. Fem lärare intervjuades för att få reda på deras erfarenheter av vad det är som gör eleverna oroliga och vilka strategier som de har märkt fungerar bäst för att minska oron över att tala. Resultaten visade att de oroliga eleverna oftast är de som är högpresterande och har goda engelskakunskaper. Alla deltagare var överens om att anledningen till oron är att det uppfattas som pinsamt att tala. Elever ser alla muntliga övningar som prov på sina kunskaper och är oroliga över hur de andra ska reagera. Tydligaste sättet att identifiera oro visade sig vara att vara uppmärksam på undvikande-strategier från engelskaktiviteter. Den bästa strategin för att minska oron enligt alla lärare var att kontrollera hur grupperna formas, eftersom mindre grupper med bara de närmsta vännerna är det bästa sättet att jobba för dessa elever. Intressant var det även att se att, trots att alla lärare nämnde fördelar med att spela in muntliga diskussioner, var det bara en lärare som valt att använda sig av denna metod istället för muntliga redovisningar.

Tre women of color-poeters utgångspunkter och hur de orienterar, upplever och erfar sitt poesiskapande och framträdande är i fokus för denna studie. Intervjustudien har utgått från ett (queer)fenomenologiskt och intersektionellt perspektiv både i intervju- och analysmetod där jag utifrån en vidare tematisk analysstruktur identifierat tre olika teman presenterade i varsitt avsnitt. Det första handlar om hur poeterna introduceras till poesi och vändpunkten i identifikationen som poet. Jag tar avstamp i hur poeterna började skapa och framträda med poesi för att sedan förstå hur de orienterar sig i sitt skapande från dessa utgångs- eller nollpunkter. Klassbakgrunden blir här viktig för att förstå poeternas senare identifikationer som poeter som sker i mötet med skolans skrivundervisning. Skolan förstås här som ett orienteringsverktyg som skapar utrymme och riktar poeterna till framtida linjer längs vilka de mer seriöst ägnar sig åt poesiskapande och så småningom framträdande. Det andra temat utgår från kroppens relation till poesiskapande och framträdande. Genom främst queer- och vithetsfenomenologiska perspektiv utforskar jag poesiskapande och framträdande som levda erfarenheter utifrån de förkroppsligade poeternas upplevelser av världen och poesin genom kroppen. Centralt för kroppsliga upplevelser av världen blir vilka känslor som finns fastklibbade på dessa kroppar och i vilka intersektioner dessa befinner sig i. Poeterna marginaliseras bland annat könsmässigt, rasmässigt och sexuellt. Dessa marginaliseringar samverkar och går därmed inte att separera, och de positioner som blir tillgängliga för dem påverkar deras poesi. Under det tredje temat följer jag dessa kroppar in till de olika poesirum de bebor. Hur de bebor olika sammanhang och rum, hur de orienterar sig i dessa och kan förlänga sig i dem blir här mitt fokus. Det blir tydligt att poeternas olika marginaliseringar och de linjer de följer skapar hinder för dem att bekvämt förlänga sig i en majoritet av de poesisammanhang de rör sig i. Dock finns en subversiv potential i denna obekvämlighet som de alla tvingar sig ut i för att sätta saker i gungning och rörelse.

Esta Tese, intitulada Análise morfossintática das construções-Q no português falado em Cabo Verde (PCV), consiste na primeira descrição e análise morfossintática do grupo de construções denominada na literatura como construções-Wh e seus respectivos subgrupos construções relativas, interrogativas-Wh e construções clivadas no português falado em Cabo Verde (doravante PCV). A descrição e análise apresentadas são: (i) feitas a partir de um conjunto de corpora inéditos, coletados durante três trabalhos de campo, realizados de acordo com as técnicas da linguística de campo; e (ii) embasadas na Teoria da Gramática, sob a perspectiva minimalista de derivação por fases phases (CHOMSKY, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008). Os resultados obtidos corroboram a proposta inicial de que: (i) os falantes caboverdianos possuem diferentes graus de competência linguística em PCV. Esta variedade linguística ainda que não língua primeira dos caboverdianos, entra para vida destes, ainda que apenas nas competências auditiva e perceptiva, desde a primeira infância; (ii) o processo de educação formal desenvolve, posteriormente, as competências leitura e escrita, buscando aproximar a gramática do PCV da do Português Europeu, em um processo que gera resultados diferentes, a nível individual, dependendo do grau de uso do PCV pelo falante caboverdiano; (iii) a análise das construções-Wh corroboram o PCV como uma variedade autóctone da língua portuguesa em formação, em estreita relação de contato linguístico e cuja origem pode ser traçada como sendo concomitante ao crioulo caboverdiano (doravante CCV); (iv) nos aspectos gramaticais em que o PCV se diverge do PE, ainda que convergentes com o CCV, não podem ser tomadas, categoricamente, como casos de transferências do CCV para o PCV, pois tais fenômenos são observados também em outras variedades da língua portuguesa no mundo. Na parte de análise são apresentadas propostas derivacionais para as relativas, interrogativas-Wh e construções clivadas. No que diz respeito às clivadas, é feita uma proposta derivacional monoclausal, que consiste na reformulação da proposta apresentada por um grupo de pesquisadores que divergem da proposta tradicional que se vê na literatura para esse tipo de sentenças. / This Thesis, entitled \"Morphosyntactic analysis of the Wh-constructions in the Portuguese spoken in Cape Verde (PCV)\", consists of the first morphosyntactic description and analysis of a group of construction called Wh-construction in the literature and their subgroups relative constructions, Wh-interrogatives and cleft constructions in the Portuguese spoken in Cape Verde Islands (hereinafter PCV). The analysis and description presented are: (i) done from a set of an original group of corpora collected during three field works, carried out in accordance with the techniques of field linguistics; and (ii) based on Grammar Theory, under the minimalist perspective of derivation by phases - (Chomsky, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008). The results obtained corroborate the initial proposal that: (i) the Cape Verdean speakers present different degrees of linguistic competence in PCV. This linguistic variety, although not the first language of the Cape Verdeans, enters their lives, although only in the auditory and perceptive skills, from early childhood; (ii) the formal education process later develops the reading and writing skills, aiming to bring the grammar of the PCV closer to European Portuguese, in a process that generates different results at the individual level, depending on the degree of use of the PCV by the Cape Verdean speaker; (iii) The analysis of the Wh-constructions corroborate the PCV as an autochthonous variety of the Portuguese language in formation, in close relation of linguistic contact and whose origin can be traced as concomitant with that of the CCV; (iv) with regards to the grammatical aspects in which the PCV diverges from the Europiam Portuguese, although convergent with the CVC, cannot be taken categorically as cases of \'transfer\' from the CCV to the PCV, since such phenomena are also observed in other varieties of the Portuguese language in the world. In the part of analysis are presented derivational proposals for the relative, interrogatives-Wh and cleft constructions. With regard to the clefts, a derivational monoclausal proposal is made, which consists of the reformulation of the proposal presented by a group of researchers that diverge from the traditional proposal that is seen in the literature for this type of sentences.

O objetivo geral desta tese é fazer um estudo do léxico no município de Paranaguá-PR, propondo uma discussão sobre manutenção, tendência à manutenção, desuso e tendência ao desuso de lexias extraídas de fontes manuscritas setecentistas, datadas da mesma localidade. Para a realização deste estudo são utilizados, além dos documentos manuscritos digitalizados, dicionários da Língua Portuguesa e material oral. A base teórico-metodológica que norteia esta pesquisa é a da Dialetologia, mas aproxima-se também das utilizadas em pesquisas filológicas (edição de documentos), sociolinguísticas (pesquisa de campo e análise das lexias considerando células sociais) e lexicográficas (elaboração do glossário). Os objetivos específicos são: (i) traçar o panorama histórico da área estudada para auxiliar na compreensão dos aspectos socioculturais, (ii) fazer a edição semidiplomática, acompanhada da reprodução fac-similar dos documentos manuscritos, servindo de base para a caracterização do estado da língua setecentista; (iii) elaborar o glossário visando apresentar a definição dos itens lexicais selecionados com acepções e abonações extraídas do corpus escrito; (iv) investigar as lexias selecionadas por meio dos dados orais coletados com auxílio do questionário semânticolexical, adotando para a seleção dos informantes as variáveis sociais: faixa etária, sexo, naturalidade e grau de escolaridade; e, por fim, (v) verificar, a partir das lexias testadas, o grau de manutenção, tendência à manutenção, desuso e tendência ao desuso, em relação às acepções registradas nos documentos em questão. Tomando por base a análise do contexto de fala dos informantes de Paranaguá, constatou-se que há, no geral, a tendência ao desuso das lexias extraídas do corpus escrito, principalmente por parte dos informantes da primeira faixa etária. Em suma, espera-se que os resultados dessa pesquisa possam contribuir e, ao mesmo tempo, fornecer dados confiáveis aos estudos linguísticos sobre o estado de língua escrita no período setecentista e seus ecos na variedade portuguesa falada em Paranaguá e, por extensão, no Brasil. / The overall objective of this thesis is to study the lexicon in the city of Paranaguá-PR, proposing a discussion on maintenance, tendency to maintenance, disuse and tendency to disuse of lexicon extracted from eighteenth-century manuscript sources, dating from the same locality. For this study, in addition to scanned handwritten documents, dictionaries of Portuguese and oral material are used. The theoretical and methodological basis that guides this research is the Dialectology, but also the basis used in philological research (document editing), sociolinguistic research (field research and analysis of lexicon considering social cells) and lexicographic research (preparing the glossary) .The specific objectives are: (i) to trace the historical background of the study area to assist in understanding the socio-cultural aspects, (ii) to do the semi-diplomatic editing, followed by facsimile reproduction of the handwritten documents, providing the basis for characterizing the state of eighteenth-century language, (iii) to select the lexicon to be tested in the city of Paranaguá, and, from them, to prepare the glossary seeking to present the definition of lexical items with meanings and accreditations extracted from the written corpus , (iv) to collect oral data with the aid of a lexical-semantic questionnaire, adopting for the selection of informants the following social variables: age, sex, place of birth and education level, and finally (v) to verify, from the lexicon tested, the level of maintenance, tendency to maintenance, disuse and tendency to disuse, regarding the meanings recorded in the documents in question. Based on the analysis of the context of the speech of informants from Paranaguá, it was found that, in general, there is a tendency to disuse of lexicon extracted from the written corpus, especially by the informants from the first age group. In short, it is expected that the results of this research can contribute and, at the same time, provide reliable data for linguistic studies on the state of written language during the eighteenth century and its echoes on the Portuguese variety spoken in Paranaguá and, by extension, in Brazil.

Este trabalho analisa diacronicamente o parâmetro do sujeito nulo no português do Brasil, mediante a utilização de documentação jurídica - mais especificamente, os depoimentos prestados em processos e inquéritos policiais. Defendemos que esse tipo de documentação consiste em significativa representação da língua falada para épocas pretéritas. Após, verificamos o que os dados neles contidos poderiam informar a respeito do parâmetro do sujeito nulo no português do Brasil na época em que foram produzidos, ou seja, final do século XIX e meados do século XX. Limitamo-nos ao estudo do parâmetro em questão apenas em orações subordinadas, mais especificamente no que denominamos encadeamento de subordinadas, estrutura muito comum no tipo de documento por nós estudado até hoje. Tal estrutura consiste em um grande número de orações subordinadas ligadas a uma mesma oração principal por meio do conectivo que. Por exemplo, \"a testemunhai disse que não cvi sabe quanto a autora tinha no Banco Mauá, [...]; que o que ellai ouvio dizer pelo finado Cavalheiro [...]\" Inicialmente, comparamos tais dados com aqueles contidos em estudo diacrônico clássico sobre o assunto, da autoria de Duarte (1993). Também verificamos o que poderiam nos informar se submetidos às hipóteses formuladas por Barbosa, Duarte e Kato (2005). A análise dos dados permite concluir pela existência de um comportamento esperado para o período analisado, mas ao mesmo tempo contém nuances indicativas das transformações pelas quais viria a passar o estatuto do sujeito nulo no Brasil. / This work analyzes diachronically the pro-drop parameter in Brazilian Portuguese through statements given in a court of law or during police investigation. We believe that this kind of document shows past spoken language. After concluding that these statements can really be a source of spoken language, we extracted data to guide us through the situation of the pro -drop parameter in Brazilian Portuguese, at the time the statements were taken - end of 19th century/middle of 20th century. We only studied subordinate clauses, in a structure we call subordinate clause chain, which is very common in the type of document we chose until today. It consists in many subordinate clauses connected to the same matrix clause by que [that]. E. g., \"a testemunhai disse [the witness said] que não cvi sabe quanto a autora tinha no Banco Mauá, [...]; [that she doesn\'t know how much the complainant had in Mauá Bank,...] que o que ellai ouvio dizer pelo finado Cavalheiro [...]\" [that what she heard the dead Cavalheiro say...] We compared these data with those which supported a classical study in the subject by Duarte (1993). And we also checked what they could inform us if submitted to the hypotheses created by Barbosa, Duarte and Kato (2005). We concluded that the data extracted from the corpus behave just as it was expected for that period of time, but with slight indications of the changes that would occur ahead in time in Brazil.