LING201 - Linguistic Methodology

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Year
Author
Title
Downloadable documents
 
Chong, Foong Harn
Children’s writing in English in the Singapore upper primary school: a case study of six 12-year-old students
 
Evripidou, Dimitris
Lexical Borrowing: A Study of English Loanwords in the Greek Cypriot Dialect
  Hobson, Helen A Discussion of the Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in Baden-Powell’s 1919 Handbooks for Scouts and Guides using the Frameworks of Theo van Leeuwen, within the Tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis .pdf
  Humphreys, Joanne The Role of Questions and Answers in Doctor-Patient Interaction: a Study of Consultations Between a Consultant Oncologist and Three Cancer Patients .pdf
  Robertson, Mary Anne How the Language of News Broadcasting is Shaped by Audience Design .pdf
  Shiel, Richard Investigating the Relationship Between Simultaneous Speech and Gender: A Comparison of Two Same-Sex Groups of University Students .pdf
2004 Benham, Nicholas An investigation into the relationship between print advertising styles and target audiences .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 .xls: 17
2004 Birch, John-Paul An analysis of the evolution of Tony Blair as prime minister .doc
2004 Birchenall, Kate An investigation into how gender identitiies of women are constructed through cosmetics booklets .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6
2004 Blackwell, Marie An investigation into the representation of male and female characters in the children's literaty fiction series 'Topsy and Tim' .doc
2004 Blakeman, Adam An investigation of the language of internet chat rooms .doc
2004 Boscott, Paula Individual differences in child language development: a study of the acquisition of English morphology .doc
2004 Brennan, Jennifer Convergence and divergence: a study into the accents of two Dublin English speakers .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
2004 Crossley, Diane Louise An investiagion into the stereotypes held of the West Yoirkshire accent by Scouse speakers .doc: 1 2 3
2004 Cruickshank, Laura An investigation into women's use of swear-words and whether a male's presence alters this use .doc: 1 2
2004 Davey, Christina A comparative sign-language literature based study of the linguistic abilities shwn by both hearing babies and apes .doc: 1
2004 Davies, Robert A study of middle class Scouse usage in Bootle and Crosby across three generations .doc: 1
2004 Dickinson, Jayne How and why do 'academic' and 'non-academic' literary practices differ? .doc: 1
2004 Elliott, Lucy Analasing political broadcast interviews: investigating the evasive actions of Tony Blair .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2004 Hall, Katie An investigation focussing on language and behaviour of males and females in a secondary classroom. Do mlaes dominate, interrupt and use language inappropriately compared with females whilst engaging in group discussion? .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
2004 Hall, Stephanie Advertising to new women: a new concept? An exploration into the language of advertising in women's magazines .doc: 1 2 3 4
2004 Hames, Paul A corpus linguistics study into the attitudes of two newspapers towards the 2003 war in Iraq .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2004 Hartley, Louise How do children respond to news broadcasts aimed at children in comparison to adult broadcasts? .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
2004 Holleywell, Keith A stylistic analysis of the use of thought presentation in Raymond Chandler's 'Farewell, my lovely' .doc: 1
2004 Kelly, Jennifer Language and Autism Spectrum Disorder: a case study for a 22-year-old females with autism .doc: 1
2004 Kennedy, Amie Teacher's attitudes towards phonics and whole-language methods of teaching literacy and their role within the NLS .doc: 1
2004 Laing, Victoria Miscommunication in mixed-sex conversation: differing interpretations of interruptions .doc: 1 2 3 4
2004 Lawson, Christopher The use of cognitive metaphor theory in W H Auden's 'As I walked out one evening' .doc: 1
2004 Moreton, Mark The lyrics and voice of British rock music .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2004 Newton, Carol The effects of the twin environment on language acquisition .doc: 1
2004 Newton, Thomas How and why does the Pulp Fiction character ‘Jules’ use politeness/impoliteness, and what does this tell us about that character’s relationships and face threats, and the person that he is polite/impolite to? .doc: 1 2 3
2004 Robinson, Christopher Interruptions, turn-taking and their role in establishing power relations within an institutional setting .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2004 Sahw, Claire Anne Investigating teaching styles and the language use in different contexts by the teaching profession in secondary schools .wps: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 24 .xlr: 16 22 23
2004 Sutton, Alex How are women and men represented in Eastenders through the language they use? .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
2004 Taylor, James How swapping wives has helped impoliteness theory: a study in support of face attack theory .doc: 1 2
2004 Towl, Adam John Conversations at work: a study of workplace communication

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2004 Wade, Christopher A corpus based analysis into the lyrics of male Americal rap music

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2004 Wales, Claire A comparison of persuasive language in a collection of speeches concerning the 2003 war in Iraq .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
2004 Walker, Brian An investigation into the linguistic features of the comic strip 'Judge Dredd' using corpus techniques .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6
2004 Walker, Caithleen An analysis of the persuasive devices used in speeches from Churchill during the 2nd World War compared with those used in Tony Blair's speeches at the start of the war on Iraq .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2004 White, Helen A study of stereotypes about language and gender. Investigating the views of university students. .doc: 1
2004 Williams, Louise Does the accent Received Pronunciation hold any prestige in North Manchester? .doc: 1
2004 Woodward, Lorraine The supermarket storm: an investigation into an aspect of variation .doc: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 22 .xls: 19 20 21

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