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Chong, Foong Harn |
Children’s writing in English in the Singapore upper primary school: a case study of six 12-year-old students |
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Evripidou, Dimitris |
Lexical Borrowing: A Study of English Loanwords in the Greek Cypriot Dialect |
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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 |
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Humphreys, Joanne |
The Role of Questions and Answers in Doctor-Patient Interaction: a Study of Consultations Between a Consultant Oncologist and Three Cancer Patients |
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Robertson, Mary Anne |
How the Language of News Broadcasting is Shaped by Audience Design |
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Shiel, Richard |
Investigating the Relationship Between Simultaneous Speech and Gender: A Comparison of Two Same-Sex Groups of University Students |
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| 2004 |
Benham, Nicholas |
An investigation into the relationship between print advertising styles and target audiences |
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| 2004 |
Birch, John-Paul |
An analysis of the evolution of Tony Blair as prime minister |
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| 2004 |
Birchenall, Kate |
An investigation into how gender identitiies of women are constructed through cosmetics booklets |
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| 2004 |
Blackwell, Marie |
An investigation into the representation of male and female characters in the children's literaty fiction series 'Topsy and Tim' |
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| 2004 |
Blakeman, Adam |
An investigation of the language of internet chat rooms |
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| 2004 |
Boscott, Paula |
Individual differences in child language development: a study of the acquisition of English morphology |
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| 2004 |
Brennan, Jennifer |
Convergence and divergence: a study into the accents of two Dublin English speakers |
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| 2004 |
Crossley, Diane Louise |
An investiagion into the stereotypes held of the West Yoirkshire accent by Scouse speakers |
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| 2004 |
Cruickshank, Laura |
An investigation into women's use of swear-words and whether a male's presence alters this use |
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| 2004 |
Davey, Christina |
A comparative sign-language literature based study of the linguistic abilities shwn by both hearing babies and apes |
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| 2004 |
Davies, Robert |
A study of middle class Scouse usage in Bootle and Crosby across three generations |
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| 2004 |
Dickinson, Jayne |
How and why do 'academic' and 'non-academic' literary practices differ? |
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| 2004 |
Elliott, Lucy |
Analasing political broadcast interviews: investigating the evasive actions of Tony Blair |
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| 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? |
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| 2004 |
Hall, Stephanie |
Advertising to new women: a new concept? An exploration into the language of advertising in women's magazines |
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| 2004 |
Hames, Paul |
A corpus linguistics study into the attitudes of two newspapers towards the 2003 war in Iraq |
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| 2004 |
Hartley, Louise |
How do children respond to news broadcasts aimed at children in comparison to adult broadcasts? |
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| 2004 |
Holleywell, Keith |
A stylistic analysis of the use of thought presentation in Raymond Chandler's 'Farewell, my lovely' |
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| 2004 |
Kelly, Jennifer |
Language and Autism Spectrum Disorder: a case study for a 22-year-old females with autism |
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| 2004 |
Kennedy, Amie |
Teacher's attitudes towards phonics and whole-language methods of teaching literacy and their role within the NLS |
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| 2004 |
Laing, Victoria |
Miscommunication in mixed-sex conversation: differing interpretations of interruptions |
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| 2004 |
Lawson, Christopher |
The use of cognitive metaphor theory in W H Auden's 'As I walked out one evening' |
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| 2004 |
Moreton, Mark |
The lyrics and voice of British rock music |
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| 2004 |
Newton, Carol |
The effects of the twin environment on language acquisition |
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| 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? |
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| 2004 |
Robinson, Christopher |
Interruptions, turn-taking and their role in establishing power relations within an institutional setting |
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| 2004 |
Sahw, Claire Anne |
Investigating teaching styles and the language use in different contexts by the teaching profession in secondary schools |
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| 2004 |
Sutton, Alex |
How are women and men represented in Eastenders through the language they use? |
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| 2004 |
Taylor, James |
How swapping wives has helped impoliteness theory: a study in support of face attack theory |
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| 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 |
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| 2004 |
Walker, Brian |
An investigation into the linguistic features of the comic strip 'Judge Dredd' using corpus techniques |
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| 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 |
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| 2004 |
White, Helen |
A study of stereotypes about language and gender. Investigating the views of university students. |
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| 2004 |
Williams, Louise |
Does the accent Received Pronunciation hold any prestige in North Manchester? |
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| 2004 |
Woodward, Lorraine |
The supermarket storm: an investigation into an aspect of variation |
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