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The effects of data driven learning on Iranian EFL learners' writing skills development
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From language learners to dynamic meaning makers: a longitudinal investigation of Malaysian secondary school students’ development of English from text and corpus perspectives
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A contextualized approach to the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls containing Exodus
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Judgement and adjective complementation patterns in biographical discourse: a corpus study
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This thesis, drawing on insights from Appraisal Theory, Pattern Grammar and Corpus Linguistics, explores the association between grammar patterns and attitudinal meanings. Particular attention is paid to adjective complementation patterns and Judgement, i.e. the ethical evaluation of human behaviour and character. Using a corpus compiled of biographical discourse, this study addresses four research questions: 1) whether the current JUDGEMENT system is sufficiently comprehensive and systematic to deal with the Judgement resources identified in this corpus, 2) what insights a detailed scrutiny of adjective-in-pattern exemplars can offer into the description and characterisation of attitudinal resources, 3) how local grammars of evaluation can be developed with the help of grammar patterns, and 4) what local grammars of evaluation may be useful for. It is suggested that the original JUDGEMENT system should be refined so as to enable it to deal effectively with the Judgement resources found. Drawing on evidence from both personality psychology and corpus analysis, Emotivity is proposed as a new sub-type of Judgement to account for those resources which construe attitudes towards emotional types of personality traits. The examination of adjective-in-pattern exemplars in terms of Attitude shows that grammar patterns are of limited use in distinguishing types of attitudinal meanings but that grammar patterns are a very useful heuristic to investigate attitudinal resources. Further, it is demonstrated that grammar patterns are a good starting point for the construction of local grammars of evaluation, which is exemplified by the local grammar of Judgement developed in the current study. Lastly, it is argued that local grammars of evaluation, in theory, provide an alternative way to model attitudinal meanings, and in practice, offer some insights into the automation of appraisal analysis. Other related issues (e.g. local grammar analyses of some special cases, replicability of the methodology) are also discussed.
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P Philology. Linguistics
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URL: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6245/ http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6245/1/Su15PhD.pdf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6245/1.hassmallThumbnailVersion/Su15PhD.pdf
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The construction of meaning in the correspondence of Charles Darwin
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Women choosing silence: transformational practices and relational perspectives
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Corpus-based study of the use of English general extenders spoken by Japanese users of English across speaking proficiency levels and task types
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Revising Talmy’s typology of motion events in the light of Chinese
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Yang, Jie. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2015
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Studies of non-native language processing: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence, and the cognitive effects of non-balanced bilingualism
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Gaelic dialects present and past: a study of modern and medieval dialect relationships in the Gaelic languages
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Grasping the Divine: apprehension of Jesus in the Gospel of John
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Good Morning, Grade One. Language ideologies and multilingualism within primary education in rural Zambia.
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Legal histories and modern identities: the emergence of nationalisms in the historical territories of the Kingdom of Navarre, Basque Provinces and State of Spain
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Points of contact: a qualitative fieldwork study of relationships between journalists and Muslim sources in Glasgow
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Teachers' negotiations of inclusive practice in Nigerian classrooms
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‘If I just get one IELTS certificate, I can get anything’: an impact study of IELTS in Pakistan
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''Tighinn o'n Cridhe'' - 'coming from the centre': an ethnography of sensory metaphor on Scottish Gaelic communal aesthetics
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Bilingual life after school? Language use, ideologies and attitudes among Gaelic-medium educated adults
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Advertising greenness in China: a critical discourse analysis of the corporate online advertising discourse
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