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- Anglemark, Linnéa, 1973-
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Address Terms in Computer Mediated Communication: Email, Chat and Weblogs
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation focuses on the use of address phrases in three forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) in English. The aim of the study is to examine how people address each other in email, online chat and weblogs. The three forms of CMC included in the study represent different types of communicative situations online as regards synchronicity, speed of production, number of participants and permanency. The study also investigates how the use of address phrases varies between the three forms and in relation to usage in spoken and other forms of written English. For the purposes of the project, three corpora were collected, one for each form of CMC. The email corpus comprises business email from the United States, the chat corpus includes data from a range of different types of multi-person chat rooms, and the weblog corpus consists of text from a number of personal weblogs. I then investigated the lexical and syntactic characteristics and the pragmatic functions of the address phrases found in the corpora. In the email and weblogs material, I also examined gender-related differences in the use of address phrases. The results of the investigation show that CMC users employ different types of address phrases in different forms of CMC; first names and online nicknames dominated in the email and chat material, while the weblogs included a large number of common nouns as headwords in the address phrase. Address phrases are also used for different pragmatic purposes in different types of CMC.
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- Berglund, Ylva, 1964-
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Expressions of Future in Present-day English: A Corpus-based Approach
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This corpus-based study of the use of expressions of future in English has two aims: to examine how certain expressions of future are used in Present-day English, and to explore how electronic corpora can be exploited for linguistic study.The expressions focused on in this thesis are five auxiliary or semi-auxiliary verb phrases frequently discussed in studies of future reference in English: will, ’ll, shall, going to and gonna. The study examines the patterned ways in which the expressions are used in association with various linguistic and non-linguistic (or extra-linguistic) factors. The linguistic factors investigated are co-occurrence with particular words and co-occurrence with items of particular grammatical classes. The non-linguistic factors examined are medium (written vs. spoken), text category, speaker characteristics (age, sex, social class, etc.), region and time. The data for the study are exclusively drawn from computer-readable corpora of Present-day English. Corpus analyses are performed with automatic and interactive methods, and exploit both quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques.The study finds that the use of these expressions of future varies with a number of factors. Differences between spoken and written language are particularly prominent and usage also varies between different types of text, both within spoken and written corpora. Variation between groups of speakers is also attested. Although the linguistic co-occurrence patterns are similar to some degree, there are nonetheless differences in the collocational patterns in which the expressions are used.Methodological issues related to corpus-based studies in general are discussed in the light of the insights gained from this study of expressions of future.
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- Claridge, Claudia, et al.
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Non-standard language in earlier English
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Ingår i: Varieties of English in Writing. - Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. ; , s. 15-41
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- Grund, Peter, et al.
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Linguistic Introduction
- 2009
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Ingår i: Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. - Cambridge, New York, Melbourne etc. : Cambridge University Press. - 9780521661669 ; , s. 64--94
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- Grund, Peter, 1975-
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"Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite" : An Edition of Humfrey Lock's Treatise on Alchemy, with an Introduction, Explanatory Notes and Glossary
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation contains an edition of Humfrey Lock’s (fl. 1560–1570) treatise on alchemy, and includes an introduction to the edition, explanatory notes and a glossary. The edition presents the text of Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 1490, which was copied out and annotated in 1590 by Dr Simon Forman (1552–1611).Lock’s treatise primarily deals with the production of the philosophers’ stone or elixir, which was thought to transmute base metals into silver and gold, or heal bodily diseases and prolong life. In the introduction, I explore the sociohistorical background of Lock’s alchemical text and demonstrate that Lock compiled his treatise while he was in Russia, intending it as a gift to Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley. I also examine the large number of Latin and vernacular sources from which the text was compiled. The extant manuscripts of the text are described in detail and the textual relationships of the manuscripts are charted with the help of a database method which was devised for the purpose. Finally, various aspects of alchemical language are discussed, as are the linguistic features of the edited manuscript, MS Ashmole 1490.There is currently a lack of editions of alchemical writings in English. By providing a scholarly edition of Lock’s treatise, this dissertation represents a step towards remedying the situation. This edition also illustrates the strong position of alchemy in late 16th-century England, and provides new information on aspects of the vernacularisation of alchemical texts and the characteristics of alchemical language.
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- Kaatari, Henrik, 1982-
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Adjectives complemented by that- and to-clauses : Exploring semantico-syntactic relationships and genre variation
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present compilation thesis investigates adjectives complemented by that- and to-clauses. More specifically, the thesis is concerned with extraposed (e.g. it is likely that she will win and it is important to win) and post-predicate clauses (e.g. I’m sure that he’s alive and I’m glad to see you). The thesis is most fundamentally concerned with the study of linguistic variation. Thus the aim of the thesis is to explain why a certain construction is used in a given context.The data used in the studies comes from the British National Corpus (BNC). Study I proposes a semi-automated approach to variable patterns in corpus data. The study describes the creation of a computer program which has been designed to facilitate the extraction and coding of corpus data. In Study II, extraposed and post-predicate that- and to-clauses are contrasted in terms of their variation across genres, their lexical diversity and the meanings expressed by the adjectives most frequently found in each construction. Study III tests the applicability of the Complexity Principle and the Uniform Information Density Principle on adjectival data, by examining the variation between retaining and omitting the complementizer that across extraposed and post-predicate clauses. Study IV tests whether the syntactic status of I’m sure is similar to that of I think, i.e. whether it exhibits the same signs of grammaticalization.The results show that extraposed and post-predicate that-clauses are associated with similar meanings but differ in most other respects. Compared to post-predicate that-clauses, extraposed that-clauses are more frequent in formal genres, they are found with fewer instances of that-omission, and they are found to be more frequently represented in cognitively complex environments. Similarly, the results also show that extraposed and post-predicate to-clauses are associated with similar meanings, but differ in terms of their genre distribution. Instead, in terms of meaning, extraposed that- and to-clauses on the one hand, and post-predicate that- and to-clauses on the other, are similar to each other. The thesis highlights the importance of studying adjectival complementation in its own right, and not to treat it as subordinate to, or part of, verbal complementation.
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- Kytö, Merja, et al.
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19th-century English : An Age of Stability or a Period of Change?
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Ingår i: Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English. - Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang, Bern. - 3039108514 ; , s. 199–230-
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