Ph.D. Dissertations
Completed
- 2023. Wael Alghamdi (PhD Linguistics)
- Speech Acts of Complaint on Arabic Twitter: A Pragmatic and Corpus Analysis
- 2023. Meng Yang. (PhD. Linguistics)
- Semantico-pragmatic Aspects of the Metalinguistic Uses of Comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English
- 2022. Williams, Emily (PhD. Linguistics)
- Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English
- 2021. Alzahrani, Alhassan (PhD. Linguistics)
- Employing a Parallel Corpus-based Approach in Teaching Semantic Prosody and Collocational Behavior to Arabic EFL Learners
- 2020. Alluhaybi, Ibrahim. (PhD. Linguistics)
- The Place Deixis of Modern Standard Arabic: A Closer Look at the Dimensional System and the Factors that Control the Choice of Place Deictic Expressions
- 2019. Fleckenstein, Kristen (PhD. Linguistics)
- “‘Well I don’t like abortion’ ‘Well then don’t have one'”: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of discourse markers as stance markers in mediated abortion debate
- 2017. Browining, Darcey (PhD. Linguistics)
- #TwitterDiscourseMarkers: A Corpora-based Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Hashtags
- 2017. Allman, JungAe Lee (PhD. Linguistics)
- Empirical Examination of Two Diagnostics of Korean Unaccusativity
- 2015. Brown, Lynnelle Rhinier (PhD. Linguistics)
- A Corpus Study of Requests in Naturally Occurring Spoken American English: a Context Analysis Approach
- 2014. Mwamzandi, Mohamed (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights from Information Structure
- 2013. Kim, Sok-Hun (PhD. Linguistics)
- A Corpus-based Analysis of Discourse Anaphora in English and Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach.
- 2013. Voinov, Vitaly (PhD. Linguistics)
- Politeness Devices in the Tuvan Language.
- 2012. Rogers, Kim Larry (PhD. Linguistics)
- American Sign Language Verb Categories in Constructed Action.
- 2010. Dziugis, Mary Ann (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- Talking to Strangers: A Sociolinguistic Experiment in Initial Dyadic Interaction between Spanish-Speakers in 21st Century Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2010. Almubayei, Dalal S. (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- Articulations of Identity within Kuwaiti High School Cliques: Language Choices in Boyat and Emo Filipino Youth Groups.
- 2009. Zuercher, Ken (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- Azerbaijan-Russian Code-switching and Code-mixing: Form, Function, and Identity.
- 2009. Welch, Catharine Moore (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- The Emergence of Pragmatic Softeners by Instructed Learners of Spanish in the Study Abroad and Immersion Contexts.
- 2009. Liang, Szu-Yen Neal (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- The Acquisition of Chinese Classifier Systems by L2 Adult Learners.
- 2007. Fauzi, Sarah May (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- “Does Your Throat Hurt More in the Morning or Throughout the Day?” “Yes.”: Intercultural Medical Discourse.
- 2004. Btoosh, Mousa (Ph.D. Linguistics)
- Interlanguage Lexicology of Arab Students of English: A Computer Learner Corpus-Based Approach.
Ongoing
Carter, Natalie Raun
A Text Analysis of Threats
Edwards, David
Mohammadpanah, Hammed
Whitsett, Laurel
M.A. Theses
Completed
2009. McFadden, Presley. (MA TESOL)
Are We Speaking the Same Language?: The Use of the Mother Tongue by Native English Speaking Teachers in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms.
2005. Bailey, Frank. (MA TESOL)
Overseas Language Learning Experience: Student Beliefs about Their Teachers’ Qualifications.
2005. Walter, Kelly. (MA TESOL)
The Eritrean English Curriculum: Grades 2-6, Assessing Academic Readiness.
2004. Rauschuber, Brianna. (MA Linguistics)
Code-Switching in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals.
2002. Howard, David. (MA Linguistics)
Continuity and Given-New Status of Discourse Referents in Adzera Oral Narrative.