Essays about: "Descriptive Linguistics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Descriptive Linguistics.

  1. 1. The “Magic Gathering” of Comprehension Devices : A diachronic systemic functional linguistics analysis of MTG game card texts

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Isabella Schiller; [2024]
    Keywords : Systemic Functional Linguistics; Magic: The Gathering; keywords; card text; action; process; mood; transitivity; comprehension;

    Abstract : This study investigates the diachronic shift of revised card texts in the tabletop collectible card game ‘Magic: The Gathering’.  The lexicogrammatical patterns found are compared to theories on comprehension and learning, and to the development of the game. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘NOTHING IS IN VAIN': Non-Standard Negation and Cyclical Change in Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Aron Zahran; [2023-10-31]
    Keywords : Engelska; Bantu; Morphosyntax; Historical Linguistics; Grammaticalization; Descriptive Linguistics; Typology; Negation; Possessive Predication; Locational Predication; Negative Existentials; Semantic Change;

    Abstract : This work concerns the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of an item bule in the under described Tanzanian Bantu languages, Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo. Through collection and analysis of field data, it is shown that the original adverbial element bule ‘for free, in vain, for no reason’ has developed a wide range of functions within the domain of non-standard negation. READ MORE

  4. 3. It’s no laughing matter! The changing use of the semicolon and its application in various genres

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Magnus Boström; [2023]
    Keywords : punctuation; semicolon; linguistics; prescriptivism; grammar; syntax; prosody;

    Abstract : The function of the semicolon has changed considerably since the 15th century, from primarily indicating the length of a pause, to providing syntactic information. According to prescriptive grammar, the semicolon is used to join independent clauses and to avoid complexity by separating items in a list. READ MORE

  5. 4. Intersemiotic Translation from Film to Audio Description: A cognitive semiotic approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Ida Stevia Krogh Diget; [2019]
    Keywords : cognitive semiotics; semiotics; intersemiotic translation; translation; linguistics; film; audio description; narratology; narratives; narrative levels; narrative structure; multimodality; multimodal narratives; polysemiotic communication; Visual Into Words; VIW project; VIW corpus; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Audiovisual content is heavily prevalent in many modern societies. Film, in particular, is a favourite form of entertainment to many. Film is by nature both multimodal and polysemiotic, employing the modalities of visual and auditive as well as the semiotic systems of language, gesture, depiction and music. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Use of Written Corrective Feedback. A Survey of Written Response from Teachers to ESL Students in English A-Course Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Åsa Lindqvist; [2012-02-03]
    Keywords : Written Corrective Feedback; ; Direct Feedback; Indirect Feedback; Student Writing; The Sociocultural Theory Zone of Proximal Development;

    Abstract : Teachers and the main body of researchers seem to be of the opinion that in order to learn as efficiently as possible we need to know when we fail and preferably how we can correct our errors; that we need to be given feedback to progress in our learning. Ideas such as these seem to originate in the Sociocultural Theory and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). READ MORE