Essays about: "Intonation question"

Found 4 essays containing the words Intonation question.

  1. 1. Could this phrase be more constructional? : A Construction Grammar approach to the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase from the television show Friends

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Linn Nordlander; [2024]
    Keywords : construction grammar; information structure; CXBMY; SAI; constructions; rhetorical questions; parody;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase (CXBMY), well-known from the television show Friends, to argue for its qualification as a construction. By analyzing the phrase’s formal and functional features, as well as its frequency in the COCA corpus, this thesis compares the findings to the definition of constructions by Goldberg (2006, p. READ MORE

  3. 2. English pronunciation in Swedish Upper Secondary School Students : A qualitative study of Swedish students’ pronunciation tendencies

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Julia Flisberg; [2018]
    Keywords : pronunciation; swedish students; English; degree project; production; SLA; language learning;

    Abstract : Geographically, Sweden is significantly closer to England as opposed to America, two English speaking countries with two rather different varieties of the language. With regard to Britain’s history of colonization it could be assumed that British English (RP-variety) would be most frequently used globally. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sailors and Tentative Talk-a-lots. - A study of folk linguistic notions of gendered language in action films

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Marcus Midefelt; [2013-11-15]
    Keywords : Folk linguistic notion; Popular Culture; Feminism; Content Analysis; Gender; Film; Action; Genre; Protagonist; Swear; Tag question; Intonation question;

    Abstract : The relationship between reality and the media is a complex one; some say that media is the most important symbolic world for the shaping of our perception of reality while others argue that expecting the media to be representative of the real world may be potentially harmful for our understanding of this relationship. This study investigates this relationship by measuring the frequency of three folk linguistic notions of gendered language in action films. READ MORE

  5. 4. Intonation and sentence type interpretation in Greek : A production and perception approach

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Dimitrios Kotsifas; [2009]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the intonation patterns of Modern Greek with regard to different interpretations of the sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative). 14 utterances are produced by Greek native speakers (2 men and 2 women) so as to express various speech acts: STATEMENT, QUESTION, COMMAND and REQUEST. READ MORE