Browsing Theses by Subject "Linguistics"
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Art and society: a consideration of the relations between aesthetic theories and social commitment with reference to Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde
(Queen Mary University of London, 1997)The chief purpose of this project is to discuss Katherine Mansfield's aesthetic ideas in connection with those of Oscar Wilde and fin de siècle Aestheticism. The proposed study will also analyse her Modernist technique ... -
Behaviour of GFRP rebars reinforced concrete elements under elevated temperature and fire
(Queen Mary University of London, 2003)In general, it is expected that concrete structures using Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) rebars as reinforcement could have improved durability compared to normal steel reinforcement because of the corrosion ... -
Can gender-fairness be established in language? An evaluation of the acceptance of language change in a German speech community
(2007)In 1980, the first German proposals for gender-fairness in language were published in Germany. They suggested many gender-fair alternatives to items such as the generic masculine, which were believed to convey androcentric ... -
Complaints in Thai and English: an interlanguage pragmatic study.
(2012)Carrying out the speech act of complaining in one‘s mother tongue might not require a great amount of effort. Nevertheless, it tends to be problematic when it comes to the case of second language learners. This study, ... -
The Devensian Lateglacial and early Flandrian stratigraphy of Southern Snowdonia, North Wales.
(Queen Mary University of London, 1994)The Devensian Lateglacial and early Flandrian stratigraphy of southern Snowdonia, North Wales has been examined using pollen analytical, radiocarbon dating and geomorphological mapping techniques. These techniques were ... -
Discourses of desire: the normative in online sex talk
(2011)This thesis, grounded in feminist sociology and queer theory, examines sex, sexuality, and desire in naturally occurring synchronous conversations within a non-sexually themed online community. Although the community is ... -
Hydrodynamic performance of HAMCTs in steady and unsteady flows
(Queen Mary University of London, 03/07/2019)The hydrodynamic performance of the common three-blades horizontal axis current turbine (HAMCT) is computationally investigated to seek paths of improvement. Two computational approaches are used, namely the Blade Element ... -
(In)flexibility in Adjective Ordering
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-02-24)The present thesis investigates adjective ordering across languages, with an emphasis on Greek and Cypriot Maronite Arabic (CMA). Cross-linguistically, attributive adjectives are argued to be ordered according to their ... -
Isolation of new genes involved in temperature synchronization of the circadian clock of Drosophila melanogaster
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)Circadian clocks regulate behaviour and physiology of many organisms and keep them in synchrony with the environment. Drosophila's circadian clock is mainly synchronized by natural light-dark cycles and temperature ... -
Language attitudes in Quebec: a contemporary perspective
(2009)Language attitudes studies are a central part of both sociolinguistics and social psychology, and Quebec, Canada’s only province with a francophone majority, has proved to be one of the most fascinating places for this ... -
Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2007)While not essential, the link between language and national identity is nevertheless often a highly important and salient one, a fact illustrated by the centrality of linguistic concerns in many nationalist discourses ... -
A linguistic study of Islamic religious discourse: conceptual metaphors in the prophetic tradition
(2011)This study examines the emergence of metaphorical language in the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and tradition. It principally argues that the selection of metaphors in the Prophetic discourse is chiefly governed by the ... -
Making music through real-time voice timbre analysis: machine learning and timbral control
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)People can achieve rich musical expression through vocal sound { see for example human beatboxing, which achieves a wide timbral variety through a range of extended techniques. Yet the vocal modality is under-exploited ... -
Male femininity in Thai among men who identify with non-normative male roles.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-03-24)This study investigates the construction and presentation of gender identity among men who identify with non-normative male roles in Thailand, including both kathoey - male-to-female transgenders - and gay men. Kathoey and ... -
Modernising Law Legislating for Technologies of Reproduction in Britain and Germany A Comparative Case Study
(Queen Mary University of London, 2002)The thesis compares the legislative decision-making in Germany and Britain with regard to 'new' reproductive technologies (most prominently 1W and embryo research). This entails the discourse analysis of legislative ... -
Moving together: the organisation of non-verbal cues during multiparty conversation
(Queen Mary University of London, 2011)Conversation is a collaborative activity. In face-to-face interactions interlocutors have mutual access to a shared space. This thesis aims to explore the shared space as a resource for coordinating conversation. As well ... -
Negating diversity: minorities and nationalism in Turkish law
(Queen Mary University of London, 2010)The management of diversity has been the chief dilemma of the Turkish state since the 19th century to the present day. This thesis explains, from a legal perspective, the ongoing dilemmas regarding the management of ... -
The Next Generation: Aspects of Grammatical Variation in the Speech of some London Preadolescents
(2007)This thesis is a sociolinguistic investigation into aspects of non-phonological variation in a group of preadolescents recorded in outer east London. Focusing on the analysis of selected grammatical variables, it aims ... -
Nominal Possession in Mandarin Chinese
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-10-21)The present thesis investigates possessive constructions in Mandarin Chinese (MC), with a focus on the peculiarities of the syntactic realisations of kinship, bodypart and property-denoting relationships. These can be ... -
THE ON-LINE PROCESSING AND ANTICIPATION BUILDING IN NATIVE MANDARIN SPEAKERS AND LATE DUTCH-MANDARIN LEARNERS
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-12-18)In order to explore late L2ers’ on-line processing of mass/count syntactic cues which are unique-to-L2 constructions and can only be acquired through implicit learning, a Visual World Paradigm experiment and a Reading for ...