Browsing Theses by Subject "Linguistics."
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The Calcitriol Study A Randomised Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial to Test the Effects of Calcitriol in Steroid Resistant Asthma.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015)Background Over five million people in the UK are receiving treatment for asthma. Corticosteroids (steroids) are the mainstay of asthma therapy but some patients do not respond fully to steroid treatment, they are ... -
Carbon Management for Sustainable Development: An examination of potential transition paths for the Saudi Arabian ‘national system of innovation’ towards a cleaner energy economy
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013)Since the first industrial revolution, rising carbon emissions have caused harmful effects on our environment. There is a broad consensus that climate change is happening and that it is as a result of anthropogenic ... -
Language ideologies and discourses of national identity in Canadian newspapers: a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-02)The idea that Canada consists of “two solitudes” (MacLennan, 1945), according to which the two dominant (English and French) linguistic groups live in separate worlds with little interaction or communication, has also ... -
The Linguistic Construction of Epistemological Difference
(Queen Mary University of London, 2014-04)How are beliefs about the nature of knowledge reflected and reproduced in language use? It is clear that some linguistic resources, e.g. the modal verbs may and must, indicate one’s epistemic stance with respect to a ... -
The speech intelligibility of English learners of Spanish at Key Stage 4.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-04)This study offers an assessment of the non-native speech intelligibility of a group of English learners of Spanish at word level and in connected speech. Specifically, we aimed at analysing the impact of certain categories ...