This dissertation explores interactions between Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and patients during both inpatient and outpatient visits. Through an analysis of interactional data coupled with ethnographic observations and ...

This is a primary study investigating the pedagogical approach of employing cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric (CCCR) comparisons in graduate-level ESL Writing Service Courses at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...

This dissertation argues that what are traditionally called lexical relations (antonymy, synonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, etc.) are not strictly part of linguistic knowledge. Instead, these semantic relations among words are ...

This thesis investigates how the informational status of words is expressed by means of intonation in two pitch accent languages, Tokyo Japanese and Bermeo Basuque, in which the tonal shape of words is lexically determined. ...

The present thesis is concerned with the interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion. Pragmatic inference refers to inferences that hearers or observers make when attempting to arrive at speaker meaning, a process ...

The Recovery Rules are not proposed to take the place of pragmatic information but intended to be an alternative theory for interpreting Chinese zero anaphors. They can be applied in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, ...

Very little has been said about the intonation system of Hindi and Indian English. This study aims to contribute to the field of intonation studies by bridging the gaps in the understanding of intonation patterns of Hindi ...

In this thesis, I defend Noam Chomsky's transformational account of "John is easy to please". Then, in the light of an analysis of "John is an easy man to please", based on the infinitival relative, I ...