Table of contents Abstract. 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions 1.2 Hypothesis 1.3 Methodology 2. Theoretical Background 2.1 Style and stylistics 2.2 Stylometry 2.3 Authors 2.3.1 E.A. Poe 2.3.2 H.P. Lovecraft 2.3.3 Poe’s influence on Lovecraft 3. Method 3.1 How was the data collected 3.2 How was the data analysed 4. Results and analysis 4.1 Analysis 4.2 Results 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendices 1. INTRODUCTION Horror stories have always been popular throughout our
part I’ll indulge into efforts that have been taken to minimise the effects and their limitations. Labov claims that ‘the aim of linguistic research in the community must be to find out how people talk when they are not being
looked in it, and said something in German. As a reflex, I dug in my pocket and produced a one-schilling coin and gave it to her. She smiled and handed me a five-schilling coin. In this example, his prior knowledge of the situation at a store - non-linguistic knowledge- helped him although he did not understand what the clerk had said and he was able to take action without speaking German. In another anectode (p.3) he states that
1.1 Introduction. I am going to research two popular coming of age films as part of my sociolinguistics assignment, and evaluate the different aspects of dialogue and language used to shape the characters, their backgrounds and social standings. I believe that language is a profound indicator of identity, and so by analyzing the dialogue used in these well known films I hope to be able to understand and attribute certain linguistic features to different social classes. I also wish to explore how
other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?". The operator says "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says "OK, now what?" (Laughlab, 2002, p. 4). The research by LaughLab attempts to quantify humoristic properties. However, the project does not show the linguistic workings of jokes that cause them to be funny to us. What factors enable people
interlocutors, which eventually helps in constructing a male identity for him that disputes the stereotyping of Korean American men as "passive, feminine and longing for whiteness". In both studies mentioned earlier, all of the subjects do not adopt their linguistic code to embrace of reject their own ethnic identity, but they are using the code to add new elements to their identities as members of young and urban community, rather than changing or rearranging the existing
“How male and female students use language differently” by Deborah Tannen Deborah Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research mainly focuses on the expression of interpersonal relationships in conversational interactions, including how these interactions are affected by gender and cultural differences. In her essay Tannen uses gender to reveal the differences between male and female conversational styles in classroom discussions
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude
one of the skills that need to be mastered in language learning and most people admit it is a difficult process even for their first language. In learning and writing in foreign language or second language it can only be more complicated. Numerous research indicate that for beginners in learning English Foreign Language (EFL), there were tendencies of interference from their first language in their process of writing in English (Benson, 2002 and Cedar, 2004). In fact, writing in English often presents
consciously or subconsciously. However, the practice of code-switching may not be an unconscious behavior as believed before as they may serve certain linguistics function with the objective of communicating the message across. There is not a universally-agreed definition of code-switching as they are broadly discussed and researched in branches of linguistics therefore this paper will be looking at it from the sociolinguistics perspective with regard to its usage in personal blogs. This paper will also