Items where Subject is "P Language and Literature > PE English"

2023

Aljalal, Aren (2023). Using feminist translation theory to increase the compatibility of Saudi Arabia’s personal status judicial decisions with Article 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Callaghan, David James (2023). A corpus-based investigation into lexicogrammatical incongruity and its relation to irony. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Trivette, Emily R. M. (2023). The views of LGBTQ+ individuals on LGBTQ+ representation in UK and US television media. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Woodin, Greg ORCID: 0000-0001-7992-4991 (2023). Interfaces between language and cognition: metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Xie, Fei (2023). Implementing learner corpora in EAP materials design: Chinese L1 students’ understanding of the use of epistemic lexical verbs in academic written English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2022

Harvey, Gemma (2022). Animating evaluation: A multimodal appraisal analysis of story-time animation. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Kaur, Kiranpreet ORCID: 0000-0003-3629-4242 (2022). African - Not African: Negotiating Textual Identities in Colonial- Era Travel Writing about Congo (1870-1950). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Millard, Hannah Katherine (2022). The signficance of the wyrm in Early Medieval England. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Oswald-Trefz, Susanne (2022). The effects of internal and external factors on the non-standard usages of English by the emerging workforce of Central Switzerland: a spoken corpus study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2021

Aljabhan, Mohammad (2021). The representation of foreign workers in Saudi English online newspapers: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Diver, Robin Sarah (2021). ‘Wonderful stories for kids’: sexual violence in anthologies of Greek myth for children. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Jeffery, Elizabeth Mary ORCID: 0000-0001-8378-9892 (2021). Minority Shakespeare: a cultural study of translation and performance in Welsh, Euskara, and Te Reo Māori. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nasseri, Maryam ORCID: 0000-0003-4421-2518 (2021). Statistical modelling of lexical and syntactic complexity of postgraduate academic writing: a genre and corpus-based study of EFL,ESL, and English L1 M.A. dissertations. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Peppard, Jason (2021). The lexical syllabus and English language coursebooks: a corpus-based case study of the highly frequent word 'like'. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Vetri, Valentina (2021). Translation as dissent and as self-representation in the works of Beppe Fenoglio. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2020

Bingham, Richard William (2020). Digital natives: imagining the millennial in contemporary fiction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Choi, Wonkyung ORCID: 0000-0001-6250-4157 (2020). A corpus-based error analysis of Korean learner English: from a cognitive linguistic perspective to the L2 mental lexicon. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Collins, Matthew ORCID: 0000-0002-9636-1980 (2020). The Hoole book: a literary-linguistic study of cohesion and coherence in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Delmas, Melina (2020). (S)mothered in translation? (Re)translating the female Bildungsroman in the twentieth century in English and French. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ghio, Ivan (2020). The division of deontic labour in the discourse of HIV/AIDS post-1996. A critical discourse analysis of necessity and obligation in the British press and interviews with gay men with HIV. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Greene, Rob (2020). The poetry school of experience. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hyde, Andrew P (2020). An epic redemption: Re-reading some aberrant eleventh- century bodies. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lockwood, David (2020). Kafka in England: a study of Kafka’s influence on selected novels by Rex Warner, Kazuo Ishiguro and W G Sebald. University of Birmingham. M.Litt.

Nickalls, Richard (2020). How definite are we about the English article system? Chinese learners, L1 interference and the teaching of articles in English for academic purposes programmes. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Quinn, Cynthia Crosby (2020). L2 writers referencing corpora to address accuracy: a qualitative analysis of learners' lexicogrammatical error corrections. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2019

Alomaim, Thamir Issa M (2019). Language education policy and language practices in teaching English as a foreign language in a Saudi newly established university: an interpretive case study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alsubhi, Waleed Obaidallah (2019). A cognitive-pragmatic model for translating intertextual metaphors: a study of translating Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s historical-political trilogy into English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Atonde, Terkimbi Felix (2019). The discourse of fundraising in UK universities: a critical discourse analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Collins, Daisy (2019). Investigating lexical priming using eye tracking data – some “glad news". University of Birmingham. M.A.

Cresswell, Anna Elizabeth (2019). 21st century language policy in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Ierace, Gaia (2019). Evaluative rhetorical strategies in the broadsheet review genre: the case of four British broadsheets. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Jones, Philip Ward (2019). Reading Dr. Johnson: reception and representation (1750–1960). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lacey, Catherine Vivien (2019). New times for ESOL in Further and Adult Education. A study of ESOL teachers’ accounts of the changes in their working lives. University of Birmingham. Ed.D.

Muguiro, Natalia F. (2019). Interdisciplinarity and academic writing: a corpus-based case study of three interdisciplines. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nausa, Ricardo (2019). The language of oral presentations given by PhD researchers in an EAP class: level of performance and disciplinary differences. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Othman, Waleed Ahmad Fayiz (2019). An SFL-based model for investigating explicitation-related phenomena in translation: two case studies of English–Arabic translation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Puengpipattrakul, Walaipun (2019). The influence of review strategies on students’ English-language writing performance in a first-year university undergraduate Thai EFL writing context. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Reid, Samuel Vincent (2019). Linguistic representations of agency in discourse on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sevigny, Paul Gregory ORCID: 0000-0002-7812-4834 (2019). Designing L2 literature circle discussion: tools for teachers and researchers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Wiegand, Viola ORCID: 0000-0001-6746-6620 (2019). A corpus linguistic approach to meaning-making patterns in surveillance discourse. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Yonos, Eman (2019). A comparative analysis of lexical cohesion in native and non-native speaker writing: text linguistics and corpus perspectives. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zhao, Ning (2019). English-language abstracts in finance and accounting journals: a corpus-based comparison of international and Chinese L1 writers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2018

Alduhaim, Asmaa (2018). Multimodal translation analysis: Arab Spring speeches in Arabic and English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Birdsell, Brian Jon (2018). Creative metaphor production in a first and second language and the role of creativity. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Brown, Howard Gordon (2018). Getting started with English-medium instruction in Japan: key factors in program planning and implementation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Clake, Jenna (2018). "A noisy situation": the Feminine and Feminist New Absurd in twenty-first-century British and American poetry and Send Shells. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Fritz, Isabella (2018). How gesture and speech interact during production and comprehension. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Grossman, Barry Hale (2018). Metaphorically-construed self-awareness in reflexive constructions. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Heritage, Frazer (2018). "When they go low, you go high": a metaphor and metonomy-led analysis of the second American presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Jaihow, Patson (2018). Corpus use by student writers: error correction by Thai learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Mustafa, Balsam Aone Mustafa (2018). Translating 'Islamic State': multimodal narratives across national and media boundaries. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Wynter, Jerome Samuel (2018). The antislavery and anti-imperialist poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zou, Yanli (2018). First person pronouns in academic discourse by novice writers in China. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

van Driel, Martine Alexandra (2018). Online news reporting: A comparative textual analysis of hard news live blogs and traditional online news articles and a reader response analysis using appraisal. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2017

Abdulmajeed, Haveen Muhamad (2017). An integrated approach to achievement: measuring the development of writing skills in Kurdish learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Al-Qahtani, Nayilah Mesfer (2017). The role of morphological structure during word reading in Arabic-English bilinguals: effects of bilingual profile. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bennett, Phillip James (2017). The effects of raising learners' awareness of metaphorical vocabulary on written production in the content-based classroom. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Cubas-Peña, Rebeca (2017). ‘Every practitioner his own compiler’: practitioners and the compilation of Middle English medical books, with special reference to York Minster Library, XVI E. 32. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Harrill, Claire Louise (2017). Politics and sainthood: literary representations of St Margaret of Scotland in England and Scotland from the eleventh to the fifteenth century. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Issitt, Stephen (2017). Evaluating the impact of a Presessional English for Academic Purposes Programme: a corpus based study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

New, Rachel (2017). Half: a novel and the corresponding thesis: between memoir and fiction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Razon, Abigail R. (2017). An automated learner-based reading ability estimation strategy using concept indexing with integrated Part-of-Speech n-gram features. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Smith, Phillip (2017). Sentiment analysis of patient feedback. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tahara, Nobuko (2017). The use of shell nouns in Japanese and American student writing. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2016

Adachi, Mami (2016). Nuns and nunneries in the cultural memory of early modern English drama. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Aljasir, Noaf (2016). Individual differences among Saudi learners of English as a foreign language: an exploratory correlational study of learning styles, affective factors and English proficiency and performance. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Garcia Ponce, Edgar Emmanuell (2016). An analysis of interactions in English as a foreign language classrooms in Mexico: implications of classroom behaviour and beliefs for speaking practice. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Oakley, Lee John (2016). An investigation into the representations of sexuality in sex education manuals for British teenagers, 1950-2014. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ramonda, Kris (2016). The role of semantic transparency and metaphorical elaboration through pictures for learning idioms in a second language. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Saaty, Rawan (2016). Teaching L2 metaphor through awareness-raising activities: experimental studies with Saudi EFL learners. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Yue, Zhen (2016). Exploring Chinese university EFL learners’ l2 willingness to communicate in action: understanding the interplay of self-concept, WTC and sociocultural context through the lens of complexity theory. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2015

Chau, Meng Huat (2015). From language learners to dynamic meaning makers: a longitudinal investigation of Malaysian secondary school students’ development of English from text and corpus perspectives. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Gilbert, Kerry (2015). Letter-writing theory in the literary scene: Angel Day, The English Secretary, and authorship in early modern England. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Krucon, Eliza Olga (2015). Unwomanly women, unmanly men and disintegrating nations in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stefan Grabiński's In Sarah's House and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's The Family Of The Vourdalak. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Mao, Zhongwan (2015). Intertextuality in institutional talks – A corpus--assisted study of interactions between spokespersons and journalists. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

McKague, Cathleen Meghan (2015). ‘[A]n hermaphrodite—two parts in one’: the androgynous as grotesque and divine in Jonson, Marston, and Shakespeare. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Roads, Judith (2015). The distinctiveness of Quaker prose, 1650-1699: a corpus-based enquiry. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sepehri, Mehrdad (2015). The effects of data driven learning on Iranian EFL learners' writing skills development. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Vincent, Benet Donald (2015). Modality and the V wh pattern. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2014

Al Makoshi, Manal A. (2014). Discourse markers and code-switching: academic medical lectures in Saudi Arabia using English as the medium of instruction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Choi, Seunghee (2014). Cross-cultural job interview communication in business English as a lingua franca (BELF) contexts: a corpus-based comparative study of multicultural job interview communications in world maritime industry. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kamarudin, Rafidah (2014). A study on the use of phrasal verbs by Malaysian learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kawamura, Akihiko (2014). How a compromise can be reached between theoretical pragmatics and practical lexicography and An empirical study towards the better treatment of pragmatics in EFL lexicography: comparing the appreciation of pragmatic failures in Japanese learners of English and English native speakers and Pragmatics and lexicography, with particular reference to politeness and Japanese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kheovichai, Baramee (2014). Marketization in the language of UK university recruitment: a critical discourse analysis and corpus comparison of university and finance industry job advertisements. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Salter, Layla (2014). D.H. Lawrence and fictional representations of blood-consciousness. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Simmons, Amy Louise (2014). Critically evaluating recent models of disability with reference to d/Deaf Signers’ concert experiences. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Turner, Sarah Lucy (2014). The development of metaphoric competence in French and Japanese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Yaakob, Salmah Binti (2014). A genre analysis and corpus based study of university lecture introductions. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2013

Doh, In-Hwan (2013). Dramatic representation of the poor in the age of Shakespeare. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Oakley, Lee John (2013). Strategies of legitimation in sex education texts. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

2012

Aftab, Asma (2012). English language textbooks evaluation in Pakistan. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Asker, Adel (2012). Future self-guides and language learning engagement of English-major secondary school students in Libya: Understanding the interplay between possible selves and the L2 learning situation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hadley, Gregory Stuart (2012). Blended EAP professionals in corporatized higher educational institutions: a critical grounded theory. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hirata, Eri (2012). An investigation into the potential of a corpus-influenced syllabus for primary English literacy education in Japan. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hunter, James Duncan (2012). A multi-method investigation of the effectiveness and utility of delayed corrective feedback in second-language oral production. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kurdali, Bader (2012). Across-disciplinary variations in the writing of EFL students at university level: a systemic functional perspective. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lin, Ming Huei (2012). Blog assisted language learning in the EFL writing classroom: an empirical study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lohrová, Helena (2012). Internal meetings: the process of decision-making in workplace discourse. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Moser, Jason (2012). Module 1: A proposal for exploratory research into classroom situated task repetition, Module 2: An exploratory research study into classroom-based task repetition and Module 3: A classroom-based, mixed methods study into the influence of transcribing, reporting, and task repetition: how do they impact in-class student spoken task performances. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Okazaki, Makiko (2012). An investigation into the relationship between learner autonomy support and student motivation in the Japanese university setting. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ong, Teresa Wai See (2012). Prevent and stop complementation clauses: a corpus-based investigation of 19th, 20th and 21st century American English. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Picardo, Edward Nicholas (2012). The war and siege: language policy and practice in Gibraltar, 1940-1985. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Storm, Marjolijn (2012). Agatha Christie's 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles': a case study in Dutch and German translation cultures using corpus linguistic tools. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zhang, Feifei (2012). A comparative study of wh-words in Chinese EFL textbooks, elicited native and non-native speaker data and written native and non-native speaker corpora. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2011

Bennett, Gena R. (2011). A staircase model for teaching grammar for EAP writing in the IEP: freshman composition and the noun phrase. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Bennett, Joe (2011). A critical social semiotic study of the word chav in British written public discourse, 2004-8. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Blackwell, James Walter (2011). The text compositional architecture of university lectures: an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Chow, Mei Yung Vanliza (2011). A comparative study of the metaphor used in the economic news articles in Britain and Hong Kong. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Fanton, Giovanni (2011). Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Goss, John Christopher (2011). A radical novelist in Eighteenth Century England: Robert Bage on poverty, slavery and women. University of Birmingham. M.Litt.

Huang, Lan Fen (2011). Discourse markers in spoken English: a corpus study of native speakers and Chinese non-native speakers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hurst, Emily Suzanne (2011). Re-assessing audiences: how and why do women consume pornography in contemporary Britain? University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Kamakura, Yoshihito (2011). Collocation and preposition sense: a phraseological approach to the cognition of polysemy. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Malik, Junaid Jalal (2011). Composing in English: a study of the effects of L1 or L2 planning and topic choice by Japanese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Mullender, Jacqueline E. (2011). Shakespeare’s late syntax: a comparative analysis of which relativisation in the dramatic works. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nishina, Yasunori (2011). Evaluative meanings and disciplinary values: a corpus-based study of adjective patterns in research articles in applied linguistics and business studies. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Shapero, Jess Jann (2011). The language of suicide notes. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tatsumoto, Mika (2011). Perceived effects of peer cooperation on motivation in the Japanese university EFL classroom. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Young, David John (2011). The Gloss and glossing: William Langland's Biblical hermeneutic. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2010

Kent, Sayan (2010). The strangeness of caged animals. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Kondo, Fumiko (2010). Rethinking translation unit size: an empirical study of an English-Japanese newswire corpus. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Macmillan, Sarah M. (2010). Asceticism in late-medieval religious writing: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nathan, Philip Bernard (2010). A genre-based study of pedagogical business case reports. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Rontou, Maria (2010). Provision for students with dyslexia in EFL: an ethnographic case study. University of Birmingham. Ed.D.

Spedding, Alison Jane (2010). 'My Testament in Englisshe Tonge': A study in the use of the vernacular in medieval wills. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Trevor, Wendy Ellen (2010). Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tso, Wing Bo (2010). A comparative study of gender representations in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and its Chinese translation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2009

Bang, Minhee (2009). Representation of foreign countries in the US press : a corpus study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Campion Hoye, Jane (2009). "The Pact" (formerly known as "Field of Knives") and accompanying critical analysis. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Cheung, Mei Ling Lisa (2009). Merging corpus linguistics and collaborative knowledge construction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Jullian, Paula M (2009). An exploration of strategies to convey evaluation in the "NoteBook" texts. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tagg, Caroline (2009). A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ward, Mary Elizabeth (2009). Words for wood: the lexis of trees in Old English poetry. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

2008

Matsira, Maria (2008). Extracting terms from an English-Greek popular science parallel corpus for translation teaching purposes. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Robarts, Leslie Michael Martyn (2008). A bibliographical and textual study of the wordbooks for James Miller's Joseph and his brethren and Thomas Broughton's Hercules, oratorio librettos set to music by George Frideric Handel, 1743-44. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2007

Blackwell, Susan (2007). Power and solidarity revisited: the acquisition and use of personal pronouns in modern English and Dutch. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2006

Guo, Xiaotian (2006). Verbs in the written English of Chinese learners : a corpus-based comparison between non-native speakers and native speakers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Mason, Oliver Jan (2006). The automatic extraction of linguistic information from text corpora. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Wang, Weiqun (2006). A corpus-driven study on translation units in an English-Chinese parallel corpus. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

2005

Rock, Frances Eileen (2005). Recontextualistion in the police station. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2003

Bang, Minhee (2003). A corpus based study of representation of foreign countries in the South Korean Press. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

2002

Sales, Hazel Eneida (2002). Engineering texts: a study of a community of aerospace engineers, their writing practices, and technical proposals. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1998

Deignan, Alice (1998). A corpus-based study of some linguistic features of metaphor. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1989

Hunston 1953-, Susan (1989). Evaluation in experimental research articles. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1981

Willis, Jane (1981). Spoken discourse in the E.L.T. classroom : a system of analysis and a description. University of Birmingham. M.A.

1937

Duncan-Jones, Austin E (1937). Ethical language: an examination of the use and meaning of ethical expressions. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1913

Barnes, Eliza Mary Ann (1913). The reflection of contemporary religious thought in the essays of the 18th century. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Douglas, Malcolm Bryce (1913). The rise of metaphysical poetry in England. University of Birmingham. M.A.

1912

Baggs , Thomas A. (1912). The rise and progress of euphism in English literature. University of Birmingham. M.Res.