Items where Subject is "P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics"

2024

Ilchovska, Zlatomira Georgieva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6682-9952 (2024). Individual differences affecting the bilingual language switching abilities. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lu, Rickey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-0130 (2024). Perceptions of advice-giving on Reddit: a pragmatic investigation of moves and upvotes. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2023

Al-Busafi, Rahma (2023). Analyzing stance in parliamentary debates: a corpus-assisted study using the APPRAISAL Framework. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Appleton, Stephen Andrew (2023). Lexical change in the parliamentary contributions of UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers, 1989-2015: a corpus linguistic analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Armstead, Charlie (2023). Exploring the reception of foreign language music in the English-speaking world with the use of Digital Humanities techniques. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Borowski, Maciej (2023). Learning from use: an error-driven approach to Polish aspect. 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.

Chen, Yaru ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2368-3951 (2023). English translation of traditional Chinese Medical classic Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: a corpus-based pragmatic study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Croad, Grace Hannah (2023). Minoritized languages and access to justice in France: a case study of Breton and Western Armenian speakers. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Cunningham, Stuart (2023). How do participants in discussion groups co-construct knowledge? University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hama, Matthew (2023). Being Jewish in the Aramaic dead sea scrolls: Ancestral profiles of identity. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hill, Sharon Grigsby (2023). Linguistic analysis: the impact of African American Vernacular English on the work of non-deaf American sign language/English interpreters. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kasongo, Mukile (2023). Feminist translation Po-Sovetski: a mixed-methods study of the translation of francophone African women’s fiction into Russian in the late Soviet period. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Manley, Rachel Anna (2023). Gestures in the virtual environment: the use of deixis in Youtube gaming tutorials. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Manzini, Livia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7288-8470 (2023). The role of correct pronunciation and intonation in teaching Italian as a foreign language through blended learning: a guide to the core sounds of the Italian language for English native speakers. 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.

Vuksic, Valentina (2023). The (troubled) sonicity of the computational through sites of crosstalking. 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.

Zhang, Bingjun (2023). Exploring the interlocutor's impact on the communication strategy use of Chinese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2022

Al-Haadee, Ahsan (2022). An experimental study of iconicity in the Arabic vocabulary of the Qur’an. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Altoate, Ahmeda Mohammed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-8602 (2022). Spelling, noun phrase and verb phrase errors in the writing of Libyan learners of English: a corpus-based analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alzeer, Sarah N M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3710-2388 (2022). Toward a tool for evaluating corpus-based word list for use in English language teaching contexts. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Dilkes, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3307-3161 (2022). The social and psychological work of metaphor: a corpus linguistic investigation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Glaas, Sharon L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2148-8928 (2022). A corpus assisted discourse study of political and media discourse in the lead up to the Brexit referendum. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hussain, Neelam Shaheen (2022). Manuscripts & their readers: The Sirr al-Asrār & the career of a pseudo-aristotelian treatise. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Smith, Alexandra Margaret (2022). Facial colouring body language in Jane Austen. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Youlton, Emily (2022). How does radio talk influence young listeners’ perceptions? University of Birmingham. M.Res.

2021

Alfawzan, Mateb (2021). A critical study of EFL pre-service teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching of English: a Saudi Arabian perspective. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Caetano Álvarez, Elena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7369-7289 (2021). The empire past and present: discursive treatment of the Translatio Imperii in Alfonso X's Estoria de Espanna as a legitimisation of the Fecho del Imperio. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Grey, S. F. (2021). Communicating identity: the significance of epithets in Homers Odyssey. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Harun, Farah Nadia (2021). The representation of Saudi women in Al-Jazirah and BBC Arabic: corpus-based critical discourse analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hassan, Fuad Mire (2021). Multistage feature-assisted deep learning and its application in fine-grained fake news detection. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ismail, Muhammad Marwan Bin (2021). Aljazeera Arabic and BBC Arabic online news coverage of the 2011 Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt: critical discourse analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Persig, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6157-5807 (2021). The Vulgate text of the Catholic Epistles: its language, origin and relationship with the Vetus Latina. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2020

Choi, Wonkyung ORCID: https://orcid.org/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.

Clarke, Isobelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5541-6327 (2020). Linguistic variation across Twitter and Twitter trolling. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Collins, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/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.

Cóccaro, Mauro A. (2020). Why do they ask?: a discursive phonological study of interrogative forms in four video commentaries. University of Birmingham. Other

Elsherif, Mahmoud Medhat ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-3998 (2020). The comparative mechanisms of silent reading and reading aloud in people with dyslexia. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kyuseva, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7861-0568 (2020). Size and shape specifiers in Russian sign language: a morphological analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

McIlroy, Tara (2020). A study of university students in Japan: poetic engagement and English language learning. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Pearce, Kate (2020). Animal characters and characterisation in science fiction: A scientific contextualist stylistic approach. 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.

Roberts, Ellen Frances (2020). Where couldst thou words of such a compass find?: an investigation into Milton’s neologisms in the OED in relation to his contemporaries. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Sukaew, Thitima (2020). Linguistic and cultural oppositions in discourse about Thailand. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2019

Aldawsari, Hamad Abdullah H (2019). Translator style: an exploration of stylistic patterns in translations by Raymond Stock and Roger Allen of works of Naguib Mahfouz. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alharbi, Abdulrahman Mohammed (2019). Signalling nouns in corpora of learner and native speaker English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alqarni, Abdullah Saad (2019). Applying corpus pattern analysis to learner corpora: investigating the pedagogical potential of the pattern dictionary of English verbs. 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.

Brinsdon, Lauren (2019). Medieval textuality as a temporal lens: the Minnesota manuscript from the Estoria de Espanna. University of Birmingham. M.A.

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.

Ford, Samantha Annabelle (2019). The visual language of virtual product design: the semiotics of colour and shape in smartphone app icons. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Fringi, Evangelia (2019). The effects of child language development on the performance of automatic speech recognition. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Ileri, Nurcan (2019). Lexical phrases in research article and PhD thesis abstracts in applied linguistics and psychology. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ismael, Dunya (2019). Retro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power balance in the context of post-2003 Iraq. 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.

Rodrigues de Almeida, Lílian (2019). Task load modulation of tDCS effects on behavioural and neural correlates of phonological processing: a brain-state-dependent stimulation approach. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Schrijnders, Marlene (2019). From London to Leipzig and back: (Post-)Punk, ‘Endzeit’ and Gothic in the GDR. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sun, Weize Kristian (2019). Learning to read Chinese as a second language: building lexical representations in the initial stages of character learning. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Woodin, Greg Alexander (2019). Degrees of metaphoricity: a quantitative gesture analysis. University of Birmingham. M.A.

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.

2018

Al Fozan, Ibrahim Mohammed A (2018). An investigation of the strategies that Saudi university students use when writing in English and the linguistic challenges they encounter: a comparative and correlational study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alsubhi, Mai Salem (2018). How language and culture shape gesture in English, Arabic and second language speakers. 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.

Cronin, Marianne Eve (2018). 'Feck off!' Exploring the relationship between impoliteness, laughter and humour in the British-Irish sitcomes Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Fritz, Isabella (2018). How gesture and speech interact during production and comprehension. 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.

Kazeminava, Rokhsareh (2018). Reader responses of two different disciplinary groups of Saudi college-level students. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Langton, Karen (2018). The physicality of the pregnant female body: applying Benjamin Harshav's theory of integrational semantics to Psalm 139, Job and Isaiah 42:14. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lawrence, Sarah Catherine (2018). An exploration into the language of baptism and christening in the Church of England: a rite on the boundaries of the Church. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Lingle, William Alan (2018). Nominalizations, agentless passives and social actor mystification: newspaper editorials on the Greek financial crisis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Main, Timothy Peter (2018). A corpus-based study of the effects of collocation, phraseology, grammatical patterning, and register on semantic prosody. 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.

Pymm, Sarah Elizabeth (2018). L'Aventure humaine: spirituality, myth and power in the post-war travel narratives of Louise Weiss. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Saleh, Muman Helal Salem (2018). A model for assessing the framing of narratives in conflict interpreting: the case of Libya. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stroud, Robert (2018). A task-based language teaching approach to group discussions in Japanese university classrooms: an empirical study of goal-setting and feedback. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Tomei, Joseph George (2018). Using multimodal extended metaphor prompts to induce the production of figurative language in low-intermediate Japanese learners of English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Van Geyte, Els (2018). Persuasion in higher education: a comparative investigation of argumentational strategies in student and expert opinion essays. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zou, Yanli (2018). First person pronouns in academic discourse by novice writers in China. 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 Nafra, Nermeen (2017). Developing translators' skills: a diachronic case study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Al-Qahtani, Hanaa Ali (2017). 'We' and identity in political discourse: a case study of Hilary Clinton. 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.

Elgadal, Huda Amer (2017). The effect of self-assessment on inexperienced EFL students’ writing during revision. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hilliard, Amanda (2017). Using cognitive linguistics to teach metaphor and metonymy in an EFL and an ESL context. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hirata, Yoko (2017). Facilitating communication-oriented activities through data-driven learning. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Isham, Colin George (2017). Practitioner perspectives on bilingual pupils’ use and learning of their home language in English primary schools. 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.

McGlynn, Jade Selena (2017). Rewriting the past: how the Russian government and media framed the Ukraine crisis through the great patriotic war. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Nikoletou, Panagiota (2017). A ‘person-in-context relational’ approach to understanding students’ willingness to communicate in an additional language in higher education in Greece: only the tip of an iceberg. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Russell, Thurstan Steven (2017). Finding the formula: formulaic language use in Hong Kong primary school English textbooks. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Sillitoe, Catherine (2017). A new model for Romance verbal clitics. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Wheeler, Louise (2017). A linguistic ethnographic perspective on Kazakhstan’s trinity of languages: language ideologies and identities in a multilingual university community. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zhao, Lin (2017). The contribution of memory to common ground effects during language comprehension. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2016

AlAjaji, Eman Abdullah (2016). Self-representation in academic writing: a copus-based exploratory study of the College of Nursing students' academic writing. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alajaji, Nourah (2016). How medical students express their attitudes towards their reflective experience in teaching hospitals: A corpus-based approach to the analysis of evaluation in reflective reports. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Anderson, Clare Helen (2016). 'Public voices, private voices: an investigation of the discourses of age and gender and their impact on the self-identity of ageing women'. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Blazkova, Hana (2016). Generating word-of-mouth via organized business networks: the role of narrative and metaphor in 60-second self-marketing speeches. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Brannick, Peter James (2016). Bilingualism in Bolzano-Bozen: a nexus analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Glaas, Sharon Lesley (2016). A corpus-assisted study of British newspaper discourse on the European Union and a potential membership referendum. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Lyons, David J. (2016). Context and complexity: a longitudinal study of motivational dynamics among South Korean university students. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Mohamed, Muhidin Abdullahi (2016). Automatic text summarisation using linguistic knowledge-based semantics. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Moreton, Emma Louise (2016). The emigrant letter digitised: markup and analysis. 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.

Pearce, Katherine Louise (2016). Animal representation in nature documentaries narrated by David Attenborough, 1950s-2000s: a multimodal approach. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Pilkington, Olga A. (2016). Presented discourse analysis in popular science narratives of discovery. 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.

Robinson, David (2016). Local heroes? A critical discourse analysis of the motivations and ideologies underpinning community-based volunteering. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ross, Alexander Nicholas Barney (2016). The Falklands War and the media: popular and elite understandings of the conflict. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

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

Snape, Simon Oliver (2016). Moving beyond perceptually focused word learning strategies. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stavrou, Sotiroula (2016). Learning through translanguaging in an educational setting in Cyprus. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Wood, Jessica Susan (2016). Portraits of the artist: Dionysian creativity in selected works by Gabriele d’Annunzio and Thomas Mann. 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.

Yun, Soyoung (2016). A linguistic ethnographic study of young American novice teachers in Korea: a policy into practice. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Zhou, Beinan (2016). Behavioural and electrophysiological evidences for the effect of bilingualism on speakers’ cognitive control ability. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2015

Almeman, Khalid Abdulrahman (2015). Reducing out-of-vocabulary in morphology to improve the accuracy in Arabic dialects speech recognition. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ayers, Gael (2015). Tracing change in a micro activity system: an activity-based genre conceptual framework. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Bentham, Joanne Marie (2015). Developing written literacy in business education: using a randomised controlled trial to measure the impact of a writing intervention. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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.

Farsani, Danyal (2015). Making multi-modal mathematical meaning in multilingual classrooms. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Franklin, Emma (2015). Fresher perspectives: the transition to student life examined using LIWC and a keywords analysis. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

Li, Shuangling (2015). A corpus-based study of the high frequency nouns 'time' and 'thing': Investigating the role of phraseology in the construction of meaning in discourse. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Myskow, Gordon (2015). Evaluative language in history textbooks. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Orpin, Deborah (2015). Discussing science in the public sphere: a corpus-assisted study of web-based interaction concerning the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) triple vaccine. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Su, Hang (2015). Judgement and adjective complementation patterns in biographical discourse: a corpus study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Vajn, Dominik (2015). The construction of meaning in the correspondence of Charles Darwin. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

da Costa Cabral, Ildegrada (2015). Multilingual talk, classroom textbooks and language values: a linguistic ethnographic study in Timor-Leste. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2014

Adelakun, Tahir (2014). A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of election news in Nigerian newspapers. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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.

Chryssafidou, Evangelia (2014). Argument diagramming and planning cognition in argumentative writing. 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.

Ke, Yushan (2014). The phraseology of phrasal verbs in English: a corpus study of the language of Chinese learners and native English writers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Li, Sheng (2014). Improving the sentiment classification of stock tweets. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

McDonald, Cherelle Dione Almena (2014). Language and teaching in multilingual schools: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of primary school teachers' talk about their teaching practice in multilingual schools. University of Birmingham. Ap.Ed.&ChildPsy.D.

Normand, Miranda Jane (2014). A linguistic ethnography of an adult vocational class: constructing identities and mediating educational discourses. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Owen, Zoe (2014). The relationship between pragmatic language competence and school exclusion: an interactionist perspective. University of Birmingham. Ap.Ed.&ChildPsy.D.

Ramoo, Dinesh Kumar (2014). Syllable structure in the mental lexicon: neuropsychological and computational evidence. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Shen, Ao (2014). The selective use of gaze in automatic speech recognition. 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.

Smart, Cameron (2014). The role of discourse reflexivity in a linear description of grammar and discourse: the case of IMDb message boards. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Trklja, Aleksandar (2014). A corpus linguistics study of translation correspondences in English and German. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Adams, Rachel Lynette (2013). Politeness strategies in decision-making between GPs and patients. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hewett, Ruth Elizabeth (2013). Muslim girl’s aspirations: an exploration of teacher and pupil discourses. University of Birmingham. Ap.Ed.&ChildPsy.D.

Reichardt, Renate (2013). Valency sentence patterns and meaning interpretation: case study of the verb 'consider'. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Richardson, Peter (2013). A closer walk: a cognitive linguistic study of movement and proximity metaphors and their impact on certainty in Muslim and Christian language. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Wang, Fang (2013). A social constructionist analysis of the discourse of mental depression in British and Chinese news: a corpus-based study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2012

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.

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.

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.

Plappert, Gary Lee (2012). Phraseology and epistemology in scientific writing: a corpus-driven approach. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sakai, Makoto (2012). Multimodal crime news in Japan and the UK: a study of the interaction between news production and reception. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Smith, Imogen (2012). Interpreting Mrs Malaprop: Davidson and communication without conventions. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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.

Welsby, Alison Sarah (2012). A textual study of Family 1 in the Gospel of John. 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

Abdul Razak, Zainur Rijal (2011). Modern media Arabic: a study of word frequency in world affairs and sports sections in Arabic newspapers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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.

Cholewinski, Michael Gerard (2011). Authentic activity, perceived values and student engagement in an EFL composition course. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Comanducci, Carlo (2011). Metaphor and ideology in film. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Harris, Lara (2011). Generalised treatment effects after rehabilitation in patients with neuropsychological deficits: the role of cognitive models. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hassan, Shabina (2011). Preserving linguistic diversity: a critical analysis of the language debate in postcolonial societies. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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.

Huang, Xiaocong (2011). Stylistic approaches to literary translation: with particular reference to English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation. 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.

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.

Milner, Walter William (2011). Concept development in novice programmers learning Java. 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.

O'Mara, Timothy John (2011). An edition of the Middle English Pains of Sin from Cambridge, Magdelene College Library, Ms Pepys 2498. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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

Shih, Pei Chun (2011). Cross-linguistic transference of politeness phenomena. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

2010

Morris, Julia (2010). An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Price, Polly Louise (2010). A sociolinguistic study of language use and identity amongst Galician young adults. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Smith, Dominic N. A. (2010). A corpus-driven discourse analysis of transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme ‘Aló Presidente’. 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.

Wang, Yuanting (2010). Does Confucius’ 孝 (xiao) travel across time and languages. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

2009

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

Chimbutane, Feliciano Salvador (2009). The Purpose and Value of Bilingual Education: A Critical, Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Two Rural Primary Schools in Mozambique. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Connerty, Mary C. (2009). Variation in academic writing among Generation 1.5 learners, native English-speaking learners and ESL learners: the discoursal self of G1.5 student writers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hsieh, Shin-Chieh (2009). (Im)politeness in email communication: how English speakers and Chinese speakers negotiate meanings and develop intercultural (mis)understandings. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Isserlis, Simon Jonathon (2009). The language of the sea: a corpus driven examination of the influence of Britain's maritime tradition on standard English. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

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

Matsumoto, Yasuyo (2009). Investigating classroom dynamics in Japanese university EFL classrooms. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Vajn, Dominik (2009). Two-dimensional theory of style in translations: an investigation into the style of literary translations. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

2008

Kiernan, Patrick James (2008). Deconstructing narrative identity in English language teaching: an analysis of teacher interviews in Japanese and English. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kiernan, Patrick James (2008). Models of conversation and narrative: towards a pedagogical description. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Kiernan, Patrick James (2008). Paper 1: The myth of the native speaker and Paper 2: Linguistic imperialist or cultural ambassador? The native English teacher in Japan. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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

Moreton, Emma (2008). Restoring the history of the subaltern: a corpus-informed study of ‘The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave’. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.

Nassimi, Daoud Mohammad (2008). A thematic comparative review of some English translations of the Qur'an. 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.

Brewster, Stephanie Joyce (2007). Asymmetries of power and competence and implications for AAC: interaction between adults with severe learning disabilities and their care staff. University of Birmingham. Ed.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.

2004

Zhang, Li (2004). A syllable-based, pseudo-articulatory approach to speech recognition. 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.

Smith, Simon Graham Jeremy (2003). Predicting query types by prosodic analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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.

2000

Wong, Shun Ha Sylvia (2000). An investigation into the use of argument structure and lexical mapping theory for machine translation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1998

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

Ward, Jamie (1998). Lexical retrieval in spelling. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1991

Ravelli, Louise Jane (1991). Language from a dynamic perspective: models in general and grammar in particular. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1989

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

1986

Tsui, Amy Bik-May (1986). A linguistic description of utterances in conversation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1977

Montgomery, Martin (1977). Some aspects of discourse structure and cohesion in selected science lectures. University of Birmingham. M.A.

1974

Elliott, W.J. (1974). An examination of von Soden's Ib\(^1\)group of manuscripts (Acts & Catholic Epistles only). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1970

Westlake, John H.J. (1970). A Shakespeare grammar (Part 1). University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1969

Elliott, W.J. (1969). An examination of von Soden's Ib\(^2\)group of manuscripts. University of Birmingham. M.Res.

1968

Graham, J.B. (1968). El Conde de Sex (The Earl of Essex) by Antonio Coello y Ochoa - translated and edited with an introduction. University of Birmingham. M.A.

1949

Leslie, Leslie (1949). Studies in the language of the Lindisfarne gospels. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

1912

Kay, Laurence H. (1912). Lessing's knowledge and criticism of English Literature. University of Birmingham. M.A.