Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Talking about space : the Spatial Reference System of Irish English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis has three central goals. The first is to establish a system for how people used to talk about space in previous studies of Irish English. This Is done through constructing a Spatial Reference System from extant ... -
Vocal correlates of affective states
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis explores the mapping of voice quality to affect. Three studies have been conducted. The principal study of this thesis is a cross-language study, aimed at clarifying how variations in voice quality (in synthesised ... -
Language development in extra-territorial languages : terms of address in Colombian Spanish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This study investigates the use of terms of address in extra-territorial languages and determines how terms of address function in language to encode relationships. In addition, this study examines how the relationship ... -
Multilingualism in Dublin
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Relationships between identity and attitudes to the achievement of native speaker norms in adult L2 learners of Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)This study examines how attitude, motivation and identity in adult learners of Irish are related to awareness of and commitment to different dialects and varieties of the language as learning targets. Specifically, it is ... -
How can socially-situated practices help adult migrant language learners in Ireland make meaning of their lived experiences and forge stronger English language identities? : a narrative inquiry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis examines the post-migratory lived language learning and socialization experiences of adult migrant learners of English who are members of an intercultural drop-in centre in Ireland. It proposes the use of ... -
A Review of Literature and International Practice on National and Voluntary Registers for Sign Language Interpreters
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Aspects of verbal valency in Irish Sign Language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2002)The principle aim of this thesis is the identification of some aspects of verbal valency patterns for Irish Sign Language (ISL). The data drawn on for this study came from a variety of sources, including authentic data ... -
The role of language policy in the revitalizaton of Occitan : a comparative analysis of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This thesis aims to investigate language revitalization in terms of policy and planning in Occitan France. It comprises three main research questions. The first of these questions addresses the effectiveness of regional ... -
A formula for fluency? : an investigation into the effect of instruction in formulaic sequences on oral fluency in Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a programme of instruction on oral fluency in Irish. The programme design was informed by a focus on formulaic language and by the use of procedures designed ... -
An investigation of the relationship between the development of bilingual semantic organisation and interactive connectivity across languages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)This thesis explores the eorrelation between second language (L2) semantic development and interactive semantic connectivity across languages. Given that bilinguals’ lexical access is language-non-selective at the initial ... -
Multi-dialect phonetisation for Irish text-to-speech synthesis : a modular approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis describes the development of a modular multi-dialect phonetiser for the Irish language. Phonetisation (or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion), the process in which ordinary text is converted into a transcription ... -
The common European framework and the European language portfolio in Taiwan's third-level English language education : a longitudinal empirical evaluation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)This thesis is a longitudinal examination of how the introduction of the Council of Europe’s European Language Portfolio (ELP) has affected English language learning and teaching in a third-level institute in Taiwan. It ... -
Segmental and intonational analysis of Drogheda English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This study is concerned with describing the variety of English used in Drogheda, the main town in the North-East of Ireland. The town of Drogheda is approximately 35 miles away from the capital city, Dublin. It also lies ... -
Standard English and standards in English in a changing world : a case study - Irish Standard English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2005)This study investigates the question ‘Does such a phenomenon as Irish Standard English exist, and if it does, what are some of the characteristics of its forms and use?’ The research question is investigated in three ways. ... -
Discourse, insult, and cultural values
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2000)This dissertation addresses the importance of insult in the discourse of intercultural interaction encounters. Following previous interdisciplinary studies on the subject of tabooed language and insult this study points ... -
Konglish : Cross-linguistic lexical issues for Korean learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The present study investigated ow the mental lexicon of Korean learners of English is organized, and, in particular, how resources required to comprehend and produce English are stored and accessed in their mental lexicon ... -
Motivation and the learning environment : a study of Japanese learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2004)The thesis explores motivation, and the ways in which it is subject to change, among university-level Japanese learners of English as they react to different learning experiences. -
An investigation into the proficiency of successful late learners of French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The introduction to tiiis thesis provides a background for the study as well as the reasons behind the choice of subject. In the second chapter of the thesis there is a review of the literature on the Critical Period ... -
The canonical passive construction in Arabic and English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2000)This is a detailed comparative study into the canonical passive construction (i.e. its verbal representation) in two genetically unrelated languages, namely, Arabic (its written variety in particular) and English. From a ...
