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Army, police and society in Ireland: Civil, military and police relations in King's County and County Donegal c1870-1902 (2014)
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Civil, military and police relations in King's County and County Donegal c1870-1902. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/806536

This thesis makes a detailed contribution to the study of social relations between tenantry, landowners, police and the military, and reveals continuities and complexities often missing from more generalised accounts. It begins by arguing that the p... Read More about Army, police and society in Ireland: Civil, military and police relations in King's County and County Donegal c1870-1902.

Lexical richness and accommodation in oral English examinations with Chinese examiners (2014)
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Zhang, J. Lexical richness and accommodation in oral English examinations with Chinese examiners. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/808136

Abstract Lexical assessment and lexical accommodation in oral examinations are new research dimensions, which have both theoretical and empirical values, however they are still much neglected. The present research aims to investigate: first, whether... Read More about Lexical richness and accommodation in oral English examinations with Chinese examiners.

The import(ance) of history and modernity: Home, parish, and imperial order in the photographic representation of Simla 1860-1920 (2014)
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Whitehall, G. The import(ance) of history and modernity: Home, parish, and imperial order in the photographic representation of Simla 1860-1920. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/814225

The research sits in a gap between historical geography, colonial history, local micro-history and art history but also draws on wider fields such as museology, anthropology and cultural theory. It offers new perspectives onto the historiography of t... Read More about The import(ance) of history and modernity: Home, parish, and imperial order in the photographic representation of Simla 1860-1920.

Modality markers and politeness strategies in British and American ambassadorial speeches: A corpus-based approach (2014)
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Tran, H. P. Modality markers and politeness strategies in British and American ambassadorial speeches: A corpus-based approach. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/815906

This study investigates modality markers used as expressions of politeness in British and American ambassadorial speeches via a corpus-based method. Results of the research reflect the semantic and pragmatic perspectives of modality markers on the th... Read More about Modality markers and politeness strategies in British and American ambassadorial speeches: A corpus-based approach.

Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class (2013)
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Schwarz, C. Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/931583

This thesis offers a new approach to the work of the British filmmaker Shane Meadows. In contradiction to the conventional reading of his work as part of the long tradition of social realism in British cinema, this thesis offers a new approach which... Read More about Shane Meadows: Representations of liminality, masculinity and class.

The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language (2013)
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Ferguson, C. A. The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/931350

Authenticity is a salient issue within endangered language contexts, particularly where revitalisation efforts are in place. There is currently much activity worldwide to document and describe endangered languages, but whose language should go into t... Read More about The subjunctive in Guernsey French: Implications for gauging authenticity in an endangered language.

A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective (2011)
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Karatsareas, P. A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective. (Thesis). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/959405

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, a... Read More about A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective.

Everyday reveries: recorded music, memory & emotion (2011)
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Moorey, G. Everyday reveries: recorded music, memory & emotion. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/962106

This thesis investigates recorded music in everyday life and its relationship to memory. It does this by establishing the social and historical context in which sound recording was invented and developed, and by formulating a theory of how recorded m... Read More about Everyday reveries: recorded music, memory & emotion.

The effects of proficiency on sub-lexical processing in bilingual visual word recognition
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Piasecki, A. E. (2012). The effects of proficiency on sub-lexical processing in bilingual visual word recognition. (Thesis). Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/955181

Systematic psycholinguistic research has considered the nature of the coexistence of two (or more) languages in the cognitive system of a fluent bilingual speaker. There is increasing consensus that when a bilingual is presented with a visual stimulu... Read More about The effects of proficiency on sub-lexical processing in bilingual visual word recognition.