Theses and Comps 2008
Winter 2008 - Thesis
Characterizing Authorship: Stylometric and Pragmatic Analysis of Editorials in Political Newsmagazines
Spring 2008 - Comps
Gender in the classroom: A look at gender in the university setting
Metadiscourse in the English and Chinese Timed Essay Assessments
The Effect of Different Forms of Feedback on CFL Writing
Article Use in the Written Modality: A Trade-off Between Accuracy and Fluency?
The Effects of Pre-reading Test Questions on L2 Reading Comprehension Taken by Taiwanese Students
"You nailed it on the cabeza, carbon:" Mock Spanish as a tool of intersubjectivity
High Rising Terminal (HRT) in Job Interviews and Impact on Employability: HRT as a positive interactional strategy and reconsideration of categorization of powerful vs. powerless language
Research Article Introductions: Comparison of Polish and English Rhetoric According to CARS Analysis
Don't Interrupt Me, I Won't Interrupt You: Distributions of Power at the Crossroads of Gender and Status
Code-switching in a Bilingual Couple's Conversation: A case study
Recognition and Production of Politeness Strategies in E-mail Requests by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
Cross-cultural Pragmatics: Effects of cross-cultural backgrounds and social status on request and refusal strategies in English
Learning a Diglossic Language: Experiences in Kosovo
Relationships between Language Anxiety Modalities in a College ESL Reading Class
Performance, Interaction and Identity in Freemasonry Initiation
Effects of Cultural Background & Exposure on Appropriate Speech Act Realizations of Complaints in English by Native Turkish Speakers
Fall 2008 - Comps
The Effect of Degree of Bilingualism on Cognitive Functioning
Effects of parental background and Attitudes Toward Children's Heritage Language Development and Maintenance in Chinese Immigrant Families
The Past and the Present of Vowels in California: An acoustic study on the western vowel
Rethinking the CPH: An investigation of age-related effects on NS of Vietnamese acquiring English morphosyntax
Gender-based Differences in Japanese Compliments
Code-switching as an effective communication strategy among Spanish-English adult bilinguals
The Effects of Age and Cultural Orientation on Language Choice by Chinese-English Bilinguals in Southern California
Nonstandard Orthography and Typography on Internet Message Boards: Flavor of Love 3 vs. Rock of Love 2