Theses/Dissertations from 2020
An Intonational Description of African American Language in Princeville, NC, Christopher M. Dale
“HOME IS MORE THAN JUST A PLACE”: ORAL PERSONAL NARRATIVE STORYTELLING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA, Brandon Jent
Vox et Silentium Dei: A Socio-Cognitive Linguistic Theory of Religious Violence, Tyler Everett Kibbey
The Mothman and Other Strange Tales: Shaping Queer Appalachia Through Folkloric Discourse in Online Social Media Communities, Brenton Watts
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
LIMÓN PATWA: A PERCEPTUAL STUDY TO MEASURE LANGUAGE ATTITUDES TOWARD SPEAKERS OF PATWA IN COSTA RICA, Robert Bell
SHIFTING PERSONAS: A CASE STUDY OF TAYLOR SWIFT, Lela R. Lyon
PERCEPTUAL DIALECTOLOGY IN SLOVAKIA, Katka Showers-Curtis
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“LISTENING WITH AN ATTITUDE”: THE ROLE OF ATTITUDE ON NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE INTERGROUP COMMUNICATION, Aidah N. Aljuran
A MARKEDLY DIFFERENT APPROACH: INVESTIGATING PIE STOPS USING MODERN EMPIRICAL METHODS, Phillip Barnett
GOING GAGA: POP FANDOM AS ONLINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, John D. N. Carter
THE ORIGIN OF THE GILAKI CAUSATIVE SUFFIX -be(ː)-, Zia Khoshsirat
CONSTRAINTS ON IZĀFA IN SORANI KURDISH, Ali Salehi
#HASHTAGS: A LOOK AT THE EVALUATIVE ROLES OF HASHTAGS ON TWITTER, Leah Rose Schaede
PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONALITY OF PUNCTUATION ON TWITTER, Elizabeth M. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
LINGUISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF ‘HEART’ IN LEARNER CORPORA, Aurora Mathews Adams
MODELING DEPONENCY IN GERMANIC PRETERITE-PRESENT VERBS USING DATR, Marie G. Bourgerie Hunter
THE SEMANTIC NATURE OF TENSE AMBIGUITY: RESOLVING TENSE AND ASPECT IN JAPANESE PHRASAL CONSTRUCTIONS, Annabelle T. Bruno
GENERATING AMHARIC PRESENT TENSE VERBS: A NETWORK MORPHOLOGY & DATR ACCOUNT, T. Michael W. Halcomb
THE DECLENSIONS OF MODERN EASTERN ARMENIAN: A PARADIGM FUNCTION MORPHOLOGY APPROACH, Malachi W. Oyer
LAKI VERBAL INFLECTION, Sahar Taghipour
The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Use of Gesture in Self-Initiated Self-Repair Sequences by Persons with Non-Fluent Aphasia, Eleanor M. Feltner
The Perception of Creaky Voice: Does Speaker Gender Affect our Judgments?, Kaitlyn E. Lee
The Agent Across the Border: "Russia" and "Ukraine" as Actors in the News, 2013-2015, Abbey L. Thomas