This sociolinguistic study of the politeness behavior of two Chinese Indonesian mother daughter pairs in Surabaya, Indonesia, was conducted qualitatively to find out how their language reveals the concept of politeness. The study is also aimed to find out whether there is any la…
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This study examines marketplace discourse and performance in Beni Mellal, Morocco, focusing on their relation to both new constructions of gender and social transformation. The intersection of the marketplace with feminine performance is a cross-roads, where the past meets the f…
This dissertation examines the discourse of Egyptian newspaper advertisements, and describes its particular linguistic characteristics. The study is timely because of contemporary developments in Egypt, as the economy is becoming increasingly privatized and hence advertising nee…
This dissertation is concerned with contact phenomena between two languages of distinct branches of Niger-Congo in Togo, Kabiye and Ewe. My investigation seeks to determine the social and linguistic factors (e.g. prestige, pressure, wider communication) that constrain language c…
