Elizabeth M O’Dowd
Biographic Data
| ID | 5889454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth M O’Dowd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth M |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Dowd |
| SIGNATURE | O’DOWD E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Michael's College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The development of linguistic complexity
Following the No Child Left Behind Act (2001), which mandates standards-based accountability for the academic progress of all students, much attention has been given to integrating language and content instruction for English learners (ELs) in K-12 classrooms in the US. Although TESOL and other state-approved language proficiency standards acknowledge that academic English requires progressive linguistic complexity to tackle progressively complex…
Conversational Competence and Social Development
Introducing pragmatics 2. Toward an elaborated model of language: speech-act theory and conversational analysis 3. Language use and social functioning 4. Methods of research 5. Evidence on language use 6. Interdependence of social cognition and communication 7. Implications and applications Appendices Notes References Author index Subject index
The syntactic metaphor of subordination
Discourse Pressure, Genre and Grammatical Alignment — After Du Bois
This study adds a genre dimension to the findings of Du Bois (1987) concerning the discourse basis of grammatical patterns. Although Du Bois' and other studies have ascertained that a pressure toward ergative patterning exists even in nominative-accusative languages, I hypothesized that this pressure is a function of narrative discourse, which was the focus of those studies; and that a different genre may motivate a different grammatical alignmen…
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Discourse Pressure, Genre and Grammatical Alignment — After Du Bois
This study adds a genre dimension to the findings of Du Bois (1987) concerning the discourse basis of grammatical patterns. Although Du Bois' and other studies have ascertained that a pressure toward ergative patterning exists even in nominative-accusative languages, I hypothesized that this pressure is a function of narrative discourse, which was the focus of those studies; and that a different genre may motivate a different grammatical alignmen…
Conversational Competence and Social Development
Introducing pragmatics 2. Toward an elaborated model of language: speech-act theory and conversational analysis 3. Language use and social functioning 4. Methods of research 5. Evidence on language use 6. Interdependence of social cognition and communication 7. Implications and applications Appendices Notes References Author index Subject index
The syntactic metaphor of subordination
The development of linguistic complexity
Following the No Child Left Behind Act (2001), which mandates standards-based accountability for the academic progress of all students, much attention has been given to integrating language and content instruction for English learners (ELs) in K-12 classrooms in the US. Although TESOL and other state-approved language proficiency standards acknowledge that academic English requires progressive linguistic complexity to tackle progressively complex…
Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Accountability (1 works) · Applied linguistics (1 works)