This research aims to analyze Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement Speech at Harvard University to explore its wording and the interaction between the speaker and the audience. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach (MDA), and the concepts... of intertextuality and interdiscursivity were adopted in this study. The results show that intertextually, Mark Zuckerberg narrated his experiences and stories, quoting famous sayings, and inserting religious text into his speech. Interdiscursively, he imported

This research aims to compare rhythm in the connected speech of Thai tracheoesophageal and normal speakers in rhythmic unit structure, rhythmic unit length and syllable quantities.The data were collected from three tracheoesophageal and three normal... speakers. All informants were of the same age, educational background and size. In order to get connected speech from the informants, they were asked to tell stories. Five-minute samples of fluent speech were selected for each informant. To identify

This study aims at investigating whether rhythmic units influence tonal realizations in Thai connected speech. The informants in this study are three 26 to 30-year-old radio announcers. Their speech is recorded prior to informing them about

This research deals with tonal variation in Chiang Mai Thai emphasizing tones in connected speech in comparison with tones in citation forms. The three linguistic variables investigated are the high-level falling tone, the mid rising tone in short... checked syllables, and the low rising tone in the syllables with /p, t, c, k/ as initials. Age group is the social variable investigated in this study consisting of 10-20 years old, 30-40 years old, and 50-60 years old. The connected speech data were

The purpose of this research is to analyze and compare the tones of Bangkok Thai as spoken by the Thai, the Chao Zhou and the Sikhs. Tones in Bangkok Thai citation forms and connected speech in the speech of the Thai are used as the reference... of Bangkok Thai. The study focuses on two aspects: the tonal systems in citation form and the tonal characteristics in both citation forms and connected speech. The tones produced by thirty informants, the Thai, the Chao Zhou and the Sikhs have been analyzed

of 10 items: /kaaA2, khaaA4, khaaB1, khaaC1, khaaC4, khaaA1, khaatDL1, khaatDL4, khatDS1, khatDS4/. Ten tokens were elicited for each word; 2) monosyllabic and disyllabic words from connected speech. The connected speech used in this thesis was recoded... and the pitch level of the tones differ when occurring in different contexts. They are most distinct in the tone-set wordlist. Their distinction decreases in connected speech. Moreover, the tones in stressed syllables are more distinct than those in unstressed

The objectives of this research are to compare tonal realizations in Yong in citation form and connected speech and between 2 age-groups as well as to prove whether there is tone sandhi in Yong as proposed by Ruengdet Pankhuenkhat (1978). Six female... J. Gedney (1972). Some words not in that list were added. The connected speech was recorded during conversation between the informants and the researcher. The contexts analyzed are the middle and the end of non-emphatic affirmative utterances

, 4 types of verbal action, and 3 types of mental action. 2. Violence in Quentin Tarantino’s movies have got theme that presents violence as majority and also it is connected to Philosophy in term of simulacra and hyper reality. This philosophy concept... is belonged to Jean Beaudrillard. Not only his movies are connected to Philosophy, but they are also connected to Christianity principles about human defilement and craving, and slavery and release. Besides Christianity, his movies are also connected

syntactic knowledge, followed by the ability to recognise words in connected speech. The results also revealed that listeners at different proficiency levels process the language in decidedly different ways. Less proficient learners were discovered to be far... more dependent on the linguistic and psycholinguistic subskills that are closest to the surface of the message. On the other hand, owing to the development of their syntactic knowledge and recognition of words in connected speech, more proficient