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Number of items at this level: **170**.

## A

Agazzoni, Debora
(2017)
[*Syntax and style in Alberto Arbasino's early works (1957-1963).*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8122/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ahvensalmi, Juulia Kirsikka
(2013)
[*Reading the manuscript page: the use of supra-textual devices in the Middle English Trotula-manuscripts.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4628/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Al-Asiri, Ebtehal Ali
(2023)
[*Intra-ethnic variation in the English spoken by Iraqi Arabs in London and Glasgow: a sociophonetic study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83659/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Al-Bustan, Suad Ahmed
(1993)
[*Quality and efficiency factors in translation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1068/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Al-Khafaji, Abdur-Rasul
(1972)
[*Description and contrastive analysis of tense and time in English and Arabic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1693/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Albulayhid, Rasha
(2025)
[*Family language policy in the context of Saudi sojourner families in the UK: understanding the complex language ideologies and practices of bilingual speakers.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85657/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Alexander, Marc Gabriel
(2006)
[*Cognitive-linguistic manipulation and persuasion in Agatha Christie.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3022/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Alexander, Marc Gabriel
(2011)
[*Meaning construction in popular science : an investigation into cognitive, digital, and empirical approaches to discourse reification.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3171/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Alhinai, Arwa A.
(2025)
[*Exploring existentialism, power, and religion in modern Arabic literature: A comparison between Naguib Mahfouz and Reem Bassiouney’s literature.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85470/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Allehyani, Manal Abdullah S.
(2025)
[*Does learning to perceive English vowels help in perceiving English lexical stress? The case of Arab learners of English: a longitudinal study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85156/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Almatrafi, Abdulaziz Mutlaq
(2025)
[*Teachers’ and students’ attitudes and actual use of the L1 in ESAP classrooms.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85559/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Alsuwayhiri, Meshari Muthyib
(2024)
[*The use of translation in English for specific academic purposes classes in Saudi Arabia.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84112/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Alymova, Elizaveta
(2022)
[*Cross-cultural lacunarity and translation techniques: a corpus-based study of English, Russian and Spanish.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83151/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Alzahrani, Eman Abdulrahman 
(2023)
[*The function of code-switching in EFL Saudi classrooms.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83567/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Anderson, Anthony
(1983)
[*Semantic and social-pragmatic aspects of meaning in task-oriented dialogue.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5715/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Anderson, Emma Jane
(2014)
[*The South Harris machair: sources and settlements.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5744/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

Archer, Gemma
(2018)
[*Pronunciation models in regional environments: a comparison and assessment of RP and SSE.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/30983/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

## B

Baglioni, Carolina Giorgia
(2025)
[*Applying Action-Research to the analysis of motivation in FL learners: A case study on the translation of motivated behaviour into Italian teaching practice.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84998/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bianchin, Ruggero
(2025)
[*Older Scots poetry in Italian translation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85600/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bianchin, Ruggero
(2020)
[*William Dunbar’s Tretis in Romance translations: a textual analysis.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82031/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Birkett, Elenor Marjory
(1984)
[*A comparative study of the effects of the Makaton Vocabulary and a language stimulation programme on the communication abilities of mentally handicapped adults.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/698/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Blanksma, Amber
(2024)
[*The Orpheus complex: Understanding cinema through Maurice Blanchot.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84697/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Boehme, Julia
(2011)
[*The Macaronic technique in the English language in texts from the Old English, medieval and early modern periods (9th to 18th centuries): a collection and discussion.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3550/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bohan, Jason Thomas
(2008)
[*Depth of processing and semantic anomalies.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/127/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Boughenout, Kamilia M.
(2023)
[*The good, the bad, and the bloody. Conceptualisations of menstruation across genders and languages.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83906/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Boussalhi, Abdelfattah
(1991)
[*The sociolinguistics of learning: attitudinal patterns and implications (a case study of Moroccan diglossia).*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/77047/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bouzidi, Hassan
(1989)
[*Language attitudes and their implications for education: Morocco as a case study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5371/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bramwell, Ellen Sage
(2012)
[*Naming in society: a cross-cultural study of five communities in Scotland.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3173/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Bressendorff, Kirsteen
(2012)
[*From vikings to valley girls: A sociolinguistic study of non-native use of quotative be like and discourse markers like and just.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3369/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Burns, Alison
(2015)
[*Field-names of North-East Scotland: a socio-onomastic study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6424/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Butler, James Odelle
(2013)
[*Name, place, and emotional space: themed semantics in literary onomastic research.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4165/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Byrne, Lewis
(2026)
[*Speaking of power: politicisation, hierarchy, and language ideologies in post-23J Spain.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85704/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

## C

Carty, Nicola
(2015)
[*Slighean gu fileantas: an exploratory study of the nature of proficiency in adult L2 Scottish Gaelic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6376/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Cassels, James R.T.
(1980)
[*Language and thinking in science: some investigations with multiple choice questions.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6609/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Chapman, Eleanor
(2024)
[*Towards a reparative geography of the mother tongue. Multiculturalism, migration and minoritised languages in the Outer Hebrides.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84788/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Chase, Thomas J.P.
(1983)
[*A diachronic semantic classification of the English religious lexis.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2922/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Chaudhary, Mohammad Akram
(1985)
[*al-Furūq fī al-lughah by Abū Hilāl al-ʻAskarī : a thesaurus for distinctions of meaning between assumed synonyms in Arabic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6922/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Chien, Shou-Chun
(2018)
[*Attitudes towards varieties of English by non-native and native speakers: A comparative view from Taiwan and the UK.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8932/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Colla, Chloe
(2023)
[*Life in the Fells: names in a nineteenth-century Cumberland landscape.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83934/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Crook, Alice Louise
(2016)
[*Personal naming practices in early modern Scotland: a comparative study of eleven parishes, 1680-1839.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8223/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Cuthbertson, Katherine M.E.
(2018)
[*The use of name evidence in lexicography: comparative analysis of onomastic data for historical and contemporary Scots.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/74257/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## D

Dahroj, Fawaz Ahmad
(1998)
[*The effect of modern linguistics on Arabic literary criticism: the stylistic approach and its application to Arabic poetry.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6494/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Digan, Laura
(2011)
[*Aspects of vocabulary in selected Old English riddles.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2943/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Drummond, Peter John
(2014)
[*An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5270/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Dunlop, Leonie Mhari 
(2016)
[*Breaking old and new ground: a comparative study of coastal and inland naming in Berwickshire.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7739/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Dunlop, Leonie Mhari 
(2012)
[*Manuscript layout as evidence for word prototypicality in Old English, with particular reference to onomastic items.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3180/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

de Blieck, Edgar
(2004)
[*The Cent nouvelles nouvelles, text and context: literature and history at the court of Burgundy in the fifteenth century.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/40983/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

de Lorenzo, Victoria
(2024)
[*Connecting threads: The transnational textile trade between nineteenth-century Britain and the Spanish-speaking world.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84363/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## E

El-Isa, Sameer
(1982)
[*A study of dynamic features in Irta:hi spoken Arabic with particular reference to stress, rhythm and intonation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3058/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Estrafallaces, Nicola
(2025)
[*From Siena to Syon: a study on the transmission and translation of Catherine of Siena’s Middle English texts.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85137/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Eyjolfsdottir, Elin Ingibjorg
(2012)
[*The Bórama: the poetry and the hagiography in the Book of Leinster.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3717/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## F

Fahssi, Elias Alexander
(2014)
[*Marking the medieval: the textual afterlives of Middle English texts.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5639/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Felekidou, Despoina
(2014)
[*The use of metaphors in Nelson Mandela's autobiography and their relation to his social roles.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6373/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ferguson, Heather Jane
(2008)
[*Comprehending counterfactuals.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/54/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Finlayson, Natalie Eloise 
(2022)
[*Making and evaluating topic word lists for intermediate learners of English and German: A corpus and cognitive semantic approach.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83197/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Fisher, Flora
(2011)
[*A study of late eighteenth century linguistic, cultural and philosophical attitudes in Britain : with a focus on the lexicographical work of Captain Francis Grose.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2773/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Fletcher, Rachel Ann 
(2021)
[*Pushing the boundary: the periodisation problem in dictionaries of Old English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82535/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Fletcher, Rachel Ann 
(2017)
[*William Somner’s Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum: method, function and legacy.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/30606/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Forey, Gail
(2002)
[*Aspects of theme and their role in workplace texts.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5385/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Fronek, Josef
(1978)
[*Thematic meaning and translation: functional sentence perspective and its relevance for contrastive language.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6948/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Futro, Dobrochna 
(2023)
[*Translanguaging art: multilingual practices of contemporary artists and their implications for language pedagogy.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83922/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## G

Germinario, Renato
(2015)
[*A linguistic analysis of Gestalt psychotherapy discourse.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6218/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

González Blanco, Marta Isabel
(2018)
[*An edition of the Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8965/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Goundry, Katrin
(2016)
[*Regional variation and change in the history of English strong verbs.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7764/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Guo, Qing
(2025)
[*Eastward spread of Western learning and knowledge transfer: the translation and interpretation of The Wealth of Nations in Late Qing China (1840-1912).*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85413/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## H

Hamilton, Rachael Louise
(2016)
[*Colour in English: from metonymy to metaphor.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7353/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Hannaford, Ewan David 
(2021)
[*Interpreting illness and the mental/physical health divide: A corpus linguistic investigation of illness representations in the UK and US press (1995-2017).*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82315/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Hannaford, Ewan David
(2017)
[*The press and public on mental health: a corpus linguistic analysis of UK newspaper coverage of mental illness (1995-2014), compared with the UK National Attitudes to Mental Illness survey.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/9016/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Harris-Logan, Stuart A.
(2007)
[*Nuair a bha Gaidhlig aig na h-eoin : an investigation into the art and artifice of avifaunal mimesis as a mode of artistic expression in Gaelic oral culture from the seventeenth century to the present.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/741/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Hawkins, Jeremy Allan 
(2025)
[*Poetic practices and spatial agency: writing into new situations.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85545/)
DFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Head, George
(1997)
[*Studies in the language, palaeography and codicology of MS Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates' 19.2.2.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2989/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Hinde, Amber Rebecca
(2024)
[*The rhetoric of food reform in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84461/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Hlaing, Olivia Eishwezin
(2016)
[*"Secretary in Fashion" and "Love-Letters": a study of socio-cultural and pragmatic-linguistic features in the late 17th century English language.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7277/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

Holmes-Elliott, Sophie Elizabeth Margaret
(2015)
[*London calling: assessing the spread of metropolitan features in the southeast.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6374/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## I

Izdebska, Daria Wiktoria
(2015)
[*Semantic field of ANGER in Old English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6227/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## J

Jardim, Carolina Reolon
(2018)
[*Investigating the lexicographical needs of Brazilian learners of English: a user study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/31005/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## K

Kikusawa, Namiko
(2017)
[*The subjunctive mood in Late Middle English adverbial clauses: the interaction of form and function.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7887/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Koristashevskaya, Elina 
(2021)
[*Meaning in poetry: semantic annotation of verse with the Historical Thesaurus of English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82230/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Kristensen-McLachlan, Ross Deans 
(2020)
[*Rhetorical effects in illness writing: a coherence-based approach.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/80291/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## L

Lawson, Eleanor
(2002)
[*Studies in the dialect and palaeographical materials of the medieval West Country.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1365/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Lawson, Robert
(2009)
[*Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1312/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Le Bervet, Charlotte Marie-Claude Jacqueline 
(2025)
[*Translating with a speculum: ‘womanhandling’ and resistance in francophone feminist literature.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85390/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Legeny, Viola
(2018)
[*Idioms in Scots.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8694/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Leitner, Magdalena
(2015)
[*Conflicts in early modern Scottish letters and law-courts.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6349/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Lennon, Robert
(2017)
[*Experience and learning in cross-dialect perception: Derhoticised /r/ in Glasgow.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/74370/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Liu, Zhaolong
(2025)
[*Exploring Louis Cha’s martial arts novels in the English-speaking world: translation, dissemination and reception.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85222/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## M

Mac Leòid, Aonghas U. G.
(2012)
[*Innis-na-Fìrinne: Dòmhnull Mac-na-Ceàrdaich (1885-1932) agus a obair fhoillsichte.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3209/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacBean, Lorna
(2013)
[*A documentary edition of Alexander Craig's 'Pilgrime and Hermite,' 1631: print and manuscript culture across the Union of Crowns.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6844/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacMahon, Michael Kenneth Cowan
(1981)
[*Approaches to an understanding of aphasia: neurolinguistic studies in the British Isles, 1793-1894.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5737/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mackay, Francesca L.
(2016)
[*Reading Pitscottie's Cronicles: a case study on the history of literacy in Scotland, 1575-1814.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7341/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mackay, Francesca L.
(2012)
[*The development of reading practices: as represented in the textual afterlife of Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3903/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mackenzie, Colin Peter
(2014)
[*Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Marcus, Imogen Julia
(2012)
[*An investigation into the language and letters of Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527-1608).*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4443/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Marshall, Edward Joseph 
(2024)
[*Do choirs have accents? A sociophonetic investigation of choral sound.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84372/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Marszalek, Agnes
(2016)
[*Beyond amusement: language and emotion in narrative comedy.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7273/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Marszalek, Agnes
(2012)
[*Humorous worlds: a cognitive stylistic approach to the creation of humour in comic narratives.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4156/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Maxwell, Felicity Lyn
(2014)
[*Household words: textualising social relations in the correspondence of Bess of Hardwick's servants, c. 1550-1590.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5257/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mayr, Andrea
(2000)
[*Language as a means of social control and resistance: discourse analysis in a prison setting.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1363/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McCarthy, Owen
(2012)
[*A sociophonetic study of the realization of word-final velar plosives by female pupils in a Glasgow high school.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3331/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

McClelland, Lauren Shaw
(2013)
[*Studies in pre-Reformation Carthusian vernacular manuscripts: the cases of Dom William Mede and Dom Stephen Dodesham of Sheen.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5256/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McCumber, Vanessa Marie
(2014)
[*Punctuation and the ‘Well-formed Sentence’ in the afterlife of the King James Bible.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5460/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

McHugh, Michael Joseph 
(2026)
[*Vernacular name motivations of British birds.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85730/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

McLachlan, Ross Deans
(2015)
[*Syntax, spaces, and story: discourse modes and cognitive grammar.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6470/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

McNiven, Peter Edward
(2011)
[*Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2685/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McNulty, Erin 
(2024)
[*“Cre’n sorçh dy Ghaelg t’ou loayrt nish?”: The intersection of ideologies and morphosyntactic variation in new speakers of Manx Gaelic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84467/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mohr, Sibylle
(2012)
[*The neurocognition of linguistic conflict resolution:
evidence from brain oscillations, ERPs, and source modelling.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4084/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mooney, Annabelle Nell
(2001)
[*Terms of use and abuse: the recruiting rhetoric of cults.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6411/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Moreno, Julia Beatrice
(2020)
[*The social stratification of clicks in English interaction.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81592/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mouhoubi, Rabirha
(1997)
[*A comparative study of a minority language for teaching purposes : Kabyl Tamazight as a case study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/79000/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Myers, Sara Mae
(2009)
[*The evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/514/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

## N

Nance, Claire
(2013)
[*Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4603/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

NicLeòid, Ciorstaidh
(2013)
[*Briathrachas an iasgaich ann an Eilean Bharraigh.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4280/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

NicLeóid, Linda
(2012)
[*Baird agus bana-bhaird a' Bhaile Shear thairis air an 19mh linn agus an 20mh linn: orain is dain neo-fhoillsichte agus an co-theacsa.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3380/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Noblet, Michele Anne
(2008)
[*The applicability of the O'Connor and Arnold model of English intonation to the analysis of Luxembourgish intonation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1417/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

## O

Ollikainen, Iiris Karoliina
(2020)
[*Authority in Early English medical writing (1375-1700): a corpus linguistic study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/80248/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ouyang, Yunjing
(2025)
[*English translation of Hongloumeng and the establishment of early British knowledge of China in the nineteenth century.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85220/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ower, Cerwyss Ann
(1996)
[*A diachronic investigation of the semantic field 'death'.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/39019/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

O’Hara, Emily Willow
(2024)
[*Simply filling a gap? Investigating the formation of social perceptions of fillers as a type of brief non-lexical vocalisation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84343/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## P

Parnell-Mooney, James
(2019)
[*Tran/s/gender: assessing the effects of the social construction of gender on speech: a focus on transgender /s/ realisations.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/41151/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Pearce, Joe
(2020)
[*Exploring the contribution of voice quality to the perception of gender in Scottish English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81409/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Pearce, Joe
(2024)
[*Social meaning in Scottish voices: A sociophonetic investigation of voice quality combining auditory-perceptual, acoustic, and qualitative approaches.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84331/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## R

Rae, Emily M.
(2021)
[*A comparison of decorative features in the Ælfrician textual tradition.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82290/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ramaeba, Goabilwe Nnanishie
(2019)
[*A comparative study of linguistic and social aspects of personal names in Botswana and Scotland.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/74387/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Rambaran-Olm, Mary Rosanna
(2012)
[*John's Prayer: an edition, literary analysis and commentary.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3457/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Reay, I. E.
(1991)
[*A lexical analysis of metaphor and phonaestheme.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4310/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Reilly, Colin
(2019)
[*Language in Malawian universities: an investigation into language use and language attitudes amongst students and staff.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/41150/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ren, Xiaomu 
(2025)
[*Perceptual flexibility in native and non-native speech perception and sentence processing: listener’s attention shifting across speech units and attention weight on cues.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85087/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Rhys, Guto
(2015)
[*Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6285/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Robertson, Duncan
(2015)
[*Implicit cognition and the social evaluation of speech.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7176/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Roger, Geoffrey
(2011)
[*'Les cent nouvelles nouvelles': A linguistic study of MS Glasgow Hunter 252.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2872/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Ryan, Sadie Durkacz 
(2018)
[*Language, migration and identity at school: a sociolinguistic study with Polish adolescents in Glasgow.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/30681/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## S

Samara, Elizabeth Eustacia Evelyn
(2025)
[*Dramaturgy of exile: an autopoietic exploration.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85491/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Sanauddin, Noor
(2015)
[*Proverbs and patriarchy: analysis of linguistic sexism and gender relations among the Pashtuns of Pakistan.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6243/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Schmitt, Melanie
(2009)
[*Studies in second fronting.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/591/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Scott, Jade
(2017)
[*The letters of Lady Anne Percy, countess of Northumberland (1536-91): gender, exile and early modern cultures of correspondence.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8463/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Scott, Diane Gillies
(2015)
[*Silent reading and the medieval text: the development of reading practices in the early prints of William Langland and John Lydgate.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6356/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Scott, Diane Gillies
(2011)
[*A socio-historical study of the treatment and reception of John Lydgate in Early Modern print culture.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2574/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Shagmani, Abulgasem Muftah
(2002)
[*The structure of Libyan Arabic discourse as depicted in two Arabic intwerviews [sic] recorded by the Libyan Jiha<d Studies Centre in Tripoli.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1588/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Shaktawat, Divyanshi
(2023)
[*Backward transfer of Glaswegian English on Indian English and Hindi: a case of simultaneous bilingual and bidialectal contact and interaction in Indian immigrants in Glasgow.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84017/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Shaver, Joel A.
(2011)
[*Metaphors of travel in the language of hymns: 1650–1800.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2381/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Smith-Christmas, Cassie
(2012)
[*I've lost it here dè a bh' agam: Language shift, maintenance, and code-switching in a bilingual family.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3798/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Solanki, Vijay James
(2017)
[*Brains in dialogue: investigating accommodation in live conversational
speech for both speech and EEG data.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8252/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Steele, Mary Helen
(1992)
[*Paragraph structure and translation: the theory and practice of paragraph and other high level structures in English and Russian narrative and the effect of the translation process upon these structures.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/38940/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Storrie, Gareth Lewis
(2022)
[*The Black Experience in 1960s Czechoslovak Cinema.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83084/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Subiabre Ubilla, Paulina Beatriz
(2015)
[*A phonetic variationist study on Chilean speakers of English as a foreign language.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6363/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Szpotanski, Daniel Edward
(2023)
[*Sarcastic irony as a facework device in the parliamentary discourse of the UK House of Commons.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83449/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## T

Takenouchi, Yoko
(2015)
[*Formal variation and semantic change in the Middle English demonstratives.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7184/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

Teixeira Moláns, Paula 
(2024)
[*Galician colour semantics: An investigation of basic colour terms.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84396/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thompson, Dominic
(2012)
[*Getting at the passive: Functions of passive-types in English.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/4050/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thomson, Clare Louise
(2019)
[*A real-time study of sound change in inner-city Dublin-English over five decades.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/41175/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thuillier, Manon Gwendoline Morgane
(2024)
[*‘Yn ych iaith ych un’: the afterlives of two early Anglo-Welsh poems.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84590/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thuillier, Manon Gwendoline Morgane
(2019)
[*The Welsh Hymn to the Virgin: contexts and reception.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/41210/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Tomanek, Liudmila
(2025)
[*Svetlana Alexievich: a polyphonic writer in translation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85154/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Tripornchaisak, Natthaphon 
(2023)
[*Navigating between systems and opening doors of opportunities: Thai‒English interpreters’ experiences.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83960/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Tuomala, Ina
(2018)
[*The perfect hybrid: interaction and integration in Cath Maige Tuired.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/41075/)
MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.

## U

Uings, David John
(2008)
[*Mind, meaning and miscommunication.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/355/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

## V

Van Renterghem, Aya
(2014)
[*The Anglo-Saxon runic poem: a critical reassessment.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5134/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Vickery, Zachary Adam
(2024)
[*Volition and mood in the LXX-Psalms.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84768/)
MLitt(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Vogel, Molly
(2016)
[*Florilegium.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7743/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## W

Warth-Szczyglowska, Magdalena Malgorzata
(2014)
[*Colour and semantic change: a corpus-based comparison of English green and Polish zielony.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5690/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Westerberg, Fabienne Elina
(2020)
[*Heavens, what a sound! The acoustics and articulation of Swedish Viby-i.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81886/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

White, Jonathan Barry
(2024)
[*Digital ventriloquism: Practices of vocal resistance and self emancipation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84367/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

White, Thomas
(2012)
[*Artifact as text: the layout of Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3922/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Whyte, Alasdair C.
(2017)
[*Settlement-names and society: analysis of the medieval districts of Forsa and Moloros in the parish of Torosay, Mull.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8224/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Whyte, Christopher
(1991)
[*William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3982/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Williams, Graham Trevor
(2009)
[*Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne,
1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1456/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## Y

Yadomi, Hiroshi
(2019)
[*Language, identity and community: A sociolinguistic analysis of language practice of early modern English preachers.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/75164/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## Z

Zhao, Mengxue
(2025)
[*Cultural variances of representing gender in League of Legends’ English (UK) to Chinese (mainland China and Taiwan) game translations.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85189/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Zhao, Ziyi 
(2025)
[*From metonymy to metaphor: A diachronic corpus-based comparison of metaphorical meanings of English and Chinese colour terms.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85524/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Zhao, Yunlong
(2015)
[*An exploration of the potential approaches to lexis-focused College English teaching and learning in the 2007 curriculum: implications for teachers.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6767/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

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