Systemic Thesis Archive

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• Abdelsamie, Yara (2024) Genres of Political Tweets: Exploring the Tweeting Practices of American and Egyptian Presidential Officials. Ph.D. Dissertation, Facultud de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
• Accurso, K. (2019) Learning linguistics, teaching for change: Preparing secondary educators to more equitably teach disciplinary literacies. Ph.D. Dissertation, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• Acevedo, Margaret Claire (2020) Bringing Language to Consciousness: Teacher Professional Learning in Genre-based Reading Pedagogy. Ph.D. Dissertation, Open University.
• Aerts, Simon (2014) A Systemic Functional 'Three-Dimensional' Approach to Aspect in Thucydides' Histories III. M. Arts Dissertation, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Ghent.
• Agbaglo, Ebenezer (2020) Grammatical Metaphor in Academic Writing: Functional Diversity of Process Nominalisation in Research Article Abstracts across Disciplines. M.Phil. Dissertation, Faculty of Arts, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast.
• Akerejola, Ernest Somimola (2005) A text-based lexicogrammatical description of Òkó: a systemic functional approach. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
• Alexandre, Marta Susana Filipe (2012) Representação e legitimação do conhecimento científico e suas áreas de especialidade: análise crítica de entrevistas com cientistas portugueses. Ph.D. thesis, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Allier Avendaño, Héctor Alain (2018) Los discursos, sobre la práctica del diseño arquitectónico. Ph.D. Dissertation, Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Alvaro, Joseph James (2014) The Language of Ideology in China’s English Press: Representations of Dissent. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
• Amundrud , Thomas M. (2017) Analyzing classroom teacher-student consultations: A systemic-multimodal perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
• Almutairi, Bandar Alhumaidi A. (2015) Visualizing Evaluative Language in Relation to Constructing Identity in English Editorials and Op-Eds. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
• Ariztimuño, Lilián I. (2016) Emotion in fairy tales: The written and oral expression of affect and graduation. Masters Dissertation, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto.
• Arús-Hita, Jorge (2007). Hacia una especificación computacional de la transitividad en el español: un estudio contrastivo con el inglés. Doctoral Dissertation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Aslam, Muhammad (2021) Evaluating Strategies for Developing Generic Competence of the Undergraduate Students: The case of universities in Lahore. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Languages and Literature, International Islamic University, Islamabad.
• Avelar, A. (2008) Géneros e registos do discurso no ensino de línguas: proposta de aplicação ao ensino de PLE e monitorização em contexto. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Barbeiro, C. (2017) As práticas discursivas nas interações verbais em contexto pedagógico: : contributos da sociolinguística interacional para o estudo do discurso na aula de português. PhD Thesis. Universidade Aberta, Lisboa.
• Barros, P. L. ( 2015) Níveis comuns de referência e pedagogia de género no ensino de português a alunos surdos: Proposta de organização curricular. PhD Thesis. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon.
• Bartley, Leanne (2017) TRANSITIVITY, no stone left unturned: Introducing flexibility and granularity into the framework for the analysis of courtroom discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de Granada.
• Bateman, John (1986) Utterances in context: towareds a systemic theory of the intersubjective achievement of discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Al, University of Edinburgh.
• Benelhadj, Fatma 2015 Prepositional Phrases across Disciplines and Research Genres: A Syntactic and Semantic Approach. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of English, University of Sfax, Tunisia.
• Blanco Fernández, Juana María (2022) Formación para el desarrollo de la lectura y la escritura académica: evaluación de la implantación del modelo SCAFFOLDING ACADEMIC LITERACY en el grado de primaria de la Facultad de Educación de Toledo. PhD. Thesis, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Blunden, Jennifer (2016) The language with displayed art(efacts): linguistic and sociological perspectives on meaning, accessibility and knowledge building in museum exhibitions, PhD thesis, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.
• Bowcher, Wendy 2001 Play by play talk on radio: an enquiry into some relations between language and context. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Liverpool. (Appendices available here)
• Caels, Fausto Felix Geert (2016) Os textos de Ciências na disciplina de PLNM: uma abordagem baseada em Género. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculdade de Letrasm, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Carvalho Schmidt, Ana Paula (2021) O Brasil Imaginado por Candidatos à Presidência: uma Abordagem Sistêmico-Funcional do Discurso Eleitoral Doctoral thesis, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Canterle Bochett, Amanda (2018) A Modalidade pela Perspectiva Sistêmico-Funcional na Construção da Argumentação em um Inteiro Teor de Acórdão. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Carr, Georgia (2023) With respect to consent: The language of sex education. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney.
• Cheung, Lok Ming Eric (2017) Development of evaluative stance and voice in postgraduate academic writing. Ph.D. Dissertation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University/University of Technology Sydney.
• Cléirigh, Chris 1998 A Selectionist Model Of The Genesis Of Phonic Texture Systemic Phonology & Universal Darwinism. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
• Cohen, Inbal (2011) The Expression of Schizophrenia through Interpersonal Systems at the level of Discourse Semantics. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of English, Bar-Ilan University.
• Cominos, Nayia (2011) Managing the subjective: exploring dialogistic positioning in undergraduate essays. Ph.D Thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Adelaide.
• Contreras Castro, Marco Antonio (2022) Recursos de negociación interpersonal en el español de Chile: Perfilamiento sistémico funcional de las coletillas modales. Ph.D. Dissertation, Facultad De Humanidades Y Arte, Universidad De Concepción.
• Costetchi, Eugeniu (2019) Parsimonious Vole: a Systemic Functional Parser for English. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bremen.
• Cruz, G. (2017) Produção escrita do português (L2) no 2o ciclo do ensino secundário em São Tomé e Príncipe. Masters Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Dalamu, Taofeek Olaiwola (2017) A Discourse Analysis of Language Choice in MTN® and Etisalat® Advertisements in Nigeria. Ph. Dissertation, Department of English, University of Lagos. [Appendix 1], [Appendix 2]
• Damasceno, J. (2003) Relato de Futebol: imagem sonora em mudança. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Di Bari, Marilena (2015) Improving multilingual sentiment analysis using linguistic knowledge. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds.
• Djonov, E. (2005). Analysing the Organisation of Information in Websites: From Hypermedia Design to Systemic Functional Hypermedia Discourse Analysis. Ph.D. Thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
• do Nascimento de Oliveira, Sandra Maria (2017) Relatos Autobiográficos à Luz da Pedagogia de Gêneros: uma Trajetória com Intervenção em Classe de Alunos de Proeja. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Don, A. C. (2007) A Framework for the investigation of interactive norms and the construction of textual identity in written discourse communities: The case of an email list. Unpublished Ph.D Thesis, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.
• Doran, Y. J. (2016) Knowledge in Physics through Mathematics, Image and Language. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney.
• Dreyfus, Shoshana 2006 When there is no speech: a case study of the nonverbal multimodal communication of a child with an intellectual disability. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wollongong.
• Dugan, Kelly P. 2020. Antiracism and Restorative Justice in Classics Pedagogy: Race, Slavery, and the Function of Language in Beginning Greek and Latin Textbooks. Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Faculty of the University of Georgia.
• Elsoukova-Lord, Irina 2006 La temporalite dans la logogenese narrative: Perspective de rapprochement à travers l'étude linguistique de deux romans : "The English Patient" de Michael Ondaatje et "Starik" de Iouri Trifonov. Ph.D. Dissertation. Universite de Bretagne Occidentale.
• Escobar Rossi Niederauer, Ariane de Fatima (2017) O Papel do Engajamento na Construção do Discurso sobre Privatização em Notícias acerca da Polêmica de Adesão de Hospitais Universitários Federais à Ebserh. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Ferreira, Alfredo (2016) Grammatical metaphor and the social genesis of abstraction in the writing of apprentice scholars using English as an additional language, Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of British Columbia.
• Fest, Jennifer (2016) News in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation – A Corpus-Based Analysis of Newspaper Domains across Varieties of English. Ph.D. Dissertation, Aachen University.
• Flores Calvo, Laura (2021) Ensamble multimodal y oportunidades de aprendizaje de la oralidad en clases de inglés como lengua extranjera. El caso de la educación media uruguaya y el Plan Ceibal en Inglés. Ph.D. Dissertation, Facultad de Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
• Forey, Gail 2002 Aspects Of Theme and their Role in Workplace Texts. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of English Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow.
• Fryer, Daniel Lees (2019) Engagement in Medical Research Discourse A Multisemiotic Discourse-Semantic Study of Dialogic Positioning. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Arts at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• García Riaza, Blanca (2012) Attribution and thematization patterns in science popularization articles of The Guardian newspaper. Ph.D. Dissertation. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Salamanca.
• Gehrke, Nara Augustin (2015) Foto do Dia ou Microcrônica Verbo-Visual: um Gênero na Perspectiva da Escola de Sydney. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Gleason, Jesse (2013) Technology and tasks for bridging the language-content gap: Teacher-researcher collaboration in a third-year Spanish writing course. Ph.D. Dissertation, Iowa State University.
• Gledhill Chris, 1995, Scientific innovation and the phraseology of rhetoric. Posture, reformulation and collocation in cancer research articles. PHD, 1995, University of Aston, Director Tom Bloor.
• Gledhill Chris, 2008, Le signe et le syntagme : entre phraséologie et lexico-grammaire. Une synthèse du modèle systémique fonctionnel de Michael Halliday et de la théorie sémiotique de Charles S. Peirce. HDR, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Director David Banks.
• Gonçalves, A. (2007) Que língua falamos, quando falamos inglês? - Para o estudo do português como língua internacional. Masters dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• González, Gloriana (2009) Mathematical tasks and the collective memory: how do teachers manage students’ prior knowledge when teaching geometry with problems?, Ph.D. dissertation, Doctor of Philosophy (Education), The University of Michigan.
• Gouveia, Carlos A. M. (1998) O amansar das tropas: linguagem, ideologia e mudança social na instituição militar. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Graber, Philip 2001 Context in Text: A Systemic Functional Analysis of the Parable of the Sower. Ph.D. Dissertation. New Testament, Emory University.
• Guimarães Nunes, Glivia (2018) Relações Lógico-Semânticas na Organização Sequencial da Argumentação em Textos: um Estudo Sistêmico-Funcional. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Hao, Jing 2015 Construing biology: an IdeationalPerspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
• Harman, Ruth 2008 Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Teaching of Literaturein Urban School Classrooms. Ph.D. Dissertation. School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Herrero Rivas, Luz Elena (2012) Análisis Contrastivo De La Transitividad Y Los Procesos Verbales En El Lenguaje Académico En Español Y En Ruso: Una Perspectiva Sistémico Funcional. Masters in Applied Linguistics Dissertation, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Hiippala, Tuomo (2007) Helsinki: A Multisemiotic Analysis of Tourist Brochures, M.A. Thesis, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
• Hiippala, Tuomo (2013) Modelling the structure of a multimodal artefact. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki. [Abstract], [Thesis]
• Holtz, Mônica 2011 Lexico-grammatical properties of abstracts and research articles. A corpus-based study of scientific discourse from multiple disciplines. Ph.D. Thesis. Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• Inako, A. (2015). Affiliating in crisis: a linguistic perspective on community formation on Twitter after the nuclear accident in Japan in 2011. Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.
• Inwood, Olivia (2023) A Discourse-Analytic Approach to the Study of Information Disorders: How Online Communities Legitimate Social Bonds When Communing Around Misinformation and Disinformation. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales.
• Insaidoo, Harry Ato (2020) A Stylistic Study of Point of View in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero: A Systemic Functional Perspective. MPhil. Dissertation, University of Cape Coast.
• Jones, Janet 2008 Multiliteracies for academic purposes : a metafunctional exploration of intersemiosis and multimodality in university textbook and computer-based learning resources in science , Ph.D. Dissertation. Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.
• Jou, Y. (2016). Developing metacognitive awareness of voice in academic writing in English: A case study of second language writers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Kader Callegaro, Erick (2019) Não é Não, Não? Um Estudo sobre o Marcador Negativo "Não" em Discursos Políticos de Presidentes Brasileiros na Perspectiva da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Kappagoda, Astika 2004 Semiosis as the Sixth Sense: Theorising the Unperceived in Ancient Greek. Ph.D. Dissertation. Macquarie University, Sydney.
• Karatza, Styliani 2017 Analysing multimodal texts and test tasks for reading comprehension in the KPG exams in English. Doctoral Dissertation, Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• Kartika-Ningsih, Harni. 2016. Multilingual re-instantiation: Genre pedagogy in Indonesian classrooms. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
• Kilpert, Diana 2003 Language and value: the place of evaluation in linguistic theory. Ph.D. (Linguistics) - Rhodes University.
• Knox, John S. (2009). Multimodal discourse on online newspaper home pages: A social-semiotic perspective. Unpublished Ph.D., University of Sydney, Sydney.
• Kunst, Alex Matthew (2016). The Genre(s) and Generic Structuring of Obama’s Radio Address. Ph.D. Thesis, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umanistiche.
• Lassus, Jannika 2010. Betydelser i barnfamiljsbroschyrer : Systemisk-funktionell analys av den tänkta läsaren och institutionen. Doctoral dissertation. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies.
• Law, Lok Hei (2018) House M.D. and Creativity: a Corpus Linguistic Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach. Ph.D. dissertation, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Leite Rodrigues, Daniela (2017) A Interpessoalidade nos Discursos de Posse Presidencial do Brasil (1985 - 2011). Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Lim, Victor (2011) A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach to Pedagogic Discourse. Ph.D. dissertation, National University of Singapore.
• Lima, Lauro Rafael (2017) Transitividade e Ergatividade em Processos Materiais em Língua Portuguesa na Perspectiva da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Centro de Artes e Letras.
• Loureiro, J. (2016) Texto e contexto no QECRL e nas propostas dos manuais: explorando as condições de implementação de um ensino de base genológica PLE/PL2. Masters Dissertation. Universidade de Lisboa.
• López Bermudo,Mª Inmaculada (2015) The learning of personal pronouns through the explicit teaching of transitivity by students of English as a Second Language: a Systemic-Functional approach. Ph.D. Thesis, Departamento de Filología Inglesa I Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Luporini, Antonella (2013) Metaphor in Times of Crisis: Metaphorical Representations of the Global Crisis in The Financial Times and Il Sole 24 Ore 2008. Ph.D. Dissertation, Università di Pisa.
• Machado, N. (2007) More pregnantly than words: words and imagens in two EFL books. Masters dissertation. Universidade de Lisboa.
• Magyar, Claudia Elena (2014) The discourse of tourism and national heritage: A contrastive study from a cultural perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of English Studies. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
• Mannion, Patrick (2020) Digital Stories Students Tell: An Exploration of Doctoral SLA Students’ Beliefs about Storytelling and Educational Technology. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Florida.
• Marrengula, E. (2020) Do texto ao parágrafo: um contributo para o ensino da escrita no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Secundário em Moçambique. Dissertação de mestrado em PL2/PLE, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Martin, Jodie L. (2013) On Notes and Knowers: the representation, evaluation and legitimation of jazz. Ph.D. thesis, University of Adelaide.
• Martins, M. C. (2008) A contribuição dos significados experienciais para a constituição dos elementos obrigatórios do género narrativa escolar: um estudo de caso. Masters Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Matruglio, Erika (2014) Humanities’ Humanity: Construing the social in HSC Modern and Ancient History, Society and Culture, and Community and Family Studies. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Technology Sydney.
• McCabe, Anne 1999. Theme And Thematic Patterns In Spanish And English History Texts. PhD. Dissertation. Aston University.
• McQueen, Hector 2017 La prosodia como herramienta de manipulación y persuasión en un discurso político. M. Arts Dissertation, Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
• Mendes, M.M.S.A. (2015) Para um modelo ontogenético da escrita infantil no 1.º ciclo de ensino básico : a emergência do período como unidade de organização textual (an SFL approach to the ontogeny of written language in primary school children), Ph.D Thesis, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Mirallas, Carolina (2017) The Writing of Abstracts and SRAs by EFL Students: Analysis of Productions and Assessment of SFL Genre Pedagogy. Master's Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
• Mizusawa Yumiko 2008. Investigating the directive genre in the Japanese and Australian workplace: a systemic functional approach. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wollongong.
• Montemayor-Borsinger, Ann 2001 Case studies of academic writing in the sciences: a focus on the development of writing skills. Ph.D. Dissertation (Linguistics), University of Glasgow. [Appendix A-C here] 
• Moore, Nicolas Antony James (2010) Structuring Information in Written English: A Re-appraisal of the Systemic Functional Approach to Information Structure. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Liverpool.
• Morais, A. (2017) Género e multimodalidade na aula de ILE: Compreender e comentar o texto publicitário. Ph.D. Thesis, Universidade Católica, Lisboa.
• Moratón Gutiérrez, Lara (2015) Thematic Patterning in English and Spanish: Contrastive Annotation of a Bilingual Newspaper Corpus for Linguistic and Computational Applications. Ph.D. dissertation, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Murcia Bielsa, Susana 1999. Instructional Texts in English and Spanish: a Contrastive Study. PhD. Dissertation, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain.
• Mvundura, Emaculate Musimeki (2023) Seeing diplomatic constellations through diplomatic relations: An analysis of the positioning of Zimbabwe and the UK in Zimbabwean news articles. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rhodes University.
• Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. 2012. A Stylistic study of characterisation and point of view in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah: A functional-semantic perspective. M.Phil thesis, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
• Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. 2017. A systemic functional description of the grammar of Dagaare. PhD thesis, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
• Neale, Amy C. 2002 More Delicate TRANSITIVITY: Extending the PROCESS TYPE system networks for English to include full semantic classifications. PhD. Dissertation, Cardiff University, March 2002.
• Nielsen, Maj Schian (2015). Modalität der Irrealität. Deutsch und Dänisch als Fremdsprache. M.A. in International Business Communication. University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
• Nóbrega, M. S. L. (2018) Multimodalidade em documento didático: a construção de um vídeo para formação em pedagogia do género. Masters Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Nogueira, M. F. C. (2015) Da biblioteca escolar à sala de aula repensando a praxis à luz de uma pedagogia baseada em género. Masters Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• O'Donnell, Michael 1994. Sentence Analysis and Generation -- a Systemic Perspective, Ph.D. Dissertation, Linguistics Dept., University of Sydney.
• Othman, Waleed (20119) An SFL-based model for investigating explicitation-related phenomena in translation: two case studies of English–Arabic translation. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham.
• Parkin, B.M. (2015) Scaffolding Science: a pedagogy for marginalised students. Doctor of Philosophy (Linguistics), University of Adelaide, South Australia.
• Pascual, Mariana (2015). La representación discursiva de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo en la prensa argentina a la luz de la Teoría de la Valoración. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• Pastrana Izquierdo, Amanda (2017) Language Use and Knowledge Construction in CLIL Group Work Activities Underpinning Content and Language Integration. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
• Pereira, T. L. P. F. (2015) Implementação da Pedagogia Genológica em Alunos com Necessidades Educativas Especiais: Contributos para uma Literacia Inclusiva. Masters Dissertation, ESECS-IPLeiria, Leiria, Portugal.
• Pérez Veneros, Miriam (2017) Narrative Voice in Popular Science in The British Press: a Corpus Analysis on the Construal of Attributed Meanings. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidad de Salamanca.
• Pinheiro, V. A. G. (2017) Refletindo sobre a utilização da estratégia Ler para Aprender como meio de redução de erros ortográficos de alunos de 3o ano de escolaridade. Masters Dissertation, ESECS-IPLeiria, Leiria, Portugal.
• Piriyasilpa, Yupaporn 2009 Genre and discourse in online discussions: a study of online discussion postings in a Thai EFL writing course: Study of online discussion postings in a Thai EFL writing course. DAppLing Thesis, Dept. of Linguistics, Macquarie University, 2009.
• Plum, Guenter 1988 Text and Contextual Conditioning in Spoken English: A genre-based approach . Ph.D. Dissertation. Linguistics Department, University of Sydney. [Overview], [Volume 1], [Volume 2]
• Prino, C. S. (2015) Abordagem Genológica em Contexto de Jardim-de-Infância e Crianças com Perturbações da Comunicação: Alargar o Círculo de Inclusão. Masters Dissertation, ESECS-IPLeiria, Leiria, Portugal.
• Quiroz, B. (2013). The interpersonal and experiential grammar of Chilean Spanish: towards a principled systemic-functional description based on axial argumentation. PhD Dissertation, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• Rashid, Abdul (2016) Transitivity Analysis of Hiroko’s Character in Burnt Shadows. M.S. Thesis, Department of Humanities, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Rehman, Muhammad Habib Ur (2020) A Transitivity Analysis of Imran Khan and Mahatir Muhammad's Selected Political Speeches: a ComparativeStudy. Masters Dissertation. Master of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics, University of Lahore.
• Rose, David 2001 The Western Desert Code: An Australian Cryptogrammar. Pacific Linguistics: Australian National University, Canberra. (Published version of the doctoral thesis).
• Royce, Terry 1999. VISUAL-VERBAL INTERSEMIOTIC COMPLEMENTARITY IN THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Reading Centre for Applied Language Studies in the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences.
• Rudge, Luke 2017 Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of the West of England.
• Sabao, Collen (2013) The 'reporter voice’ and 'objectivity’ in cross-linguistic reporting of 'controversial’ news in zimbabwean newspapers. an appraisal approach. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
• Salmaso, Grisel S. (2014) Estructuras y Acciones Verbales de Instancias Narrativas de Entrevistas de Admisión en centros infanto juveniles de la Provincia de Mendoza. Mendoza: Editorial FFyL-UNCuyo y Ediciones IlyCE (Published Doctoral Thesis from the Facultad de Filosofı́a y Letras Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Mendoza, Argentina)
• Sano, Motoki 2006. A linguistic exploration of persuasion in written Japanese discourse : a systemic functional interpretation Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong.
• Sayfouri, Nasrin 2010. SFL and ESP Genre Analysis of English Research Articles in Iranian and English-American Medical Journals: A Contrastive Study. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran.
• Scott, Claire (2009) Reporting Armistice: A diachronic, functional perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
• Shrestha, Prithvi Narayan (2011). Dynamic assessment of academic writing for business studies. EdD Doctoral thesis, The Open University, Milton Keynes.
• Siebörger, Ian (2012) Literacy, Orality and Recontextualization in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa: an Ethnographic Study, M.A. Dissertation, Rhodes University.
• Siebörger, Ian (2018) Political constellations: an analysis of the use of language in positioning South African political parties in the Daily Sun, Ph.D. Dissertation, Rhodes University.
• Silva, J. A. J. (2017) Contributo de um modelo de base genológica para a formação de professores na Guiné-Bissau. Masters Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Silva Pimenta, Izadora (2023). Racism in football: patterns in media discourse. Doctoral Thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
• Smith, Bradley, (2008) Intonational Systems and Register: A Multidimensional Exploration. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
• Stosic, Dragana (2021) A genre-based investigation of Introduction and Method sections of research articles in clinical psychology: a systemic-functional perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Macquarie University.
• Symons, Carrie (2015) Investigating Functional Grammar Analysis as an Instructional Tool for Meaning-Making with Fourth-Grade English Learners. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan.
• Szenes, Eszter (2017) The linguistic construction of business reasoning: Towards a language-based model of decision-making in undergraduate business. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
• Tavares, S. (2004) Para uma abordagem de género em ILE. Masters Dissertation, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Unegbu, Osondu C. (2023) An analysis of power relations, affiliation and individuation in selected coup, secession, and inaugural speeches of Nigerian leaders, 1960-2015. Doctoral Thesis, Rhodes University.
• Van Meerbergen, Sara, 2010. Nederländska bilderböcker blir svenska. En multimodal översättningsanalys ('Dutch picture books become Swedish. A multimodal translation analysis'), Ph.D. Dissertation, Stockholms universitet.
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• Wang, Bo (2017) Lao She’s Cha Guan (Teahouse) and its English translations A Systemic Functional perspective on drama translation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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