International Master in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism

StylesheetGuidelines for Writing and

Layouting SoMu Research Papers

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Table of Content

1. GeneralInformation............................................................................................................. 32. ResearchResources............................................................................................................... 33. SettlingonaTopic................................................................................................................. 34. OrganizingthePaper............................................................................................................4

4.1 TheTitlePage................................................................................................................44.2 TheTableofContents...................................................................................................44.3 ListofTablesandFigures............................................................................................. 54.4 ListofAbbreviations..................................................................................................... 54.5 TheIntroduction........................................................................................................... 54.6 TheMainBody.............................................................................................................. 54.7 TheConclusion.............................................................................................................64.8 TheReferencesSection.................................................................................................6

4.8.1 BooksandArticles............................................................................................64.8.2 InternetSources.................................................................................................84.8.3 LinguisticCorpora............................................................................................8

4.9 SupportingMaterial......................................................................................................94.9.1 Appendices.........................................................................................................94.9.2 Notes................................................................................................................. 10

5. WritingProcess................................................................................................................... 105.1 Paragraphs.................................................................................................................... 115.2 TechnicalMatters......................................................................................................... 11

6. CitationsandReferences..................................................................................................... 117. FiguresandTables............................................................................................................... 128. Layout....................................................................................................................................139. AddandSigntheFollowingTextPassage........................................................................ 1410. TheFinalStage..................................................................................................................... 1411. CorrectionSymbols.............................................................................................................15

AppendixA:Exam/thesistitlepageatJGU...............................................................................iAppendixB:Exam/thesiscoversheetatJGU:.........................................................................iiAppendixC:MAthesistitlepageatJGU................................................................................ iiiAppendixD:LithuaniantitlepageatVMU.............................................................................ivAppendixE:TitlepageinEnglishatVMU...............................................................................v

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1. General Information

ThewritingoftermpapersorMAthesisservestwogoals:• toincreasestudentsexpertiseinsomeparticularsubstantiveareaoflinguistics;• tosharpenstudents’analyticskillsinpreparationforaprofessionalcareerrequiring

academictraining,suchasfinding,selectingandanalysingrelevantinformationandconvincinglycommunicatingconclusions.

Thetermpaperorthesisservestoshowthatstudentsareabletounderstandandcriti-callyevaluatelinguisticarticles,tocontrastopposingviews,todiscussmethodologyandresultsandtoscrutinizereportedresultsbymeansofactuallanguagedata.

Yourpaperwillalsobejudgedbysuchstandardsasneatness,grammar,andspelling.Paperscontainingalargenumberofprintingerrors,misspellings,formattingerrors,etc.willberejected.

Asregardsorthography,consulttheOxford English Dictionary(OED)forBritishEnglishandWebster’s Third International DictionaryforAmericanEnglish.

2. Research Resources

DonotquoteWikipediaorsourcesnotsubjectedtocarefuleditingbylinguisticpublish-ersandwhichdonotadheretothestandardproceduresofscientificpublications.Startoutbyreadingatextbookorgeneralarticleonyoursubject.

Whenlookinguptechnicalterms,usereferenceworks.Linguisticencyclopaediasanddictionariesareonetypeofresource,butlearners’dictionariesarenotanappropriatesource.

3. Settling on a Topic

Studentsareaskedtowriteaproposalinwhichthey:• suggestatopicrelatedtothepresentationortheseminar;• proposeatitle(thistitlemayNOTbeidenticaltothetitleofthepresentation,but

youmayzoominonaspectsrelatedtothepresentation,treatrelatedissues,etc.);

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• listtheliteratureyouintendtouse.Theliteraturechosenforthepresentationcanbepartoftheliteratureusedinwritingtheseminarpaper.

4. Organizing the Paper

Termpapersshouldfeaturethefollowingsixparts:atitlepage,atableofcontents,anintroduction,amainbody,aconclusionandareferencessection.

4.1 The Title Page

Nameoftheauthor,coursetitle,semester,university,anddateofsubmission.AtJGU,

• pleaseusetheformatprovidedinAppendixA(termpapers)orC(MAtheses).• notethatyourtermpapersmustbesubmittedwiththeExamCoverSheetavailable

inAppendixB.AtVMU,pleaseusetheformatprovidedinAppendixD

4.2 The Table of Contents

Indicatesthestructureoftheessayandprovidesthepagereferencesforeachsubsection.Usethefollowingformattoindicatehierarchicalrelationsbetweendifferentheadings:

1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Hypothesis,aimandscope 1.3 Materialandmethod 1.3.1 PaulusOrosiusandKingAlfred 1.3.2 Ælfric 1.3.3 Thetranslations 1.3.4 Problems 1.4 Theclitichypothesis 1.4.1 VanKemenade 1.4.2 Discussion 1.4.3 Conclusion

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4.3 List of Tables and Figures

Ifyourstudyisbasedontheanalysisoflinguisticdata,itisoftenbesttopresentyourdataintablesorinsomeotherschematicform,suchasgraphs,charts,ordiagrams.TheyshouldbelistedasseparateitemswithpagereferencesundertheheadingofListofTa-blesasthefinalitemontheContentspage.

4.4 List of Abbreviations

Abbreviationswhichwillberegularlyusedthroughoutaresearchpapershouldbelistedwithakeyandplacedbeforethefirstpageofthemaintext.Inthisconnection,theMHRAStyleBook(1996:19)stressesthefollowing:

• Neverbeginasentencewithanabbreviation.• Thefirstuseofanabbreviationshouldreferthereadertothislist.

4.5 The Introduction

• informsthereaderinconcisetermswhatthesubjectofthepaperis;• summarizesthemaininsightsintolinguisticresearchdiscussedinthepaper;• describesthestructureofyourpaper.

4.6 The Main Body

Itshouldbelogicallyorganizedanddividedintosectionsdesignatedbyheadingsandsubheadings.Itincludesallimportantinformation,explainsitssignificanceandshowswhetheryouareabletoviewyourdatacriticallyandtoevaluatematerialinasinformedafashionaspossible.

ReferencesinthetextshouldbeoftheformHuddleston&Pullum(2002).Forreferenceswithmorethantwoauthorsonlythefirstauthor’slastnameismentioned,e.g.Quirketal.(1985).Forreferenceswithpagenumbers,usee.g.Givón(2002:71).Thisindicatesthatyourquotationisonpage71inabookorarticlewrittenin2002byalinguistcalledGivón.

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4.7 The Conclusion

Sumsupthemainfindingsandpresentspossibleconclusions;possiblyalsoindicatingfurtheranalysesthatyouthinkshouldbedoneinafollow-upstudy.

4.8 The References Section

Listsallworksdirectlyorindirectlyreferredto(e.g.Smith1990:2citedinMiller2006:23)inthetextinalphabeticorder.Makesurethatallreferencesinthebodyofthetextalsoappearinyourlistofworksconsulted.

4.8.1 Books and Articles

In the main parts of your paper,useshortforms,suchasQuirketal.(1985:33).

In the references section,nameallauthors:Quirk,Randolph;Greenbaum,Sidney;Leech,GeoffreyandJanSvartvik.1985.A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language.London:Longman.

Referencesshouldbelistedwithhangingindent,asshownbelow.Paymeticulousatten-tiontoformatting,capitalization,etc.Titlesofbooksandjournalsareputinitalics,andtitlesofarticlesareplacedwithindoublequotes.Whereverpossible,givethefirstnamesofauthorsandeditors.

Usethefollowingstyleforcapitalization,punctuation,andorderofelementsinrefer-ences;seeThe Chicago Manual of Style,chapter16.

Bresnan,Joan.1979.Boundedcontextparsabilityandlearnability.Paperpresentedatthe WorkshoponMathematicsandLinguistics,HampshireCollege,December1979.Chomsky,Noam.1986a.Barriers.Cambridge,Mass.:MITPress.Chomsky,Noam.1986b.Knowledgeoflanguage.NewYork:Praeger.Emonds,Joseph.1970.Rootandstructure-preservingtransformations.Doctoral dissertation,MIT,Cambridge,Mass.

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Fraser,Bruce.1973.Onaccountingforillocutionaryforces.InAfestschriftforMorris Halle,ed.StephenR.AndersonandPaulKiparsky,287–307.NewYork:Holt, RinehartandWinston.Freidin,Robert,ed.1991.Principlesandparametersincomparativegrammar. Cambridge,Mass.:MITPress.Hornstein,Norbert,andAmyWeinberg.1990.ThenecessityofLF.TheLinguistic Review7:129–167.Hualde,JoséIgnacio.1987.OnBasqueaffricates.InProceedingsoftheWestCoast ConferenceonFormalLinguistics6,77–89.StanfordLinguisticsAssociation, StanfordUniversity,Stanford,Calif.Huang,C.-T.James,andC.-C.JaneTang.1989.Thelocalnatureofthelong-distance reflexiveinChinese.InProceedingsofNELS19,191–206.GLSA,Universityof Massachusetts,Amherst.Liberman,Mark,andAlanPrince.1977.Stressandlinguisticrhythm.LinguisticInquiry 8:249–336.Pullum,GeoffreyK.1982.SyncategorematicityandEnglishinfinitivalto. Glossa8:109–120.Schein,Barry.1981.SpirantizationinTigrinya.InMITworkingpapersinlinguistics3, 32–42.DepartmentofLinguisticsandPhilosophy,MIT,Cambridge,Mass.Steriade,Donca.1980.OnthederivationofgenitivalrelativesinRomance.Ms.,MIT, Cambridge,Mass.Zaenen,Annie.1979.InfinitivalcomplementsinDutch.InPapersfromtheFifteenth RegionalMeeting,ChicagoLinguisticSociety,378–389.ChicagoLinguistic Society,UniversityofChicago,Chicago,Ill.Bolinger,Dwight(1977)Meaning and Form.(EnglishLanguageSeries11.)London: Longman.Hawkins,JohnA.(2000)“TheRelativeOrderofPrepositionalPhrasesinEnglish:Going beyondManner-Place-Time”.Language Variation and Change11:231–266.Huddleston,RodneyandPullum,GeoffreyK.(2002)The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.Jespersen,Otto(1977)Essentials of English Grammar.London:GeorgeAllenand Unwin.Traugott,ElizabethCloss(2004)“ExaptationandGrammaticalization”.In:Akimoto, Minoji(ed.)Linguistic Studies Based on Corpora,133-156.Tokyo:HituziSyobo.

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4.8.2 Internet Sources

BeforecitingscientificsourcesfromtheInternet,makesurethat:• thesourceisonlyavailableintheWWW—ifithasalsobeenpublishedinprint,use

theprintversion;• sourcescontainingscientificinformationhaveundergonethesameeditingprocesses

asiscustomaryforprintedpublications.Thiswill,forinstance,bethecaseformostonlinejournals,butnotforallmanuscriptspostedontheweb.

Inordertociteaninternetsource,providethecorrespondingURLandthedateofre-trieval:Wallace,Gregory.“‘Obamacare’:Thewordthatdefinedthehealthcaredebate”.CNN25 June2012.http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/25/politics/obamacare-word-debate/ (dateofretrieval:02July2012).

4.8.3 Linguistic Corpora

Thereisnofixedconventionofhowtocitelinguisticcorporainthereferences.Thefol-lowinglistexemplifiescommonpractice:

Primary Sources/Corpora

American National Corpus(ANC)(2006)Secondrelease.LinguisticDataConsortium.ARCHER(ARepresentativeCorpusofHistoricalEnglishRegisters)DescribedinBiber, Douglasetal.(1994)“ARCHERanditschallenges:Compilingandexploringa RepresentativeCorpusofHistoricalEnglishRegisters.”In:Fries,Udoetal.(eds.) CreatingandUsingEnglishLanguageCorpora.PapersfromtheFourteenth InternationalConferenceonEnglishLanguageResearchonComputerized Corpora,Zürich1993,1-13.Amsterdam:Rodopi.BrownICAMEcollectionofEnglishLanguageCorpora.Bergen:NorwegianComputing CentrefortheHumanities1961.British National Corpus(BNC)(1995)BNCConsortium/OxfordUniversityComputing Services.Early American Fiction(2000)Chadwyck-Healey,Cambridge.Early English Prose Fiction(1997)Chadwyck-Healey,Cambridge.

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Early Twentieth Century Corpus.SelectionofBritishandAmericanwritingsbyauthors bornbetween1870–1896.Source:ProjectGutenberg.Eighteenth-Century Fiction(1996)Chadwyck-Healey,Cambridge.F-LOB1990smatchoftheLancaster-Oslo-BergenCorpus(UniversityofFreiburg).FROWN1990smatchoftheBROWNCorpus(UniversityofFreiburg).Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen(LOB)ICAMEcollectionofEnglishLanguageCorpora(1961) Bergen:NorwegianComputingCentrefortheHumanities.Late Nineteenth Century Corpus.SelectionofBritishandAmericanwritingsbyauthors bornbetween1830–1869.Source:ProjectGutenberg.Mid Nineteenth Century Corpus.SelectionofBritishandAmericanwritingsbyauthors bornbetween1803–1828.Source:ProjectGutenberg.Nineteenth-Century Fiction1999-2000Chadwyck-Healey,Cambridge.The Daily Mail and the Mail on SundayonCD-ROM1993–1997Chadwyck-Healey, Cambridge.The Daily Telegraph and Sunday TelegraphonCD-ROM1991–1994Chadwyck-Healey, Cambridge.The Detroit Free PressonCD-ROM1992–1995[1992–1993:DialogOnDisc.Dialog InformationServices,Inc.;1994–1995:Knight-RidderInformation,Inc.].The Guardian(includingThe Observer1994–1997)onCD-ROM1990–1997Chadwyck- Healey,Cambridge.The Los Angeles TimesonCD-ROM1992–1995[1992–1993:DialogOnDisc.Dialog InformationServices,Inc.;1994–1995:Knight-RidderInformation,Inc.].The Oxford English Dictionary 2onCD-ROM1994.Version1.13.Oxford:Oxford UniversityPress.The Times and Sunday TimesCompactDiskEdition(1990–1997)Chadwyck-Healey, Cambridge.The Washington Times(incl.Insight on the News)(1990–92)WayzataTechnology.

4.9 Supporting Material

4.9.1 Appendices

Writersofthesesareadvisedtointroduceappendicesforthematerialwhichisnotdi-rectlyrelevanttotheargumentationinthepaper/thesis,suchas:• lists

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• statisticaldata• questionnaireforms• copiesofdocuments• samplesoftextsunderdiscussion• transcribedmaterial,etc.

Iftherearemorethanone,Appendicesarenumberedandgivenatitle.

4.9.2 Notes

Inathesis,itisastandardpracticetomakeallnotesendnotes.Asthenameimplies,endnotesarenoteswhichappearafterthetext,i.e.theyareplacedattheendofchapters.

Footnotesappearatthebottomofpages.Theyarelesscommonnowandwesuggestavoidingtheminyourwriting.Footnotes,however,canbeusedinashorterpaper,forexample,atermpaper.Ifyouhavedecidedtousefootnotes,followtheserequirements:

• Beginfootnotesfourlines(twodoublespaces)belowthetext.• Single-spacefootnotes,butdouble-spacebetweenthem.

5. Writing Process

Essayswhichareshorterorlongerthantherecommendedsizeswillnotbeaccepted.WordcountsexcludetheContentsandReferencessections.

Length of research papersThelengthwillvaryfromcoursetocourse.

Length of the MA final thesis:Approx.50pages.

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5.1 Paragraphs

Paragraphsoveronepageinlengthareusuallytoolong;one-sentenceparagraphsaretooshort.Eachparagraphshouldhaveatopicsentenceandseveralothersthatexplainordevelopthattopic.

5.2 Technical Matters

Misspelledwordsortypographicalerrorsmakeyouappearuneducated,careless,orboth.Checkfororphansandwidows.Anorphanisasinglelinewhichappearsatthebottomofonepage,whiletherestoftheparagraphisonthenextpage.Avoidwidowlinesaswell,i.e.thelastlineofaparagraphshouldnotbeplacedonthenextpage.

6. Citations and References

Citationsaremandatory• inordertoallowthereadertoexplorethesubjectfurtherbyconsultingtheworks

citedand• toavoidplagiarism.

Usinginformationwithoutacknowledgingitisplagiarism.Plagiarismisaseriousof-fencethatruinsmarksorevenacademiccareers.

Wheneverthethoughtsofothersarequotedorparaphrased,thesourcemustbeexplic-itlycited.Usephrasessuchas“AccordingtoSmith(2006:34)...”,“Smith(2006:34f.)argues...”,“AsHuddlestonandPullum(2002)outline...”,orindicateifyouparaphraseapassageratherthanquotingverbatimuse(cf.Smith2006:34ff.).Areference-in-textstyleiscustomarilyusedinlinguistics.Itprovidestheauthor’snameandtheyearofpublica-tioninthetextanddoesnotusefootnotesforbibliographicreferences,e.g.Smith(1990:22).Thecompletereferenceisthengiveninthereferencessectionthatcontainsthedocumentationforallthesourcescited.

Shortquotationsareenclosedindoublequotes.Quotationsexceedingtwolinesformaparagraphindentedby1cmattheleftandrightmargin.Theyarenotenclosedindou-blequotes,linespacingis1.2.Ifyouomitpartsofthequotedtextpassage,usethreedotswithoutbrackets(...)toindicatethatsomethinghasbeenomitted.Exampleswithinthe

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runningtextareputinitalics.Phoneticformsareenclosedinsquarebrackets[ ],pho-nemesinslashes/ /andmorphemesincurlybrackets{ }.Translationsormeaningsaregiveninsinglequotes.

Alladditionstoquotationsnotincludedintheoriginalneedtobeplacedinsquarebrackets[ ],e.g.“In1979he[Givón]publishedSyntax and Semantics”.

Errorscontainedintheoriginalaremarkedby[sic],e.g.:(1)Thedirectorsaysintheprogrammehedespairsof‘asocietythatcanmercilesslyabandontheheroin[sic]ofthisplay’.[The Daily Mail1993].

Examplesexceedingaphraseareseparatedfromtherunningtextandconsecutivelynumbered.Thenumberisgiveninparentheses:(1),(2),etc.Exampleshavetobeindent-ed.

7. Figures and Tables

• Planyourtablesandfiguressothattheywillfitontoonepagewithoutsplittingthemapart.

• Tablesshouldnotcontaintoomuchinformation;ontheotherhand,atablehavingonlyafewnumbersisnotjustified.

• Intherunningtexttablesandfiguresshouldbeplacedasclosetotherelevantpartofthetextaspossible.

• Tablesandfiguresshouldbenumberedconsecutively.Thenumbershouldbefol-lowedbyacaptioninheadlinestyle.

• Youcanusesmallertypeface,e.g.11-sizescript,topresentyourtables.• Rememberthatyoucannotjustpresentyourdataintables–theyhavetobeproperly

describedandanalysed.• Itiscustomarytolocatethenumberandlegendabovethetableandunderthefigure.• Referencetotablesandfiguresintherunningtextismadeeitherdirectlyaspartof

asentence,asin:‘Table5belowlistsvariousgroupsofexceptionswhichhavebeenwidelydiscussedintheliterature’,orindirectly,i.e.referringtotheminbrackets,asin:‘(seealsoTable3above)’.

• Tablesandfiguresshouldbeputflushleftandhaveanextralinespacebeforeandafterthem.

• Indicatingthesourceofthetableifthedatainitisbasedonsomepreviousresearch

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Seeanexampleofatablebelow:

Table5: Existentialbe/būti:dominantvaluesandthecorrespondingsemantic typesofESinEnglishandLithuanian

SemantictypeofES

ExistentialverbBE/BŪTI SemantictypeofES

English English Dominantvalueofbe/būti Lithuanian LithuanianI.Absoluteuseofbe/būti

Ontological + (1)toexistinlife,tolive + Type1:Vital

Ontological + (2)tohaveplaceintheworldoffact,toexist

+ Type2:Ontological

Ontological + (3)existentialformulathere+be

+ Type4:Pureexistence

Ontological + (4)tocomeintoexistence,comeabout,happen,oc-cur,takeplace

+ Type6:Occurrenceofevents(emer-gence)

II.LocativemodelofexistenceLocative-existential

+ (5)tohaveoroccupyaplace

+ Type3:Locative

(Existential-havedevice)

-- (6)tohave + Type5:Possessive

Locativeoc-currence

+ (7)occur,takeplace + Type6:Punctualemer-gence

Presentative + (8)‘appearanceonthescene’

+ Type7:Presentative

8. Layout

• Whenprinting,useonesideofthepaperonly• 1.5linespacingandfullORleftjustification• FontsizecorrespondingtoTimesNewRoman12pt

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• Marginof4cmontheleftandatthetop,2cmontherightandatthebottom• Ifyouusephoneticsymbols,pleaseuseafreelyavailableUnicodephoneticfontsuch

asCharisSILorDoulosSIL.Theycanbedownloadedatwww.sil.org.• Newparagraphsareindentedunlesstheyoccurimmediatelyafteraheadline,indent-

edcitationorfigure/table.• PagesstartingfromtheIntroductionmustbenumbered,includingtheReferences.

TableofContentsandAppendix(ifthelatterisusedatall)arenumberedseparatelyinsmallRomannumbers.

9. Add and Sign the Following Text Passage

The student’s statement on plagiarism

I,<yourname>,havereadtherequirementsforresearchpapersintheMAprogrammeSociolinguisticsandMultilingualism.Iunderstandthatplagiarismiswrongandthatitcantakedifferentforms,somedirectandsomeindirect.Ialsounderstandthatplagiarisminanessay,projectorthesissubmittedtothisprogrammewillresultinagreatlyreducedmarkorrejectionofthepaperentirely.

10. The Final Stage

Itisadvisabletoputthepaperasideforafewdaysandre-readitlater.Lookingatitwith‘fresheyes’helpstogainperspective.Usethespellchecker(buttdewknottrussedspellchequerstofinedawlmisssteaks)andhyphenationprogramsofyourtextprocessorandreadthetextagaincarefullybeforesubmittingthepaperinprintedformandaddition-ally as a doc/docx- or pdf-filesentpere-mail.Pleasenamethedocumentasfollows:surnamefirstnametitleoftermpaper.pdf(e.g.:Mustermann, Mira An Analysis of Do-Support.pdf).

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11. Correction Symbols

Thefollowingcorrectionsymbolsarefrequentlyusedtohighlightmistakes:

sp spelling,graphemicerrorp punctuation:missingcomma,colon,quotationmarks,etc.

punctuationmistakescanbemoresevereincaseofrestrictiverelativeclauses

m morphologicalerrors mistakerelatedtosyntaxMW missingwordwo wordorderRO Run-onSentencesem semanticscolloc. wrongcollocationprep. wrongchoiceofprepositionBW wrongchoiceofvocabulary/expression;betterwordisneededprORst pragmatics:style/registercompr sentenceisnotcomprehensible

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JohannesGutenbergUniversityMainzInternationalMasterinSociolinguisticsandMultilingualism

Module:<xxx>Seminar:<xxx>

Instructor:<xxx>

TITELOFYOURTHESIS/SEMINARPAPER,E.G.

FINNISHSPEAKERSINSWEDEN:SUPPORTFORLANGUAGEUSE,LANGUAGEMAINTENANCEANDEDUCATION

YOURNAMEMainz,00.00.20xx

Youre-mailaddressYourstudentnumberatJGU

Appendix A: Exam/thesis title page at JGU

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Appendix B: Exam/thesis cover sheet at JGU: You’llfindthisasaformtofillinunderwww.sneb.uni-mainz.de/files/2014/09/somu-prufungsdeckblatt_engl.pdf

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) Fachbereich 05, Department of English and Linguistics Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, 55128 Mainz

Subject: Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism (SoMu)

Degree (please tick a box)

□ B.A. major subject □ B.A. minor subject

□ B.Ed. □ M.Ed.

□ M.A. □ ______________________ (other) This written exam is a

□ module exam □ course achievement It is the

□ first attempt □ second attempt It is a/n

□ exam □ paper, title: _____________________________________ First name: ______________________ Surname: _____________________________

Address: ______________________

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Matriculation number: _______________________________________________

Number of semesters in major: ______

Module number: ______

Module name: _______________________________________________

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Course instructor: _______________________________________________

□ Before taking this examination, I have registered in due form. (please tick the box)

I have composed this exam/paper independently and have not used any other sources or supplies (incl. electronic media and online sources) than the ones mentioned. I am aware that it is an attempt of deception or a breach of regulations if this statement proves untrue. Sec. 13 para. 2-3 BAPO, sec. 19 para. 5 POLBA, sect. 19 para. 3 and sec. 9 Master PO, sect. 20 para. 3 and 4 BAPO as well as sec. 19 para. 3 and 4 POLBA, sec. 19 para. 3-5 Master PO then apply. I also assure that all information given above are true. Date: _____________________________ Signature: _____________________________

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Appendix C: MA thesis title page at JGU

Thesis for obtaining the degree of

Master of Artssubmitted at the Faculty of Philosophy and Philology

at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

by

Name Surname

born on 00.00.19xx in City

20xx

<Title of Thesis>

Major Subject: International Master in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism

First supervisor: academic title, <name>

Second supervisor: academic title, <name>

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Appendix D: Lithuanian title page at VMU

VYTAUTO DIDŽIOJO UNIVERSITETAS1

HUMANITARINIŲ MOKSLŲ FAKULTETAS2

LIETUVIŲ KALBOS KATEDRA3

Name Surname4

TITLE OF THE MA THESIS IN LITHUANIAN5

Magistro baigiamasis darbas6

Jungtinė magistro studijų programa „Sociolingvistika ir daugiakalbystė“, valstybinis kodas 628Q100017

Lingvistikos studijų kryptis

Vadovė ___________ _____________8

(parašas) (data)

Apginta doc. dr. Rūta Eidukevičienė ___________ _____________ (parašas) (data)

Kaunas, 20151 Times New Roman, 14 pt., all capital letters2 Times New Roman, 12 pt., all capital letters3 Times New Roman, 12 pt., all capital letters4 Times New Roman, 14 pt.5 Times New Roman, 14 pt., all caps in bold6 Times New Roman, 14 pt7 Times New Roman, 12 pt.8 Times New Roman, 12 pt.

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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN INTERPRETING MEANING OF WORDS

By Jūratė Juraitė

Department of Lithuanian PhilologyVytautas Magnus UniversityMaster of Arts Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ineta DabašinskienėAugust 2015

Appendix E: Title page in English at VMU