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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: ______________________
______________________
______________________
Email (JGU account only): _______________________________________________
Matriculation number: _______________________________________________
Number of semesters in major: ______
Module number: ______
Module name: _______________________________________________
Course title: _______________________________________________
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