This study investigates adolescents' use of standard English in situations requiring careful speech. An account is given of the historical, political, linguistic and educational development of the concept of standard English, with particular emphasis on spoken standard English. …
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For this thesis, my aim was to deconstruct the notion of heterosexual love in order to question if and how current stories of love are involved in producing gender inequality. Using discourse analysis, informed by feminist theory, I analysed, in detail, qualitative interviews wi…
Recent social theories related to academic literacies suggest that academic writing is not a mere text production but also an identity performance; hence, the notion of ‘authorial identity’ which involves two dimensions: the identity as academic authors (personal dimension) and …
In "Challenging the Discourse, Retelling the Story: Identity, Belonging, and Politically Engaged American Muslim Women's Online Conversion Narratives" I utilize various interdisciplinary approaches to examine multiple discourses at the intersections of identity, community, cultu…
Despite memory of the Nazi past and immigration politics being two of the most studied aspects of postwar Germany, very little attention has been paid to their intersection. The literature on the German process of coming to terms with the past, or Vergangenheitsbewältigung , has…
This paper is a study of discourses related to HIV/AIDS development programming in Yemen. It is situated within Hakan Seckinelgin's problematization of the global governance of HIV. It analyzes how development workers addressing HIV/AIDS in Yemen conceptualize their approaches a…
This dissertation examines the use and linguistic behavior of the al-raqs ala ru'oos al-tha'abeen 'dancing on the heads of snakes' metaphor and metaphors about unity in pro-government and anti-government discourse in Yemen. It adopts an intertextual, discourse-based approach tha…
The international community has devoted significant attention to Arab democratization in the last decade. Public discourse on the topic rose dramatically during the George W. Bush administration and then receded in 2007 due to faltering progress in Iraq and Arab electoral outcom…
Whereas the study of the genre of early Arabic adab literature known as "Mirror for Princes" (Mirror ) is usually limited to illuminating political ideas surrounding early leadership in Islamic societies, The Thousand Nights and One Night ( Nights ), in comparison, is rarely con…
This dissertation, based on Foucauldian analysis of discourse, comparatively explores the dramatization of the Turk and Moor on the Renaissance versus Restoration stages and identifies the political, religious, and cultural transformation and modification to the discourse of Ori…
This thesis explores how ideas of sustainable food consumption are conceptualised and rhetorically contextualised by UK stakeholders such as businesses and NGOs. Drawing on discourse studies, sustainable consumption is considered as a contested field, pertaining to a variety of …
Reviving the European securitisation market after the financial crisis? Regulation, lobbying and the public-private legitimation of finance 2018 This thesis provides a political economy analysis of the attempted legitimation and reproduction of the European securitisation market…
Digwyddiadau, pobl a llenyddiaeth wleidyddol yng Nghymru a Gwlad y Basg rhwng 1876 a 1918 yw cefnlen hanesyddol ehangaf yr astudiaeth hon, a datganiadau cenedlaetholgar yn y wasg yn ystod y 1890au sy’n dwyn ei sylw yn benodol. Yn ôl hanesyddiaeth draddodiadol y ddwy wlad hyn, dy…
This research presents an analysis of the life stories of four adult literacy learners studying on a Skills for Life course in a Further Education context in the south west of England, three of whom are returning to education for the first time in their adult lives. Drawing on d…
Citizenship is premised on universal rights, yet experienced by some citizens as differentiated or conditional, risking their further marginalisation. Deeper understanding of these dynamics can generate insights for inclusive policymaking. This research studies how citizens livi…
This thesis explores how research is implicated in the constitution of post-war environments, and gives an account of being and becoming a researcher in post-war Bosnia. My main contention is that when peace and conflict researchers conduct research in post-war contexts, their p…
The following thesis explores construction policy discourses within the context of the United Kingdom (UK). The research was deemed both important and necessary as the construction sector represents a major portion of the UK economy, accounting for approximately seven per cent o…
The European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Europe (CoE) are two internationally renowned organisations sharing a common goal of progressing human rights action and social cohesion within their respective member states. At the point of data collection (early 2007) both organ…
The potential of community building through computer-mediated communication (CMC) in virtual learning environments has received increasing attention in recent years, yet little empirical research has been conducted in this field in Middle Eastern countries particularly based on …