This dissertation is a composition, of stories, many stories, of journeys, of people as they moved from Sudan to Canada, confronting and contesting the dominant refugee discourse(s). Stories that also challenge the form and content of academic writing. Form builds on content, mo…
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Reactions to events of the past several years, including the attack on the World Trade Center and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, have reawakened public and academic concern with emancipatory politics, political freedom, and transformative or revolutionary change. In part…
This original research into the physiology of Gua sha used laser Doppler scanning to measure the Effect of Gua sha treatment on the microcirculation of surface tissue in healthy subjects demonstrating a four-fold increase in perfusion for the first 7.5 minutes compared to a cont…
This dissertation examines the discourses, following the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, that have articulated the rationalization for the imposition of "American style" democracy and neoliberal economic policy in the Middle East and around the globe. Drawing on Michel Foucault'…
This thesis explores the effects of discourse context, specifically whether a referent is discourse-given or discourse-new, on the online processing of the dative alternation and the active/passive alternation. Previous research provides support that the discourse status of a re…
My thesis is that the Oslo Process was an articulation of the discourse of Palestinian-Israeli relations. Furthermore, the general effect of this discourse was the same after the Oslo Process as before the process. I develop my thesis over the course of eight chapters. In chapte…
This study investigated the reactions of American professors to the written prose of non-native speaking international students in their classes. The need for a clear understanding of the specific nature of the writing required in particular content areas has been recently stres…
This study demonstrates the centrality of the legitimation processes of the paradoxical nature of the "battle over immigration" regarding the Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona. Through historical and critical discourse analysis, I illustrate how the language in the immigration debate …
The Arab-American community lies at the nexus of intersecting lines of political power, and is subject to pervasive discursive misrecognition, that is, the limiting of members' ability to act as persons capable of taking any position in ongoing social and political discourses. E…
Pressure to standardize curriculum, assessment, and instruction is rapidly whittling perceptions of what counts as literacy in public schools. Educators risk fostering compliance and cementing preconceived categorization of students, rather than critical thinking when orderlines…
This dissertation focuses on public discourse in Egypt from 2000 to 2010 under Mubarak's authoritarian regime, which placed severe restrictions on public conversation. I ask the following question: Why, in a highly repressive, authoritarian state, were relatively weak, underpriv…
The prosody of the stanzaic poems called madrasê, written in Syriac by Ephrem of Nisibis in the fourth century, has long been studied by scholars. Until now, these studies have focused on meter, but this has left many questions unanswered. The present study examines the intercla…
This paper presents the results of a critical discourse analysis of a selection of Canada's security texts and argues that the country's security discourses construct Muslims as dangerous and different from the normative Canadian. The research relies on a social constructionist …
This dissertation research examined the operation, circulation, and articulation of discourses associated with contemporary globalization in producing the agricultural landscape of an area of rural Jamaica. As a part of the world subject to European colonial domination from the …
Although they are both accounts of events, the history and the novel are not commensurate; the novel’s content is usually considered as opposed to that of history. It is assumed that history relates real things whereas the novel excels in dealing with the imagination (fiction). …
Well-written narratives communicate more than information. What a story communicates is as important as how the story communicates. The narrative flow of a story engages the reader in the action. Narrative conventions assist the reader in connecting prior knowledge or experience…
This dissertation develops a theory of the operation of nationalism as a discursive form, emphasizing the idea of "figures" within discourse which structure relations of authority in politics and establish the conditions of possibility of public speech. Focusing on different eve…
This thesis argues that there is a discursive construction of Muslim identity in the United States which is implicit and informs our understanding without being critically examined. I utilize the theoretical construction of Edward Said which he called Orientalism to argue that t…
Sayyid Qutb's conceptions of man and society inform and are themselves informed by his theory of human and divine knowledge. Our aim in this dissertation is, first, to highlight the intricate relationships between Qutb's ontology and his epistemology, and, second, to point to th…