This study examines the intersection of humanitarianism and warfare conducted by Western states in the late-modern era. It compares the use of humanitarian discourse (HD) by officials and civil-elites within two crisis moments each for the 1999 NATO war over Kosovo and the 2003 …
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Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations and his genealogy of knowledge/power and ethics discourse are assimilated with research on Collective Action Frames and social movements as a historically and culturally heuristic devise to explain the functions and efficacy of dis…
In this study an interpretive learning framework that aims to measure learning on the classroom level is introduced. In order to develop and evaluate the value of the framework, a theoretical/empirical study is designed. The researcher attempted to illustrate how the proposed fr…
This dissertation examines several examples of "Western discourse" in Saudi poetry, or, the way the attitudes toward, images of, and preconceived ideas about the West, are implemented in the different eras of Saudi poetry. To accomplish this, I present an annotated and abbreviat…
The following study is a description and analysis of six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic. In it I will attempt to determine the syntactic and pragmatic roles of each marker, describing its function in discourse. The final analysis will be based on the pragmatic model of rel…
Using feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, I explore how young Lebanese-Canadian women construct health, obesity, and the body within the context of the dominant obesity discourse, which over-emphasizes supposed links between inactivity, nutrition, obesity, and he…
The project, using the world culture theory, explores how modern international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) which provide humanitarian charitable relief assistance have enacted, innovated, and adapted to changes in the broader world culture over the past half century. …
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the impact of dominant discourses on welfare on the everyday lives of women caught up within the American welfare system. In the early 1990s, a moral crusade against welfare emerged, marking poor women as lazy, immoral, dependent, a…
This dissertation presents studies of four chapters of the Mishnah, the earliest compilation of Jewish-law, edited in Palestine c. 210 C.E. The focus is both methodological and topical. A claim is presented for a literary/anthropological approach to the reading of the Mishnah, a…
This thesis is a reconstruction of the Somalia's encounter with the colonial discourse of development and its impact on indigenous farmers. It is an analysis of several narratives of Somali experts who worked for development projects in Somalia during the early 1970s and late 19…
This dissertation analyzes how United States elites ideologically framed events of September 11, 2001 (9–11) and the implementation of the first year of the ‘War on Terrorism’ (WOT). In seeking to understand how the strategic use of frames by different categories of U.S. elites …
The decade of the 1990s concerned itself primarily with the nostalgic renegotiation of the past. Contemporary culture has looked to the past as a way to redefine the present and look to the future. James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic capitalized on this reinvestment of the past, u…
Many scholars, critics and popular culture agree that colonialism has impoverished, marginalized, destabilized and deprived Africa of her voice for years. Africa has been in danger of losing its identity within the global economy by fast internalizing an array of colonial cultur…
This dissertation is an archaelogical reading of how the Cappadocians Fathers, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, moved through a theory of the limitations of language to the production and reception of theological discourse. Within the context of the fourth-centu…
Many theological scholars have contributed to the process of interpreting the Psalms. However, most of them have done so based upon pre-determined genre classified by taxonomical categories, the historical socio-religious setting, and assumed theological messages. While these fa…
In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together Bateson’s (1972) and Goffman’s (1974) interactional under…
Though clauses of Kuche can be grammatically marked—usually by verb prefixes or auxiliary verbs—for tense and/or aspect and/or mood (TAM), in discourse, very few clauses are actually marked for these categories. Instead, TAM is often marked only once in a stretch of text and is …
Regenerative Pan-Africanism describes the contemporary liberation ideology that members of the African world should unite, using our collective talents and skills to reclaim Africa for Africans. Since West African independence, Pan-Africanism has quietly emerged as a functional …
This is a descriptive study on pulaaku discourse and Fulbe identity in the area of northern Cameroon, Africa. The Fulbe have been a major vehicle for the spread of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and Fulbe identity has been largely equated with Islamic identity. As some Fulbe become…