Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
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Kundokubun, the linguistic variety that arose from transposing and reciting Sinitic texts in Japanese, is as old as the act of reading itself in Japan. The religious and political classes who learned, copied, and propagated Buddhist sutras during the Heian period (794–1185 CE) u…
There is no doubt that poetry is a mirror of the society where it is composed, Poetry is neither new in Nigeria nor in the Ilorin Emirate even though history did not specify a particular time for its emergence. Since literature in general and poetry in particular as part of soci…
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a prevalence of approximately 1% children worldwide. ASD is characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction and the presence of restricted interests and repetitive behaviours. Genetic alterati…
pale shadows of cracked kettles is a 15-minute composition written for SATB choir and two percussionists which explores language and communication in both their strengths and shortcomings. The piece does not feature a set text, but it does pull keywords from various quotes about…
Classical Semitic languages, with the exception of Akkadian, all display VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) either as the basic main constituent word order or as one of the most attested main constituent word order (the other being SVO). Other word order features, such as that of Modifie…
While research in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies has focused on collocation and its role in representing gender, little study has been given to how these representations change across registers. Collocations are responsive to register variation and studying their change acros…
This descriptive, exploratory study’s purpose is to determine the effects of labor-based grading contracts on students whose historical exclusion results in their current day underrepresentation in higher education. A key component of this study is the emphasis on the student’s …
This dissertation identifies an intersection between language critique and biography in the early thought of Johann Gottfried Herder. Through an analysis of three works written between 1765 and 1770, I show that Herder uses the form of biography to arrive at a concept of living …
“Buying the blueprints: Investing emotionally and materially in the icy ideologies of Disney’s Frozen” uses a cultural studies framework to examine qualitative data collected from interviews with Norwegian children and families, observations of public engagement with the Frozen …
This qualitative study explored the role of the language barrier in spiritual growth among non-English speaking Korean immigrant congregants. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five pastors and twenty-two laypersons from local Korean immigrant churches in the Chicago…
Research focused on educational language policy (ELP) within the United States has explored orientations, ideologies and outcomes for English Learners (ELs) (Wiley, 2002; Skutnabb-Kangas, 2000; Hornberger, 2005). This study seeks to intersect these variables in order to investig…
This dissertation provides the first description and analysis of focus in Caquinte, an indigenous Arawak language of Peruvian Amazonia. It investigates the expression of a fundamental distinction in types of focus, namely between information focus and contrastive focus, which I …
Teachers' attitudes toward linguistic variation can influence what students learn about language. Most research on attitudes toward dialects has focused on people's attitudes based on phonological variation and ethnographic reports. The problem to be addressed was that teachers'…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of three keyword caption modes on the listening comprehension of Arab learners of English as a foreign language (N = 90) while viewing authentic video clips. The keyword caption modes contained approximately 10%, 30% or 50%…
This dissertation employs the method of critical discourse analysis to investigate the relationship among discourse, power, and knowledge in U.S. news coverage of the "honor killing" of Noor Faleh Almaleki. Building upon Western European research on "honor-killing" news coverage…
Many researchers (Hymes, 1964; Kaplan, 1966; Gumperz, 1972; Brown, 1987; Nida, 1998) have asserted that language and culture are inseparable and both of them affect each other. Recent advances within the theory and methods of language teaching have begun to emphasize the role of…
This dissertation is a quantitative study of social change and linguistic variation in the dialect of Tunisian Arabic spoken in Korba, a small town in the Cap Bon, the northeastern penninsula of Tunisia. A sample of twenty-four speakers (eleven males and thirteen females) partic…
This ethnographic study focuses on the language socialization processes of six Indonesian and Filipino nurses working in Japan; these nurses came to Japan under the country's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with Indonesia and the Philippines. After the establishment of the…