When this true crime story began, the curiosity of the Toubous of the small town of Largeau was provoked by an unusual competition held between Ysbo Kadi and Ahmed Wagandou. This competition was held to win the hand of a young and beautiful Goran girl. For that reason, struggle,…
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between a number of variables; achievement measures in learning of (ESOL) English to Speakers of Other Languages. It is also to identify the influential role played by a number of environmental factors. The need…
The present study deals with translating Arabic literature into English and French, its main aspects, issues and effects on the representation of Arab culture in the West. It is essentially inspired by Lawrence Venuti's ideas on translation and the “formation of cultural identit…
This dissertation examines the application of pragmatics (especially, the study of politeness), biblical studies and Semitic philology to a selected group of ancient texts that use a characteristic set of deferential strategies. The following strategies are studied: Vocatives, T…
This thesis examines certain aspects of the hybrid sources of meaning within the film Disney's Aladdin. Using a transdisciplinary approach combining Social Theories of Discourse, Film Theory, Narratology, Visual Perception Theory, Cultural Studies, and Political Studies, this fi…
This dissertation heeds the experience of Israeli battle-shock. The project renders side by side my prior professional experience as an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) nurse along with my later readings in performance studies, focusing primarily on Walter Benjamin's writing. Next i…
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…
Due to a worldwide escalating prevalence of migration, there has been an ever-increasing interest in studying language contact phenomena both at the social and individual level, where research on language maintenance and shift holds a prominent position. The present study explor…
The data for this dissertation were collected in two sites between February 1995 and May 1996. The predominant research site was a Yoruba community in Beaufort, South Carolina named b Oyotunji African Village. b Oyotunji a Yoruba word meaning "Oyo returns," refers to what the re…
In this thesis I present a brief grammar sketch of Fulfulde as spoken by the Wodaabe of Niger, giving special attention to the phonology of the language. One interesting aspect of Fulfulde morphophonology is the consonant gradation system which occurs in conjunction with the num…
This dissertation directed by Dr. Dennis Olson builds on the premise that the relative density of Chr's peculiar vocabulary is an accurate indicator of the degree of Chr's redaction of source material. It examines Chr's distinctive vocabulary for use in a multivariate statistica…
Enrolment figures for the learning of foreign languages in secondary schools in Australia as a whole, and in Western Australia in particular, have changed significantly over the last five years. The major reason was the National Policy on Languages, 1987. This stipulated that Au…
The present work is a descriptive grammatical and lexical study of the Angālī dialect, which is spoken in an area to the southwest of the province of Fārs (Persia proper), in Iran. This dialect represents linguistic peculiarities which connect it with a larger family of Iranian …
This study investigated the nature and extent of the relationship between ESL teachers' beliefs about second language teaching and learning and their instructional practices. Teacher beliefs are considered a powerful conceptual tool by which to consider teachers' classroom actio…
The Social Life of ‘Conscience’: Rhetoric, Sacrifice and Community among Israeli Conscientious Objectors analyzes my long term ethnographic fieldwork with conscientious objectors as they realize, and live through, their refusal to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. These consc…
In 1567 the Spanish king, Philip II, prohibited the use of Arabic in Granada. Throughout his reign, however, he urged Catholic priests to study the indigenous languages of America. The apparent contradiction between Philip’s support of Amerindian languages and his prohibition of…
Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to look into the cohesive ties in the spoken discourse of Arabs from three proficiency levels: superior, advanced, and intermediate. Participants in the study were 30 adults. Subjects were interviewed by a certified Americ…
This dissertation examines the concepts of politeness, power and face within the framework of Brown and Levinson (1987) theory, and involves the application of their model to the task of characterizing the ways in which Tunisian men and women compare on politeness continua withi…
This thesis consists of a commented translation of an excerpt from a ninth century C.E. letter by the celebrated Arabic translator Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. The epistle is addressed to one of his patrons, 'Ali ibn Yahya, and gives an account of the works of the Greek physician Galen as …