Based on the four years of ethnography of communication field research among Igbo speakers from Nigeria, this dissertation documents a few ways that this Chicago immigrant community constructs itself through verbal art in formal meetings. Based on membership in an immigrants' as…
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This dissertation identifies an intertextual relationship between the prophetic books of Hosea and Malachi, which creates a literary frame around the Minor Prophets and indicates that the twelve books should be read as a unified Book of the Twelve. Using literary criticism, the …
Atlantis Corbijn is a novel intended for an eleven to fourteen-year-old audience. It begins when twelve-year-old Atlantis's parents join a fanatical cult in northern Georgia in order to escape financial difficulties. Atlantis resists the rigid conformity, sexism, and strange bel…
Rabbi Moshe Luzzatto (born 1707 in Padua, died 1747 in Kefar Yosif near Acco) was a very fertile creator in the subjects of Kabbalah, ethics and literature. In many circles of traditional Judaism, the Ramhal is revered owing to his scholarly works and his work on ethical behavio…
In the turn of the twenty-first century, some western scholars still hold that no classical rhetoric exists except classical Greek rhetoric. This paper presents the evidence to show that classical Chinese rhetoric is not only a natural practice but also a study of effective disc…
This dissertation examines the discourse generated by students and teachers at an American missionary school in Constantinople (Istanbul) between 1871, the year the school was founded, and 1923, the year of the Ottoman Empire's end and the Turkish Republic's beginning. From its …