Democracy is in crisis around the world. Boosted by global phenomena such as globalization and the development of internet, along with a series of crises, which widened the gap between the elite and citizens, this trend was characterized by the rise of populism in both mature de…
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Миграције са Блиског истока, Северне Африке и Азије, односно мигрантска криза доспела је у фокус медијског извештавања у Централној и Југоисточној Европи након пролећа 2015. године када је у овај регион пристигао највећи талас миграната. Тема миграције је и данас присутна у меди…
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 study focuses on the education of students who have been adopted internationally and are now learning English in school. Teachers typically have little training for—or experience with—working with these learners. Largely an unstudied area, this dissertation aims to shed lig…
This project examines the role of honor as a moral economy in the factional competition that enables and constrains Iran's foreign policy preference formation. Honor is treated as a currency and resource by which faction leaders recruit new members, challenge other faction leade…
This study investigated how students use knowledge and strategies from their out-of-school environments to construct knowledge and solve problems during scientific experimentation. In addition this study aimed to develop a methodology for understanding students' reasoning proces…
This project exegetically examines each of the three texts of Melchizedek, Genesis 14, Psalm 110 and Hebrews 5–7, and the relationships between the three texts. These three texts provide a test case for this project to describe an interpretative phenomenon, generally called an i…
This dissertation examines Assyrian and Hebrew military conquest accounts utilizing comparative historiography. Assyrian historiography has been vigorously studied in the last decade. Royal inscriptions were examined for Assyriological historiographic techniques. Hebrew conquest…
Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to examine the similarities and differences between Arabic and English speakers in their language use in panel news interviews. Using discourse analysis, this study performed a descriptive, comparative, and analytical exam…
This dissertation attempts to answer two questions related to the significance of John 17 in the Fourth Gospel. First, does John 17 serve to summarize the themes of the Fourth Gospel as so many scholars suggest? Second, if so, is there any discernible pattern in the thematic rel…
Iran's foreign policy is consistent and is fundamentally realist with a revolutionist vision while the means are rationalist is the central argument of this dissertation. I make use of the English Schools three traditions of realism, rationalism and revolutionism in analyzing th…
This thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', …
This research examined the role of communication – and in particular public relations (PR) and public affairs activities – in the decision-making processes around the proposal to build a bypass road around the city of Aberdeen. The study focused on the relative power of various …
Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific me…
Patients' use of medicines is widely recognised as sub-optimal with a high proportion of patients with a long-term condition not taking their medicines as prescribed. Research and policy guidance emphasise the importance of partnership within the patient-prescriber encounter in …
This multi-disciplinary study explores a field of enquiry at the boundaries of information science and development studies. It is concerned with the facilitation of knowledge processes - processes of knowledge exchange and co-creation - in the international development sector. A…
Background: This research explored regulation and professionalism with respect to the current state of professional practice for hospital pharmacy technicians. Since July 2011 pharmacy technicians must register with the General Pharmaceutical Council in order to practise. An ack…
The social and political history of Catalonia has long been dominated by debates about language, nation and identity and forty years of linguistic and cultural repression have impacted the sociocultural landscape of the region. The new millennium and new nationalist/gendered ide…
This thesis critically examines the predominant narratives which emanated from political discourse in relation to two significant events in Scotland in 2014 the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the independence referendum. In particular, the thesis scrutinises the extent to which …