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This study was an effort to describe and understand the communication function of the Royal Commission of Inquiry in the Somalia Affair in Canada. A major political scandal in Canada, the Somalia Affair was initially marked by the torture and death of a Somalia man at the hands …

This dissertation explores the interests that are served by two discourses in which the phrase "new covenant" plays an important role. The work attempts to explain the discrepancies between the way in which the new covenant is construed in the Damascus Document and in Paul's Sec…

This interpretive case study identifies discursive processes that support the emergence of transformative dialogic moments in the engagement of socially and historically defined group differences. Social construction and communication theory as well as relational theory provide …

This dissertation presents an investigation of the formal and functional properties of rhetorical questions in the Quran, based on their high occurrences in the text (809 rhetorical questions in total). Unlike previous analyses of rhetorical questions, this study employs a multi…