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This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…

From its very inception, Spanish literature has recognized a commingly of the literary and the popular in a relationship that could be defined as symbiotic. From earliest times, this bonding was evident in the muwassahas or stanzas written in classical Arabic that were integrate…

This dissertation investigates the nature of the speech produced during the sangkep , which are periodic council meetings attended by members of the banjar , a traditional sociopolitical institution in Bali, Indonesia. These meetings comprise a fundamental decision-making body w…

The purpose of this study is to track the diachronic development of exemplar clusters formed by the adjectives in the Spanish expression of becoming quedar(se) + ADJ (e.g. quedar(se) solo 'to be left alone', quedar(se) espantado 'to get scared'). This approach applies the same s…