This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…
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A comprehensive model was proposed to explain the relative importance of country-of-manufacturer (COM) and brand image on product evaluation, attitudes, and purchase intention for hybrid products on the basis of quality dimensions identified in the current study (ease of use, de…
This thesis investigates the role of the jaw in the articulation of Arabic, French, and Korean consonants. Using jaw position data, it tests two recently developed theories of the relationship between phonological and phonetic representations: Keating's Window model and Browman …
Korean's worldview is heavily shaped by Confucianism that seeks cosmic harmony through well-ordered relationships. Individual acts typically are thought to have universal import. Thus one must ever evaluate one's role and duties lest one's own ambitions undermine the corporate p…
This dissertation is concerned with three primary issues: (i) the distribution and function of inflectional morphemes in Korean, (ii) the syntactic placement and semantic interpretation of the inflectional morphemes, and (iii) their interactions with Universal Grammar. In discus…
Religion plays a major role that defines and preserves ethnic life and character in the United States. In the case of first-generation Korean immigrants, as an ethnic organization, the Korean immigrant church functions as a center of resistance to cultural assimilation. On the o…
This dissertation aims to deepen our understanding of free word order phenomena or "scrambling." It offers a unified approach to some fundamental limitations on scrambling both in clauses and in noun phrases of Korean. These would have been attributed to a headedness parameter i…
The main purpose of this dissertation is to identify the prominent channels through which financial decisions are transmitted to real economic activities with three different empirical studies. The first essay examines investment behavior and the effects of financing constraints…
This dissertation surveys Korean Baptist missionaries' work in Kazakhstan and recommends some effective strategies for twenty-first-century missions for Korean missionaries. The writer presents major emerging issues in world evangelization and explains the need for the study in …
This dissertation examines the semantic analyses of the Korean locative particles -ey and -eyse and the Turkish locative particles -(y )A,- d A, - d An . Specifically, this study proposes a cognitive network model of the locative expressions in Korean and Turkish based on the st…
This thesis interprets and critiques what is termed the 'myth of oneness' within the western philosophical and theological tradition, seeking to help transform South Korean Christianity, especially its perspective on other religions, and its attitude toward the reunification of …
This study investigates the L2 acquisition of the Korean and Indonesian number systems by adult learners in light of the Feature-Reassembly Approach (henceforth FRA, Lardiere 2009). In considering this approach, Montrul and Yoon (2009) further suggest that subtracting or unlearn…
Whether there is a one-to-one mapping between semantic categories and their syntactic counterparts has been the subject of extensive research in linguistic theory (e.g. Grimshaw 1979; Pesetsky 1982; Sadock 1991). Degree expressions are a case study for the investigation of the e…
This dissertation describes an approach to automatically detecting and correcting grammatical errors in text produced by Korean language learners. Specifically, we focus on Korean particles, which have a range of functions including case marking and indicate properties similar t…
This dissertation confronts the difficulty in explaining the market pressures against the rupiah and the won during their currency crises of 1997–98. The crises are viewed in the context of multiple equilibria in financial markets, where the sudden rise in the market pressure is…
Traditional Chinese dynasties viewed their interactions with foreign people in terms of the tribute system. Although the Chinese side always represented the relationship as its suzerainty over other states, the actual relations between China and its neighbors encompassed a wide …
The number of Korean American immigrants in Oregon has grown significantly in recent decades, yet not much attention has been paid to their faith practices and their participation in the local church. Furthermore, the way that these immigrants view a connection between their eth…
Spiritual Exercises aim to be free from sin, worldly desires, and attachments and follow God's will, just as Christ. Ignatius's practice aims at the process of sanctification through internal change and development. Furthermore, it will accommodate the Korean Protestant churches…
This dissertation is composed of two sections, a critical paper and a collection of fiction. The critical section discusses how metafictional techniques in three works of Asian American fiction, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, The Sympathizer, and Insurrecto, contribute to ethi…