Sadr al-Din Qunavi (605/1207-673AH/1274 CE)--stepson and pupil of Ibn \rmʿArabi (d. 638 AH/1240 CE)--played a pivotal role in the development of Islamic intellectual history. His contributions in the medieval period helped alter the course of mystico-philosophical tradition, whi…
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This study explores the factors affecting the use of vernacular Bibles among people speaking minority languages in the complex sociolinguistic context of Northern Nigeria. The dissertation focuses on the use of vernacular Scriptures as they are impacted by leadership, literacy, …
The data for this dissertation were collected in two sites between February 1995 and May 1996. The predominant research site was a Yoruba community in Beaufort, South Carolina named b Oyotunji African Village. b Oyotunji a Yoruba word meaning "Oyo returns," refers to what the re…
In this thesis I present a brief grammar sketch of Fulfulde as spoken by the Wodaabe of Niger, giving special attention to the phonology of the language. One interesting aspect of Fulfulde morphophonology is the consonant gradation system which occurs in conjunction with the num…
This dissertation directed by Dr. Dennis Olson builds on the premise that the relative density of Chr's peculiar vocabulary is an accurate indicator of the degree of Chr's redaction of source material. It examines Chr's distinctive vocabulary for use in a multivariate statistica…
This dissertation examines the concepts of politeness, power and face within the framework of Brown and Levinson (1987) theory, and involves the application of their model to the task of characterizing the ways in which Tunisian men and women compare on politeness continua withi…
Research writing, as well as the choice of language in which to write it, involves highly complex and socially constructed elements of strategy and design. This situatedness is particularly manifest when research writing and publishing take place in a small, peripheral scientifi…
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that might explain why third secondary arts students in the Sultanate of Oman performed less well than science students on the English Language National Certificate Examinations. In particular, the study sought to determine wh…
This dissertation analyzes language games in six languages of Niger. These languages are: Fulfulde, Gurmancema, Hausa, Kanuri, Tamajaq and Zarma-Songhai. These languages are from different linguistic families, thus the typological similarities revealed in the structures of their…
The purpose of this study is to contribute new data to a dimension of African literature that remains little known: verbal art by women. This art, composed in African languages and conveyed orally, reveals values that are far more representative of the majority of African women …
This dissertation examines correlations between three phonological variables of urban Puerto Rican Spanish and four situational parameters. In addition to the situational variables, social variables also are analyzed. Lopez-Morales' investigation of phonological variables in San…
The notion of passive has been studied for years by many scholars. Most of the studies attempted to answer the question of what the passive is. However, the question remains unanswered. This dissertation is primarily concerned with the personal passive constructions (PP) in Russ…
This dissertation combines ethnographic and discourse analytic methods in studying conversational and picture-prompted extended discourse productions of Turkish preschool children. The first part characterizes the story-occasioning situations and conversations that surround the …
In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the ethical dimensions of leadership. James MacGregor Burns' (1978) watershed work, Leadership, heralds an intellectual breakthrough for grasping the significance of a moral level of consciousness that is universal. Alth…
This study is primarily concerned with the phonology of one Moroccan Arabic dialect, spoken in and around Sefrou in the centre of Morocco. The main goal of this dissertation is to describe several aspects of the phonology and morphology of Moroccan Arabic in terms of autosegment…
The majority of works in Arabic linguistics assume explicitly or implicitly that Modern Standard Arabic is indeed a uniform standard throughout the Arab world. This dissertation investigates the validity of this assumption, namely whether written Arabic is identical all over the…