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A contrastive study of Kiswahili and Spanish, two different languages both genetically and morphologically, and at the same time identical since they are both human languages. The study develops gradually, touching on themes related to language and communication, general linguis…

This thesis examines certain aspects of the hybrid sources of meaning within the film Disney's Aladdin. Using a transdisciplinary approach combining Social Theories of Discourse, Film Theory, Narratology, Visual Perception Theory, Cultural Studies, and Political Studies, this fi…

This dissertation analyzes processes of linguistic obsolescence and efforts for maintenance of the Arbresh language, an Albanian dialect spoken as a native language in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, since the 1480's, when Piana was founded by a group of Albanians who migrated to …

Scope and method of study. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between EFL learners' perceived reading strategies, vocabulary size, and reading comprehension. In addition to providing descriptive information about each variable in this relationship, th…

I investigate and write about a translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables into Yiddish that I had found in the New York socialist daily newspaper, the Forverts. I discovered that this piece of work was the second in line, a development from an earlier translation of the novel …

My Old Man Was Always On The Lam is a collection of poems that centers around the death of the narrator's transient father by stroke on the streets of Harlem. The underlying motif is the sense of loss and reclamation death brings, as well as the estrangement of an underdeveloped…

This doctoral dissertation, Pushing Limits of Language: Ethics and American Literature, focuses on the way 19th-century (and some 20th century-) American literature relates itself to ethics. I define the term ‘ethics’—using The Hebrew Bible, essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson, as w…

The present study explores the relationship between language and architecture as symbolic systems against the background of the creation of independent Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I. It takes as its focus the Prague Castle, and the intent of the first President of Cze…

There were two main purposes for this research and one parallel purpose. One main purpose was to investigate how learners of English in an EFL/ESL context, who were also teachers of English and/or learning to be teachers of English, perceived and responded to different types of …

Medieval S[dotbelow]ufi manuals all agree that al-Kharraz was one of the most notable S[dotbelow]ufi figures of his time. These sources mostly cite him as one who contributed to the S[dotbelow]ufi norm, more so, as one who contributed to the acceptable S[dotbelow]ufi norm which …

The current study investigates the difficulties Arabic speakers may encounter when pronouncing English consonants. All participants are adults who have been in contact with the American culture for at least four years. The results show that the Arabic speakers in this study had …