This study is an exploration into the nature of schizophrenic language and its specific linguistic features. The structural and symbolic nature of schizophrenic language has been a controversial topic for decades. What has been absent in previous studies of schizophrenic languag…
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This study investigates the extent to which gender practices and discourse in political, social and economic spheres are conditioned by cultural taboos and contexts in the rural Esan society of Nigeria. An ethnographic approach was employed in the study. Extensive fieldwork was …
Dizin (Dizi) is an Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia with three main dialects. This thesis focuses on Central Dizin phonology and morphology, but includes some data from Eastern Dizin and Western Dizin. Prolonged language contact with Amharic has affected the sound sy…
A major portion of Olivier Messiaen's music imitates birdsongs. Even for a composer known for his stylistic independence, this "bird style" seems unusually idiosyncratic. His worldwide sojourns to transcribe birdsongs appertain more to ornithology, it would seem, than to music c…
Tigre is spoken by between 10 and 20 percent of the approximately 3.8 million inhabitants of Eritrea (East Africa). While there are a dozen Tigre-speaking groups, only one dialect, that of the Mensa' ethnic group, has been recorded grammatically, lexically, and textually. The re…
Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consum…
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 is a comparative study of young, educated, professional and urban women in Morocco and women of Moroccan origin in France. It is a qualitative study examining attitudinal changes and discerning cultural trends based on in-depth interviews with samples in Morocco and in Fran…
This research is an analysis and summary of the field of dialogue. It seeks to determine whether dialogue can be considered a field of study and, if so, what defines it and from where does it emerge. While many individuals often speak of an existing field of study and practice, …
This work examines principles and theories of literary translation such as literal and non-literal fidelity to the original writing, translational transparency and visibility, and the concepts of "foreignization" and "domestication" in a translated text. Conclusions drawn here a…
This was an exploratory study aimed at defining more sharply the pedagogical and practical challenges entailed in designing and creating computer-based game-type simulations for learning Arabic as a foreign language. Because of the current state of affairs, this study focused on…
The objective of this study is to show how translation contributes to the "Orientalist" project and to the past and present knowledge of the Orient as it has been shaped by different disciplines such as anthropology, history and literature. In order to demonstrate this, I have d…