This dissertation explores the nature of narratives that construct the crime of rape. My controlling question is: If we create meaning in language as I believe we do, why have recent revisions in the linguistic constructions of the crime, such as reforms in rape laws and in inte…
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This dissertation combines a theoretical study of the literary field with an empirical study of the (West) German literary and collective memory. In this dissertation, the literary field is understood as a discourse that is framed by a changing memory about a difficult past and …
The following thesis is a study of Aras Ören's 1995 novel Berlin Savignyplatz. This novel moves away from the New Left's discourse on guest workers as helpless victims and toward a view that refuses to essentialize identities. The text does this by using instances of mass media …
This thesis explores the teaching and learning of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) in a Syrian Arab university (Tishreen University). It investigates the inherent contradictions in the position of EMP in an Arab-medium university by drawing on the socio-political and economic …
Recent changes in approaches to second language learning have meant that learning is increasingly seen as a social, rather than an individual activity, which involves negotiating membership of a new language community as well as technical mastery of the language. At the same tim…
Analysing political engagement is a book on the relationship between politics and the self. By means of a theoretical and methodological exploration of poststructuralist, pragmatist and linguistic pragmatic approaches to discourse and subjectivity, the author constructs an inter…
In this study I challenge the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. From a post-structuralist feminist position I show that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women. This di…