This study explores the linguistic landscape and sociolinguistic context of an expanding circle country, namely Mongolia. German, Korean, Japanese, and Turkish, in addition to English, Russian, and Chinese, are used by Mongolians to varying degrees, placing Mongolia in a unique …
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The dissertation is a catalogue of the artifacts of hand-held weapons which have been excavated in the southern Levant in Iron Age II contexts and which were published with an accompanying drawing or photograph. The intent has been to place in one easily accessible volume repres…
Foreign language learners come to the literature classroom possessing a native language and a culture that could be very different from the English language and its cultures. This could have profound effects on how these learners interact with and respond to the literature of th…
This dissertation explores the peculiarity that though the river term (nāru(m)/nhr/ nāhār) occurs 119 times, in the Hebrew Bible there are no rivers in Israel. The meaning of wadi (nahallu( m)/nhl/nahal), the torrential flow from winter rains or the gorge that remains when the w…
This dissertation explores the meaning of five psalms in the Septuagint version (104, 105, 110, 111, 112), not as interpreted in their reception history but as intended by their translator. The basis for distinguishing the production of a translated document from its reception h…
This study examines the relationship between sound and meaning in medieval Arabic linguistic theory, with particular attention given to the work of Ibn Jinni. The historical background of discussions of the relationship between sound and meaning in the Arabic linguistic traditio…
This thesis investigates the binding of overt and null subject pronouns in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition of Turkish. The aim is to provide a comparative investigation of language transfer effects in the ultimate state of the L2 and L1 grammar…
This dissertation is divided into six chapters. Chapter one provides an introduction. Chapter two treats methodological concerns. Chapter three is titled "Semantic Nuances of the Term (n/a): Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Analyses." Chapter four discusses "Literary and Poetic Anal…
This study in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology examines how efforts to promote "traditional medicine" in postcolonial Senegal have opposed but ironically borrowed from Western biomedicine, redefining the role of the healer and the therapeutic process. In typical encount…
This case study describes the educational, social, and cultural experiences of three Arab Muslim high school students in the ESL program of a southeastern state of U.S. During the fall of 2009, the researcher spent an average of two days a week with the participants and their fa…
This dissertation investigates the different strategies which Arab American writers used in their writings in English in order to express or convey Arab culture. I used a combination of linguistic and literary analyses. Within the linguistic analysis I use discourse analysis as …