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From one to many, from many to one: Speech communities in the Muskogee stompdance population.
(1997)Sociolinguists use speech communities as their units of analysis. While widely used, the concept of the speech community has never been defined precisely. Many sociolinguists assume the populations they study are speech ... -
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ... -
From Outcast to Established Players - The Transformation of Non-Democratic Parties After Democratization
(2011)This dissertation investigates and examine how the Kuomintang has -
FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE TO A THEORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRAXIS: PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY, AND MEANING IN MULTIMODAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
(2016-05)Linguistics has prioritized the auditory mode of transmission in language at the expense of written forms and their relevance to the social construction of meaning and identity. Due to the privilege of spoken language as ... -
FROM PINK TO DETOURNEMENT: THE SEMIOTICS OF RADICAL QUEER DESIRES ON INTERNET SPACES
(2012)This research explores the way queer political groups use symbolic capital in their web presences. It seeks to read semiotically how images deployed in queer Internet spaces can create and reinforce queer identities. This ... -
From Red Dirt to Red State: Oklahoma and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
(2016-05-14)This thesis details the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) debate in Oklahoma from 1972 to 1982. It is a multifaceted story of how both local and national factors, race, religion, family ties, gender norms, politics, and feminism ... -
From self-made men to crusading women: The gendered evolution of the American temperance movement in the nineteenth century.
(2004)During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it seemingly evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women of the WCTU. But this ... -
From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma’s OER Efforts
(2018-12)In February, 2013, University of Oklahoma (OU) president, David Boren, issued a letter to all OU faculty members highlighting the high cost of textbooks, expressing his strong “support for the move to open access materials ... -
From the Graveyard Shift to the Benzene Plume: Visualizing Embodied Work Experience at the Former B.F. Goodrich Tire Factory in Miami, Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)From the time of its construction in 1944, to its eventual closure on February 28, 1986, the B.F. Goodrich Tire Factory in Miami, Oklahoma has played an important role in the community. During its 40-year lifetime, it was ... -
From the Mundane to the Profound: Developing a Political Model of Weather Information Processing and Climate Change Beliefs
(2019-08)This dissertation examines the relationships between the mundane, our daily habits of weather information collection, and the profound, our beliefs about climate change and relevant policy solutions. Climate change is a ... -
From the neighborhood to the nation: The social history of midnight basketball.
(1998)This study provides a narrative account of the phenomenon known as Midnight Basketball. It focuses upon the transformation of Midnight Basketball from a one-man basement operation to national organization and, finally, to ... -
From Tripod to Cosmos: A New Metaphor for the Language Arts
(1998-02)This article discusses the old tripod model of language arts teaching, language, literature and composition and introduces a new model with eight petals (the cosmos flower), including technology, speech and drama, critical ... -
From zero-tolerance to restorative practices: a narrative inquiry of the transition in policy and practice
(2020-12-04)This dissertation explores an educational leader’s unique journey to establish a new culture for school discipline in a Midwest urban middle school. This study chronicles three years of the implementation of restorative ... -
FROM “BOTTOMLESS BASKET” TO “BEAUTIFUL BANGLADESH”: TOURISM ADVERTISING AS PUBLIC DIPLOMACY TOOL
(2017-05)This study measures the attitude toward Bangladesh, its people and its government among a group of international respondents from 40 different countries before and after watching a television commercial. This commercial, ... -
Frontier defense expenses of Texas.
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FRONTIERS, BORDERLANDS AND SCALES IN SOUTHEASTERN ASIA
(2017)This dissertation is designed to address problems exemplified by Willem van Schendel with a vast and visually recognized mountainous area in southeastern Asia that is not considered a region. He suggested theoretical work ... -
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Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems
(PLos One, 2010-09-01)BackgroundSale of organic foods is one of the fastest growing market segments within the global food industry. People often buy organic food because they believe organic farms produce more nutritious and better tasting ...