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Crime scene of the mind: Prohibition, enjoyment, and the criminal profiler in film and television
(2007-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation traces the evolution of the FBI agent in American popular culture from the 1930s to the present day. Until the 1950s, the FBI agent's symbolic status as an elite moral crusader ...
Adventures in intercultural listening
(2006-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Introspective, exploratory study of how two American English teachers living abroad managed or resolved the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural challenges they encountered when listening to ...
Speech act of greeting performed by Russian EFL learners
(2016-05)
The present study centers on interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics. It investigates semantic formulas in the speech act of greeting performed by Russian EFL learners. In particular, it compares the non-native speakers' ...
V is what democracy looks like: Image politics and the Guy Fawkes mask
(2017-07)
How do political demonstrators use the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta to persuade viewers to engage in actions of dissent in both online and corporeal environments? In seeking an answer, I identify important connections ...
Discourse of writing center interaction: The "or" as an emergent discourse space
(2014-05)
In response to the call for more inquiry-based research in the field of Writing Center Studies, this research employs a discourse-analytic methodology to examine consultation talk and uncover more about interaction between ...
Discursive constructions of sociolinguistic differences: A rhetorical analysis
(2017-05)
This study offers a new approach to language attitudes and ideologies which applies argumentation theory in a discourse-based analysis of the processes of sociolinguistic indexicality. This method is presented in the context ...
Covert pragmatic transfer: Intercultural pragmatics among Korean learners of English as a second language
(2015-05)
The present study centers on cross-cultural interlanguage pragmatics. It aims to investigate the nature and conditions of pragmatic transfer among Korean learners of English as a second language. This study examines the ...
Comparative study of the oral proficiency of Chinese learners of English: A discourse marker perspective
(2009-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study investigates the use of discourse markers by Chinese college-level learners of English. It compares the use of discourse markers by students at different proficiency levels. An audio-video ...