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Native American English in Oklahoma: Attitudes and vitality
(2015-05)
This study offers an assessment of the subjective ethnolinguistic vitality (SEV) of Native American-accented English varieties--or just Native American English (NAE)--among tribal people in Oklahoma through an investigation ...
Skewed subject: A topological study of subjectivity in Bollywood films
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation studies the rise and fall of Lacanian film theory from the 1960s to the present. After discussing the charges brought against Lacanian film theory from schools of thought as ...
Shotgun Situation: A collection of short stories and an introduction
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Creative Writing
Explicit apologies in English and Romanian. A construction grammar approach
(2011-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The aim of the present study is to investigate the construal of explicit apologies in American English and Romanian from a Construction Grammar perspective. A discourse analysis methodology using ...
What keeps me up at night: An autoethnography of new motherhood
(2016-07)
New motherhood is messy and wild and unstructured. Its shape, if motherhood has a shape, is amorphous and pliable like melted glass. This evocative autoethnography, a collection of experimental flash essays and reflective ...
Changes in the use of the passive voice over time: A historical look at the American Journal of Botany and the changes in the use of the passive voice from 1914-2008
(2010-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study looks at 15 articles from the American Journal of Botany - 5 articles from 1914-1918, 5 articles from 1962-1966, and 5 articles from 2004-2008 - to determine if and how the use of the ...
Public punishment versus private judgment: Anti-gallows sentiment and criminal reform in antebellum literature 1772-1855
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Drawing upon historical, sociological, and cultural studies, this dissertation addresses how the literary work of antebellum American writers contributed to anti-capital punishment sentiment and ...
Shakespeare's sea creatures
(2017-05)
This dissertation analyzes Shakespeare's oceanic characters in The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Using three distinct categories of aquatic creatures, I investigate Shakespeare's ...
Composing place
(2015-12)
In James Berlin's, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Cultures, he outlines how Social-Epistemic Rhetoric (SER) can inform composition theory and pedagogy. Much of Berlin's aim is to show how theories of SER can be used as a tool to ...
Associative model of code switching: Mandarin-Taiwanese code switching in spoken media discourse in Taiwan
(2015-05)
This dissertation proposes an associative model of CS to analyze the phenomena of code switching (CS). Specifically, the associative model of CS is applied to speakers' use of Taiwanese in Mandarin-dominant spoken media ...