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Caring for postcolonial animals
(2023-05)
“Caring for Postcolonial Animals” hopes to show that institutionalized discourses of animal welfare in the postcolony and the kind of representations these produce make it difficult to think of its many “humane” ideologies ...
Developing intercultural communication skills in entry-level technical professional communication courses: Qualitative insights on teaching materials, soft skills, and the use of the introduce-practice-apply-reflect (IPAR) model
(2022-05)
I provide considerations for TPC instructors and programs regarding developing students' IC skills. I start by examining key conversations and found that issues teaching IC arise when frameworks, texts, and/or individuals ...
On the development of a suite of tools for the analysis of Twitter discourse
(2022-05)
Social media has become a ubiquitous avenue of natural language use that represents an enormous amount of data, which has in the last decade been used in an increasing amount of linguistic research in such topics as regional ...
Illuminating collaborative talk in healthcare interactions with people with aphasia: Three linguistic approaches
(2021-07)
The works collated here provide evidence of the benefits of viewing communication with people with aphasia (PWA) as a joint interactional process and of applying linguistic methodologies to the study of discourse and ...
Usage-based construction grammar approach to Korean DO-causative constructions
(2023-05)
This dissertation examined the two Korean DO-syntactic causatives, V-key HA and V-tolok HA, from a usage-based construction approach. Previous studies on the two DO-causatives have been heavily grounded in traditional or ...
Centrality of writing materials in Saudi Arabian English classrooms: Evaluating L2 textbooks from an ecological perspective
(2020-07)
A number of studies have evaluated high school English textbooks in recent years. However, three gaps have not been addressed. The first gap is research has evaluated English textbooks by implementing a Likert-scale checklist ...
Language of reform: Stephen Marshall, John Milton, and Marchamont Nedham
(2021-07)
This dissertation examines the language of reform in the work of Stephen Marshall, John Milton, and Marchamont Nedham during the 1640s when constitutional and ecclesiastical crises led to civil war. There are various ...
Blooming: A memoir
(2022-05)
Blooming: A Memoir is a work of creative nonfiction about trauma, the body, faith, motherhood, nature, and disability. It's a story about how the first year of motherhood can break open the rawest parts of a body, a mind. ...
Overstepping the bounds: Domestic upheaval, removal, and personhood in nineteenth-century American women's writing
(2022-12)
This project discusses works by three nineteenth-century American women writers who wrote in the sentimental, domestic genre so popular with readers in an era that upheld domesticity, a dominant nineteenth-century ideology ...
Oklahoma drag and queer folk linguistics
(2020-07)
This dissertation studies the role language plays in a community of drag performers in Oklahoma City and how it contributes to identity construction. It reports on three years of observation and engagement with the community ...