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Laughing from the outside: Hipsters and American stand-up comedy
(2017-05)
In recent years, stand-up comedy has enjoyed increased attention from both popular and scholarly audiences for its potential as a forum for public intellectualism. This study traces this rise in prominence to the hipster ...
Language processing in Arabic-English bilinguals: A mixed methods investigation
(2017-05)
This study examines second language activation in Arabic-English bilinguals for whom Arabic was the first language. Modeling its design on Colome (2001), the research compared processing in a picture-phoneme matching task ...
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
Show and prove: The cinematic aesthetics of hip-hop
(2019-12)
One of the most important and far-reaching artistic movements of the 20th century, hip-hop transformed many areas of popular culture, from cartoons to fashion, visual arts to music composition. Its influence upon film and ...
Ludic Garden: The Work of Play in Composition and Rhetoric
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation explores the intersections between play and game studies and composition and rhetoric. Through an analysis of the provenance of the five canons of ancient rhetoric, invention, arrangement, style, memory, ...
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 ...