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Cognitive concept of game in American English and Hungarian
(2008-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study explores the meaning of the concept of game for speakers of American English and Hungarian by investigating the exemplars of the category, their attributes, and their links to 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 ...
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 ...
Influence of composing strategy on the comprehensibility of technical documents in English
(2006-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study investigated whether readers comprehend English single-sourced texts with cohesive devices differently from single-sourced texts without cohesive devices, and whether native and ...
Female creator
(2007-05)
American thighs' and other stories: A short story manuscript with a critical introduction
(2005-12)
Scope and Method of Study: American Thighs, consists of short stories written over a four year period (2001-2005). The majority of the stories were written for fiction workshops with Toni Graham and Andrea Koenig. Operating ...
Metaphorical expressions in Indian English: A cross-cultural usage-based study
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This exploratory study on the use of metaphors in an indigenized variety of English--Indian English--sought to discover the degree to which the language varied or stayed close to the norm-giving ...
Baby's blues
(2001-08)