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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 ...
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 ...
Complicating and clarifying disciplinary writing practices: The toggling move for building rhetorical flexibility
(2017-07)
Instructors across many disciplines integrate genre-based approaches into their instruction with the goal of preparing students to write effectively in academic and workplace settings. Though the instructional strategies ...
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 ...
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 ...
Predicting international teaching assistants' performance in a domain-specific test: The case of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and compensatory strategies
(2017-05)
International teaching assistant (ITA) assessment for screening purposes has gained crucial importance with the increase in the number of nonnative speaker graduate students across North American campuses. Although previous ...