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Remembering Kin: Constructing Creek Tribal Sites of Memory
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation is a tribally-specific study of Creek texts, Alexander Posey's The Fus Fixico Letters, Joy Harjo's memoir Crazy Brave and Sterlin Harjo's documentary This May Be the Last Time, that focuses on manifestations ...
Speech act of greeting performed by Russian EFL learners
(2016-05)
The present study centers on interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics. It investigates semantic formulas in the speech act of greeting performed by Russian EFL learners. In particular, it compares the non-native speakers' ...
Collaborating Accountably: Interpersonal Antiracist Activism as a Site for Feminist Invitational Rhetoric and Writing Center Pedagogy
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation applies participatory action research and feminist ethnographic methods to study The Conversation Workshops, which teaches strategies for interpersonal antiracist activism using concepts from invitational ...
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 ...
Discourse of writing center interaction: The "or" as an emergent discourse space
(2014-05)
In response to the call for more inquiry-based research in the field of Writing Center Studies, this research employs a discourse-analytic methodology to examine consultation talk and uncover more about interaction between ...
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 ...
Covert pragmatic transfer: Intercultural pragmatics among Korean learners of English as a second language
(2015-05)
The present study centers on cross-cultural interlanguage pragmatics. It aims to investigate the nature and conditions of pragmatic transfer among Korean learners of English as a second language. This study examines the ...
Perceptions of academic writing by some Saudi graduate students studying in American universities
(2015-08)
The increasing number of the Saudi students who want to study in American universities has generated a need to explore their perceptions of academic writing for writing researchers and instructors to help them to be ...
Reception history of John Milton in Russia and the former Soviet Union (1745-2013)
(2014-05)
This study divides the reception history of John Milton in Russia and the former Soviet Union into three periods: pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet. The rationale for this division is rooted in the clear ideological ethos ...
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 ...