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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Associative model of code switching: Mandarin-Taiwanese code switching in spoken media discourse in Taiwan
(2015-05)
This dissertation proposes an associative model of CS to analyze the phenomena of code switching (CS). Specifically, the associative model of CS is applied to speakers' use of Taiwanese in Mandarin-dominant spoken media ...
Increasing genre awareness in students in the first-year composition classroom at a two-year college
(2015-05)
This study investigates the use of the genre approach to teaching first-year composition in order to increase the genre awareness and transfer abilities of students. Previous research has shown that the genre approach is ...
Rhetoric of strength in writing studies and American culture
(2015-12)
This project aims to uncover, explore, and complicate a definition of the concept of strength as it occurs in writing studies and in American culture. To begin, I examine semiotics and rhetorical structures of strength, ...