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Negotiating Acceptance: A Sociocultural Analysis of Second Language Users’ Constructions of Speakerhood in Cherokee Nation Language Revitalization
(2014-05-09)
Language revitalization has the major goal of creating new speakers, and the approaches and ideologies employed in the journey toward this goal are multiple and diverse. This research project presents the experiences and ...
Social Interaction among Late Archaic and Incipient Agricultural Groups in the North American Southwest
(2014-05-09)
This study proposes that the transition to agriculture in the North American Southwest caused changes in social group relationships, especially in terms of cooperation and competition over land use. The research will ...
Wister Area Fourche Maline: A Contested Landscape
(2014-05-09)
The Wister area of southeastern Oklahoma was a contested landscape during the Fourche Maline (Late Woodland cultural period). This claim is supported by paleopathological evidence for high rates of skeletal trauma and ...
Community Perspectives, Language Ideologies, and Learner Motivation in Chickasaw Language Programs
(2014-12-12)
This study examines language ideologies in the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, in the context of various efforts to revitalize this Muskogean language. There are approximately sixty-five remaining first language speakers out ...
COMMUNICABILITY, WELLNESS, AND RURAL HEALTH ECONOMICS: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA
(2014-05-09)
Through an analysis of chronotopic discourses, or discourses that provide meaning in connection to time and space, focused on the (re)definition of rurality in relation to health, this dissertation examines the overall ...