Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Language and identity"”.
-
Exploring Non-binary Genders: Language and Identity
… negotiate their identities, their authenticity, and their embodied experiences through language. Twenty-two non-binary-identified people living in the UK were interviewed for this project. Those same participants also provided writing samples which were included in the analysis. Additionally, a …
-
Language and Identity among Adolescent Heritage Spanish Students
This dissertation describes the language and identity trajectories of twelve purposefully selected heritage Spanish adolescents who were currently studying in a heritage language program within an urban high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These twelve students represented six sibling groups and …
-
British Latino: language and identity across mediated contexts
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
-
SPEAKING OF GENDER, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY: WRITING THE PERSONAL
… hybrid forms of writing that merge theory and practice, and scripts for live performance and digital film. To these examples I apply an autobiographical writing method, one that simultaneously reflects and creates, in an enquiry designed to uncover the detail and complexity of my writing …
-
Lithuanian emigrant family: language and identity. Summary of doctoral dissertation /
When two languages collide in the context of emigration, the heritage language is in danger of extinction because the two languages are different in size, power, vitality, and prestige. The main aims of this dissertation are to investigate specific factors that help to maintain the Lithuanian …
-
Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
… four publications exploring variation, change and the social meaning of phonetic features in the context of ongoing linguistic and social change in South East England as related to the Cockney Diaspora. This term refers to the large-scale 20th century relocation of white, working-class East …
-
Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
… recognize Sky Lees "Disappearing Moon Cafe" and Wayson Choys "The Jade Peony" for breaking the silence over issues that Chinese Canadians faced in the 1990s such as racism and lack of representation. However, there has not been much discussion on Lee and Choy's exploration of language and …
-
The Post-Colonial Language and Identity Experiences of Transnational Kenyan Teachers in U.S. Universities
… experienced marginalization of their African languages and identities in both the Kenyan and the United States contexts, but reclaimed those languages and identities as important assets in their teaching of English language. The study asked: What are the post-colonial language and identity …
-
Facebook as Transnational Space: Language and Identity among 1.5 and Second Generation Mexicans in Chicago
… Facebook. By focusing on four emic criteria – language, skin color, transnationalism, and culture display and practice – this project examines the ways in which network members’ participation on Facebook supports and complicates two major practices – displaying of identity, and displaying of a …
-
New speaker language and identity: Practices and perceptions around Breton as a regional language of France
… equivalent to the categories of new speakers and traditional speakers used more universally in more recent work. In the case of Breton, the conceptualisation of these two categories entails a number of stereotypes; one of the most salient concerns the lexicon, specifically issues around newer …
-
What are they learning?: Negotiations of language and identity within a third space after school program
… that third space is a strong tool for understanding the dynamic between literacy learning and collaborations in an after school program. I make the case for an inclusion of socio-political discussions among sociocultural discussions of literacy in after school programs for an interdisciplinary …
-
Bwana asifiwe in the USA : language and identity in East African Christian fellowships in the United States
In an effort to expand the sociolinguistic knowledge regarding the East African diaspora, this dissertation investigates the linguistic repertoires and language attitudes of transnational populations from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, who have established Kiswahili-language churches and Christian …
-
Modes of Resistance: Memory, Language and Identity in the Performance of Assyrian Liturgy in Iraq and Beyond
… rite, the Assyrian Church of the East liturgy and music have been the guardian of the Assyrian Christian faith, language and culture for more than a millennium. With the Church’s core activities happening in Mesopotamia, its liturgical music provides additional insight into the history of …
-
Language and Identity Management Across Media: A Communities of Practice Study of a Greek-Cypriot Student Society in Britain
This work focuses on identity management across media by focusing on a Greek-Cypriot student Society in London. By employing a Communities of Practice framework which focuses on engagement in social practice, the present work deals with issues of community making processes across media as well as …
-
Intersections of language and identity in bilingual instruction: A case study on translanguaging pedagogies in a K-6 Spanish-English dual language institution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
-
Performing Ethnographic Inquiry into America's Black Youth Culture: The Impact of Hip Hop and Rap Music on Today's Youth Society
… of Rose (1994a, 1994b), Dimitriadis (2001), and Kitwana (2002), I explored impact of the hip hop culture in the areas of fashion, language and identity through the lens of young black males. To provide relevant theories for promoting higher academic achievement in African American males, I …
-
Semiotic and Discursive Displays of Tamazight Identity on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Revitalization Efforts in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
… dissertation examines the online discourses and semiotic resources employed by the Tunisian Amazigh community in their language and identity revitalization efforts on Facebook in wake of the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. Drawing on insights from discourse-centered online ethnography …
-
Afro-Latino Language Attitudes and Identity in the United States and Latin America
… project sought to collectively study the identity and linguistic attitudes of Afro-Latinos in the diaspora and in the homeland. The diaspora being the United States and the homeland being Latin America and Bogotá, Colombia. This study employs Tabouret-Keller’s (1998) concepts on language …
-
A sociolinguistic study of language use and identity amongst Galician young adults
… The study examines the relationship between language and identity amongst Galician students and recent graduates aged 18 to 25 years, looking specifically at the way in which the identity one desires to portray affects one’s linguistic choices, and inversely how one’s linguistic choices …
Page 1 of 3