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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Linguistic Anthropology"”.
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The sociolinguistic construction of reality in the closing arguments of criminal trials
… dissertation is a critical analysis of the sociolinguistic choices lawyers make in the closing arguments of criminal trials to construct opposing representations of the same people and events. I analyzed the closing arguments of seventeen felony trials using both quantitative and qualitative …
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Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children
Bringing together medical and linguistic anthropology, I examine the provision of hearing technology, such as cochlear implants, to deaf Jordanian children, a project animated by an imperative to make deaf children speak. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork at a cochlear implantation initiative and …
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Elementary school teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism and language policy: Kazan, Russia
… policy, TESOL and multilingual education, and linguistic anthropology help understand the role of teachers in language education. Of particular interests are teachers’ attitudes towards multilingualism and language policies, namely, the learning and teaching of national (Russian), titular …
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Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint -Louis, Senegal
… age groups in multilingual communities, and that linguistic processes that go along with lexical borrowings also follow the same pattern. Finally, this study contributes to our understanding of how linguistic, cultural, political and ideological systems around the world articulate with one another …
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De-creating Language Borders at the University of Cape Town: “The Fall of English” and the Rise of African Languages in Education
… meeting at the intersection of social and linguistic anthropology, this thesis grapples with the critical questions: “What is language at UCT? And what does language do?”
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The problem with belief: the history and present of discursive violence in policing rape
… to sexual assault complaints. Pulling from linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, and gender studies, and employing the theories/concepts of feminist scholars of color and Critical Race theorists, I place my dissertation under an approach I call Decolonial Feminist Linguistic Anthropology. …
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Diamonds as Development: Suffering for Opportunity in the Canadian North
… at the intersection of socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology, this ethnographic investigation of the Canadian diamond boom of the 2000s illustrates how imagining stable livelihoods despite a record of impermanence and crises depends on integrating and reframing past failures with …
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Dual language bilingual education program implementation : teacher language ideologies and local language policy
… on a language policy framework and research in linguistic anthropology to define language ideologies, I employed a multi-method approach (survey (n=323 educators), interview (n=20 DLBE teachers) and observation (n=3 DLBE teachers)) to measure and better understand language ideology and its …
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The Sociocultural Milieux of ‘Chinese’ Language Learning in Belfast: Diaspora and Difference
… it investigates the inter-linkage between linguistic practices and claimed ‘Chinese identities’, the formation of ‘Chinese community’ through linguistic practices; and the workings of diasporic institutions such as Chinese language schools. It pays close attention to the ways in which …
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
This dissertation explores the social and linguistic contexts of Shen Congwen's literary works, with a particular focus on (1) the way his works enriched and stratified nationalist ideology/narratives and (2) the linguistic ideologies, the historical images and the literary images registered as …
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Styling academic discourse: a sociocultural account of writing styles across disciplines
… Drawing on literature from fields such as sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and from case studies of advanced academic writers in multiple disciplines, I contribute a new, sociocultural definition in which style is not a static, homogeneous artifact but a dynamic activity in which …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… address enduring questions within the fields of linguistic anthropology, language education, and Latinx (media) studies through a multi-sited ethnography centered around three focal field sites: (1) a Spanish-language community radio program I call La Gran Comunidad Latina (LGCL); (2) a …
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… as location' (traditional dialectology and sociolinguistics) and 'place as meaning' (ethnography and linguistic anthropology) to explore the relationship between geographical place, local social meanings and linguistic variation. Theoretically, I make use of the concept of indexicality, following …
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PUBLIC, PRIVATE, PAST, AND PRESENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LANGUAGE AND MUSICAL STRUCTURES OF KOTIRIA/WANANO WOMEN’S KAYA BASA ‘SAD SONGS’
… (McDowell 1990) kaya basa ‘sad songs’ using linguistic and musical resources to construct songs that express loneliness and other private emotions, while also creating alliances and separations from other women in their lives. A central concept is the practice of linguistic exogamy, in which …
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The language socialisation experiences of a grade r child in a black middle-class multilingual family
… It uses a socio-cultural approach, drawing from linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics to critically analyse the language ideologies, language practices and linguistic repertoires evident in both the home and school domains across which the young child traverses. …
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"Welshness politicized, Welshness submerged: the politics of ""politics"" and the pragmatics of language community in north-west Wales"
… In engaging with current analytic strategies in linguistic anthropology, my “inferentialist” and pragmatistic strategy frames the politicizing of language and community in north-west Wales using an alternative to linguistic indexes or icons, which are grounded in an empirical sense of necessity. …
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An ethnography of 'courage' among U.S. Marines
… of human movement, provided in the work of linguistic and socio-cultural anthropologists Drid Williams and Brenda Farnell (referred to as semasiology). It also requires a robust conception of agent causality applicable to the social sciences emerging from a critical realist philosophy of …
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Language Ideologies and Orthographies: Developing a Writing System for Than Ówîngeh
<p>The use of writing to represent the heritage language represents a contentious issue for many members of Puebloan societies in the American Southwest. Many community members resist the use of writing for this purpose on the grounds that it acts as a form of colonialism, while others accept the …
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