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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Politics of Language"”.
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
This thesis explores the issues of language and power in the Qing Empire’s (1644-1911) northeastern borderlands within the larger context of political reforms in late Qing China between 1890 and 1911. To the present, much research on the history of language in late Qing China continues to fall …
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The Politics of Language and Writing: Multiculturalism and Other Socially Constructed Issues in the College Composition Classroom
The premise of my thesis is that composition and rhetoric has been politicized by socially constructed issues such as race, culture, class, economics, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. Composition and rhetoric have also been politicized by the traditional definition of politics--the notion of …
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Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing
… in American society is the ideology, theory and politics of language literacy so emphatically revealed than in the hopeful and daunting attempt by Basic Writing students to leap-frog their way over the real socio-cultural, linguistic and/or politically constructed remedial barriers and into the …
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Policy Processes in Relation to Language in Tanzania: Examining Shifts in Language Policy
The politics of globalization have played a significant role in shaping the current state of education around the world. One of the most important elements of the new global agenda involves the politics of language. In the case of the African continent and other developing nations worldwide, …
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Policy processes in relation to language in Tanzania: Examining shifts in policy
The politics of globalization have played a significant role in shaping the current state of education around the world. One of the most important elements of the new global agenda involves the politics of language. In the case of the African continent and other developing nations worldwide, …
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Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity
This doctoral thesis examines the phenomena of hapax legomena, words which are used only once in a given text or corpus, in Dante’s *Commedia*. Hapax in Dante’s work have previously been interpreted mostly in terms of the poet’s contribution to the Italian language. Hapax are defined in these works …
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Language and the politics of Roman identity
This thesis examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest sense as the political and cultural practices involved in being Roman. It focuses on evidence of multilingualism: Roman identity was defined through opposition and interaction, and it is at points of …
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Language, politics and the Halpulaar'en of Mauritania
This dissertation is an historical look at the politics of language of the Pulaar in Mauritania, West Africa. An overview of the linguistic characteristics of Pulaar and the cultural geography of the Pulaar is provided. Historically, the Pulaar have had to face racist attacks of violence upon …
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Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine
<p>Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, attempts at nation-building in newly independent Ukraine were stymied by disagreements over two competing narratives of national identity. Both the Eastern Slavic and ethnic Ukrainian national identity complexes evolved over the course of …
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"Welshness politicized, Welshness submerged: the politics of ""politics"" and the pragmatics of language community in north-west Wales"
… investigates the normative construction of a politics of language and community in north-west Wales (United Kingdom). It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted primarily between January 2007 and April 2008, with central participant-observation settings in primary-level state schools …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
… staatgemaak op die metafoorteorie van George Lakoff (1993), Mark Johnson (1987), Lakoff en Johnson (1980, 1999), Zoltan Kövecses (1997, 2010) en Joseph Grady. Verder word beginsels uit die kritiese diskoersanalise betrek, na aanleiding van Michel Foucault (2002), Jonathan Charteris-Black (2004) …