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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Power of language"”.
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(Re)Presentations of Sexual Violence Against Women: An Analysis of Media Reports of Rape
… a problem with attitudes that blame the victim of sexual assault: these attitudes are widespread and show popular adhesion to assumptions about rape that have been criticized and combatted by feminists. These assumptions are known as “rape myths.” It is important to look at the role newspapers …
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Reclaiming Rhetorical Intersectionality: From Silence to Parrhesia and Attuned Listening
… intersectionality when different aspects of her identity converge in a way that causes uniquely amplified marginalization or oppression. The classic three identities that produce intersectionality experiences in the United States are race, gender, and class, making poor women of color the …
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Exploring the American Anti-Immigration Discourse in Scholarship, Politics, and Activism through Michel Foucault and Edward Said
… thesis performs a critical discourse analysis of the anti-immigration discourse in America; a flawed rhetoric that uses the power of language to create is own truth. The ultimate research question of this thesis asks what can be learned about the discursive formations of the anti-immigration …
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Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question of Power
… used to examine the sociolinguistic dimensions of female nurse practitioner interactions with female patients. The purpose was to provide a contextual account of the discursive practices used by the nurse practitioners during routine office visits with female patients. Direction for this …
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Gated Entry and Code: A Critical Feminist Inquiry Into English as Gendered Symbolic Power Amongst Multilingual Indian Women
… and neoliberal capitalist expansion, the English language is wrapped up with socioeconomic, cultural, and postcolonial forms of power, manifesting in language ideologies that affect the way we perceive, pass on, and learn English. Even as there are various camps in regard to both the benefits and …
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Taboo lexeme conditioning and obscenities in American English
… in the emotional and moral processing structures of the limbic system, and can activate, or be uttered, independently of cortical structures involved in propositional language processing; 2) they generally receive a high amount of negative emotional response during lexical acquisition and …
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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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Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels
… Sylvia Wynter's argument that the emergence of Black women writers presents a parallax view that reorients humanist discourse, my project argues that Black women novelists reorient Black women's images through heteroglossia. Mikhail Bakhtin reads the novel as an interaction between languages …
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Women of the spheres: Early American women rhetoricians
… contribute to American rhetoric; however, many of these texts have been overlooked and lost. This dissertation reclaims, remaps, and analyzes a selection of early American women's editorials, treatises, essays, and conduct books and connects their unique rhetorical approaches to those of the …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
… motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the irrational law of society, which is the case in such comedies as As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. …
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Integrating Knowledge and Action: A Study of Leadership in the Development of Master's Degree Programs in Liberal Studies
… may be developed in the future. The purposes of the study were to investigate the development of MALS programs, and to examine the leaders and followers who successfully advanced the MALS program development agenda. The specific objectives of the study were (1) to examine the theoretical bases …
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English in the era of globalization: The conceptualization of English in Korean students in American higher education
Rhetoric is the study of the power of language. In the age of globalization, English has become a global language and its dominant status has become even stronger. In South Korea, globalization is the critical catalyst for the spreading of English. The purpose of this study is to identify the …
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Linking verbs to syntax
Language learning requires learners to balance the productive power of language with its many constraints (e.g., Bowerman, 1988). One of these constraints is verb bias. Verb bias refers to the likelihood of a verb to appear in one of the multiple structures that the verb is allowed to appear in. …
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
… populated by a multilingual community consisting of five major ethnic groups: Holo, Hakka, Mainlanders, Taiwanese aborigines and Taiwanese new immigrants. However, historic Mandarin-centric laws and policies detrimentally affected the identities and inheritance of local languages and cultures for …
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Te pā harakeke: Educational success and kōhanga reo
Exploring the meaning of educational success in an indigenous context is a challenging task. Success has come to be promoted as narrow forms of academic success. However, “academic success” does not adequately take into account the knowledge, values, and beliefs of Indigenous peoples that stem from …
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The Traces of Mining Activities in Riverscapes—a Lyrical and Performative Art-based Approach
… Cornwall, UK, a waterway marked by centuries of mining activities. The Red River carries the visible traces of extraction in their striking red hue, flowing like blood and resembling a scar across the earth’s surface. They stand as witness to human industrial ambition and as bearers of …
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The Complexity of Pronominal Address in Spanish: The Case of Hispanic Communities in Philadelphia and Their Linguistic Landscape
This thesis examines the use of Spanish, specifically the use of Pronouns of Address (PoA), in the linguistic landscape and oral communication within Hispanic communities in Philadelphia. Based on the hypothesis that language is a complex, dynamic, and adaptive system, this study analyzes how a …
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The Role of Formulaic Language in the Creation of Grammar
Research in the field of Formulaic Language has shown it to be a very diverse phenomenon in both the form it takes and the functions it performs (e.g., Erma and Warren, 2000; Wray, 2002). The proposal made by Sinclair (1991) states that language as a system is organized according to two principles, …
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Jouissance & the Sexual Reality of the (Two) Unconscious
The topic of jouissance and the sexual reality of the unconscious has been a key concern of mine from my initial years of practicing psychoanalysis in both its clinical and critical frameworks. For my PhD research, this work is significantly developed within the Freudian Field of Psychoanalysis and …
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