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Hospitable texts
… agency can be reduced to consciousness, that texts are easily linked to an owner, or that community is the result of an agreed upon project. In many ways, Wikipedia acts as a microcosm of the various rhetorical collisions that happen to rhetors both online and offline. The proliferation of new …
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Session texts
Welcome to this, the beginning of the year programme. Glad you found us! I think we may be in for even more rain over the weekend. Over the programme we will study seven main stories and their relationship to initiatory rites-of-passage. A core of you will go on to undergo the wilderness fast …
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Quilts as Visual Texts
… argue that quilts should be considered as visual texts, one to which theories of visual rhetoric and rhetoric in general can be applied. In drawing together the worlds of academia and quilting, I will use a variety of theoretical lens to explore quilts as texts. As a text, quilts contain units of …
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Emotions in Mormon Canonical Texts
… structure of Mormonism and its unique canonical texts have been examined to determine the extent to which LDS theology is compatible with such a three-fold definition of emotion. As a result it was established that at this basic level of explanation science and Mormon theology undoubtedly share a …
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Jingulu grammar, dictionary, and texts
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
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Students, texts and mathematics : an analysis of mathematics texts and the construction of mathematics knowledge
… description of student production of mathematics texts and focused on written texts that appeared to be legitimate yet could not be upheld by a principled verbal description. A search of the literature on the analysis of students texts revealed that semiotic analysis, was not only scarce, but …
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Extending literacy : pupils' interactions with texts, with particular emphasis on the use of non-fiction texts
The submitted works explore how children use texts in the classroom and how they can be supported in becoming more effective readers and writers. Most of the work is based around pupil's use of non-fiction texts and provides case study examples of what happens when children engage in tasks which …
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Performing texts; playing with jazz aesthetics
… a series of styles, forms and settings. The texts and approaches taken here are a mixture of the familiar and the unexpected. Thelonious Monk is discussed as a formalist of the highest order; Langston Hughes is not read as a "jazz poet"; James Baldwin is argued to be more concerned with jazz …
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Tryst Tropique: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities
… legible across a number of Marquesan contact texts including Herman Melville's Typee (Chapter Three). Chapter Four discovers that the suspicion of sodomitical misconduct which clouded the career of William Yate, an early nineteenth-century New Zealand missionary, continues to involve …
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Chinese Englishes: History, Contexts, and Texts
The current profile of attitudinal range and functional domains demonstrates the magnitude of English influence and depth of penetration in Chinese society. It is argued that nativization of English in China forms a CLINE, for the degrees of nativization in terms of English as a medium of …
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Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts
… (i.e. delirium, sleep and swoons) in the ancient texts, in order to analyse the way in which they are portrayed. On the one hand, I diachronically compared the different medical writers with each other in a thematic arrangement, and on the other, the authors were synchronically contrasted against …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
<p>In "Material Culture and Domestic Texts: Textiles in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps," I draw from recently revised notions of the discourse of domesticity to argue that the imagery of textile production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure …
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Unread: The (Un)published Texts of Romanticism
This dissertation reads the unpublished texts of Romanticism not as fragments on the road to publication but as psychoanalytic “partial objects” that re-figure our understanding of the relationship between Romantic authors and publication. Against positivist interpretations of literary production …
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Result/inference discourse connectives in academic texts
Diplomová práce porovnává užívání rezultativních diskurzních konektorů ve dvou korpusech sestavených autorem - v korpusu vytvořeném z 43 literárních esejí českých vysokoškolských studentů oboru Anglistika-amerikanistika a v korpusu sestaveném z 34 odborných článků psaných rodilými mluvčími. Hlavním …
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