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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Vernaculars"”.
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West Virginia House: A Union of Two Vernaculars
This project uses elements of two architectural vernaculars that were once common in West Virginia. The agrarian vernacular includes I-houses and barns. The industrial vernacular includes buildings of the timber and coal industries—particularly coal tipples. My project hopes to reflect the …
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New vernaculars and feminine ecriture; twenty-first century avant-garde film
… with my contextualising thesis, ask how new vernaculars might construct subjectivity in the contemporary moment. Both films draw on classical and independent cinema to revisit the remix in a feminist context. Using appropriated and live-action footage the five short films that comprise Radio …
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More information is not the problem : spinning climate change, vernaculars, and emergent forms of life
… provide a vital translation of science in varied vernaculars such that climate change is becoming invested with diverse meanings, ethics, and/or morality. Based on ethnographic research, this dissertation analyzes such processes of translation and articulation occurring among five different …
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The Vernaculars of Our Networks: From The Cloud to a Plurality of Grassroots Digital Infrastructures
This thesis is concerned with DIY "off-the-cloud" networks as socio-technical models that can reinscribe a community's organizational processes, identity, and culture. It questions how these networks can break away from corporate and extractive services of "the cloud" in order to achieve digital …
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Towards a Common Language: Social Movements and Vernacular Publics in Telugu, 1900-1956
… that mark the vernacular public, they treat vernaculars as bounded and discrete languages whose limits of linguistic use could potentially be expanded. The equation of vernaculars with a place (within which they are spoken) and the association of people who live within a place with a given …
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Placemaking
… materials and passive design to create distinct vernaculars in all regions of the country. After the Industrial Revolution during the mid 1800's, regions were able to import building materials foreign to their locations. Invention of new tools and building techniques created new building …
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Translating Transformative Human Rights Education through Visual Languages & Informal Spaces
… human rights education through multiple vernaculars. Developed as a workshop in sociocultural syntax deconstruction and an educational human rights education website focused on the domestic population of the US, the project focuses on localizing human rights concepts to the public …
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La traduction de la Bible à l'époque de la Réforme.
… conditions and take a brief look at the European vernaculars that were in existence during the Reformation. This is followed by our analysis of the main elements of theology and dogma that were at the centre of the controversies between the Catholic clergy and Reformation translators. Finally, via …
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VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
… (2006) binary paradigm between Sanskrit and the vernaculars, showing that it cannot do justice to the highly diverse and fluid multilingual domain of premodern India. To better capture the complexity of South Asian multilingualism, it offers a new framework for understanding language as not only …
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(DIS)JOINING (DIS)JUNCTURE
… the orthodox, were valorised, a new universe of vernaculars and creole forms comes into existence." This particular design process was one of actively harnessing all the layers of the site, past and present, strange and ordinary, connections and disjunctions, to bring about a new, shifted …
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The Letters of Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams: Edited, with a biographical and critical introduction by Devin King
… shared languages: the camp techniques and folk vernaculars which Williams and Johnson utilize in their poetry. Chapter Five analyses the men’s breakup and how this loss creates the possibility for Johnson’s mature work. This thesis presents an edition of the letters important for queer and …
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Academic Mobility and Identity Construction at the Late Medieval Universities of Paris and Orléans
… are written in medieval Latin and the European vernaculars, and include texts produced by the scholars themselves or by the central and local administration and authorities, as well as material culture in the form of manuscript illumination. On the other hand, the thesis contributes to the …
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Sheng : the mixed language of Nairobi
… (incorporating Swahili, English and local vernaculars). The study focuses on the lexicon and morphosyntax, but social factors are examined as well. Three broad research questions are addressed: (1) Does Sheng have a core vocabulary separate from that of Swahili? (2) How do the system …
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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
… language but by 1250 prestigious Romance vernaculars could be heard almost everywhere. Of particular importance is the formative period of Norman rule (1061-1194), when the key transitions from an Arab-Muslim to a Latin-Christian island were made. During that time Romance dialects were …
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The poetics of mid-Victorian scientific materialism in the writings of John Tyndall, W.K. Clifford and others
… -– and inter alia a variety of the contrasting vernaculars used in illustration of –- contemporary metaphysical or ‘methodological’ materialism. My 2nd chapter offers a reading of Tyndall’s August 1874 Belfast Address, the locus classicus for practically all later elaborations of materialistic …
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Language Ideologies and Decoloniality in Vernac News
… African languages, and the use of urban vernaculars in formal contexts, English platforms such as the student newspaper. The study also looks at the ways in which media are used as tools for social activism as seen in the Vernac News publication. The study treats language as a social …
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Interpreting a contemporary urban vernacular for cities : --the case of Delhi
… to develop a method for field research in urban vernaculars. The hypothesis forwarded is that by understanding the nature of socio-politico-administrative control. i.e. - the formal regulatory framework, the informal processes and tacit conventions - and vernacular types (people and places), as …
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“Reckoning the nation: 19th century statistics, probability theory and nation-building.”
… to literacy and the standardization of national vernaculars - that furnished a very compelling quantitative administrative vernacular of 19th century nation-states boasting “privileged access to ontological truth[s]” (Anderson, 2006, 36). I argue that this vernacular promoted a very literal form …
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Vernacular Adaptations of Genesis in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Ireland and England
… how the Book of Genesis was adapted to the vernaculars of Ireland and England in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. This discussion will be divided into five chapters, examining different aspects of vernacular translations of Genesis. Chapter One will outline the historical context …
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Uterine time and subjectivities: an ethnographic account of the uterus in online body-talk and other articulations of reproductive justice in South African feminist publics
… discussions of personal narratives. The feminist vernaculars and body-talk that circulate and are amplified online emphasise negative affects and the “ugly feelings” that people in this public associate with the uterus. Menarche, the first menstrual period, stood out in personal narratives as the …
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