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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"genre theory"”.
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An ethnographic study of a group of first language standard eight pupils in a "model C" school attempting to communicate meaning in writing
… framework for the project: process writing theory and research, discourse and genre theory, and theories of identity. In the first research stage, process theory highlighted those aspects of the school writing event which were shown to assist or obstruct pupil writers in communicating their …
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Collaborative and Genre-Based Writing in the L2 Writing Classroom
… project intends to use collaborative writing and genre theory as a means of helping L2 writers strengthen their linguistic identity and empower them in the academy and beyond. </p>
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Italienischer Faschismus und deutscher Nationalsozialismus im italienischen Genrefilm
The project analyzes how popular Italian genres offered an Italian mass audience a collective process of dealing with the fascist past. Paying special attention to the representation of national socialism, the popularity of these Italian genres in Germany is discussed in terms of offering also a …
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The Intricacies of M.F.K. Fisher: Discovering a Kaleidoscopic Hybridity
… positions such as New Historicism, Feminism, Genre Theory, and Everyday Theory to help me identify and explain the hybrid tendencies of Fisher's writing. It is not a comprehensive study of her texts in light of these theories, but rather, it is a broad overview in order to demonstrate …
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Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda
… modelled theirs. It demonstrates how the epic genre recurs across different cultures and subcultures, even as each instantiation of the epic remains unique to its particular society. The dissertation draws upon genre theory from critical discourse analysis and from observations made by various …
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Rhetorical outcomes: A genre analysis of student service-learning writing
… understood. This study presents the results of a genre analysis of student-authored ethnographies composed in four distinct sections of a service-learning--based intermediate writing course at a Midwestern urban research university. Results of the analysis are then used to develop a contextualized …
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The antihuman unconscious in twenty-first century science fiction cinema: structure of feeling, the political unconscious, and problematising the human in science fiction films produced since 1999
… fiction cinema, this thesis utilises film genre theory, equating generic elements with elements of the political unconscious and structure of feeling. Science fiction films continue to present humanist narratives despite the emergence of the antihuman unconscious, and close textual analyses …
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In praise of carbon: Genre and the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry by Christian Fredrick Casper
<p>Using genre theory along with the hierarchy of scientific statement types of Latour and Woolgar (1979) and the scientific <em>stases</em> and scientific <em>topoi</em> of Prelli (1989), this thesis analyzes the three Nobel lectures in chemistry from 1996 to discern the characteristics of …
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Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City
… the argument initiates a dialogue between genre theory and urban theory as a means of (re)imagining and (re)mapping the city spaces of post-apartheid Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Seriously funny : a look at humor in televised presidential debates
… and suggests implication for antecedent genre theory and methods to study humor research.
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To what extent does the new American crime film reflect hybridity of genre?
… crime film has revealed it to be an engine of genre hybridity, focusing on two directions: 1) the crime film’s development of strands of other genres, and 2) the ‘victim’ figure’s, as one of the crime film’s principal archetypes, use to develop several other genres. This study incorporates my …
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Presenting Korea's Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films
… Films” examines the revival of the cinematic genre of sagŭk in South Korea in the 2000s. The diegesis of sagŭk film portrays premodern dynastic eras of Korea. This project analyzes the evolution of the genre by genealogically tracing its rise and fall and investigates determinants of the …
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Communicating Vision : a Linguistic Analysis of Leadership Speeches
… Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), including Genre Theory, and an extension of SFL, Appraisal Theory, on four visionary speeches in the field of political discourse—Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, Churchill‘s ―We Shall Fight on the Beaches,‖ Kennedy‘s inaugural, and Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ―I …
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Genre dispostions in crime films of Sub-Saharan Africa
… gaze and critique on other facets of society. Genre is one of the principal elements of cinema, which, invites a study into this largely unexplored subject within African cinematic exegesis. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the audio-visual aesthetics, narrative aspects, and language …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
… is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marvellous beings, underpinned by …
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The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools
… expressivist, and social epistemic—including genre theory—approaches, and process-based, or cognitive, composition pedagogy. Modern theorists are finding value in the classical rhetorical curriculum because, since the 1800s, advances in composition instruction are now recognized as …
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A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold
… in environmental rhetoric, rhetorical genre theory, citizenship theory and ecofeminism, I argue that throughout his career Leopold offered evolving rhetorical versions of himself as ideals of ecological behavior to be emulated by his readers. The chapters analyze Leopold's ethos as it …
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Cinematic Accounts of a Neoliberal Hong Kong: Post-1997 Urban Cinema and the Human Cost of Neoliberalization
… is a combination of textual analysis and genre theory. The textual analysis is informed not only by historical and cultural details, but also by firsthand observations of Hong Kong, while genre theory is utilized because the selected films are hybridized texts that borrow from different …
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Teaching subjects as languages: academic English development in the multilingual post-primary classroom
… Systemic functional linguistics, particularly genre theory, provides the linguistic theoretical framework, with sociocultural perspectives based on the work of Vygotsky providing the theory of learning. Language is integral to learning. As academic English development supports subject content …
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