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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"language and gender"”.
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Poststructuralism Avant La Lettre: Language and Gender in the Thought of Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn
… Schneersohn (1860-1920) is a relatively unknown and under-researched rabbinic figure in the academic fields of philosophy and Jewish studies. This dissertation will argue that Schneersohn is deserving of scholarly attention, not merely as an interesting contributor to the field of modern Jewish …
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A Macroscopic Re-examination of Language and Gender: A Corpus-Based Case Study in University Instructor Discourses
The need to re-examine the relationship between language and gender situates in the lack of inconclusive and inconsistent empirical findings over decades. Moreover, several common methodological limitations in the empirical literature of language and gender are noticeable, such as …
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“VERBAL HYGIENE” ON THE RADIO: AN EXPLORATION INTO PERCEPTIONS OF FEMALE VOICES ON PUBLIC RADIO AND HOW THEY REFLECT LANGUAGE AND GENDER IDEOLOGIES WITHIN AMERICAN CULTURE
… works as an identity marker that reinforces language and gender ideologies, or “common-sense” beliefs about language, within American culture. In particular, it investigates the perception of female voices on public radio. As women’s voices enter the public sphere through an authoritative …
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Cultivating Multicultural Education in Islamic Schools in the U.S: Teachers' Perspectives about Diversity in Islamic Schools
… to investigate how racial, class, national, language and gender diversity were observed in six different Islamic schools’ climates and classrooms. Designing this research as a collective case study fostered the exploration of various social dynamics among Muslim communities in the U.S., and …
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Linguistic Regulation and Interactional Reality: A Sociolinguistic Study of Call Centre Service Transactions
… to contribute to the study of workplace talk, language and gender, and the sociolinguistics of globalization by exploring the phenomenon of ‘linguistic regulation’ in call centres. ‘Linguistic regulation’ refers to the practice, now widespread in the globalized service economy, of codifying and …
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The Underrepresentation of Hispanic Female Educational Leaders and Their Perceived Barriers
… diverse representation among educational leaders and emphasizes the value of mentoring for Hispanic female leaders in terms of strengthening representation at the higher tiers of educational leadership positions. This study inquired into the lived experiences of female Hispanic educational leaders …
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Differences between student perceptions of the actual and the preferred science laboratory classroom learning environments at a South African college of education
… Environment Inventory (SLEI), the actual and the preferred laboratory environments as perceived by 264 first, second and third year college Science and Biology students in Cape Town, South Africa. This investigation sought to answer the following main questions: * Are the English and the …
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This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus
… Twitter has become a primary medium for social and political activism and a rich venue for study of the relationship between digitally mediated language and identity production. The focus of this study is the viral Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen, a hashtag that rose in popularity following a …
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Primary school textbooks in Zimbabwe : an analysis in social context
… analysis of selected primary textbooks for language and gender related matters. It addressed the following questions: (1) Is the material presented as if the learners were first language speakers of English, the language of instruction? (2) How are girls and women portrayed verbally and …
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Anointing the airwaves : the influence of Charismatic televangelism on the Protestant church and Hindu community in contemporary, urban India
… primarily on an ethnographic study of church and Hindu community leaders, together with a subsidiary historical-comparative analysis, shows that Charismatic pastors are more positive about Charismatic televangelism than non-Charismatic pastors. Both groups of pastors however, have strong …
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Variation in the performance of speech acts in Peninsular Spanish: apologies and requests
… variations in the performance of speech acts and additional discourse features in situational speech patterns of Peninsular Spanish. Based on studies by Blum-Kulka, et al. (1989), nine situations were created, varying from less severe to more severe, to elicit natural responses for apologies …
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Latinidad in London: An ethnographic study exploring how Latin American Londoners represent their ethnic community discursively
… of latinidad is articulated in relation to local and global cultural narratives, and how the London Latino community is constructed strategically and hierarchically. It is guided by a social constructionist perspective and an interpretive approach. It draws on ethnographic research involving …
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Il linguaggio della memoria nel "Cinema di Stato" (2015-2017)
… in cinemas during the 2015-2017 film season and received state funding. By analysing the dialogues and flashback scenes that express the memories of the fictional characters in these works, the following questions were answered: What aspects of memory are brought to light? What idea of …
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Wozanazo : a bio-bibliographical survey of twentieth-century Black South African women writers
… literature, as shaped by publishers, academics and past government education policies, reflects dominant race, class, language and gender biases. Knowledge of large areas of South African literature is still limited by such biases. This research focuses on and seeks to redress some of the …
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A sociophonetic analysis of female-sounding virtual assistants
<p>As conversational machines (e.g., Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa) are increasingly anthropomorphized by humans and viewed as active interlocutors, it raises questions about the social information indexed by machine voices. This thesis provides a preliminary exploration of the relationship …
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Gender, discourse and the public sphere
… the insights of critical discourse analysis and a range of feminist perspectives on discourse as social practice. This framework is then employed in an investigation of women's participation in a number of 'communities of practice('Eckert and McConnell-Ginet 1992) previously monopolised by …
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
In the history of pidgins and creoles, many documented contact languages are European-based ones because they arose as a direct result of European colonial expansion between the sixteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, contact languages are developing entirely outside …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… the press in order to convey its message and as a further help for its campaign, despite the fact that the Suffragettes’ motto was ‘deeds, not words’. The publication of their own periodicals, aimed at a new type of female readership, was significant, as it led to the creation of a true …
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Chinese and Australian conversational styles: A comparative sociolinguistic study of overlap and listener response
This study compares the use of overlap and listener response by Chinese and Australian speakers in their respective intracultural conversations, that is, in conversations between Chinese interlocutors in Mandarin Chinese and between Australians in Australian English. The main purpose of this study …