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Showing 1 to 20 of 237 for “"saying"”.
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From Seeing to Saying: Perceiving, Planning, Producing
Given the amount of visual information in a scene, how do speakers determine what to talk about first? One hypothesis is that speakers start talking about what has attentional priority, while another is that speakers first extract the scene gist, using the obtained relational information to …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
This study develops a philosophy of communication by investigating the crisis of directionality that follows from the dissolution of foundationalist metaphysics. Drawing from fundamental ontology and philosophical hermeneutics, this project suggests we shift our understanding of communication as a …
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Saying It Through The Maternal Body: understanding maternal subjectivity through art practice
In referring to psychoanalyst and theorist Julia Kristeva?s claim that the maternal body has no subject, this research aimed at finding answers to the following question: in what ways might a maternal subjectivity be understood through art practice? The research focused on three themes: …
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What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches? Toward a Contemporary Ecumenical Pneumatology
There is a clearly articulated body of teachings and similarity of experiences within contemporary ecumenical Pneumatology that has been, to a large degree, neglected within the ongoing renewal of the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council. In my research, I have come to explore the …
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It Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program Administration
Writing program administrators (WPAs) work in constant negotiation with institutional forces outside of individual control, where the concerns of infrastructure impact writing programs continuously. In periods of transition, where new WPAs are entering a program, or the institution itself is …
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Saying ‘au revoir’ to anxiety in a heartbeat: the benefits of virtual reality for language learning.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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'I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It': Silence in American Art 1947–2008
This thesis addresses silence as a political and aesthetic strategy in American art from 1947 to 2008. It seeks to develop a historical account of three different artists and their investments in silence, with particularized, historically grounded definitions of silence developed in each chapter. …
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What are they Saying: Voices from the Inner City? Lived Experience of Inner City African American Adolescents with Asthma
The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experience of African-American adolescents with asthma who reside in an inner city community. The research in this area of interest is sparse, yet the morbidity and mortality rates related to asthma within the African-American population are …
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Just Saying "No": An Examination of Gender Differences in the Ability to Decline Requests in the Workplace
… the willingness that women (and men) show in saying “no” to work-related requests, along with gender norms that individuals hold toward others of their gender, individual differences in, and affective outcomes of saying “no.” Results confirmed that women do not feel that they can say “no” in …
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Saying it right, doing it wrong : an analysis of the failure of the African Union’s mediation in Darfur (2004-2006)
The Darfur crisis persists to the present day despite the African Union’s (AU) intervention. This mini-dissertation analyses the failure of the AU’s mediation in Darfur from 2004 to 2006. It uses a decolonial lens to investigate: how and why deadline diplomacy guided the mediation efforts by the …
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"We don't know what we're saying": Politics and subjects among the ultras of Centro Storico Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
This dissertation offers an ethnographic account of Centro Storico Lebowski (CSL), a semi-professional football club in Florence, Italy, and of the community that supports and manages it. I argue that CSL showcases the fraught and sometimes ambiguous labour of ‘refiguration’ of pre-existent …
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Saying ‘No’: A biographical analysis of the experiences of women with a genetic predisposition to developing breast/ovarian cancer who reject risk reducing surgery
Background: Genetic technologies have identified some of the genes implicated in cancer susceptibility. Women with mutations in breast/ovarian cancer-susceptibility genes (BRCA1 and 2) have a lifetime combined risk of breast/ovarian cancer of more than 80%. Risk reducing surgery (RRS) reduces …
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Some Constraints of Consideration on Conversation: Interactions of Politeness and Relevance With Grice's Second Maxim of Quantity
… The maxim of quantity he divides into two parts, saying that conversational participants must give enough information to each other, but must not give too much. However, after once establishing this maxim, Grice immediately casts doubt on its validity, saying that its second part is adequately …
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
… of language as a fluid, non-mastering saying, which one must continually re-enliven against a congealing and mastering said, is at the heart of his ethical project of relating to the other of alterity with ethical responsibility, or proximity. The imaginative poetic language that some …
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Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
… it in a nutshell. In fact, what Mr Tulliver was saying, was that: (i) language can serve as a mirror of social strata; (ii) language is of great importance in human relations; l (iii) language has variations and that some variations enjoy higher status than others; (iv) people can do many things …
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Intercultural sensitivity through the mass-mediated lens : understanding DMIS levels in newspaper editorials in regards to same-sex marriage
… in the defense stage of DM1S with its editorials saying that same-sex marriages might exist but were wrong, while both The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle were largely in the acceptance stage of DMIS saying that same-sex marriage should exist and be respected. All three newspapers …
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Unwinding Duchamp: Mots et Paroles a Tous les Etages
… in order to confute an enemy in debate. Irony is saying the opposite of what you mean. Duchamp's practice of the practise of ironisme did not then manifest itself in an art questioning its own conditions, by dissemblance, as is popularly believed, although it appeared to. The 'ironic' art which …
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