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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"second-person"”.
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You: A study of second-person narrative in two postmodern novels
This study analyzes the use of second-person narrative in postmodern fiction, both in terms of narrative mechanics and in relation to certain theories of how fiction is able to represent--and misrepresent--the empirical world. The two works examined in this study, Italo Calvino's If on a winter's …
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A comparison of Thai second person pronominal acquisition by Central Thai and Lahu children
… study examined the acquisition of Standard Thai second person pronominals by second language learners (the Lahu children) compared with native speakers (the Central Thai children) of the same age. The pronominals were divided into familiar (Ta and Tb), formal (V1), and formal-respect (V2) …
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An investigation of second-person narratives: the positioning of "you" in a therapy relationship
The purpose of this project was to study the second-person narrative tools used by one particular therapist-client pair in an on-going therapy relationship. One male therapist and one male client were each individually interviewed on five occasions. The first interview with each of them focused on …
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Millennials as second-person witnesses of the Holocaust : a case study on the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
The future of Holocaust remembrance is brittle as we navigate transgenerational interpretations of memory. Understanding this trend is important, given a revival in far-right radicalism worldwide and a growing disconnect between the past and future learnings of the Holocaust. As the number of …
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The New Voseo Culto: An Exploration of the Complexity of Familiar Address in Chilean Spanish
In Chilean Spanish, second-person address is non-uniform in that the vos competes with the conventional tuteo and a third, mixed form has emerged. To add to this complexity, the form speakers choose has been shown to correspond to socioeconomic strata. Upper classes use tú, lower classes use vos, …
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Bringing the schoolhouse to life: Methodologies of living history education demonstrated in a living history program for San Timoteo Schoolhouse, Riverside County, California
… fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.
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Bringing the schoolhouse to life: Methodologies of living history education demonstrated in a living history program for San Timoteo Schoolhouse, Riverside County, California
… fields. It further defines and articulates a second-person methodology for construction of living history educational projects, grounding it in historical, educational, and dramatic theory.
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Women Writing Trauma: How Female Writers Use Narrative Voice in Fiction to Represent the Effects of Trauma
… 1980s. Chapter one gives an overview of first person by defining the term. The impact of using the technique is investigated by analysing the narrative in novels True Things About Me (2010) by Deborah Kay Davies, My Dark Vanessa (2020) by Kate Elizabeth Russell, and Speak (1999) by Laurie Halse …
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Fears and Reflections: Discovering Yourself Through the Personal Essay
… includes two parts: a critical analysis of personal essay considering a second-person view of how to fearlessly write personal essays and a collection of my own personal essays. The critical element includes examples of works that I consider support my theory of reflective journal writing as …
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"Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address
… of 'you guys' and its expansion across second-person plural contexts. Based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (among other corpora), the study tracks the increasing usage, gradual restructuring, semantic generalization, …
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Skateboard Jesus
… collection of poetry written in mostly first and second person free verse, containing in addition some prose poems and other forms harder to categorize. The poetry in this collection is largely narrative in structure, and engages with themes of identity and performance as objects of its larger …
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From deference to face: the evolution of usted in Costa Rican Spanish
This study analyzes the evolution of the second person singular address pronouns in Costa Rican Spanish, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The analysis is built around two time periods, the first from the 16th to the 18th centuries and the second period covers the 19th century and the first half …
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The personalisation of mass media communication. Involving settings, private content and linguistic immediacy in british online news
Personalisation refers to the tendency in mass media to present texts (e.g. news articles) with a strong emphasis on the private and personal. The main aim of the study is to develop a model that integrates and differentiates between the various facets of personalisation from a linguistic point of …
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Harrowville
… in my short stories. I began writing in third person and even some second person, though I was most comfortable writing in first person. I began telling stories from male perspectives instead of only female perspectives. In addition, I began exploring with third person limited perspectives with …
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Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers
<p>Feminist accounts of how “the personal” is used in feminist critical nonfiction have theorized that the effect of the personal is to connect the writer with readers who share a sense of her investment in the subject matter. Looking at two recent, prominent works about gender and sexuality, and …
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Imagine this: a test of imagination, message framing and reference-level on attitude, self-efficacy and intention to perform exercise
… that refer directly to the audience (i.e., uses second person) or that refer to other people in general (i.e., uses third person). Understanding how the combination of imagination, potential future losses or gains, and direct or indirect references to the viewer influence how viewers respond to …
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Whiteness in Public School Administration: A Critical Narrative Approach to Understanding How Insider Superintendents Communicate With Their Administrative Staff Members
… (CWT), I explored each man’s approach to interpersonal communication while conducting business. Additionally, I applied the urban dictionary’s definition of “Whitesplaining” to consider deeply how each man attempted to control the public narrative being disseminated to his constituency. In the …
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Personhood and Objecthood: Examining the Speaker’s Interiority and Double Consciousness in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>
<p>The interpersonal use of the “you” (the second person) in <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em> commands the reader to not look away and bear witness to the interiority Black Americans’ consciousness. The essay examines the transformation of Rankine’s works that expands how double consciousness, …
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Survival Tips For A Parallel Universe
… Likewise, the collection largely moves from a second person point-of-view to a first-person perspective, generating a shifting subject and a movement toward a tangible and more direct articulation of feeling and heart. While this collection draws a strong influence from the invention and …
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Qhatuyki Store modelo de negocio para pequeños distritos urbanos
… translated into Spanish means market) with the second-person possessive suffix yki (Your Market) and the English word Store, that in the context of the Internet it is directly associated with an e-commerce or electronic commerce establishment. What Qhatuyki Store offers to the user, bilingual in …
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