Dissertations / Theses: '950203 Languages and Literature'

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Walkty, Mélanie. "Pushing the boundaries of second language education: exploring the use of "sensitive" material for language learning." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95093.

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For the purpose of developing a deeper understanding of the pedagogical possibilities of using life story material to teach sensitive issues in second language classroom, the author conducts an exploratory study based on personal reflective narrative, describing her reasoning process and the steps involved in locating potential ESL materials in the Montreal Life Stories project's database and archive. The practical instructional and pedagogical guidelines suggested in this thesis have the ability to help ESL teachers avoid certain difficulties and dangers that come with teaching about genocide and human rights education. It is hoped that this type of framework will help second language educators organize their thinking and facilitate links to human rights education through the use of sensitive materials in the ESL classroom.
Dans le but de favoriser une compréhension plus profonde des possibilités pédagogiques liées à l'utilisation d'histoires vécues pour aborder des sujets « délicats » lors de l'enseignement d'une langue seconde, l'auteure a effectué une étude exploratoire basée sur une réflexion personnelle, décrivant son processus de raisonnement et sa démarche pour trouver du matériel potentiel pour l'enseignement de l'ALS dans la banque de données et les archives du projet Histoires de vie Montréal. Les directives pratiques et pédagogiques suggérées dans la présente thèse pourraient aider les enseignants d'ALS à éviter certaines difficultés et certains dangers pouvant surgir au moment d'aborder des sujets comme le génocide et les droits de la personne. Il est à espérer que ce type de cadre théorique aidera les enseignants à organiser leurs pensées et à intégrer l'éducation en matière de droits de la personne au moyen de matériel sensible dans la classe d'ALS.

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Wesche, Gretchen M. "Control and Creativity: The Languages of Dystopia." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1304482313.

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Kamran, Shezra. "Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/.

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This thesis explores the nature and function of language as it is used in twentieth-century fantastic fiction, as represented by the work of C. S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. In it I argue that the anti-mimetic impulse behind the language of fantasy makes it a polemical, contentious mode, which situates itself against discourses (religious and scientific) that assume the existence of a reality to which language may be said to correspond in certain clearly understood, conventional ways. Both Lewis and Le Guin suggest, by contrast, that experiential reality is an arbitrary and shifting construct, although each writer has a very different attitude towards the category of the ‘real’ and the question of how it may best be articulated. Despite the fact that Lewis uses the language of authority and Le Guin the language of liberation, they both interrogate fundamental ethical, social, political and theological evaluative assumptions embedded in language, disrupting the rigidity that conventional usage confers upon words and the concomitant human tendency to submit unquestioningly to cultural conventions. Lewis challenges the modern, secular, materialist understanding of reality, contending that metaphor has the power to undermine post-secular fixed notions and reveal new semantic fields pertaining to what he understands as the ‘spiritual’. Le Guin celebrates human and non-human embodied existence, with its possibilities and limitations, refuting any transcendent reality. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One deals with the ‘reactionary’ school of fantasy represented by Lewis. My contention is that Lewis’s Narnian Chronicles dramatise Owen Barfield’s theory of the concomitant evolution of human consciousness and language in relation to the phenomenal world. The three chapters in this part demonstrate that in the Narnia books Lewis represents initial forms of mythical, ‘participatory’ consciousness (as Barfield calls it) – that is, a world in which no linguistic or imaginative distinction is made between the human, animal, material and spiritual dimensions; followed by the loss of participation and the consequent alienation of human beings both from immaterial things and the environment; and concluding with the renewal of participation through a new use of language. Part Two is concerned with Le Guin’s sequence of fantasy novels about the imaginary world of Earthsea. Following Darko Suvin, I divide the sequence into two trilogies, which embody two contrasting responses to the conservative fantasy represented by the Narnia books. For me, the difference between these responses can best be understood through a close examination of Le Guin’s changing attitude to language in the First and Second Trilogies, which I undertake in four chapters. The first chapter explores Le Guin’s initial collusion with Lewis’s patriarchal politics, a collusion signalled by the rigid linguistic conventions and unchanging cultural practices of her imaginary world. The three final chapters deal with the Second Earthsea Trilogy, with particular emphasis on the last two books, since these have so far received little critical attention. In these books she deconstructs the earlier premises of her created world by finding new ways in which to represent the voices that had been excluded or marginalised in her previous trilogy, as well as in the work of her predecessors in fantasy. The thesis as a whole represents an effort to reassess the political implications of linguistic choices, and of attitudes to language, in twentieth-century fantastic fiction.

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Hussain, Sajjad. "Investigating Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) A Systematic Literature Review." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Programvara och system, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-104856.

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Context: Over the last two decades, software architecture has introduced a new trend insoftware development. This new trend has completely changed the normal methods andpractices of software engineering. The focus has become the architectural elements ratherthan code and sub-routines. Architecture description languages (ADLs) have been proposedfor this kind of architecture based software development. There are a number of differentADLs both in academia and industry; they are not totally adopted by the software engineeringcommunity, but they are not avoided either. In this research work, an investigation has beenperformed based on the ADLs evaluation in practice. Objectives: The main aim of this study is to investigate evaluation of ADLs in academia andindustry. To explore the benefits and drawbacks of ADLs in practice. The study also exploresthe different quality factors improved by ADLs. Further different methods used to buildarchitecture with ADLs and then how to use architecture described with an ADL in softwaredevelopment and maintenance have also been reported. Methods: This research study has been carried out using the systematic literature reviewmethod. The systematic literature review follows the guidelines suggested by Kitchenham[21]. Results: This research review has resulted in total of 102 different ADLs. It has been foundthat out of the 102 different ADLs, 69 ADLs have been evaluated in academia and only 33ADLs have been evaluated in industry. ADLs have also been classified based on theirindustrial and academia evaluation. There are total 31 different benefits and 19 differentdrawbacks of ADLs have been identified. This review also extracted 20 different qualityfactors from literature that are improved by using ADLs in practice. Further 13 differentmethods used to build architecture with ADL have also been reported. Finally 9 differentmethods of ADLs used in software development and maintenance have been identified. Conclusions: The Large number of ADLs with little evaluation in industry suggests thatmore work needs to be done in order to improve ADLs evaluation in practice. ADLs providemore benefits compared to their drawbacks which suggests that ADLs can be very beneficial.Knowledge gained during this research study, suggests that ADLs are mostly unrecognized.More awareness about ADLs should be provided in education and practice.

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Klasson, Svensson Emil. "Automatic Identification of Duplicates in Literature in Multiple Languages." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statistik och maskininlärning, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-150829.

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As the the amount of books available online the sizes of each these collections are at the same pace growing larger and more commonly in multiple languages. Many of these cor- pora contain duplicates in form of various editions or translations of books. The task of finding these duplicates is usually done manually but with the growing sizes making it time consuming and demanding. The thesis set out to find a method in the field of Text Mining and Natural Language Processing that can automatize the process of manually identifying these duplicates in a corpora mainly consisting of fiction in multiple languages provided by Storytel. The problem was approached using three different methods to compute distance measures between books. The first approach was comparing titles of the books using the Levenstein- distance. The second approach used extracting entities from each book using Named En- tity Recognition and represented them using tf-idf and cosine dissimilarity to compute distances. The third approach was using a Polylingual Topic Model to estimate the books distribution of topics and compare them using Jensen Shannon Distance. In order to es- timate the parameters of the Polylingual Topic Model 8000 books were translated from Swedish to English using Apache Joshua a statistical machine translation system. For each method every book written by an author was pairwise tested using a hypothesis test where the null hypothesis was that the two books compared is not an edition or translation of the others. Since there is no known distribution to assume as the null distribution for each book a null distribution was estimated using distance measures of books not written by the author. The methods were evaluated on two different sets of manually labeled data made by the author of the thesis. One randomly sampled using one-stage cluster sampling and one consisting of books from authors that the corpus provider prior to the thesis be considered more difficult to label using automated techniques. Of the three methods the Title Matching was the method that performed best in terms of accuracy and precision based of the sampled data. The entity matching approach was the method with the lowest accuracy and precision but with a almost constant recall at around 50 %. It was concluded that there seems to be a set of duplicates that are clearly distin- guished from the estimated null-distributions, with a higher significance level a better pre- cision and accuracy could have been made with a similar recall for the specific method. For topic matching the result was worse than the title matching and when studied the es- timated model was not able to create quality topics the cause of multiple factors. It was concluded that further research is needed for the topic matching approach. None of the three methods were deemed be complete solutions to automatize detection of book duplicates.

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Morton, Timothy Bloxam. "Re-imaging the body : Shelley and the languages of diet." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357340.

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Macilwee, Mick. "The languages of discontent : the fiction of Saul Bellow's mature period." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283507.

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Attwell, David. "Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7591.

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Bibliography: leaves 219-229.
This dissertation attempts to examine the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the question of criticism's being a discourse which, in its articulation with a given social context, relies on the resources of a particular critical heritage. The basis of the second and central chapter is the interrelationship between the context and heritage of anglophone African criticism. The dominant themes of this discourse are seen as being shaped by ideological affiliations with the modern nation-state, and by the legacy of the empirical and organic traditions of metropolitan criticism. It is argued that in the situation of neo-colonial social stratification, anglophone African criticism faces a crisis of legitimacy. In the third to fifth chapters I attempt to illustrate and refine the central argument in relation to a selection of critical texts. The chapter on two works by Eldred Jones examines his reliance on orthodox British critical assumptions and its consequences in his treatment of the writing of Wole Soyinka. The chapter on West African traditions examines a range of critical operations which are used in the construction of organic traditions based on oral or traditional cultures. These operations rely on mythopoesis, formalism and the sociology of literature. The final chapter on East African political readings investigates the internal, discursive tensions in the work of two critics who, in attempting to politicize their reading of literature, have not been able to achieve a conceptual break from the legacies of idealism.

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Whitely, Sullivan Jane. "Love Languages and Other Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1304.

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Love Languages and Other Stories is a collection of three short stories all pertaining, in someway, to love (or lack thereof). "This is What a Feminist Look Like," "Sink," and "Love Languages" are the three stories that make up this Scripps senior thesis.

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Hermsen, Terry. "Languages of engagement." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1070294401.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xvi, 700 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Elhindi, Yousif, and Theresa McGarry. "Gender-Linked Variation Across Languages." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/1612292224.

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"...this volume presents a collection of studies that highlights the linguistic diversity of the language and gender research currently being pursued, to emphasize the value of such work for the formulation of theories and methods and to stimulate more research across languages...." --Introduction
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Stayton, Corey C. "The Kongo cosmogram: A theory in African-American literature." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1972.

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This study examines the use of Kongo cosmology as a theory of reading African-American literature. By analyzing the philosophical modes and belief systems of the Bakongo people, a general view of their cosmos is constructed and establishes the Kongo cosmogram used as the basis of this study. The community, crossroads, elders, and circularity of life all prove to be crucial elements in the Kongo cosmogram. These elements all have respective roles in the operation of the Kongo cosmogram as a literary theory. As the focus shifts from Africa to America, a study of how the Kongo cosmogram is disrupted by the Maafa and reconstructed in America via plantation existence is necessary to establish the history and function of the cosmogram in America. Finally, the Kongo cosmogram is applied as a literary theory, using Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain. These texts manifest the elements of the Kongo cosmogram and demonstrate its applicability as a literary theory.

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McLennan, Alistair. "Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/.

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Thesis Abstract. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective. I examine the processes of monstrous change by which humans can become identified as monsters, focusing on the role played by social and religious pressures. In the first chapter, I outline the aspects of monster theory and medieval thought relevant to the role of society in shaping identity, and the ways in which anti-societal behaviour is identified with monsters and with monstrous change. Chapter two deals more specifically with Old English and Old Icelandic social and religious beliefs as they relate to human and monstrous identity. I also consider the application of generic monster terms in Old English and Old Icelandic. Chapters three to six offer readings of humans and monsters in Old English and Old Icelandic literary texts in cases where a transformation from human to monster occurs or is blocked. Chapter three focuses on Grendel and Heremod in Beowulf and the ways in which extreme forms of anti-societal behaviour are associated with monsters. In chapter four I discuss the influence of religious beliefs and secular behaviour in the context of the transformation of humans into the undead in the Íslendingasögur. In chapter five I consider outlaws and the extent to which criminality can result in monstrous change. I demonstrate that only in the most extreme instances is any question of an outlaw’s humanity raised. Even then, the degree of sympathy or admiration evoked by such legendary outlaws as Grettir, Gísli and Hörðr means that though they are ambiguous in life, they may be redeemed in death. The final chapter explores the threats to human identity represented by the wilderness, with specific references to Guthlac A, Andreas and Bárðar saga and the impact of Christianity on the identity of humans and monsters. I demonstrate that analysis of the social and religious issues in Old English and Old Icelandic literary sources permits nuanced readings of monsters and monstrosity which in turn enriches understanding of the texts in their entirety.

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Hummel, Kirsten M. (Kirsten Marlene). "Bilingual memory : the effect of two languages on the retention of prose." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=73985.

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Ntentema, Phakamani. "The challenges in the intellectualisation of indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa: what will it take to give the indigenous languages a directive in the implementation and monitoring of language policy in South Africa?" Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33940.

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The language of an individual is another skin in ways that are many, a natural possession of any normal person we use to communicate our ideas and hopes, convey our beliefs and thoughts, explore our traditions and experiences, and improve the community of ours as well as the laws that regulate it. In the Bill of Rights, the right of official language selection was recognized, and the Constitution recognizes that the indigenous languages are a resource that has not been exploited. This study has been carried out to elevate the use and uplift the status of indigenous languages by examining the challenges of intellectualizing the indigenous languages in post-apartheid South Africa. The language choice in South Africa does not favour the indigenous languages. The South African government lacks the political will to practically implement the language policies. The gab is in the lack of monitoring the process of language policy and implementation. Some South African higher education institutions have clear plans to implement the language policies, and some do not. The English language dominance in the higher education system has negatively impacted the indigenous students and denigrated the indigenous language use and intellectualization. There is also a gap between the indigenous speakers and the language policy implementers. This study focused on youth from the indigenous speaking background. This study was carried out to get the voices of the indigenous youth regarding lack of implementation of language policies that are placed to develop and uplift the status and use of indigenous languages all domains and how that disadvantaged them from their point of view. This study has applied the qualitative methodology to collect the data. This study also applied the Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Language Awareness theories to analyse the findings. These theories have awakened the indigenous speakers about the power dynamics that influences the lack of implementation of language policies. This study utilized the Interpretation-focus coding strategy to analyse the data. This study explored whether languages could provide access to change, social and material conditions of its speakers and the study found that the lack of implementation of indigenous languages correlates to the delay in development of the material conditions of the indigenous speakers and languages provide access to economic, social, material, and economic changes. Multilingualism is a way forward in resolving the language issue as South Arica is a multi-lingual nation. The limitations of the study were that it was carried out during the COVID-19 era and the hard South African lockdown.

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Click, Mary Carolyn. "On the Path to Paterson: Prose and the Search for the American Language." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626060.

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Beer, Ann. "The use of two languages in Samuel Beckett's art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fe430cb4-ec07-4f18-9d4a-6860b0d85fbb.

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This study argues that Samuel Beckett's works in English and French reveal the organising energy of a "bilingual consciousness". Bilingualism is no personal eccentricity but the foundation for Beckett's mature art, without which it could not have developed. He has never been a unilingual writer; at every stage of his career his two languages have enriched, challenged and opposed each other. Bilingual art has allowed Beckett to move between linguistic circles, claiming as his own a transitional space that has protected his need for imaginative solitude. Gradually abandoning the cultural specificity of his early works in favour of archetypal settings that "translate" successfully to other contexts, he has focussed directly on what unites rather than divides human communities. Yet his writing retains an evident alertness to, and love of, the linguistic and cultural resources of English and French. His alternations between languages and his frequent activities as translator and self- translator contribute to a detachment from generic conventions that encourages innovation. Thus the often-criticised marginality of the bilingual has become for Beckett a source of strength. This analysis draws on a close reading of certain key texts, crossing languages freely to follow Beckett's own development. The prose has central place, because it spans his entire career, and because his most radical innovations have occurred in prose to be, subsequently, transferred in new forms to the drama. Chapter I presents Beckett's dual language-use in a wider context, exploring the early exposure afcd later suppression of "bilingual awareness, the implications of bilingualism for his artistic outlook, and the bilingual aesthetic he has developed. The remaining chapters draw on a new chronology of his writing and translating activities to show the development of his dual language-use and how it has interacted distinctively at each period with his artistic goals and practice.

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Bornstein, Daniel, Laura Guffuri, and Brian Jeffrey Maxson. "Languages of Power in Italy, 1300-1600." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/2503540384.

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Book Summary: The essays in this collection explore the languages - artistic, symbolic, and ritual, as well as written and spoken - in which power was articulated, challenged, contested, and defended in Italian cities and courts, villages, and countryside, between 1300 and 1600. Topics addressed include court ceremonial, gossip and insult, the performance of sanctity and public devotions, the appropriation and reuse of imagery, and the calculated invocation (and sometimes undermining) of authoritative models and figures. The collection balances a broad geographic and chronological range with a tight thematic focus, allowing the individual contributions to engage in vigorous and fruitful debate with one another even as they speak to some of the central issues in current scholarship. The authors recognize that every institutional action is, in its context, a political act, and that no institution operates disinterestedly. At the same time, they insist on the inadequacy of traditional models, whether Marxian or Weberian, as the complex realities of the early modern state pose tough problems for any narrative of modernization, rationalization, and centralization. The contributors to this volume trained and teach in various countries - Italy, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia - but share a common interest in cultural expressions of power.
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Santos, Joana Filipa Alves Real dos. "As actividades de motivação." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2011. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000218612.

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O presente trabalho serve para chamar atenção da importância da motivação, parte estruturante de uma aula, e as atividades que um professor pode implementar. Esta é uma das questões que muitas das vezes passa ao lado a muitos professores, principalmente a professores estagiários, a planificação de uma aula não é suficiente por si só, é necessário colocar em prática e adequa-la ao tempo e espaço. É neste momento da aula que devemos preparar os alunos, motivando-os e espicaçar a sua curiosidade, pois estamos perante um momento fulcral no que diz respeito ao ensino-aprendizagem. Este relatório reflete a experiência de uma professora estagiária na Escola Secundária Eça de Queirós, tendo como ponto de partida as avaliações feitas pelos alunos, do Ensino Secundário na disciplina de Espanhol, acerca das minhas atividades de motivação, desenvolvidas ao longo do ano letivo 2010/2011. Numa primeira parte apresento a parte teórica, na qual abordo a motivação como parte estruturante da aula, a motivação dos alunos e alguns exemplos de atividades possíveis de se realizar com eles. Na segunda parte dá-se conta da parte prática, ou seja, apresento as análises e os resultados obtidos das minhas atividades avaliadas pelos discentes. Por fim, conclui-se enfatizando uma vez mais a importância da motivação no ensino-aprendizagem e uma apreciação global de todo este relatório.

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Nave, Joshua. "When Honor Falls: A Study of Japanese Honor in Young Adult Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/612.

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The concept of honor has developed over several centuries on the island nation of Japan. Due to this institutionalized growth, honor is something to be explored for how it has shaped and how it continues to mold contemporary Japanese culture. One way to examine Japanese honor is through the primary lens of Young Adult literature. By examining representations of Japanese honor in Young Adult literature, readers can learn how honor developed Japanese culture. Furthermore, readers can discern what aspects of honor in Japanese culture should be scrutinized. Through this scrutiny, readers will be able to discover how honor may be applied to contemporary society. The following texts will be explored in this thesis: Pamela S. Turner’s novel, Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune (2016), Shigeru Mizuki’s manga, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (1991), the joint novels of So Far From the Bamboo Grove (1986) by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, and Year of Impossible Goodbyes (1991) by Sook Nyul Choi, and finally the memoir Farewell to Manzanar (1973) by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. Each of these books provides a key narrative view of honor in its relation to people at various points of Japanese culture. The conclusion of this thesis will argue that the developments discovered about Japanese honor can be learned from and applied to modern society outside of Japan.

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Yokochi, Laura. "Affective factors in second language acquisition a critical review of the literature /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2854.

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Gramaglia, Letizia. "Representations of madness in Indo-Caribbean literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/850/.

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This thesis presents a critical reading of selected Indo-Caribbean prose and poetry and explores their shared concern with issues of madness and insanity. Before approaching literary texts, however, the thesis investigates the colonial treatment of mental illness in Trinidad and British Guiana in order to establish a pragmatic link between the East Indians’ experience of mental illness during indentureship and its later emergence in literature. The study of the development of local colonial psychiatry is based on the examination of original sources, including relevant Parliamentary Papers and previously unexamined material. A critical reading of Edward Jenkins’s writings provides the link between history and literature, whilst contemporary theories on the construction of the collective imaginary help to sustain the argument of a transference of the trope of madness from facts to fiction, from reality to imagination. This project contributes both to the growing field of Indo-Caribbean literary criticism and to the embryonic area of the history of mental health in the Caribbean. Concentrating on the relation between the social history of medicine and literary imagination it suggests a new approach to Indo-Caribbean literature based on the close relationship between health and culture.

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Barbosa, Heloísa Gonçalves. "The virtual image : Brazilian literature in English translation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56829/.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine how the virtual image of Brazil and its literature is constructed in the Anglo-American world. To this end, a survey of Brazilian literary works in English translation was carried out. Having gathered this data, it became possible to establish correlations between the historical moments when such translations were made, when their number increased, and the events occurring at those times in the international panorama, as well as to look into the role of sponsors, publishers and translators in the selection and production of such translations. The data also allowed a profile of Brazilian literary works in English translation to be drawn. It became possible to suggest that such works fall into four main categories: `authorial works', 'topical works', `ambassadorial works' and `consumer-oriented works'. In order to look more closely into how the translation process has helped to shape the virtual image of Brazilian literary works in the Anglo-American world, an analysis of a sample of translations of such works was made. Included in this sample were the translations of works by Machado de Asis, by Indianist and Regionalist wirters, culminating in an examination of translations of GuimarAes Rosa's works. Having looked at these aspects of the translation process, what remained to be done was to investigate to what extent Brazilian literary works in English translation are read by the English- speaking public. To this end, a survey of availability and library readership was undertaken. Finally, a reading experiment was carried out in which native speakers of English were asked to read the short story 'A terceira margem do rio', by GuimarAes Rosa. The conclusion attempts to pull all these threads together and to indicate directions for further research.

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Widegren, Johannes. "The Laughter of Literature : A diachronic study of the social functions of laughter in British literature." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79777.

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This paper investigates the historical development of the social functions of laughter in literature using linguistic analysis. Many previous studies have analyzed the connection between humor and laughter, but very few have looked at laughter in literature. In this paper, using the eight social functions of laughter defined by Foot and McCreaddie (2007), instances of the word laugh and its variants were analyzed in canonical British literature from the 14th century to the 21st and then compared. In the literature investigated, derision laughter was the most common function during the 15th through 17th centuries. In the centuries to follow humorous laughter took that position. An explanation for this could be that there was no clear division between derision laughter and humorous laughter until the 18th century (Classen, 2010). Also noted was an increase in the frequency of instances of laughter per 1000 words since the 17th century in the investigated literature, as well as an increase in variation of social functions used. The low frequency of laughter in the past may have been a result of the teachings of the church in England. The increased variation in functions of laughter could indicate that the pragmatic feature of laughter has acquired new functions, or that some functions were not depicted in the older literature of this study.

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Frade, Zeila M. "Children's Literature, Ideology, and Cultural Identity Before and After the Cuban Revolution." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1831.

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Mediante de un acercamiento cronológico, esta disertación analiza la función de la ideología como herramienta poderosa para construir la nación y moldear al futuro ciudadano en la narrativa infantil cubana pre y pos-revolucionaria. Aunque una tradición y un proceso de formación de identidad nacional anteceden la literatura infantil publicada antes del triunfo de la Revolución, en los períodos posteriores existe una estrecha relación entre el contexto social de los textos y su función ideológica. Partiendo de “La Edad de Oro” (1889) de José Martí, este estudio se enfoca en los cambios socio-culturales que influyen en el desarrollo de una narrativa infantil nacional que transita del didacticismo más férreo a una variada exploración temática. Por encontrarse entre la Colonia y la etapa revolucionaria, el período republicano ha recibido poca atención crítica, marginado a veces de la herencia literaria de la nación. Sin embargo, el análisis de varios textos representativos en este período permite apreciar la integración de un pensamiento cubano desde búsquedas y posiciones muy diferentes a las del período siguiente, de 1959 a 1989. A partir de 1990 una diversificación temática fomenta objetivos muy distantes del enunciado didáctico. Este estudio concluye que en contraste con los pertenecientes a generaciones anteriores, en los escritores formados dentro de la Revolución, especialmente a partir de la década del ochenta, existe un interés especial por abordar temáticas inexploradas en la literatura infantil tradicional. El divorcio, la muerte, los conflictos generacionales y las diferencias raciales son sólo algunos de los temas que matizan la narrativa infantil posrevolucionaria, cuyos presupuestos ideo-estéticos, se encuentran intrínsecamente relacionados al contexto sociocultural.

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Hayman, Emily. "Inimical Languages: Conflicts of Multilingualism in British Modernist Literature." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8B56GV4.

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Twentieth-century British literature bristles with words and phrases in foreign languages, fragmentary residues of conflicts between the English-language text and the national languages and cultures that surround it in this era of war and instability. This project addresses the form and function of these remnants of foreign language - what are here called "multilingual fragments" - analyzing and contextualizing them within the historical use of foreign languages in British discourses of national identity and international politics over the course of the twentieth century. Within modernist literature, phrase- and word-length fragments of translated and untranslated foreign language reveal texts' deep engagement with the political conflicts of their time on the level of the letter, enabling authors to express a variety of political ideologies, from the liberal or cosmopolitan to the reactionary or jingoistic. At the same time, these fragments' inherent contrast between foreign language and English context interlace the text with points of rupture, exposing authorial manipulations of language and disrupting any single-minded ideology to reveal ambivalence, ambiguity, and nuance. This study historicizes and expands the long-held conception of multilingualism as a central aspect of modernist commitment to formal innovation, and provides a more comprehensive context for understanding large-scale experimental works. It argues that it is specifically through the disruptive effects of small-scale multilingual fragments - traces of foreign language so slight that they are at once easily overlooked and subtly influential - that modernist texts engage in complex interventions on issues ranging from wartime xenophobia to debates over class, women's rights, immigration, and the afterlife of empire. This project's attention to word- and phrase-length fragments of multilingualism through a series of case studies reveals a more specific, historicized understanding of what Rebecca Walkowitz has influentially termed twentieth-century literature's "cosmopolitan style": first, in demonstrating the centrality of both canonical and minor, extra-canonical authors in the development of new, internationally-oriented multilingual techniques, second, in exposing the breadth of ideologies and complex political discourse that such techniques can facilitate, and finally, in demonstrating how writers use multilingual fragments to reveal the inherent hybridity of all language. This historical and wide-ranging study contributes to current critical discussions in four major fields: twentieth-century British literature, world literature, translation studies, and women's and gender studies. Contrary to past conceptions of modernist multilingualism as benignly aesthetic, exclusionarily elitist, or unilaterally liberal, it demonstrates that multilingualism can be applied in the service of a range of ideologies, and that the inherent instability of fragmentary multilingualism further complicates expressions of political allegiance or affiliation. Further, it expands our understanding of what constitutes "world literature" by making the case for fragmentary, small-scale multilingualism as a vehicle which transports the concerns of world literature - border-crossing conversation, "gaining in translation" - into texts produced in and for a national readership. Finally, it draws together the canons and concerns of world literature and women's and gender studies in order to make the case for marginalized female and homosexual figures as major innovators of multilingual usage, deliberately manipulating multilingual fragments to disrupt and protest the political status quo.

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Bines, Rosana Kohl. "Post-Shoah identity between languages /." 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3029475.

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Knowles, James Robert. "Love, Labor, Liturgy: Languages of Service in Late Medieval England." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1614.

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This dissertation explores the complex vocabularies of service and servitude in the Age of Chaucer. Working with three major Middle English texts--William Langland's Piers Plowman (chaps. 1 and 3), Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love (chap. 2), and Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (chap. 4)--my thesis argues that the languages of service available to these writers provided them with a rich set of metaphorical tools for expressing the relation between metaphysics and social practice. For late medieval English culture, the word "service" was an all-encompassing marker used to describe relations between individuals and their loved ones, their neighbors, their church, their God, and their institutions of government. In the field of Middle English studies, these categories have too often been held apart from one another and the language of service has too often been understood as drawing its meanings solely from legal and economic discourses, the purview of social historians. Love, Labor, Liturgy sets out to correct this underanalysis by pointing to a diverse tradition of theological and philosophical thought concerning the possibilities and paradoxes of Christian service, a tradition ranging from Saint Augustine to Martin Luther and beyond.

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Nakamura, Rika. "Attending the languages of the other recuperating "Asia, " abject, other in Asian North American literature /." 2009. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051057.

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Coutinho, Sara Araújo. "Webjihadism: The Case of al Qaeda." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/66359.

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Faria, Marcela Filipa Correia Salgado de. "Estudo sobre fenómenos de fronteira de palavra sob as perspetivas da Fonologia Generativa e da Fonologia Declarativa." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/70738.

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Nia, Armaghan Khosravi. "Out of the Heavy Water into the Light Air: Postmodern Performance of the "Magical" Reality" of a Feminine Myth in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/77161.

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ROCHA, SORAIA FILIPA GONÇALVES. "Impactos Sociais da Guerra do Vietname." Master's thesis, 2017. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/110458.

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Djunaidova, Dilshoda. "Die rezeptionsstrategische Konstruktion der Frau Welt in "Der Welt Lohn" Konrads von Würzburg." Master's thesis, 2015. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/79709.

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Mendes, Paula Cristina Almeida. "Porque aqui se vem retratados os passos por onde se caminha para o Ceo: a escrita e a edição de "Vidas" de santos e de "Vidas" devotas em Portugal (sécs. XVI-XVIII)." Doctoral thesis, 2013. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/92703.

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Santos, João Fernando de Castro Gonçalves dos. "Os Talismãs da Vida: Magia, Religião e Ciência na Saga Harry Potter." Master's thesis, 2015. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/81594.

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Basto, José Maria da Cunha Osório Fernandes. "Queimando os nossos Barcos - Nossa Senhora da Desmitologização - Análise e Tradução de três Short Stories de Angela Carter." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/66491.

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Jones, Sara Harriett da Assunção de Sá. "A Estrada de Jack Kerouac: Uma Viagem Existencial." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/77387.

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Lopes, Isabel Maria de Eça Ferrão Oliveira. "Tradução de contos de Ernest Hemingway." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/73827.

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Correia, Inês Martins Ferreira Araújo. "Relatório de Estágio no Parlamento Europeu." Master's thesis, 2016. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/86773.

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Teixeira, Gil Clemente. "Entre textos: da epopeia Vincentius Leuita et Martyr de André de Resende a Os Lusíadas de Camões." Master's thesis, 2018. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/111672.

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Livingstone, Kerwin. "Investigating Foreign Language Curriculum Design and Development in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions." Doctoral thesis, 2017. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/108380.

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Gonçalves, Maria Adriana Martins. "Lugar (es) da Literatura no Ensino do Português. Análise Cítica de Programas e Manuais de Língua Portuguesa para o 9º ano de Escolaridade." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/74208.

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Teixeira, Joana Filipa Pinto. "Alguns aspetos sintáticos das exclamativas Q frásicas em Português Europeu." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/77285.

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Kind, Anette. "Eça de Queirós auf der 'Insel der Seligen": das Werk des portugiesischen Romanciers im Ostberliner Aufbau- Verlag." Doctoral thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/113995.

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Silva, Bruna Daniela Craveiro. "Usos sintáticos da vírgula: estrtégias de ensino - relato de uma experiência didática." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/66355.

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Filberek, Ewa Joanna. "Polish foreign trade before and after accession to the European Union. What was the impact." Master's thesis, 2012. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/74850.

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Tavares, Ana Carolina Brun. "Como se ensinar cultura: A abordagem de aspectos culturais no ensino de língua inglesa sob a ótica do professor brasileiro." Doctoral thesis, 2018. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/111829.

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Couto, Maria Emília Alves. "Winter in July: Mapping Space and Self in Doris Lessing's Short Stories." Master's thesis, 2017. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/109136.

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Vilar, Joao Luis Pinho. "Padrão e exceção: apontamentos para um possível enquadramento teórico da música popular." Master's thesis, 2017. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/109655.

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