Dissertations / Theses: 'Invitations'

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Cullen, Gordon Thomas. "How to give an effective evangelistic invitation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0596.

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Campbell, Jennifer. "Words as invitations to name contrasts between objects." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50096.

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An inherent difficulty for infants learning their first language is that when a caregiver presents a name for an object there are many possible referents of the label. For example, the new word could refer to an individual (proper name), a category (count noun), or a property (adjective). Here I explored how infants might identify a novel word’s lexical category and limit its possible meaning. Research has revealed that infants appear to possess an early expectation that a consistent word applied to multiple objects labels a category, in the manner of count nouns (see Waxman & Gelman, 2010). At the same time, studies suggest that hearing distinct labels for a set of objects can serve to highlight contrasts among the objects (Xu, 1999). Labels can contrast objects from one another in a number of different ways (e.g., contrastive count nouns, adjectives, proper names). Yet some types of contrasts may be more salient for some kinds of objects than for others. Although distinct labels might pick out subordinate categories (i.e., count nouns) or distinguishing properties (i.e., adjectives) for objects of any kind, only in the case of people are distinct labels likely to pick out individuals (i.e., proper names) (see Hall, 2009; Macnamara, 1982). We propose that hearing distinct words highlights contrasts between people more so than contrasts between artifacts or other animals. Fourteen-month-old infants viewed images of emus paired with images of female faces. Infants who heard the same label for every pair behaved like infants who heard no labels, and did not preferentially select a new face or new emu for the referent of the same word. In contrast, when infants heard a different label for each face-emu pair, they selected a new face as the referent of a novel word. These findings are consistent with the possibility that infants inferred that distinct labels function to pick out contrasts between people as opposed to contrasts between nonhuman animals. We will discuss how these results bear on the issue of how infants learn the way in which words from different lexical classes are marked in their language.
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Huong, Dang Thi, and n/a. "A cross-cultural study on the way in which speakers of Vietnamese and speakers of English issue, accept and decline spoken invitations." University of Canberra. Education, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060731.161630.

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In this field study report, the author investigates behaviour associated with inviting in order to see if there is any effect on the language used across cultures due to factors such as status, age, gender in actual social interactions. Chapter one gives a brief introduction to the important role of the English Language in the world in general, and in Vietnam nowadays in particular, and a review of Teaching Methods which have been used in Vietnam so far. Chapter two will deal with the theoretical background, language competences including linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence and communicative competence. In addition, speech act theory , face work, distance, power in relation to status, age and gender as well as reviews research on the differences between spoken and written are also discussed. Chapter three defines the structure of an invite with its social and cultural characteristics focussing on the natural structure of a spoken invitation. Chapter four describes research and data analysis of the issuing, accepting and declining of spoken invitations used by Vietnamese speakers of Vietnamese (VSV). Chapter five contains the data analysis of the issuing, accepting and declining of spoken invitations used by Australian speakers of English (ASE). Chapter six discusses the comparison of Vietnamese and Australian spoken invitations, the main difference being found in the use of much more direct forms used in VSV as opposed to more tentative forms preferred by ASEs. Directness of form, however, does not reflect a lack of politeness, which is conveyed to a much larger extent by other prosodic and paralinguistic features. Chapter seven is a brief cross-cultural investigation of the spoken invitations of Vietnamese learners speaking English. This shows up a degree of cross-cultural interference and offers some implications for the classroom. Chapter eight contains a summary and conclusion. The results of the study may suggest that Vietnamese learners of English need to be taught not only linguistic competence but also communicative competence with an emphasis on cultural and social factors. Spoken invitations which really have some function in actual interactions need to be incorporated in the program for teaching spoken English.

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Foster, Richard Novel. "The great invitation: a call to discipleship /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Turner, Wells C. "Particular atonement and evangelism presenting the gospel in light of the unity of Christ's priestly work /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Ward, David. "Invitations to literacy : research on literacy interactions between authors and students." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5640.

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This study explored the nature of and extent to which Canadian children's authors were inviting school-age students into literacy. The most common forms of interaction between authors and readers were identified. While essentially exploratory in nature this investigation provided some descriptive research to help uncover the parameters of the phenomenon of authors interacting with readers at literacy events. A pilot study was conducted in 2004 to help inform the national survey given in 2007. Seventy-three Canadian children's authors participated in the national survey. The email survey consisted of 15 items and asked a variety of questions ranging from how authors shared their craft with students to how beneficial authors found websites as a means of communicating with their readership. From the 125 pages of transcription of responses the following general themes arose: authors in school environments, correspondence, websites, author roles, authors as literacy resources, engaging in the literacy process, and facilitating events and people. Two main research tools were used in this study. Atlas.ti was used to generate key categories from the authors' comments. SPSS was used to generate frequencies. Findings from this study suggested that authors were highly engaged in inviting students further into literacy by meeting and corresponding with readers. Authors identified elements of fiction, researching, reading, developing style, and generating ideas as central components of their dialogues and mentoring of school-aged children. Authors also said that websites were significant for maintaining contact with their readership. Based on the findings of this research, a theoretical model was developed. The Reader/Author Reciprocal Mediation Model considers how students' literacy can improve when authors and readers of texts interact with a storyworld. This study provides a framework for understanding how authors are impacting student literacy.

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Wells, Pam. "Invitations to laughter : a microanalysis of televised stand-up comedy performances." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11076/.

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This thesis set out to identify the various techniques used by stand-up comedians to invite laughter and other affiliative responses from their audiences. A corpus of 13 televised stand-up comedy performances was analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively, and comparative analyses of different audience responses (including laughter and applause) were presented. Coding schemes that had been designed for analysing audience applause during political speeches were found to account for many of the audience responses during stand-up comedy performances, but differences between both performer and audience behaviours in the two genres were also identified. A taxonomy of comedy invitation devices was proposed, containing 16 different verbal and non-verbal invitational techniques that were observed in the corpus. In a quantitative comparison of two ofthese, no statistical difference was found between the invitational use of gestures and standard rhetorical devices, although both techniques were used during all of the performances in the corpus. An analysis ofpotential forms of disaffiliation suggested that non-responses were more disaffiliative than either uninvited responses or invited responses ofweak affiliation intensity. Finally, a number of ways of identifying skill as a stand-up comedian were proposed, including the use of subtle invitational cues, combining several comedy invitation devices at salient response invitation points, and moving on swiftly and fluently when laughter invitations are not taken up by the audience.

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Joo, Chang-Yun. "The interpretative positions of the audience and the invitations of television drama." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1795/.

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The purpose of this study was to explore different acts of interpretation in the interaction between text (television drama) and audience. This study proposed a new theoretical and methodological problematics for audience studies, which is called 'empirical reception aesthetics', challenging for taken-for-granted terms such as audience activity, interpretative communities and the openness of text. It brought out three areas of interest in empirical reception aesthetics; the audience's horizons of expectations, the interpretative positions and textual invitations. In order to investigate these areas, this study emphasised methodological convergence, employing both survey research and the focused family interview. Concerning the audience's horizons of expectation about television drama, the Korean audience saw it as 'emotional escapism', 'distanceship', 'naturalistic realism', and 'imaginative realism', which set limits on divergence in interpretations and reading pleasure. This implies that a range of foreknowledge is an integral part, as a mediated factor, in the interaction between text and audience. It found that there were four interpretative positions; 'the escapist', 'the habitual', 'the ironic' and 'the non-engaged'. Though the individual viewer tends to take a dominant position, this is closely influenced by the other positions on the ground that interpretative positions are correlated with each other. This implies that the audience's interpretative position is not fixed in relation to class or gender. By using the term 'interpretative positions', we are able to avoid a simplistic distinction of oppositional reading and dominant reading and the mechanical application of the audience's interpretation to social backgrounds. Moreover, audience activity can be better understood when focused on a negotiated position.

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Marquez, Celia. "Latino Parent School Involvement: Do Parents Read and Respond to Teacher Invitations?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/821.

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Latinos are the second largest ethnic group after Whites in the education system, yet there is still a large gap between Whites’ and Latino’s graduation rates. Research indicates that parental involvement in children’s education plays a significant role in children’s academic success. For this reason, this study aims to understand Latino parents’ perspectives on their participation in their child’s school. More specifically, how often Latino parents receive invitations from the school and whether or not they respond to these invitations. The research design for this study is exploratory and qualitative and uses one-on-one interviews with Latino parents. The central themes the emerged from this study were effective communication from the school to parents, a lack of structure for reciprocal communication, parents’ welcoming attitudes of school invitations and “being present/involved” as the major responsibility parents identified for themselves for ensuring a successful school experience for their children. The results of this study have major implications for social work practice in that it allows schools to better understand how to involve Latino parents in the school setting. This study also proposes that school social workers educate school staff and Latino parents about the importance of Latino parental school involvement.

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Jin, Sung Yong. "Developing a delayed-response invitation program with evangelistic preaching aimed at the salvation of unregenerate church members." Fort Worth, TX : Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.049-0497.

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Zhuang, Cheng-yu. "Politeness phenomena in pre-modern Chinese : invitations and gift-giving in Feng Menglong's Sanyan vernacular stories." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2018. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34510/.

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This research aims to shed fresh light on our understanding of how (im)politeness manifests itself as a discursive phenomenon by examining invitations and gift-giving (henceforth I&G) in pre-modern Chinese. To this end, a corpus of I&Gs from Feng Menglong’s (1574-1646) trilogy of vernacular stories was analysed using a pragmaphilological approach that emphasizes the contextual analysis of texts. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the data show that the interactional elaboration and selection of the strategies of pre-offers, head acts, modifications and responses were highly context-dependent. Hence, the present study provides empirical evidence that I&Gs are far more complex than previously assumed and extends our understanding of them beyond the contemporary limit. In line with the discursive or post-modern approach to (im)politeness, I argue that it is essentially the interactants’ contextualized evaluations of the I&Gs that determined whether an offer counted as polite or impolite behaviour. By challenging the conceptual bias of the modern approach to (im)politeness towards speech production, its assumed link between indirectness and politeness and the empirical applicability of positive and negative politeness distinction and also the overemphasis in Chinese politeness scholarship on modesty and rituality, this research contributes to the possibility of developing alternative (im)politeness theories by explicating how I&Gs in Chinese, which have long been stereotyped as interactionally elaborate and intrinsically polite, were judged by participants in relation to (im)politeness.

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Ethridge, Ronald Oscar. "The design and implementation of an invitation counseling program for First Baptist Church of Oxford, Alabama." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Eads, Jeffery Shannon. "Enhancing the project director's skill in giving a public invitation to specific age group worship services at First Baptist Church, Brandon, Florida." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p053-0334.

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Trammell, Stephen B. "An intentional plan to improve the delivery of the public invitation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Strickland, Steve C. "The Effects of Parental Motivations on Home-Based and School-Based Parental Involvement." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/898.

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Students at a Title I middle school in Georgia have scored low on standardized state tests for several years. Of the many possible ways to address low test scores, the school focused on increasing parental involvement, which can have a strong positive correlation with academic success. Researchers have indicated that parental involvement programs are more successful when created based on the specific motivations of parents. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parental motivation on parents' home-based and school-based involvement behaviors. The theoretical framework for this study was the work of Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler who determined 3 kinds of motivation to influence parental involvement behavior including personal motivation for involvement, invitations for involvement, and life context. A survey was used to collect data on the 3 kinds of motivation from 174 parents of 6th graders. Regression analysis revealed invitations for involvement to have a strong, positive effect on school-based involvement and a slight positive effect on home-based involvement behaviors. Life context had a moderate positive effect on home-based involvement. Personal motivations had no significant effect on either type of involvement behaviors. These results support some prior findings, but conflict with others, emphasizing that each school site is different and needs a customized approach. Recommendations included increasing invitations for parental involvement, which would increase both school-based and home-based involvement behaviors. Such use of the findings may positively affect social change by increasing parental involvement and ultimately the academic success of students.

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Baldwin, Rowenna Jane. "Rethinking patriotic education in the Russian Federation : invitations to belong to 'imagined communities' : (a case study of St Petersburg)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/47099/.

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The thesis discusses how patriotic education is openly promoted by the government in contemporary Russia through a series of programmes, entitled the ‘State Programme for the Patriotic Education of the Citizens of the Russian Federation’, promoted since 2001. However, this thesis presents the argument that patriotic education cannot fully be understood through examination of these formally organised initiatives. Instead, the thesis contributes towards a rethinking of patriotic education as a communicative process whereby multiple ideas of the nation are delivered to young people, both in formal and informal settings. The thesis argues that this promotion of patriotic education is connected to long-standing debates on nations and nationalism in Russia, but also places these within the more general discourse on nations and nationalism, in particular Anderson’s (2006) definition of the nation as an ‘imagined community’. The thesis is positioned within, and contributes to, more recent arguments surrounding the need to examine everyday ideas of the nation, but maintains a sense of the role played by elites in producing ideas of the nation by intercepting state-produced ideas represented within the education system. Importantly, the three-stage research design maps not only the delivery of these state ideas, but also accesses how these ideas are received and articulated by young people themselves, thus contributing to an understanding of cultural production. This is achieved through triangulation of three qualitative methods: analysis of textbooks, classroom observation, and semi-structured interviews with teachers and students, conducted in St Petersburg. The data generated demonstrates that young people articulate both a sense of local and national belonging, cultivated just as much through their surroundings (historic buildings etc.) as through formal education. The thesis contributes to studies of (Russian) youth by demonstrating that young people negotiate with formal and informal ideas of belonging as they formulate their own understandings and expressions of belonging.

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Alghmaiz, Bandar. "The Development of Refusals to Invitations by L2 Learners of Emirati Arabic| Language Proficiency and Length of Residence in the Target Community." Thesis, Indiana University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10843902.

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Since the majority of Arabic language institutes teach Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), studies of the speech act performance of learners of Arabic as a second/foreign language compare learners’ productions made in MSA with the productions of native Arabic speakers. However, MSA is not spoken natively, and Arabic speech acts are performed orally. Therefore, individuals in the sample group either use their own dialect or they consciously code-switch to MSA, which leads to artificial production, especially when those productions are elicited via a written DCT. The present study, however, used the closed role-play data collection method so as to investigate the development of refusals to invitations made by L2 learners of Emirati Arabic at two levels of ability, low-intermediate and advanced, and to compare their production with the production of native Emirati Arabic speakers. The goal here is to determine whether there is a positive correlation between the learners’ language proficiency and their pragmatic development. Further, the study seeks to determine whether length of residence in the target community plays a significant role in acquiring Emirati Arabic refusals to invitations. The goal of the study’s second objective is to determine whether there is a positive correlation between length of residence in the target community and pragmatic development. Regarding both objectives, the current study is interested in revealing whether or not the status of interlocutors (higher, equal, or lower) modifies the degree of directness, semantic formulas, and content of NSs and NNS’s refusals to invitations in the same way. The study used the same classification scheme of refusal strategies that was proposed by Beebe et al. (1990) but with different situations and scenarios. Findings showed differences between the NS and NNSs of Emirati Arabic in the frequency, content, and order of the semantic formulas used as well as the effect of interlocutors’ social statuses on these variables. Further, findings revealed that learners of Emirati Arabic were remarkably more direct than the Emirati Arabic NSs, while the former learners who remained longer in the target community produced refusal patterns similar to those the Emirati Arabic NSs produced.

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Dziewięcki, Daniel Grzegorz [Verfasser]. "Exploring mobile market research : the impact of SMS and e-mail invitations on outcome rates of stationary and mobile web surveys / Daniel Grzegorz Dziewięcki." Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077059760/34.

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Chun, In Kyoung. "Invitation." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/106.

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This thesis is a statement about a series of paintings based on an invented dollhouse object that conveys the artist’s identity and placement in the world. Through this essay, the artist represents the home as a space that fosters the recovery and rebirth of invisible energy, ki and examines ideas of transience, interconnection, and rebirth in the mysterious flow of ki in the home. Also the artist will explain her own view about being an artist, the methodologies and specific techniques of her paintings, and her artistic direction for the future.

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Berg, Malin, and Frida Poulsen. "Konkurrensbegränsande köperbjudanden : - Står marknadsföringslagen i strid med konkurrenslagen?" Thesis, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-6316.

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Uppsatsens syfte är att söka bringa klarhet i huruvida de krav som finns i 12 § Marknadsföringslagen (MFL) är förenliga med artikel 101(1) Lissabonfördraget samt 2:1 Konkurrenslagen (KL). I arbetet kommer rättsdogmatisk metod att användas, vilket innebär redogörelse av hur de aktuella rättsreglerna är utformade (de lege lata) samt hur de kan tänkas revideras (de lege ferenda). Marknadsföring nyttjas av många företag i näringslivet, marknadsföring får företagen att synas på marknaden och därmed nå ut till konsument och näringsidkare. Att utforma ett köperbjudande, en bestämd produkt tillsammans med ett angivet pris är en marknadsföringsmetod. Hur ett köperbjudande skall vara utformat finns reglerat i 12 § MFL. Syftet med bestämmelsen i 12 § är att skydda konsumenten mot vilseledande marknadsföring som kan hindra konsumenten att fatta ett välgrundat affärsbeslut.

Den problematik som nu uppkommit vid tillämpning av 12 § var från konkurrensverket (KKV) förutspådd. Problematiken vid tillämpningen av 12 § MFL uppstår då fristående företag tillsammans utformar ett köperbjudande i sin marknadsföring. Samarbetet om det exakta priset är något som enligt MFL är tillåtet medan det enligt artikel 101 (1) Lissabonfördraget och 2:1 KL utgör ett otillåtet prissamarbete. Skulle företagen för att undkomma att handla i strid med de konkurrensrättsliga bestämmelserna välja att ange ett från- eller cirkapris strider det mot de marknadsrättsliga reglerna. Förfarandet medför att företag utom den ekonomiska enheten inte har någon möjlighet att marknadsföra sig tillsammans i form av ett köperbjudande utan att agera i strid med lagen. Detta är en konsekvens som kan komma resultera i att företag väljer att utelämna priset ur marknadsföringen, något som är till nackdel för konsumenten.

En lösning av en del av problemet vore att Sverige, precis som England inför ett tredje rekvisit för köperbjudande. Detta innebär att köperbjudandet måste ligga nära avtalsslutet. Konsumenten skall ha möjlighet att köpa produkten genom den information som anges i köperbjudandet. På så sätt skulle det vara möjligt för fristående företag att gå samman om marknadsföring som inte ligger nära avtalsslutet. De undkommer då bestämmelserna angående exakt pris som anges 12 § MFL vilket i sin tur innebär att en priskartell enligt artikel 101 (1) Lissabonfördraget och 2:1 KL inte ligger för handen.

The following essay has been written with the purpose to find out if 12 § Marketing Act (MFL) is compatible with article 101 (1) Treaty of Lisbon and 2:1 Competition law. A legal dogmatic method was applied in the essay, which means that it took into account the rules of law (de lege lata) and how the law should be written (de lege ferenda). Marketing is used by many manufacturers with the purpose to reach out to and inform the consumer about their products. In order to reach that goal, many manufacturers use by-offers, showing a product jointly with a price. The marketing Act aims to eliminate misleading marketing procedures. Therefore, 12 § was created to regulate these invitation to purchase. The rule is constructed with the purpose to protect consumers against misleading marketing and prevent the consumer from making the wrong economical decision.

The problems that would arise with the application of the law were already predicted by the Swedish Competition Authority before the law came into effect in the Marketing Act. The application difficulties with 12 § appeared when smaller manufacturers that were not within the same economical unit constructed a concerted invitation to purchase. The proceeding had to be considered as an illegitimate price cooperation according to article 101 (1) Treaty of Lisbon and also 2:1 Competition law.

If the manufakturers, with the wish to not act in conflict with the competition laws, would state a price that is not exact, they would act in conflict with the Marketing Act. A consequence of this problem could be that the manufacturers do not include prices in their commercials in order to get away from the rule of invitations to purchase. This can lead to disadvantages for the consumers because they cannot take part of the prices that smaller manufacturers have, which will inevitably lead toward a limited overview of the marked on their behalf.

To solve the problem, England has introduced a third prerequisite for invitations to purchase. The third prerequisite specifies that the invitation to purchase has to make it possible for the consumer to actually buy the product. The invitation to purchase has to be close to an agreement between the manufacturer and the consumer. In that case, all the commercials that do not make it possible for the consumer to actually buy the product will not be considered as an invitation to purchase. This would make 12 § MFL unfeasible and would lead towards a development in which the small manufacturers that are not within the same economical unit would be able to cooperate with their commercials without acting against article 101 (1) Treaty of Lisbon and also 2:1 KL.

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Fitzgerald, David M., and David V. Lamm. "Streamlining invitation for bids." Thesis, Monterey, California: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/22505.

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Niedermeier, Rolf. "Invitation to fixed-parameter algorithms /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/ilmenau/toc/500666768niede.PDF.

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Bain, William. "Invitation of Echoes: Part One." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/649.

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Four strangers are stranded in an old farmhouse by a winter storm. Gilley lives on the farm. Shadows move of their own volition on the farm, and Gilley talks to echoes and sees the dead reflected in mirrors. Gilley's husband, Frank, disappeared over forty years ago. Jason is a college student who seeks Gilley out for an interview. He agrees to help Gilley find Frank. Jesse is a young boy who finds his way to the house after an accident. August is a private investigator whom Jason calls for help in finding Frank. August does not have a shadow nor a reflection of his own, and he can't remember how he lost them. Each wants something that only the others can provide, but each wants to keep their own secrets.

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Young, David L. "An invitation : improvisational living and teaching /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2067.

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Funderbuck, Jennifer, and Jodi Polaha. "To Clinician Innovators: A Special Invitation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000280.

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Brussow, S. M. "Concept mapping : an invitation to creative thought." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/475.

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Concept maps, when used to improve factual recall from written material or verbal communication, have the potential to enhance effective learning. The use of concept mapping allow higher education learners to create an understanding of information by making associations and by creating and exploring links, skills that establish the basic process of problem solving and creative thinking during problem based- and reflective-learning. The mind map as learning facilitation method offer educators several advantages, for example to stimulate interest, to enhance concentration and to increase understanding. It facilitates improved memory in learners since mind mapping serves as a method to help learners learn, record, and recall information. To explore mind mapping as an approach to optimise learning holds potential since it is an invitation to creative thought.

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Nobre, Marisa da Costa. "Planeamento em social media : elaboração de um plano de social media marketing para a marca Lovelab." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8887.

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Mestrado em Marketing
O presente trabalho de projeto teve como objetivo a elaboração de um plano de social media marketing para a marca LoveLab, e a exploração da importância e da mais-valia de ter uma presença online integrada. A LoveLab é uma marca que está associada à conceção e produção de convites e outras pecas gráficas para casamentos, sendo uma marca com uma comunicação dirigida exclusivamente a plataformas de social media. Para alcançar este objectivo procedeu-se à recolha de dados primários através de uma entrevista simultânea e semiestruturada à diretora criativa da marca e a um consultor externo de marketing digital. Utilizou-se adicionalmente um focus group com noivas e mulheres recém-casadas e foi efetuada uma análise de conteúdo às menções à marca LoveLab e às marcas dos principais concorrentes ocorridas em plataformas de social media. Em paralelo, procedeu-se à recolha de dados secundários, permitindo a obtenção das restantes informações relevantes para a elaboração de um plano. A análise destes dados permitiu a identificação dos pontos fortes e fracos, bem como das oportunidades e ameaças do ambiente de social media da marca. A informação recolhida permitiu ainda a caracterização do segmento-alvo relativamente aos interesses, atividades e gostos online, levando à identificação das plataformas de social media consideradas mais relevantes pelo público-alvo. O plano de social media marketing realizado inclui propostas para a gestão relativamente à presença da marca nas plataformas de social media, em termos de identificação de objetivos, definição da estratégia, caracterização do público-alvo, e apresentação de táticas para as diversas plataformas selecionadas.
This research project intends the development of a social media marketing plan for the brand LoveLab, and the exploration of the importance and added value of having an integrated online presence. LoveLab is the company's brand Claim that is associated with the design and production of invitations and other graphic pieces for weddings, being a brand with a communication addressed exclusively to social media platforms. To achieve this goal one collected primary data through semi-structured and simultaneous interviews to the creative director of the brand and to an external consultant on digital marketing. Additionally one used a focus group with brides and newly married women. Also a content analysis of references to the LoveLab brand and the brands of major competitors occurring in social media platforms was performed. Collection of secondary data also was ensured, for the gathering of other relevant information for the preparation of a plan. Analysis of these data allowed the identification of strengths and weaknesses as well the opportunities and threats of social media brand environment. The information collected also allowed the characterization of the target segment in relation to interests, activities and habits online, leading to the identification of social media platforms considered most relevant by the target audience. The present plan includes proposals for the management related to the presence of the brand in social media platforms, defining goals, strategies, characterization of the target audience, and presentation of the various tactics for selected platforms.

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Burns, Gwen Jeannine. "Invitational leadership in public schools." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4767.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 19, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Morgan, John Edward. "Proclamation by invitation: inviting postmodern hearers to transformation." Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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de, Lucas Olmos Maria Cristina. "Narrative aspects of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet 'The Invitation'." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/narrative-aspects-of-kenneth-macmillans-ballet-the-invitation(25354e3f-9b96-414e-a485-cf725bcb0a84).html.

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The British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan (1929-1992) has a prominent place in the narrative tradition of the Royal Ballet. As a major storyteller in the history of the company, his ballets with intense, dramatic stories are an important part of the dance heritage of British ballet. This thesis focuses on one of MacMillan’s first narrative achievements, the one-act ballet The Invitation (1960), and studies the main thematic concerns and stylistic strategies that it deploys. The methodology that shapes the investigation is dance narratology, an underexplored discipline with roots in narratology and dance studies. The first extensive methodological approach proposed here blends the main tenets and principles of narrative theory (and transmedial narratology, in particular) with dance, multimedia and choreomusical analysis. The argumentation is thus structured around six central narrative categories (story, plot, narration, time, space and characters) and interwoven with analytical and theoretical practices from dance research. It also includes notions from other academic fields, such as discourse analysis, semantics, drama and film theory, and is illustrated with frequent dance examples. The discussion framed by those concepts exposes MacMillan’s most significant narrative strategies in The Invitation, suggests the artistic influences behind them, highlights the role of choreography, music (by Mátyás Seiber) and design (by Nicholas Georgiadis) in the narrative, and proposes some narrative solutions to the main flaw in the ballet, the widely contested Carnival interlude. The thesis closes with a contextualization of the ballet, placing MacMillan’s narrative choices in their most immediate artistic contexts, namely those of the Royal Ballet and British post-war drama.

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Kudirka, Joseph. "Extending the invitation : composing notated experimental music for performance." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17533/.

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This body of writing serves to accompany a portfolio of scored works composed between 2007 and 2011. The first chapter deals with the definition of “experimental music,” first asking the question “what is experimental music?”, and then by giving a possible working definition of the term based on certain processes informed not only by music, but also by historiography and philosophy. The second chapter lays out the relationship between a piece of music and the score in relation to a mathematical model of understanding. This chapter further explores the different ways in which scores operate in terms of performer interaction, the different types of notation that composers can use in these scores, and how these topics may be related in practice. The third chapter deals specifically with performance of scored experimental works. “Audience” is considered as the performers who receive scores from composers. This relationship is then explored in various ways, based not only on the types of scores and notation presented in the previous chapter, but also on the different types of performers who may encounter the work. Aspects inherent to the performance of experimental music are often discussed. Finally, the question is raised as whether or not such a thing exists as experimental music performance practice, and if this can be catered to by a composer through scores and notation. In these first three chapters, numerous visual examples and quotes from other composers are provided to give context for the work in the portfolio. In contrast, final chapter consists of commentaries on pieces within the accompanying portfolio. Appendices after the first three chapters lie somewhere in tone between these commentaries on individual works and the main chapters, by way of personalising the abstract concepts laid out therein.

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Pégé-Defendi, Nathalie. "Une invitation au tourisme : l'affiche ferroviaire française (1880-1936)." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010588.

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Partant du postulat que l'image participe à part entière de la connaissance des faits historiques, nous nous sommes appliquée dans le cadre d'une contribution à l'histoire du marketing touristique, à décrire la création et la réception de l'affiche ferroviaire, de 1880 à 1936. A travers ce cas particulier, il s'agissait d'approfondir, l'histoire des facteurs de production de la promotion touristique des stations, des comportements qu'ils conditionnent, des coûts qu'ils déterminent. Dès 1880, le phénomène touristique est bien installé, une publicité se révèle. Indispensable. La naissance de l'affiche est rendue possible par la mise au point de la lithographie. Ce progrès modifie les rapports professionnels, l'illustration devenant prépondérante, sur le texte. Les relations qu' entretenait le milieu ferroviaire avec le monde du tourisme et celui de l'impression oscillaient entre rapports de force, mépris et collaboration. Finalement, ce sont les syndicats d'initiative qui ont majoritairement été à l' origine de la création des affiches. Ces affiches étaient de style traditionnel 80% contre 20% de style graphique, du fait du conservatisme des commanditaires et de la formation académique des illustrateurs. Le style propre à chaque compagnie est à rechercher dans le choix de l'imprimeur et de l'artiste. Le développement du tourisme n'a pu se faire, sans la promotion d'images régionales fortes figées dans un folklore parfois inventé. L' affiche ferroviaire participa de l'évolution de la perception des éléments naturels et. Régionaux, et donc, de la construction des mythes fondateurs du tourisme.

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McDiarmid, Monna. "Accepting the invitation, a woman's journey into her own learning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2002. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65639.pdf.

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ALATEEQ, ESHAQ. "REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN SAUDI ARABIAN SOCIAL SETTINGS." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1945.

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This study examines the speech act of refusal among Saudis. Specifically, it investigates the refusal strategies implemented by Saudis in Saudi Arabian Social settings. Data was gathered using Discourse Completion Task (DCT). Thirty Saudi male and female students, graduate, undergraduate, and ESL students participated in this study creating 180 natural responses. The responses were coded and classified according to the classification of refusals proposed by Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss- Weltz. The results revealed that Saudi females and males choose to use indirectness more than directness when refusing an invitation. Even when using direct strategies, indirect strategies accompany the direct once to mitigate the threat of directness. The results also showed a great deal of implementing adjuncts as part of Saudis refusal statements. The result showed that Saudis use one new strategy, refusal-functioning acceptance, and one new adjunct, pray.

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Carlsson, Nicole. "Wetnerk: an invitation to engage with local computer networks through sound." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22879.

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This paper presents Wetnerk, a Research through Design portable local computer network sonification artifact designed with a Reflective Design approach. Wetnerk explores how we might sonically engage with local computer network characteristics. The aim is to reveal hidden qualities of a local computer network, normally undetectable by human senses. Specifically Wetnerk attempts to invite people to engage in novel ways with their local area network. It does so by probing the network ports, analyzing the result from an information security perspective and subsequently sonifying the results. A preliminary pilot study indicates that people are so unaware of local computer network characteristics that they have trouble perceiving any of its qualities beyond its mere existence. Wetnerk shows promise in supporting people to critically reflect on and question this low awareness. In some cases curiosity is ignited sparking a desire to further engage with qualities of a local network in more novel ways than the current norm.

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Garrett, Margaret. "Come and join the dance : innovation as an invitation to strategic living." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338041.

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Shattock, Alexander Harry. "The legal limits of intervention by invitation of government in civil wars." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288826.

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It has become widely accepted that if a state sends troops into another state following a government request, it will not breach the prohibition on the use of force set out in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. This is known as "intervention by invitation." However, it is clearly open to abuse, especially when invoked as a legal justification for intervening in a civil war, allowing allies of ineffective governments to help suppress genuine popular revolts. Thus, many 20th century writers argued that intervention by invitation in civil wars was not lawful, on the basis that it would necessarily breach the principles of self-determination and non-intervention. Several 21st century writers have maintained this position. This thesis will challenge those claims. Its focus will be on the legal limits on intervening in a civil war: the key question being what circumstances, if any, preclude a state from responding to a government invitation to intervene in a civil war. Part I will set out the key doctrinal issues and the scope of the research question, including the definition of a civil war. In contrast to previous studies of intervention by invitation, it will critique the alleged prohibition on intervention in civil wars by analysing its two constituent elements, self-determination and non-intervention, from a historical and theoretical perspective, concluding that neither principle is sufficiently clear in definition or application to support a general prohibition on intervention by invitation. Part II will analyse recent state practice on intervention by invitation, in order to determine whether it is an evolving norm in light of new developments such as the global war on terror and the apparent decline of the effective control doctrine. It will also consider potential limits to intervention by invitation in civil wars in the absence of a general prohibition, such as loss of government status, coercion and the ways in which an invitation can be communicated, and the extent to which these limitations have been challenged or confirmed by recent state practice.

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Kryscynski, Kristina Gayle Heiss. "'Seek the Eyes of Mary': A Widow and a Virgin's Illuminating Invitation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8416.

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A deep visual analysis of Ludovico Carracci’s 1588 Madonna and Child, Angels, and Saints Francis, Dominic, Mary Magdalene and the Donor Cecilia Bargellini Boncompagni with an emphasis on the role of the patron, the significance of the locality, and the visual semiotics of the Virgin Mary’s gaze in prompting conversion in the repentant prostitutes of the Carmelite convertite convent associated with Ss. Filippo and Giacomo in Bologna, Italy. Including a commentary on contemporary social expectations of modest behavior and the painting’s deliberate incorporation of inappropriate female behavior towards a religious purpose. A discussion of uniquely Carmelite iconography, the use of Ignatian mental prayer in convents, and self-determination in imagery by a Bolognese aristocratic woman.

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Bettoni, Lucas. "L'appel d'offres privé." Thesis, Montpellier, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MONTD024.

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Le recours à l’appel d’offres n’est pas, et n’a jamais été, l’apanage des personnes publiques. Parce que la mise en concurrence de cocontractants potentiels permet d’obtenir le meilleur prix, les personnes privées le pratiquent volontairement pour la réalisation de nombreuses opérations contractuelles : construction immobilière, cession d’entreprise, vente d’immeuble, acquisition de produits et de prestations de service, etc. Familière des praticiens, cette figure du paysage précontractuel est négligée par la doctrine. L’objet de cette étude est de présenter une analyse juridique d’ensemble de l’appel d’offres privé. Celui-ci est susceptible de deux acceptions. Dans la ligne directe de son appellation, il désigne une invitation à soumettre des offres. Il s’agit d’un type de proposition de contracter à part entière, distinct des propositions de contracter traditionnelles que sont l’offre et l’invitation à entrer en pourparlers. À le concevoir ensuite comme une procédure de mise en concurrence de cocontractants potentiels pour la conclusion d’un contrat définitif, l’appel d’offres privé donne naissance à un avant-contrat entre son organisateur et ses participants que l’on ne peut ramener aux catégories d’avant-contrats que connaît le droit positif. La qualification d’avant-contrat imprime à l’appel d’offres privé son régime juridique. Ainsi, les parties s’obligent à organiser et à participer à la procédure de mise en concurrence selon les règles fixées par l’organisateur et de bonne foi. Les comportements consistant à fausser le jeu de la concurrence sont alors sanctionnés pour inexécution contractuelle
Using private invitation to tender is not, and has never been, the prerogative of public entities. Because the implementation of competition calls between potentials co-contractors in order to achieve the best price, private entities practice it voluntarily to realise numerous contractual transactions : building construction, transfer of company, sale of real property, procurement of goods and service delivery, etc. Well-known by practitioners, this figure of the contractual landscape is neglected by the legal doctrine. The purpose of this study is to represent a global legal analysis of the private tender process. This one might be understood in two different ways. Literally, it designates an invitation to submit offers. It is a type of proposal to contract fully-fledged, which defers from the traditional ways of proposal to contract which are the offer and the invitation to treat. Conceived as a process introducing competition between potentials co-contractors to conclude a definitive contract, private invitation to tender give birth o a preliminary contract between its organiser and participants, which is distinct from the existing preliminary contracts. The qualification of preliminary contract print the private invitation to tender’s legal regime. Thus, parties undertook to organise and participate to the implementation of competition calls regarding the rules established by the organiser in good faith. The behaviours consisting in distorting competition are then subject to sanction on the ground of non-fulfillment of a contractul obligation

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Greiner, Karen P. "Exploring Dialogic Social Change." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273197688.

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O'Brien, Robert C. "Plays well with others: Creating relational performance through play." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101098/1/Robert_O%27Brien_Thesis.pdf.

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Plays Well With Others is a practice-led research project that asks whether theories of the invitation, relational aesthetics, and play can be combined to provide the tools, and an aesthetic, for the creation of relational performance. The performance creates a space of active negotiation where meaning is made through the relationships between audience members rather than between the audience and the performer. The findings suggest this is an innovative approach to live performance that can mediate between sociable and antagonistic modes of participation and actively model, rather than represent, dramatic relationships.

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Murray, Kate M. "Seriality and invitation : knowing and struggle in Vancouver Chinatown's Historic Area Height Review." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63226.

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In this project, I explore the 2011 Historic Area Height Review (HAHR) public hearings in light of questions of knowing-in-struggle. At issue in the hearings, were proposals to increase building heights in Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood. As a participant, I perceived that this site of public debate also reflected broader tensions that recur within discursive dynamics of social struggle, especially in relation to meanings of development. Here, I develop an activist approach to thinking through such encounters. Participants on all sides of the HAHR debate conveyed Chinatown as a neighbourhood in crisis. However, when it came to interpreting neighbourhood changes and questions of how to save Chinatown, speakers expressed divergent understandings and even contradicting realities. My inquiry treats these disjunctures as entry points for a series of analytical movements towards the material, social, existential and historical dynamics through which these clashing public knowledges have emerged and are sustained. To do so, I especially draw on the Marxist-existentialist work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Paula Allman’s elaboration of Freire’s dialogical pedagogy, Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography and David Harvey’s work. Through this exploration, I find that divergent reports of neighbourhood change make sense when explored as accounts of complex, speculative capitalist urban development. My analysis further underscores disjunctures wherein institutional texts and policies ostensibly represent but largely misrepresent and overwrite residents’ lived experiences of (un)affordability. I trace an existential dimension of hearing debate which evokes the reversal of subject and object and relations of hostile dehumanization apparent in Sartre’s theorization of seriality. My historicized reading of discourses of Chinatown as distinct, as Chinese and as neglected potential highlights their historical instrumentality within a recurring conceptual-material dialectic of colonization-marginalization and resistance. I reconsider HAHR process to explore how, given mounting development pressure and a narrow planning focus on “height,” the social welfare concerns—and the involvement—of low-income residents were gradually rendered external to the HAHR decision. My analysis thus suggests how relations of colonization-marginalization and resistance are ongoing in the context of the HAHR, and makes a contribution towards elucidating the terrain upon which local practices of justice-oriented pedagogy, organizing and “invitation” must be pursued.
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Beech, Cynthia F. "Invitation to intercultural dialogue, exploring the humour of Thomas King and Lee Maracle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ49311.pdf.

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Bisinger, Lena. "Rencontre interculturelle dans le roman franco-chinois. Invitation au voyage d'un genre émergent." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA092.

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L’échange sino-occidental constitue un phénomène majeur de notre ère. Il s’étend des parties importantes de l’économie et de la politique à l’art, la philosophie et la littérature. Depuis l’ouverture de la Chine dans les années 1980, c’est d’abord la France qui est devenue pays d’accueil pour des intellectuels et des étudiants d’origine chinoise dits ‘dissidents‘, facilitant un nouvel échange d’idées plus direct. La thèse aborde le sujet de l’interculturalité d’intellectuels chinois de la sorte dans le contexte littéraire du roman franco-chinois, ainsi traitant une partie importante des relations interculturelles : par la publication de leurs œuvres, les romanciers initient un vaste échange culturel avec leurs lecteurs en liant leur monde d’idées chinois à la civilisation française. L’approche méthodologique est basée sur la notion de culture comme un système ouvert et dynamique qui est développé et élargi de manière continue par les êtres humains : en considérant le système culturel comme un grand ‘texte’ général, Clifford Geertz attribue un statut textuel à tous les cadres culturels et souligne le caractère interprétatif du système culturel comme un réseau de pratiques et de discours auquel les acteurs font référence et qu’ils développent et modifient en tant que participants actifs. De cette façon, un texte littéraire est d’un côté lui-même élément d’un système textuel. D’un autre côté, il fait partie de la création du grand ‘texte de la culture’ en interprétant et en exposant le système culturel en question. La thèse prend en compte ces qualités d’un texte littéraire de la manière suivante: elle comprend d’abord les textes en tant que résultats d’une évolution socio-culturelle. Ensuite, elle les conçoit comme des modes de représentation et d’interprétation d’un système interculturel.Les romans de cinq écrivains exemplaires, dont les œuvres sont considérées comme particulièrement pertinentes quant à une thématique de l’interculturel, constituent la base textuelle du projet. Il s’agit de François Cheng, Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ya Ding et Shan Sa, qui ont rédigé leurs romans sous l’influence de trois phénomènes contextuels majeurs : le souvenir commun de la Chine, l’expérience de l’exil et la confrontation avec le monde littéraire français
Intercultural relations between China and the Occident have become a vital phenomenon of our age. They range from dealings in major areas of economy and politics to interactions in the visual arts, literature and philosophy. Since the Opening of China during the 1980s, France, in particular, has become the primary destination for dissident intellectuals and students of Chinese origin, a fact which has facilitated a new direct exchange of ideas. This thesis deals with the interculturalism of those very intellectuals in the literary context of the Franco-Chinese novel, hence addressing a key area of this new interculturalism: the authors generate a substantial cultural contact by publishing their works in France, thus linking their Chinese world of thoughts to French culture.The methodological approach is based on the notion of culture as an entity undergoing permanent development caused by human beings who are perceived as participants in the process. Defining culture as ‘text’, Clifford Geertz assigns textual status to all cultural phenomena, thereby emphasizing the interpretative nature of culture as a network of practices and discourses being permanently changed and refined. Literary texts are on the one hand partial elements of this network themselves; on the other hand, they also participate in the productive process by representing and interpreting the bigger text of culture. The thesis accounts for those properties of literary texts by first investigating them as results of a cultural development and subsequently comprehending them as a form of intercultural representation and interpretation.The text corpus of the analysis has been built on the basis of the works of five exemplary writers: François Cheng, Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ya Ding and Shan Sa. Showing particular pertinence with respect to the subject matter, their intercultural dimension is shaped by three major contextual phenomena: the shared memory of China, the exile experience and the confrontation with the French world of publishing

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Hanak, Christine G. "Invitation to maturity a pre-mentoring program based on Titus 2:3-5 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1590.

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Klos, Allison Elaine Sheriff Mary D. "An invitation to the exotic ephemeral art in Joseph Gilliers's Le cannaméliste français /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2200.

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Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Art Art History." Discipline: Art; Department/School: Art.

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Hartzler, Rachel Nafziger. "Loss as an invitation to transformation living well following the death of a spouse /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (M.A. in Christian Formation)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2004.
Abstract. Thesis supervisor: Daniel S. Schipani. Appendix 1: "A Questionnaire for People Who Are (or at One Time Were) Widowed." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150, 191-194).

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Fenno, Wyatt E. "Living waters an invitation to contemplative spirituality for the Quail Springs Church of Christ /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Nakamura, Motoko. "L'art de Marta Pan et le Japon : invitation aux vingt-quatre lieux de l'oeuvre." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010629.

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Le Japon est un lieu de prédilection pour Marta Pan (née à Budapest en 1923 et ayant vécu à Saint-Remy-lès-Chevreuse de 1954 a 2008). C' est le pays où elle a produit le plus, surtout depuis 1984, et où elle a été récompensée par un praemium imperiale en 2001. La présente étude tente de dévoiler le secret des intérêts réciproques entre cette artiste et le Japon. L'examen formel et chronologique de chacune de ses oeuvres in situ au Japon révèle sa pertinence et son accord avec le site naturel ou architectural en tant qu'art de paysage, domaine interdisciplinaire. La forme abstraite, elliptique et symbolique de Marta Pan présente la spatialité moderne mais aussi traditionnelle, du point de vue des méthodes employées dans divers jardins japonais, tel le jardin sec du temple Ryôanji. L'affinité de son art avec les manifestations artistique, culturelle et spirituelle du Japon permet de remonter jusqu'à la source de cette artiste : les photographies végétales de Karl Blossfeldt et l'inspiration de celui-ci, c'est-à-dire la pensée de la nature chez Goethe. Et cette affinité semble indiquer vers quoi le phénomène de non-lieux de notre espace post-industriel pourrait trouver son issue.

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Davis, Jeannette Katherine. "An invitation to understand: An alternative approach to the corporate voice in public relations." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98577.

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This thesis introduces public relations scholars and practitioners to the benefits of using an invitational rhetoric approach to the corporate voice instead of relying on traditional rhetorical approaches that are grounded in persuasive, authoritative intent. Because of societal changes inspired by changing gender norms, the traditional masculine corporate voice may no longer be the most effective corporate communication style. Traditional approaches to corporate communication are being challenged by more inclusive approaches that emphasize meaning co-creation with the public over purely persuasive approaches. This thesis conducts a case study of the Bud Light brand's use of Twitter. The purpose of this thesis is to determine if the brand uses an invitational rhetoric approach, and, if so, explore how Bud Light uses this approach. The thesis also analyzes the implications of this approach for corporate public relations practice. I argue an invitational rhetoric approach to corporate public relations may encourage more equitable communication between organizations and publics rather than privilege one authoritative, persuasive corporate voice over other voices involved in the conversation.
Master of Arts
This thesis introduces public relations scholars and practitioners to the benefits of using a more inclusive approach to their corporate voice on social media through an approach called invitational rhetoric. Invitational rhetoric is defined by Foss and Griffin (1995) as an "invitation to understanding as a means to create a relationship rooted in equality, immanent value, and self-determination" (p. 5). Because of societal changes inspired by changing gender norms, the traditional masculine corporate voice that is grounded in persuasive, authoritative intent may no longer be the most effective corporate communication style. Traditional approaches to corporate communication are being challenged by more inclusive approaches that emphasize interaction and understanding with the public over purely persuasive approaches. This thesis conducts a case study of the Bud Light brand's use of Twitter. The purpose of this thesis is to determine if the brand makes use of an invitational rhetoric approach, and, if so, explore how Bud Light uses invitational rhetoric. The thesis also analyzes the implications of an invitational rhetoric approach for corporate public relations practice. I argue an invitational rhetoric approach to corporate public relations may encourage more equitable communication between organizations and publics rather than privilege one authoritative, persuasive corporate voice over other voices involved in the conversation.

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