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Safnil and safnil@yahoo com. "Rhetorical Structure Analysis of the Indonesian Research Articles." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2000. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20020726.095142.
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This thesis discusses rhetorical features of Indonesian research articles (RAs) in three disciplinary areas: Economics, Education and Psychology. These were written by Indonesian speakers and published mainly in university-based scientific journals. The main focus of this thesis is on the examination of the patterns of communicative purposes or Moves and their subsequent elements or Steps of the introduction sections of these articles. The analyses include the examination of communicative purposes and persuasive values of the texts, linguistic resources used to materialise the communicative purposes and persuasions, and the cultural factors (ie. norms, beliefs and values) and scientific practices and academic writing conventions underlying the specific rhetorical features.
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This study found that the macro rhetorical structure of the Indonesian RAs (ie. the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion or IMRD pattern) is relatively similar to that of the English RAs except that, unlike in English RAs, the conclusion and suggestion section in the Indonesian RAs have a separate section. However, the communicative purposes and persuasions in the introduction sections in the two groups of the RAs (English and Indonesian) are relatively different. Differences are also found in the way that rhetorical works use the linguistic resources to materialise the communicative purposes and persuasions in the introduction sections of the two groups of RAs. Some of the rhetorical differences are because of the differences in the research practices and scientific writing conventions in Indonesian and in English speaking countries, while others are because of cultural differences reflected in the two languages.
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The pedagogical implication of this study is that the Indonesian RA genre needs to be explicitly taught to Indonesian students, particularly university students in order to give them more access to the content of Indonesian research, and to develop skills needed by Indonesian researchers and research writers. For this purpose, an appropriate approach needs to be developed; that is to teach the generic features of Indonesian RAs such as those in social sciences written in Bahasa Indonesia or Indonesian.
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Karalak, Suparade. "Co-operative discourse : a multi-level analysis." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31118.
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This research investigates the discourse of co-operative management and leadership. It explores the social construction of the concept of the 'co-operative' and the philosophy that underpins co-operative ideology, culture and values. The research employs a discursive research methodology. More specifically, discourse analysis is applied to a sample of speeches (n=23) given by prominent co-operative figures between 1823 and 1997. These texts are analysed using three discursive methods, namely: content analysis, narrative analysis and intertextuality analysis. These approaches are utilised to explore different levels of discourse, i.e.: the micro-level (the interrogation of words and sentences using content analysis); the meso-level (the examination of embedded stories and plots within texts using narrative analysis) and; the macro-level (the exploration of underlying patterns and recurring themes across texts using intertextual analysis). There are two main findings of this research. First, there is an emphasis on the notion of 'heroic/ideal' leadership within the texts which runs contrary to the espoused core values of shared responsibility and democratic member-based control within co-operatives. Second, and somewhat paradoxically, the discourse of co-operatives is becoming more business like and entrepreneurial in nature while the rhetoric of profit-making organisation is generally becoming more inclusionary, participative and democratic. The research highlights that there is an inherent tension within the co-operative movement between wanting to retain traditional values and the need to incorporate contemporary business practices (e.g. hierarchical leadership) and business values (i.e. capitalistic ideals). Given that co-operatives are caught between traditional commitments and adjusting to external requirements of being profitable, there are implications for identity and there is an need to rethink some of the assumptions, concepts and values which underpin co-operative discourse. Beyond the substantive contribution, this research also offers insights into the scope for, and benefits of, applying a multi-method, multi-level approach to discursive study of organisational phenomena.
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Najaf, Pooya. "A macro-level analysis of traffic and pedestrian safety in urban areas." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10245444.
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The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information for 100 major Urban Areas (UAs) in the United States in 2010 is studied. Factor analysis is applied to construct latent variables from multiple observed variables to measure and describe urban form, macro-level trip generation, citywide transportation network features and traffic safety. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is then used to investigate how city-level urban form and trip generation affect traffic safety directly and indirectly (through mediators of transportation network features).
Based on the statistical analysis, it is found that encouraging the use of non-driving transportation modes and controlling traffic congestion, as significant mediators, are effective policies to increase overall traffic safety and pedestrian safety, respectively. In this regard, urban areas with a more even spatial distribution of job-housing balance (more polycentricity), more uniform spatial distribution of different social classes, higher urban density (less sprawl), and more connectivity in their transportation network (more accessibility) have the safest urban form designs.
Moreover, mixed land-use designs with provided local access to services and amenities, food and beverage centers, and religious organizations, followed by strict pedestrian safety standards for neighborhoods are the safest type of land use designs in urban areas. In addition, regulating the off-peak hours allowed time for heavy vehicles and changing the work schedule of workers who do not reside in the urban area can also help city planners to increase traffic safety.
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PRATT, TRAVIS CAMERON. "ASSESSING THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF MACRO-LEVEL PREDICTORS OF CRIME: A META-ANALYSIS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin984062054.
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El-Houjeiri, Hassan M. "The standardization of major Well-to-Wheel models : measuring uncertainty on a macro level." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9fee3138-0149-4128-9ccb-a310a8ae7abe.
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This project concentrated upon the development of the Standardization Transport Model (STM) by assembling the largest possible assessment platform. It combines data from all of the major Well-to-Wheel (WtW) models in the field. The STM was developed for each chain under study by formulating the data in the major databases so that the Well-to-Tank processes covered Feedstock Production, Feedstock Transport, Fuel Production and Fuel Distribution. With the addition of Tank-to-Wheel data, a comprehensive STM was obtained for each chain. For each stage there is a range of values that was characterized by a probability distribution and through the use of Monte Carlo simulation the distribution was sampled and overall values for the total energy consumption, in MJ/km, and total GHG emissions in grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilometre (gCO2eq/km) were generated. By statistical means these distributions were compared to assess the risk of debt as well as the likelihood of major savings if they were to be implemented. The scope of the analysis was limited to passenger cars transport and does not include other forms of road transport. Major classic WtW models may account for subjective uncertainty in the input parameters of the model but with a default set of inputs which represents only one database and one set of modelling assumptions and choices. This individualism and determinism in the WtW modelling nowadays explains the significant discrepancies that arise across the results from different models. The level of variation presented poses a major problem in the context of policy making and strategic planning. The generation of the STM rests upon the convection that a synthesis which generates a statistically relevant aggregate of the different WtW results from the different models of the major expert groups would eliminate the present inconsistencies and deliver the reliability required for making robust strategic decisions. Advantage was taken of the richness of the STM outputs to assess the sensitivity of the results and identify the major factors of disagreement within the expert systems. Here the STM presents the largest platform of comparison and the most comprehensive evaluation of the different WtW models in the field. The provision of such a sensitivity analysis was not possible without allowing for variation in the elements of the model as done using the STM. Secondly, the key outputs of the model were compared under the criterion of sustainability from both energy and environmental perspectives. This was done by the synthesis of a first-of-its-kind distribution of the difference between the conventional system and the alternative system for each option under study. The output reflects as complete a population as possible of what may occur in reality in terms of direct impact on sustainability. This method of comparison was not possible without synthesizing an aggregate of possibilities as done using the STM. Thirdly, synergies with the power sector were studied to identify which strategies delay the global reduction in GHG emissions and which are to be preferred from an overall perspective. Here the author lead the transport research community in looking on the global benefits of alternative transport systems, rather than only looking through the window of the transport sector, by redrawing the boundary for the analysis of prospective transport systems. Last and not least, the outcomes of the comparative analyses of the STM results were aggregated into a proposed strategic framework for carbon and energy reduction in passenger cars transport. The strategic framework is placed into perspective by building a set of future scenarios and scaling the effect for the progressive implementation of these scenarios and making a comparison with the business-as-usual forecast. The creation of an energy economy based on hydrogen fuel was found to be a highly questionable objective because electrically driven vehicles are superior with regard to systems that are either nuclear resourced or based on non-biomass renewables. For hydrogen, only the option from waste wood via gasification was found to be very attractive. However because only a minor role for hydrogen is foreseen, it is envisaged that the development of a hydrogen infrastructure would not be feasible. Therefore the use of hydrogen will be constrained to decentral systems or central systems with liquid hydrogen distribution. With regard to cultivated biomass, the sugar ethanol options are the best in terms of land use with sugarcane having the advantage of being economic and available for short-term penetration. The safe implementation of sugar ethanol, which includes avoidance of CO₂ emissions from indirect land use change and low fertilizers use, guarantees significant savings and have a good potential for large CO₂ emissions savings. Generally due to land use limitation cultivated biomass based options cannot be sustained on the long term. Last and not least, the CO2 emissions savings from clean coal technology is questionable without CCS technology and even though with the implementation of CCS no significant savings are certain. On the other hand, besides the transport sector the power sector is another major sector of energy resource consumption and careful consideration of any synergies between the sectors is essential for the completeness of the analysis. The strategy in which the use of alternatives such as NG, nuclear and renewables is not diversified but fed only into the power sector is to be preferred as this avoids possible CO₂ emissions from indirect resource use change, and it also isolates the power market to maintain upstream energy security. Finally, the answer to whether it is still possible to save the World from the disastrous consequences of Global Warming is a preliminary "yes" but requires the development and implementation of a complete technology package including nuclear power which is widely debated at the present.
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Nejat, Bita. "A semi-joint neural model for sentence level discourse parsing and sentiment analysis." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62824.
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Discourse Parsing and Sentiment Analysis are two fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing that have been shown to be mutually beneficial. In this work, we design and compare two Neural Based models for jointly learning both tasks. In the proposed approach, we first create a vector representation for all the segments in the input sentence. Next, we apply three different Recursive Neural Net models: one for discourse structure prediction, one for discourse relation prediction and one for sentiment analysis. Finally, we combine these Neural Nets in two different joint models: Multi-tasking and Pre-training. Our results on two standard corpora indicate that both methods result in improvements in each task but Multi-tasking has a bigger impact than Pre-training.Science, Faculty of
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Coffin, Caroline School of English UNSW. "History as Discourse: Construals of Time, Cause and Appraisal." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17810.
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This thesis is concerned with making explicit the role that language plays in apprenticing social subjects into different social or 'discourse' communities. It focuses specifically on the textual and rhetorical strategies of school history texts written by students, aiming to bring a close linguistic analysis of the texts into relationship with the wider social and cultural context. In particular it focuses on three semantic domains. These are Cause, Time and an area of interpersonal evaluation known as Appraisal. The main questions addressed are ???How do the semantic motifs of Cause, Time and Appraisal function within the discourse of school history? How are they grammatically and lexically realised? What are the semantic and grammatical shifts and interactions that occur as a result of students moving through the different levels of their apprenticeship? In order to answer these questions the analytical tools of systemic-functional grammar are applied to a corpus of texts produced within the context of Australian secondary schooling. These texts represent the range of written genres that history students need to produce in order to fulfil the objectives and outcomes of the history curriculum. A major feature of the research is the use of Appraisal theory, a framework recently developed in systemic-functional linguistics, for analysing the linguistic resources used to negotiate emotions, judgements and social valuations. This theory proves valuable in taking us beyond more traditional linguistic concerns with interpersonal meaning, which focus on modality and mood structure. The main findings of the linguistic analysis show that construals of Cause, Time and Appraisal are core linguistic tools both for interpreting the past and for persuading audiences of the validity of such interpretations. Analysis also reveals that induction into the (discourse) community of historians can be generally characterised as a process of the student expanding their repertoire of metaphorical and specialised language resources as they move from recording the past to arguing about the past. By providing a fine grained linguistic analysis of the different types of texts that make up school history writing, the research is able to provide insights into the apprenticeship process and into the function and role of history both within and beyond the school context. The major conclusion reached here is that history inducts students into an abstract world of grammatical metaphor and in so doing provides them with the linguistic means to talk about people and time as abstract entities. It also provides them with the positioning and persuading strategies (the ???intellectual flexibility???) necessary for social positions of responsibility.
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Siddiqui, Chowdhury. "Macroscopic Traffic Safety Analysis Based on Trip Generation Characteristics." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3385.
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Recent research has shown that incorporating roadway safety in transportation planning has been considered one of the active approaches to improve safety. Aggregate level analysis for predicting crash frequencies had been contemplated to be an important step in this process. As seen from the previous studies various categories of predictors at macro level (census blocks, traffic analysis zones, census tracts, wards, counties and states) have been exhausted to find appropriate correlation with crashes. This study contributes to this ongoing macro level road safety research by investigating various trip productions and attractions along with roadway characteristics within traffic analysis zones (TAZs) of four counties in the state of Florida. Crashes occurring in one thousand three hundred and forty-nine TAZs in Hillsborough, Citrus, Pasco, and Hernando counties during the years 2005 and 2006 were examined in this study. Selected counties were representative from both urban and rural environments. To understand the prevalence of various trip attraction and production rates per TAZ the Euclidian distances between the centroid of a TAZ containing a particular crash and the centroid of the ZIP area containing the at fault driver's home address for that particular crash was calculated. It was found that almost all crashes in Hernando and Citrus County for the years 2005-2006 took place in about 27 miles radius centering at the at-fault drivers' home. Also about sixty-two percent of crashes occurred approximately at a distance of between 2 and 10 miles from the homes of drivers who were at fault in those crashes. These results gave an indication that home based trips may be more associated with crashes and later trip related model estimates which were found significant at 95% confidence level complied with this hypothesized idea. Previous aggregate level road safety studies widely addressed negative binomial distribution of crashes. Properties like non-negative integer counts, non-normal distribution, over-dispersion in the data have increased suitability of applying the negative binomial technique and has been selected to build crash prediction models in this research. Four response variables which were aggregated at TAZ-level were total number of crashes, severe (fatal and severe injury) crashes, total crashes during peak hours, and pedestrian and bicycle related crashes. For each response separate models were estimated using four different sets of predictors which are i) various trip variables, ii) total trip production and total trip attraction, iii) road characteristics, and iv) finally considering all predictors into the model. It was found that the total crash model and peak hour crash model were best estimated by the total trip productions and total trip attractions. On the basis of log-likelihoods, deviance value/degree of freedom, and Pearson Chi-square value/degree of freedom, the severe crash model was best fit by the trip related variables only and pedestrian and bicycle related crash model was best fit by the road related variables only. The significant trip related variables in the severe crash models were home-based work attractions, home-based shop attractions, light truck productions, heavy truck productions, and external-internal attractions. Only two variables- sum of roadway segment lengths with 35 mph speed limit and number of intersections per TAZ were found significant for pedestrian and bicycle related crash model developed using road characteristics only. The 1349 TAZs were grouped into three different clusters based on the quartile distribution of the trip generations and were termed as less-tripped, moderately-tripped, and highly-tripped TAZs. It was hypothesized that separate models developed for these clusters would provide a better fit as the clustering process increases the homogeneity within a cluster. The cluster models were re-run using the significant predictors attained from the joint models and were compared with the previous sets of models. However, the differences in the model fits (in terms of Alkaike's Information Criterion values) were not significant. This study points to different approaches when predicting crashes at the zonal level. This research is thought to add to the literature on macro level crash modeling research by considering various trip related data into account as previous studies in zone level safety have not explicitly considered trip data as explanatory covariates.M.S.
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Bierbaumer-Polly, Jürgen [Verfasser], and Gebhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Flaig. "Business Cycle Dynamics: An empirical analysis of macro, firm-level and regional data / Jürgen Bierbaumer-Polly. Betreuer: Gebhard Flaig." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1102897086/34.
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Song, Hyojong. "An Exploratory Study of Macro-Social Correlates of Online Property Crime." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6954.
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Despite the recent decreasing trend of most traditional types of crime, online property crime (OPC), referring to crime committed online with a financial orientation such as online frauds, scams, and phishing, continues to increase. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, the number of reported complaints about OPC have increased by approximately sixteen fold from 16,838 cases in 2000 to 288,012 cases in 2015, and referred financial losses have also increased about sixty times from $17.8 million in 2001 to $1 billion in 2015. The increase in OPC might be directly related to advanced online accessibility due to the accelerated progress of information and communication technology (ICT). Since the progress of ICT continues forward and the advanced ICT infrastructure can affect our routine activities more significantly, issues regarding OPC may become more various and prevalent.
The present study aims to explore a macro-social criminogenic structure of OPC perpetration. Specifically, this study focused on exploring probable macro-social predictors of OPC rates and examining how effectively these possible macro-social predictors account for variance in OPC perpetration rates. In addition, this study explored possible predictors of macro-level online opportunity structure, which is expected to have a direct relationship with OPC rates. It also examined how much variance in online opportunity structure was explained by the included possible predictors. With these research purposes, the current study analyzed state-level data of the fifty states in the U.S. by applying a partial least square regression (PLSR) approach.
The results indicated that predictors related to macro-social economic conditions such as economic inequality, poverty, economic social support, and unemployment had a significant association with OPC. As expected, indicators in the domain of economic inequality predicted greater OPC rates and those in the domain of economic social support were related to lower OPC rates. However, poverty and unemployment predictors were negatively associated with OPC, which is the opposite direction of the relationships between these predictors and traditional street crime. In addition, indicators of online opportunity structure were found to have a significantly positive relationship to OPC as expected. The PLSR model for predicting OPC applied in the current study accounted for approximately 50% of variance in OPC rates across states.
For predictors of online opportunity structure, the results indicated that online opportunity was associated with state-level economic and socio-demographic characteristics. States with less poverty, more urban population, and more working age adults were more likely to report more online opportunities. The PLSR model for predicting online opportunity structure explained about 80% of variance in measured online opportunity. These results may imply that some types of macro-social conditions may have an indirect effect on OPC through online opportunity structure as well as their direct effects on OPC. Future study should pay more attention to examining structural relationships of macro-social contexts, online opportunity structure, and OPC to understand macro-level criminogenic mechanism of OPC.
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Abolghasem, Rasouli Sina. "Urban Segregation in Malmö : Discourse Policy Analysis at the Local Level and the Emergence of New Actors." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42759.
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Segregation is frequently described as a consequence of the global restructuring of social, economic, and political expansions in which multicultural cities, like Malmö, become part of them. This study aims to highlight how visions of housing segregation and exclusion in the city of Malmö has been represented in the local policy documents (Master Plans) through the last three decades and to understand how a newly emerged glocal actor, known as BID Malmö, have impacted the urban governance in the city. In order to investigate these developments, this study applies two analytical frameworks. In terms of policy analysis, it employs a what’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) approach and for the conceptualization of BID Malmö applies the theory of the Global City. Policy analysis shows that urban segregation has been persistent in the city of Malmö through the last three decades, however the representation of problem has shifted vibrantly from placing citizens as the main cause of housing segregation during 1990s to an arena that includes contingent processes and practices that need to be tackled. Policy analysis also shows that Malmö municipality, through shifting the burden of responsibility, now promotes partnership between public and private actors to reduce exclusion based on specific district needs. Moreover, this study argues that the city of Malmö, because of the cross-border network of global cities, is now a space where one can identify formation of new types of global politics of place where informal political actors are emerging and can actually impact the urban governance. Finally, this study maintains that the city of Malmö, along with its newly emerged glocalized actor, fit into the theory of the Global City, by Saskia Sassen. Therefore, this study has also a deductive qualitative analysis.
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Cowgill, Jennifer Anne. "Talk opportunities around text and the responses they elicit from middle level English language learners." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2009/j_cowgill_082409.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2009.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 10, 2009). "Department of Teaching and Learning." Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-173).
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Salmon, Joseph L. "A Case Study of Grade-Level Meetings and Coaching Conversations." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77112.
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The goal of this research project was to determine the content of the discourse occurring in grade-level meetings and coaching sessions and participants' perceptions of how the conversations in these two venues impacted learning and practice for individual teachers. Learning Forward's Standard for Professional Learning (2001) recommended that teachers organize into learning communities providing continuous learning opportunities to enhance adult learning and collaboration. Little (2003a) found that research was lacking that described the dynamics of communities of practice that promote teacher learning. It was in the content of the discourse that a proxy for evidence was found that the actions of the instructional coaches and grade-level meetings impact teacher growth. A case study was utilized to examine these structures and processes for job-embedded professional development at a school located in the eastern United States.
Research questions focused on the nature of the discourse among teachers and coaches in the grade-level meetings and in individual coaching conversations. Teachers reported what they felt that they learned in the grade-level meetings and the coaching discussions. Additionally, teachers stated what they did differently as a result of this method of professional learning occurring in grade-level meetings and coaching discussions. Finally, the school's improvement plans were compared with the conversations in the grade-level meetings and coaching sessions.
Verbatim transcriptions of recordings of grade-level meetings and coaching sessions provided data which revealed categories of content, coaching roles, and patterns of discourse. The goals of the meetings and coaching were to ensure communication about school district policies and to set expectations for teacher performance and student learning. Assertions generated provided patterns of discourse that identified roles of the principal, coaches, and teachers.
This investigation utilized a descriptive content discourse analysis and found support for the finding that the actions of this emerging community of practice were directed by federal, state, and local polices for teacher performance and student learning. Patterns of discourse revealed roles of administration, coaches, and teachers as they collaborated to negotiate meaning through the building of a shared repertoire. Interview data revealed that these dynamics enhanced teacher growth in many cases; however, lack of teacher input may have limited some potential opportunities.Ed. D.
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Trent, Carol L. s. "Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5788.
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Both elite deviance, committed by the upper echelons of society, and organized crime threaten development and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in the literature by testing hypotheses derived from Simon’s symbiotic theory of elite deviance, which posits that direct and indirect relationships exist between elite deviance, organized crime, and conventional crimes exist (2008). The intervening effects of national culture and political economic ideology are also considered.
To test the research hypotheses, this study uses homicide rates, corruption and organized crime measures, and indicators of national culture from 114 nations. Findings suggest that empirical linkages exist between elite deviance, organized crime and conventional deviance at the cross-national level. These data suggest the level of corruption and organized crime within a nation are better predictors of homicide than conventional explanations of violent crime (e.g., modernization/development, opportunity/routine activities). Furthermore, organized crime partially mediated the relationship between corruption and homicide rates in the same (positive) direction. This implies that the criminogenic effect of elite deviance on non-elite deviance operates indirectly through organized crime. The corruption-homicide relationship was also partially mediated by a national culture of moral cynicism and capitalist economic conditions. Although not definitive given methodological concerns and alternate theoretical explanations, this study provides avenues for future research into the underlying social processes that influence the crime rate within nations.
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Caldwell, Candice Anne. "Teaching disciplinary discourse and implementing language-across-the-curriculum at tertiary level problems and prospects." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002622.
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The premise of this thesis is that "learning", particularly in terms of students and universities, is capable of being seen as a specific and developed culture. This study is a contribution to the ethnography of that learning, the ultimate aim being to produce a descriptive theory of learning as a cultural system. This research was conducted within the context of the recent proposals made by the South African Commission on Higher Education. The proposals relevant to this study were, broadly, increased access to higher education and national funding for academic staff development programmes. There are, however, serious obstacles in the way of realising the aims of the higher education system outlined by the NCHE. Given the limited time and resources available for higher education development, it is imperative that the major flaws and obstacles in the system be identified and addressed as soon as possible. In view of this need, it was the concern of this study to conduct research which would assist in the designing of staff development programmes for academics teaching in English-medium tertiary institutions, like Rhodes University, where more than half the intake of first-year students already speaks English as a second, or other, language. Founded on the social constructionist view of knowledge, the aim of the study was to identify the needs of academic staff as well as the possible obstacles to the implementation of a "Language Across the Curriculum" policy. A genre-centred, ethnographic approach was used to access a disciplinary discourse community (the Psychology Department) in order to describe the practices of the community as well as to analyse the community's orders of discourse, particularly those which occurred at points of contact between lecturers and first-year students. It is argued that staff development programmes should promote the use of collaborative learning, which implies a reframing of the roles of both academic staff and students.
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Dallyn, S. E. H. "Co-optation and empowerment : A multi-level analysis of the discourse and practice of social development at the world bank." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510497.
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Ramlackhan, Karen. "The Elusiveness of Inclusiveness: A Discursive Analysis of Inclusion in a District Level Exceptional Student Education Leadership Team." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6570.
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This poststructural study utilizes Foucault’s theories of power/knowledge nexus and disciplinary power to explore the discursive formation of inclusion of a district level Exceptional Student Education leadership team in order to understand how the discourses are constructed, practices are normalized, and power relations are legitimized. This type of analysis interrogated the assumptive groundings of special education in the district, and how these have been taken-for-granted and normalized in the professional knowledge, policies, and practices of the field. Data from multiple sources: semi-structured interviews, observations, multimodal forms of communication, observation journal, and researcher reflexive journal produced findings within four dominant discourses---the philosophical understanding of inclusion discourse, the contextual discourse, the politics of leading discourse, and the logistics of inclusive schooling discourse. The normative understanding of inclusion within this district is anchored in a structure of difference, emphasized through ability. The areas of commonalities among and within these discourses, where tensions and contradictions lie, include the continuum of segregating spaces, the utility of the academic achievement frame, and the necessity of specialists and professionalized knowledge. Future research may entail exploring a radical restructuring of inclusive education, and conducting non-traditional qualitative studies that focus on the relational power dynamics and decision-making processes among district administrators. Implications for practice are also discussed.
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Ahmadibasir, Mohammad. "The application of language-game theory to the analysis of science learning: developing an interpretive classroom-level learning framework." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1195.
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In this study an interpretive learning framework that aims to measure learning on the classroom level is introduced. In order to develop and evaluate the value of the framework, a theoretical/empirical study is designed. The researcher attempted to illustrate how the proposed framework provides insights on the problem of classroom-level learning. The framework is developed by construction of connections between the current literature on science learning and Wittgenstein's language-game theory. In this framework learning is defined as change of classroom language-game or discourse. In the proposed framework, learning is measured by analysis of classroom discourse. The empirical explanation power of the framework is evaluated by applying the framework in the analysis of learning in a fifth-grade science classroom. The researcher attempted to analyze how students' colloquial discourse changed to a discourse that bears more resemblance to science discourse. The results of the empirical part of the investigation are presented in three parts: first, the gap between what students did and what they were supposed to do was reported. The gap showed that students during the classroom inquiry wanted to do simple comparisons by direct observation, while they were supposed to do tool-assisted observation and procedural manipulation for a complete comparison. Second, it was illustrated that the first attempt to connect the colloquial to science discourse was done by what was immediately intelligible for students and then the teacher negotiated with students in order to help them to connect the old to the new language-game more purposefully. The researcher suggested that these two events in the science classroom are critical in discourse change. Third, it was illustrated that through the academic year, the way that students did the act of comparison was improved and by the end of the year more accurate causal inferences were observable in classroom communication. At the end of the study, the researcher illustrates that the application of the proposed framework resulted in an improved version of the framework. The improved version of the proposed framework is more connected to the topic of science learning, and is able to measure the change of discourse in higher resolution.
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Witherow, Keely. "The nexus between discourse and multi-level governance during times of crisis : Sweden during the 2015-2016 refugee movements." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-150012.
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In order to understand the role of discourse in a system of multi-level governance, this thesis performs a case study of Sweden’s response to the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. Initially praised as the European country who accepted the highest number of asylum applications per capita, by the end of 2015 Sweden had limited its asylum policy to the minimum levels under EU law. The abrupt policy change coincided with the emergence of two primary refugee discourses among media and politicians: a solidarity-oriented discourse and a problem-oriented discourse. While both discourses are visible at each level of governance, the national government expressed a commitment to solidarity through its humanitarian ideology while the local municipalities often described the challenges of accommodating the refugees as problematic. To analyze the impact of contrasting discourses at multiple levels of governance, a critical discourse analysis is conducted of news media in Sweden at the national level and the local level and discussed with reference to the theory of postcolonialism. The discourse analysis is then compared to the major changes to refugee policy at the national level and refugee reception at the local level. The results indicate a strong relationship between refugee policy/reception and media discourse at each level of governance, but a much weaker relationship between the levels of governance. This research provides new insight into the theory of multi-level governance and migration studies through its comparison of refugee governance at multiple levels.
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Silveira, Gabriela. "Narrativas produzidas por indivíduos afásicos e indivíduos cognitivamente sadios: análise computadorizada de macro e micro estrutura." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5170/tde-01112018-101055/.
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INTRODUÇÃO: O tema de investigação, discurso de afásicos, fornece informações importantes sobre aspectos fonológicos, morfológicos, sintáticos, semânticos e pragmáticos da linguagem de pacientes que sofreram lesão vascular cerebral. Uma das maneiras de estudar o discurso é por meio de cenas figurativas temáticas simples ou em sequência. A sequência da história de \"Cinderela\" é frequentemente utilizada em estudos, por ser familiar em todo o mundo, o que favorece estudos transculturais; por induzir a produção de narrativas, ao invés de descrições, frequentemente obtidas quando se utiliza prancha única para eliciar discursos. Outra vantagem do uso das sequências da \"Cinderela\" é o fato de gerar material linguístico em quantidade suficiente para análise detalhada. OBJETIVOS: (1) analisar, por meio de tecnologias computadorizadas, aspectos macro e microestruturais do discurso de indivíduos sadios do ponto de vista cognitivo, afásicos de Broca e afásicos anômicos; (2) explorar o discurso como indicador de evolução da afasia; (3) analisar a contribuição do SPECT para verificação de evolução da afasia junto ao discurso. MÉTODO: Participaram do estudo oito indivíduos afásicos de Broca e anômicos que compuseram o grupo do estudo longitudinal (G1), 15 indivíduos afásicos de Broca e anômicos que compuseram o outro grupo de estudo (G2) e 30 cognitivamente sadios (GC). Os participantes foram solicitados a examinar as cenas da história \"Cinderela\" e depois recontar a história, com suas palavras. Foram exploradas tecnologias computadorizadas e analisados aspectos macro e microestruturais dos discursos produzidos. Para o G1, tivermos a particularidade de coleta de discurso também pela prancha \"Roubo dos Biscoitos\", análise do exame SPECT e acompanhamento longitudinal por um período de seis meses. RESULTADOS: Comparando o GC e o G2, em relação à macroestrutura, notou-se que os afásicos do G2 se diferenciaram significativamente do GC em todas as proposições e, em relação à microestrutura, sete métricas foram capazes de diferenciar ambos os grupos. Houve diferença significante macro e micro estrutural entre os sujeitos afásicos de Broca e anômicos. Foi possível verificar diferenças em medidas da macro e da microestrutura no G1 com o avançar do tempo de lesão após AVC. A história da \"Cinderela\" forneceu dados de microestrutura mais completos do que a prancha \"Roubo dos Biscoitos\". Os resultados do SPECT permaneceram os mesmos, sem demonstração de mudança com a evolução da afasia. CONCLUSÃO: A produção de narrativa gerou material para análise de macroestrutura e microestrutura, tanto aspectos de macro quanto de microestrutura diferenciaram indivíduos cognitivamente sadios dos sujeitos afásicos. A análise do discurso da \"Cinderela\" serviu como instrumento para mensurar a melhora da linguagem dos sujeitos afásicos. O uso da ferramenta computacional auxiliou as análises discursivasINTRODUCTION: The aphasic discourse analysis provides important information about the phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of the language of patients who have suffered a stroke. The evaluation of the discourse, along with other methods, can contribute to observation of the evolution of the language and communication of aphasic patients; however, manual analysis is laborious and can lead to errors. OBJECTIVES: (1) to analyze, by computerized technologies, macro and microstructural aspects of the discourse of healthy cognitive individuals, Broca\'s and anomic aphasics; (2) to explore the discourse as indicator of the evolution of aphasia; (3) to analyze the contribution of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to verify the correlation between behavioral and neuroimaging evolution data. METHOD: Two groups of patients were studied: GA1, consisting of eight individuals with Broca\'s aphasia and anomic aphasia, who were analyzed longitudinally from the sub-acute phase of the lesion and after three and six months; GA2 composed of 15 individuals with Broca\'s and anomic aphasia, with varying times of stroke installation and GC consisting of 30 cognitively healthy participants. Computerized technologies were explored for the analysis of metrics related to the micro and macrostructure of discourses uttered from Cinderela history and Cookie Theft picture. RESULTS: Comparing the GC and GA2, in relation to the discourse macrostructure, it was observed that the GA2 aphasics differed significantly from the GC in relation to the total number of propositions emitted; considering the microstructure, seven metrics differentiated both groups. There was a significant difference in the macro and microstructure between the discourses of Broca\'s aphasic subjects and anomic ones. It was possible to verify differences in macro and microstructure measurements in GA1 with the advancement of injury time. In GA1, the comparison between parameters in the sub-acute phase and after 6 months of stroke revealed differences in macrostructure - increase in the number of propositions of the orientation block and of the total propositions. Regarding the microstructure, the initial measures of syllable metrics by word content, incidence of nouns and incidence of content words differed after 6 months of intervention. The variable incidence of missing words in the dictionary showed a significantly lower value after three months of stroke. Cinderella\'s story provided more complete microstructure data than the Cookie Theft picture. There was no change in SPECT over time, without demonstration of change with the evolution of aphasia. CONCLUSION: The discourse produced from the history of Cinderella and the Cookie Theft picture generated material for macrostructure and microstructure analysis of cognitively healthy and aphasic individuals, made it possible to quantify and qualify the evolution of language in different phases of stroke recuperation and distinguished the behavior of healthy and with Broca´s and anomic aphasia, in macro and microstructure aspects. The exploration of computerized tools facilitated the analysis of the data in relation to the microstructure, but it was not applicable to the macrostructure, demonstrating that there is a need for tool adjustments for the discourse analysis of patients. SPECT data did not reflect the behavioral improvement of the language of aphasic subjects
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Williams, Steven D. "The absence of the other, a macro-level application of Goffmanian frame analysis to the end of the Cold War and its representation in American film." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ57633.pdf.
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Williams, Steven D. (Steven Daniel) Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "The absence of the other; a macro-level application of Goffmanian frame analysis to the end of the cold war and its representation in American film." Ottawa, 2000.
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Black, Nicholas. "Explaining and challenging the growing level of income inequality in organisations : corpora of texts about pay in UK universities taken from the press, remuneration committees and trade unions." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/explaining-and-challenging-the-growing-level-of-income-inequality-in-organisations-corpora-of-texts-about-pay-in-uk-universities-taken-from-the-press-remuneration-committees-and-trade-unions(1ddf5f46-c02a-4fab-8a2c-e90266728cce).html.
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To explain and challenge the growing level of income inequality in organisations, this thesis collected and analysed corpora of texts about pay in UK universities from the press, remuneration committees and trade unions. Deploying the methodology of critical discourse analysis, it describes the contents of arguments as discourse types, interprets the reasoning behind arguments as genres of organisation theories and explains the common-sense assumptions ordering arguments as ideological values. Seeking answers, the analysis groups 30,038 data fragments into 74 first-order discourse types, 7 aggregate genres of organisation theories and 9 ideological values across three corpora of texts. Finding from the press suggested that actors drew upon the same set of organisation theories regardless of whether they were discursively challenging or defending the legitimacy of income inequality. This made it unfeasible to halt the level of income inequality because the underlying ideological values of competition, quantification and economic rationality only required the organisations to conform to unclear methodological processes. Thus, it is only possible to challenge the legitimacy of income inequality by proposing new members' resources, which objectified the exact contingencies for when it was appropriate. This insight lead to the creation of a new genre of organisation theory, which proposed paying employees relative to their comparative sacrifices. Findings from remuneration committees suggested that their members drew upon organisation theories to legitimise income inequality, which related to the ideological values of economic science, individualism and capitalistic hierarchy. However, how these ideological values constructed the legitimacy of their decisions lacked a substantiate rationality because the neoliberal model of capitalism was a source of legitimacy within itself. As such, the foundations of legitimacy were critiqued and a 2x2 matrix consisting of a process-outcome axis and pragmatic-moral axis was introduced. Applying this matrix to this corpus of text meant that none of these genres of organisation theories reasoned based on outcomes. Therefore, a new genre of organisation was proposed which focused on the income distribution shape for organisations. Findings from trade unions suggested that their representatives drew upon the same set of organisation theories to reinforce their own legitimacy in addition to interrogating the legitimacy of universities. These organisational theories were then related to the ideological values of performativity, exchange relations and freedom that hegemonically legitimised income inequality. Meanwhile, it was interpreted that trade unions relied on the neoliberal model of capitalism for their existence and were encouraging employees to participate in markets that only served the interests of employers. Therefore, a new members' resource was proposed, which conceptualised why sacrifice was a moral and pragmatic process for distributing pay to employees in comparison with other macro-economic frameworks. The findings from these three corpora of texts explained and challenged the social practices that were creating income inequality growth. Essentially, the ideological values of neoliberalism ordered discourse so that there was no reason to reduce the level of income inequality according to the dominate members' resources. Therefore, to change these social practices three new discourses were proposed which challenged the level of income inequality by illustrating the false consciousness embodied within their reasoning.
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Feyertag, Joseph. "Varieties and politics of skill protection : a micro level analysis of unemployment protection systems in Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c69681da-2da3-4467-985f-b644c1be6c48.
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Varieties of Capitalism theory predicts that the skill specificity of workers determines their demand for social protection. In this thesis, I test this assumption using a measure of occupational mobility between pre- and post-unemployment, which I apply to European workers in different skill groups as defined by Fleckenstein et al., (2011). Using this measure as an indicator of the portability of workers' skills, I then evaluate whether the lower marketability of human capital investments is associated with greater demand for unemployment protection. The findings demonstrate that whilst this relationship is apparent in certain countries, notably Coordinated Market Economies such as Germany, the assumptions do not apply across institutional settings. Consequently, skill specificity cannot explain variation in attitudes towards unemployment protection policies between countries.
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Gushchina, Kristina [Verfasser], André [Gutachter] Kaiser, and Ingo [Gutachter] Rohlfing. "Womens' political representation in East-European post-communist and post-Soviet countries: Macro- and Micro-Level Analysis of the Factors of Election to the National and Regional Legislatures / Kristina Gushchina ; Gutachter: André Kaiser, Ingo Rohlfing." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1217402748/34.
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Hadjioannou, Adamantia. "The role of corpus linguistics in a lexical approach to college level English-as-a-foreign-language pedagogy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2791.
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This project offers methods for English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) undergraduate students to improve their English skills following a lexical approach to language incorporating the methodology of corpus linguistics research.
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Valentová, Emilie. "Změna kurzu ruské zahraniční politiky v 1. dekádě 21. století." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72225.
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The aim of the diploma thesis is to identify Russia's Foreign Policy change in the first decade of the 21st century. It focuses on the three most important strategic documents of the Russian Federation, the presidential decrees signed by Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev (The Foreign Policy Concepts of the Russian Federation from 2000 and 2008, The National Security Concept of the Russian Federation from 2000, The National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation from 2009 and The Military Doctrines from 2000 and 2010). Through Discourse analysis it concludes that Russia has moved to strenghtening norms of international law and multilateral cooperation between the years 2000 and 2010, it no longer uses confrontational expressions and prefers a multi-vector foreign policy accenting the Asian vector. Russia also proves to be more self-confident and ambitious. We expect a more active role in the world affairs from Russia in the second decade of the 21st century.
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Samuelsson, Eva. "Use or Misuse? : Addiction Care Practitioners’ Perceptions of Substance Use and Treatment." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-112132.
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The aim of this thesis has been to study boundary-making in addiction care practitioner’s perceptions of substance use and treatment. The four papers are based on three data collections in Swedish outpatient addiction care: a) a survey conducted in 2006 (n=655), b) a factorial survey using randomly constructed vignettes conducted in 2011 (n=474), and c) a focus group interview study from 2013 (n=30) with a sample of the respondents from the factorial survey. The analyses show that practitioners tend to draw boundaries between various forms of substance use, with alcohol use being perceived as a less severe problem than narcotics use and requiring less extensive treatment measures. There are also partially varying perceptions in different parts of addiction care. By comparison with social services staff, regional healthcare staff generally see a greater need for treatment, recommend medical treatment to a greater extent, and display less confidence in the possibility of handling problematic use without professional treatment. Despite an ongoing medicalization at the policy level, psychosocial treatment interventions appear to have legitimacy in both regional healthcare and social services settings. Boundary-making processes are also found in relation to the specific user’s age, family situation, socio-economic status and in some cases gender, with young women’s drinking being seen as more severe than young men’s drinking for example. The boundary-making between different substance users may be interpreted as a sign of an approach based on a professional consideration of the person’s socially exposed situation, which might require more comprehensive support. At the same time, it may be an expression of a stereotyped approach, involving a normative evaluation of women’s behaviour as being more deviant than men’s, thereby having a limiting effect on the conduct norms that regulate women’s behaviour and making the problems of men invisible. To avoid disparities in addiction care delivery, it is of major importance that practitioners are given room to reflect upon the assumptions and values that underlie the assessments they make in practice. Combining a factorial survey with focus group interviews is proposed as one means of facilitating this type of reflection.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Submitted. Paper 4: Submitted.
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Silva, Odair José Moreira da. "O suplício na espera dilatada: a construção do gênero suspense no cinema." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-07102011-144235/.
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O estudo dos gêneros do cinema aponta para várias direções sem, no entanto, especificar a importância que deve ser dada às estratégias discursivas que engendram a significação de determinado filme. Por muito tempo, a teoria semiótica de linha francesa serviu apenas para salientar um perfil da significação fílmica, originada do percurso gerativo de sentido, na medida em que trata especificamente do esquema narrativo. De certo modo, os estudos da semiótica francesa concernentes ao cinema são exíguos. Diante da diversidade cinematográfica, um recorte pode ser feito de uma totalidade específica. A partir daí, os gêneros remetem a certa identidade do fazer cinematográfico. Os gêneros, pensados como enunciados que comportam um conteúdo temático, um estilo e uma construção composicional, fundam a identidade fílmica. Porém essa norma bakhtiniana de arquitetura, inerente a diversos enunciados fílmicos, parece ser pouco mencionada. Dessa forma, ignorar esse princípio básico é afastar um entendimento do processo de significação que, quando percebido e analisado, traz à tona o modo como o enunciador de um filme se utiliza de alguns recursos que revelam um modo próprio de manipular o espectador, o enunciatário ideal. O presente trabalho visa expor como um gênero fílmico particular, o suspense, surgido em um período histórico da sétima arte, conhecido como cinema clássico, pode ser desvendado, tomando como base a regra bakhtiniana referida. Com esse princípio em mente, a pesquisa adentra na teoria da significação e faz emergir várias possibilidades de exame ao texto fílmico. Sob tal orientação, este trabalho apresenta algumas ferramentas semióticas de análise do cinema, tais como a segmentação dos filmes e o levantamento das estruturas elementares e tensivas do gênero suspense. Seguindo esse horizonte, nossas investigações tendem a revelar uma gradação de intensidade constituinte da formação desse gênero. Além disso, como um dos recursos de uma identidade audiovisual, o exame das relações semissimbólicas aponta para um fator determinante na constituição das imagens fílmicas, entendido como as categorias paramétricas da imagem e seus contrastes. Relativamente a isso, será ressaltado o conteúdo temático e o modo como a configuração discursiva atua no desenvolvimento desse quesito. Com relação ao estilo, duas direções foram apontadas como constituintes do gênero suspense, o estilo do gênero e o estilo do autor. Tomando esses princípios como diretrizes, o corpus deste trabalho constitui-se de três filmes, representantes do cinema clássico, envoltos pela programação do suspense, o que dá a eles certo estatuto de referência: Cidadão Kane, de Orson Welles; Anatomia de um crime, de Otto Preminger; e Psicose, de Alfred Hitchcock.Studies about movie genres point out to several directions, without specifying, however, the importance that should be given to discursive strategies that engender the significance of a particular movie. For a long time, French semiotic theory was suitable only to highlight a profile of filmic significance, which originated from the generative process in meaning, once it deals specifically with narrative scheme. However, French semiotic studies about movies are scarce. Due to the cinematographic diversity, a cut can be made of the specific totality. From that, genres refer to a certain identity of filmmaking. Genres, considered as enunciates that hold a thematic content, style and compositional construction, found the filmic identity. Nevertheless, this Bakhtinian architectural norm, inherent in many filmic enunciates seems to be little mentioned. Therefore, ignoring this basic principle means to establish a distance from a comprehension of the signification process that once noticed and analyzed brings light to the way the movie enunciator uses some resources that reveal a particular way of manipulating the spectators, the ideal enunciatee. The present work aims to expose how a particular movie genre, the suspense, originated in a historical period of the seventh art, known as classic movie era, can be unveiled, taking as basis the refered Bakhtinian norm. With this principle in mind this research penetrates the significance theory and brings to life many possibilities of examining filmic text. Following such orientation, this paper presents some analytical semiotic movie tools such as: movie segmentation and gathering of elementary and tensive structures in the suspense genre. Following this horizon, our investigations tend to reveal a gradation of intensity inherent in the formation of this genre. Furthermore, as one of the resources of an audiovisual identity, analysis of semi-simbolics relations points out to a determinant factor in the constitution of filmic images, known as parametrics categories of image and its contrasts. Regarding this, thematic content and the role that discoursive configuration plays in this issue, will be highlighted in this paper. Concerning style, two directions have been identified as constituents of the suspense genre, the style of the genre and the style of the author. Thus, having these principles as guidelines, the corpus of this paper consists of three movies, representatives of the classic movie era, that are involved by the programming of suspense, which gives them a certain status of reference: Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, Anatomy of a murder by Otto Preminger and Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Huan-Yun, Chen, and 陳煥芸. "Choice of Rebirth:a Fantasy Theme Analysis of Multi-Level Marketing Discourse." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78504954720036622153.
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Kang, Chun Hwa. "A discourse analysis of literature discussions in a college-level intensive ESL course." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5884.
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The purpose of this study was to describe and interpret young adult ESL (English as a Second Language) students‘ participation in discussions of literature in a high-intermediate level reading classroom at a university-affiliated ELP (English Learning Program) program. Additionally, this study explored the nature and characteristics of talk generated by ESL students within the context of literature discussions.
Naturalistic methods of data collection were employed in keeping with the constructivist paradigm, including classroom observations, audio and video recordings, transcripts of audio and video recordings, field notes, interviews with the teacher and students, teacher resources, and student artifacts. This naturalistic inquiry drew from qualitative traditions in its design, and the study was further guided by grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) and discourse analysis.
The study findings indicated that literature discussions were structured by six stages: (1) reading at home, (2) setting up and review, (3) students redefining the tasks,
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(4) students doing the tasks, (5) sharing with the class, and (6) taking in-class quizzes. Analysis revealed that these sequenced stages that allowed for a shifting of roles and positions between the teacher and students and among students enabled students to have regular and extended opportunities for talk and interaction.
The findings of the study demonstrated that the student-to-student exchanges featured more discursive talk as the students were encouraged to construct meanings collaboratively and to engage in interactive discourse with one another. The implications of these findings in terms of teaching as mediation and the nature of talk in ESL classrooms are discussed.text
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Wade, Katherine. "A MULTI-LEVEL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN, MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS’ SCIENCE IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/mse_diss/48.
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This research argues that the lack of African American women in science careers is the result of a nuanced and complicated process and can only be adequately addressed through consideration of multiple levels of discourse. Specifically, a better understanding of macro level discourses that are present in and circulated through schools and work to position African American girls in ways that are outside of science learning is necessary. This research used a critical ethnographic approach to explore the science experiences of African American middle school girls. Data were collected on the macro (school wide), meso (classroom and after school program), and micro (individual) level. Critical discourse analysis was used to explore what macro-level discourses were circulated at the school, how these discourses impacted the seventh grade science class and after school program, and how individual students negotiated these discourses. Results indicated that the privileged Discourses (identities) in the classroom actually worked to position students outside of science and that a focus on accountability, control, and order, with a lack of discourses of authentic engagement in science, led to students equating a science person with a good student.
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Kolisi, Wiseman. "The transfer of discourse level writing skills from xhosa L1 to English L2." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2669.
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This research aims to contribute to the improvement of writing in English as a second language in South African schools. It is based on transfer theory: what is known in one language may transfer to another. Much of the transfer of structural aspects of languages as different as Xhosa and English is likely to be negative. This research focuses instead on aspects of writing at discourse level in the expectation that a positive transfer of learning will take place at that level.
The main hypothesis is that certain discourse level writing skills transfer to a second language (English) if they have been taught in the mother tongue (Xhosa) but not in the second language. The skills in question are
• using topic sentences appropriately to introduce a paragraph
• writing suitable support sentences in the rest of the paragraph
• achieving paragraph unity in relation to the topic sentence
• using linking words and other cohesive devices effectively.
The writing corpus was obtained from 66 Grade 8 learners in the researcher’s school. Thirty three of the learners were in the Experimental Group in 2005 and 33 different learners were in the Control Group in 2006. The difference between the groups was that the Experimental group were taught the writing skills in Xhosa but not in English, whereas the Control group were taught the same skills in both subjects. Both groups were taught Xhosa and English by the researcher himself.
The corpus comprises a total of just under 80 000 words of composition writing, half of which was written at the beginning of the academic year and the other half at the end. Comparisons were made to determine how much learning had taken place individually and by the different groups and subjected to statistical analysis to measure significance.
The findings provide persuasive evidence of a transfer of learning. The impressive amount of learning that occurred in the first place was also rewarding, providing proof, as it did, that learners are capable of responding to greater demands than we might assume.African Languages
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Prasad, Anshuman. "Institutional ideology and industry-level action: A macro analysis of corporate legitimation in the United States petroleum industry." 1994. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9510527.
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This dissertation is a multi-method, institutional theoretic study that sought to understand how organizational communication in the United States petroleum industry functioned as a device for corporate legitimation over the years 1975-1990. The study investigated the symbolic dimension of organizational communication taking place via the medium of oil industry Annual Reports. The study addressed two major research questions: (i) What was the nature of corporate legitimation in the U.S. petroleum industry during the years 1975-1990? and (ii) What was the structure of corporate legitimation in the industry over these years? The context for these questions was provided by important industry-level actions such as business-government relations, diversification, OPEC relations, corporate restructuring, etc. To understand the nature of corporate legitimation, the study employed methods of grounded theory analysis. In addition to investigating the ideological characteristics of oil industry Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs') Letters to Shareholders, this analysis also focussed upon the linguistic devices of persuasion (e.g., myths, metaphors, etc.) and the processes of discursive closure employed in these letters. On the other hand, quantitative techniques of content analysis, including multivariate research methods such as factor analysis, discriminant analysis and MANOVAs, were employed for analyzing the structure of corporate legitimation. These analyses were designed to investigate the interrelationship of the various concepts by which oil industry CEOs expressed themselves in their Annual Reports. This study show that the U.S. oil industry employed eight inter-connected ideologies in the process of legitimating salient industry-level actions of these years. In part, the persuasive power of these ideologies derived from their ability to evoke certain mythic and taken-for-granted elements of the cultural 'common sense.' As regards the structure of corporate legitimation, an important finding of the study is that the industry's Annual Reports assumed four personae in the process of articulating their ideological messages. The study advances the thesis that corporate legitimation in an industry such as petroleum implies the legitimation of a given 'way of life,' and involves both expressing and constituting the subjectivities upon which this way of life depends. Finally, the study draws some implications for management research and practice.
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Le, Roux Mark. "Exploring the latent structure of IT employees’ intention to resign in South Africa." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40589.
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One of the major challenges facing South African IT organisations today is the
dramatic shortage of IT professionals. Both literature and business sentiment have
indicated that employee turnover within the IT sector is on a continually rising trend.
The ramifications of these high turnover rates translate into exorbitant direct and
indirect costs to organisations. The purpose of this research was to identify the factors
pertaining to the underlying structure of the turnover intention of these employees. A
deeper understanding of these drivers may possibly enable management to reduce the
turnover intention of employees within their organisations.
A quantitative, multi-disciplinary research approach, focussing on the antecedents of
turnover intention and the three systemic levels of organisational behaviour (micro,
meso and macro) was used to operationalise the main research construct of this study.
Data was collected by means of an anonymous self-administered web-based survey.
A sample of 188 completed questionnaires was collected using a snowball sampling
technique from the population of employees in the IT industry in South Africa. A
statistical data reduction method, exploratory factor analysis, was conducted on the
dataset to determine the underlying nature of the construct, IT employees’ perceived
intention to resign from employment.
After an appropriate number of factor analytic rounds, a robust 4-factor model of the
data set was established. The results indicated that the factor, Personal Enrichment
from Management Support, possibly plays the most significant role in understanding,
monitoring, and managing IT employees’ perceived intention to resign from
employment. The study provided support that monetary factors had the most
significant influence in an employee’s decision to join an organisation; however, nonmonetary
benefits, such as job satisfaction and skills development, were found to be
more effective in retaining employees. The practical implications uncovered from this
study will enable management to gain further insight into understanding the underlying
factors and drivers of turnover intention and thereby minimise its impact on the
organisation.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Martinez, Trabucco Ximena Cecilia. "Decolonizing the Curriculum in Chile: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Notion of Human Being and Citizenship as Presented in the Subject of History Geography and Social Science in the Elementary Level Curriculum." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42854.
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Through an analysis of History Geography and Social Science subject matter in the elementary level curriculum in Chile, this thesis highlights the role of official education in constructing a notion of human being that gravitates toward Whiteness. The law of education and the curriculum are analyzed to examine the way in which official curriculum operates as a mechanism for oppression, exclusion, and marginalization. It is argued that through the curriculum, a national ideology that incorporates a hegemonic notion of ideal human being and citizen is promoted. Using an anti-colonial, anti-racist discursive framework, and techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis, this work locates Chilean official education and curriculum as the culmination of colonial and racist notion of human and citizenship values supported by the neoliberal state. The researcher advocates for equity and justice in the education system that acknowledges Chile as a multicultural country where different ways of knowing coexist.
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Nkhonjera, Maria. "A macro-level analysis of the role of development financial institutions in periods of global financial and economic crisis: the case of BNDES in Brazil." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16812.
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Thesis (M.Com. (Development Theory and Policy))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Economic and Business Sciences, 2014.Following the Great Recession of 2007/08, development economists began to place emphasis on the role of development banks as vital public financial institutions. With a principal focus on the National Bank of Economic and Social Development in Brazil (BNDES), this research study analyses its role as a counter-cyclical lender within a context of global banking credit crunch. By using South Africa as a counterfactual scenario, the study finds that the responses of the BNDES were key in mitigating the effects of the financial turmoil. Whilst highlighting the relevance and essential function of a credit system that supports the productive realm of the economy, the conclusions of this study provide a valuable lesson to South Africa and other emerging market economies (EMEs) – channelled credit growth can be instrumental in addressing cyclical gaps in capital.
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Ferneborg, Angelica, and Marie Amminger. "The Appropriation of Feminist Values in Multi-Level-Marketing Distribution Networks." Thesis, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43820.
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The aim of this thesis is to investigate the communicative and discursive practices used by Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) networks when marketing their network to women as both a business opportunity and as a sisterhood, in order to start and contribute to the conversation regarding the relatively unsupervised communicative practices and their potential effects of MLM distribution networks. By conducting an extensive qualitative analysis on eighteen group call videos posted publicly on YouTube by affiliates of six different MLM networks, this thesis examines the marketing practices used to appropriate feminist values in order to recruit women and sell products. The analysis is done through a theoretical framework of Feminist Media Theory with a focus on feminist values, femvertising, and corporate feminism, in combination with the concept Relational Agency. These theoretical frameworks are used to critically analyze the discursive practices used in the videos. The analysis shows that MLM contractors are utilizing discursive practices such as advertising feminist values to market products and opportunities to potential recruits and downlines. Some of the feminist values communicated are, for example, inclusivity, empowering messages, financial gain, and independency. The findings further suggests that the marketing practices used may have an effect on individuals involved, and on the greater feminist movement at large.
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Jancic, Zeljka. "Multi-level governance approach in the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR): the analysis of the contribution of national stakeholders." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/91705.
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The purpose of the thesis is to find out the contribution of national stakeholders in the decision-making process of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR).
Alongside other macro-regional strategies, EUSAIR is the recent strategy of the European Union which is characterized by multi-level governance, considering that the decision-making process involves different stakeholders from different level and sector.
The literature argues that the supranational institutions are taking a central part in the decision-making of EUSAIR, due to funding resources, however, the literature also confirms that the role of the national stakeholders is considered influential as well.
Even though the macro-regional cooperation is characterized by multi-level governance, which is involving different level actors in the process, the thesis debates that the national stakeholders are taking the essential part in the decision-making of EUSAIR through bargaining among national governments and further including more stakeholders from the NGOs and local society into taking an active role in the EUSAIR decision-making.O objetivo da dissertação é descobrir a contribuição das atores nacionais no processo de tomada de decisão da Estratégia da UE para a Região Adriática e Jônica (EUSAIR). Juntamente com outras estratégias macrorregionais, a EUSAIR é a estratégia recente da União Europeia, caracterizada pela governança em vários níveis, considerando que o processo de tomada de decisão envolve diferentes partes interessadas de diferentes níveis e setores. A literatura argumenta que as instituições supranacionais estão tendo um papel central na tomada de decisão da EUSAIR, devido ao financiamento de recursos, no entanto, a literatura também confirma que o papel das atores nacionais também é considerado influente. Embora a cooperação macrorregional seja caracterizada por governança multinível, que envolve diferentes atores de nível no processo, a dissertação debate que as atores nacionais estão assumindo o papel essencial na tomada de decisões da EUSAIR por meio de negociações entre governos nacionais e incluindo ainda mais atores das ONGs e da sociedade local na participação ativa no processo de tomada de decisão da EUSAIR.
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Smith, Sara. "Circuitos, perturbaciones y transformaciones de la modernidad/colonialidad : análisis discursivo en contextos chilenos y canadienses." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9862.
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La présente étude constitue une analyse comparative de discours qui articulent la problématique de l’héritage coloniale et des réclamations autochtones au Chili et au Canada : des livres de texte de sciences sociales, des discours d’opinion et des discours autochtones. Nous proposons que les similitudes surprenantes qui ont été révélées par les contextes nationaux canadiens et chiliens peuvent être expliquées, en partie, par leur articulation avec le discours globalisé de la modernité/colonialité. D’une part, les textes scolaires et les discours d’opinion font circuler des éléments discursifs de la modernité, tout en reproduisant des formes de savoir et de dire coloniaux. D’autre part, les discours autochtones se ressemblent entre eux dans la mesure où ils interpolent la modernité/colonialité transformant ainsi les termes d’engagement interculturel. Bien que les états canadiens et chiliens renforcent leur engagement à l’égard de la réconciliation avec les Autochtones durant les dernières décennies, les conflits interculturels continuent à se produire en impliquant toujours les mêmes acteurs : l’état, différents peuples autochtones, des entreprises privées, ainsi que des membres de l’élite intellectuelle, politique et patronale. En prenant en compte cette situation, l’objectif de cette thèse vise à mieux comprendre pourquoi ces conflits, loin d’être résolus, continuent à se reproduire. Dans ces deux pays, la problématique des conflits interculturels est fondamentalement mise en rapport avec la question des droits territoriaux et, par conséquent, sont inséparables de la question de l’héritage coloniale des états nationaux canadien et chilien. Pourtant cette dimension coloniale des conflits a tendance à être cachée autant par la rhétorique multiculturelle du discours national que par les polarisations produites par l’opinion publique, lesquelles ont l’habitude d’encadrer la problématique par des notions binaires, telles que « civilisation/barbarie » ou « authenticité/illégitimité ». De plus, on peut considérer l’ouest du Canada et le sud du Chili comme étant des contextes comparables, puisque ceux-ci ont été colonisés avec la base du discours moderne du progrès et de la civilisation, qui a servi à légitimer l’expansion de l’état national au dix-neuvième siècle. Cependant, il n’existe que très peu d’études qui comparent les productions discursives relatives aux relations interculturelles entre Autochtones et non Autochtones dans les contextes canadiens et chiliens, possiblement à cause des différences linguistiques, sociohistoriques et politiques qui paraissent insurmontables.The present study constitutes a comparative analysis of discourses that articulate issues related to both Indigenous land claims and the colonial legacy of Chile and Canada. Specifically, we analyze social science textbooks, opinion discourses and Indigenous discourses. Our analysis shows that there are striking similarities between the Canadian and Chilean national contexts. We propose that these can be explained, in part, by their relationship with the global discourse of modernity/coloniality. On the one hand, textbooks and opinion discourses circulate discursive features of modernity, thus reproducing colonial forms of knowledge and speaking. On the other hand, the Indigenous discourses we exam seem to resemble each other to the extent that they interpolate the discourse of modernity/coloniality, thereby transforming the terms of intercultural engagement. Despite efforts, in recent decades, by the Canadian and Chilean states towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, social conflicts persist, involving the same actors as always: the state, different indigenous communities, private companies, and intellectual, political and business elites. In light of this situation, this thesis aims to better understand why these conflicts, far from being resolved, continue to occur. In these two countries, the issue of intercultural conflict primarily invoves the question of land rights. In this sense, the reproduction of conflict is inseparable from the colonial legacy of the Canadian and Chilean national states. This colonial dimension of conflict, however, is usually made obscure by both the multicultural rhetoric of national discourse and the polarizations produced by public opinion discourses, both of which tend to frame the question of land rights in terms of binary notions, such as “civilization/barbarism”, or “authenticity/illegitimacy.” Furthermore, western Canada and southern Chile can be considered comparable contexts, as they were colonized on the basis of the modern discourses of progress and civilization, which served to legitimize the expansion of the nineteenth-century nation state. However, there are few studies comparing the discursive productions related to the intercultural relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians and Chileans. This is perhaps due to a perception of insurmountable linguistic, socio-historical and political differences between the two countries.
El presente estudio constituye un análisis comparado de discursos que articulan la problemática de la herencia colonial y de los reclamos indígenas en Chile y Canadá: libros de texto de ciencias sociales, discursos de opinión y discursos indígenas. Ahí se plantea que las similitudes sorprendentes que se han encontrado entre los contextos nacionales canadienses y chilenos pueden ser explicadas por su articulación con el discurso globalizado de la modernidad/colonialidad. Por un lado, los textos escolares y los discursos de opinión hacen circular rasgos discursivos de la modernidad, reproduciendo formas de saber y de decir coloniales. Por otro lado, los discursos indígenas se parecen entre sí en la medida en que interpolan la modernidad/colonialidad, transformando así los términos del compromiso intercultural. A pesar del esfuerzo de reconciliación de los estados canadiense y chileno con los pueblos indígenas en las últimas décadas, siguen produciéndose conflictos sociales, involucrando a los mismos actores de siempre: el estado, distintos pueblos indígenas, las empresas privadas y la elite intelectual, política y empresarial. Teniendo en cuenta esta situación, el objetivo de esta tesis apunta a entender mejor por qué estos conflictos, lejos de resolverse, continúan reproduciéndose. En estos dos países, la problemática de los conflictos interculturales está relacionada fundamentalmente con la cuestión de los derechos territoriales y, en consecuencia, son indesligables de la herencia colonial de los estados nacionales canadiense y chileno. Esta dimensión colonial de los conflictos, sin embargo, suele ser ocultada tanto por la retórica multicultural del discurso nacional como por las polarizaciones producidas por la opinión pública, las cuales tienden a enmarcar la problemática según nociones binarias, como la de “civilización/barbarie”, o “autenticidad/ilegitimidad”. Además, el oeste de Canadá y el sur de Chile pueden considerarse comparables, ya que fueron colonizados sobre la base del discurso moderno del progreso y la civilización, el cual sirvió para legitimar la expansión del estado nacional decimonónico. A pesar de esto, existen pocos estudios que comparen las producciones discursivas de las relaciones interculturales entre indígenas y no indígenas en los contextos canadienses y chilenos, posiblemente debido a las diferencias lingüísticas, sociohistóricas y políticas que parecieran insuperables.
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Weeden, Sara Ashleigh. "Mobilizing critical feminist engagement with New Public Management." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3152.
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This thesis mobilizes a feminist critique to examine the ways in which New Public Management (NPM) represents a gendered discourse. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, NPM is mapped as a discursive field in order to tease out its dominant and subordinate discourses. The tensions between the dominant discourses and between the dominant and subordinate discourses are examined. The discursive themes of NPM are then engaged using a feminist post-structuralist framework in order to develop a feminist critique. From this critique, it is argued that NPM discourses reinscribe dominant masculinity as well as challenge the Weberian model of bureaucracy by reconstructing a gendered division of labour that takes place entirely within the public sphere.