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Philosophy Of Normative Discourse And Persuasion: A Study Of Ga'dang Exhortation And Argumentation, Michael Ross Walrod
Philosophy Of Normative Discourse And Persuasion: A Study Of Ga'dang Exhortation And Argumentation, Michael Ross Walrod
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations
This work applies the insights of textlinguistics to the study of normative or persuasive discourse. Although textlinguistics is already somewhat interdisciplinary in character, it was found to be too narrow to account for normative discourse, and had to be expanded to include further considerations of cultural phenomena, norms, and the relations of these to the theory of knowledge structures. In addition to the above, there are five major contributions of this study: (1) It shows how norms and knowledge structures play a part in the process of persuasion, and also redefines persuasion as including either the changing or the perpetuating …
Proto East Mindanao And Its Internal Relationships, Andrew Franklin Ii Gallman
Proto East Mindanao And Its Internal Relationships, Andrew Franklin Ii Gallman
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations
This study reconstructs Proto East Mindanao, the ancestor language from which the East Mindanao languages have developed. This is accomplished by tracing the development from the ancestor language through the intermediate proto languages, Proto North East Mindanao, Proto Central East Mindanao, and Proto South East Mindanao, to the attested daughter languages. This study also presents over 1400 reconstructed vocabulary items. The term East Mindanao used in this study refers to three groups of languages spoken on the island of Mindanao in the southern part of the Philippines (in addition to Tausug, which is spoken on the island of Jolo). These …
A Study Of Policy Implementation: Desegregation Of The Dallas Independent School District, James Alan Swan
A Study Of Policy Implementation: Desegregation Of The Dallas Independent School District, James Alan Swan
Political Science Theses
Even though the significance of Brown v. Board of Education is recognized by almost everyone, implementing the decision has been a very difficult task. Implementation of the resulting desegregation order in Dallas has been influenced by the national response to desegregation as well as by local conditions and responses. The purpose of this study is to analyze those factors which influenced implementation. A history of the fight for public school desegregation up to, and including, the Brown decision, is given as background and to help understand why implementation was so difficult. The nationwide attempt to implement Brown is discussed because …
Surname Analysis As A Sampling Method For Recovery Of Genetic Information, Joan C. Stevenson, R. J. Brown, Moses S. Schanfield
Surname Analysis As A Sampling Method For Recovery Of Genetic Information, Joan C. Stevenson, R. J. Brown, Moses S. Schanfield
Anthropology Faculty and Staff Publications
An effective means of retrieving ethnic information on a population sample for which there is already medical information may be surname analysis, but this has never been tested. Thus, two methods of surname classification were used to select individuals with German, Italian, Irish and Polish surnames from a sample of 2306 Milwaukee immigrants and offspring of immigrants. This sample represented only those individuals who identified all grandparents as coming from the same European geopolitical unit, and all had been previously tested for Glm(f, z, a and x), G3m(b0, bl, b3, b4 and g), A2m(l and 2), and Km(l). Selected sera …
Linguistic And Cultural Analysis Of Three Gujarati Folktales, Imanuel Gulabbhai Christian
Linguistic And Cultural Analysis Of Three Gujarati Folktales, Imanuel Gulabbhai Christian
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations
This study represents an attempt to place linguistic analysis in the cultural setting. The linguistic aspect of this study is presented in the framework of discourse grammar following the model developed by Longacre (1976, 1983). Three Gujarati folktales are analyzed for their overall discourse structure, for their verb and sentence structure and relative importance of information in narrative discourse, and for the participant reference. A distinction is made between participant oriented narrative and event oriented narrative. In the analysis of the cultural setting the models of Levi-Strauss (1963, 1967, 1969, etc.) and Bastien (1978) are followed. In this section, on …
Growing Old In Different Societies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives., Jay Sokolovsky
Growing Old In Different Societies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives., Jay Sokolovsky
Faculty Books
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