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Assimilation And Accommodation In Family Discourse: A Longitudinal Analysis, Marcia Summers
Assimilation And Accommodation In Family Discourse: A Longitudinal Analysis, Marcia Summers
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Assimilative behavioral strategies provide continuity through maintenance of similarities, traditions, and interactions, while accommodative strategies result in social innovation through the creation of new modes and interactive patterns (J. Block, 1982; J. H. Block, 1983). It was hypothesized that females would show assimilative discourse patterns through the maintenance of conversational topics, while males would show accommodative patterns through more frequent changes in conversational topic, and that the roots of this pattern lie in family conversation. Nineteen families were videotaped at one month, four months, and four years following the birth of their second child. Results showed that gender-differentiated use of …
Virginia Woolf's Double Discourse, Pamela L. Caughie
Virginia Woolf's Double Discourse, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Written by a feminist (Virginia Woolf), for a bisexual (Vita Sackville-West), about an androgyne (Orlando), the novel Orlando would seem to be the quintessential feminist text. And that, indeed, is what it is in danger of becoming, just as Woolf is in danger of becoming the acclaimed Mother of Us All. In promoting Virginia Woolf's Orlando as a feminist work, feminist critics have picked the right text, but for the wrong reasons. Orlando works as a feminist text not because of what it says about sexual identity but because of what it manages not to say; not because of what …