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Boko Haram - Media Representation And The Manufacture Of Consent, Nafisah Ayobola Raji, Yunana Ahmed

Master's Level Graduate Research Conference

This paper takes a look at the media representation of an Islamic group in Northern Nigeria Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Ladda’awatih wal-Jihad aka Boko Haram and effect these representations has had in shaping ideologies of international public towards the country, and Nigerians towards northern Nigeria.

Terrorism, Islamic group, Media representation, Sensationalisation, Subjectivity, Ideologies, socio-economic, disenfranchisement, Politics, Poverty

Narrativity And Involvement In Online Consumer Reviews: The Case Of Tripadvisor, Camilla Vasquez

World Languages Faculty Publications

Drawing on recent work on digital narratives of personal experience in online genres such as email, social networking sites, and blogs, the present study explores narrative features in 100 online consumer reviews of hotels. Focusing on negative reviews, or “Rants,” from popular consumer travel platform, TripAdvisor, the article examines both canonical and genre-specific structural features of narratives, as well as some of the discursive resources used by online narrators to engage their audiences, and to draw them into their stories. Specifically, the study explores the use of story prefaces and related forms of second person address, represented speech and mental ...

Keeping It Vague: A Study Of Vague Language In An American Sign Language Corpus And Implications For Interpreting Between American Sign Language And English, Daniel J. Greene

Master's Theses

Vague Language (VL) seems to be a universal feature of language, and American Sign Language (ASL) has been shown to have all the properties of language; therefore, it is natural that VL would appear in ASL. This thesis is the first study of VL in ASL, and provides evidence that VL occurs in ASL and is used to express meanings equivalent to those of VL in English. The findings of this study document yet another property that ASL shares with other languages, and contribute yet another language to the body of languages that have been studied for VL.

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Phonetic Manifestations Of /Ai/ Raising, Nick Woolums

Linguistic Portfolios

No abstract provided.

Phonetic Portfolio (Walden), Melissa Walden

Linguistic Portfolios

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Playing The Toefl Game At Scsu, Sarah Vinz

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio (Tsai), Pei-Fen Tsai

Linguistic Portfolios

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A Laboratory Phonology Account Of The Past Tense Suffix And Its Allomorphs, Doug Leblanc, Ettien Koffi

Linguistic Portfolios

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Difficulties In Learning Prepositions And Possible Solutions, Kristen Lorincz, Rebekah Gordon

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio (Kwon), Soon Jeong Kwon

Linguistic Portfolios

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An Acoustic Account Of The Allophonic Realization Of /T/, Amber King, Ettien Koffi

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio, Sylvia Glynn

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio (Marinović), Jovana Marinović

Linguistic Portfolios

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Comparative Analysis Of Vowel Space Of L1 Spanish Speakers And General American English, Lindsay Giacomino

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio, Elizabeth Feero

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio, Makenzie Ewins

Linguistic Portfolios

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A Game Theoretic Evaluation Of English Preferences In Japan, Claire Brakel

Linguistic Portfolios

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The Role Of Syllable Structure In The Acquisition Of American English By Three Native Amharic Speakers, Tonja Brown

Linguistic Portfolios

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Phonetic Portfolio, Abdulqaadir Blunt

Linguistic Portfolios

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Neurobiological Underpinnings And Linguistic Manifestations In Autism Spectrum Disorders, Jill Bayliss

Linguistic Portfolios

No abstract provided.