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The Narrative Creation Of Self In The Fiction By African-American And African-Caribbean Women Writers., Jerome P. De Romanet Jan 1990

The Narrative Creation Of Self In The Fiction By African-American And African-Caribbean Women Writers., Jerome P. De Romanet

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study entails an examination of the works of six authors (Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor and Simone Schwarz-Bart) whose works are shaped by values and perceptions influenced by their experiences of sexual, racial and social marginalization. While I acknowledge differences in origin, beliefs and personality, I explore the common ground which unites them, and more specifically the complex ties that bind their individual "writing I" with their environment--"communitas," to use Victor Turner's term. This study is also an exploration of the modes in which these six writers create their idiosyncratic selves out of the …

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Relational Aftermath: Accounts Of Marital Dissolution To Social Network Members., Linda Malone Pledger Jan 1990

Relational Aftermath: Accounts Of Marital Dissolution To Social Network Members., Linda Malone Pledger

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Relationship dissolution is a complex process that involves more than the act of termination. The process affects and is affected by an individual's communication with members of the social network. The attributions made by the individual to account for the dissolution constitute an attempt at failure management. This study was undertaken to determine how the strategies used to manage the failure event of divorce vary according to social network groups, gender, and expectation of approval. One hundred eleven divorced individuals completed questionnaires soliciting recollection of accounts made to family, friends, and acquaintances regarding their divorce. Findings include (1) excuses were …

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The Epistemic Power Of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Model For Homiletics., Rodney Kennedy Jan 1990

The Epistemic Power Of Metaphor: A Rhetorical Model For Homiletics., Rodney Kennedy

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study analyzes the symbiotic relationship between rhetoric and homiletics. The proposed interface between the two disciplines is metaphor. Contemporary research on metaphor in philosophy, rhetoric, sociology, and theology is employed to produce a rhetorical/metaphorical homiletics. A deconstruction of classical homiletics traces the basic preaching model to a Cartesian philosophical starting point. The nature of the Christian scriptures as metaphorical and of Christian liturgy as symbolic is alien to the rational, objective homiletics. An examination of Christian worship as a rhetorical event includes the elements of the theory of rhetoric developed by Michel Foucault: discursive practices, rules, roles, knowledge, and …

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Intrinsic Intertextuality:A Methodology For Analyzing The Seamless Intertext., Karen Sue Mitchell Jan 1990

Intrinsic Intertextuality:A Methodology For Analyzing The Seamless Intertext., Karen Sue Mitchell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study argues for a methodology that applies contemporary theories of literature and performance to a certain kind of performance script I call a seamless intertext. Working deductively from theory to dramatic text, I explore what selected portions of extant performance and textual theory have to offer in examining, describing, and explaining these seamless intertexts. Working inductively from dramatic text to theory, I extend and offer further clarification and an extension of current theory through a more detailed explanation of the scripting explicit in each dramatic text. In the study I synthesize existing theory in intertextuality and define and describe …

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Narrative And Everyday Experience: Performance Process In The Storytelling Of The Swiss Volhynian Mennonites. (Volumes I And Ii)., John Elmer Mccabe-Juhnke Jan 1990

Narrative And Everyday Experience: Performance Process In The Storytelling Of The Swiss Volhynian Mennonites. (Volumes I And Ii)., John Elmer Mccabe-Juhnke

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines oral narrative performance within the cultural context of the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites in Moundridge, Kansas, whose forebears were members of a congregational group that migrated from the Russian Province of Volhynia in 1874. These immigrants strove to maintain Gemeinde--a mutually supportive community of believers separated from the world. A Swiss Volhynian Mennonite himself, the author tape-recorded interviews with second and third generation descendants of the Russian immigrants. Using the interview transcriptions and personal observation in the Moundridge community as primary data, the author demonstrates how the formative elements of everyday narrative performance both sustain and are shaped …

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The Role Of Sonority In Jargonaphasia., Sarah Slack Christman Jan 1990

The Role Of Sonority In Jargonaphasia., Sarah Slack Christman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Sonority Sequencing Principle suggests that the relative sonority rank among sounds can explain intrasyllabic and transsyllabic phoneme ordering patterns in normal speakers. The values of segments can be ranked from most to least sonority as follows: Vowels, Glides, Liquids, Nasals and Obstruents. The unmarked order of segments within an initial demisyllable is O-N-L-G from the periphery toward the peak, and G-L-N-O in a final demisyllable from the peak toward the periphery. The sonority "slope" of an initial demisyllable will be steep to maximize the perceptual saliency of syllable onset. In a final demisyllable, especially if embedded, the slope will …

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Usage-Dependent Information Systems Design., Jin-Soo Kim Jan 1990

Usage-Dependent Information Systems Design., Jin-Soo Kim

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Usage-dependent phenomenon has been commonly observed in computer information systems (CIS). Since the performance of CIS greatly depends on the phenomenon, how to model it is an important CIS design issue. A usage process model (the Simon-Yule model) for modeling the usage--dependent phenomenon is proposed. The model is modified and successfully applied to the performance evaluation of self-organizing linear search heuristics. Analytical and empirical results indicate that the model provides a realistic performance evaluation of the heuristics and presents a solution to the research open problems which have been unsolved for more than two decades. Furthermore, the results lead to …

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Faculty Senate Resolution 89-01, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Oct 1989

Faculty Senate Resolution 89-01, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution on the Office for International Program Coordination, adopted on October 11, 1989.

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Lsu General Catalog 1989-1990, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1989

Lsu General Catalog 1989-1990, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Effects Of Communicative Reading Strategies On The Literacy Behaviors Of Third-Grade Poor Readers., Sue Neames Hernandez Jan 1989

Effects Of Communicative Reading Strategies On The Literacy Behaviors Of Third-Grade Poor Readers., Sue Neames Hernandez

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Communicative Reading Strategies, an integrated approach to remedial reading instruction, on the reading, writing, and oral language proficiency of poor readers. Twenty eight third graders with poor reading and language abilities were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Communicative Reading Strategies (CRS) were employed with the experimental group. CRS treats reading as an integrated language process. Techniques were used such as: (1) providing orienting information, (2) clarifying the author's intention, (3) reducing the linguistic complexity of the text, (4) reiterating and conjoining ideas into complex propositions, and (5) …

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Reality And Knowledge In Voegelin's Political Philosophy. (Volumes I & Ii)., Seung-Hyun Baek Jan 1989

Reality And Knowledge In Voegelin's Political Philosophy. (Volumes I & Ii)., Seung-Hyun Baek

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

It is the primary aim of this dissertation to draw attention to Voegelin's political philosophy and to place it at the center of the conduct of political inquiry, by criticizing positivistic political epistemology. Though scientism had become a dominant commitment, it does not provide an appropriate approach to political knowledge. Making reality dependent on methodology, it neglects important political existence, and fails to ask deeper questions about the truth-content political reality. However, there is an extra-spatio-temporal reality, that we can know, albeit imperfectly, and not discovered by the modern scientific methods. By means of the restoration and "retheoretization" of the …

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Description And Meaning In Three Novels By Gustave Flaubert., Corrada Biazzo Curry Jan 1989

Description And Meaning In Three Novels By Gustave Flaubert., Corrada Biazzo Curry

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study focuses on the problematic of description and meaning in literature, based on three master-works by Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Salammbo, and L'Education sentimentale. Description generally tends to create digressions and gratuitous accumulations that can break the narrative development. However, in the classical realist text descriptive details are to represent a global image and be available to a possible interpretive recuperation which can be mimetic and establish the basic story line, or symbolic, that is, primarily connoting the themes of the novel or the characters' feelings. Using Flaubert's works as examples, this study analyzes the constant tensions of these …

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Age Level Differences In Children's Use Of An Aesthetic Stance When Responding To Literature., Joyce E. Many Jan 1989

Age Level Differences In Children's Use Of An Aesthetic Stance When Responding To Literature., Joyce E. Many

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to explore the effects of the use of the aesthetic and efferent stances in response to literature. Subjects included 43 fourth graders, 47 sixth graders, and 40 eighth graders who were reading on-grade level or above. All subjects read the same three short stories, completed written free responses to each, and rated the stories. Responses were analyzed for reader stance, level of understanding reached, and the elements of the responses in terms of content categories. Two-way analysis of variances revealed significant main effects for stance and grade on the dependent variable, level of …

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The Proposal In An Engineering Context: A Field Study Of Document Development., Terry Martin Mcconathy Jan 1989

The Proposal In An Engineering Context: A Field Study Of Document Development., Terry Martin Mcconathy

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The specific goal of this field study was to develop an empirically-based description of engineering proposals as they are developed and used in their natural context; this goal was designed to provide a data base for further study addressing the general research interest of why the descriptions of proposals in technical writing textbooks vary so significantly from the types of proposals produced and used in an nonacacemic environment, specifically engineering. Using strategies borrowed and adapted from sociological and anthropological research methodologies, the study focused on collecting field-based data through interviews, field notes, questionnaires, and artifacts about the form, content, structure, …

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To Be West Indian: Autobiography And West Indian Literature., Margaret Kent Bass Jan 1989

To Be West Indian: Autobiography And West Indian Literature., Margaret Kent Bass

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although some critics claim that autobiography is not a West Indian literary mode, I maintain that autobiography, of a special West Indian variety, is necessarily present, for it provides a way of defining the self and bringing the parts of the self together into a unified and coherent whole. Autobiography is the genre that oppressed and colonized populations have traditionally used to write themselves into history and to proclaim their humanity to the world. The writing of autobiography is essential to the process of decolonization, for the colonized must define themselves and recreate themselves in their own images thereby resisting …

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Modernism's Illegitimate Progeny: Fictions Of Crime And The Experience Of Modernity., Jon Francis Thompson Jan 1989

Modernism's Illegitimate Progeny: Fictions Of Crime And The Experience Of Modernity., Jon Francis Thompson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation has two main concerns. The first is to see fictions of crime--a general term which I use to signify those genres concerned with crime, including detective fiction, spy thrillers, and crime fiction proper--as attempts to mediate and contain the anxieties brought about by the experience of modernity. Modernity is theorized as having three primary moments: the nineteenth, early twentieth-century experience of imperialism; the post World War I period, the high water mark of urban capitalism; and the post World War II period, which I theorize as postmodernism. I attempt to situate crime fiction within these social contexts, and …

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Phonological And Language Improvements In Preschool Children: A Comparison Of Phonological Process Targeting And Whole Language Training., Joann Monjure Jan 1989

Phonological And Language Improvements In Preschool Children: A Comparison Of Phonological Process Targeting And Whole Language Training., Joann Monjure

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study compared phonological and language changes that occurred in preschool phonologically-impaired children following treatment via a discrete phonological process targeting approach or a whole language approach. It was hypothesized that a treatment program utilizing a communication-based, whole language approach would result in improvements in various language domains (e.g., phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), while treatment targeting a specific aspect of language, that is, phonology, would result in improvements limited to that specific domain. Subjects were eight preschool children, 3-4 years of age, exhibiting multiple articulation errors, and randomly assigned to one of two intervention programs for a six-week …

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Gongora's "Soledades" As A Problem Of Language And Meaning In Seventeenth Century Spain., Ted Eustace Mcvay Jr Jan 1989

Gongora's "Soledades" As A Problem Of Language And Meaning In Seventeenth Century Spain., Ted Eustace Mcvay Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The exploration of the epistemological assumptions necessary for the interpretation of Luis de Gongora's "Soledades" is an area of critical attention that has gone virtually neglected since his 1927 "rehabilitation." This study offers an approach to understanding the long, difficult poem and the bitter critical reaction against it in the context of the seventeenth-century shift of predominant epistemologies discussed by Michel Foucault in The Order of Things. An approach that focuses on how the world is known is most appropriate to a study of the "Soledades" for several reasons, one being that those writers who attacked the poem did so …

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Re-Inventing The Public Sphere: Critical Theory, Social Responsibility, Schools, And The Press., John Pace Konopak Jan 1989

Re-Inventing The Public Sphere: Critical Theory, Social Responsibility, Schools, And The Press., John Pace Konopak

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examines the contemporary discourses of journalism and pedagogy from the standpoint of critical theory to assess the impact of technocratic rationality and instrumental logic on the practices of communication and education. It is premised on the observation that, spurred by the imperatives of trans-national capital accumulation, privatization inimical to democratic interests has begun to colonize public education. The study represents an effort to reactivate a concept and rhetoric of "social responsibility" that would animate a project of reclaiming cultural space to be occupied by a "public sphere," in a struggle analagous to that waged against feudalism and monarchical …

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A Catalyst For Change: The Libretti Of Jean -Philippe Rameau's 'Tragedies En Musique', (1733-1764)., Jonathan Philip Joseph Radvan Jan 1989

A Catalyst For Change: The Libretti Of Jean -Philippe Rameau's 'Tragedies En Musique', (1733-1764)., Jonathan Philip Joseph Radvan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Jean-Philippe Rameau was the most celebrated composer of opera and the foremost music theorist in eighteenth century France and great attention has justly been given to his musical and theoretical works, but there has been no corresponding study, such as this one, of the libretti of his operas, which depart from the precepts of neo-classical drama and reflect a new sentimental age. The librettists of the tragic operas of Rameau introduced many innovations to the tragic genre, hitherto forbidden by the rigid canons of neo-classicism. They were free to do so because opera was a relatively new genre which could …

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Lsu General Catalog 1988-1989, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1988

Lsu General Catalog 1988-1989, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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"The Trouble I'Ve Seen": Visions And Revisions Of Bondage, Flight, And Freedom In Black American Autobiography., David Lewis Dudley Jan 1988

"The Trouble I'Ve Seen": Visions And Revisions Of Bondage, Flight, And Freedom In Black American Autobiography., David Lewis Dudley

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation, an historical overview of black American autobiography from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, examines a recurring pattern and two related themes in the genre. Ever since the escaped slave narratives established bondage, flight, and freedom as the three-part pattern of their organization, black autobiographers have employed these same elements to tell their life stories. The creation of the free "I" is the pervasive theme of black American autobiography, freedom being won and the autobiographical self established through a symbolic struggle against and victory over a powerful father figure. This figure may be the paternalistic white culture in which …

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Self-Referential Play Gone Wild: A Case For The "Roman Bourgeois" As Metafiction., Dianne Paula Guenin-Lelle Jan 1988

Self-Referential Play Gone Wild: A Case For The "Roman Bourgeois" As Metafiction., Dianne Paula Guenin-Lelle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Roman bourgeois is a text which has resisted traditional modes of criticism, and thus it has confounded critics who simply did not know what to make of this hybrid work. It has been generally considered to be a novel which lacks coherence and literary merit, and spells the end of the cycle of seventeenth-century comic novels. This study proposes that the Roman bourgeois be considered as a metafictional text, where textual "anomalies" could be considered as "positive" attributes since they draw attention to the fictional framework and the fiction-making process of the novel. The novel operates according to the …

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The Effects Of Linguistic And Non-Linguistic Context On The Deictic Interpretation Of Noun Phrases., Daniel George Foster Jan 1988

The Effects Of Linguistic And Non-Linguistic Context On The Deictic Interpretation Of Noun Phrases., Daniel George Foster

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Definite noun phrases (NP's), proper names, and third person pronouns are not consistently interpreted deictically. Furthermore, these three types and first and second person pronouns, or potentially deictic NP's, whether deictic or not, may be interpreted as pertaining to the universe of discourse that each text creates, the situation of writing in which the text is created, or the attitudes of the writer towards the referent of a particular NP. Universe of discourse NP's include generic and descriptive NP's and those deictic in the most basic sense (i.e. those that point within the spatio-temporal field of the world external to …

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The Relevance Of Visual Models In Linguistic Theory And Discourse Analysis., Alan Dee Manning Jan 1988

The Relevance Of Visual Models In Linguistic Theory And Discourse Analysis., Alan Dee Manning

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Five articles explain distinct types of linguistic phenomena with visual perception analogies. Together they give indications of similar cognitive systems underlying language and vision. First, relative numbers of languages with different basic-sentence orders for Subject, Verb, and Object fall in a hierarchy: #SOV $>$ #SVO $>$ #VSO $>$ #VOS $>$ #OVS $>$ #OSV. If syntactic interpretation parallels figure/ground interpretation and semantic form parallels enclosed visual forms then that hierarchy falls out more elegantly than in generative or functionalist explanations. Second, semantic interpretation of English syntactic form (subject NP-tense Aux-predicate VP), is modeled with the Penrose …

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The Murder Of The Father: Readings In Sade, Balzac And Proust., Douglas Brian Saylor Jan 1988

The Murder Of The Father: Readings In Sade, Balzac And Proust., Douglas Brian Saylor

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The "sadomasochistic homotext" is a text in which sadomasochism, homosexuality, the place of the father, and the perversion of language intersect. In the sadomasochistic homotext, a rebellious group seeks to usurp the authority of the father, through the perversion of language. Perversion, however, is constituted in language, and etymologies reveals that terms for homosexuality were created in the late Middle Ages and mid-nineteenth centuries. Medieval thought links homosexuality with heresy; the nineteenth century labels it "illness.". Plato's Aristophanes states that original humans were cut in half, and each half seeks the other. This division caused a disruption of language as …

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Cerebral Dominance, Language, And Emotion: A Divided Visual Field Study Of Lateral Asymmetries In The Processing Of Verbal Stimuli., Margaret Helene Launius Jan 1988

Cerebral Dominance, Language, And Emotion: A Divided Visual Field Study Of Lateral Asymmetries In The Processing Of Verbal Stimuli., Margaret Helene Launius

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Thirty male and thirty female undergraduate students participated in a divided visual field study designed to examine the effects of emotional content on cerebral lateral asymmetries in the processing of verbal stimuli. The study utilized a randomized block design with a three-factor factorial arrangement of treatments. Each of the three within-subjects factors has two levels, resulting in a Task (lexical, affect-salient) x Word Type (happy, sad) x Visual Field (left, right) design. A bilateral presentation/manual response paradigm was utilized. In the lexical task, emotional words were paired with nonsense words and subjects were asked to respond to the "real English …

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Semantic Encoding In Alzheimer's Disease And Multi-Infarct Dementia., Bryan Alan Bernard Jan 1988

Semantic Encoding In Alzheimer's Disease And Multi-Infarct Dementia., Bryan Alan Bernard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Episodic and semantic memory tasks were administered to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID). The MID group had multi-focal lesions predominantly in the subcortical regions. Episodic memory is recall of events in a particular temporal-spatial context, whereas semantic memory is "knowledge" memory regarding words and their associations. The AD and MID groups were comparable in terms of level of dementia. A control group of healthy elderly subjects was comparable to the dementia groups in regard to age and years of education. The experimental measure of semantic encoding involved presentation of six 14-word lists composed of …

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Constancy Of (Acoustic) Relative Timing Measures In The Fluent Utterances Of Stutterers And Nonstutterers., Phoebe Cooper Weaver Jan 1988

Constancy Of (Acoustic) Relative Timing Measures In The Fluent Utterances Of Stutterers And Nonstutterers., Phoebe Cooper Weaver

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Stuttering and nonstuttering children's articulatory timing abilities as measured by duration differences were compared as rate, stress and phonetic complexity were varied and both internal and external timing sources were used. Use of external timing sources resulted in within normal limit performance by the stutterers as compared to their nonstuttering peers. Significant average intrasubject variability occurred on phonetic complexity tasks involving a variable linguistic sentence and its reiterative counterpart and on a syllable expansion through clustering task. Use of internal timing sources resulted in within normal limit performance by the stutterers on both rate tasks but on only one of …

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"Can You Tell Me Who My People Are?" Ethnic Identity Among The Hispanic-Indian People Of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Mary B. Van Rheenen Aug 1987

"Can You Tell Me Who My People Are?" Ethnic Identity Among The Hispanic-Indian People Of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Mary B. Van Rheenen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This thesis explores the puzzle of ethnic identity for the Hispanic-Indian people of Sabine Parish. Because their unique history precludes the clear-cut ethnic identification available to immigrant American groups, the community shares the awkward social position of both the remnant Native American groups and mixed-blood communities collectively known as American Isolates. The issue of group identity for members of the Zwolle-Ebarb community has been further confounded by the internal and external stigmas attached to aspects of the group's origins as well as the negative image associated with the group's home territory. After the people have been identified historically and genealogically, …

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