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Complete Volume (38) Nov 2015

Complete Volume (38)

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 38) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.

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The Semiotics Of Teaching With Reality Tv: A Theory-Based Approach To Teaching And Modeling Communication Theory, Rita L. Rahoi-Gilchrest Nov 2015

The Semiotics Of Teaching With Reality Tv: A Theory-Based Approach To Teaching And Modeling Communication Theory, Rita L. Rahoi-Gilchrest

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

This article begins by establishing a rationale for not only teaching with reality television in the communication classroom, but also taking a theory-based approach to doing so. A theoretical framework for the pedagogical use of reality TV—semiotic theory, based on the work of Peirce— is presented. The discussion then moves to a specific outline of a sample classroom activity that demonstrates a semiotic approach, using the BRAVO TV website as a means of illustrating and teaching Cultural Studies Theory. The author concludes by qualifying the case for using reality TV as one—but not the only—means of teaching communication, and offers …

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Identifying Rhetorical Visions And Group Roles Through Role-Play, Brent Kice Nov 2015

Identifying Rhetorical Visions And Group Roles Through Role-Play, Brent Kice

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

This classroom activity allows students to experience small group communication components firsthand. Students will be divided into groups of five, with each member receiving a character background that the member will role-play. The character backgrounds are to be kept hidden from other members, and each member has an ulterior goal that the member will try to achieve, unbeknownst to the other members. The character backgrounds are designed to force conflict among the group members. At the conclusion of the activity, students will discuss how the different character roles affected the group, and what unifying message might have worked in uniting …

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Illustrating Tensions Using Stretchy String: Teaching Relational Dialectics In The Interpersonal Communication Class, Valerie Lynn Schrader, Azhanni Muhammad Nov 2015

Illustrating Tensions Using Stretchy String: Teaching Relational Dialectics In The Interpersonal Communication Class, Valerie Lynn Schrader, Azhanni Muhammad

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

The objective of this activity is to increase students’ knowledge of Relational Dialectics by illustrating dialectic tensions in a tangible way. Relational Dialectics, which focuses on different dimensions in relationships, is an important concept for students to understand because it highlights the messiness of interpersonal relationships. This activity illustrates dialectical tensions through the use of colored stretchy craft string, providing students with a physical manifestation of an abstract concept.

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"A Land Of Make Believe That Don’T Believe In Me": Dissent By Incongruity In Green Day’S "Jesus Of Suburbia", Jansen B. Werner Nov 2015

"A Land Of Make Believe That Don’T Believe In Me": Dissent By Incongruity In Green Day’S "Jesus Of Suburbia", Jansen B. Werner

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Following the September 11 terrorist attacks there were increased demands in America for patriotism. This attitude of hyper-patriotism, in accordance with the Bush Administration’s appropriation of the American civil religion, precluded many discursive possibilities for dissent. Yet there were some who still utilized the available outlets of public discourse to dissent from Bush Administration policies. Green Day’s 2004 song, “Jesus of Suburbia,” is just such an exemplary dissent discourse. What follows is divided into four sections. First, I analyze the ideological circumstances which preceded the release of “Jesus of Suburbia.” Second, I reflect on the respective conceptual insights of Ivie’s …

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Collaborative Theatre/Creative Process, Jimmy Bickerstaff Nov 2015

Collaborative Theatre/Creative Process, Jimmy Bickerstaff

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Theatre production is a collaborative creative activity. Recent theory and research into group creativity recognizes the relationships between individuals, groups, and the contexts in which creativity emerges. It also suggests that between the interactive creative processes of the collaborators and their work, the work itself becomes a kind of creative entity. In this essay, I explain how all creativity is now seen as collaboration, outline this process, and illustrate the differences between seeing theatre as an aggregate, collective activity and the more integrated view, in which the process is synergistically collaborative. An understanding of the cognitive and behavioral processes of …

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Connecting To Students: Self-Disclosure As A Motivational Tool For Collegiate Forensic Coaches, Ben Walker Nov 2015

Connecting To Students: Self-Disclosure As A Motivational Tool For Collegiate Forensic Coaches, Ben Walker

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Forensic coaches spend a large amount of time with their students and often struggle to find effective methods of motivation; however, studies have shown that teachers (Christophel, 1990) and athletic coaches (Turman, 2008) can use immediacy as a way to increase student/competitor motivation. This paper examines how forensic coaches can use a specific interpersonal tactic (self-disclosure) to potentially increase student motivation. The review of literature covers self-disclosure and the link between immediacy and motivation in both educational and competitive settings; next, Petronio’s Communication Privacy Management theory is contextualized with forensic coaches; finally, suggestions are offered to forensic coaches who wish …

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The 'Ex' Factor… Will They Be Friends? A Qualitative Analysis Of Post-Dissolution Communication Among Former Premarital Cohabitating Couples, Brittany Bunkers Nov 2015

The 'Ex' Factor… Will They Be Friends? A Qualitative Analysis Of Post-Dissolution Communication Among Former Premarital Cohabitating Couples, Brittany Bunkers

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

This study explores the nature of the communication between former premarital cohabitating couples. Eight research participants (n=8) were interviewed to explore how and why they do or do not continue to communicate with their former partner since the relational termination. Four categories emerged from the qualitative analysis. First, couples “slid” into cohabitation for convenience-based purposes rather than deliberately decided. Second, they experienced a breakdown in or lack of communication before and/or during the disengagement. Third, the relational termination was a gradual process, and forth, the participants offered reasons for why they do or do not remain in communication with their …

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Front Matter Nov 2015

Front Matter

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Front matter and table of contents for Volume 38 of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.

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Apparent Negative Clumped Isotope Signatures, Thomas Röckmann Nov 2015

Apparent Negative Clumped Isotope Signatures, Thomas Röckmann

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

No abstract provided.

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Clumping Modern Speleothems - Correcting For Variations Seen In Calcite Δ47 Precipitated Under Known Conditions, Sevag Mehterian Nov 2015

Clumping Modern Speleothems - Correcting For Variations Seen In Calcite Δ47 Precipitated Under Known Conditions, Sevag Mehterian

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

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Sulfate Reduction And Diagenesis – Possible Disequilibrium In Clumped Isotopes Of Dolomitized Tertiary Sediments, Sean Murray Nov 2015

Sulfate Reduction And Diagenesis – Possible Disequilibrium In Clumped Isotopes Of Dolomitized Tertiary Sediments, Sean Murray

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

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Biological Signals In Clumped Isotopes Of Brachiopod Shells, John Macdonald Nov 2015

Biological Signals In Clumped Isotopes Of Brachiopod Shells, John Macdonald

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

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Effects Of Water On Carbonate Clumped Isotope Bond Reordering Kinetics, Dana C. Brenner Nov 2015

Effects Of Water On Carbonate Clumped Isotope Bond Reordering Kinetics, Dana C. Brenner

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

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Kinetics Of Aragonite Clumped Isotope Reordering, Alison Piasecki, Sang Chen, John Eiler Nov 2015

Kinetics Of Aragonite Clumped Isotope Reordering, Alison Piasecki, Sang Chen, John Eiler

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

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A Numerical Framework For Interpreting Clumped Isotope ‘Vital Effects’ In Scleractinian Coral Skeletons, Weifu Guo, Peter T. Spooner, Laura F. Robinson Nov 2015

A Numerical Framework For Interpreting Clumped Isotope ‘Vital Effects’ In Scleractinian Coral Skeletons, Weifu Guo, Peter T. Spooner, Laura F. Robinson

International Clumped Isotope Workshop

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Monsoon Rainfall Manipulation Experiment (Mrme) Meteorology Data From A Chihuahuan Desert Grassland At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (2010 - Present), Scott Collins Nov 2015

Monsoon Rainfall Manipulation Experiment (Mrme) Meteorology Data From A Chihuahuan Desert Grassland At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (2010 - Present), Scott Collins

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

The Monsoon Rainfall Manipulation Experiment (MRME) is to understand changes in ecosystem structure and function of a semiarid grassland caused by increased precipitation variability, which alters the pulses of soil moisture that drive primary productivity, community composition, and ecosystem functioning. The overarching hypothesis being tested is that changes in event size and variability will alter grassland productivity, ecosystem processes, and plant community dynamics. In particular, we predict that many small events will increase soil CO2 effluxes by stimulating microbial processes but not plant growth, whereas a small number of large events will increase aboveground NPP and soil respiration by providing …

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Solutions For Problematic Cello Passages In Selected Chamber Music, Chia-Li Yu Nov 2015

Solutions For Problematic Cello Passages In Selected Chamber Music, Chia-Li Yu

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this essay is to provide detailed performance solutions for cello in the standard chamber works. The collection of works has been compiled from the career repertoire of Professor Ross Harbaugh, a renowned and accomplished soloist, instructor and founding member of the New World String Quartet and Bergonzi String Quartet. Excerpts of chamber works were chosen based on their technical or musical challenges. Annotations and suggestions of bowings and fingerings are based on Professor Ross Harbaugh’s performance notations. A brief historical description of each piece is provided. This paragraph can be used for program notes by the reader. …

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Functional Characterization Of Altered Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms In Autism Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Brooke Alisen Derosa Nov 2015

Functional Characterization Of Altered Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms In Autism Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Brooke Alisen Derosa

Open Access Dissertations

To date, numerous candidate genes have been associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with many of these genes known to have important roles in synaptic function and the development of neural circuits. This suggests that certain neurobiological processes could be commonly altered in ASD. Therefore, although there is a great deal of clinical and genetic heterogeneity in ASDs, there may be convergent deficits in key molecular mechanisms which underlie the disease. Although this is encouraging, a lack of appropriate human-based models of complex neurodevelopmental disorders has greatly hindered investigations of convergent neurobiology in ASD. Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) …

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The Logical Progress Of German Idealist Aesthetics: With A Discussion On The Aesthetic Historical Significance Of Schiller's On Beauty, Wei Li Nov 2015

The Logical Progress Of German Idealist Aesthetics: With A Discussion On The Aesthetic Historical Significance Of Schiller's On Beauty, Wei Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The trajectory of German Idealist aesthetics form Kant to Hegel revolves around the developmental process from philosophical analysis of psycho-aesthetic structure to dialectic examination of aesthetic object down to critical aesthetics and philosophy of art, with a knowledge background of modern European intellectual climate or the pursuit of determinacy. Schiller's On Beauty (Kallias, 1793), by exhausting the research methods of beauty, constituted an intermediary link in the advancement in German Idealist aesthetics and established its inerasable significance in the history of aesthetics.

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The Politics Of Technology: Reflections On Overseas Modern Chinese Visual Cultural Studies, Xiayun Yu Nov 2015

The Politics Of Technology: Reflections On Overseas Modern Chinese Visual Cultural Studies, Xiayun Yu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The dialectical relationship between words and images is an important issue of modern Chinese literary studies. Although the interpretations from the overseas, especially Rey Chow's "technologized visuality," highlight the key position of visuality in the making process of modern Chinese literature, they exaggerate the opposition between words and images, and this exaggeration implies a colonial thinking of technology which sets the relationship between China and the Western as that between the primitive and the modern through its emphasis on Western-ownership of technology. Thus, technology becomes not only a state of matter but also a structure of ideology. If the emphasis …

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The Political Turn And Rational Return Of Critical Discourse In Its Localization In China, Wenfang Yao Nov 2015

The Political Turn And Rational Return Of Critical Discourse In Its Localization In China, Wenfang Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The term "critical discourse" was not indigenous in China, and Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei were believed to bring it as a Kantian concept into Chinese knowledge and discourse system. But Liang gradually strayed from the neutral and rational Kantian concept to relate it with negative political nuance. The denunciative negative nuance was increasingly reinforced in the years from the May 4th New Culture Movement to the 10-year Cultural Revolution. The 1980s saw the return of the implications of the term from the highly political to the rational and neutral, with significant flexibility and tolerance. This return helped to redress …

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The Qi-Liang Poets' Rediscovery And Imitation Of The Han Dynasty Music Bureau And Ancient Style Poetry, Yao Zhong Nov 2015

The Qi-Liang Poets' Rediscovery And Imitation Of The Han Dynasty Music Bureau And Ancient Style Poetry, Yao Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Qi-Liang Period was an important phase in the acceptance history of the Han Music Bureau Poetry and the ancient style poetry. The Qi-Liang poets rediscovered and imitated the Han poetry and through this they had developed a reflective relationship with the Han poetry in terms of technique, style and criticism. Their emphasis on the folk song tradition and on the Wu-dialect ballad (Wu Sheng Xi Qu) had not only highlighted the folk song features but also the lyric genre in the Music Bureau poetry, while their pursuit for lyricism, individualistic style and the expression of personal sentiments led to …

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The Structure Of Narrative Dynamics In Lyric Poetry: Exemplified With Classical Chinese Lyric Poems, Junqiang Tan Nov 2015

The Structure Of Narrative Dynamics In Lyric Poetry: Exemplified With Classical Chinese Lyric Poems, Junqiang Tan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As a product of author-reader communication, lyrical texts, like narrative texts, have internal narrative dynamics to push the narrative progression. The structure of the dynamics shows as the three relations of time, logic and space in the texts. These relations exist in the combination of events and development of plots in narrative texts, but in lyrical texts they show in different ways. The fusion of narrative dynamics and reader dynamics pushes the narrative progression and realizes the communications between the author and the reader. This paper takes classical Chinese lyrics as examples to illustrate the analysis.

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Narrative, Situation And Metaphor: How Plato's Republic'S Opening Paragraphs Are Written And Read, Linfang Zhu Nov 2015

Narrative, Situation And Metaphor: How Plato's Republic'S Opening Paragraphs Are Written And Read, Linfang Zhu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Plato's Republic is both a philosophical and a literary text. Plato had kept revising the opening of The Republic till the end of his life. The Republic has a structure of dual narrative, with the man called "I" also playing a double role in this book. The time, the place, the order of appearance and the unfolding of the events all correspond to the theme. The genre of dialogue and narrative saves this philosophical text from being trapped too deep into the metaphysical mire, but too many symbolic metaphors make the interpretation of the text an attempt to solve mysteries. …

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Notes On Text Theory, Youxiang Tu Nov 2015

Notes On Text Theory, Youxiang Tu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The conception of le texte scriptible (the writerly text) in Roland Barthes reveals the character of the text of undistinguished relation between subject and object. According to Barthes, "the text" is both an object and a subject, and if it is a pure object, it will be a work, while as a subject the text brings the author's role into play. The theoretical significance of the text is given not innate, and the pure plurality in Roland Barthes's theory does not refer to multiple meanings, because ambiguity can still lie in a unified structure, when pure plurality eliminates the centrality …

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On Beauty: Its Naming And Reference, Hongxiang Li Nov 2015

On Beauty: Its Naming And Reference, Hongxiang Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

What is beauty? This is the first and an everlasting question in aesthetics. However, there is no clear definition about beauty so far in aesthetic history because of the confusion of name and reference. Beauty is often interpreted as the beautiful thing or the beautiful attribution of thing. This paper aims to delineate the problematic of the naming and reference of beauty by putting the problem back to the context of Plato's time and tracing the process of the formation of this philosophic concept. The paper falls into three sections, which first problematizes the naming of beauty and the reasons …

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On Liu Shipei's "On The Difference Of The Southern And The Northern China's Literature", Jian Wu Nov 2015

On Liu Shipei's "On The Difference Of The Southern And The Northern China's Literature", Jian Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Traditional distinction between the Southern and the Northern China's literature were made on historical specificities, while Liu Shipei in his pioneer essay in modern literary criticism "On the Difference between the Southern and the Northern China's Literature" took a theoretical perspective that viewed the distinction as an ahistorical literary framework a priori. Liu's argument may be read as a point for a paradigmatic breakup, but Liu did not push forward his idea in his practice. Instead, he attached more weight to the essence (zhi) over the literary (wen) in this traditional pair of concepts, and his contribution in the history …

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Redefining Art, Anying Chen Nov 2015

Redefining Art, Anying Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper tries to present a new definition of art on the basis of contemporary Western philosophy of art. William E. Kennick's and Arthur Danto's definitions are sophisticatedly open, but they fail to take into account of the dimension of value in art. This paper proposes that art is both a production and a culture, which means that art is the production of cultural value through artisanship. The definition of art in the classical aesthetics has defined art as craftsmanship plus aesthetic value and defines artworks as the product with aesthetic value, while this paper defines art as craftsmanship plus …

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Style-Breaking In Song-Dynasty Ci-Poetry And Its Acceptance In The Context Of "Flexible Method", Xiaoli Wang Nov 2015

Style-Breaking In Song-Dynasty Ci-Poetry And Its Acceptance In The Context Of "Flexible Method", Xiaoli Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The idea of "flexible method" in composting ci-poetry in the Song Dynasty has two essential elements of "rule" and "change," and this idea embodies the pursuit of literary innovation in the Song Dynasties. It is an important part of the poetic theory and has profound influence on the literary evolution in the Song Dynasties. The style-breaking methods such as "composing ci-poems like regulated poems" and "composing ci-poems like prose" were in effect the proliferation of the idea of "flexible method" in the field of ci-poetics. There has been much elucidation in the Song and Yuan commentaries on ci-poetry that echoes …

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