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Can Corpus Linguistics Help Make Originalism Scientific, Lawrence Solan

Faculty Scholarship

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Late Ancient Knowing: Explorations In Intellectual History [Book Review] / Chin, Catherine M., And Moulie Vidas, Eds., Rodrigo De Galiza Barbosa

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

The Suffering Servant Of The Lord: A Prophecy Of Jesus Christ [Review] / Macleod, David J., Stephane Beaulieu

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Theology And The Mirror Of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account [Book Review] / Vanhoozer, Kevin J., And Daniel J. Treier, Elmer A. Guzman

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Principals' Beliefs And Attitudes About Social And Emotional Learning: A Grounded Theory Study, Kimberly Y. Jones

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Principals are the gatekeepers of their school environment. Therefore, their beliefs and attitudes about social and emotional learning (SEL) will influence their staff, students and parents. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore school principals’ beliefs and attitudes about SEL. Researchers have focused on SEL’s success as it relates to academic achievement, but little is known about the adults’ roles in effective SEL integration. Findings from this study may inform how administrators (e.g., school system superintendents) structure training for principals to acquire skills in influencing and integrating programs into the overall school climate. The findings may also …

An Arab American Boy Fights For His Voice: Finding Identity Within Literature, Xiaodi Zhou

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

The literacy experiences of Arab American youths are often overlooked in the US, and this paper examines the reading responses of one Arab 5 th grader as he struggles for agency in a classroom of majority culture fellow students. This study follows the book talk of a class dealing with a text about immigration. Though he often struggles to contribute his perspective, as an actual immigrant himself, he is sometimes ignored and frustrated. This paper looks at this issue through Fairclough (2001) and van Dijk’s (1985, 2001) critical discourse lens, examining the intersectionality of racial, gender, and power issues in …

Truth And Legitimacy (In Courts), Kenneth S. Klein

Faculty Scholarship

This Article draws upon empirical and theoretical scholarship from philosophy, economics, social science, psychology, political science, ethics, and jurisprudence, in addition to more traditional legal sources such as Supreme Court decisions, to develop an articulation of the meaning, role, and importance of truth in courts. It is frequently articulated that trials are a search for truth. But as insiders to the judicial system know, if this is so then it is a meaning of truth that differs what truth means in any other context. And exposing this definitional dissonance in turn exposes that the legitimacy of the courts rests on …

Power Dynamics In Conversation: The Role Of Gender, Caitlyn Grubb

Honors Papers

Previous studies have found that men exhibit more “dominance behaviors” (talking longer, interrupting more often) in conversation (Mast, 2002). Much of this work, however, has been conducted with conversation partners who are unfamiliar to each other. Our goal was to test whether the same pattern would emerge in conversations between friends. One possibility is that males are more dominant in conversation in general – both when talking to friends and strangers. A second possibility is that males are only more dominant in conversation when talking with strangers, which is what we predicted. Support for the second possibility would suggest that …

To Come Alive In Our Experience: The Sounds Of Listening In Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton

Honors Papers

My research explores the reflective qualities of nature that can lead to different ways of being in and of the world. In The Singing Wilderness, Sigurd Olson details his experiences in the Quetico-Superior region, an international wilderness of lakes and forests on the border of Canada and Minnesota that is replete with spaces for reflection. Olson encourages his readers to listen to the sounds, songs, and silences of the wilderness. I address his creation of a literary terrain he made accessible to his readers by acting as a guide to the imaginative wilderness with a literary canoe and paddle.

Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense, Peter Baumann

Philosophy Faculty Works

This book develops and defends a version of epistemic contextualism, that is, of the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form “S knows that p” can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book is about arguments for contextualism and develops a particular version of it. The first chapter deals with the argument from cases and ordinary usage. More weight, however, is put on more “theoretical” arguments: arguments from reliability (Chapter 2) and from luck (Chapter 3). The second part of the book discusses problems contextualism faces and …

The Question Of Truth In Literature: Die Poetische Auffassung Der Welt, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

This chapter starts with the question of truth in literature, noting that this question has several interrelated senses: can literature present (significant) truths at all?; what does its presentation of truths (if it exists) have to do with its manner of presentation (with literary language)?; and is the presentation of truth a central aim of literary art? The chapter surveys a variety of neo-Fregean (Lamarque and Olsen, Walton) views that reject the very possibility of literary truth as well as a variety of anti-Fregean views (Goodman, Heidegger) that endorse it. But those endorsements often do not say enough about literary …

Fiduciary-Isms: A Study Of Academic Influence On The Expansion Of The Law, Daniel B. Yeager

Faculty Scholarship

Fiduciary law aspires to nullify power imbalances by obligating strong parties to give themselves over to servient parties. For example, due to profound imbalances of legal know-how, lawyers must as fiduciaries pursue their clients’ interests, not their own, lest clients get lost in the competitive shuffle. As a peculiar hybrid of status and contract relations, politics and law, compassion and capitalism, fiduciary law is very much in vogue in academic circles. As vogue as it is, there remains room for my “Fiduciary-isms...”, a meditation on the expansion of fiduciary law from its origins in the law of trusts through partnerships, …

The Frequency Of The Twelve Verb Tenses In Academic Papers Written By Native Speakers, Uthman Alzuhairy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Because of the significant and sensitive role of verb tenses in learning English, the current study examined the occurrence of the twelve verb tenses that native writers (NWs) utilized in their selected academic papers at the college level. In doing so, the study created a baseline of relative frequency of verb tense usage that may benefit further studies, especially those connected with the teaching grammar to English learners. The main linguistic items targeted for tabulation in this study were the 12 verb tenses, modals, perfect modals, and imperatives. These items were elicited from an original corpus of 31 research papers …

The Relationship Between Marketing Ethics And Corporate Social Responsibility: Serving Stakeholders And The Common Good, Gene R. Laczniak, Patrick E. Murphy

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

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Factors Graduate Students Of Color Find Supportive And Challenging And The Coping Strategies They Utilize, Crystal Nicole Gayle

Open Access Master's Theses

The purpose of the present study was to examine the experiences of students of color as they obtain advanced degrees in psychology. The study focuses on what students of color find supportive and unsupportive as they pursue their doctoral degrees. Twelve graduate students of color participated in the study. Qualitative methods were utilized and data obtained through semi-structured interviews were analyzed using both manifest and latent content analysis. During the interviews, the students shared the types of supports that helped facilitate their success in graduate school, the challenges and unpleasant experiences they experienced during graduate school, the types of strategies …

The Ethnic Identity And Redefinition Of The Galatians In The Hellenistic World, Qizhen Xie

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Hispanic Health In The Usa: A Scoping Review Of The Literature, Hector Eduardo Velasco-Mondragon, Angela Jimenez, Anna G. Palladino-Davis, Dawn Davis, Jose A. Escamilla-Cejudo

Faculty Publications & Research of the TUC College of Osteopathic Medicine

Hispanics are the largest minority group in the USA. They contribute to the economy, cultural diversity, and health of the nation. Assessing their health status and health needs is key to inform health policy formulation and program implementation. To this end, we conducted a scoping review of the literature and national statistics on Hispanic health in the USA using a modified social-ecological framework that includes social determinants of health, health disparities, risk factors, and health services, as they shape the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. These social, environmental, and biological forces have modified the epidemiologic profile of Hispanics in …

2016-2017 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

No More Mr. Nice Angel, Scott Culpepper

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Angels have occupied a prominent role in world religions and Western culture for centuries. The existence of multiple supernatural beings with varying degrees of hierarchical standing was a given for the polytheistic cultures that represented the majority of religious expressions in the ancient world. The inclusion of these supernatural beings in the three great monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was significant because these faiths sought in every way to emphasize the supremacy of the one God in contrast to the crowded spiritual field of polytheistic faiths. Angels could be problematic because they potentially provided a host of supernatural …

Gateway To The Syriac Saints: A Database Project, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This article describes The Gateway to the Syriac Saints, a database project developed by the Syriac Reference Portal (www.syriaca.org). It is a research tool for the study of Syriac saints and hagiographic texts. The Gateway to the Syriac Saints is a two-volume database: 1) Qadishe and 2) Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica (BHSE).

Hagiography, the lives of the saints, is a multiform genre. It contains elements of myth, history, biblical exegesis, romance, and theology. The production of saints’ lives blossomed in late antiquity alongside the growth of the cult of the saints. Scholars have attended to hagiographic traditions in …

In Search Of "Real" Migrants: The Effects Of County Level Factors On Enrollment In The Migrant Education Program In Kentucky, Thomas Hatton

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Migrant laborers and their families have historically faced, and continue to face, major barriers in their education. The migrant population is, according to Dr. Michael Romanowski, “the most undereducated major subgroup in the United States” (Romanowski, 2003). The lack of educational attainment among migrant families can be attributed to numerous factors: above all, the disruptive migratory lifestyle of seasonal agricultural workers (Rosenthal & Banz-Spall, 2003), but also to socioeconomic burdens, mental and physical health issues, and more recently, linguistic and cultural barriers.

The Migrant Education Program is a supplemental federal program that was created under Title 1 Part C of …

No Hablamos Habeas: How Incarcerated Immigrant Inmates Struggle With Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel Language Access Claims, Maria Pabon Lopez, Jessica Salafia

Santa Clara Law Review

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Authenticity, Accompaniment And Trust: Graces For A Discerning Church In An Age Of Secularity, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Owning Red: A Theory Of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation, Angela R. Riley, Kristen A. Carpenter

Publications

In a number of recent controversies, from sports teams’ use of Indian mascots to the federal government’s desecration of sacred sites, American Indians have lodged charges of “cultural appropriation” or the unauthorized use by members of one group of the cultural expressions and resources of another. While these and other incidents make contemporary headlines, American Indians often experience these claims within a historical and continuing experience of dispossession. For hundreds of years, the U.S. legal system has sanctioned the taking and destruction of Indian lands, artifacts, bodies, religions, identities, and beliefs, all toward the project of conquest and colonization. Indian …

The Effect Of Explicit Written Corrective Feedback On Implicit And Explicit Knowledge / Mitra Samiei Sarkhanlou, Sarkhanlou Mitra Samiei

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study was three-fold: 1) to examine the general efficacy of different types of WCF on the errors of the target structure (past simple tense) in the short and long term, 2) to compare the possible difference in the effect that different degrees of explicitness of WCF might have on improving the target structure in the short and long term, and 3) to investigate the effect of the different degrees of explicitness of WCF on explicit and implicit knowledge of the past simple tense in the short and long term. One hundred and five EFL Iranian learners …

Relevance Detection And Summarizing Strategies Identification Algorithm Using Linguistic Measures / Seyed Asadollah Abdiesfandani, Abdiesfandani Seyed Asadollah

Student Works (2010-2019)

Summarization is a process to select important information from a source text. Summarizing strategies are the core of the cognitive processes involved in the summarization activity. Summarizing strategies include a set of conscious tasks that are used to determine important information and extract the main idea of a source text. In this research project, we conducted a study on students’ summaries. The findings of the study show that, there is a strong relationship between the summary writing proficiency of students and the summarizing strategies that they used. We then develop a new algorithm to address the summarizing strategies identification problem. …

Morphosemantic And Syntactic Analysis Of Verbs In Sindhi / Zahid Ali, Ali Zahid

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study focuses on Sindhi Verbs in terms of morphosemantic and syntactic properties, Argument Structure, theta roles, thematic relations and the most prominent theta roles used in Sindhi. The morphosemantic properties relate to the study of morphology (morphemes) in relation to semantics (meaning). The morphosyntactic properties refer to the study of morphology and morphemes in relation to syntax. The objectives of the study are to analyse the morphosemantic and syntactic features of Sindhi verbs, to establish the Argument Structure of Sindhi verbs along with analysis of Theta-roles (θ-roles), and to investigate the prominent theta roles in Sindhi. The study applies …

Refusal Strategies In English By Malaysian Indian Undergraduates / Jessica Raman Raman, Raman Jessica Raman

Student Works (2010-2019)

Refusal is a face threatening act because it contradicts with the expectations of the speaker and therefore, is not a preferred speech act. However, the speech act of refusal cannot be avoided as it is a part of our daily communication. Therefore, this study was carried out to find out how Indian undergraduates, one of the majority races in Malaysia, handle refusal. The present study investigates the strategies used by Malaysian Indian undergraduates to make refusals in English as well as the influences of power on the choice of refusal strategies made by them in an academic context. These objectives …

Terminologi Ekonomi Bahasa Arab Dalam Majalah Aswaq / Nur Hakimah Md Sallehuddin, Md Sallehuddin Nur Hakimah

Student Works (2010-2019)

Bahasa dan pengguna bahasa adalah dua elemen penting dalam berkomunikasi. Penggunaan laras bahasa atau istilah yang sesuai mengikut konteks membuktikan kebolehan seseorang untuk berbahasa. Masalah penerimaan maklumat yang tidak tepat akan menjejaskan aktiviti komunikasi untuk berjalan dengan lancar. Kajian laras bahasa merupakan salah satu kajian yang mengkaji bahasa dan pengunaanya serta pengguna bahasa. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti laras dan kekerapan penggunaan laras ekonomi yang digunakan. Di samping menganalisis makna leksikologi serta menganalisis pembentukan istilah dalam majalah Aswaq bahasa Arab. Teori analisis linguistik Leech dan Short (1981) digunakan sebagai dasar teori dalam kajian dengan menganalisis aspek leksikal dan …

The Translation Of Relative Clauses From Arabic To English And Vice Versa / Shehda R.S. Abuisaac, R.S. Abuisaac Shehda

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which students at the English department of Al-Aqsa University in Palestine translate relative clauses from Arabic to English and vice versa. The study aims to investigate which Vinay and Darbelnet’s (1995)translation proceduresare used in translating relative clauses from Arabic to English and vice versa. The study also investigates whether students’ translation is geared towards Nida’s (1969) formal or dynamicequivalence when translating relative clauses from Arabic to English and vice versa. Furthermore, the study examinesthe extent to which the students’ translation achieves effectiveness in conveying the meaning in the source …