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Transitivity System And A Translation Of Lexical Metaphors : The Case Of The Emirates Airline Website, Pasakara Chueasuai Jan 2022

Transitivity System And A Translation Of Lexical Metaphors : The Case Of The Emirates Airline Website, Pasakara Chueasuai

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Lexical metaphors colourise literary as well as non-literary texts. In the case of a website, it can make the text more appealing and consequently improve the sales of a company. In the highly competitive airline industry, an impressive webpage plays a significant role, especially in online reservation and purchase. This article examines the lexical metaphors used in the English and Thai websites of the Emirates Airline, adopting Transitivity of the Systemic Functional Linguistics by Eggins (2004) as the analytical framework. It also explores how the translated lexical metaphors are similar to and/or different from the original version. The study finds …


Affective And Cognitive Processes In Cancer Narratives, Monica Kah-Pei Liaw, Su-Hie Ting, Kee-Man Chuah, Collin Jerome Jan 2022

Affective And Cognitive Processes In Cancer Narratives, Monica Kah-Pei Liaw, Su-Hie Ting, Kee-Man Chuah, Collin Jerome

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Research on cancer narratives has not contextualised emotional and cognitive processes in stages of coping. The study examined linguistic indicators of affective and cognitive processes in narratives of 31 Malaysian cancer survivors. The analysis of the 58,787-word transcript using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (liwc) software revealed that coping with cancer is a case of mind over emotions, with 12.52% of words related to cognitive processes and 4.17% to affective processes. Frequently used words linked to cognitive processes indicated the cancer survivors’ rationalisations of their denial of the diagnosis and explanations of treatment. Frequently used positive affective words reflect their …


Auto-Part Terms In Thai : A Cognitive Semantic Analysis, Unchalee Singnoi Wongwattana Jan 2022

Auto-Part Terms In Thai : A Cognitive Semantic Analysis, Unchalee Singnoi Wongwattana

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article presents an investigation of Thai auto-part terms in Cognitive Semantics. With at least 1,000 auto-part terms in our data analysis, we argue that the conceptual naming strategy is linguistically effective in understanding auto parts in the Thai culture. Metaphorically, the resemblance operation enhances the degree of lexical richness by enabling the auto-part conceptualization with four source domains: surrounding object, animal, human, and plant. Metonymically, source domains such as shape, function, part, material, position, involved organ, motion, sound and space function in the source-in-target operation, and the category machine/ device appears as a source domain in the target-in-source operation. …


A Criticism Of Retributivism: Identifying The Unavoidable And Undesirable Consequences Of Accepting Of Not Accepting “Ought Implies Can”, Samantha Bloomfield Jan 2022

A Criticism Of Retributivism: Identifying The Unavoidable And Undesirable Consequences Of Accepting Of Not Accepting “Ought Implies Can”, Samantha Bloomfield

Scripps Senior Theses

Retributivism makes two claims: the guilty deserve to be punished in proportion to their culpability, and the innocent deserve not to be punished. Through a discussion of our ineliminable susceptibility to luck, our inability to avoid epistemic fallibility, and the implications of either accepting or not accepting Ought Implies Can, I aim to identify retributivism as an inept moral theory.


Self-Distancing As A Persuasive Amplifier For Increasing Help-Seeking Among People With Depression, Sara M. Hollar Jan 2022

Self-Distancing As A Persuasive Amplifier For Increasing Help-Seeking Among People With Depression, Sara M. Hollar

CGU Theses & Dissertations

People with high levels of depressive symptomatology report less favorable attitudes toward help-seeking and reduced help-seeking intentions than people with lower levels of depressive symptomatology. While some attempts to persuade people with depression to seek help have been successful, others have failed. Preliminary research using both perspective-taking and mental time-travel self-distancing writing tasks have shown potential. However, a video that asked people to think, rather than write, about help-seeking from a distanced perspective failed to increase help-seeking outcomes. This dissertation tests a new approach where participants are prompted to take a self-distanced approach while watching existing help-seeking video messages. In …


Teacher Self-Efficacy And Mathematics Achievement Among Racial And Ethnic Minority Students: Evidence From The High School Longitudinal Study Of 2009, Eliud Partida Jan 2022

Teacher Self-Efficacy And Mathematics Achievement Among Racial And Ethnic Minority Students: Evidence From The High School Longitudinal Study Of 2009, Eliud Partida

CGU Theses & Dissertations

Current data suggests that for every 1000 U.S. high school students only about a dozen from Racial and Ethnic Minority (REM) groups will obtain a STEM degree and pursue a STEM occupation. These numbers underscore the wealth of untapped talent in our high schools and the pressing need to broaden participation among REM students in STEM. Yet, policies aimed at improving teacher quality as a vehicle for broadening participation of REM students in STEM use measures that at best, are only weakly associated with positive educational outcomes for REM students. This study contributes an ecological perspective and analysis to advance …


Cultivating Family Empowerment In Schools: The Experiences Of Marginalized Families In Special Education, Rachel-Marie F. Sinco Jan 2022

Cultivating Family Empowerment In Schools: The Experiences Of Marginalized Families In Special Education, Rachel-Marie F. Sinco

Honors Theses

The provision of special education services to special needs students is largely upheld by federal and state policies and regulations, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) which ensures that children with disabilities have the opportunity to access a free appropriate public education (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2004). However, marginalized families of low-income and linguistically diverse backgrounds continue to face barriers and challenges to effectively participate in their child’s education and secure the necessary and appropriate services for their child. Family Empowerment Centers on Disability (FECs) in California provide a policy solution to assist families navigate …


Is France Having A Populist Moment?, Emma Gilmore Jan 2022

Is France Having A Populist Moment?, Emma Gilmore

Honors Theses

The word populism is often thrown around in news media and academic scholarship, but there is a lack of understanding of what it actually means as a political theory. In France, the two presidential candidates that made it to the second round in 2017, Emmanuel Macron and Marine le Pen, were both called populist, despite having vastly different campaign strategies and messages. This study used a computer-based method to analyze Campaign books from 24 candidates beginning in 1981 that determined that Populist language is on the rise, but not as aggressively as news media suggests.


Whose Nation Is This? Conceptualizing Burmese National Identity Through Case Studies Of Inter-Ethnic Conflict, Jason Leong Jan 2022

Whose Nation Is This? Conceptualizing Burmese National Identity Through Case Studies Of Inter-Ethnic Conflict, Jason Leong

Honors Theses

The ongoing Rohingya Genocide is the most extreme expression of Burmese identity and has catapulted the nation of Myanmar onto the world stage. This thesis examines the development of a Burmese national identity during British colonial rule through the lens of inter-ethnic conflict between the Bamar ethnolinguistic majority and ethnic minorities living in colonial Myanmar. Through analyzing three different case studies, each representing a watershed expression of Burmese identity, this thesis illustrates how inter-ethnic conflict shaped what it means to be Burmese. Using archival material from the British Library such as political cartoons, government reports, and vernacular newspaper clippings, this …


The Bittersweet Tooth: Understanding French Identity Through The Colonial Empire, Commodity Fetishism, And Pâtisserie, Clarisse D. Allehaut Jan 2022

The Bittersweet Tooth: Understanding French Identity Through The Colonial Empire, Commodity Fetishism, And Pâtisserie, Clarisse D. Allehaut

Honors Theses

This thesis argues that patisserie and the French relationship with dessert are a part of national identity. The historical context of patisserie runs parallel to the growth and power of the French colonial empire. Patisserie feels removed from the empire, and yet the two show how gastronomy, luxury, and exploitative power in the form of empire are components of French history and identity. Marx’s theory on commodity fetishism serves as the backbone for this argument. This theoretical idea supposes that value is an objective concept and society attributes importance and perceived meaning. Patisserie exemplifies commodity fetishism as a good with …


Understanding The Role Of Race In American Medicine, Fariel C. A. Lamountain Jan 2022

Understanding The Role Of Race In American Medicine, Fariel C. A. Lamountain

Honors Theses

Long running inequity in health care and outcomes in the United States stem from failure to acknowledge the underlying role of the Transatlantic slave trade as it manifests in all facets of American society and commerce. This paper focuses specifically on the American medical system and its foundations to understand the precursors to generational trends in lack of access to healthcare and poor health for Black communities. This paper uses a three-pronged approach to understand the racist cycle of inequity, highlighting the history and origins of racism in American medicine, personal accounts and statistical evidence of inequity, and community and …


A Prosaic People? Literature, Propaganda, And National Identity In Second World War Britain, William L. Maines Jan 2022

A Prosaic People? Literature, Propaganda, And National Identity In Second World War Britain, William L. Maines

Honors Theses

During the early years of the Second World War, a typically unofficial and loose coalition of British newspapers, publishers, propagandists, and booksellers mobilized Britain’s imagined literary past and present as a part of the war effort. They defined the nation through its imagined literary proclivities— its penchant for literary production and consumption, and its “unique” attitude toward literary freedom— and in opposition to the literary tyranny of Nazi Germany. Marshaling the nation’s mythological literary heritage, they enlisted Shakespeare and Milton in the war effort, portraying them as temperate and civilian English heroes. While the rhetoric of “British bookishness” hardly went …


St. George’S Food Access Initiatives: Navigating Food Inequalities, Forging A Way To Food Choice Freedom, And Transgressing Culinary Borderlands In Lake County, Colorado, Mannon R. Frykholm Jan 2022

St. George’S Food Access Initiatives: Navigating Food Inequalities, Forging A Way To Food Choice Freedom, And Transgressing Culinary Borderlands In Lake County, Colorado, Mannon R. Frykholm

Honors Theses

As guided by ethnographic fieldwork and the interdisciplinary discipline of Global Studies, this thesis works to trace food access inequalities in Lake County, Colorado and how they are felt and confronted both at the individual and communal level. Amidst the failures of global food systems and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural communities, such as the field site of Lake County, Colorado, face additional challenges in accessing food that is culturally relevant, craved, and truly wanted. This thesis traces the dominant food inequalities in Lake County. In the face of these inequalities, I centralize the community food initiatives …


"She Had A Bok To Print, And It Was Her Own Case": Elizabeth Cellier's Malice Defeated As A Critical Contribution To 17th-Century Political Discourse And Postwar Pamphlet Culture, Serena Desai Jan 2022

"She Had A Bok To Print, And It Was Her Own Case": Elizabeth Cellier's Malice Defeated As A Critical Contribution To 17th-Century Political Discourse And Postwar Pamphlet Culture, Serena Desai

Honors Theses

Born in London, England during the 1640s-- the peak of the English Civil War-- Elizabeth Cellier was no stranger to political and religious conflict. Rumors flooded the seventeenth-century newsstands: not only was King Charles II a Catholic-apologist who favored the tiny "Jesuitical" faction over the Protestant majority, but he refused to allow Parliament to check his monarchical power. By 1680, the legislature was actively attempting to disrupt his line of succession by preventing the heir presumptive, the Duke of York, from ascending the throne. Ignited by this Exclusion Crisis, several known Protestant "tricksters"--Thomas Dangerfield, William Bedloe, and Israel Tonge, and …


The Multifront Battle Waged Against Female Autonomy: A Comparative Study Of Ancient Medical And Literary Texts, Leah K. Montello Jan 2022

The Multifront Battle Waged Against Female Autonomy: A Comparative Study Of Ancient Medical And Literary Texts, Leah K. Montello

Honors Theses

Male authors have long waged a multifront campaign against female independence. In this thesis, I focus on two specific fronts: literary and medical texts of the Classical Greek period. This thesis intends to explore the varying strategies in a selection of works, employed to reinforce prescribed gender norms. I approach this with a feminist lens to critique attempts made by elite educated Greek men to define what a woman ought to be like. I do not, however, explore every single tactic a medical and literary writer has applied to uphold patriarchal norms. My two body chapters revolve respectively around two …


The Trial Of Cinque - Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Jonathan K. Van Patten Jan 2022

The Trial Of Cinque - Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Jonathan K. Van Patten

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.


Translation And Validation Of A Thai Version Of The Xerostomia Inventory, Chotima Lapnimitanun Jan 2022

Translation And Validation Of A Thai Version Of The Xerostomia Inventory, Chotima Lapnimitanun

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Objective: This study aimed to translate and validate the Xerostomia Inventory (XI) and Summated Xerostomia Inventory (SXI) -Thai version in Thai middle-aged and older adults Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study which consisted of translation and validation phases. The XI and SXI were cross-culturally forward and backward translated and validated in 200 middle-aged and older Thai adults. The validity relied on the content, construct, and criterion validity. The reliability was determined by internal consistency. Results: The translation was done with good content validity. Both discriminant validity, which can distinguish between xerostomia and non-xerostomia groups, and the convergent validity, which …


A Corpus Stylistic Study Of The Tv Series Script Desperate Housewives, Unjita Siripachanah Jan 2022

A Corpus Stylistic Study Of The Tv Series Script Desperate Housewives, Unjita Siripachanah

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The present study aims to investigate the style of a famous American television series of all-time Desperate Housewives through analysis of keywords found in its scripts via a comparison with a corpus of American television series broadcast during the time period similar to the target corpus. Based on the quantitative methods adopted for keyword extraction, a number of keywords were identified and later categorized into semantic groups. In this study, three major groups of keywords were examined qualitatively, namely the family and relationship group, the crime and mystery, group and the food and beverages group. These groups of keywords were …


Resolving Thai Zero Pronoun Using Masked Language Model, Sumana Sumanakul Jan 2022

Resolving Thai Zero Pronoun Using Masked Language Model, Sumana Sumanakul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Zero pronoun resolution is an actively challenging NLP task in Thai. However, only a few previous studies have focused on this topic. Therefore, we explore a modern approach that could outperform existing state-of-the-art methods on various datasets and downstream tasks, the transformer-based, pre-trained language model, to apply to the Thai zero pronoun resolution task. We conduct two experiments on a small corpus, which are (1) using a pre-trained masked language model to predict zero pronominal expressions and (2) fine-tuning Wangchanberta on a token classification task to classify persons of pronouns. Based on our experiments, the results demonstrate the effectiveness of …


การแยกแยะความผิดปกติของเสียงพูดชนิดสปาสติกในผู้ป่วยทางระบบประสาทออกจากเสียงพูดปกติ ด้วยการวิเคราะห์คลื่นเสียงด้วยแบบจำลองทางคอมพิวเตอร์, ชยุต มฤคทัต Jan 2022

การแยกแยะความผิดปกติของเสียงพูดชนิดสปาสติกในผู้ป่วยทางระบบประสาทออกจากเสียงพูดปกติ ด้วยการวิเคราะห์คลื่นเสียงด้วยแบบจำลองทางคอมพิวเตอร์, ชยุต มฤคทัต

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วัตถุประสงค์ เพื่อประเมินประสิทธิภาพในการวินิจฉัยอาการพูดไม่ชัดชนิดสปาสติกในแง่ความไว ความจำเพาะ และ AUC จาก กราฟ ROC ของการวินิจฉัยประโยคพูดไม่ชัดที่สร้างขึ้นจากลักษณะเด่นทางคลินิกและพยาธิสรีรวิทยา และประเมินด้วยเครื่องมือ ASR พร้อมทั้งเปรียบเทียบความแม่นยำในการวินิจฉัยกับประสาทแพทย์ วิธีการวิจัย ผู้ป่วยพูดไม่ชัดชนิดสปาสติกจำนวน 37 คน และกลุ่มควบคุม 37 คน เข้ารับการบันทึกเสียงพูด 4 ประโยคที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นจากกลุ่มพยัญชนะต้นที่แตกต่างกันตามการทำงานของกล้ามเนื้อการพูด และประเมินคะแนนความผิดพลาดของพยางค์แต่ละประโยค (error score of syllable) ด้วยเครื่องมือ ASR ได้แก่ 'Apple Siri™' และ 'Whisper' แล้ววิเคราะห์ logistic regression analysis และ สร้างกราฟ ROC พร้อมทั้ง AUC เพื่อบอกความแม่นยำในการวินิจฉัย พร้อมทั้งให้ประสาทแพทย์วินิจฉัยอาการพูดไม่ชัดจากไฟล์เสียงเดียวกัน ผลการศึกษา ค่าเฉลี่ยคะแนนความผิดพลาดของพยางค์แต่ละประโยคระหว่างกลุ่มผู้ป่วยพูดไม่ชัดชนิดสปาสติกและกลุ่มควบคุมมีความแตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ (p < 0.05) ทั้งจากทั้งสองเครื่องมือ โดยที่ AUC สูงที่สุดของเครื่องมือ 'Apple Siri™' และ 'Whisper'เท่ากับ 0.95 และ 0.89 ตามลำดับในการวิเคราะห์ประโยคเดียวกันที่เป็นการเคลื่อนไหวของกล้ามเนื้อโคนลิ้น เพดานอ่อนและคอหอย ในขณะที่ประสาทแพทย์มีความจำเพาะในการวินิจฉัยมากกว่า 0.9 แต่มีความไวที่ไม่แน่นอนตั้งแต่ 0.20 ถึง 0.74 สรุป เครื่องมือ 'Apple Siri™' และ 'Whisper' ASR มีความแม่นยำและน่าเชื่อถือในการวินิจฉัยแยกแยะอาการพูดไม่ชัดชนิดสปาสติกที่มีความรุนแรงน้อยออกจากเสียงพูดปกติ เมื่อนำมาประยุกต์ใช้กับการวิเคราะห์ประโยคพูดที่มีความไม่ชัดชนิดสปาสติกมากที่สุด ซึ่งถูกสร้างขึ้นด้วยความรู้ทางพยาธิสรีรวิทยาและสัทศาสตร์


Undocumented Students’ Barriers To Completing Higher Education, Yesenia Muruato Jan 2022

Undocumented Students’ Barriers To Completing Higher Education, Yesenia Muruato

Masters Theses

This study sought to examine the circumstances that influence DACA recipients in the United States to withdraw from their undergraduate institutions. This qualitative study on undocumented/DACA students who have left higher education prior to degree completion. It identifies the impact of immigration status on enrollment decisions, reasons for leaving higher education, obstacles students faced, and what programs or services might have successfully intervened and given them the opportunity to continue enrollment.


"Comic"Ally Calling For Cultural Competency: Using Graphic Narratives To Teach Social Justice In The Writing Classroom, Travis Moody Jan 2022

"Comic"Ally Calling For Cultural Competency: Using Graphic Narratives To Teach Social Justice In The Writing Classroom, Travis Moody

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study On Developing Novel Methods For Relation Extraction, Darshini Mahendran Jan 2022

A Study On Developing Novel Methods For Relation Extraction, Darshini Mahendran

Theses and Dissertations

Relation Extraction (RE) is a task of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to detect and classify the relations between two entities. Relation extraction in the biomedical and scientific literature domain is challenging as text can contain multiple pairs of entities in the same instance. During the course of this research, we developed an RE framework (RelEx), which consists of five main RE paradigms: rule-based, machine learning-based, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based, and Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs)-based approaches. RelEx's rule-based approach uses co-location information of the entities to determine whether a relation exists between a selected entity …


Effects Of A Parent-Implemented Intervention On Preschool Children’S Engagement In Constructive Play In Home Settings, Michelle Lynn Boulanger Thompson Jan 2022

Effects Of A Parent-Implemented Intervention On Preschool Children’S Engagement In Constructive Play In Home Settings, Michelle Lynn Boulanger Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

Constructive play is a creative process-oriented activity that promotes engaged learning through building and designing with materials. This study explores a parent-implemented intervention to promote active engagement in constructive play for preschool-aged children who are at risk for developmental delay and answers the research question: Do parent-implemented environmental support strategies improve the child’s active engagement in constructive play in the home? The research methodology utilized is a single-subject multiple baseline across-participants design with four participants. Visual analysis of the data supports a functional relation between the temporal, physical, and social-emotional environmental supports provided by the parents and the children’s active …


Importance Of Inclusion For Special Education Students In General Education Classrooms, Michelle L. Zidlicky Jan 2022

Importance Of Inclusion For Special Education Students In General Education Classrooms, Michelle L. Zidlicky

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This literature review aims to inform inclusive education and why it is crucial for all students. Inclusion is based on students' academic and social-emotional success from learning with general education peers from both general education, special education teachers, and support staff. Inclusion in education helps students with disabilities be able to learn in the same classroom as general education peers. It provides opportunities for staff to collaborate as team members to best support students. Studies included looking at inclusion and how it has evolved in education. It views teachers' attitudes and supports that staff needs to help inclusive education work. …


Parent Experience In Preschool Special Education Classroom Setting Decisions, Kaia Kathryn Nordtvedt Jan 2022

Parent Experience In Preschool Special Education Classroom Setting Decisions, Kaia Kathryn Nordtvedt

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Early childhood is a crucial time in a child's development and is often the entry point for a child experiencing developmental delays in the special education process. Parents play an essential role in the special education process as the child's primary caregivers. This study examined the decision-making process of economically disadvantaged Black and Hispanic/Latinx parents as they provide input on classroom setting decisions during preschool IEP creation. Through in-depth interviews, parents shared their lived experiences as they navigated the special education process and made decisions on classroom settings as part of the IEP team. Document analysis provided additional context in …


The Philosophical Unconscious, John Shannon Hendrix Jan 2022

The Philosophical Unconscious, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Effectiveness Of A Caregiver Delivered Phonics Intervention For At-Risk Students, Iwalani Dela Paz-Miller Jan 2022

The Effectiveness Of A Caregiver Delivered Phonics Intervention For At-Risk Students, Iwalani Dela Paz-Miller

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Reading skills are important for students' academic success. Phonics specifically is a foundational skill which is necessary for reading fluency and overall reading proficiency. Additional support outside of the classroom can be beneficial for those struggling and at-risk. There are various strategies and interventions that can help students' gain important academic skills. In addition to various reading skills and interventions, parents and caregivers can help implement interventions within the home setting to support students in their academic growth. Overall, the research has documented the effectiveness of reading intervention delivered by parents and caregivers, but there is little research on caregiver …


All Scientists Should Write Poetry: Creative Writing As Essential Academic Practice, Mariya Deykute Jan 2022

All Scientists Should Write Poetry: Creative Writing As Essential Academic Practice, Mariya Deykute

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Creative writing in undergraduate academics has often been regarded as an elective practice that has benefits primarily for students who plan to pursue creative or literary majors. However, poetic inquiry specifically offers crucial benefits to STEM students, owing both to the transformative nature of poetic process and to the way poetic inquiry can stimulate innovative, ethical, multilingual and interdisciplinary growth. The author frames the issue through individual experience of teaching poetry to STEM undergraduates in the context of a rich multilingual environment, in which many students are fluent or proficient in several languages. The author argues that due to the …


“Weaving All Of Them Together”: How Writing Majors Talk About Creative Writing, T J. Geiger Jan 2022

“Weaving All Of Them Together”: How Writing Majors Talk About Creative Writing, T J. Geiger

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The labels “creative” and “creative writing” serve several purposes in the discourses of undergraduate writing majors. In a study of students in two writing major programs, students often exerted significant effort to negotiate among diverse writing experiences and to integrate different understandings of writing. Their efforts mirror scholars’ conversations about negotiation and integration at the level of curricula and programs. Writing majors in this study raised issues relevant to the well-established curricular domains of theoretical knowledge, professional expertise, and civic action. They explained their insights using a mix of idiosyncratic, institutional, and disciplinary language that frequently relied on forms of …