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English In Indian Bilingualism, B Kumaravadivelu

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Martí And Foner, A Review Essay, Anne Fountain

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Signs Of Culture: Deafness In Nineteenth-Century America, Rebecca A. Rourke '90

Fenwick Scholar Program

While there is an abundance of research on twentieth-century manifestations of Deaf culture, the nineteenth-century roots have been largely overlooked. The creation of residential schools for the deaf gave the Deaf population a place to meet and share ideas, for the first time in American history. The close and sustained contact generated cultural development. This thesis addresses the development of a cultural identity among the Deaf population by attempting to compare the experiences and opinions of the Deaf and hearing communities as they existed in nineteenth-century America.

The Ox On The Roof (Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit), Agnieszka Taborska, Aleksander F. Wierzbicki, Malcom Coelho, Lucy Bourgealt, John Donalds, Georgy Harvey, Michael J. Townsend, Rene Dimanche Jr., Mila Hermanovski, Marly J. Rogers, Susan Becker, Treva Offutt, Christopher Watts, Michael A. Tashji, Sol Armada, Mark Borok, George Page, Sean P. Oakes, Edward L. Guttman, Susan Unger, Timothy Mcelreath, Michael Wodkowski, Carsten Stehr, Julie Grass, Andrea Dassow, Julianna Ellman, Lynn Jaworski, Donna Lavalle, Judith Ribicoff, Vivienne Cho, Matthew Mcguire

Programs

Program for the third annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar of the Providence Art Club. Design and layout by Treva Offutt. View the Performance Recording.

The Resurgence Of Xenophobic Nationalism In Contemporary France: Jean-Marie Le Pen And The National Front, Selinde M. Dulckeit

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary, Jon P. Dayley

Faculty & Staff Authored Books

This dictionary is primarily of the Death Valley variety of what has come to be known in the linguistic and anthropological literature in recent years as Panamint (e.g., Freeze and Iannucci 1979; Lamb 1958 and 1964; McLaughlin 1987; Miller 1984), or sometimes Panamint Shoshone (Miller et al. 1971). In the nineteenth century and up to the middle of this century, it was often called Coso (sometimes spelled Koso) or Coso Shoshone (e.g., Kroeber 1925; Lamb 1958). In aboriginal times and even well into this century, Panamint was spoken by small bands of people living in southeastern California and extreme southwestern …

Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar, Jon P. Dayley

Faculty & Staff Authored Books

This monograph is an introductory descriptive grammar of Tümpisa Shoshone, meant to provide both layman and specialist with a basic understanding of how the language works as a linguistic system. In this sense, it is intended to be a "nuts and bolts" grammar with lots of examples illustrating the most important grammatical elements and processes in the language.

Vienna, Paris, Berlin: The Golden Age Of European Cabaret, Agnieszka Taborska, William Damkoehler, Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers, Georgie Stout, Mark Borok, Michael Zimmerman, Bill Gold, Charles Oestreicher, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Ed Hemingway, Holly Heerens, Eugene Mollica, Susan Unger, Michelle Talbot, Sarah Bishop, Malcom Coelho, Heather Frith, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Jacques Prevert, Don Keefer, Emliy Cohen, Martha Crawford, Susan Becker, Hanns Eisler, Molly Komacker, Vivienne Cho, Carsten Stehr

Programs

Program for the second annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar in the Pit. Design and layout by Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers and Georgie Stout.

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An Introductory Dictionary Of The Western Desert Language, Wilf Douglas

Research outputs pre 2011

THE WESTERN DESERT LANGUAGE is the most widely spoken Aboriginal language in Australia. Dialects of this language a.re spoken in the vast area between Kalgoorlie and Alice Springs, Ceduna (South Australia) and Wiluna (Western Australia).

Today, radio waves speeding across the Central Desert a.re bristling with two-way chatter in the speech sounds of Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra, Pintupi and other variants of the Western Desert language.

'YANAP' - short for the Yankuntjatjara-Ngaanyatjarra-Pitjantjatjara Air Service - carries speakers of these dialects from the Alice to Kalgoorlie, to the Aboriginal communities at such places as Docker River, Ernabella, Amata, Mt. Davies, Jameson, Blackstone, Warakurna, …

Communication Strategies And Psychological Processes In Interlanguage Written Discourse, B Kumaravadivelu

Faculty Publications

Several papers have appeared on the strategies of communication used by L2 learners. However, very little work has been done to determine the underlying psychological processes that generate communication strategies (CS). This paper assumes that any description of CS should be based on a description of the processes governing CS. The paper attempts to correlate CS with psychological processes by analyzing interlanguage (IL) written discourse produced by advanced Tamil learners of English as a Second Language.

Acculturation Among Swedish Immigrants In Kansas And Nebraska, 1870–1900, Terrence Jon Lindell

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Contemporary observers and many historians have maintained that Swedish immigrants rapidly assimilated into American society. This dissertation examines this conclusion by focusing on rural Swedish settlements in the Great Plains--the Lindsborg community in McPherson and Saline counties in Kansas and Burt, Phelps, Polk, and Saunders counties In Nebraska.

These immigrant communities, all founded in the two decades following the Civil War, typically were estabIished by Swedes who had spent some time in states east of the Great Plains and had thus already begun to assimilate. All of the settlements developed congregations of various denominations--either through religious schism or immigration by …

From St. Petersburg To Krushchev's Boot, James O. Barnhill, Justin Kerr, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Jennifer Bull, Marguerite White, Nancy Bach, Steve Overman, Josh Pearson, Jean Wasil, Mark Borok, Vivienne Cho, Karen Frishmann, Heather Firth, Lisa Hurwitz, Treva Offutt, Beth Whitney, Sarah Bishop, Richard Ross, Cara Reische, Walter Clarke, Rene Dimanche Jr., David Ross, Malcom Coelho, Andrew Sklar, Michael Wodkowski, Susan Ockerse, Paul Scagnetti, Martha Crawford, Holly Su Heerens

Programs

Program for the first annual RISD Cabaret held in Memorial Hall. Design and layout by Justin Kerr.

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Review: Moi, Tituba, Sorcière...Noire De Salem, Marie-Denise Shelton

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Maryse Condè, l'une des romancières les plus importantes de la littérature antillaise, est un écrivain que passionne l'histoire. Elle en a fourni la preuve avec Segou, oeuvre remarquable qui nous fait revivre une ère mouvementée du passé africain. Elle l'a réaffirmé avec deux courts récits publiés sous le titre Pays Mêlé qui saisissent sur le vif les contradictions de l'histoire contemporaine des Caraibes. Moi, Tituba, sorcière...noire de Salem, son dernier livre, est un projet qui tient du défi: remplir par un travail de création et d'invention un vide de l'histoire. Le livre, nous est-il précisé, est une …

The Alphabet Of Jehaad Literacy, Volume 2, F. M. M. Asmaie

Books in Dari and Pashto

No abstract provided.

An Ethno-Historical Shoshone Narrative Pɨe Nɨmmɨn Naakkanna "How We Lived Long Ago", Jon P. Dayley

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

The text that follows is a narrative of reminiscences in the Shoshone language by Josephine Thorpe. The reminiscences are about the way Mrs. Thorpe's own group of Northern Shoshone used to live when she was a girl in prereservation times.

Second Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, B Kumaravadivelu

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

QirāʼAt-I Dari : ṢInf-I Panjum, ShūRā-Yi S̲AqāFatī-I JihāD-I AfghāNistāN, NūR AḥMad Tarin

Books in Dari and Pashto

Dari language Study and teaching (Primary).

Entrevista Con Rogelio Sinán, Alina Camacho Gingerich, Willard Gingerich

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Rogelio Sinan, seud6nimo de Bernardo Dominguez Alba y maestro de varias generaciones de escritores panameios, ha cultivado casi todos los g6neros; se ha distinguido como cuentista, poeta, novelista y director teatral. Nace el 25 de abril de 1904 en Taboga, una islita en el Pacifico, a unos 5 kil6metros de la ciudad de Panama. Publica en 1929, en Roma,. su primer libro de poesias, Onda, poemario con el que introduce la vanguardia a las letras panamefias. En 1970 Sinin regresa a su pais, donde explica literatura a los estudiantes del Instituto Nacional. En 1937 lo nombran c6nsul de Panama en …

Observaciones Sobre Don Quijote Y Sancho Panza, Nora Ollerini Guevara

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

I have chosen to analyze several characteristics of Don Quijote, and his squire, Sancho Panza. I have observed that Don Quijote is on the side of the underdog, and tries to do justice in the world from personal need. Sancho tries to reason with him, and constantly reminds him of reality. But Don Quijote lives in his make-believe world of a past age of chivalry, and one can say that throughout the episodes he is out of place, and time until he recovers from his illness in the second part of the novel. He has created the illness himself by …

Tzutujil Grammar, Jon P. Dayley

Faculty & Staff Authored Books

This work is a reference grammar of the Tzutujjl language spoken in the departments of Solola and Suchitepequez in Guatemala. Tzutujil is one of approximately thirty Mayan languages that are spoken by several million people in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. All Mayan languages lie within the Meso-American cultural area. Tzutujil belongs to the Greater Quichean branch of the Eastern division of Mayan languages, and it is most closely affiliated with Cakchiquel, Quiche, Sacapultec, and Sipacapa (Campbell 1977; Kaufman 1974, 1976).

Working With Aborigines In Remote Areas, John De Hoog, John Sherwood

Research outputs pre 2011

This Handbook has been written to answer an urgent need expressed by people whose jobs involve working with Aboriginal people in remote areas. This includes a wide range of positions in health, welfare, police and law, employment, construction, community advice, missionary endeavour, linguistics and research. Almost all people in these positions have a common need: to gain some background information about Aboriginal people, life in remote communities, and ways of developing good communication with Aboriginal people.

Writing The South-West Language, Wilfrid Douglas

Research outputs pre 2011

This book was intended primarily for South-west Aboriginal adults who were asking for help in writing their own language.

For a period, many of the South-west people were ashamed to speak their own language in front of "Wetjalas" (i.e. European Australians). A number of factors have changed this attitude so that, to-day, most of the people have become rightly proud of their old culture and language and many are attempting to salvage what they can of the South-west traditions.

Oracle: A Game Of Cultural Awareness, Allyn Willey-Billings

MA TESOL Collection

The purpose of this project is to promote meaningful cross-cultural communication in the ESL classroom. As a game, ORACLE works on various levels. The most obvious area is more effective language use through reading, speaking and writing. As a tool for culturalawareness, it reveals participants' underlying impressions/prejudices of one another as well as working on their ability to listen beyound the words spoken to the personality beneath. Its intent is the enrichment of people through cooperation and the understanding of the unpredictable nature of Humankind.

The Book Of The Pawnee: Pawnee Stories For Study And Enjoyment, Marge Critcher, Carolyn Boyum, Patti Huff, Paul A. Olson, Rosemary Bergstrom

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. Meeting the Pawnee ............................... 1

II. Pawnee Beliefs .................................. . 3

The Pawnee Creation Story ...................... 3

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed ..................... 8

III. Pawnee Hero Stories ............................. 14

Lone Chief ................................. 14

Little Warrior's Counsel. ................ . . . .... 27

IV. Pawnee Folk Tales ............................... 30

The Snake Brother ........................... 30

Mosquitoes ................................. 37

V. Boy Stories .................................... 39

The Boy Who Talked with Lightning .............. 39

The Boy and the Wonderful Robe ............... .42

The Boys, the Thunderbird, and the Water Monster .. 50

VI. Coyote Stories .................................. 54

Coyote and the Blind Buffalo ................... …

A Few Great Stories Of The Santee People, Edna Peniska, Paul Robertson, Robert Frerichs, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Told by Many Nineteenth Century Santee and by Edna Peniska and Paul Robertson of the Modern Santee.

Gathered and Edited by Robert Frerichs and Paul A. Olson.

The fact that every known culture and civilization has acquired some sort of set of sacred stories is important. The eleven sacred stories in this work have multiple purposes. They possess a value as sheer entertainment; they also tell truths and lessons which explain the meaning of existence. Thus the Santee listener could fmd his place in the world and achieve an inner harmony through hearing stories. The characters in these stories are …

Wangka Pirnitjarra: Ngaanyatjarra, Amee Glass, Wilfred H. Douglas

Research outputs pre 2011

This is a pre-reading booklet designed for the Ngaanyatjarra speaking people of Warburton Ranges and others scattered at various centres throughout the Desert areas of Western Australia.

There are usually about 300 Ngaanyatjarra speakers at the Warburton Ranges settlement.

The initial syllables of the illustrated words are organized alphabetically throughout the book, words having the same initial syllable occurring on a single page. It is intended that the saying of the words on each page will help the pupil to develop aural awareness of the sounds in the language.

Venereal Disease And The Gracioso: A Look At Moreto's El Desdén Con El Desdén, Anne Fountain

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Tooning Into English ( A Rationale For The Use Of Cartoons In The English Language Classroom Plus Cartoons And Lesson Plans ), Timothy James Maciel

MA TESOL Collection

Teachers of English are constantly seeking new and better materials to aid their students in learning the English language. Sometimes these materials are in the form of newspaper or magazine articles and advertisements to show how a grammatical pattern studied in the textbook is actually applied in the culture. Sometimes these materials are in the form of cultural artifacts such as clothing items or eating utensils. And very often these materials are in the form of pictures and photographs to give the student a visual representation of new words or grammatical patterns. Whatever the material, the teacher is constantly looking …

Aboriginal Australians Speak : An Introduction To Australian Aboriginal Linguistics, Eric G. Vaszolyi

Research outputs pre 2011

It has duly been recognized that Aboriginal society in Australia is far from homogeneous. People and groups referred to as part-Aborigines, urban Aborigines, fringe-dwellers, rural Aborigines, traditionally oriented or tribal Aborigines in the outback and so on display considerable diversity in terms of culture, identity, aspirations and the like. Language is no exception. Some Aboriginal people (mainly in cities or towns and some rural areas) would speak as good an English as any non-Aboriginal Australian and often much better: indeed, their only language, their. 'mother tongue' is English. In contrast, in the outback one can still meet Aborigines who speak …

Oral History Interview: Helena Venturino Howell, Helena Venturino Howell

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Helena Venturino Howell was born on September 19, 1913. She was the first child of her family to be born in the United States. Her father emigrated from Italy to Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 16. He first worked as a pin boy in a bowling alley and then took a job on the railroad. Her mother immigrated to Williamson, WV, with Mrs. Howell’s older sister in 1912. Mrs. Howell’s family lived in neighborhood in Williamson comprised primarily of Italians. Her family moved to New Boston, OH, when she was a young girl. During her interview, Mrs. Howell …