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Nuttall, D. "English printers 1600-1700 and their supra-text roman and italic types." Thesis, University of Reading, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370815.
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Provvidera, Tiziana. "Giordano Bruno's Italian dialogues and late sixteenth century English book production." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324623.
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Dunne, Adair Michael. "Books and readers 1605 : a descriptive catalogue of all books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or in English abroad in the year 1605." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391750.
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Pett, Craig Francis. "I am no inconsiderable Shop-Keeper in this Town Swift and his Dublin Printers of the 1720's| Edward Waters, John Harding and Sarah Harding." Thesis, Monash University (Australia), 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10291098.
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<p> This thesis represents the first-ever full-length study of Swift’s dealings and working relationships with the Dublin printers who took the risk on his seditious Irish pamphlets of the 1720’s. These printers were: Edward Waters, who endured a violent and protracted prosecution for printing Swift’s <i>A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture </i> in May 1720; John Harding, who died as a consequence of his imprisonment for printing the fourth of Swift’s <i>Drapier’s Letters</i> in October 1724; and Harding’s widow, Sarah, who came to print occasional works for Swift a few years after her husband’s death. Written from the perspectives of the printers, the thesis discloses a substantial amount of never-before-seen evidence pertaining to the lives and careers of the printers, the form and nature of their working relationships with Swift, the legal and moral obligations Swift owed them as a pseudonymous author, as well as the circumstances of Harding’s death. Historians have assumed that Harding died of jail fever – an assumption that wholly absolves Swift. But new evidence suggests the clear possibility that Harding, who was due to appear in the Court of King’s Bench, where he would have been examined at length on the true identity of this ‘M.B. Drapier’, met with foul play, and that the persons behind it were Swift’s friend, Lord Lieutenant Carteret, and Swift himself. Further never-before-seen evidence concerns Sarah’s Harding’s suppressed complaints and the persistent pressure that Swift’s friends brought to bear upon the author to support her in the years following Harding’s death.</p>
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Murphy, Tara Kathleen. "The Porcupine's Quill and the Gaspereau Press : studies in the history, philosophy, and production values of two English-Canadian printer-publishers." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112507.
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This thesis examines the histories, publishing philosophies, and printing practices of two English-Canadian small-press publishers (The Porcupine's Quill of Erin, Ontario, and the Gaspereau Press of Kentville, Nova Scotia). By researching their publishing influences as well as the social and political climates in which each press operated, it is possible to analyze the decisions they made about why and how to publish certain kinds of texts. From there the thesis summarizes their publishing philosophies, and conducts extended analyses of the production of two specific literary texts: Endeared by Dark: The Collected Poems of George Johnston (PQL 1990), and Execution Poems (George Elliott Clarke, Gaspereau 2001). The historical research relies partly on secondary sources, and more generally the methodology was supplied by contemporary work in book history and textual criticism; however, the majority of the research, in chapters two and three particularly, has been culled from primary texts, press releases, newspaper features, web pages, and archival materials (letters, financial records, and so on). Overall, this thesis concludes that both the Porcupine's Quill and the Gaspereau Press emphasize an holistic approach to bookmaking, wherein each component part is capable of contextualizing, augmenting, celebrating, interpreting, historicizing, or socializing a literary text.
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Blackburn, Nicholas Robin. "Gnomic marking in English printed dramas, 1570-1623." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596689.
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In 1951, G. K. Hunter wrote a piece for <i>The Library</i> drawing readers’ attention to certain kinds of marks in the margins of Elizabethan and Jacobean texts. Particular passages were emphasised, mainly using comma-shaped markings or a change of font. This thesis presents a thoroughly revised and expanded account of the field which Hunter first explored, establishing a grammar for reading marks which critical editions have rendered for the most part invisible. By situating gnomic marking in its historical context, from the first uses of the diple [“] by the Greek scholar Aristarchus, the thesis shows how it was the general uses which persisted into the early modern period. While Hunter suggested that emphatic marking was primarily attached to rhetorical figures, it is shown that printed marks were used by authors to achieve a rich variety of semantic effects and by their readers to create personal editions. The first chapter provides the historical background to early modern marking, from its Greek origins through its transmission across the medieval period to its adoption by continental printers and subsequent arrival in England. The way features of mis-en-page were translated along with the text of editions of Terence, Seneca, Chaucer and Robert Garnier is shown to be the primary factor for the development of marking practices, particularly when the annotations of previous readers were accidentally fossilised as printed marks. This lays the foundation for the thesis as a whole, where printed emphases stand witness to lost networks of readers and the circulation and emulation of valued editions. The second and third chapters present a detailed survey of the surviving marks in dramatic editions of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, the developing role of publishers in calibrating mis-en-page to suit contemporary readers and shows how authors used marking as part of their overall style.
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Maahlamela, David wa. "The hoof-printed rock." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013076.
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Many of these poems, although written in English, are inspired by Sepedi idioms and proverbs. Some invoke township and village life, others the observations and questions that come from writing poetry and experiences of travelling to different countries to read my poems. Others dwell on the political transformation in South Africa, or its absence, and on my own spiritual transformation.
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Börjesson, Mattias. "Swedes’ Understanding of Printed Ads in English : A Study of How Well Swedish Adults Understand the Message of Printed Ads in English." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-22396.
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Advertising in English is becoming more and more common in Sweden, as well as in other non-Anglophone countries, and not all previous studies agree on how well these ads are understood by the local population. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to achieve a broader understanding as to how well the message of printed ads in English are understood by the Swedish adult population. Moreover, this study aims to establish whether there are any common tendencies or patterns in the levels of understanding between the five ads chosen for this study, and how these relate to the personal and demographic characteristics present within my sample. The findings of this study indicate that 60% of the printed ads in English are properly understood by most people. Moreover, this study found that the reason for not understanding an ad in English most often is that the ad is drawing on a myth that could not be recognized as something natural by the reader. However, as only 12 subjects were included in this study, no generalizations could be made for the whole Swedish population, and a more extensive research study is thus encouraged.
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Williams, Tamsyn Mary. "Polemical prints of the English Revolution 1640-1660." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245386.
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Baue, Frederic William 1949. "A bibliographical catalogue and first-line index of printed anthologies of English poetry to 1640." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289289.
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Early English poetry anthologies are important because they reflect the poetic taste of their age. This dissertation is a reference work on those anthologies--a bibliographical catalogue and first-line index of early printed anthologies of English poetry to 1640. There are four parts to the dissertation. The introduction gives an overview of the subject and relates it to larger critical issues, such as authorship, style, and the manuscript culture. Next is a short-title list of anthologies and their subsequent editions. Part Three is comprised of quasi-facsimile bibliographical descriptions of the first editions of the anthologies followed by the first lines of their poems in sequence. Last is a comprehensive index of all of the first lines of all of the anthologies. This reference work will be useful to scholars working with Renaissance lyric poetry.
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Reynaldo, Ales. "The Printed Word in Joyce's Ulysses." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3226.
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The purpose of this thesis was to explore the ways the printed word in James Joyce’s Ulysses opens new and alternative paths towards the interpretation of the text. We show how it induces multiple chains of associations beyond the act of reading, which start at the visual, spatialized sequencing and contiguity of letters, words and sentences, their layout on the page, or the persistence or absence of punctuation.
After initial observations of the visual prevalence of the written word over its auditory capabilities as noted in the “Aeolus” chapter (e.g.: puns that can be realized only in writing; meanings that can be accessed not by reading but by observing the spatial arrangement of text), two other chapters of the book—“Ithaca” and “Penelope”— were analyzed to determine if such assumptions could be applied to other sections of the novel. Random passages from yet other sections were used as illustration. Our analysis suggests that throughout “Ulysses” meaning derivation may take place beyond the effect of rhetorical figures, and often can be the result of a visual/spatial associative chain.
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Hebblethwaite, Emma Sian. "The theology of rewards in English printed treatises and sermons (c.1550 - c.1650)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240963.
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Brotherton-Ratcliffe, Chantal. "Illustrations of the Four last things in English pre-Reformation printed books of devotion." Thesis, University of London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417873.
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Murphy, Caroline (Caroline Elizabeth). "Fact and sanctity : authenticating laudianism in the English Monasticon anglicanum's architectural prints (1655)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106421.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-119).<br>This thesis takes as its focus the set of illustrated plates of monastic churches and cathedrals that interleave the first volume of the Monasticon Anglicanun, a monumental Latin antiquarian tome on England's dissolved monastic establishments published in 1655. It was arranged by the antiquaries William Dugdale and Roger Dodsworth from compiled transcriptions of monastic foundation charters, and was illustrated in the early 1650s by the engraver Daniel King with over fifty full-page plates of dissolved monastic churches and cathedrals. The etcher Wenceslaus Hollar also contributed a few etchings to the project. The ambitions of this antiquarian endeavor were articulated in the publication's preface. The Monasticon was to preserve a memory of the institutional histories of monasteries, which had been dissolved and dismantled by Henry VIII's administration at the outset of the Reformation in the 1530s and 1540s, and attacked again by iconoclasts during the early years of the Civil War in the 1640s. A second objective was to record the appearances of monastic churches and cathedrals that had been converted for Protestant worship during the monastic dissolutions, and were thus among the few medieval religious structures to have weathered the iconoclastic storms largely intact. In the Monasticon, however, antiquarian desires to preserve were also underpinned by the political ambitions of its royalist, Laudian creators and benefactors to authenticate their conservative vision of the Church of England at a time when they faced persecution under Oliver Cromwell's republican regime. This thesis examines how the illustrated plates in the Monasticon's first volume depict dissolved monastic churches and cathedrals to advance and justify the aims of embattled Laudian royalists. By analyzing the graphic construction of these pictures in relation to seventeenth-century antiquarian practices and Laudian religious beliefs, these representations emerge as complex visual statements that stage monastic churches and cathedrals simultaneously as factual, historical antiquities, and also as sanctified religious spaces. Moreover, as a series of prints, these images form a collection of "paper monuments" that are recruited as artifactual evidence in support of a historical narrative that seeks to legitimize a Laudian vision of the Church, by demonstrating that it had deep roots in England's past. This thesis interrogates a set of compelling, yet overlooked antiquarian representations to open a window onto the complex and entangled meanings that were ascribed to medieval religious architecture after the Reformation, and in so doing it aligns with a growing body of scholarship that seeks to question the Weberian notion that this religious revolution heralded the "disenchantment of the world."<br>by Caroline Murphy.<br>S.M.
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Thom, D. J. E. "Visualising politeness and patriotism : the public sphere in English satirical prints, 1745-84." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1401155/.
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This thesis analyses the relationship between polite and patriotic discourses, their critical development in satirical imagery, and the place of these concepts within the Habermasian public sphere 1745-84. In exploring the polyvalent nature of ‘politeness’ and ‘patriotism’ in this period, I undermine the implicitly simple dichotomy between these strands of social discourse, by considering their function as essential components of the public sphere and public identity. Satirical prints, being simultaneously a cultural product of the public sphere and a means of critiquing the culture of that sphere, are an important source for understanding the relationship between the social public sphere and public discourse, not only in a heuristic sense, but as a result of an entrenched system of shared codes and signs, which allowed the exchange of didactic, polemical and/or humorous messages between different public media. The ability of an image to convey the subtleties and ambiguities of an idea, in a way that written text cannot, makes satirical prints in particular a useful tool for understanding the complexities of politeness and of patriotism. By approaching public discourse through the medium of satirical prints, I explore the contradiction inherent in the production of images that critique and comment upon the commercial public sphere, while acknowledged as commodities in themselves.
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Moores, John Richard. "Representations of France and the French in English satirical prints, c. 1740-1832." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2347/.
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This thesis explores representations of France and the French in English satirical prints in the period c. 1740-1832. This was an era of rivalry and conflict between the two nations. It has been suggested that hostility towards France at this time contributed to the formation of English, or British, national identity. This coincided with England’s ‘golden age of caricature’. While much of the satirical art produced focussed on France, most studies of this material have dealt with how the English portrayed themselves and each other. Those which have discussed representations of the French have promoted the view that English perceptions of the French were principally hostile. While there is a temptation to employ such prints as evidence of English Francophobia, a closer investigation reveals greater satirical complexities at work which do not simply conceptualise and employ the French ‘Other’ as target of hatred. Informed by war and rivalry, as well as by trade, travel, and cultural exchange, the prints projected some positive characteristics onto the French ‘Other’, they contain varying degrees of sympathy and affinity with the French, and are demonstrative of a relationship more distinct and intimate than that shared with any other nation. At the same time, the prints expose many of the tensions and divisions that existed within Britain itself. French characters were employed to directly attack British political figures, while in other instances domestic anxieties were projected onto images of the French.
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Fiander, Robert Owen. "Marshall McLuhan, the printed word, and nineteenth-century outcasts of literacy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq62171.pdf.
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Oswell, Michelle Lynn Nádas John Louis. "The printed lute song a textual and paratextual study of early modern English song books /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2563.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 5, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Music." Discipline: Music; Department/School: Music.
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Odumosu, Temi-Tope. "Roaming beggars, errant servants and sable mistresses : some African characters from English satirical prints (1769-1819)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610347.
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Kobayashi, Chiho. "The use of pocket electronic dictionaries as compared with printed dictionaries by Japanese learners of English." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155615693.
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Valladares, Susan. "English Romantic theatre during the Peninsular War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a6dc8702-5827-41c9-bb82-94a52ecb5dee.
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Between 1808 and 1814 England was committed to an expensive and bloody campaign against the French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. The Peninsular War, as it came to be known, was initially celebrated as a war of national independence that attracted widespread support. Soon after, it was characterised by political scandal and public controversy. Literary scholars have devoted much attention to the political, social and cultural effects of the French Revolution, but have written surprisingly little about the later years of the campaign against Napoleonic France. The principle objective of this thesis is to offer the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War. It considers the most popular plays in performance, and asks what their staging, publication, and reception history reveal about a nation’s literary tastes and its political self-awareness. Sheridan’s Pizarro, a play about the Spanish conquest of Peru, was one of the most successful plays on the Romantic stage. A close analysis of this play considers its popularity between 1799 and 1815, and what it suggests about the flexibility of the contemporary repertoire system. Audiences’ ability to ascribe topical inflections to old plays helps explain the demand for Shakespeare and the bard’s political import to wartime audiences. This thesis explores the London patent stages and popular minor theatres, where programmes were restricted to song, dance, and spectacle. It also offers a case study of provincial theatre in Bristol, underscoring the significant limitations in assumptions that the metropolitan stage was representative of national trends. Archival research on the London and Bristol stages has been crucial to this study, which is based on an examination of playbills, memoranda, letters, playtexts, and prints. The newsprint and cartoons discussed offer an important political and historical framework, suggestive of the cultural expectations likely to have influenced contemporary playgoers.
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Smith, Karen Louise. "The translation of advertising texts : a study of English-language printed advertisments and their translations in Russian." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3044/.
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Since the end of Communism, adverts for Western products have been flooding onto the Russian market. These have undergone translation, with strategies ranging from complete transference of the source text into the target culture, to the creation of new texts based on advertisers' briefs. The choice of strategy, it appears, is dependent on the power balance between the agents of translation, including not only translators, but advertisers, designers, governments, text receivers and on the cultural, historical and economic situation in which the translation takes place. This thesis suggests advertisement translation be considered in terms of power, culture and history. A postcolonial framework is used to set out changes in translation strategy, emphasize the role of power differentials and make predictions for practice. Seeing translated adverts as `contact zones' where different cultures meet, the empirical research centres on the absorption of the `dominant's' culture into that of the `subjugated', and focuses on the interaction of `foreign' and `native' elements in these translated adverts. A parallel corpus of contemporary English adverts, their translated Russian pairs, and a control corpus of native Russian adverts provides the research data. A taxonomy of rhetorical figures employed in advertising headlines is constructed and their translation investigated, highlighting rhetorical trends, and instances where translators have been hindered by advertisers. The visibility of the linguistic Other is examined with reference to loanwords, loan meanings, calques and word formation; and two case studies relating to colour terms and names. Finally, the power relations between companies, customers and intermediaries are discussed in light of their portrayal in the translated adverts. The results show that the `post-colonial' contact zone is a mixture of `colonizer' and `colonized'; and demonstrate the necessity of giving translators the power their expert status deserves if translated adverts are to persuade the target audience.
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Tromans, Philip. "Advertising America : the printing, publication, and promotion of English New World books, 1553-1600." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/12484.
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This thesis explores how the paratexts to and physical features of English Tudor books about the New World presented the books’ content to their original readers. The contribution this thesis makes to knowledge is threefold. First, the field of study of English travel and colonial literature lacks a bibliographically informed account of how the books’ constitutive elements of type and paper affect meaning. Widespread use of modern editions of the few accessible texts effaces the originals’ rich aesthetic, structural and tactile forms and fails to comprehensively historicise the production and intentions of the books. The careful, contextualised examinations of typefounts and composition included in this thesis go beyond what has been previously done and suggest agendas for further, necessary and illuminating bibliographical work. Second, the thesis presents the first comprehensively investigative survey of how the paratextual elements of the books marketed the New World to Tudor England. It goes beyond John Parker’s fifty-year-old _Books to Build an Empire_ (1965) by considering the full range of forty-three editions’ paratextual apparatus, not just prefaces, proems and dedications. It is simultaneously a counterbalance to the narrow focus on Richard Hakluyt’s anthological _Principal Navigations_ (1598-1600). The thesis begins the much-needed recovery of the conceptual and publication histories of both the constitutive texts reprinted in _Principal Navigations_ and those not included in Hakluyt’s anthology that are nontheless relevant to the history of the genre. Third, this survey that challenges a still powerful teleology: that the publications were unequivocally books to build an empire. Many of these books were in fact marketed as recreational reads. As the paratextual, structural and material features of many of the books this thesis looks at are under-explored and under-reported, close examination of multiple exemplars was necessary to ensure that this thesis is a representative and reliable record of the marketing strategies used to promote Tudor books about America.
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Nicholson, Eirwen Elisabeth Caecilia. "English political prints and pictorial political argument c.1640-c 1832: a study in historiography and methodology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487348.
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Richardson, Fiona J. "A theological study of books printed abroad in English in the first half of the sixteenth century (1525-1548)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13723.
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The English reformation, unlike that in Germany and Switzerland, evolved over a fairly long span of time. At first Luther's works were sold unchecked by English booksellers, being first prohibited in 1520. Over the next few years the advance of reforming ideas was considered so serious as to merit the further attention of the English Crown. By 1524 it was found necessary to enforce a law prohibiting the importation of theological texts into England, and efforts were made to suppress the further spread of the Protestant heresy throughout the realm. However, despite the Act of Parliament and a wave of persecutions the church was unable to stop the influx of prohibited books, which came off the printing presses of Germany and the Low Countries. With the aid of the revised version of the S.T.C. and additional catalogues of early printed writings, it has been possible to compile a list of foreign publications, all of which were intended for the English reader. These texts printed in the vernacular were written and commissioned by English writers forced into exile for their own safety, but also determined to establish Protestant Ideas In their own country. It is difficult to determine the exact numbers of Protestant books entering the country, but some Indication of their appeal can be found from the lists of prohibited books issued by the Ecclesiastical authorities. A detailed examination of these publications yields a clear picture of the theological teaching of Englands earliest Protestants. By carefully comparing these ideas with those of earlier heretics and contemporary reformers, it has been possible to assess the extent to which outside ideas has influenced the minds of these men. Further analysis has revealed the original and subtle genius of men who combined the ideas of the Continental reformers with those native to the English tradition, in order to produce a reformed theology which appealed to the unique situation in their own country.
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Scott, Diane Gillies. "Silent reading and the medieval text : the development of reading practices in the early prints of William Langland and John Lydgate." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6356/.
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This thesis is concerned with reading practices and the late medieval vernacular text. More specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the medieval text was read and received in early modern England. The analysis focuses on two texts in their early modern instantiations: the late fourteenth century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman by William Langland, and the early fifteenth century Fall of Princes, a translation of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium by Benedictine monk John Lydgate. The thesis considers the reception of these poems as they are reworked and reread by successive editors and readers during the shift from script to print, and from a culture of orality to a culture of silent reading. The reception of and editorial policy applied to these texts are considered in relation to the political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth century, and to developments in literacy and literary culture. The editions selected for analysis range from an early manuscript of a B-text version of Piers Plowman, Trinity College Cambridge, MS B.15.17, through to an early seventeenth century print of the Mirror for Magistrates, an early modern reworking of Lydgate’s Fall, published in 1619. The thesis engages with Zumthor’s theory of textual mouvance in that each edition is granted the authority of its own circumstances of production and reception. The synchronic analysis highlights the economic and political pressures which influenced and/or constrained editorial decisions. In charting the various editions through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the thesis provides a complementary diachronic perspective which places each edition within the wider history of textual transmission and in relation to developments in literary culture. The combined synchronic and diachronic analysis of the printed late medieval text provides an insight into developments in reading habits and changing attitudes towards authorship and the functions of literature more generally. The evidence for the development of reading practices can be found in the interaction between the text and its systems of punctuation and paratext. Systems of punctuation and features of paratext act as guide and mediator between the text and the reader; it is these forms and levels of mediation, and the relationship between them, which can indicate patterns of literacy and reader engagement. Thus, developments in the systems of punctuation and paratext interact with changing models of the reader and the various types of ‘literate activities’ available to them (Salter 2012: 67). The late medieval period has been described as a culture of ‘literate orality’ (Sponsler 2010: 1) and its readers exhibited a diverse range of reading practices. The oral and aural characteristics of literary culture gradually declined in the late medieval and early modern periods but a ‘critical mass’ of silent readers did not emerge until the end of the seventeenth century (Jajdelska 2007). Adopting and adapting Jajdelska’s theory of the changing reader model, this thesis focuses on the chosen texts as they appear before the emergence of this ‘critical mass’. The analysis of reading practices, therefore, pertains to the period of transition during which readers negotiated existing oral/aural reading environments while moving towards a predominantly silent reading culture. The thesis demonstrates that the transition was gradual and that sixteenth-century literary culture was diverse in both its reading habits and reading practices. The emerging discipline of historical sociopragmatics provides the theoretical and methodological bridge between the diachronic description of punctuation and paratext, and the examination of reading practices. Historical sociopragmatics allows established insights from sociolinguistics and pragmatics to be applied to the written historical text, creating new opportunities for the recovery and analysis of textual production, editorial treatment and reader engagement. This thesis brings the sociopragmatic concept of ‘situational contexts’ (Culpepper 2011: 4) to the analysis of the physical page and, more specifically, to the interactions between punctuation and paratextual systems. By applying a sociopragmatic approach to the concept of the reader model, this thesis demonstrates that systems of punctuation and paratext provide important evidence for the history textual transmission, reader engagement and the development of reading practices.
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Soenmez, Margaret J. M. "English spelling in the seventeenth century : a study of the nature of standardisation as seen through the MS and printed versions of the Duke of Newcastle's 'A New Method ...'." Thesis, Durham University, 1993. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/999/.
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Treacy, Susan. "English Devotional Song of the Seventeenth Century in Printed Collections from 1638 to 1693: A Study of Music and Culture." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331253/.
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Seventeenth-century England witnessed profound historical, theological, and musical changes. A king was overthrown and executed; religion was practiced fervently and disputed hotly; and English musicians fell under the influence of the Italian stile nuovo. Many devotional songs were printed, among them those which reveal influences of this style. These English-texted sacred songs for one to three solo voices with continuo--not based upon a previously- composed hymn or psalm tune—are emphasized in this dissertation. Chapter One treats definitions, past neglect of the genre by scholars, and the problem of ambiguous terminology. Chapter Two is an examination of how religion and politics affected musical life, the hiatus from liturgical music from 1644 to 1660 causing composers to contribute to the flourishing of devotional music for home worship and recreation. Different modes of seventeenth-century devotional life are discussed in Chapter Three. Chapter Four provides documentation for use of devotional music, diaries and memoirs of the period revealing the use of several publications considered in this study. Baroque musical aesthetics applied to devotional song and its raising of the affections towards God are discussed in Chapter Five. Chapter Six traces the influence of Italian monody and sacred concerto on English devotional song. The earliest compositions by an Englishman working in the stile nuovo are Henry Lawes' 1638 hymn tunes with continuo. Collections of two- and three-voice compositions by Child, the Lawes brothers, Wilson, and Porter, published from 1639 to 1657, comprise Chapter Seven, as well as early devotional works of Locke. Chapter Eight treats Restoration devotional song-- compositions for one to three voices and continuo, mostly of a more secular and dramatic style than works discussed in earlier. The outstanding English Baroque composers--Locke, Humfrey, Blow, and Purcell--are represented, and the apex of this style is found in the latest seventeenth-century publication of devotional song, Henry Playford's Harmonia sacra, (1688, 1693).
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Atallah, Bidart Sawsan. "How International News is Constructed : The Case of Arab Spring." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30007.
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Cette thèse utilise une approche de type théorie ancrée, en constituant un corpus de 252 vidéos d’informations, diffusées par Al Jazeera English, Press TV English, Euronews English et France 24 English, sur les événements du Printemps Arabe, pour apporter des réponses aux trois questions suivantes : [QR1] : Comment les institutions dominantes de l’information ont elles affecté le flux de l’information internationale pendant les événements du Printemps Arabe ? [QR2] : Comment les événements du Printemps Arabe furent représentés sous forme de reportages ? Et [QR3] : Comment les contributions à l’information ont-elles été utilisées pour construire les reportages internationaux ? Les vidéos d’informations du corpus sont étudiées à travers une Analyse Critique du Discours. Par conséquent, l’analyse est complémentée par une recherche documentaire et par une recherche empirique, sous la forme d’interviews, sur les institutions dominantes de l’information du Printemps Arabe, comprenant les chaines d’information mentionnées précédemment ainsi que l’agence de presse AFP et l’agence UGC Crowdspark. De plus, les paysages de l’information et des médias du Bahreïn, de l’Egypte, de la Libye, de l’Arabie Saoudite, de la Syrie, de la Tunisie et du Yémen, entre 2011 et 2013, ont également été étudiés à partir de recherche documentaire. Il est apparu que tous ces pays avaient des lois strictes sur l’accès à l’information et la publication, tout particulièrement quand ces informations concernaient les autorités, la religion ou la sécurité du pays, amenant des actes de censure stricts et des menaces, qui ont eux-mêmes conduit à l’autocensure chez les acteurs de l’information locaux et internationaux. Cette recherche a montré que la plupart des événements du Printemps Arabe ont été représentés en utilisant des images des lieux des événements, avec une représentation internationale minime et avec des modèles de représentation de manifestations pacifiques lors des soulèvements en Egypte, en Syrie et au Yémen et des modèles de représentation d’émeutes violentes lors des soulèvement Bahreïnis et Tunisiens. Des modèles mettant en scène la destruction ou des explosions ont pu être observés dans les pays en proie à une quelconque forme de conflit, à savoir en Libye et en Syrie. Les images de mort et de souffrance étaient peu répandues et seulement prédominantes dans les informations représentant la mort de Gaddafi et l’attaque chimique dans le Ghouta. La majorité des interviews d’information ont donné voix aux acteurs importants des événements, par opposition aux experts sur le sujet. L’analyse critique du discours a permis de formuler des théories sur l’utilisation des différents contenus dans les informations internationales, à savoir : les interviews, le contenu amateur, les chiffres et les pourcentages, les citations et le contenu de télévision publique<br>This thesis uses a grounded theory approach, by building a corpus of 252 news videos, broadcast by Al Jazeera English, Press TV English, Euronews English and France 24 English, on events of the Arab Spring, to answer three questions: [RQ1] how did the dominant institutions of information affect international news flow during the events of the Arab Spring? [RQ2] how were the events of the Arab Spring represented in form of news stories? And [RQ3] how was contributed material used to construct international news stories?The news videos from the corpus are analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis, therefore the discourse analysis is complemented by literature, and empirical research in form of interviews, on the dominant information institutions of the Arab Spring, including the aforementioned news channels as well as the news agency AFP and the UGC agency Crowdspark. Additionally, the information and media landscape of Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen between 2011 and 2013 has also been studied using existing literature. It was found that all countries had strict laws against information access or publication, especially if the information was related to authorities, religion or security, leading to strict acts of censorship and threats, which further instilled self-censorship in local and international news actors.This research found that most events of the Arab Spring were represented using footage in the event location, with minimal international representatives and with frames of peaceful demonstrations during the uprisings of Egypt, Syria and Yemen, and frames of violent riots in the Bahraini and Tunisian uprisings. Frames featuring destruction or explosions were observed in countries that experienced some kind of conflict, namely, Libya and Syria. Images of death and suffering were minimal and only evident in news representing the death of Gaddafi and the Ghoutta chemical attack. Majority of news interviews gave a voice to relevant event actors, as opposed to topic experts. The critical discourse analysis produced theories on the usage of various content in international news, namely: interviews, amateur content, figures and percentages, quotes and state TV content
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Drayson, Nick English Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Early developments in the literature of Australian natural history : together with a select bibliography of Australian natural history writing, printed in English, from 1697 to the present." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of English, 1997. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38674.
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Early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of Australia being thought of as deficient and inferior compared with those of other lands. By the 1820s, Australia had become known as ???the land of contrarieties???. This, and Eurocentric attitudes to nature in general, influenced the expectations and perceptions of immigrants throughout the century. Yet at the same time there was developing an aesthetic appreciation of the natural history of Australia. This thesis examines the tension between these two perceptions in the popular natural history writing of the nineteenth century, mainly through the writing of five authors ??? George Bennett (1804-1893), Louisa Anne Meredith (1812-1895), Samuel Hannaford (1937-1874), Horace Wheelwright (1815-1865) and Donald Macdonald (1859?-1932). George Bennett was a scientist, who saw Australian plants and animals more as scientific specimens than objects of beauty. Louisa Meredith perceived them in the familiar language of English romantic poetry. Samuel Hannaford used another language, that of popular British natural history writers of the mid-nineteenth century. To Horace Wheelwright, Australian animals were equally valuable to the sportsman???s gun as to the naturalist???s pen. Donald Macdonald was the only one of these major writers to have been born in Australia. Although proud of his British heritage, he rejoiced in the beauty of his native land. His writing demonstrates his joy, and his novel attitude to Australian natural history continued and developed in the present century.
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McClelland-Nugent, Ruth E. B. "Rebels, heathen, and heretics, the problem of settler identity in printed accounts of English colonial crises, with a particular focus on Ireland, New England, and Virginia, 1640-1700." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ57349.pdf.
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Hunt, Rebecca Jeanne. "A critical edition of the early printed text of the Gospel of Nicodemus with an extended introduction examining the portrayal of hell in old and middle English literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296436.
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Полежай, А., Галина Валеріївна Чуланова, Галина Валериевна Чуланова та Halyna Valeriivna Chulanova. "Мовні засоби увиразнення рекламних текстів". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/76944.
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Об’єктом дослідження є англомовні друковані рекламні тексти.
Предметом дослідження виступають їх лексико-семантичні особливості.
Матеріалом дослідження є англомовні рекламні тексти провідних
зарубіжних компаній. Мета роботи полягає у вивченні лексико-семантичних
особливостей друкованих рекламних текстів.
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Hwang, Jonh Min, and 黃仲民. "An experimental study of chinese-english-mixed information plays printed by printer." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52396680451076411268.
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碩士<br>東吳大學<br>管理科學研究所<br>81<br>This study examined the reading performance of chinese- english-
mixed articles processed on computer and printed by printer. An
experiment was conducted in order to find reasonable printing
forms. There were four independent variables : (1) cha- racter
density（D, three levels）, (2) character spacing（X, three
levels）, (3) line spacing（L, three levels）, (4) display
format（fm or fk）and four dependent variables : (1) fault de-
tection, (2) visual fatigue, (3) reading speed, (4)
comprehension level in the experiment design. Forty-five
undergraduate students whose sight were equivalent participated
in this experiment. Re- sults of this study indicated that (1)
in character size, the most reasonable desnity for reading is
D1 level; (2) in character spacing, X4 is the best level for
reading; (3) there is no signi- ficant difference in reading
performance among three line spaces; And (4) there is almost no
significant difference in reading per- formance between Ming
style (fm) and KasShu style (fk). Additi- onally, double space
(L25) printing style is used popularly. Th- erefore, D1X4L25 is
the most reasonable printing form in chinese english-mixed
articles.
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Yeh, Chia-Lin, and 葉嘉霖. "Recognition of English Alphabets and Numerals in Ill-Printed Name Cards." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92519386325794119384.
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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>資訊工程系<br>88<br>In this thesis, we design a procedure for recognizing characters in name cards. The procedure consists of three main operations: character recognition kernel, character segmentation, and correction of recognition results. In the first phase, we get possible isolated characters by performing the pre-processing, which includes binarization, skewing angle detection and straighten, italicness detection, smoothing, and connected-components extraction. We project the bounding rectangles of connected-components from left to right on the horizontal direction. Four typographical lines of single text lines are determined by projection analysis. Then, the components are recognized by a statistical multi-font recognition kernel. To detect touched characters, we use three measurements include aspect ratio, recognition cost and horizontal crossing-count. In the character segmentation phase, we develop a two-stage character segmentation module to segment the touched characters. In the first stage, we find the breaking points by projection analysis. If all possible segmentations have bad recognition results in the first stage, we use outline analysis to find other breaking points in the second stage. In order to solve the problems of broken characters, the merging process are give in our system. We try to merge consecutive and close characters that are either thin characters (small aspect ratio) or fragments (such as "," and "."). We analysis the recognition results of merging characters to decide whether accept or not. In some dual-lingual systems, such as Chinese-English name card understanding systems, we propose three measurements of confidence values that determine which language connected-components belong to. Then, either the Chinese OCR kernel or the English OCR kernel will recognize connected-components. Finally, the geometric properties, contextual information and disambiguation by structural difference are used to correct the recognition results. By rejecting impossibilities, the correct classes may eventually be promoted to the first candidate. Moreover, characters that have the same shape in capital and lower cases are justified according to their geometric properties.
In our experiments, we extracted about 10,000 single characters and 479 touched characters from more than 300 English business name cards as test samples. Besides, we also collected 336 images of text lines to test the four typographical lines determination module. The recognition rate for single characters was 99.47%. 92.90% of touched characters were correctly segmented. The accuracy of determining four typographical lines was 98.51%.
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Chen, Chin-Hsiung, and 陳錦雄. "Portable Bluetooth Real-Time Recognition System for Machine Printed English Documentation." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4582y3.
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碩士<br>國立臺北科技大學<br>自動化科技研究所<br>98<br>The research of document analysis and recognition is put into practice for long time and applied popularly. It plays the leading role in the digitalization process. The commonest way is that it makes use of a flatbed scanner with big size via a long waiting of document scanning and then transmits the image data to PC (Personal Computer) simultaneously via a wired connection. The transmitted images are used in advanced processing, analysis, recognition as well as back-up of a suite of application program.
In order to improve the efficiency and convenience of the application, the thesis proposes a low cost and portable opto-mechanism to grab the article or the paragraph of English machine printed publication. Furthermore, the algorithms of fast recognition are implemented on DSP (Digital Signal Processer). The recognition results of ROI (Region of Interest) are not only displayed on a LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitor but also transmitted to PC via data transmission technology of Bluetooth. These data of the recognition results can provide PC with the usage of relevant applications in the future. Finally, an amount of experimental results verify that the proposed recognition system can rapidly and correctly recognize the article or the paragraph of English machine printed publication.
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Wang, Wei-Chuan, and 王偉全. "A Comparative Study on the Processes of Reading English Printed Text and Online Text for the elementary learner." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41264552003364758349.
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碩士<br>國立東華大學<br>國民教育研究所<br>98<br>This study has three goals: (1) to explore the strategies an elementary EFL
learner uses in the process of reading print stories and online ones; (2) to compare the
differences between these two reading models, and (3) to look into the process and
give some interpretations.
The primary tool of the research to collect the oral data is miscue analysis. The
participant of the study is a fifth grader in a public elementary school. The
participant’s English level is average; she has some basic knowledge about how to use
a computer and to surf the Internet.
Before conducting the research, the female participant had an interview; then the
participant was required to respectively read aloud two printed children’s books as
well as two online ones. Right after reading each story, the participant was asked to
retell the story she had just read. All the miscue in the data was analyzed and yielded
three findings.
First, the language cue the participant used was graphophonic, and her spelling
varied in accordance with the length of the new words. Second, she mainly used the
illustration in the stories as a nonverbal cue but seldom understood the text by her
background knowledge. Third, during the process of reading the four stories, she
gradually corrected herself; she gave up the strategies of skip and pause. In addition,
the more difficult the text was, the more correcting strategies she used. These
phenomena apply to both reading processes.
This study suggests that teachers should teach students to comprehend more as
they read, encourage students to apply their background knowledge to reading, use
alternative teaching resources such as the Internet and picture books, help students
learn more about the structure of stories, teach them additional reading strategies, and
discuss the authors’ intentions and students’ own interpretations, building a new
“Transaction Model.”
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Wei, Rui-Ying, and 魏睿瑩. "Taiwanese Senior High School Students’ Preferences for the Use of Printed and Digitalized Versions of English Supplementary Materials." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49729709612304392897.
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碩士<br>國立高雄第一科技大學<br>應用英語系應用語言學與英語教學碩士班<br>103<br>This study aimed to investigate the preferences for printed or digitalized version of English supplementary materials used by senior high school students in Taiwan. A survey research design was adopted to collect data from a large number of participants. A total of 434 students from two regular senior high schools were recruited in this study. Of all the participants, 142 of them were first-year students, 168 of them were second-year students, and 124 of them were third-year students. A four-part questionnaire was employed to collect the data needed. Part I investigates the participants’ background information. Part II examines the relationship between the participants’ frequency of learning English online and their learning preference. Part III identifies the participants’ experience of using English supplementary materials. Part IV explores the participants’ preference for the use of printed version or digitalized version of English supplementary materials.
There were four major results obtained from this study. First, the students who had not taken a proficiency examination before were found to prefer using the printed version of English supplementary materials. Second, the less time the students spent on using electronic devices, the more likely they were to choose to use the printed version of supplementary materials. Third, the top five printed version of supplementary materials used by the students were the Basic Studio Classroom, Let’s Talk in English, grammar books, materials made by the teacher, and entrance exam practice questions. As for the digitalized version of supplementary materials, Studio Classroom, Let''s Talk in English, and CNN were rated the top three. Fourth, the students preferred the printed version of supplementary materials to the digitalized version of supplementary materials. They perceived the usefulness of printed supplementary materials in improving their reading skills and preparing for the entrance examination. Finally, this study proposed pedagogical implications and suggestions for future research.
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"The Critical Reception of Herta Müller in the German and English Printed Media Before and After the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8966.
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abstract: After being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009, Herta Müller attained great prominence around the world. Commentators, especially in English-speaking countries, seemed shocked by the decision. One of the primary concerns was that Müller was relatively unknown. This thesis seeks to address this and other concerns by looking at reviews of her works in German- and English-language publications both before and after the Nobel Prize was awarded. This thesis analyses chronologically the reception of her books beginning with Niederungen in 1982 and ending with the reception of her novel Atemschaukel in 2009. It compares the reception of the original German text to that of the English translation; therefore only works which have been translated and published in English are discussed. The study also shows that while Müller's work did not top the bestseller charts, at least before the Nobel Prize, she was hardly the completely unknown author that some in the English-language media believed. This thesis seeks to present trends in the reception as well as provide a basis for further study of the reception of Herta Müller.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>M.A. German 2011
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Makamani, Rewai. "Linguistic and discursive strategies in media representations of HIV and AIDS healthcare policy in Zimbabwe : a critical analysis of selected printed discourse in Shona and English." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13228.
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This study sought to examine linguistic and discursive strategies used to construct messages reflective of the implementation of the HIV and AIDS policy for Zimbabwe of 1999 by government and private newspapers. Such analysis was perceived to be important since media content has a bearing on Zimbabweans‘ perception and attitudes regarding HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and control. The study was aimed at comparing messages from newspapers with views by the people of Zimbabwe regarding the implementation of the policy. Findings reveal that empowerment programmes particularly those targeting women and children are lagging behind as Zimbabweans, literature and newspaper data sources testify. In addition, information sources concur that cultural (For example, stigmatisation, polygamy, religious practices, spouse inheritance) and structural (For example, patriarchy, masculinity, bureaucracy, politics) are stumbling blocks that negatively affect the implementation of the policy. Further, even though private and government newspapers do not fully agree on the portrayal of human agents, there is a general consensus between newspaper reports and Zimbabweans that people still face socio-economic and econo-political challenges that militate against the smooth implementation of the HIV and AIDS policy. Government newspapers tend to downplay aspects which reveal inadequacies of government activities. The study notes this as betrayal of use of ideological squares both by government and private newspapers whereby certain aspects regarding the implementation of the policy are either downplayed or highlighted to influence perception. The study reveals that newspaper reports used nominalisation, quantification, positive politeness, thematisation, rhematisation, intertextuality, euphemism, proverbs, idioms, action verbs, metaphors and citation of experts as linguistic and discursive strategies both for agenda setting and building purposes regarding the implementation of the HIV and AIDS policy. Other devices used particularly in the encoding of Operation Murambatsvina are, claptraps, deictic referencing, personal pronouns, adjectives and direct speech. The study attributes problems regarding the Zimbabwean HIV and AIDS intervention model to the top – down approach inherent in the policy. Hence, the call for an adoption of an unhu/hunhu/ubuntu inspired bottom – up HIV and AIDS intervention model in Zimbabwe. This would inculcate pro-family, pro-village, pro-nation/people and ―servant leadership‖ (Mangena and Chitando, 2011) values in the fight against the pandemic through the embracing of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). Unfortunately, such values largely continue to elude the radar of the current top – down HIV and AIDS intervention model cuurently in use in Zimbabwe.<br>African Languages<br>D. Litt et Phil. (African Languages)