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Stein, Karen. "Find Meaning Make Meaning." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1657.

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Employing the designer William Morris as a source of inspiration, this project seeks to explore the call for nature and beauty as a part of our lives. Moreover, it interweaves the necessity for experience of the sensual world (the five senses) with the cerebral world (a requisite to igniting the internal imagination)—a concept embodied in the form of the book. It advocates a redefining of the book as an imagination sculpture (the external and the internal) reflecting this new definition.

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Blakeney, Alda Marcia. "Making Meaning, Out of Meaning Making." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/62.

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Abstract Making Meaning, Out of Meaning Making by Alda M. Blakeney This study examines the ways in which three elementary teachers appropriated and implemented a defined literacy curriculum in their classrooms. The overarching question guiding the study is, “What are the social and cultural patterns of meaning making in the literacy practices of three elementary teachers?” The study is framed by sociocultural perspectives of learning (Bourdieu, 1986; Gee, n.d; Vygotsky, 1978). Literacy practices involve the cultural, social, political, and historical ways of interacting and making sense of

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Jordan, Anne. "Material Meaning." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2789.

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The synthesis of old and new, analog and digital, and hand- and computer-based methods provides designers with an opportunity to work beyond the constraints of the computer and take advantage of the aesthetic effects that actual materials bring to visual communication. Designers who choose to actively participate in their process – bringing the aesthetic effects of working materially into the realm of the digital – will likely learn to reject an approach that relies too heavily on passive digital tools. Active participation in the design process can extend our creative vocabulary and humanize

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Patton, Kamau Amu. "Making meaning /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Arrigo, Michael Tood. "Image as metaphor, metaphor as meaning, meaning as existance." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1303412484.

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Lockler, Tori Chambers. "The Meaning of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5729.

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Dissonance exists in efforts to communicate about suffering and despair. Showcasing common societal flawed reactions to despair begs for discourse to create a more communicatively healthy response. Attempting to communicate the suffering of others and feeling like I was failing at that goal led to my own suffering. Using writing as a method of personal healing created an intersection of personal narratives of suffering and victim’s narratives (which can arguable only allow for the co-opting of the story and narcissism). Grappling with the limits of writing to heal provided a lens to see the vi

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Reichl, Veronika Anna. "Meaning matches meaning : animated film as metaphor for philosophical texts." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.478932.

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Mangram, Jeffery A. "Struggles over meaning /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.

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McDuff, Jennifer. "Walking with meaning." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44654.

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Today, increasing physical activity is being promoted as one of the most effective interventions for enhancing overall health and quality of life, especially for older people. Research has clearly shown that adequate exercise reduces risk for certain diseases, lowers the risk for impaired mobility and prevents cognitive decline. Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence regarding the benefits of exercising regularly, many older adults do not engage in this form of physical activity. Given our need to better understand how to promote healthy aging in this growing population, there is an eme

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Hendershot, David Lee. "Architecture, meaning, narrative." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23174.

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Lievers, Menno. "Knowledge of meaning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363634.

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Tan, Yoo Guan. "Sense and meaning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316794.

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Pinder, Mark. "Meaning and paradox." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627928.

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The general theme of this dissertation is meaning and paradox. Or, more precisely, how accounts of the metaphysical determination of meaning are affected by the semantic paradoxes. I focus in particular on those accounts within the Davidsonian tradition-whose key characteristic, roughly speaking, I take to be a commitment to Davidsonian semantics. The question that drives the discussion is as follows. Which (if any) accounts of meaning within the Davidsonian tradition are compatible with the fact that semantic paradoxes arise in natural language? Throughout the dissertation, I use the liar par

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Stanley, Jason. "Meaning and metatheory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11347.

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Подолкова, Світлана Віталіївна, Светлана Витальевна Подолкова, Svitlana Vitaliivna Podolkova, and T. Fedchenko. "Language and meaning." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/21949.

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Derry, Sean Michael. "Homofaber: Making Meaning." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392050357.

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Metz, Alexander Johan. "Meaning in Apocalypse." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1590800369838626.

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Wiberg, Joan. "Layers of Meaning." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2355.

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My artwork reflects my search for my own artistic voice. Life demands examination from me at inconvenient times, but with the intention of growing as a person I proceed willingly, and as an artist, equipped with a paintbrush. My search has led me to discover new materials and techniques and my structured self-reflection has uncovered a new source of inspiration. I now combine the physical layering of art materials with layers of personal meaning as well. My work has an autobiographical theme which I have interpreted through the filter of my sense of humor. Working so intimately with my o

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Corigliano, Michael. "Materials and Meaning." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3270.

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Decisive moments and their fleeting experiences are born from an individual’s interaction within a defined physical space. It is here at the intersection of environment and context that my work in site-specific art begins. I endeavor to create an examination of socio-political and environmental issues through a manipulation of materials, thereby altering one’s private, communal, and cultural response to them. My installations are comprised of slip casted multiples which reference the human form. I place these forms in galleries and specific exterior locations, and incorporate materials tha

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Sosa, Nicholas. "Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places: The Search for Meaning After Direct and Indirect Meaning Compensation." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1486982633785334.

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Gundogdu, Ercument. "The anatomy of the text form, dialogical-meaning vs. communicative-meaning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58710.pdf.

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Juhl, Jacob. "Finding Meaning in Misery: Can Stressful Situations Provide Meaning in Life?" Diss., North Dakota State University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27033.

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Theory and research investigating the relationship between affective experiences and meaning in life have focused on how positive affect contributes to perceptions of meaning in life. No work has considered how people can attain meaning in life while experiencing negative affect. The present work tested whether affectively negative circumstances can provide meaning in life. Specifically, two studies, using distinct methodologies, tested whether people can attain meaning in life while experiencing the stress associated with goal-pursuit. In Study 1, the salience of stressful college-related goa

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Braden, Abby L. "SEARCHING FOR MEANING: AN INVESTIGATION OF LIFE MEANING IN DEPRESSED ADULTS." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1323833652.

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Bultinck, Bert. "Numerous meanings : the meaning of English cardinals and the legacy of Paul Grice /." Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005053106-d.html.

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Cozzo, Cesare. "Meaning and argument : a theory of meaning centred on immediate argumental role." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 1994. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-81615.

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Litty, Jamie M. "Audience, relevance, sound : meaning structures and structuring meaning in public radio journalism /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402544588394.

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Mennie, Christopher. "Giving Meaning to Macros." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1041.

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With the prevalence of legacy C/C++ code, issues of readability and maintainability have become increasingly important. When we consider the problem of refactoring or migrating C/C++ code, we see the significant role that preprocessor directives play. It is partially because of these preprocessor directives that code maintenance has become extremely difficult. This thesis describes a method of fact extraction and code manipulation to create a set of transformations which will remove preprocessor directives from the original source, converting them into regular C/C++ code with as few

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Comeau, Margaret Nancy. "The normativity of meaning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq24818.pdf.

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Fair, Laura. "Music, memory and meaning." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-92319.

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I his paper examines the music and career of Siti binti Saadi, a famous taarab musician who performed in Zanzibar during the 1920s and 1930s. Relying on four distinctive types of evidence: her recorded music, written documentation produced in East Africa, interviews with men and women who heard her perform and records of company executives I compare perspectives regarding the source of power and authority attributed to her voice as well as the meaning of her music. Siti binti Saadi was the first East African to have her voice captured and reproduced on 78 rpm gramophone disks. The production o

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Öberg, Åsa. "Innovation driven by meaning." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-15951.

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Hi-tech companies that want to innovate their products use, quite often, and quite naturally, technology as a driver. But, technology is only one of several drivers of change within product development. It is becoming more and more accessible and alone, cannot serve as the only mean to stay competitive. This research sheds light on a different driver of innovation – namely, through the perspective of “meaning”. An innovation, driven by the search for a new meaning of a product, is connected to the purpose of “why” a product is used. It is not about “how” it is used. In this sense, innovations

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Breckenridge, Wylie. "The meaning of 'look'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440488.

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Williams, S. G. "Meaning, validity and necessity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354816.

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Wilson, Fiona. "Skill and its meaning." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377592.

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Quezada-Pulido, Wilfredo. "Anaphora, meaning and representation." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/anaphora-meaning-and-representation(3d523a71-59d8-42a4-80ce-b60f2b00c25f).html.

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Whiting, Daniel. "Meaning, use and reduction." Thesis, University of Reading, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428294.

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Cooper, Harold Blake. "Learning meaning in Genesis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53159.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 53).<br>GENESIS is an existing software system for understanding and reasoning about language and vision. One of the modules in GENESIS uses about 1000 lines of Java code representing 31 rules to turn English sentences into a variety of more meaningful semantic representations. I reproduced the functionality of these rules by training the existing rule-learning program UNDERSTAND with 43 human-readable examples of English sentences and

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Al-Shunnaq, A. A. T. "Meaning and back translation." Thesis, University of Salford, 2014. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/31662/.

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This thesis sets out to contribute to the literature on back translation, a mode of translation that has not been seriously investigated. The study aims at investigating the reliability of back translation as a research tool with particular emphasis on the issues of explicitation and implicitation shifts. The investigation corpus consists of two contemporary American-English novels, At Risk by Patricia Cornwell and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and their translations into Arabic as "قلب الخطر" and"الطريق" respectively. One chapter from the former novel and a number of sections from the latter n

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Knott, Hugh Andrew. "An instinct for meaning." Thesis, Swansea University, 2002. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42286.

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The relationship between language and human action is a pervasive theme of Wittgenstein's writings. And yet explicit references to the essentially instinctive nature of the actions into which language is woven are sparse. This thesis, by explanation and by the further development of these few remarks, aims to advance our understanding of the role of instinctive reactions in the formation and possession of our concepts. Wittgenstein has been criticised - rightly or wrongly - for viewing language too much on the model of the application of a technique, as if speaking were merely a system of rule

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Hawkes, James Paul. "The rediscovery of meaning." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53168.

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Romans 1: 20 For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so men are without excuse. Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. Joshua 4:5-7 Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, "What do these stones mean?", tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the Ark

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Brockway, Zoe, Tim Cunningham, Lucia Hye Yoon Joo, Jessica Pedroza, and Michelle Plotkin. "Art as Meaning Making." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2019. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/776.

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This project examines the meaning-making of art through multiple disciplinary lenses: Art Therapy, Art History, Studio Art, Art Education and Anthropology. Disciplines were selected for their inherent ability to enhance an understanding of meaning-making through the art making process and art product. An arts-based methodology was utilized in conjunction with the Outliers and American Vanguard Art exhibition at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which featured a juxtaposition of formally trained and self-taught artists. Each of the five researchers selected a piece of art included i

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Murphy, Anthony Paul. "The Meaning of Wilderness /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382635546.

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Verticchio, Matthew. "The Problem of Meaning." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555437717271275.

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Kinch, Erin Brinkman. "A Hint of Meaning." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4733/.

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A Hint of Meaning contains a scholarly preface, "Language, Experimentation, and Craft: Creating a Vivid, Continuous Fictional Dream," that discusses the ambiguities of language and how they relate to different aspects of the craft of writing. Six original short stories follow the preface. "Musical Chairs" explores a woman's conflicting emotions about her ex-husband. "Baby Steps" depicts the struggle of a woman against her father's alcoholism. "Go Home Happy" depicts a day in the life of a video store employee. "Bargain Basement Perfection" contrasts the reality of a relationship with an imagi

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Uings, David John. "Mind, meaning and miscommunication." Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/355/.

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Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.<br>M.Phil. thesis submitted to the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Wolfe, Traci. "Digging deep for meaning." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008wolfet.pdf.

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Klein, Michael. "Brain, meaning, and computation." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-29866.

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Campbell, William James. "Meaning in legal texts." Thesis, Campbell, William James (1990) Meaning in legal texts. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 1990. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/42483/.

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The aim of this minor dissertation is to contribute to recent attempts at theorizing and re-evaluating legal texts. From this broad perspective, the concepts of "dehiscence", "iterability", "parasitism" and "undecidable contamination" provide a useful way of understanding how meaning in legal judgments is circulated and valorised. Significant parts of the process of meaning construction in legal judgments rely on propositional stipulation and imaginative projection and so also do our acts of meaning construction which we perform on all legal texts. These include prosodic contour, relating part

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Constantinou, H. "Intensifiers : meaning and distribution." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1431321/.

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This monograph explores the meaning and distribution of intensifiers (otherwise referred to as emphatic reflexives). Intensifiers are invariably stressed and anaphorically dependent on a nominal antecedent. Their use induces alternatives, an indication that their prosodic prominence results from some sort of information-structural marking. An intensifier can adjoin directly to its antecedent or to some clausal projection. The first part of the monograph is concerned with the meaning of intensifiers. Depending on its distribution, an intensifier may take up to three radically different readings

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Hill, Stephanie Lee. "The meaning of diabetes." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12420.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>The purpose of this study is to understand the health beliefs and behaviors of Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian adults' living with Type 2 diabetes in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Massachusetts. What explana

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Ackerman, Julie. "Musical motion and meaning." Thesis, Boston University, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/30661.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>In this thesis, I argue that musical motion takes the place of 'content' as the bridge between form and meaning in the context of instrumental music - music without text, program, or any other verbal indicatio

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