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Ittzes, Zsuzsanna 1968. "Written conversation: Investigating communicative foreign language use in written form in computer conference writing and group journals." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282366.

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The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the use of German as a foreign language during written conversation in an intermediate German course. Specifically, the study compared the language output of intermediate students of German in the context of the innovative computer conferencing and the more traditional group journals. The dissertation aimed to serve two purposes: (1) to provide further insights into the role of computer-mediated interaction for promoting the successful development of communicative competence in foreign language pedagogy (both in theory and practice); (2) to shed light on the quality of language that learners produce in the two writing contexts, in terms of grammatical and lexical accuracy, sociolinguistic appropriateness and communicative success. For these purposes, the researcher analyzed the language output of 46 subjects at the University of Arizona during the Fall semester of 1996. Learners' language output was examined using statistical analyses (matched t-tests and multiple regression analyses), discourse analysis and the ethnography of writing. The results indicated many differences of the language produced in the two writing contexts. Although there was no difference between them in terms of lexical diversity, learners' language in computer conferencing reflects a higher level of grammatical accuracy, richer lexicon and improved comprehensibility (as rated by native speaker judges). Furthermore, learners had a more positive attitude towards the computer conferencing than towards the group journals. Learners were also found to use the two writing contexts for different communicative purposes (computer conferencing reflected interaction among participants, while group journals were monologues). Finally, learners managed conversations, and prevented or resolved instances of miscommunication, differently in the two conversational contexts. In conclusion, it can be said that the results of this study concur with previous research that supports the beneficial implementation of computer-mediated interaction in foreign language pedagogical contexts (Healy Beauvois, 1995; Kern, 1995; Leppainen and Kalaja, 1995). This dissertation was also able to contribute to our understanding of the level and quality of interlanguage of intermediate German learners, to our knowledge of how writing context and purpose interact, and to our understanding of the process of pidginization in foreign language learning contexts.

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Cohn, Maxwell Harrison. "The Mechanical Aspirations of Written Things in Sterne's Tristram Shandy." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1400274171.

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Main, Sarah. ""Enacting the Story of Her Life": The Written Legacies and Enduring Mis/Perceptions of Zelda Fitzgerald." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564749555581709.

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White, Kayla A. Ms. "Comics and Illustration from the Written; The Conversion of a Story from Prose to Graphic Depiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/210.

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This is a thesis that details the process of writing a short 30 page novel, and then converting the subsequent story into a graphic format via illustrations and into a comic book layout. The story itself deals in reworking our learned assumptions of good and evil, specifically in the supernatural and human possibility for both. The comic book format is an exploration of my reader’s different responses to the written and the graphic.

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Barga, Rachel M. "Sex Theory: Theology of the Body as Literary Criticism." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1304527876.

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Ebert, Cynthia C. "The Writer in the Early Soviet Union| A Study in Leadership." Thesis, Franklin Pierce University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3730809.

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This study will focus on the role of the writer during the early years of the Soviet Union (1920–1935) through the example of the life and works of Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov’s literary career paralleled Josef Stalin’s rise to supreme power over not only the Communist Party but the Soviet Union and its citizens. As Bulgakov struggled to publish and stage his works, the Soviet government under Stalin strengthened its resolve to utilize writers to educate the masses in the correct behaviors and values of good Soviet citizens. Each demonstrated his own leadership style: as Stalin evolved into a strong Authoritarian Leader, Bulgakov ‘s survival depended upon his Adaptive Leadership skills. Stalin’s greatest successes were during his lifetime; Bulgakov’s followed his death as the Soviet Union declined and his works were published. Research questions include the role of the writer in his contemporary society and the writer’s ability to influence his contemporary society through his own survival in an authoritarian society but the survival of his works for audiences in other times and places. Bulgakov could not compromise his artistic vision, Stalin, although he recognized and appreciated talent, could not compromise his ideological convictions. The result was a complex relationship between two prominent figures whose leadership styles as much as their differing viewpoints dictated the course of their actions.

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Cox, Emma Lucie Frances. "Robert Walser as a model for the modern Swiss writer." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260088.

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Ignatov, Mikhail Sergeevich. "Body in Motion: Furukawa Hideo, Writer for the Multimedia Age." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144389.

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The purpose of this study is to serve as an introduction of the work of the contemporary Japanese author, Furukawa Hideo (b. 1966), to the Anglophone audience. I consider Furukawa to be a member of the 'post-Murakami' generation, not only in terms of chronology but also in terms of influence. Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) left an identifiable impact on Furukawa's fiction, however it would be erroneous to consider Furukawa a Murakami imitator. In this study, I attempt to highlight the elements that make Furukawa unique as an author; specifically his careful manipulation of the theme-space matrix, and his fast-paced style influenced by Furukawa's performances of his own literary works, and collaboration with musicians, which reflects Furukawa's position in the center of the contemporary cultural trend towards multimedia integration.

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Osman, Mirghani El-Sayed. "On the communicative role of word order in written modern standard Arabic : a contribution to functional linguistics." Thesis, University of Salford, 1989. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2186/.

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The majority of the available studies which have been done on word order in Arabic are derived from improvised and restricted data taken from the classical variety of Arabic. ALL these studies are generatively-oriented, and consequently their main concern was to find out which word order is the basic one and which orders derive from it. In brief, all these studies are basically structural and have very little, if anything, to do with the situations in which the language was used or with the factors that motivated it's use. We think that such treatments are inadequate, because: (1) the modern standard variety has been totally neglected, and (2) the basic functions of Language as a tool of human communication is not accounted for by these studies. To make up for these inadequacies we are going to approach the issue of word order from a functional vantage point which seeks to relate the structure and it's function. Secondly, we will choose 'Modern Standard Arabic' to be our field of inquiry. Thirdly, all the examples which we are going to discuss will be taken from concrete linguistic situations. We intend to test the following hypotheses: 1. The traditional dichotomy of word order in marked/unmarked terms at the sentence level is unsatisfactory. 2. It is useful to differentiate between basicness and unmarkedness of word order. 3. The frequency with which each word order type occurs may depend on the type of text, and the attitude of the writer towards his/her addressees. 4. A switch from a certain word order-type to another within the same text can sometimes be determined by a shift in the text-typologicalfocus. 5. Permutations of sentence constituents in Arabic sometimes change the grammatical status of the constituents permuted and sometimes do not. 6. The Principle of Functional Sentence Perspective has great influence in Arabic Language, 7. Passivization as a syntactic device influences the order of words in Arabic. 8. Reasons for having different word orders in Arabic can be elucidated by appealing to other cornrnunicative considerations. 9. Different word orders in Arabic serve semantic, syntactic and pragmatic functions.

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Yocco, Caitlin A. "The Plight of the Surrealist Writer: Intimacy in Public Space." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1341938809.

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Del, Greco Robert J. "Democratic Korea: Expatriate Koreans in Japan Write Against Empire." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543587011389464.

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Kremer, Jessica M. "Creating and Negotiating Narratives: Understanding the Positionality of Hayashi Fumiko." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/819.

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Through examining the positionality of Hayashi Fumiko as well as the changing socio-political, economic and historical contexts in which she lived in, I look to better understand how Hayashi navigated through the patriarchal systems of society as a woman writer. This thesis includes a survey of the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods as well as a comparative analysis of Hayashi's prewar, interwar and post-war works.

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Amilitou, Eftychia. "L'écrivain et le camelot. Enjeux d'une littérature de presse dans les romans "athéniens" (1913-1945) de Gr. Xenopoulos." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030159.

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Ce travail a pour objectif la mise en évidence des interférences entre la presse et la littérature. en étudiant les "romans athéniens" de Grigorios Xénopoulos, publiés en feuilleton entre 1913 et 1945 dans la presse athénienne, nous examinons le champ littéraire et journalistique grec depuis la fin du XIXe siècle et jusqu’à la deuxième guerre mondiale, la description de l’espace urbain (Athènes) et la présence de l’interdiscours dans les romans. Nous traitons le corpus dans l’optique d’une littérature de presse, médiatique et largement accessible. Enfin, dans le sillage de l’analyse du discours et particulièrement de la nouvelle rhétorique, nous examinons la dimension argumentative des textes et l’image de l’auteur dans la fiction, telle qu’elle est perçue notamment à travers le réseau intertextuel
This work aspires to the description of the connection between the press and the literature. by studying Grigorios Xenopoulos’"Athenian novels", published in serial form between 1913 and 1945 in the Athenian press, I examine the greek literary and journalistic field from the end of the 19th century until the world war II, the description of the urbain space (Athens) and the interdiscourse in the novels. the corpus is treated from the point of view of the media and the largely accessible press literature. Finally, following on from the discourse analysis and in particular from the new rhetoric, I examine the argumentative dimension of the texts and the image of the author in fiction, as it is perceived in particular through the intertextual network

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Zatloukal, Jan. "L'exil de Jan Cep : contribution à l’histoire de la littérature tchèque moderne." Thesis, Paris Est, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PEST0025/document.

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L’écrivain tchèque Jan Cep (1902-1974), qui compta au nombre des médiateurs importants des rapports culturels franco-tchèques dans l’entre-deux-guerres, fut, à la suite du Coup de Prague en 1948, contraint à quitter son pays. Ami et traducteur de Pourrat et de Bernanos, il choisit naturellement la France comme patrie d’adoption. L’exil parisien s’avère pour Cep une rude épreuve existentielle. Conditions matérielles dures, déracinement linguistique, manque d’écho favorable pour son oeuvre, tout cela fait que Cep vit en marge de la vie littéraire française. Il s’engage d’autant plus dans diverses structures de l’émigration tchèque, notamment dans la rédaction tchécoslovaque de Radio Free Europe où il déploie son art de l’essai dans des méditations imprégnées d’humanisme chrétien. L’essai autobiographique Ma soeur l’angoisse que Cep écrivit directement en français dans les années 1960, représente la somme de sa vie et de sa pensée
The Czech writer Jan Cep (1902-1974), one of important mediators of French-Czech cultural relations between the two World Wars, was forced to emigrate after the Communist coup in 1948. As Cep was the friend and translator of Pourrat and Bernanos, he naturally chose France as his adoptive homeland. Nevertheless, exile in Paris turned into a harsh existential ordeal for Cep. Difficult material conditions, linguistic disunity, and the fact that his writing was not accepted by a new audience made Cep an outsider in a French literary life. This status led to his increased involvement in the Czech émigré community, especially work on the Czechoslovak editorial staff of Radio Free Europe, where he developed his essay style in meditations infused with Christian humanism. The autobiographical essay My Sister Anxiety, written in French in the 1960s, repesents a summary of Cep’s life and ideas
Ceský spisovatel Jan Cep (1902-1974), jeden z významných prostredníku meziválecných cesko-francouzských kulturních vztahu, byl po komunistickém puci v roce 1948 prinucen k emigraci. Jako prítel a prekladatel Pourratuv a Bernanosuv si za svou adoptivní vlast zcela prirozene zvolil Francii. Parížský exil se však Cepovi stal drsnou existenciální zkouškou. Tvrdé materiální podmínky, jazyková rozpolcenost, neprijetí jeho díla novým publikem, to vše je prícinou, že Cepuv exil se odehrál na okraji francouzského literárního života. O to více se Cep zapojoval do ruzných struktur ceské emigrace. Zcela mimorádný byl jeho prínos v ceskoslovenské redakci Rádia Svobodná Evropa, kde rozvinul své umení eseje v meditacích skrz naskrz proniklých krestanským humanismem. Sumu svého života a myšlení podal Cep v autobiografickém eseji Sestra úzkost, kterou napsal v šedesátých letech prímo francouzsky

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Pouchet, Anne-Marie Denise. "LA SENSIBILIDAD CATOLICA DE JUAN MANUEL DE PRADA: ESCRITOR DE FICCION Y PERIODISTA." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1296659667.

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Ntuli, Cynthia Daphne. "From oral performance to picture books: a perspective on Zulu children’s literature." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4793.

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While over the years stakeholders such as publishers and academics have taken a keen interest in research into writing and publishing, they have been less concerned about research into indigenous children‟s literature. In this thesis a comprehensive examination of children‟s literature in the indigenous African languages of South Africa and in Zulu in particular, is presented. Qualitative research methods have been applied, using questionnaires and interviews to gain first-hand knowledge of problems and possible solutions to the dearth of original children‟s literature in the indigenous languages. The data obtained in this regard has proved invaluable to the researcher and, hopefully, will be so to others in the future. Oral folktales narrated before the influence of the missionaries qualify as children‟s literature. The transition from the oral performance of these folktales to the reading of written children‟s texts is discussed in detail. This is achieved by considering the milieu, themes, content, functions and values of this children‟s literature. The discussion of imilolozelo (lullabies) and izilandelo/izidlaliso (game songs) presents the genre of children‟s traditional oral poetry as a form of performance based not only on narrative but also on songs and/or chants interspersed with rhythmical movements to relay their message. Zulu school readers as modern literature for children are also examined by tracing their background and the development of original Zulu children‟s written literature since it was first recorded by the missionaries. Contents and themes of these early readers, dating from the 1800s, are examined and compared with a series of graded readers published in 1962 by C.L.S. Nyembezi. The sixth chapter of the thesis investigates Zulu children‟s picture books as contemporary literature. Various types of picture books and their functions are discussed. Research findings point to an urgent need for the training of African authors in the writing of age-appropriate books in indigenous African languages. Lastly, the study proves that it is feasible to regard traditional oral and modern indigenous texts as children‟s literature.
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Kgobe, Dominic Mamahlo. "Content, form and technique of traditional and modern praise poetry in Northern Sotho." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17072.

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This thesis is a critical evaluation of the content, form and technique of traditional and modern praise poetry in Northern Sotho. Chapter 1 presents the aim of the study and the method of research and defines the concepts of poetry and praise poetry. Praise poetry is viewed from a traditional and modern perspective. Chapter 2 deals with the content and technique of praise poetry. Content consists of oral praise poetry lauding the heroic deeds of men in battles and casual encounters. Modern praise poetry comments on current events. Devices for rapid composition of the praises are discussed. Techniques differ between poets and according to time, place and occasion. Chapter 3 covers the traditional praises of chiefs, warriors, initiates, animals, birds, divining bones and totem praises, examining them from the perspective of content and form. The praises extol human achievements, peculiar animal characteristics and the interpretation of "mawa" of divining bones. Chapter 4 deals with the development and transition from traditional to modern form as well as the reciprocal influence. The content and form of modern praises of chiefs, academics, community leaders, animals, birds, divining bones, man-made objects and some natural phenomena are discussed. Many modern poets have also written praises of fictional characters. Chapter 5 compares oral and written praise poetry by concentrating on the similarities and differences between traditional and modern praise poetry. This study shows that there are differences in of theme, rhyme, beginning and ending, sentence length and significant emphasis on man-made objects such as cars and locomotives as exceptional modes of transport for commuters. Chapter 6 concludes the study and proves that praise poetry is a living or dynamic entity which will continue to exist. Praise poetry highlights persons, interpersonal relationships, attitudes and values derived from an African conceptions of the universe.
African Languages
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Kgobe, D. M. (Dominic Mamahlo). "Content, form and technique of traditional and modern praise poetry in Northern Sotho." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17072.

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This thesis is a critical evaluation of the content, form and technique of traditional and modern praise poetry in Northern Sotho. Chapter 1 presents the aim of the study and the method of research and defines the concepts of poetry and praise poetry. Praise poetry is viewed from a traditional and modern perspective. Chapter 2 deals with the content and technique of praise poetry. Content consists of oral praise poetry lauding the heroic deeds of men in battles and casual encounters. Modern praise poetry comments on current events. Devices for rapid composition of the praises are discussed. Techniques differ between poets and according to time, place and occasion. Chapter 3 covers the traditional praises of chiefs, warriors, initiates, animals, birds, divining bones and totem praises, examining them from the perspective of content and form. The praises extol human achievements, peculiar animal characteristics and the interpretation of "mawa" of divining bones. Chapter 4 deals with the development and transition from traditional to modern form as well as the reciprocal influence. The content and form of modern praises of chiefs, academics, community leaders, animals, birds, divining bones, man-made objects and some natural phenomena are discussed. Many modern poets have also written praises of fictional characters. Chapter 5 compares oral and written praise poetry by concentrating on the similarities and differences between traditional and modern praise poetry. This study shows that there are differences in of theme, rhyme, beginning and ending, sentence length and significant emphasis on man-made objects such as cars and locomotives as exceptional modes of transport for commuters. Chapter 6 concludes the study and proves that praise poetry is a living or dynamic entity which will continue to exist. Praise poetry highlights persons, interpersonal relationships, attitudes and values derived from an African conceptions of the universe.
African Languages
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Epstein, Joshua Benjamin. "Sublime noise musical culture and the modernist writer /." Diss., 2008. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-10282008-094246/.

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Tsemg, Yu-chin, and 曾有欽. "“I am, therefore I write”---the development and connotation of modern Taiwan aboriginal literature." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24977595643861943251.

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The development of Taiwan aboriginal literature started from the “five-year plan of governing aborigines” written by Japanese Viceroy Sakuma Samata in 1914 who included Taiwan indigenes among their national rule and pressed them to take Japanese imperial education which made the aboriginals perceived the modernization of social culture. That’s also the demarcation of Taiwan indigenes’ literature. It was the era of oral literature among Taiwan aboriginals before 1914, then it came the time of aboriginal written literature which the study called “modern Taiwan aboriginal literature. As the change of colonial government’s policy and the development & evolution of social movement in Taiwan, the thesis would try to classify modern Taiwan aboriginal literature into 3 periods: the first period “I think, therefore I am” (i.e. period of colonial mountain literature); the second period “I write, therefore I am” (i.e. period of literature social movement); the third period “I am, therefore I write” (i.e. period of aboriginal literature prize). The main purpose of this article is to search for the connation of Taiwan aboriginal literature, analyze and discuss 30 of the award-winning literary works, including 10 new poems, 10 prose and 10 novels which would be analyzed in terms of literature ideological trend and subject content. The results were illustrated as follows: 1. There were 5 subjects of modern Taiwan aboriginal literature: ethnic history, natural life, social accusation, tribal caring, personal creation. 2. It was found that there were five dimensions in modern Taiwan aboriginal literature ideological trend :1) nationalistic mindset: looking for ethnic identity and cultural origin; 2) socialistic thinking: protecting for aboriginal identity; 3) realistic thought: depicting reality and caring tribe; 4) naturalistic headwork: talking with culture and nature at heart; 5) post-modern cogitation: emphasizing on release, liberty, pluralism and reconstruction. 3. Prospect for new style of modern Taiwan aboriginal literature: (1) Many new subjects and creative connotations emerged, including science fiction, morbid literature and homosexual literature. (2) There were various new writers, including hybrids, female, youth, tribal language writers, dictators. (3) There were many long masterpieces sequentially launched among each tribes which rewrote the new vision of Taiwan aboriginal literature. (4) Some aboriginal writers tried to combine their works with natural literature that showed the culture and malleability of Taiwan aboriginal literature. (5) Tribal language is the distinguish element in Taiwan aboriginal literature; therefore, such works bear the mission of inheriting tribal language. (6) It was found that aboriginal writers did not insist on writing marginal works and using tribal languages, but unfolded their personal literature creation. (7) There was a new force in Taiwan aboriginal literature prize who try to reconstruct the new image of Taiwan literature.

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