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Speaking and Writing Strategies: Lexicogrammatical and Behavioral Forms That Code Time and Space.
(1981)
This study explores relationships between speaking and writing in the English language to determine precisely what differences exist between these modes and what phenomena these differences represent. The focal point ...
Reading, Thinking, Writing: a Practical Rhetoric with Readings.
(1980)
Believing that much instruction in composition fails to meet the needs of a wide variety of students who may not be English majors, I have written a dissertation which is actually a rhetoric textbook designed to remedy ...
Ethics, Fitting Attitudes, and Practical Reason: A Theory of Normative Facts.
(2009)
In this dissertation I present an account of what we mean when we make ethical claims and of why we have reason to be ethical. I argue that we can analyze ethical concepts in terms of the rationality of certain motivational ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales: Verisimilitude and the Form of Romance (Massachusetts).
(1987)
Hawthorne's unfamiliar fictional worlds in his short narratives entail a familiar everyday world. As readers, we come to accept these fictions as probable by means of our shared underst and ing of literary conventions and ...
Diego Duran: Historia De Las Indias De Nueva Espana (Spain, Mexico).
(1984)
The research presented in this thesis represents an initial approach to the underst and ing of Diego Duran's Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espana as a formative text in the development of a European directed interpretation ...
The Languages of Linguistic Theory: Aesthetic Dimensions of a Scientific Discipline.
(1980)
This study proposes that the languages used in linguistic theories, just like those in works of fiction and poetry, exhibit certain creative properties that only an aesthetic approach can capture and describe. Thus, rather ...
Lexical archaisms in Slavic.
(1989)
This work examines the etymologies of Slavic lexemes which can be reconstructed back to Nostratic roots. The development of distant linguistic comparison is traced from its origins in the binary comparisons of the nineteenth ...
Factitious states: Mary Shelley and the politics of early nineteenth century women's identity and fiction.
(1989)
This dissertation explores female characterization and narrative form in each of Mary Shelley's seven novels, with particular emphasis on Mary Wollstonecraft's influence. Wollstonecraft argued that women should be educated ...