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Second Language Acquisition, WE, and language as a complex adaptive system (CAS)
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.University of Reading, 2018-03)
The field of Second Language Acquisition/Development (SLA/D) has evolved to a point where the paradigm gap between SLA/D and world Englishes (WE), identified by Sridhar and Sridhar (1986), has narrowed. The closing of the ...
Occasionality: A Theory of Literary Exchange between US and China in the Nineteenth Century.
(2014)
This dissertation uses nineteenth-century Sino-American literary exchanges, both conventional and unconventional, to forward a theory of transnational uses of literature. I argue that in occasion-driven transnationalism, ...
Forms of Consolation in Early Modern English Poetry.
(2014)
"Forms of Consolation in Early Modern English Poetry" locates seventeenth-century English poetry in a culture that saw books as important resources for controlling passions like grief, anger, and desire. Rising literacy ...
Introduction: Special issue celebrating the life and work of Larry E. Smith
(East‐West CenterWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-09)
This brief introduction provides a short biography of Professor Larry Eugene Smith, who passed away in December 2014. The introduction also discusses the contents of this special issue, which pays tribute to the life and ...
Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940
(2016)
Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940 argues that disability is the material-semiotic product of an ecological network of human and non-human actors. As social forms, disability ecologies move ...
Nature and Ecologies of Kind in Early Modern England.
(2016)
Engaging kind as one of the period’s organizing concepts, this dissertation explores the role it played within hierarchical schematics of nature. Because nature was frequently portrayed as a system that ranked its kinds ...