ABSTRACTPATRICIA LEE FURNISH. Context matters: Pragmatics and political discourseanalysis of the presidential speeches of Michelle Bachelet, Barack Obama andJosé Luis Rod[...]

The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the long-term effects of desegregated schooling within a firmly established K-12th grade desegregated school system. Lon[...]

Authenticity within the hip-hop community has been a topic of conversation amongst researchers for a number of years. The hip-hop movement started in the 1970’s and has s[...]

This qualitative empirical study explores the perspectives of college students around translanguaging: a theory, practice, and pedagogy that has grown in popularity over [...]

The present study examined some effects of Stereotype Threat priming on participants in a two-person prompted discussion. Four pairs of participants (one man, one woman) [...]

This thesis presents an analysis of signage inside two international airports, public linguistic spaces that should be accessible to both global visitors as well as disab[...]

Language plays a key role in statistics and, by extension, in statistics education. Enculturating students into the practice of statistics requires preparing them to comm[...]

Based upon theories of computer mediated communication of Herring and Lemke and the work of genre scholars such as Askehave, Santini, and Devitt, this qualitative study e[...]

Ten posts from the Reddit community Fat People Stories (/r/fatpeoplestories) and their corresponding comment sections comprise an analytical corpus of 45,867 words. Usin[...]

In recent years, government genres have been largely under-studied within linguistic and rhetorical studies. To allow for a better image and more accessible government, i[...]