Browsing by Subject "Language, Linguistics"
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Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid: How Word of Mouth Influences the Speaker
(2009)Consumers frequently share stories about consumption experiences with others through word of mouth (WOM). Past research has focused on how hearing WOM influences the listener; I examine how sharing WOM influences the speaker. ... -
Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
(2009)Recordings of speech play a central role in the diverse subdisciplines of linguistics. The reliance on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars have developed a range of techniques for ... -
The Beginning of the End: The Eschatology of Genesis
(2011)AbstractThis dissertation examines the book of Genesis as a functioning literary whole, orientingpost-exilic Persian-era Judeans toward their ideal future expectations. While many havecontrasted Genesis' account of origins ... -
The Limits of Wisdom and the Dialectic of Desire
(2009)It is fair to identify the motive of this dissertation with the paradoxical formulation of Gerhard von Rad, to the effect that the essence of biblical Wisdom is disclosed where the sages articulate this wisdom as inherently ... -
Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
(2009)Debate about the development of African American English (AAE) dominated sociolinguistic inquiry for the second half of the 20th century and continues to be a subject of investigation. All hypotheses about the development ...
