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One County, One Paper: A Case Study of The Perry County Tribune and the Rhetorical Effects of Mass Media Acquisition on an Appalachian Newspaper
Get PDFAs the number of newspapers in the United States continues to decline, small communities see less and less coverage of their own lives. Those that still persist are no longer independent, often purchased by large corporations to be part of financial portfolios. This thesis examines the Perry County Tribune, a small weekly newspaper that experienced ownership change in 2014. Through a mixed methods approach, this thesis examines the types of articles presented in pre- and post- acquisition publications, the trends in advertisers and a local column and how it can be used to understand the Tribune's audience. The results show differences in the frequency of types of articles, shifts in the approaches and end results of advertising and how certain aspects of regional culture can be viewed through one chef's column to his neighbors.No embargoAcademic Major: Englis
Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition
No full textIntroduction: Remembering the (re)generations of Black women's poetics -- The color of prestige -- Navigating the ivory tower -- Interlude -- Text, performance, and embodiment -- Experiments in lyric -- Historical experiments in representing slavery -- Coda: Graywolf and the "post"(-Citizen) era?Item embargoed for three year
A Farm-to-Glass Experience: Exploring How Distilleries Connect Bourbon Tourists to the Agricultural Community
Get PDFVariation in Cantonese Acceptability Judgements due to Language Contact: An Investigation of Word Order Preferences in the Resultative Construction
Get PDFThis study investigates the acceptability of different word orders in the resultative construction among Cantonese speakers in Canada (heritage) and Hong Kong (homeland). In an auditory acceptability judgement experiment, heritage speakers of Cantonese and English-dominant speakers were found to have higher acceptance of the English-influenced Means-Object-Result word order than homeland speakers and Cantonese-dominant speakers, respectively. These results give support to models of bilingual/multilingual grammars that propose that the extent of cross-linguistic influence is proportional to language dominance (Filipović and Hawkins 2019, Putnam and Sanchez 2013). We argue that these results demonstrate a system-altering change in the grammar of heritage/English-dominant speakers due to contact with English, where the functional features of English are temporarily/permanently drawn upon despite incompatibilities between the grammars of the two languages. We discuss possible mechanisms of change within the framework of Feature Reassembly (Lardiere 2009)
Welcoming Remarks by Professor Zhan Bohui, Convenor
Get PDFText of Professor Zhan Bohui's speech at the 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects
CALCIUM ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF WATER SAMPLES ON SAN SALVADOR ISLAND, THE BAHAMAS
Get PDFWater chemistry of lakes and ponds on San Salvador Island in The Bahamas are influenced by the geological make-up of the island as well as seawater intrusions and the presence of conduits connecting the surface waters to seawater. Evaporation rates are also important for lakes and ponds in The Bahamas. The chemistry of water samples collected on the island were compared to their calcium isotopic composition (δ44/40Ca) to determine how similar the water bodies are to seawater. Seven different water samples were collected and analyzed for δ44/40Ca and elemental concentrations of calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and strontium (Sr). The δ44/40Ca values and elemental concentrations (Ca, Mg, and Sr) were used to determine factors that may affect water chemistry such as evaporation, sea spray, presence of a conduit (connection to the ocean), and carbonate rock dissolution by freshwater infiltration. From my results, all samples excluding Inkwell Blue Hole, Salt Pond and the shallow groundwater sample from the Gerace Research Centre (GRC) well, look similar to seawater based on δ44/40Ca compositions. Inkwell Blue Hole and the GRC well both had δ44/40Ca values that were lower than seawater and resembled carbonate rocks. The hypersaline Salt Pond had high concentration of Ca but a lower δ44/40Ca than seawater suggesting that the water chemistry may be influenced by other processes such as elevated evaporation rates and carbonate rock dissolution or mineral precipitation.No embarg
Staying the Course or Charting a New Path? An Examination of Therapist Options When Working with Low Engaging Patients
Get PDFIntroduction: Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for depression, a substantial portion of CBT patients still do not achieve positive therapeutic outcomes. Those who engage less with homework are especially at risk (Kazantzis & Shinkfield, 2007). When early engagement is low, a therapist might persist in using the same basic approach or change to a new approach. There is limited evidence to guide therapists in selecting between these options. To address this issue, we examine use of persistence versus changing approach strategies in differentiating sessions followed by high or low homework engagement among patients who had shown more limited engagement in early sessions.
Methods: Drawing data from a clinical trial of two variants of CBT for depression (N = 150), we focus on a relatively low-engaging subset of 80 participants (53.3%) who reported homework engagement below the 75th percentile across sessions 2, 3, and 4. For each of these participants, observers rated two subsequent sessions, selecting for being followed by relatively high or low engagement for each patient. Using a 6-item scale designed for this study, six raters coded the extent to which therapists continued using previously used strategies or tried new strategies in these sessions. Three scores were derived from the 6-item scale, an overall score and two subscale scores.
Results: Observer-raters' judgements of the therapist approach to homework assignment exhibited poor reliability (Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) < 0.5). Considerable caution is warranted for any findings obtained with these ratings. A paired t-test of sessions followed by low and high engagement revealed a significant difference in the overall score, with sessions preceding high engagement being characterized by both greater persistence and less change of approach. A similar analysis examining overall scores as a predictor in a model of session type was not significant. Additional analyses failed to support either specific subscale in differentiating or predicting session type.
Discussion: Although caution is warranted, one finding suggests that the therapist approach of flexibly persisting with the assignment of homework may promote greater homework engagement. Given the challenges with low reliability of the observer ratings, we take this finding as leaving open the possibility that flexible persistence (or not changing approach) may predict homework more robustly in future research. Future research is needed to inform how therapeutic approach can best promote homework engagement when working with low engaging patients.Academic Major: Psycholog
The Function of Risk: Breath, Gravity, and Play in STREB
Get PDFThe Arts: 1st Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum)This research analyzes the function of extreme action and risk in the choreographic work of Elizabeth Streb. I question how extreme risk in choreography activates the bodies in the audience, calling them into a deeper empathetic experience than passive observation. Then, in this activated state of witnessing, does the choreography become actionable? While Streb distances herself from the aesthetics and priorities of Western modern dance, I argue that many of Streb’s critics frame her work inside of the concert dance paradigm. Then, many critics review her work from a visualist bias that only ogles at the work’s spectacularity. Streb advocates for her work as action, not dance, and thus I prioritize the vitality affects, or kinetic elements, of her work to see past the visual spectacle (Sklar 2008). This method of movement analysis allows for a reading of Streb’s work in its own language – we attend to what we hear and feel over what we see. Using the scholarship of Jean Thomas Tremblay (2022), Ann Cooper Albright (2019), and Janet O’Shea (2019), I trace breath, gravity, and play through two of Streb’s core action events: Little Ease (1991) and SEA (2018). This movement analysis reveals the weighted resilience of Streb’s work that does not transcend the inescapable forces laid upon bodies, particularly bodies that experience class-based and gender-based oppression, but persists with realism and endurance through them. The extreme action and risk of Streb’s work unearths more than a gasp or cringe but also activates a shift or new awareness in the witness's body that is rooted in the queer, working class consciousness of Streb’s movement cosmology.No embarg