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"Why can´t women talk like a man?": an investigation of gender in the play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoA complexa inter-relação entre linguagem e gênero tornou-se foco de várias discussões teóricas. Estudos de textos literários e/ou não literários, por exemplo, propõe discutir temas relacionados à conversação de homens e mulheres. A presente dissertação investiga aspectos lexicogramaticais na peça Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw, 1913), escrita para ser produzida no palco. O meu objetivo é examinar a linguagem usada pelos personagens principais masculino e feminino aplicando os conceitos de Halliday (1985; 1994) da transitividade nas declarações por eles feitas. A investigação é baseada na idéia sugerida por Cameron (1995) de que a peça Pygmalion pode ser classificada como uma obra de gênero, além de classes sociais. A base teórica usada para a obtenção dos resultados conta com princípios de linguagem e gênero, linguagem e poder e Análise Crítica do Discurso. Os resultados mostram que as características do personagem masculino retratam os homens preocupados com problemas de ordem racional, enquanto o personagem feminino representa as mulheres como sendo mais emocionais em suas relações. A análise das escolhas lexicogramaticais sugerem que na peça, a asserção, convicção e objetividade encontradas no discurso do personagem masculino são salientadas em relação às dúvidas, à subordinação e ao arrependimento caracterizados no discurso do personagem feminin
Investigation of flow in vane-island diffusers in centrifugal compressors
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Bibliography: leaves 49-51.Not availabl
The control volume finite element method as applied to transient laminar free convection between parallel heated vertical plates
No full textTypescript (photocopy).The control volume finite element method is applied to transient laminar free convection between vertical parallel heated plates. The results are compared with those obtained from the alternating direction implicit method and the up-wind finite difference method. Heat transfer characteristics are evaluated in terms of Nusselt number. The peculiar velocity profile inside the channel as reported by Kettleborough is verified
Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Xenophobia in South Africa is so overt that it has take a covert form. The 'xenocide' events that took place in 2008 were called xenophobic acts. It is the recurrent denialism of xenophobia on an everyday basis that this project has explored through the narrative accounts of ten African migrants in Cape Town. The lived everyday experiences of ten African migrants have brought forward the central argument of this thesis. From the data, it is evident that as a reponse to everyday pressures of prejudices and xenophobia in social and physical spaces, African migrants have developed mutable, unsettled and vagrant identities in order to cope with everyday low level violence. This argument emerged as four key stressors have been identified as the components of a more substantial explanation of xenophobia in South Africa. The four key components are: the enforcement of identity (national and group), the demarcation of spaces of belonging, the experiences of economic insecurity, and lastly a 'culture of violence' in South Africa. This thesis argues that these four stressors are the result of an on-going active process of xenophobic attitudes
A construção de macroproposições: a influência do conhecimento prévio na aplicação de macrorregras semânticas
No full textThe aim of this text was to investigate how subjects with differentprevious knowledge (low, medium and high) constructmacropropositions in the reading of an informative text about athe history of “The Great Navigations”. In order to make themacroproposition construction clear, semantic macrorules by vanDIJK were used (1977). Through this work we tried to analyse theinfluence of previous knowledge on the semantic transformation –macrorules – made by the reader during the processs ofmacrostructure construction
Analisis wacana pesan dakwah KH. Aad Ainurus Salam Manukan Surabaya
No full textSkripsi ini adalah penelitian yang mengkaji pesan dakwah dari KH. Aad nurussalatn, disidoarjo pada tanggal 1 Agustus 2009. PeneJitian ini berangkat dari sebuah Rumusan Masalah bagaimana tnenganalisis Wacana Pcsan Dakwah bila ditinjau dari model Teun A. Vandijk ? Dalarn pcnclilian ini, pcneliti mcnegunakan jcnis dan pendckatan pcnclitian kualitatif bcrdasarkan pcrspcktif analisis wacana Yandijk dibutuhkan struktur makro dengan 6 elcmen pendekatan yaitu Tcmatik, Skcmatik, ScmanLik, Sintaksis, Stilistik, Retoris. Dari hasi1 pcnelitian ini, setclah mcnganalisis isi yang tcrdapat dalmn pesan Dakwah KH. Aad Ainurussalan1 sesuai dengan metode Analisis Wacana Teun A. Vandijk. Dapat diambil kesimpulan bahwa dalam isi pesan dakwah dari KH. Aad Ainurussalam mengandung pesan yang bertema seputar n1asalah rasa syukur kcpada Allah dan tingkat kci1nanan dan ketaqwaan yang harus ditanamkan dalam diri umat Islam masing- masing. Harapan kedepan, sctelah penelitian ini dilakukan dan dilaporkan adalah adanya penelitian lain yang berminat untuk lcbih jauh meneliti isi pesan dakwah dari KH. Aad Ainurussalam atau ivluballigh lain yang menggunakan model pendekatan penelitian seJain Analisis Wacana Teun A. Vandijk. Sehingga kedepan perkembengan kajian ilmu khususnya ilmu Retorika dapat Iebih berkembang dan luas jika dibandingkan pada saat ini
Connectivity in language areas of the brain in cochlear implant users as revealed by fNIRS
No full textMany studies, using a variety of imaging techniques, have shown that deafness induces functional plasticity in the brain of adults with late-onset deafness, and in children changes the way the auditory brain develops. Cross modal plasticity refers to evidence that stimuli of one modality (e.g. vision) activate neural regions devoted to a different modality (e.g. hearing) that are not normally activated by those stimuli. Other studies have shown that multimodal brain networks (such as those involved in language comprehension, and the default mode network) are altered by deafness, as evidenced by changes in patterns of activation or connectivity within the networks. In this paper, we summarise what is already known about brain plasticity due to deafness and propose that functional near-infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an imaging method that has potential to provide prognostic and diagnostic information for cochlear implant users. Currently, patient history factors account for only 10 % of the variation in post-implantation speech understanding, and very few post-implantation behavioural measures of hearing ability correlate with speech understanding. As a non-invasive, inexpensive and user-friendly imaging method, fNIRS provides an opportunity to study both pre- and post-implantation brain function. Here, we explain the principle of fNIRS measurements and illustrate its use in studying brain network connectivity and function with example data
Entracking as a Brain Stem Code for Pitch: The Butte Hypothesis
No full textThe basic nature of pitch is much debated. A robust code for pitch exists in the auditory nerve in the form of an across-fiber pooled interspike interval (ISI) distribution, which resembles the stimulus autocorrelation. An unsolved question is how this representation can be "read out" by the brain. A new view is proposed in which a known brain-stem property plays a key role in the coding of periodicity, which I refer to as "entracking", a contraction of "entrained phase-locking". It is proposed that a scalar rather than vector code of periodicity exists by virtue of coincidence detectors that code the dominant ISI directly into spike rate through entracking. Perfect entracking means that a neuron fires one spike per stimulus-waveform repetition period, so that firing rate equals the repetition frequency. Key properties are invariance with SPL and generalization across stimuli. The main limitation in this code is the upper limit of firing (~ 500 Hz). It is proposed that entracking provides a periodicity tag which is superimposed on a tonotopic analysis: at low SPLs and fundamental frequencies > 500 Hz, a spectral or place mechanism codes for pitch. With increasing SPL the place code degrades but entracking improves and first occurs in neurons with low thresholds for the spectral components present. The prediction is that populations of entracking neurons, extended across characteristic frequency, form plateaus ("buttes") of firing rate tied to periodicity.status: Publishe
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