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Tennessee roads / Jesse Stuart. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
No full textThis picturesque poem was written by then-sophomore (and future celebrated author) Jesse Stuart about the roads of Tennessee
Positive perspectives on migration discourse in early twentieth-century Italy
No full textAs discussed in Arcimaviciene and Baglama (2018: 1–2) and Taylor (2020), a large body of literature has shown that there is a tendency to negatively conceptualize migration in newspaper discourse by using specific metaphorical expression (Santa Ana 1999; El Refaie 2001; Gabrielatos and Baker 2008; Islentyeva 2018). However, the majority of these works are focused on newspaper representation of migration from the perspectives of their countries of destination. As previously discussed (Hart 2010), journalists, by discursively portraying incoming immigrants (them) as a threat to national security and social stability of the country they belong to (’our’), legitimize practices of inequality and exclusion. In contrast, this chapter focuses on the Italian context in early 1900s, where the writer/speaker and the people who actually migrated belonged to the same community. The investigation of the metaphorical representation of migration pursued in this chapter aims at clarifying the extent to which the writer/speaker’s perspective is a determinant of the metaphorical representation of migrant identities. To address this, I adopt a corpus-approach to Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black 2004) to examine and define the linguistic and conceptual metaphors surrounding migration discourse in Italy. The dataset consists of an Italian corpus (approximately twenty million words) containing extracts from La Stampa newspaper published between 1900 and 1915. All metaphors retrieved using the corpus tool WordSmith 8.0 (Scott 2020) are discussed in a subsequent qualitative analysis. Results show that, unexpectedly, the metaphorical discursive images representing migration are largely positive. The quantity of migrants is represented as liquid and interpreted as a natural resource, and even invasion metaphors function to show the need to be militarily organized to overcome the difficulties of integration into a new country. In this case, the writer/speaker gives support to the emigrant’s journey, perhaps because migration has not been experienced as a threat to the community as these migrants constitute the group that decided to migrate for the good of the whole community. This might support the hypothesis that the writer/speaker’s perspective and the economic and political context in general play fundamental role in determining the discursive representation of migration
No. 617 Stuart Ruckman
No full textTranscript (12, 40 pages) of two interviews by Matt Driscoll with Stuart Ruckman on April 9, 2010, and July 7, 2011Ruckman (b. 1966) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Stuart shares how his family, particularly his father, played a significant role in introducing him to the outdoors. Some of his initial explorations included a hike to the top of Mount Olympus when he was five years old, backpacking trips in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, and a successful summit attempt on the Grand Teton when he was twelve. Stuart discovered technical rock climbing due to the influence of his older brother Bret, five years Stuart\u27s senior. Bret learned under Dennis Turville, a well-respected Salt Lake climbing instructor. Stuart shares his observations on the Salt Lake climbing community of the late 1970s and 1980s, noting the intimacy of the community, while also pointing out the significant influence of a handful of climbers, including Merrill Bitter, Les Ellison, and Brian Smoot. He briefly describes the proliferation of new-route development in the Wasatch during his first decade in climbing. In collaboration with his brother Bret, Stuart published comprehensive guidebooks on climbing in the Wasatch Mountains. Stuart\u27s contributions as a first-ascensionist and co-author of Rock Climbing the Wasatch Range attest to his lasting impact on Utah climbing. Interview is part of the Outdoor Recreation History Project. Interviewer: Matt Driscol
Bilingual life after school? Language use, ideologies and attitudes among Gaelic-medium educated adults
No full textGaelic-medium education (GME) as it exists today started in 1985, when two classes
offering instruction through the medium of Gaelic opened within primary schools in
Glasgow and Inverness. GME grew rapidly throughout the first decade of its
availability, and 1258 students were enrolled in the system by 1995. This thesis
examines outcomes of this system in terms of the degree to which former pupils who
started in GME during this period continue to use Gaelic in their daily lives, and
provides an assessment of their language ideologies and attitudes. The 2011 census
showed a diminution in the decline of Gaelic speakers in Scotland, but marginal
growth of 0.1% was recorded in the number of speakers under the age of 20. Whilst
this growth has been understood by politicians and policy-makers as evidence of the
role of GME in revitalising the language, the census figures give a limited picture of
the actual language practices of reported speakers, the extent to which they use
Gaelic, or of their beliefs, feelings and attitudes regarding the language.
Internationally, little research appears to have been done on the life trajectories of
adults who received a bilingual education through a minority language; that is to say,
on the effect that the bilingual classroom has on such individuals’ relationship to the
language after formal schooling is completed. The first students to receive GME at
primary school are now in their late 20s and early 30s, and prospects for the
maintenance and intergenerational transmission of Gaelic by this group are currently
unknown. The principal research questions of this investigation comprise the
following:
- What role does Gaelic play in the day-to-day lives of former Gaelic-medium
students who started in GME during the first decade of its availability; how
and when do they use the language?
- What sets of beliefs and language ideologies do these Gaelic-medium
educated adults express in relation to Gaelic?
- How do these beliefs and ideologies relate to their actual language practices,
to their attitudes concerning the language, and to future prospects for the
maintenance of Gaelic?
Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, I provide an
assessment of Gaelic use, language ideologies and attitudes among a sample of 130
Gaelic-medium educated adults. A thematic, ethnography of speaking methodology
is employed to analyse qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 46
informants. Additionally, responses to an electronic questionnaire are evaluated by
statistical analysis using Spearman’s rank order correlation co-efficient to investigate
the relationships between non-parametric variables of reported language use, ability,
socialisation and attitudes. The results are discussed with reference to extensive
research literatures on language, culture and identity, language revitalisation in the
international context, and the perceived limitations of GME which have previously
been identified with regard to the revitalisation of Gaelic
George MacLeod’s open-air preaching: performance and counter-performance
No full textStuart Blythe uses the methodology of performance to analyse George MacLeod’s open-air preaching. He points out that MacLeod’s preaching was derived from a theology of the incarnation, and an understanding of the paradoxes and dichotomies of common human life. This preaching, Blythe suggests, was also a counter-performance in the context of outlooks and ideologies inimical to the gospel. The paper raises interesting issues related to preaching as performance, and the further question as to whether or not the life and work of the Church as a whole might now be better understood as a counter-performance.Publisher PD
Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848
No full textThe purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from
about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view,
formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on
his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and
early 1840s.
By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a
‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The
first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill
formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid
attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such
phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and
excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class.
The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s
projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to
develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of
commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic,
published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to
the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character,
both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete
account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in
history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have
assumed
An Evaluation of the Bush Administration Reforms to the Regulatory Process
No full textThe Bush Administration has implemented more reforms to the regulatory process than any of its predecessors. These reforms are often stereotyped as anti-regulatory. This article examines the reforms as a whole and asks which interests have been empowered by the Bush Administration regulatory reforms. I believe this method is a more effective way of assessing the impact of the reforms. I find that in addition to adding potential costs to the regulatory process, the reforms are likely to empower powerful interest groups and the presidency. Whether the impact of these reforms is pro-regulation or anti-regulation will depend on how a future administration more dedicated to regulatory protections uses them. I also lay out a research agenda to better empirically assess the impact of these regulatory reforms.Peer reviewed"Issue published online: 11 APR 2007. Article first published online: 11 APR 2007"--Publisher website
Defragmenting the Regulatory Process
No full textThe regulatory process is often criticized for being cumbersome and slow, much like a computer whose hard drive is fragmented by files no longer used or useful. Like such a computer, the regulatory process contains many requirement of dubious utility. These include the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, and numerous executive orders. While other parts of the regulatory process such as notice and comment and cost-benefit analysis have received much more academic attention, these other parts of the process deserve examination as well. This paper argues that such an examination will reveal that these statutes and executive orders add little of value to the regulatory process while consuming agency resources. An improved requirement for cost-benefit analysis with distributional analysis could easily replace virtually all of these requirements and improve regulations while reducing the time needed to promulgate regulations.Peer reviewe
The Role of Procedural Controls in OSHA's Ergonomics Rulemaking
No full textFew, if any, regulations over the past decade have received the publicity or engendered the controversy of OSHA’s ergonomics regulation. Some may see the ergonomics rule as the paradigmatic instance of procedural hurdles holding up and eventually destroying a regulation. The purpose of this article is to examine the role that procedure played in the ergonomics rulemaking. To draw lessons from the ergonomics rulemaking I have conducted analyses of the four publicly available versions and conducted interviews with seven high ranking officials at OSHA and the Small Business Administration. I find that of the procedural hurdles faced by OSHA, the notice and comment requirement had the largest impact on the final rule. OMB review and requirements to conduct a cost benefit analysis served largely as a fire alarm to political overseers and the required small business panel had largely symbolic effects. The more traditional control of Congressional budgetary oversight had the greatest effect by delaying the rule for three years which eventually doomed OSHA’s attempts to regulate.Peer reviewe
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