130 research outputs found
Letter from Mrs. T. [Tabitha] R. Webb to Miss Julia [Julia C. Hart].
No full textA poet and musician, Hart was born in 1873 in Hays County, Texas. She graduated from the Waco Female Academy in 1890 and married Edward H. Hart in 1894, who died in 1900. Her well-known poem, "Star Gold," was written in memory of her son, Vernon Duggan Hart, who died in France during World War I. She lived in Stamford, Texas, and Abilene, Texas, and was active in Gold Star Mothers, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and United Daughters of the Confederacy. She died in 1970 in Abilene, Texas.The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal material, genealogical material, literary productions, photographs, printed material, and scrapbook material pertaining to the life and activities of Julia Duggan Hart, the Duggan family, and other related families. It bulks (1902-1966) with personal papers, especially correspondence.Julia Duggan Hart Papers, 1837-1970 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texa
Long article on author Tabitha King, who discusses her recent novel One on One.
No full textLong article on author Tabitha King, who discusses her recent novel One on One
News piece on Maine Times senior writer Phyllis Austin, Bangor author Tabitha
No full textNews piece on Maine Times senior writer Phyllis Austin, Bangor author Tabitha King and Laura Fortman, executive director of the Maine Women\u27s Lobby, who have all been selected to receive Maryann Hartman Awards for 2001. Honorees are selected by the University of Maine\u27s Women in the Curriculum and Women\u27s Studies program
An article on well-known author Stephen King and his wife, author Tabitha King,
No full textAn article on well-known author Stephen King and his wife, author Tabitha King, native Mainers who live in Bangor and focus their low-profile philanthropy locally. Their many beneficiaries include Eastern Maine Medical Center, the Bangor and Old Town libraries, Bangor\u27s new Shawn T. Mansfield Baseball Stadium, area swimming pools, and the University of Maine, where both attended college. They have bought a local radio station to preserve local high-school and college sports coverage. Though wealthy enough to live anywhere, and despite King\u27s fame, they have chosen to raise their family in Bangor and live as regular members of the community. Headquarters for King\u27s fans is Betts Bookstore on Main Street
Technologies for Conducting an Online Ethnography of Communication: The Case of Eloqi
No full textIn this chapter, the author describes the technologies she employed while conducting an Ethnography of Communication on Eloqi (pseudonym), a for-profit start-up company that built and operated a proprietary Web-based, voice-enabled platform connecting English language learners in China with trainers in the United States. While Eloqi existed, its unique platform not only connected trainers and students for short one-to-one English conversation lessons but also brought together the company admins, trainers, and students in a virtual community. This chapter describes the technologies that the author used to carry out the qualitative study from start to finish, including the steps of online participant observations, online and offline interviews, qualitative coding, and qualitative data analysis. Because the author studied a virtual community, technologies played a critical role in how she collected, managed, and analyzed the dataset, which was completely electronic. The chapter concludes with tips and advice for fellow researchers using technologies to support qualitative studies of communication, whether online or offline
Speech Codes Theory
No full textRooted in the ethnography of communication and based on empirical research, speech codes theory is a theoretical/methodological tool for studying situated communication practices. Two important applications of speech codes theory are to reveal local cultures and to examine the ways in which people make use of communication to accomplish important goals pertaining to communal life. Speech codes theory offers researchers a systematic approach to describing, interpreting, analyzing, and comparing local communicative practices and the cultures which they instantiate
Learning How to Speak Like a “Native”: Speech and Culture in an Online Communication Training Program
No full textThis article examines the oral communication training that took place in Eloqi, a virtual language-learning community. Eloqi (a pseudonym) was a for-profit start-up that built and operated a proprietary Web-based, voice-enabled platform connecting English-language learners in China with trainers in the United States. While it existed, Eloqi’s unique platform was used to deliver short, one-on-one lessons designed to improve students’ oral English communication skills. Using the ethnography of communication and speech codes theory, a theoretical–methodological approach, the author presents an analysis of the speech code, or code of communicative conduct, employed at Eloqi. This code of English logic, which Eloqi’s community members associated with native English speech, comprised six locally defined rules for oral English speech; namely, speech had to be organized, succinct, spontaneously composed rather than rehearsed, original and honest, proactively improved, and positive. This article discusses the significance of this code, particularly as it pertains to cultural communication, and concludes with some implications for researchers and practitioners in business and technical communication
Sibling Incest in Tabitha Suzuma’s Forbidden and Kate Avelynn’s Flawed
No full textThis study purposely appoints the topic of sibling incest as reacted from the phenomenon of proliferation of illicit relationships that are increasingly being shown blatantly especially in social media. Through literary works such as novel, the phenomenon can be analyzed since those works are the portrayal of real life. ‘Forbidden’ by Tabitha Suzuma and ‘Flawed’ by Kate Avelynn were analyzed with three objectives; 1) describing sibling incest in both novels, 2) finding out the causing factors, 3) describing the impact toward the characters’ life. To achieve those objectives, the concept of incest, theory of psychoanalysis by Karen Horney and theory of comparative literature were applied. While in analyzing the data, it used interpretive perspective with author-oriented approach which concerns with psychoanalytic criticism. The results of this study reveal that the sibling incest in the two novels is different in type although the offenders’ composition is the same, incest between older brother and younger sister. ‘Forbidden’ shows non-abusive incest since it is done on mutual willingness which is motivated by affection, while ‘Flawed’ shows abusive incest since it is done forcefully by the older brother against his sister which is motivated by affection, eroticism, and aggression. The similar factors causing the sibling incest found in both novels are dysfunctional family and between ages peers, while the factor of Law of Homogamy is only found in ‘Forbidden’. Those factors do not cause the sibling incest just like the way without any influences of the characters’ psychological condition which is shaped by their childhood experience and neurotic needs. This study also reveals how sibling incest impacts the characters’ life. They suffer from psychological problems such as anxiety, self disgust, depression, self-destruction, self-blame, low self-esteem, and trauma. The enactment of incest taboo in their state also impacts them to self-isolation and prosecution. Evidently, this study reveals that any kinds of sibling incest with any reasons behind it lead into bad impact and dark phase of the offenders’ life.
Speech Codes Theory as a Framework for Analyzing Communication in Online Educational Settings
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