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Questionnaires to Elicit Qualitative Data
No full textFollowing on from the previous chapter on questionnaire-based elicitation of quantitative data, this chapter outlines how open-ended questionnaire items can be used to elicit qualitative language attitudes data. These items invite the respondent to freely answer a question with a few words, sentences, or a paragraph of free writing, thereby eliciting idiosyncratic responses. Open-ended items provide complex and potentially unexpected information on the different attitude components and can thus play a complementary role to closed-ended items in the evaluation of attitudes. The chapter guides the reader through a wide range of ways to use open-ended items and discusses their strengths as well as weaknesses. Building on the preceding chapter, key issues of study design are added, including the choice of open-ended question types and factors that inform decisions of participant sampling. The chapter instructs the reader how to pilot a questionnaire and how to conduct (inductive or deductive) qualitative content analysis. Finally, it addresses ethical concerns of privacy and confidentiality. A case study on attitudes towards different varieties of English in Fiji serves as illustration of the main points made in the chapter
Lena Retamoso folio
Full text linkA folio of poetry by Lena Retamoso, appearing in the Spanish original and in English translation by the author, James Joseph Shay III, and Bruno Soria
An Introduction to Language Attitudes Research
No full textBy providing an introduction to language attitude theory, this chapter serves as a reference point for the subsequent chapters. The chapter begins by considering attitudes in general (their formation, functions, and components) before focusing specifically on language attitudes. The chapter examines the link between language and social identity, the notion of language attitudes as reflections of social mores and the related issue of language attitude change, and the difference between (and inter-relatedness of) language attitudes and ideologies. The chapter then discusses the implications and consequences of language attitudes at the micro as well as the macro level. Subsequently, the chapter covers the key individual and socio-structural factors that influence language attitudes, and it discusses the evaluative dimensions of language attitudes (and how they are connected to the aforementioned socio-structural factors). The chapter introduces the three types of methods by means of which language attitudes can be investigated – that is, the analysis of the societal treatment of language, direct methods, and indirect methods – and the key overarching issues in language attitudes research which are covered in the book (i.e. regarding different community types, different data types, priming, and mixed-methods approaches). The aims of the book, and its structure and contents, are explained
Interpretation and performance of three orchestral compositions by Gabriela Lena Frank: Escaramuza, Elegia Andian, and Three Latin American Dances
No full textThis work presents interpretative and performance suggestions for three of Gabriela Lena Frank’s orchestral works: Escaramuza (2010), Elegia Andina (2000), and Three Latin American Dances (2004). Frank’s compositions frequently include programmatic elements that reference other well-known compositions, and she incorporates melodies, rhythms, timbres, instrumentation, and performance techniques characteristic of her Peruvian cultural heritage. Examples of these elements are presented from a lecture recital format to demonstrate how performance practice and conducting decisions—in rehearsal and performance—can be utilized to honor the composer’s expressed intent and overcome various technical ensemble and conducting challenges. An overview of the cultural contextual elements includes Harawi and Kachampa dance structures. The author also suggests methods for presenting elements that affect the timbre and instrumental scoring specific to each work, for example the Andean Zampoña. This research provides performers with a resource to deepen their score study, and seeks to inspire more people to perform the music of Gabriela Lena Frank.D. A
Enzyme-catalyzed polyester synthesis
No full textAuthor Lena Graf BScMasterarbeit Universität Linz 202
Enzyme-catalyzed polyester synthesis
No full textAuthor Lena Graf BScMasterarbeit Universität Linz 202
Cladal Divergence in Fungal Ophiognomonia (Gnomoniaceae, Diaporthales) Shows Evidence of Climatic Niche Vicariance
No full textWe used the globally widespread genus Ophiognomonia as a model system to investigate climatic niche patterns in fungi, characterizing the climatic profiles of 28 species with seven temperature and seven precipitation variables. Using a novel version of Spatial Evolutionary and Ecological Vicariance Analysis (SEEVA), designed to deal with continuous and correlated variables, we examined well-sampled phyletic splits of a multi-gene phylogeny. We evaluated the degree to which phyletic divergence has been associated with climatic niche divergence between sister lineages, permitting elucidation of climatic associations in evolutionary context. From the 14 inter-correlated climatic variables, we extracted four principal axes, accounting for 93.2% of the climatic variation, with axes broadly labeled as: polarity, tropicality, winter mildness, and aridity. We also analyzed the two single variables maximum monthly temperature and precipitation. We detected climatic associations that were compatible with both niche-conservatism and niche-divergence within the phylogeny, and different cladistic bifurcations associated with different climatic splits. As might have been anticipated, geographic separation (or lack thereof) of phylogenetic splits was correlated with climate niche divergence (or conservation). This elaborated SEEVA method provides a visual and statistically solid basis for characterizing climatic niche divergence that should prove useful for elucidation of many other taxonomic groups.Peer reviewe
Lena Rivers Dinner and a Movie
No full textInvitation to Friends of Drake Library sponsored event - "The Sin of Lena Rivers" Dinner and a Movie, Based on book by Brockport author, Mary Jane Holmes.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportFODL Ephemer
Lena Rivers Dinner and a Movie
Full text linkInvitation to Friends of Drake Library sponsored event - The Sin of Lena Rivers Dinner and a Movie, Based on book by Brockport author, Mary Jane Holmes.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/fodl_ephemera/1000/thumbnail.jp
‘Read speech normalization’ (RSN): a method to study prosodic variability in spontaneous speech
Full text linkA method, the ‘read speech normalization’ method (RSN), is proposed by which the variability of prosodic parameters (rhythmic durational and intonation) can be compared across different conditions of spontaneous speech. In an experiment using a customized variety of the map task method, spontaneous speech was elicited from two speakers of English in a formal and an informal situation. Sentences from the spontaneously spoken formal and informal situations were afterwards read by the same speakers. The formal and informal conditions were then compared in terms of their differences to the read speech version (read speech normalization). Results showed that meaningful differences could be observed between formal and informal speech from the read speech normalized sentences that could not be obtained by comparing the two spontaneous speech conditions directly
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