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- Bilingual education and biliteracy in the Brazilian community: An attitudinal study.
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- Martins, Minouche C., Florida Atlantic University, Augustyn, Prisca
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This study investigated parents' attitudes and expectations regarding Portuguese-English bilingual education, biliteracy, and language use at home in the Brazilian community in South Florida, specifically in the tri-county area of Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Sixty-seven Brazilian parents participated in an online/print questionnaire study. The results show that parents strongly support bilingual education and the development of bilingualism. An overwhelming majority of parents strongly...
Show moreThis study investigated parents' attitudes and expectations regarding Portuguese-English bilingual education, biliteracy, and language use at home in the Brazilian community in South Florida, specifically in the tri-county area of Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Sixty-seven Brazilian parents participated in an online/print questionnaire study. The results show that parents strongly support bilingual education and the development of bilingualism. An overwhelming majority of parents strongly encourage the use of Portuguese in the Brazilian homes. However, a discrepancy was found between parents' expectations and actual practices for their children's biliterate development. The majority of parents encourage the development of their children's speaking skills in Portuguese, but only few parents have strategies to develop their children's literacy in Portuguese. The lack of print-media in the heritage language in the home shows that parents look to formal education to fulfill their expectations in their children's biliteracy.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13313
- Subject Headings
- Bilingual education--United States--Florida, Bilingualism--United States--Florida, Multiculturalism--United States--Florida, Literacy--Study and teaching, Language arts (Early childhood), Education--Parent participation--United States--Florida
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- Metaphors Pilgrims Live by: Metaphor Systems of the Modern Pilgrimage.
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- Valdini, Todd N., Augustyn, Prisca, Florida Atlantic University
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Pilgrimages have produced volumes of textual reflections by pilgrims and outside observers. These writers represent a wide variety of disciplines from travel theorists to travel bloggers, medieval historians to modern anthropologists and sociologists. The findings of this study reveal two major complex metaphor systems: one based on a series of interlaced existential metaphors orbiting the nuclear LIFE IS A JOURNEY and the other stemming from a network of economic metaphors of MORAL...
Show morePilgrimages have produced volumes of textual reflections by pilgrims and outside observers. These writers represent a wide variety of disciplines from travel theorists to travel bloggers, medieval historians to modern anthropologists and sociologists. The findings of this study reveal two major complex metaphor systems: one based on a series of interlaced existential metaphors orbiting the nuclear LIFE IS A JOURNEY and the other stemming from a network of economic metaphors of MORAL ACCOUNTING. The symbolic exchange embedded in these metaphorical systems reflects the human desire for a meaningful and worthy life. These mutually supporting complex systems of metaphor reveal an existential connection between the medieval pilgrim and the contemporary tourist.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000972
- Subject Headings
- Existential ethics, Language and languages--Philosophy, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Meaning (Philosophy), Metaphor
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- The Concept of Nature in American Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau appropriating Kant.
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- Unger, Ulrike, Augustyn, Prisca, Florida Atlantic University
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The objective of this study is to compare Emerson's and Thoreau's concepts of nature as they are informed by Immanuel Kant. In particular, this study examines Emerson's Nature, The Transcendentalist, The Divinity School Address, The Conservative; and Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden; or, Life in the Woods and The Maine Woods to analyze how their ideas of nature are anchored in Kant's three Critiques. Emerson and Thoreau develop Kant's ideas and both arrive at an...
Show moreThe objective of this study is to compare Emerson's and Thoreau's concepts of nature as they are informed by Immanuel Kant. In particular, this study examines Emerson's Nature, The Transcendentalist, The Divinity School Address, The Conservative; and Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden; or, Life in the Woods and The Maine Woods to analyze how their ideas of nature are anchored in Kant's three Critiques. Emerson and Thoreau develop Kant's ideas and both arrive at an unlimited nature which is not bound to objects of form. While Emerson focuses on human nature in the organism, Thoreau is concerned with organic nature in particular.
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- 2008
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000971
- Subject Headings
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation, Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Criticism and interpretation, Kant, Immanuel,--1724-1804--Criticism and interpretation, Transcendentalism in literature, Nature in literature, Symbolism in literature
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- Foundations of a Scientific Cognitive Theory for Literary Criticism.
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- Bronsted, John C., Augustyn, Prisca, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
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Based on Noam Chomsky’s argument that the faculty of language is primarily a tool of thought whose purpose is to interpret the world, this dissertation argues that reading literature provides a cognitive experience like John Gardner’s “Fictive Dream” that mimics our interpretive experience of the world. Literary experience exploits language as an epistemological faculty that makes aspects of the external world intelligible. Yet the faculty of language is also capable of evoking entirely...
Show moreBased on Noam Chomsky’s argument that the faculty of language is primarily a tool of thought whose purpose is to interpret the world, this dissertation argues that reading literature provides a cognitive experience like John Gardner’s “Fictive Dream” that mimics our interpretive experience of the world. Literary experience exploits language as an epistemological faculty that makes aspects of the external world intelligible. Yet the faculty of language is also capable of evoking entirely mental worlds that do not reflect the mindexternal world. Because the literary experience is entirely mindinternal, even the cultural knowledge we bring into play for its understanding still relies on innate features of language. Thus, during the act of reading, we hold this cultural knowledge in abeyance, allowing the text to structure how we bring it to bear on the experience as a whole. A scientific approach to literature can help uncover principles to further elucidate the literaryepistemological experience. Whereas much literary criticism assumes that a critic’s purpose is to mine a text for its deeper meaning, this dissertation argues for a Cognitive Formalist approach in which criticism serves not simply to explain the experience evoked by any particular text according to linguisticepistemological principles, but also to evaluate the moral implications of that specific textual experience. As a means of demonstrating potential implications of a scientific cognitive approach to literary criticism based on linguisticepistemological understanding, the current study offers sample passages from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. These passages allow us to offer first approximations of some explanatory principles of the literaryepistemological experience, such as the importance of fictive time and fictional event sequences, which in turn gives us greater insight into how, for example, verb tense and aspect contribute to the evocation of the action of fiction in the reader’s mind. Ultimately, the fictive vantage point constructed by the text allows the reader access to a complex moral framework in which fictive characters are understood to make choices that will in turn set the stage for the reader’s own ethical reception of the text and the experience it offers.
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- 2017
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004845, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004845
- Subject Headings
- Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel)--1892-1973.--Lord of the rings--Criticism and interpretation., Gardner, John--1933-1982.--On moral fiction--Criticism and interpretation., Criticism., Discourse analysis, Literary., Philosophy of mind in literature., Language and languages--Style--Psychological aspects., Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
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- Frames Trump Facts.
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- Calhoun, Joshua David, Augustyn, Prisca, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
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This thesis investigates the discourse patterns of Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush during the Republican primary campaign from August 2015 through January 2016. The goal of this study is to identify differences among the candidates’ discourse patterns, particularly those distinct to the discourse style of Donald Trump, on the basis of a newly compiled corpus from their respective debates and speeches. This corpus analysis reveals differences in terms of readability and lexical choice...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the discourse patterns of Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush during the Republican primary campaign from August 2015 through January 2016. The goal of this study is to identify differences among the candidates’ discourse patterns, particularly those distinct to the discourse style of Donald Trump, on the basis of a newly compiled corpus from their respective debates and speeches. This corpus analysis reveals differences in terms of readability and lexical choice that distinguish the speech style of Donald Trump from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and identifies metaphors utilized by Donald Trump. Drawing heavily from the research of Charles Fillmore and George Lakoff, this study also illustrates the importance of metaphors and frames within political discourse, and the corpus analysis of Republican candidates during the 2016 election provides clear evidence that candidates use frames and metaphors to create a unique profile.
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- 2016
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004573, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004573
- Subject Headings
- Trump, Donald,--1946---Oratory., Trump, Donald,--1946---Language., Rubio, Marco,--1971---Oratory., Rubio, Marco,--1971---Language., Bush, Jeb--Oratory., Bush, Jeb--Language., Campaign speeches--United States., Discourse analysis--Political aspects--United States.
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- Language choice in children’s animated TV shows.
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- Golitschek, Katharina, Augustyn, Prisca, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
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This study aims to analyze three popular U.S. children’s TV shows – Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon), Maya & Miguel (PBS) and Handy Manny (Disney Channel) – in terms of their incorporation of Spanish. Qualitative and quantitative measures were used to assess the frequency and types of code switching both in the context of bilingualism and language pedagogy. The study revealed different strategies of language choice and socio-cultural objectives for each show. A close analysis of language...
Show moreThis study aims to analyze three popular U.S. children’s TV shows – Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon), Maya & Miguel (PBS) and Handy Manny (Disney Channel) – in terms of their incorporation of Spanish. Qualitative and quantitative measures were used to assess the frequency and types of code switching both in the context of bilingualism and language pedagogy. The study revealed different strategies of language choice and socio-cultural objectives for each show. A close analysis of language choice in the three children’s TV programs revealed distinct approaches to TV writing in the name of raising awareness of ethnic diversity, developing cultural literacy, and brand marketing.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004197, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004197
- Subject Headings
- Animated television programs -- Social aspects, Bilingualism, Children in popular culture, Children's television programs -- Social aspects, Critical pedagogy, Dora the Explorer (Television program), Educational sociology, Television programs for children -- Social aspects
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