This thesis undertakes a comprehensive examination of the effects of a variety of social, phonological and morphosyntactic factors on the process of s-weakening in the Spanish of San Miguel, El Salvador. The corpus used in this study consists of sixteen speakers native to San Miguel, evenly distributed according to age, sex and socioeconomic status. It was found that s-weakening appears to be in stable variation and that it is primarily governed by phonological factors: the quality of the segment following the /s/, the position of the /s/ in the syllable and word, and whether the /s/ is in a stressed or an unstressed syllable. Regarding the quality of the following segments, it was found that coronal stops caused /s/ to resist weakening. Consequently, it is argued that /st/ and /sd/ sequences are partial geminates in this dialect of Spanish, i.e. they share a place node. An account of the phonological factors conditioning s-weakening is provided within the framework of Optimality Theory, utilising the notion of crucially unranked constraints.

Thesis (M.S. in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy)--Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2007. / Vita. "March 12, 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-93). Also available via the Internet.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2006--Giessen.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Montana, 2008. / Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-110).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Genève. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-324).

Univ., Diss.--Mainz, 1999.

Thesis (M.S. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Tollefson, Scott. Second Reader: Teti, Frank. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 23, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Low Intensity Conflict, Counterinsurgency, El Salvador, Theses. Author(s) subject terms: Low-Intensity Conflict, Counterinsurgency, El Salvador, US LIC Strategy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Paul Hensel, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Political Science. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 12, 2006.). Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 257 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. José Roberto Fraga / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração. Defesa: Curitiba, 07/03/2017 / Inclui referências / Resumo: O empreendedorismo, definido como a identificação de oportunidades de negócios e criação de empresas, tornou-se um fenômeno mundial que traz atenção tanto na academia como no mercado empresarial. Partindo do pressuposto que os empreendedores não possuem inicialmente todos os recursos necessários para criar as empresas, estes devem procurar de fontes externas, por meio dos seus contatos pessoais ou organizacionais, chamados de rede social dos empreendedores. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar como os empreendedores utilizam sua rede social no processo de criação de empresas, em diferentes contextos. A abordagem utilizada nesta pesquisa é do tipo qualitativa, realizando um estudo de casos múltiplos, com um total de seis casos, três deles em Curitiba, Brasil e três empreendimentos em San Salvador, El Salvador. Para a coleta dos dados foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com os fundadores das empresas, assim como análise de documentos complementares. O período de coleta de dados foi entre agosto e novembro de 2016. Os dados foram organizados e analisados de acordo às categorias de análise definidas a priori para cada caso, e logo elaborando uma analise cruzada dos casos, finalizando com uma comparação entre os casos nos distintos países. Os principais resultados apontaram que tanto os empreendedores dos casos no Brasil quanto em El Salvador utilizam a sua rede social em todas as etapas do processo, utilizando principalmente a sua rede informal ou pessoal na etapa inicial para identificar oportunidades de negócio, e já nas etapas de preparação, lançamento e consolidação das empresas foi observada uma maior participação da rede formal ou organizacional na obtenção de diferentes tipos de recursos. Palavras-chave: Empreendedorismo. Rede social do empreendedor. Rede pessoal. Rede inter-organizacional. Brasil. El Salvador. / Abstract: Entrepreneurship, defined as the identification of business opportunities and the creation of a new firm, has become a worldwide phenomenon that has brought great attention for the academic field as well as for the business market. Based on the assumption that initially, the entrepreneurs do not own all the necessary resources to start the new business, they must search from external sources, like their personal or inter-organizational network, which is known as the entrepreneur's social network. Therefore, the aim of this research is to analyze how entrepreneurs use their social network in the business creation process, in different contexts. This study employed a qualitative research method, using a multiple case study strategy for a total of six cases, three of them in San Salvador, El Salvador and three in Curitiba, Brazil. Data collection method included in depth interviews with the business funders, as well as complementary document analysis. The data collection process was conducted from August to November of 2016. Collected data was organized and analyzed for each case according to previous defined categories, and later creating a cross-case analysis, to end by making a comparison of the cases between countries. Research findings showed that entrepreneurs studied in both countries, use their social network in all the business creation stages, mainly they use their personal network in the initial stage to identify the business opportunities, and on later stages it was verified more use of the inter-organizational network to access different types of resources. Key-words: Entrepreneuship. Social Networks. Personal Network. Inter-oganizational network. Brasil. El Salvador.

This study explores the role of public relations in the formation of a collective identity of the activists of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) between 1980 and 1990. CISPES was a radical U.S.-based organization comprised of a majority of white college-educated members. CISPES had two goals: 1) stop the U.S. military assistance to El Salvador, and 2) support the Salvadoran revolutionary movements that were fighting a U.S.-backed government. Through interviews, discourse analysis and historical research, this work shows that CISPES used as currency the whiteness of its activists, in conjunction with its educational background, to influence public opinion and policy-making in the U.S. The formation of CISPES as a white organization was partially achieved by continuous negotiations with Salvadoran radicals living in the U.S. Early in the 1990s, CISPES' collective identity as a white organization entered in crisis as internal debates on gender and race along with social changes in the national and international levels challenged dominant views and the status quo of whiteness and what this implies in political, social, and cultural spheres. This work proposes two models: the intersectional recruiting process and the ideological identity model of public relations. Both models were created using dialectical methodologies that understand public relations and social movements as processes of permanent contradictions between social conditions and ideology/discourse creation. This dissertation has real applications because it reveals how activist public relations can help the global struggle for social justice.