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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The fundamental right to just administrative action: judicial review of administrative action in the democratic South Africa

Plasket, Clive January 2003 (has links)
For most of its existence South African administrative law has been shaped by the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty – the heart of the constitutional order from 1910 to 1994 – and a racist political system that favoured the white minority at the expense of the black majority. In these circumstances, the rules of administrative law were of limited use in protecting the individual from exercises of administrative power that infringed fundamental human rights, often on a grand scale. On 27 April 1994, however, a new political and constitutional order came into existence that swept away the very foundations of the old order: parliamentary sovereignty was replaced by constitutional supremacy and the racial exclusivity of the old order was replaced by a commitment to equality, freedom and dignity in a democratic state. A justiciable Bill of Rights was at centre stage in this new order. That Bill of Rights includes a fundamental right to just administrative action. It is both the new constitutional order and this rather unusual fundamental right that have changed the nature of South African administrative law. This thesis examines the effect of the fundamental right to just administrative action on the law and practice of the judicial review of administrative action. It does so principally by examining the legal position before and after 27 April 1994 with particular reference to: what is meant by administrative action; the exercise of administrative power by private bodies regulated by the rules of administrative law, on the one hand, and exercises of private power regulated by rules of private law, on the other; the rules of standing, the notion of justiciability and the constitutionality of rules that seek to limit the right of the individual to approach a court to review administrative action; the meaning and scope of the right to lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair administrative action, in terms of the common law, the Constitution and the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000; the meaning, scope and efficacy of the rights to reasons for administrative actions and of access to information; the procedure of judicial review and remedies that may be granted for the infringement of a person’s right to just administrative action; and conclusions and recommendations with regard to progress made in the construction of South Africa’s new, democratically based, administrative law.
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Traduction et analyse interactionnelle de dialogues cinématographiques en français : problématique des sous-titres en arabe / Translation and interactional analyses of cinematographic dialogues in French : the question of Arabic subtiltes

Ismail, Tief 27 February 2015 (has links)
Cette recherche aborde le dialogue du cinéma. Elle propose une description de quelques interactions verbales couramment présentes dans les échanges quotidiens à travers une analyse d’un corpus cinématographique composé de comédies récentes (Amélie Poulain, Quatre étoiles, la Doublure, Ah ! si j’étais riche, Moi, César…). Les résultats de cette étude fondamentalement descriptive, intéressent [a] le domaine de la relation entre la description des interactions et la didactique du français et de l’arabe langues étrangères ou langues secondes, et [b] la problématique de la traduction des sous-titres cinématographiques, qui constitue la partie la plus importante de son apport. Cette étude cherche, [a] d’un point de vue de didactique des langues, à dégager des interactions pouvant contribuer à enrichir les fonctions du niveau B2 du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues. Le travail se fonde sur l’analyse de certains actes de langage rituels et fonctionnels : salutations, remerciements, excuses, demande, offre et proposition. Les différentes réalisations linguistiques de ces actes forment un inventaire susceptible d’enrichir le référentiel du français langue étrangère ainsi que celui de l’arabe langue étrangère à travers la traduction du dialogue français (les sous-titres). [b] Concernant la problématique traductionnelle, l’analyse des interactions observées (dialogues français transcrits par nous et sous-titres en arabe) font apparaître des liens entre la traduction et la culture, ainsi que des problèmes spécifiques liés aux contraintes de la traduction audiovisuelle et particulièrement au sous-titrage. Les extraits analysés dans la thèse sont repris dans les annexes, avec traduction, rétro-traduction et, au besoin, des notes explicatives, afin d’offrir la possibilité d’une lecture libre d’une partie du corpus. / This research is based on cinema dialogs. It offers a description of aspects of verbal interactions currently found in everyday life situations through a cinematograph corpus (recent French comedies : Amélie Poulain, Quatre étoiles, la Doublure, Ah ! si j’étais riche, Moi, César…). The results of this essentially descriptive study should be of interest for: [a] relations between the description of verbal interactions and the teaching/learning of French and Arabic as foreign or second languages, and [b] issues related to the translation of cinema subtitles, which are in fact the essential part of this study. The latter seeks to identify [a] in the context of the teaching/learning of foreign languages, interactions that help enrich the French B2 level (with reference to the Common European Reference Framework for Languages). The approach illustrates some pragmatic functions in the B2 level, and is based on the analysis of some speech acts (ritual and functional) including greetings, thanks, apologies, requests, offers and proposals. The different linguistic realisations of these acts propose an inventory aiming at enriching the Referential Framework for French and Arabic as foreign or second languages. Arabic is seen through the translation of subtitles. [b] With regards to translation issues, the analysis of the verbal interaction observed in the above mentioned cinema corpus (French dialogs transcribed by us and Arabic subtitles) bring forth some relations between translation and culture, in addition to problems which are specific to the constraints of audiovisual translation, with special reference to subtitling. Excerpts analysed in the dissertation are reproduced in the Annexes, with their translation, a retro-translation, and, when needed, explanatory notes, in order to offer a free reading of parts of our corpus.
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Le débat réglé et argumenté comme dispositif d’apprentissage et d’action. : L’exemple de débats menés à propos de l’environnement et du développement durable. / Debate and argued as set device learning and action. : The example of differents debates about the environment and sustainable development.

Giral, Jacky 19 March 2013 (has links)
A l'occasion de deux recherches menées autour de la question de l'éducation à l'environnement et au développement durable nous avons pu observer que ce champ était exposé à des controverses de tous ordres : scientifiques, éthiques, politiques, techniques, etc… autant que piégé par toutes sortes de représentations sociales fondées ou erronées. Le corollaire pratique de ces controverses a été le recours au débat comme moyen de mieux comprendre les enjeux en présence, de dépasser les représentations « automatiques » ou « aveugles » de la réalité afin de prendre des décisions raisonnables. Notre problématique porte sur l'identification des conditions d'efficacité du débat réglé et argumenté, et sur l'observation des mécanismes qui permettent au débat de servir de cadre pour l'apprentissage à la mise en problème, à la co construction de savoirs et à l'éducation à la citoyenneté dans et hors l'école, mais aussi dans les organisations, depuis les associations jusqu'aux entreprises. Notre thèse est qu'il existe, dans la forme même des débats et plus largement des échanges langagiers, une articulation génératrice d'apprentissages et de volonté d'agir, entre d'une part les types d'arguments élaborés et exposés par les locuteurs et d'autre part la manière dont s'effectuent les échanges. Autrement dit, il existe une relation d'ordre cognitif entre effort de rationalisation au niveau des argumentations et effort de communication au niveau des interactions langagières. / On the occasion of two researches around the issue of environmental education and sustainable development we have seen that this field was exposed to all kinds of controversy: scientific, ethical, political, technical, etc. as well as trapped by all kinds of social representations based or erroneous. The practical corollary of this controversy was the use of debate as a means to better understand the issues at stake, beyond the representations of "automatic" or "blind" to reality in order to make reasonable decisions.Our problem concerns the identification of the conditions of efficiency and reasoned debate settled, and observation mechanisms that allow the debate to provide a framework for learning the setting problem, the co-construction of knowledge and citizenship education in and out of school, but also in organizations, from associations to businesses. Our work will focus on describing these conditions and lead to the development of a typology of debates according to criteria of greater or lesser efficiency in terms of problematization, co-construction of knowledge and effective action. Our thesis is that there exists, in the form of debates and more broadly language exchanges, generating a joint learning and willingness to act, on the one hand between the types of arguments developed and presented by the speakers and secondly how to perform the exchange. In other words, there is a relationship between cognitive rationalization at the level of argumentation and communication efforts at linguistic interactions.
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A Pragmatic Analysis of WISH Imperatives

Ryo Nomura (6630887) 14 May 2019 (has links)
<p>A word or a linguistic construction can mean various things depending on the context. The imperative is a representative example of such a construction and can express a variety of illocutionary forces such as COMMAND, REQUEST, ADVICE, and more (Quirk et al., 1985, Huddleston et al., 2002). </p> <p>However, although there are many studies that comprehensively deal with the imperative or individual illocutionary forces of it (e.g. Lakoff, 1966, Ljung, 1975, Davies, 1986, Wilson & Sperber 1988, Han, 2000, Takahashi, 2012, Jary & Kissine, 2014), there is no such study that shows a possible overall process of how we would interpret an imperative to reach a certain illocutionary force when it is uttered. Without such a shared process, we cannot explain why we can communicate using imperatives without misunderstandings. Thus, this process needs to be investigated. </p> <p>Another problem regarding imperatives is the treatment of non-directive uses of imperatives such as “Have a good day”. The illocutionary force of this imperative would be called GOOD WISH and regarded as a conventional use of imperatives (Davies, 1986). However, it has not been clearly explained why we would choose the imperative construction to express wishes. If this kind of wishes expressed in the form of the imperative are actually a use of imperative, then there should be some reason and motivation for it. </p> <p>The main purposes of this study are to provide (1) a schema of how one would typically reach the interpretation of WISH when hearing an imperative and (2) an account of such use of imperatives as WISH. In this study, examples of imperatives in two non-cognate languages are used for the analysis in the hope to substantiate the credibility of the schema and the account: Japanese and English. Based on the analyses on the imperative and individual illocutionary forces that have been presented in the literature combined with my own analysis, a schema is proposed that illustrates how one would typically reach PRIVATE WISH, the state of affairs of which is deemed to be desirable mainly for the speaker, and GOOD WISH, the state of affairs of which is deemed to be desirable mainly for the addressee. Then, an account for the use of PRIVATE WISH and GOOD WISH is provided. Specifically, the use of imperatives as WISH is an analogous use of prototypical imperatives; people would use the imperative construction to express their strong desirability, and to build and maintain a good relationship with others.</p>
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Atos de Paulo e Tecla: estudo e tradução / Acts of Paul and Thecla: study and translation

Devai, Sara Gonçalves 26 March 2019 (has links)
Atos de Paulo e Tecla narra as provações e extraordinários livramentos experimentados por Tecla, uma jovem e bela virgem de Icônio, após tornar-se cristã através da pregação de Paulo. Provavelmente a obra foi composta em meados do século II, o que coincide com o auge da produção dos romances gregos e do florescimento da Segunda Sofística. Embora apresente importantes pontos de contato com o romance antigo e com a literatura cristã canônica, Atos de Paulo e Tecla também se diferencia consideravelmente destes, o que o coloca claramente em um grupo à parte. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma tradução do texto grego para o português juntamente com um estudo de suas relações com o romance antigo e uma análise de seu contexto. / The Acts of Paul and Thecla narrates the trials and extraordinary deliverance experienced by Thecla, a beautiful young virgin from Iconium, after she became a Christian by Paul\'s preaching. The work was composed in the middle of the second century, simultaneously with the peak of ancient Greek novel production and the flourishing of the Second Sophistic. Despite extensive similarities between the ancient novel, the canonical Christian literature, and The Acts of Paul and Thecla, the latter differs considerably from the other two. This dissertation includes the translation of this narrative from Greek to Portuguese, a study about its correlation with the ancient novel, as well as an analysis of its historical and literary context.
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Nusikalstamų veikų realios ir idealios sutapties atribojimo problemos teorijoje ir teismų praktikoje / Problems of delimitation of real and ideal coincidence of criminal acts in theory and practice of the courts

Vainys, Vytautas 24 January 2012 (has links)
Šiame magistro baigiamajame darbe nusikalstamų veikų daugeto formų – realios ir idealios nusikalstamų veikų sutapčių atribojimo problema nagrinėjama iš daugeto, kaip kvalifikavimo atžvilgiu jau įvertintos teisinės situacijos pozicijos. Nusikalstamų veikų daugetą atribojus nuo pavienės nusikalstamos veikos, sekantis, ir nemažiau svarbus žingsnis – teisingai nustatyti, kokią daugeto formą tarpusavyje sudaro kaltininko padarytos kelios nusikalstamos veikos. Trumpai apžvelgus tokio atribojimo praktinę reikšmę, darbe didžiausias dėmesys skiriamas Lietuvos baudžiamosios teisės doktrinoje ir teismų praktikoje vyraujančių realios ir idealios nusikalstamų veikų sutapčių sampratų ir požymių analizei, jų išskyrimo pagrįstumo ir teismų sprendimų nuoseklumo vertinimui. Baigiamojoje darbo dalyje pateikiamos išvados ir pasiūlymai, kurie galimai padėtų nubrėžti aiškesnę takoskyrą tarp idealios ir realios nusikalstamų veikų sutapčių, taip padedant šias sutaptis atriboti vieną nuo kitos. / The master’s thesis presents thorough analysis of the problem of delimitation of forms of multiple offenses in the criminal law of Lithuania. The so called real and ideal coincidences of criminal acts are analyzed. The problem of multiple offenses prevails in many criminal cases however theoretical and practical variations on the estimation of such usually occur thus determining different judgments. The author presents the most relevant definitions of forms of multiple offenses in the theory of criminal law on the basis of analysis of concepts and attributes of real and ideal coincidence of criminal acts prevailing in Lithuanian criminal law in the historical context of regulations of the Criminal Code. On the basis of theoretical findings and consistent analysis of numerous criminal cases of different courts of Lithuania the author establishes unanimous ground for the most suitable definitions of the real and ideal coincidences of criminal acts. Such definitions that would enable law enforcement and courts in deciding cases properly are an important part of the thesis. The analysis leads to the strong opinion that after delimitation of multiple offenses from single criminal act, the next important step is to correctly determine the form of multiple offenses carried out. Various situations within court rulings are discussed with regard to proper qualification, as the establishment of the most suitable legal estimation. The first chapter of this thesis presents analysis of... [to full text]
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Ensino da pros?dia nos atos diretivos de ordem e pedido para falantes estrangeiros aprendizes do Portugu?s Brasileiro: uma an?lise de materiais did?ticos

Melo, Maressa Carneiro de 30 October 2017 (has links)
Linha de pesquisa: Curr?culos, avalia??o, pr?ticas pedag?gicas e forma??o de professores. / Submitted by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-05-03T14:25:28Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) maressa_carneiro_melo.pdf: 3083173 bytes, checksum: 1d3d359317036112df43c3c8e4876ea5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-05-03T14:25:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) maressa_carneiro_melo.pdf: 3083173 bytes, checksum: 1d3d359317036112df43c3c8e4876ea5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-03T14:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) maressa_carneiro_melo.pdf: 3083173 bytes, checksum: 1d3d359317036112df43c3c8e4876ea5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a abordagem do ensino de pros?dia e, principalmente, dos atos diretivos de ordem e de pedido em Portugu?s Brasileiro nas atividades de quatro materiais did?ticos de Portugu?s Brasileiro como L?ngua Estrangeira utilizados em cursos de Portugu?s como L?ngua Estrangeira no N?cleo de L?nguas da Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri at? o ano de 2016. O ensino da pros?dia e dos atos de ordem e de pedido se fazem relevantes para falantes estrangeiros visto que s?o recursos que integram o sistema lingu?stico (SEARLE, 1981) e neles est?o impressos tra?os culturais do Portugu?s Brasileiro (BODOLAY, 2009). Para que o alocut?rio diferencie um ato diretivo de ordem do de pedido ? preciso que ele esteja atento ?s pistas pros?dicas utilizadas pelo locutor, aos pap?is sociais que ocupam no contexto de comunica??o e outros recursos extralingu?sticos que interferem na interpreta??o do enunciado. Assim sendo, tais recursos s?o totalmente exclusivos de uma l?ngua, segundo Marcuschi (2001) e Cruz-Ferreira (2003), tornando essenciais para a comunica??o de um falante estrangeiro. Para atender o objetivo central deste estudo, utilizamos como instrumento de coleta e an?lise a t?cnica de an?lise de conte?do de Bardin (2011). Como resultado principal, verificamos que tanto a pros?dia quanto os atos de ordem e de pedido s?o pouco explorados ou at? ignorados. Quando h? abordagem desses aspectos da l?ngua falada, os estilos de atividades dos materiais n?o utilizam os recursos orais, fazendo o uso da escrita para ensinar oralidade. / Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2017. / The aim of this research is to analyse the approach of teaching prosody and, mainly, of order and request acts in Brazilian Portuguese in the activities of four didactic materials of Brazilian Portuguese as a foreign language used in courses of Portuguese as a foreign Language at N?cleo de L?nguas of Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys up to the year 2016. The teaching of prosody and the acts of order and request becomes relevant for foreign speakers since they are resources that integrate the linguistic system (SEARLE, 1981) and in them are printed cultural traits of Brazilian Portuguese (BODOLAY, 2009). In order for the speaker to differentiate a directive act from an order to a request, he/she must be aware of the prosodic clues used by the speaker, the social roles they occupy in the context of communication and other extralinguistic resources that interfere in the interpretation of the utterance. Thus, these resources are totally unique to a language, according to Marcuschi (2001) and Cruz-Ferreira (2003), making it essential for the communication of a foreign speaker. In order to achieve the central objective of this study, we used, as a collection of data and analysis instrument, the content an analysis technique of Bardin (2011). As a main result we find that both prosody and order and request acts are little explored or even ignored. When there is an approach with deals with these aspects of spoken language, the styles of the materials activities do not use oral resources, making use of writing to teach orality.
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Ensino da pros?dia nos atos diretivos de ordem e pedido para falantes estrangeiros aprendizes do Portugu?s Brasileiro: uma an?lise de materiais did?ticos

Melo, Maressa Carneiro de 30 October 2017 (has links)
Linha de pesquisa: Curr?culos, avalia??o, pr?ticas pedag?gicas e forma??o de professores. / Submitted by Jos? Henrique Henrique (jose.neves@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-04-26T18:17:38Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) maressa_carneiro_melo.pdf: 3083173 bytes, checksum: 1d3d359317036112df43c3c8e4876ea5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-04-27T14:59:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 9 bytes, checksum: 42dd12a06de379d3ffa39b67dc9c7aff (MD5) maressa_carneiro_melo.pdf: 3083173 bytes, checksum: 1d3d359317036112df43c3c8e4876ea5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-27T14:59:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 9 bytes, checksum: 42dd12a06de379d3ffa39b67dc9c7aff (MD5) maressa_carneiro_melo.pdf: 3083173 bytes, checksum: 1d3d359317036112df43c3c8e4876ea5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a abordagem do ensino de pros?dia e, principalmente, dos atos diretivos de ordem e de pedido em Portugu?s Brasileiro nas atividades de quatro materiais did?ticos de Portugu?s Brasileiro como L?ngua Estrangeira utilizados em cursos de Portugu?s como L?ngua Estrangeira no N?cleo de L?nguas da Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri at? o ano de 2016. O ensino da pros?dia e dos atos de ordem e de pedido se fazem relevantes para falantes estrangeiros visto que s?o recursos que integram o sistema lingu?stico (SEARLE, 1981) e neles est?o impressos tra?os culturais do Portugu?s Brasileiro (BODOLAY, 2009). Para que o alocut?rio diferencie um ato diretivo de ordem do de pedido ? preciso que ele esteja atento ?s pistas pros?dicas utilizadas pelo locutor, aos pap?is sociais que ocupam no contexto de comunica??o e outros recursos extralingu?sticos que interferem na interpreta??o do enunciado. Assim sendo, tais recursos s?o totalmente exclusivos de uma l?ngua, segundo Marcuschi (2001) e Cruz-Ferreira (2003), tornando essenciais para a comunica??o de um falante estrangeiro. Para atender o objetivo central deste estudo, utilizamos como instrumento de coleta e an?lise a t?cnica de an?lise de conte?do de Bardin (2011). Como resultado principal, verificamos que tanto a pros?dia quanto os atos de ordem e de pedido s?o pouco explorados ou at? ignorados. Quando h? abordagem desses aspectos da l?ngua falada, os estilos de atividades dos materiais n?o utilizam os recursos orais, fazendo o uso da escrita para ensinar oralidade. / Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2017. / The aim of this research is to analyse the approach of teaching prosody and, mainly, of order and request acts in Brazilian Portuguese in the activities of four didactic materials of Brazilian Portuguese as a foreign language used in courses of Portuguese as a foreign Language at N?cleo de L?nguas of Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys up to the year 2016. The teaching of prosody and the acts of order and request becomes relevant for foreign speakers since they are resources that integrate the linguistic system (SEARLE, 1981) and in them are printed cultural traits of Brazilian Portuguese (BODOLAY, 2009). In order for the speaker to differentiate a directive act from an order to a request, he/she must be aware of the prosodic clues used by the speaker, the social roles they occupy in the context of communication and other extralinguistic resources that interfere in the interpretation of the utterance. Thus, these resources are totally unique to a language, according to Marcuschi (2001) and Cruz-Ferreira (2003), making it essential for the communication of a foreign speaker. In order to achieve the central objective of this study, we used, as a collection of data and analysis instrument, the content an analysis technique of Bardin (2011). As a main result we find that both prosody and order and request acts are little explored or even ignored. When there is an approach with deals with these aspects of spoken language, the styles of the materials activities do not use oral resources, making use of writing to teach orality.
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Contexte et force illocutoire: vers une théorie cognitive des actes de langage / Context and illocutionary force: towards a cognitive theory of speech acts

Kissine, Mikhail 11 December 2007 (has links)
L'objectif de la thèse est de formuler une théorie psychologiquement plausible de la manière dont les locuteurs assignent des forces illocutoires aux énoncés. / Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Genre of Acts and collected biography

Adams, Sean A. January 2011 (has links)
This thesis argues that the best genre parallel for the Acts of the Apostles is collected biography. This conclusion is reached through an application of ancient and modern genre theory and a detailed comparison of Acts and collected biographies. Chapter 1 offers prolegomena to this study and further delineates the contours of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides an extensive history of research, not only to provide the context and rationale for the present work, but also to indicate some of the shortcomings of previous investigations and the need for this present study. Chapter 3 presents the methodological perspective for this exploration. Making use of ancient and modern genre theory, I propose that scholars need to understand genre as a dynamic and flexible system that is culturally influenced and highly adaptable. In Chapter 4 I trace the diachronic development of ancient biographies, describe different sub-divisions, and note the strong, enduring relationship between biography and history. In evaluating the development of biography as a whole, there appears to be a distinct preference by ancient biographers for collected biographies. Chapters 5 to 7 interpret Acts in light of its possible relationship with collected biographies. Chapter 5 provides a detailed comparison of the structural and content features of history, novels, collected biographies, and Acts. Overall, this chapter argues that the structural and content features of Acts are most strongly related to the genre of biography and, secondarily, to history. Chapters six and seven evaluate Acts as a modified collected biography, identifying notable similarities in content features, structure, and endings. Chapter 8 summarizes and concludes the thesis, along with a brief mention of avenues for future research. Related literary investigations, such as a list of literary topoi references in biographies, biographies referenced by Diogenes Laertius, and a full discussion of biography’s adaptability in the first century (modelled by Plutarch and Philo), are treated in appendices.

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