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This thesis analyzes the sociolinguistic situations in postcolonial Latin America and francophone North Africa (the Maghreb) through a comparative lens. Specifically, it examines the ways in which Spain and France’s differing colonial agendas and language ideologies affected the relationships between colonizer and colonized, and, by extension, the role that Spanish and French play(ed) in these regions after decolonization. Finally, it explores how Spain and France’s contemporary discourses frame colonial participation in the two languages’ development, and the psychological effects these ideologies have had on the formerly colonized.

Die Veröffentlichung enthält 11 Ausstellungstafeln, die 2008 im Stadtarchiv Dresden gezeigt wurden. Schwerpunkt bildet die Dokumentation der wichtigsten Etappen der Entwicklung der vereinfachten Schulausgangsschrift von den Anfängen 1960 bis zu ihrer Einführung 1968 mit authentischem Bildmaterial. Weitere Ausführungen geben Aufschluss über die inhaltliche Ausgestaltung der Schreiberziehung in der Schule nach der Einführung des vereinfachten Alphabetes. Darüber hinaus werden einige Beispiele zur unterschiedlichen Resonanz dieser bildungspolitischen Maßnahme 1968 in Ost und West zitiert. Mit den Angaben über die Weiterführung der Schulausgangsschrift als SAS im wiedervereinten Deutschland schließt die Ausstellung von 2008 ab. 2012 wurden die 11 Tafeln mit den Lebensdaten der Autorinnen ergänzt.

This thesis considers the nature of primary, intermediate and district high school buildings designed by the Building Department of the Canterbury Education Board from its consolidation in 1916 until its termination in 1989. Before 1916, the influence of British models on the CEB’s predecessors had been dominant, while after that date, Board architects were more likely to attempt vernacular solutions that were relevant to the geographic situation of the Canterbury district, the secular nature of New Zealand education and changing ideas of the relative importance of the key architectural drivers of design i.e. function and form. One development, unique to Canterbury, was that for a short period, from 1924-29, a local pressure group, the Open Air Schools’ League became so powerful that it virtually dictated the CEB’s design policy until the Board architects George Penlington and John Alexander Bigg reassumed control by inflecting the open-air model into the much acclaimed veranda block. The extent to which Board architects had the freedom to express themselves within a framework of funding control exercised by the Department of Education was further circumscribed by successive building codes that, at their most directive, required national standardisation under the 1951 Dominion Basic Plan and to a slightly lesser extent under the1956 code and associated White Lines regime. Following World War 2, the use of prefabricated structures had prompted the recognition that better designed relocatable rooms could hold the key to a more flexible and effective allocation of resources in an environment increasingly subject to rapid demographic change. By the end of the period, the exploitation of new construction technologies and modern materials led to the dominance of the relocatable CEBUS buildings in Canterbury schoolyards. A concurrent development was the response of architects A. Frederick (Fred) McCook and John Sinclair Arthur to the Department’s call to design more flexible spaces, i.e. open planning, to facilitate a change in pedagogical method. Other issues raised in this study are the CEB’s solutions to the challenges of building on the West Coast, and the recurring need to ensure structural integrity in a region where there was a continuous risk of seismic activity.

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The thesis in question is titled “Readjusting Orthodoxy”. It constitutes a discourse in UK constitutional law although legal theoretic, historical, politicial, philosophical, and EU-related complementary themes are also present. It is founded upon, and driven by, two fundamental, inter-related premises. First, that it is the orthodox reading of the UK Constitution which best describes and explains the present constitutional arrangement: the UK Parliament is a sovereign institution sitting at the apex of the UK Constitution and vested with the right to make and unmake any law whatsoever. In the second place, that, notwithstanding the above, this very reading of the UK Constitution is currently deficient in terms of internal cohesion, is plagued by ingrained anachronistic dogmas and enjoys only a limited adaptability. From these premises emerges a third proposition; namely, that the UK constitutional discourse as a whole would stand to lose greatly should alternative constitutional theories that are less suited to describe and explain the current constitutional arrangement replace the orthodox reading of the Constitution by exploiting these conspicuous drawbacks. Thus, the present treatise argues that the orthodox reading should after critical evaluation be readjusted in the various ways to be proposed so as to be rendered coherent, consistent, impervious to the numerous challenges it currently faces and, ultimately, capable of continuing to offer the canonical account of the ever-changing UK Constitution.

Summaries in French and English / Text in French / Les romans analyses - Une si longue lettre et Un chant ecarlate de Mariama Ba, O pays, mon beau peuple! by d'Ousmane Sembene et Agar d' Albert Memmi - proposent tous une histoire se deroulant en Afrique et ayant pour theme le mariage mixte et/ou polygame, theme particulierement riche comme foyer d'observation socioculturelle et interculturelle des milieux evoques. Le chapitre 1 cerne le theme du mariage et ses diverses configurations mixtes et polygames dans les quatre roamns. Sont examines dans les chapitres suivants: les rapports familiaux et sociaux tels qu'ils sont vecus par les couples protagonistes; la polygamie, centrale aux deux romans de Ba et omnipresente dans celui de Sembene; les religions des societes concernees, telles qu' ell es affectent les couples en jeu; les images de la femme - et surtout de la femme africaine - qui ressortent des situations conjugates developpees par les auteurs; l'eventuelle influence du sexe de l'auteur sur la representation de la femme. / The novels analysed - Une si longue lettre and Un chant ecarlate by Mariama Ba, O pays, mon beau peuple! by Ousmane Sembene and Agar by Albert Memmi - all tell stories set in Africa and share the theme of mixed and/or polygamous marriage, a particularly fertile theme through which to focus a socio-cultural and intercultural examination of the social environments portrayed. Chapter 1 identifies the theme of marriage and the various mixed/polygamous configurations it assumes in the four novels. The succeeding chapters examine: family and social relationships as experienced by the protagonists; polygamy, central to both novels by Ba and omnipresent in Sembene's novel; the religions of the societies portrayed, insofar as they affect the couples concerned; the images of woman - and particularly the Afiican woman - emerging from the marital situations developed by the authors and, finally, the possible influence of authorial gender on the presentation of woman. / Classics and Modern Euorpean Languages / M.A. (French)

De 1913 à 1947, entre la première prestation de ses choeurs jusqu’au décès de sa fondatrice, Marguerite Le Meignen, la Schola Cantorum de Nantes connaît une activité ininterrompue malgré deux guerres mondiales et un contexte politique agité. Le groupement naît dans une ville prospère avant la Première Guerre mondiale où la vie musicale est fort diversifiée, le théâtre lyrique occupant cependant la première place. Grâce à Marguerite Le Meignen, une femme à la très forte personnalité, une société de concerts voit le jour. Très solidement organisée, sachant communiquer avec brio, elle propose des programmes variés tant l’hiver que l’été. Le lien avec la Schola Cantorum de Paris fondée par Vincent d’Indy, affirmé avec conviction au début de l’apparition de la Schola de Nantes, se relâche très rapidement pour laisser place à une réalisation originale. La place hégémonique de Marguerite Le Meignen qui domine la vie musicale nantaise pendant trente-quatre ans, empêche la pluralité, même si elle finit par être en concurrence avec d’autres groupements symphoniques dont le principal, l’Association des Concerts Symphoniques du Conservatoire de Nantes préfigure l’actuel Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire. / From 1913 to 1947, since the first choirs performance to the death of her founder, Marguerite Le Meignen, Nantes Schola Cantorum experienced an uninterrupted activity, despite two world wars and a disturbed political context. The group is born in Nantes, a flourishing town before WWI where musical life is greatly diversified, despite the predominance of lyric theater. Thanks to Marguerite Le Meignen, a very strong personality, a concert company comes. With a great sense of organization, knowing how to communicate with brio, she suggests various programs both winter and summer. The link with Paris Schola Cantorum founded by Vincent d’Indy, assured with conviction at the creation of Nantes Schola, soon vanished very quickly. Marguerite Le Meignen’s hegemonic place, dominating Nantes musical life during thirty-four years, prevented plurality, evenif she ends up competing with other symphonic bands, particulary the famoust « Association des Concerts Symphoniques du Conservatoire de Nantes » who prefigures the actuel « Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire ».

The goal of this dissertation is to describe an evolution of visions of the Slovak future, as they were introduced during the Great War (1914-1918) by groups of Slovaks living mainly abroad. It strives to decide, which of these visions had a chance to become real and which were only fantasies without real political importance. To reach this goal it tries to describe Slovak relations to other relevant nations in pre-war years and also the position of Slovaks in their fatherland or abroad including the ideologies by which they were influenced. One of most decisive goals of this dissertation should be answering the question if the Czecho-Slovak orientation was the only alternative to the idea of Hungarian state for Slovak politicians, or if the victory of this conception in 1918 was just a result of unpredictable processes, and whether other conceptions had their chance to influence the Slovak future, too.

Die Veröffentlichung enthält 11 Ausstellungstafeln, die 2008 im Stadtarchiv Dresden gezeigt wurden. Schwerpunkt bildet die Dokumentation der wichtigsten Etappen der Entwicklung der vereinfachten Schulausgangsschrift von den Anfängen 1960 bis zu ihrer Einführung 1968 mit authentischem Bildmaterial. Weitere Ausführungen geben Aufschluss über die inhaltliche Ausgestaltung der Schreiberziehung in der Schule nach der Einführung des vereinfachten Alphabetes. Darüber hinaus werden einige Beispiele zur unterschiedlichen Resonanz dieser bildungspolitischen Maßnahme 1968 in Ost und West zitiert. Mit den Angaben über die Weiterführung der Schulausgangsschrift als SAS im wiedervereinten Deutschland schließt die Ausstellung von 2008 ab. 2012 wurden die 11 Tafeln mit den Lebensdaten der Autorinnen ergänzt.