This study is a comparison of female characters portrayed by different authors in selected Venda novels. Chapter One comprises the aim of the study, approach, life history of authors, comments on their work, a short summary of the selected novels, cultural fulfilment of a Venda woman, and the scope and composition of chapters. Chapter Two deals with characterization. The definition and methods of characterization are discussed in this chapter. The merits and demerits of various methods of character portrayal are also examined in some detail. Chapter Three discusses the different female characters portrayed in the selected novels. Chapter Four comprises a comparison of female characters in the selected novels. Chapter Five is the general conclusion to this study / African Languages / M.A. (African languages)

汉字作为日语的组成部分，在日本人的生活中承担着重要角色。随着社会背景的改变，汉字政策作为日本的国语国策也发生着变化。2010年，日本文化厅公布了《改定常用汉字表》，此表共包括2,136个汉字，新增了196个汉字，这是自1981年颁布《常用汉字表》以来第一次修订汉字表。常用汉字的改定已成事实，并将于2012年推行，这意味着常用汉字的增加将对日后汉字的学习带来重大影响。 / 本论文的目的在于探究使用简体字的中国中上级日语学习者对于改定常用汉字的习得意识以及习得状况。在对汉字在日本的演变历史、历次常用汉字表改定的经纬以及中日汉字字音、字形的比较等进行研究之后，笔者在国内的4所大学做了问卷调查，对象为137名日语专业三年级学生，其中72%的学生通过了1级和2级日语能力考试。 / 结果显示，中国大学生普遍认为汉字的读音最难；虽然通过日语1、2级的学生人数占多数，但是从汉字字形的习得结果来看，正确率仍然比较低。 / 从以上可知，改定常用汉字的习得对于中国学生来说，仍有很多地方需要改进。中日两国汉字有许多相同和不同之处，如何巧妙地母语优势学习日语汉字，同时又避开来自母语的负面干涉，是有待进一步讨论的课题。 / Kanji plays an important role in the daily life of Japanese people. Policies regarding kanji change when the social context changes. The current Jōyō kanji list issued in 2010 consists of 2,136 characters. It is a slightly modified version of the Jōyō kanji which was introduced in 1981 as the standardized list of “common kanji. A modified version of the Jōyō kanji will be put into effect in 2012, this version increases the number of kanji and will have a strong impact on kanji learning. / This paper examines the experience of using the Jōyō kanji system and the usage of modified Jōyō kanji among the advanced Japanese language learners whose first language is mandarin. This paper composes 3 sections. First, the author examines the history of kanji in Japan and the previous modifications of the Jōyō kanji; Second, a comparison between simplified Chinese kanji and Japanese kanji; Lastly, the author conducted a survey in 4 universities in China with 137 students, among which 72% have passed JLPT (the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test) level 1 and level 2. / The results of the survey reveal the following: 1. mainland Chinese students consider that the reading of kanji is the most difficult; 2. although most of the students have passed JLPT 1 and JLPT 2, their accuracy of writing kanji is still low. / In conclusion, there is still room for improvement for mainland Chinese students when learning Jōyō kanji. There are common places and differences between simplified Chinese characters and Japanese kanji. For the Chinese Japanese language learners, how to take advantage of the similarities between the two systems and recognize the differences between the systems is something to be investigated in further studies. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 常海霞. / "2012年8月". / "2012 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-201). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Chang Haixia. / Chapter 0 --- 序章 --- p.1 / Chapter 0.1 --- 先行研究的问题点 --- p.1 / Chapter 0.2 --- 研究动机与研究问题 --- p.3 / Chapter 0.3 --- 研究意义 --- p.4 / Chapter 0.4 --- 研究结论 --- p.5 / Chapter 0.5 --- 研究大纲 --- p.9 / Chapter 1 --- 汉字的传入以及发展、变迁 --- p.10 / Chapter 1.1 --- 汉字传入 --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2 --- 汉字音训的出现 --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3 --- 从万叶假名到假名的演变 --- p.14 / Chapter 2 --- 汉字作为现代国语政策的展开 --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1 --- 明治时期至战前的汉字政策变革 --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2 --- 汉字作为现代国语政策的展开 --《当用汉字表》 --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3 --- 汉字作为现代国语政策的展开 --《常用汉字表》 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- 《常用汉字表》改定的原委 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- 《常用汉字表》的性格 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- 《常用汉字表》的音训以及字体 --- p.33 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- 人名用汉字 --- p.33 / Chapter 2.4 --- 汉字作为现代国语政策的展开 --《改定常用汉字表》 --- p.34 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- 汉字与情报化社会 --- p.34 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- 《改定常用汉字表》改定的原委 --- p.38 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- 《改定常用汉字表》的性格 --- p.41 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- 《改定常用汉字表》的字数、音训以及字体 --- p.42 / Chapter 2.4.5 --- 关于固有名词的改定 --- p.45 / Chapter 3 --- 日语汉字与中国汉字的对应关系 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1 --- 中日两国汉字的读音比较 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 中日两国汉字的音韵 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 日语改定常用汉字与中国汉字在读音上的联系与差异 --- p.56 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 小结 --- p.75 / Chapter 3.2 --- 日语改定常用汉字与中国常用汉字在字形上的联系与差异 --- p.75 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 中国汉字字形的改革道路 --- p.75 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 日本汉字字形的改革道路以及与中国汉字字形政策的对比 --- p.81 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- 字形上日语改定常用汉字中日区别 --- p.84 / Chapter 3.3 --- 总结 --- p.86 / Chapter 4 --- 对于中国中上级日语学习者日语常用汉字的习得状况研究 --- p.87 / Chapter 4.1 --- 第二语言习得理论的先行研究概观 --- p.87 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 误用分析 --- p.88 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 中间语言研究 --- p.97 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- 常用汉字习得情况的先行研究概观 --- p.100 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- 先行研究的问题点 --- p.102 / Chapter 4.2 --- 预备调查 --- p.103 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 预备调查背景及内容介绍 --- p.103 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 汉字使用意识的调查结果分析 --- p.107 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 常用汉字的使用状况结果分析 --- p.116 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- 总结 --- p.132 / Chapter 4.3 --- 正式调查 --- p.127 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- 正式调查背景介绍 --- p.134 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- 中国学生汉字意识调查结果 --- p.135 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- 汉字音读习得情况 --- p.142 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- 汉字训读习得情况 --- p.158 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- 改定常用汉字的书写情况 --- p.170 / Chapter 4.3.6 --- 常用汉字的书写情况 --- p.174 / Chapter 4.3.7 --- 对于常用汉字的书写情况的误用调查结果 --- p.179 / Chapter 5 --- 终章 --- p.185 / Chapter 附录1 --- 《改定常用汉字表》追加的196个汉字 --- p.188 / Chapter 附录2 --- 中文版问卷调查内容 --- p.188 / Chapter 附录3 --- 日文版问卷调查内容 --- p.193 / Chapter 附录4 --- 日本漢字能力検定 --- p.195 / p.197

Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking position; under colonialism, what they want to say cannot be said. Lessing's first-person stories differ from her more distant third-person works, which show how white settlers either refuse to recognize their own complicity within the colonial system or accept living a compromised life. Her younger narrators are as yet innocent; the stories often focus on the character's discovery of her own responsibility as a member of the white ruling class. However, these girls have varying levels of self awareness; some seem unaware of the implications of their stories, while others catch glimpses of their own complicity, yet are unable to act. Although Lessing herself is highly critical of colonialism, her stories sometimes risk textually replicating and thus reinforcing the values she criticizes. Dangarembga's first-person novel Nervous Conditions (1988) portrays Tambu, a girl from a poor African family, and her more modern cousin Nyasha. Tambu narrates the story as an adult, Although Nyasha resents colonialism and her patriarchal family, Tambu proceeds with her education, attempting to ignore the injustice around her. Because of the use of an adult narrator, the reader sees what Tambu the child cannot see. Nyasha is unable to voice her concerns; her protest surfaces as anorexia. Both Lessing's and Dangarembga's characters have difficulty speaking because colonialism does not include a space for what they want to say; even if they spoke, their words could make little difference. Lessing' s characters can "speak" only by leaving the country, as Lessing herself did. Dangarembga's Tambu may or may not have "escaped" her situation; by the book's publication, Rhodesia had overcome white rule, and it may be this political change that allows Tambu to tell her story. / Graduation date: 2002

This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure as unsympathetic, no matter her incarnation: whether the moralist of popular fiction or madwoman of gothic fiction, she is representative of excess and indulgence—ideas that society wanted to condemn in harmony with Georges Batailles's observation that a time of indulgence will be checked by a return to conservative bourgeois ideals. The heiress is made a vessel for these cultural anxieties, representing both the desire for and reaction against material possession within the larger male imperial imaginary landscape. The heiress is a way for the male protagonist to indulge in a decadent coming-of-age narrative before being scalded by his secular desires, abandoning this dream for bourgeois security. I employ the criticism of Batailles, Laura Brown, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, etc., in order to discover how the heiress is objectified and controlled, yet, in the greater narrative structure, finds ways to act outside of the male linguistic system as an agent for change—bringing about the collapse of the fake set and props of the material world. In the second article, I examine Charles Dickens's attempts to control his printed materials and his belief that he could coalesce the expanding literate public into a faithful readership. However, Dickens was troubled by illicit reproductions of his work by the popular presses. In order to look at Dickens's concerns not only over losing control of his product, but also having the emotional essence of his characters and stories compromised, I turn to Bleak House which, critics have established, is in part a treatise against unlicensed copies. I argue that the character of Lady Dedlock serves as a representation of Dickens since she, like him, relies on the popular press in order to maintain her social standing, yet she also imagines that she is above them—though, in reality, much of her "private" life is already in public hands. I focus, specifically, on an unlicensed image of Lady Dedlock (that she is unaware of) that has been reproduced in a collection that anyone can purchase. In the end, Dickens allows his fiction to speak for him, forcing the reader to process the invasive horror of unlicensed copies through the emotion they feel for the actual, authentic woman. / Graduation date: 2012 / Access restricted to the OSU Community at author's request from June 20, 2012 - June 20, 2014

Computer games are an increasingly popular application for Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, and conversely AI is an increasingly popular selling point for commercial digital games. AI for non playing characters (NPC) in computer games tends to come from people with computing skills well beyond the average user. The prime reason behind the lack of involvement of novice users in creating AI behaviors for NPC's in computer games is that construction of high quality AI behaviors is a hard problem. There are two reasons for it. First, creating a set of AI behavior requires specialized skills in design and programming. The nature of the process restricts it to certain individuals who have a certain expertise in this area. There is little understanding of how the behavior authoring process can be simplified with easy-to-use authoring environments so that novice users (without programming and design experience) can carry out the behavior authoring task. Second, the constructed AI behaviors have problems and bugs in them which cause a break in player expe- rience when the problematic behaviors repeatedly fail. It is harder for novice users to identify, modify and correct problems with the authored behavior sets as they do not have the necessary debugging and design experience. The two issues give rise to a couple of interesting questions that need to be investigated: a) How can the AI behavior construction process be simplified so that a novice user (without program- ming and design experience) can easily conduct the authoring activity and b) How can the novice users be supported to help them identify and correct problems with the authored behavior sets? In this thesis, I explore the issues related to the problems highlighted and propose a solution to them within an application domain, named Second Mind(SM). In SM novice users who do not have expertise in computer programming employ an authoring interface to design behaviors for intelligent virtual characters performing a service in a virtual world. These services range from shopkeepers to museum hosts. The constructed behaviors are further repaired using an AI based approach. To evaluate the construction and repair approach, we conduct experiments with human subjects. Based on developing and evaluating the solution, I claim that a design solution with behavior timeline based interaction design approach for behavior construction supported by an understandable vocabulary and reduced feature representation for- malism enables novice users to author AI behaviors in an easy and understandable manner for NPCs performing a service in a virtual world. I further claim that an introspective reasoning approach based on comparison of successful and unsuccessful execution traces can be used as a means to successfully identify breaks in player ex- perience and modify the failures to improve the experience of the player interacting with NPCs performing a service in a virtual world. The work contributes in the following three ways by providing: 1) a novel introspective reasoning approach for successfully detecting and repairing failures in AI behaviors for NPCs performing a service in a virtual world.; 2) a novice user understandable authoring environment to help them create AI behaviors for NPCs performing a service in a virtual world in an easy and understandable manner; and 3) Design, debugging and testing scaffolding to help novice users modify their authored AI behaviors and achieve higher quality modified AI behaviors compared to their original unmodified behaviors.

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This study is a comparison of female characters portrayed by different authors in selected Venda novels. Chapter One comprises the aim of the study, approach, life history of authors, comments on their work, a short summary of the selected novels, cultural fulfilment of a Venda woman, and the scope and composition of chapters. Chapter Two deals with characterization. The definition and methods of characterization are discussed in this chapter. The merits and demerits of various methods of character portrayal are also examined in some detail. Chapter Three discusses the different female characters portrayed in the selected novels. Chapter Four comprises a comparison of female characters in the selected novels. Chapter Five is the general conclusion to this study / African Languages / M.A. (African languages)

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