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Corpus Linguistics and Cultural Difference in CanadaFee, Margery January 2005 (has links)
A brief account of the work of the Strathy Language Unit (Queen's University)to produce a corpus suitable for supporting the publication of Guide to Canadian English Usage (Oxford 1997, 2nd ed. 2007)
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French Borrowing in Quebec EnglishFee, Margery January 2008 (has links)
Provides an overview of work on the effects of Quebec French (QF) on Quebec English (QE) since 1977. Argues that the framework used by sociolinguists is too narrow methodologically, excluding conversations in English between people whose first languages are different and ignoring the deliberate use of language for political effect. Examines some cognate nouns to show how meanings in QE have shifted because of knowledge of QF.
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"Transcolonial circuits" : historical fiction and national identities in Ireland, Scotland, and CanadaCabajsky, Andrea 11 1900 (has links)
'"Transcolonial Circuits': Historical Fiction and National Identities in Ireland, Scotland,
and Canada" explores the intersections between gender, canon-formation, and literary
genre in order to argue that English- and French-Canadian historical fiction was
influenced, both in form and content, by the precedent-setting fictions o f Scotland and
Ireland in the early nineteenth century. Conceived in the spirit o f Katie Trumpener's
Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire (1997), this dissertation
extends Trumpener's examination of nineteenth-century British and Canadian romantic
fiction by exploring in greater detail the flow of ideas and literary techniques between
Ireland, Scotland, and English and French Canada. It does so in order to revise critical
understandings of the formal and thematic origins and development of Canadian
historical fiction from the nineteenth century to the present.
Chapter One functions as a series of literary snapshots that examine historically
the critical and popular reception of novels by Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson in
Ireland, Sir Walter Scott in Scotland, John Richardson, William Kirby, and Jean
Mcllwraith in English Canada, and Philippe Aubert de Gaspe and Napoleon Bourassa in
French Canada. I pay particular attention to the issues o f gender and political ideology as
inseparable from the history of the novel itself. In Chapter Two, by focussing on the
travel trope, I examine in detail how Irish, Scottish, and Canadian writers transformed the
investigative journeys of Samuel Johnson and Arthur Young into journeys of resistance
to the dictates of the metropolis. Chapter Three focuses on the complications of marriage
as a metaphor o f intercultural union. It pays particular attention to the intersections
between gender, sexuality, and colonial identity. The Conclusion extends the concerns
raised in the thesis about the relationship between historical writing and national identity
to the late-twentieth-century Canadian context, by examining the adaptation of literary
and historiographical conventions to the medium of television in the CBC/SRC television
series Canada: A People's History, which aired in 2001-02.
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Feminine self-consciousness in the works of Margaret LaurenceTremblay, Anne January 1976 (has links)
No description available.
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The Perfect Approach to Adverbs: Applying Variation Theory to Competing ModelsRoy, Joseph 18 December 2013 (has links)
The question of adverbs and the meaning of the present perfect across varieties of English is central to sociolinguistic variationist methodologies that have approached the study of the present perfect (Winford, 1993; Tagliamonte, 1997; van Herk, 2008, 2010; Davydova, 2010; Tagliamonte, 2013). This dissertation attempts to disentangle the effect of adverbial support from the three canonical readings of the present perfect (Resultative, Experiential and Continuative). Canadian English, an understudied variety of English, is used to situate the results seen in the Early Modern English data. Early Modern English reflects the time period in which English has acquired the full modern use of the present perfect with the three readings.
In order to address both these questions and current controversies over statistical models in sociolinguistics, different statistical models are used: both the traditional Goldvarb X (Sankoff, Tagliamonte and Smith, 2005) and the newer mixed-effects logistic regression (Johnson, 2009). What is missing from the previous literature in sociolinguistics that advocates logistic mixed-effects models, and provided in this dissertation, is a clear statement of where they are inappropriate to use and their limitations.
The rate of adverbial marking of the present perfect in Canadian English falls between rates reported for US and British English in previous studies. The data show in both time periods that while adverbs are highly favored in continuative contexts, they are strongly disfavored in experiential and resultative contexts. In Early Modern English, adverbial support functions statistically differently for resultatives and experientials, but that difference collapses in the Canadian English sample. Both this and the other linguistic contexts support a different analysis for each set of data with respect to adverbial independence from the meaning of the present perfect form. Finally, when the focus of the analysis is on linguistic rather than social factors, both the traditional and newer models provide similar results. Where there are differences, however, these can be accounted for by the number of tokens and different estimation techniques for each model.
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Exotic places to read: Desire, resistance, and the postcolonial.Snell, Heather R. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2007. / (UMI)AAINR30853. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3848.
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Innovation within the modern short story through the interaction of gender, nationality, and genre, Margaret Atwood's Wilderness tips and Alice Munro's Open secretsWeaver, Rosalie Mary January 1997 (has links) (PDF)
No description available.
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Playing house, home as the necessary context of Margaret Laurence's Dance on the earthZidulka, Amy Diane January 2000 (has links) (PDF)
No description available.
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fictionLaouyene, Atef January 2008 (has links)
This dissertation draws on modern theories of the exotic in order to critique racialized, consumer-oriented representations of Arabs. Such representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a threateningly attractive otherness. Reading the texts of Leila Sebbar's Sherazade (1982), Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees (1996), Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (1996), and Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent (2003) and The Language of Baklava (2005), I argue that contemporary postcolonial fiction displays a patently self-conscious, self-parodic engagement with the constitutive paradoxes of the discourse of exoticism, especially when this discourse takes the Arab figure as its subject. I avail myself of "postexotic Arabness" as a tropological descriptor for such an engagement. Postexotic Arabness thus designates the creation of narrative dystopias that not only ironically recycle Orientalist configurations of things Arab but also implicate both authors and readers in an ultimately self-parodic re-assessment of the Arab exotic. The strategic exoticization of Arab otherness in these works, I argue, is also coterminous with a historically conscious critique of global consumer culture and unequal social relations of power.
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The Perfect Approach to Adverbs: Applying Variation Theory to Competing ModelsRoy, Joseph January 2014 (has links)
The question of adverbs and the meaning of the present perfect across varieties of English is central to sociolinguistic variationist methodologies that have approached the study of the present perfect (Winford, 1993; Tagliamonte, 1997; van Herk, 2008, 2010; Davydova, 2010; Tagliamonte, 2013). This dissertation attempts to disentangle the effect of adverbial support from the three canonical readings of the present perfect (Resultative, Experiential and Continuative). Canadian English, an understudied variety of English, is used to situate the results seen in the Early Modern English data. Early Modern English reflects the time period in which English has acquired the full modern use of the present perfect with the three readings.
In order to address both these questions and current controversies over statistical models in sociolinguistics, different statistical models are used: both the traditional Goldvarb X (Sankoff, Tagliamonte and Smith, 2005) and the newer mixed-effects logistic regression (Johnson, 2009). What is missing from the previous literature in sociolinguistics that advocates logistic mixed-effects models, and provided in this dissertation, is a clear statement of where they are inappropriate to use and their limitations.
The rate of adverbial marking of the present perfect in Canadian English falls between rates reported for US and British English in previous studies. The data show in both time periods that while adverbs are highly favored in continuative contexts, they are strongly disfavored in experiential and resultative contexts. In Early Modern English, adverbial support functions statistically differently for resultatives and experientials, but that difference collapses in the Canadian English sample. Both this and the other linguistic contexts support a different analysis for each set of data with respect to adverbial independence from the meaning of the present perfect form. Finally, when the focus of the analysis is on linguistic rather than social factors, both the traditional and newer models provide similar results. Where there are differences, however, these can be accounted for by the number of tokens and different estimation techniques for each model.
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