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Master of Science - Agricultural Education and Communication / Department of Communications and Agricultural Education / Jason D. Ellis / The general public is more generationally and geographically removed from agricultural production today than ever before, yet as influential as ever with regards to its ability to impact the operating conditions of the animal agriculture industry. To date, the agriculture industry has focused research and extension on how to educate and persuade the public in order to gain support for its practices and policies. Little work has investigated how the language choices of those communicating about agriculture may be functioning to position themselves and other participants with regards to authority and credibility, and how this affects their communication and the industry as a whole. This study sought to develop an understanding as to how three key groups in the animal agriculture conversation (experts, professional communicators, and agricultural advocates) use discourse and language to position themselves and other participants, their explanations of opposition to animal agriculture, and their ideas about how to best present and justify their arguments to the wider public. In addition to this, the study also sought to understand what power structures and dynamics exist within the conversation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data for a critical discourse analysis. The discursive practices of the participants functioned to ultimately undermine and delegitimize the role of the public and individuals and groups opposed to animal agriculture, as well as position the industry and its constituents as the only authoritative and credible voices in the animal agriculture conversation. This is likely to be prohibitive to achieving the goals of agricultural communication activities. Those communicating on behalf of the animal agriculture industry should become more aware of how their beliefs, values, and ideologies impact the discourse from which they are operating, as well as how their communication is functioning. This research was undertaken from a critical inquiry perspective, shedding light on some of the power structures inherent between the animal agriculture industry and the general public. Others undertaking agricultural sociology and related research should consider doing so integrating a similar theoretical perspective to continually challenge the assumptions and conditions under which the industry operates.

Thesis advisor: Patrick McQuillan / This case study examines the micropolitical strategies that a coach and seven teachers utilized to negotiate ideological and epistemological beliefs during required common planning time meetings for the period of one semester in an urban middle school. Theories of micropolitics and critical discourse analysis guided the development of the research questions that emphasized the political nature of the transactions and interactions between individuals within a school and how these negotiations were affected by the cultural and political climate of the district and the ideologies of individuals within that school about how students learn. The findings revealed how coaching as a reform strategy is highly influenced by the context of the school. The observations of mandated common planning time meetings, interviews with the coach and teachers, and other artifacts suggest that the power relationships between the members of the school community and political tensions of time, autonomy, ideological conflict, and trust influenced the discourse and interaction of the coach and teachers and influenced the implementation of the school's reform initiative. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Curriculum and Instruction.

A research report submitted to the Wits School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Applied English Language Studies by combination of coursework and research. Johannesburg, 2015 / This research project explores the linguistic experiences and the effects of these on the identities of two first-year ESL university students. Using a sociolinguistic framework, it explores the links between language and identity. The data for this study comes from examination essays written based on a first-year Sociolinguistics module in the English I course in the Wits School of Education and interviews conducted with two students. The analysis of this data reveals how these students’ linguistic identities, structured by their different backgrounds, facilitate and constrain the ways in which they adapt to university life. Both students focused on in this research shift in their identities as they attempt to adapt to the increasing number of different fields they encounter at university. Linguistic identity shifts are also evident as they re-enter the old fields in the communities in which they grew up. The two students must work to negotiate these differing identities both within and outside of the university. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital and field, guide this discussion and help to illustrate how students struggle to negotiate their identity. This study shows that owing to a conflict of capital and the fact that habitus is deeply entrenched layers of linguistic dispositions, linguistic identity is difficult to shift. Despite the fact that the University of the Witwatersrand is a super-diverse environment, with students bringing different kinds of linguistic capital to the various fields within this environment, this research projectargues that students struggle to find a place for themselves within this variety. It shows that the participants seek out affinity groups within which they feel they have sufficient linguistic capital. However, within these groups there is jostling for a linguistic identity as, in the face of policing and linguistic prejudice, they struggle to assert their sense of self in relation to their developing linguistic identities. KEYWORDS: linguistic identity, Discourse, field, habitus, capital, policing, prejudice, investment, voice.

Unearthing is a hybrid of nonfiction genres, and follows a narrator as she attempts to piece together past and present memories and meditations about family history, travel, and the idea of home. Using an orchid as a metaphor for someone who is searching for home, Unearthing attempts to expose in the author what might also be found in the reader, an exploration of what is meant by home. By following a trail of biography, personal narrative, and memoir, the reader is given every opportunity to identify with the narrator's struggle with the idea of rootlessness and rootedness, travel and home. / by Erin Hobbie. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Acompanha CD-ROM / Orientador: Luciane de Paula / Banca: Renata Maria Facuri Coelho Marchezan / Banca: Marco Antônio Villarta Neder / Resumo: O presente trabalho visa compreender como se constituiu a canção brasileira enquanto gênero lítero-musical no início do século XX por meio de conceitos que integram a malha teóricoreflexiva desenvolvida pelo Círculo de Bakhtin. As canções analisadas são partituras para canto e piano e integram a série "Lendas Amazônicas" compostas por Waldemar Henrique. Foram produzidas entre as décadas de 1930 e 1940, momento em que as manifestações artísticas e culturais são fomentadas pela política econômica instaurada pela Era Vargas e servem de propaganda para a consolidação de um discurso nacionalista. Pretendemos, ainda, compreender de que modo os mitos e lendas da literatura oral são incorporados e reelaborados na produção das canções, a partir da relação recíproca estabelecida entre os gêneros primários e secundários. Nossa metodologia de trabalho é de caráter qualitativo e visa (por meio da abordagem dialéticodialógica) descrever, analisar e interpretar as canções. Uma vez que nosso objeto de pesquisa é composto por planos semióticos heterogêneos, nossas análises serão realizadas em dois grandes níveis: o verbal e o musical apenas por caráter metodológico uma vez que compreendemos a canção como um objeto que se situa histórico e socialmente por meio da mescla simultânea de seus dois planos. Bakhtin, em seu conceito de gênero como enunciado relativamente estável, permite-nos trabalhar com as canções de modo mais confortável dada a "instabilidade" de definição deste objeto. Para nós, a relação entre a letra e a música é algo que não se dá de forma estanque havendo a primazia de um ou outro elemento / Abstract: Based on concepts that integrate the theoretical and reflective mesh developed by the Bakhtin Circle, this study aims to understand how Brazilian art song was constituted while literarymusical genre in the early twentieth century through the analysis of the art songs which belong to the cycle "Lendas Amazônicas" composed by Waldemar Henrique. The art songs, for voice and piano, are registered in scores and integrate this set. They were produced between the 1930s and 1940s, when the artistic and cultural events were promoted by economic policy introduced by Vargas and serve as advertisement to the consolidation of a nationalist discourse. This work also aims to understand how the myths and legends of oral literature are incorporated and re-elaborated in the production of the songs from the established reciprocal relationship between the primary and secondary genres. Our work methodology is qualitative in nature and aims (through dialectic-dialogical approach) to describe, analyze and interpret the songs. Since our research object is composed of heterogeneous semiotic plans, our analysis will be performed in two main levels: the verbal and the musical only by methodological character. The song will be understood as an ideological sign that has a dual materiality (at least) - verbal (poem lyrics) and the music (implemented by the musical elements that constitute it: melody, harmony, rhythm, accompaniment etc.) / Mestre

Orientador: José Horta Nunes / Banca: Claudia Maria Xatara / Banca: Suzy Maria Lagazzi Rodrigues / Resumo: Seguindo a teoria e o método da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, propomos analisar discursivamente a produção lexicográfica de Francisco da Silveira Bueno. Este autor publicou diversas obras na área da Literatura e da Lingüística, mas também teve grande destaque público por sua produção lexicográfica. Nosso objetivo é analisar o discurso dos seus dicionários. Como questão específica, temos a noção de autoria, ou seja, a posição do autor Silveira Bueno na história da constituição de um autor brasileiro de dicionários e, também, as maneiras de se posicionar como autor no discurso dos dicionários. Assim, analisamos questões como a posição de Silveira Bueno como autor de dicionários na história da constituição das idéias lingüísticas brasileiras, a apresentação do autor no discurso dos dicionários, a maneira como ela é feita e quais as relações de sentido que são estabelecidas por essa apresentação. Nosso corpus é composto pelos prefácios e por uma amostragem de verbetes das edições de seus dicionários. Dividimos o conjunto de obras em três séries, de acordo com a tipologia e com algumas características discursivas. Na primeira série estão os dicionários escolares, incluindo os de versão mini; na segunda série estão os dicionários gerais de língua publicados por editoras independentes do Estado; já na terceira estão presentes os dicionários etimológicos. Entre outros resultados, observamos que, enquanto na primeira e na segunda série de dicionários o autor é apresentado por meio de uma discursividade relatada, pelas instituições publicadoras, a terceira série traz textos próprios de autoria, em que há uma afirmação dessa autoria por meio dos posicionamentos teóricos adotados por ele. / Abstract: According to the theory and the method of Discourse Analysis, we intend to analyse Francisco da Silveira Bueno's lexicographical production in a discoursive way. The author has published many works in the field of Literature and Linguistics, but is also known for his lexicographical production. Our aim is to analyse the discourse in his dictionaries. As a central research topic, we have the notion of authory, in other words, the author Silveira Bueno's position in history of the constitution of a Brazilian dictionary author and also, the ways to position himself as an author in his dictionaries discourse. Thus, questions such as Silveira Bueno's position as a dictionary author in the history of the constitution of the Brazilian linguistic ideas, the author's presentation in the dictionaries discourse, in what ways this happens and the sense relations which are stablished by this presentation were analysed. Our corpus is composed by the prefaces and a sampling of entries of his dictionaries editions. The set of works was divided into three series, according to the typology and some discursive characteristics. The school dictionaries are in the first series, including the minidictionaries; the general language dictionaries published by independent State publishers are in the second series, and in the third one, the etymological dictionaries. Among other results, we observed that, while in the first and second series of dictionaries the author is presented by a reported discursivity, by the publishing industries, the third series brings his own authory texts in which there is a statement of this authory through the theoretical positionings he adopts. / Mestre

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