abstract: This project offers an exploration of the constitution of English language learners (ELLs) in the state of Arizona as subjects of government through the discursive rationalities of rule that unfolded alongside the Flores v. Arizona case. The artifacts under consideration span the 22 years (1992-2014) of Flores' existence so far. These artifacts include published academic scholarship; Arizona's legislative documents and floor debate audio and video; court summaries, hearings, and decisions; and public opinion texts found in newspapers and online, all of which were produced in response to Flores. These artifacts lay bare but some of the discursive rationalities that have coagulated to form governable elements of the ELL student population--ways of knowing them, measuring them, regarding them, constituting them, and intervening upon them. Somehow, some way, students who do not speak English as their first language have become a social problem to be solved. ELLs are therein governed by rationalities of English language normalization, of enterprise, of entrepreneurship, of competition, of empowerment, and of success. In narrating rationalities of rule that appear alongside the Flores case, I locate some governmental strategies in how subjects conduct themselves and govern the conduct of others with the hope that seeing subject constitution as a work of thought and not a necessary reality will create a space for potentially unknown alternatives. Through this work, I'd like to make possible the hope of thinking data differently, rejecting superimposition of meaning onto artifact, being uncomfortable, uncertain, undefinitive, and surprised. With that, this work encourages potential paths to trod in the field of curriculum studies. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Curriculum and Instruction 2014

L’objectif de cette thèse est de réfléchir aux enjeux d’une histoire du jeu de stratégie en temps réel (STR). Il s’agit de mieux comprendre les contextes dans lesquels le genre prend sens pour historiciser son émergence et sa période classique. Cette thèse cherche à documenter, d’une part, la cristallisation du STR en tant qu’objet ayant une forme relativement stable et en tant que corpus précis et identifié et, d’autre part, l’émergence des formes de jouabilité classiques des STR. La première partie est consacrée à décrire l’objet de cette recherche, pour mieux comprendre la complexité du terme « stratégie » et de la catégorisation « jeu de stratégie ». La seconde partie met en place la réflexion épistémologique en montrant comment on peut tenir compte de la jouabilité dans un travail historien. Elle définit le concept de paradigme de jouabilité en tant que formation discursive pour regrouper différents énoncés actionnels en une unité logique qui n’est pas nécessairement l’équivalent du genre. La troisième partie cartographie l’émergence du genre entre les wargames des années 1970 et les jeux en multijoueur de la décennie suivante. Deux paradigmes de jouabilité se distinguent pour former le STR classique : le paradigme de décryptage et le paradigme de prévision. La quatrième partie explique et contextualise le STR classique en montrant qu’il comporte ces deux paradigmes de jouabilité dans deux modes de jeu qui offrent des expériences fondamentalement différentes l’une de l’autre. / This thesis is a reflection on the stakes of a history of the real-time strategy (RTS) genre. The goal is to understand contexts in which RTS makes sense to historicize its emergence and its classical period. It seeks to document, on the one hand, the crystallization of RTS as an object having a relatively stable form and as a precise and identified corpus and, on the other hand, the emergence of classical RTS gameplay figures. The first part of this thesis describes the object of this research in order to understand the complexity of the words “strategy” and “strategy games.” The second part puts in place the epistemological thinking by showing how gameplay can be taken into account in a history of video games. It defines the gameplay paradigm concept as a discursive formation to regroup actional statements as a logical unit that is not necessarily equivalent to a genre. The third part maps the emergence of the genre from wargames in the 1970s to multiplayer games of the following decade. Two gameplay paradigms are distinguished and will form the classical RTS: the paradigm of decryption and the paradigm of prediction. The last part explains the role of classical RTS by showing how these two paradigms coexist as two different game modes that offer fundamentally different gameplay experiences.

[pt] Concebida a tradução como um processo discursivo que envolve formações ideológicas e singulares do sujeito que traduz, esta tese propõe refletir sobre a forma como o sujeito-tradutor responde ao seu assujeitamento ideológico, aqui tomado como um ritual que admite o equívoco. O trabalho se realiza na confluência dos Estudos da Tradução ― mais especificamente os trabalhos de Venuti e Frota ― com a Análise do Discurso francesa tal como concebida por Michel Pêcheux (AD) e desenvolvida no Brasil por Orlandi, Mariani, Ferreira, Indursky e Mittmann, entre outros. No que tange à fundamentação teórica, dentre os vários conceitos da AD destacam-se os de sujeito, discurso, língua, formação discursiva heterogênea, identificação, contra-identificação e desidentificação, sendo os três últimos os mais diretamente relacionados ao processo de repetição de discursos sedimentados (nesta tese proposto como assimilação) e aos processos de instauração e de fortalecimento de discursos dissidentes (aqui denominados resistência). Quanto ao dispositivo analítico, o objetivo é investigar filiações ideológicodiscursivas do escritor/editor/tradutor Monteiro Lobato relativas a seu pensamento e prática tradutórios. O corpus discursivo foi recortado de cartas, prefácios, posfácios, entrevistas, artigos e conferências publicados nas Obras completas de Monteiro Lobato e de três traduções realizadas por ele: Caninos brancos (1933), Por quem os sinos dobram (1941) e Adeus às armas (1942). A partir da análise das sequências discursivas, são observadas tensões nos processos de tomada de posição do sujeito, as quais marcam o caráter contraditório do sujeito e do discurso. A investigação dos processos de tomada de posição do sujeito-Lobato na dispersão discursiva leva também à percepção de que as filiações ideológicas (des)conhecidas do sujeito são motivadas na/pela relação entre a historicidade do dizer e a singularidade do sujeito. / [en] Based on the assumption that translation is a discursive practice involving ideological and singular formations of the subject who translates, this thesis proposes a reflection on the way that the translator as a subject responds to his/her constitution as ideological subjects, in a process considered as a ritual that admits equivocalness. The work is developed at the point where Translation Studies — more specifically works by Venuti and Frota — meet the theoretical view, known as French Discourse Analysis, conceived by Michel Pêcheux, later developed in Brazil by Orlandi, Mariani, Ferreira, Indursky and Mittmann, among others. Some concepts were chosen among several others in the theoretical background: subject, discourse, language, heterogeneous discursive formation, identification, counter-identification and dis-identification. The three latter concepts are more closely related to the repetition of well established discourses (denominated assimilation in this thesis), and to the processes of settling and strengthening of dissident discourses (herein denominated resistance). The analytical device was concocted to investigate the writer/publisher/translator Monteiro Lobato’s ideological-discursive affiliations in their relationships to his thoughts and translating practices. The discursive corpus was clipped out from letters, prefaces, postscripts, interviews, articles and conferences published in Obras completas de Monteiro Lobato and from his translation of three books: Caninos brancos (1933, White Fang), Por quem os sinos dobram (1941, For Whom the Bell Tolls) e Adeus às armas (1942, A Farewell to Arms). By analyzing the discursive sequences, tension in the subject constitution process is observed, characterizing the contradicting aspects between subject and discourse. The investigation of processes in which the Lobato-subject takes position in the discursive diffusion also leads to the perception that the subject’s (un)known ideological affiliations are motivated by/in the relation between the historicity of discourse and the singularity of the subject.

The colonial history of South Africa and its legacy of cultural and linguistic domination have resulted in a situation where the. literatures of the majority of South Africans were relegated to the margins of institutional, social and cultural life. Exclusion (of local writings) was the principal mode by which power was exercised within university English departments. It is within this context that this study posits lacunae and challenges for the reconstruction of the South African literature curriculum. Although various approaches have been used by English departments during this decade to include South African literature in the curriculum (pluralism, inter-disciplinary studies, alternate canon formation, canon rejection, eclecticism, elective programmes, etc.), the curriculum continues to repeat the established norms and values of colonial/apartheid society, it avoids confronting the ideological construction of traditional English literature and is a revamping or upgrading of the programmes offered during the colonial/apartheid era. The genealogical study uncovers the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements, decentres discourse, and reveals how discourse is secondary to systems of power. Chapter Four explores both theoretical and methodological underpinnings for the reconstruction of the South African literature curriculum deriving from the critical educational approaches of Freire, Giroux and Apple, the discursive approach of Foucault and the post colonial reading strategies of Zavarzadeh and Morton. The teaching of South African literature would best be served by working within a critical paradigm, having as its objective the goals of critical educational studies. Chapter Four also includes a review of the curriculum in local practice through a curriculum impact study using empirical research based on the 1996 English literature syllabi of South African universities as well as the findings of the surveys conducted by Malan and Bosman in 1986 and Lindfors in 1992. Chapter Five posits recommendations for curriculum reconstruction with the main focus on the intervention of radical strategies that would lead to a new conflictual reading list. The objective is to put the canon under erasure by problematising the concept of literariness. Such an approach also reveals the power/ knowledge relations of culture, ideologies that dominate the discipline and the institutional arrangements of knowledge. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D.Ed. (Didactics)

The colonial history of South Africa and its legacy of cultural and linguistic domination have resulted in a situation where the. literatures of the majority of South Africans were relegated to the margins of institutional, social and cultural life. Exclusion (of local writings) was the principal mode by which power was exercised within university English departments. It is within this context that this study posits lacunae and challenges for the reconstruction of the South African literature curriculum. Although various approaches have been used by English departments during this decade to include South African literature in the curriculum (pluralism, inter-disciplinary studies, alternate canon formation, canon rejection, eclecticism, elective programmes, etc.), the curriculum continues to repeat the established norms and values of colonial/apartheid society, it avoids confronting the ideological construction of traditional English literature and is a revamping or upgrading of the programmes offered during the colonial/apartheid era. The genealogical study uncovers the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements, decentres discourse, and reveals how discourse is secondary to systems of power. Chapter Four explores both theoretical and methodological underpinnings for the reconstruction of the South African literature curriculum deriving from the critical educational approaches of Freire, Giroux and Apple, the discursive approach of Foucault and the post colonial reading strategies of Zavarzadeh and Morton. The teaching of South African literature would best be served by working within a critical paradigm, having as its objective the goals of critical educational studies. Chapter Four also includes a review of the curriculum in local practice through a curriculum impact study using empirical research based on the 1996 English literature syllabi of South African universities as well as the findings of the surveys conducted by Malan and Bosman in 1986 and Lindfors in 1992. Chapter Five posits recommendations for curriculum reconstruction with the main focus on the intervention of radical strategies that would lead to a new conflictual reading list. The objective is to put the canon under erasure by problematising the concept of literariness. Such an approach also reveals the power/ knowledge relations of culture, ideologies that dominate the discipline and the institutional arrangements of knowledge. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D.Ed. (Didactics)

The present work aims at a discursive analysis of testimonies of ex-political prisoners of the era of military dictatorship in Brazil, specifically the state of Sergipe, with the intention of exploring resistance brands. To compose the study analyzed in relation to Milton Coelho and Wellington Mangueira, since they were names of extreme representation of the fight against the military dictatorship in Sergipe, experiencing a terrible experience of the prison and torture. This study has the theoretical basis of French Speech Discourse Analysis (DA), starting from the postulates of Pêcheux (1988), Althusser (1980), Orlandi (1996, 2007, 2008, 2009) and Carvalho (2012) and the contributions of Other scholars, both from DA, and the history of Brazil and Sergipe, an example of Napolitano (2014) and Dantas (2004). We understand discourse as a social practice that has as its materiality a language and is influenced by history and ideology, producing effects of meaning. To carry out analyzes, we will use a qualitative methodology, apply theoretical categories of DA and use as corpus reports found on websites, blogs and documentaries. As a result, in the speeches of Milton Coelho and Wellington Mangueira it was possible to perceive a contradiction of what was presented by the military, of not practicing torture, and also a resistance of the ex-prisoners, which is the same of the persecutions and tortures did not surrender their Comrades and kept up the fight for ideals by publishing newspapers circulating inside the university, counting what was vetoed in the newspapers of external circulation, meetings in hiding places and small groups to demonstrate discontent with the system. As the Ideological Formations (IF) of the dominant and the dominated became evident through the regulation of the State Repressive Apparatus (SRA). Throughout the account as linguistic clues they reveal the combat to a system that used by numerous methods to stop a subversive action. Significant silence figures through discursive formations (FD) the manifestations of resistance during persecution and torture, making it clear that even so of coercion, they continue to mean; Since silence does not represent the annulment of the senses, since the subject always means through the symbolic. / O presente trabalho objetiva uma análise discursiva de depoimentos de ex-presos políticos da época da ditadura militar no Brasil, especificamente do estado de Sergipe, com o intuito de explorar marcas de resistência, decorrentes de políticas de censura no período citado. Para compor o estudo serão analisados os relatos de Milton Coelho e Wellington Mangueira, uma vez que foram nomes de extrema representação da luta contra a ditadura militar em Sergipe, vivenciando a terrível experiência da prisão e tortura. Tal estudo tem como fundamentação teórica a Análise de Discurso de linha francesa (AD), partindo dos postulados de Pêcheux (1988), Althusser (1980), Orlandi (1996, 2007, 2008, 2009) e Carvalho (2012) e das contribuições de outros estudiosos, tanto da AD, quanto da história do Brasil e de Sergipe, a exemplo de Napolitano (2014) e Dantas (2004). Entendemos o discurso como uma prática social que tem como materialidade a língua e sofre a influência da história e da ideologia produzindo, assim, efeitos de sentido. Para proceder às análises, utilizaremos a metodologia qualitativa, aplicaremos categorias teóricas da AD e utilizaremos como corpus relatos encontrados em sites, blogs e documentários. Como resultado, nos discursos de Milton Coelho e Wellington Mangueira foi possível perceber a contradição do que foi veiculado pelos militares, de não haver prática de tortura, e também a resistência dos ex-presos, que mesmo diante das perseguições e torturas não entregaram seus companheiros e mantiveram a luta pelos ideais, através da publicação de jornais que circulavam dentro da universidade, contando o que era vetado nos jornais de circulação externa, reuniões às escondidas e em grandes ou pequenos grupos para demonstrar o descontentamento com o sistema. As Formações Ideológicas (FI) do dominador e dos dominados ficaram evidentes por meio da regulação do Aparelho Repressivo de Estado (ARE). Em todo o relato as pistas linguísticas revelam o combate a um sistema que se utilizava de inúmeros métodos para deter a ação “subversiva”. O silêncio significante figura por meio das Formações Discursivas (FD) presentes nas manifestações de resistência durante as perseguições e torturas, deixando evidente que, mesmo diante da coerção, eles continuaram significando; uma vez que o silenciar-se não representa anulação dos sentidos, visto que o sujeito sempre significará por meio do simbólico.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-127) / This dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social conformity as a disciplinary mechanism of the ‘carceral’ – a notion introduced by poststructuralist thinker Michel Foucault. Employing poststructuralist discourse and deconstructive theory as a theoretical framework, the study investigates how each novel establishes its world as a successful carceral city that incorporates most, if not all, the elements of the incarceration system that Foucault highlights in Discipline and Punish. It establishes that the societies of the texts present potentially nightmarish future societies in which social and political “improvements” result in a seemingly better world, yet some essential part of human existence has been sacrificed. This study of these fictional worlds reflects on the carceral nature of modern society and highlights the problematic nature of the social and political practices to which individuals are expected to conform. Finally, in line with Foucault, it postulates that individuals need not be enclosed behind prison walls to be imprisoned; the very nature of our social systems imposes the restrictive power that incarcerates societies / English Studies / M.A. (English Studies)