Feeling that a partner is responsive to one’s needs is crucial to intimacy (Reis, Clark, & Holmes, 2004). Just as the well-known expression, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” suggests that people who voice the most complaints elicit the most support from others, existing theory and research suggest that the more one expresses one’s emotions, the more one’s partners should behave responsively—with caring, understanding, and validation (Reis et al., 2004; Reis & Shaver, 1988). However, I suspected that when a person frequently expresses negativity, individual negative disclosures seem less diagnostic of true distress, and thus elicit less responsiveness from partners. Building on Biernat, Manis, and Nelson’s (1991) shifting standards model, I predicted that people use person-specific standards—taking into account the expresser’s typical (baseline) level of negative expressivity—when interpreting a close other’s negative disclosures. Results of six studies employing both correlational and experimental methods supported the hypothesis that people who frequently express negativity may have the severity of their distress underestimated and elicit less concern and responsiveness from their partners when they make negative disclosures. These findings provide insight into why even close relationship partners may fail to behave responsively to each other’s negative disclosures.

Feeling that a partner is responsive to one’s needs is crucial to intimacy (Reis, Clark, & Holmes, 2004). Just as the well-known expression, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” suggests that people who voice the most complaints elicit the most support from others, existing theory and research suggest that the more one expresses one’s emotions, the more one’s partners should behave responsively—with caring, understanding, and validation (Reis et al., 2004; Reis & Shaver, 1988). However, I suspected that when a person frequently expresses negativity, individual negative disclosures seem less diagnostic of true distress, and thus elicit less responsiveness from partners. Building on Biernat, Manis, and Nelson’s (1991) shifting standards model, I predicted that people use person-specific standards—taking into account the expresser’s typical (baseline) level of negative expressivity—when interpreting a close other’s negative disclosures. Results of six studies employing both correlational and experimental methods supported the hypothesis that people who frequently express negativity may have the severity of their distress underestimated and elicit less concern and responsiveness from their partners when they make negative disclosures. These findings provide insight into why even close relationship partners may fail to behave responsively to each other’s negative disclosures.

This monograph explores the development and variety of signs for musical expression and discusses strategies for identifying and teaching them, enabling students to communicate musical expressivity. Chapter 1 provides a background for this study, including a brief survey of how writers from ancient times to the present conceived of expression, along with findings from recent psychological research into the connection between emotion and music. Chapter 2 delves into the signs themselves and proposes how students can learn to recognize them at different levels of study. An overview of musical topics and structural features that contribute to musical expression leads to an analysis of the expressive states in the first movement exposition of Mozart's Sonata in C minor, K. 457. Chapter 3 discusses particular strategies for connecting the discovered signs with performance at the piano. To help their students communicate expressively, teachers first need to guide students to a recognition of musical signs, then help them to highlight expressive features through deviations in tempo, dynamics, and articulation. Instructors can use a variety of strategies ranging from metaphors and specific language through aural and physical modeling. Additional work with Hevner's mood wheel, supplemented by student projects in the visual arts, writing, movement, and drama, can create a connection between students and musical expression. / Music Performance

O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as marcas linguísticas que compõem as relações de sentido no que diz respeito ao humor da crônica de Aldir Blanc. A partir da percepção da estrutura da Língua Portuguesa, verificar quais as ações na produção textual da crônica sejam estas morfológicas, gramaticais, lexicais, sintáticas, fonéticas, estilísticas ou semânticas que, ao aliar-se à práxis cotidiana (contexto) oferecida pelos jornais, propiciam o discurso humorístico do autor. Os pressupostos teóricos que corroboram as respectivas demarcações linguísticas terão ênfase no tocante aos aspectos semânticos, com Stephen Ullman, Pierre Guiraud e Edward Lopes. Os traços característicos da crônica, o humor e a ironia como recursos discursivos, a seleção lexical, as inferências, o jogo lúdico da grafia das palavras, as formas textuais serão inferidos dialogicamente em grande parte pelos estudos estilísticos de Marcel Cressot, Pierre Guiraud, Mattoso Câmara, Nilce SantAnna Martins e José Lemos Monteiro. Desse modo, apontamos para um estudo da língua sob uma ótica semântico-discursiva, levando em conta sua expressividade estilística. Dessa forma, à valorização do manuseamento linguístico, quer pela escritura, quer pela leitura, acrescenta-se o dado crítico da língua através do discurso presente no humor, tendo em vista o gênero textual que é a crônica e sua grande penetração social pelos jornais de grande circulação / The objective of this research is to analyze the linguistic marks that comprise the relationship of meaning with regards to the mood of Aldir Blancs chronicles. From the perception of the structure of the Portuguese language, check what actions in the textual production of the chronicle - be them morphological, grammatical, lexical, syntactic, phonetic, stylistic or semantic - that, by allying with the daily practice (the context) provided by newspapers, provide the author's humorous speech. The theoretical assumptions that support the linguistic demarcations will emphasize the semantic aspects with Stephen Ullman, Pierre Guiraud and Edward Lopes. The characteristics of the chronicle, humor and irony as discursive resources, the lexical selection, the inferences, the playful game of spelling, the textual forms will dialogically be inferred in large part by studies of style by Cressot Marcel, Pierre Guiraud, Mattoso Câmara Nilce Sant'Anna Martins and José Lemos Monteiro. Thus, we point to a study of language in a semantic-discursive perspective, taking into account its expressive style. Therefore, the enrichment of language handling, either by writing or reading, is added to the critical form of language through the speech present in his humor, given the textual genre that is the chronicle and its deep social penetration by newspapers of wide circulation

Integrating existing models of emotional expressivity, the 3-level hierarchical model contains a general factor of emotional expressivity vs. inexpressivity at the highest level; relatively independent factors of positive and negative expressivity at the second-order level; and discrete expressivity factors of sadness, hostility, guilt/shame, fear, joviality, confidence and amusement at the lowest level. The bottom-up analytic strategy consisted of identifying first the structure of the discrete affects; subsequent second-order factor analyses supported the existence of the higher order factors. The Iowa Scales of Emotional Expressivity (ISEE)--a hierarchical set of scales--systematically incorporate the level of abstraction of the items to assess each level of the hierarchy. Structural analyses replicated across college student (N = 387) and young adult (N = 344) samples with strong comparability coefficients. Striking differences existed in comparisons of the nomological relations of the general factor level vs. second-order level--Positive and Negative Expressivity demonstrated differential relations with Extraversion and Neuroticism and incremental predictive validity beyond Positive and Negative Affect, respectively. The ISEE demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity with existing scales and through multi-trait multi-method analyses of self-other agreement and test-retest data. Although test-retest correlations were less than optimal, the ISEE improve upon existing measures of emotional expressivity by extending the assessment to the discrete affect level and by creating Positive and Negative Expressivity scales with improved discriminant validity and clearer differential relations.

Submitted by MARIANA PEIXOTO PIZANO null (ma.pizano@hotmail.com) on 2016-06-24T11:48:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - publicação.pdf: 2036884 bytes, checksum: a45df3be5ba2201a66faebd0c3713cff (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-06-24T13:25:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 pizano_mp_me_arafcl.pdf: 2036884 bytes, checksum: a45df3be5ba2201a66faebd0c3713cff (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-24T13:25:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 pizano_mp_me_arafcl.pdf: 2036884 bytes, checksum: a45df3be5ba2201a66faebd0c3713cff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Esta pesquisa apresenta três objetivos principais: 1) refletir criticamente sobre as diferentes opiniões de autores do século XX que se debruçaram sobre a produção literária de Ovídio, destacando dela os defeitos e o engenho; 2) oferecer uma tradução do relato mitológico de Níobe, narrado no sexto livro das Metamorfoses de Ovídio (v. 146-312), sem a preocupação de recriar a poeticidade do texto original latino, mas oferecendo equivalência lingüística bastante para a compreensão do texto – seguir-se-ão à tradução notas de cultura sempre que houver necessidade de esclarecer algum termo (mitológico , geográfico, histórico, etc); 3) realizar um estudo semiótico do episódio narrado nas Metamorfoses, que permita ao leitor compreender de que maneira a história (fabula) e sua expressão poética – o modo como o texto foi composto por meio do arranjo das palavras em verso, com todos os recursos permitidos pelo sistema linguístico do latim, reapropriado pelo(s) sistema(s) da poesia – unem-se a fim de construir sentidos que se valem (mas ao mesmo tempo ultrapassam) a mera gramaticalidade. O episódio mitológico de Níobe relata a audácia da esposa do lendário rei de Tebas, Anfião, ao ousar comparar-se à Latona, mãe dos gêmeos Febo (Apolo) e Febe (Diana). A mortal se julgava mais merecedora de receber os incensos e as preces ofertados pelas tebanas que aquela deusa, porque julga sua linhagem e sua numerosa prole (ao todo são quatorze filhos) superiores às da outra. Tamanha heresia rendeu-lhe uma terrível punição, imposta pelos filhos da deusa ultrajada: conhecidos pelo exímio trato com a flecha, Febo e Febe exterminam toda a descendência de Níobe. A mortal, acometida por um sentimento de dor inigualável, torna-se pedra. / This research has three main goals: 1) to reflect critically on different opinion of twentieth century’s authors who have studied Ovid’s literature, highlighting its faults and cleverness; 2) to provide a translation of Niobe’s mythological account, reported in the sixth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (v. 146-312), without concerning to recreate the poeticity of the original Latin text, but offering linguistic equivalence enough to the text understanding – the translation will be followed by culture notes whenever it’s necessary to elucidate any term (mythological, geographical, historical, etc.); 3) to perform a semiotic study of the episode reported on the Metamorphoses, which allows the reader to comprehend how the story (fabula) and its poetic expression – the way the text was composed by the arrangement of words in verse, with all resources allowed by the linguistic system of Latin language, reappropriated by the Poetic system – unite in order to create valid meanings, but at the same time go beyond the mere grammaticality. The mythological episode of Niobe reports the audacity of the wife of the Thebes’ legendary king, Amphion, by daring to compare herself to Latona, mother of Phoebus (Apollo) and Phoebe (Diana) twins. The mortal was thought worthier of receiving incense and prayers offered by the Theban than the goddess since she judges her ancestry and her numerous offspring (together they are fourteen) higher than the other. Such heresy earned her a terrible punishment, imposed by the children of the outraged goddess: known by the expert dealing with arrows, Phoebus and Phoebe exterminated all descendants of Niobe. Afflicted by a sense of unrivalled pain, the mortal turns into stone.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as marcas linguísticas que compõem as relações de sentido no que diz respeito ao humor da crônica de Aldir Blanc. A partir da percepção da estrutura da Língua Portuguesa, verificar quais as ações na produção textual da crônica sejam estas morfológicas, gramaticais, lexicais, sintáticas, fonéticas, estilísticas ou semânticas que, ao aliar-se à práxis cotidiana (contexto) oferecida pelos jornais, propiciam o discurso humorístico do autor. Os pressupostos teóricos que corroboram as respectivas demarcações linguísticas terão ênfase no tocante aos aspectos semânticos, com Stephen Ullman, Pierre Guiraud e Edward Lopes. Os traços característicos da crônica, o humor e a ironia como recursos discursivos, a seleção lexical, as inferências, o jogo lúdico da grafia das palavras, as formas textuais serão inferidos dialogicamente em grande parte pelos estudos estilísticos de Marcel Cressot, Pierre Guiraud, Mattoso Câmara, Nilce SantAnna Martins e José Lemos Monteiro. Desse modo, apontamos para um estudo da língua sob uma ótica semântico-discursiva, levando em conta sua expressividade estilística. Dessa forma, à valorização do manuseamento linguístico, quer pela escritura, quer pela leitura, acrescenta-se o dado crítico da língua através do discurso presente no humor, tendo em vista o gênero textual que é a crônica e sua grande penetração social pelos jornais de grande circulação / The objective of this research is to analyze the linguistic marks that comprise the relationship of meaning with regards to the mood of Aldir Blancs chronicles. From the perception of the structure of the Portuguese language, check what actions in the textual production of the chronicle - be them morphological, grammatical, lexical, syntactic, phonetic, stylistic or semantic - that, by allying with the daily practice (the context) provided by newspapers, provide the author's humorous speech. The theoretical assumptions that support the linguistic demarcations will emphasize the semantic aspects with Stephen Ullman, Pierre Guiraud and Edward Lopes. The characteristics of the chronicle, humor and irony as discursive resources, the lexical selection, the inferences, the playful game of spelling, the textual forms will dialogically be inferred in large part by studies of style by Cressot Marcel, Pierre Guiraud, Mattoso Câmara Nilce Sant'Anna Martins and José Lemos Monteiro. Thus, we point to a study of language in a semantic-discursive perspective, taking into account its expressive style. Therefore, the enrichment of language handling, either by writing or reading, is added to the critical form of language through the speech present in his humor, given the textual genre that is the chronicle and its deep social penetration by newspapers of wide circulation

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction Programs / Frederick Burrack / One of the most important roles of a conductor is to prepare an ensemble to perform, not only accurately but expressively, utilizing physical gestures and facial expressions. For many music students, the development of physical gestures that elicit expressive performance are typically introduced in a beginning undergraduate conducting course. This is important in establishing a framework for understanding the technical aspects of conducting, considering that many beginning student conductors lack a basic comprehension of conducting fundamentals. However, the interpretative and expressive principles of conducting are equally important as basic technique and are often more difficult to teach to undergraduate students. There is an overwhelming amount of gestural skill that should be experienced and explored by a beginning undergraduate conductor. Despite a students’ best efforts in the classroom and in the practice room, expressive conducting skills that represent internal musical intentions remain a primary challenge with novice conducting students. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of a beginning undergraduate conductor as they learned to conduct and develop their considerations and skills of conducting to elicit expression. Through case study, exploring the experiences of an undergraduate music student enrolled in a beginning conducting course from a Midwestern university exposed valuable information that could become helpful when designing instruction. The findings addressed the research questions of the study and revealed additional aspects of the learning experience from the perspective of the participant. Through reflection, navigation of self, guided video elicitation, discussion of expressive conducting, and acknowledgement of prior musical expectations and intent, the participant discovered the differences between their perceived expressive gestures and the realization of an audible response from an ensemble.

The role of children’s emotion regulation as a potential mediator or moderator in the relations between a family’s emotional expressiveness and their child’s social anxiety was explored in a sample of clinic-referred children. For the mediational analyses, it was predicted that emotional expressivity in families would be associated with social anxiety and that this relationship would be mediated by emotion regulation. For the moderator analyses, it was predicted that the level of emotion regulation would affect the strength of the relationship between emotional expressivity in families and social anxiety. The hypotheses were explored through hierarchical regression analyses. Family expressivity was marginally related to social anxiety. However, exploratory analyses indicated that emotion regulation failed to mediate or moderate this marginal relationship. Interestingly, mother reports of expressivity were related negatively to social anxiety whereas father reports of expressivity were related positively to social anxiety in their offspring. These findings are discussed and their implications are explored. / Master of Science

This thesis deals with the question of how vulgarisms are translated in the context of a literary text. First we sum up the theories of expressivity used in both common and literary communication. We point out the main typological differences between Czech and French as well as the key cultural differences in the perception of expressivity. We define the term 'vulgarism' and try to outline the use of substandard language in both Czech and French literature. In the following chapter Michel Houellebecq, his work and the fundamental traits of his writing style are presented. We also look at the reception of the Czech translation of Houellebecq's novel Les Particules élémentaires. Then we analyse the translation, focusing on the transfer of vulgarisms in order to trace and evaluate the translation method used to convey the vulgar elements of the original work.