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This qualitative study aims to investigate how gender is reflected through language in the two superhero movies Wonder Woman and Man of Steel. Emphasis is put on five linguistic markers that have been found to differ between female and male speakers. These markers are: amount of speech, interruptions, questions, minimal responses and hedges. The analysis investigates the transcribed “cross-sex” conversation between the superhero and his or her companion in each movie. The findings reveal that even though it is difficult to detect any clear patterns, there are correlations with previous research regarding the markers amount of speech, interruptions and questions. These correlations show that the conversations to some extent reflect results from earlier studies concluding that men speak and interrupt more, whereas women ask more questions. No notable difference was detected regarding the use of hedges and minimal responses. Although some time has passed between the publication of several studies regarding these five linguistic markers and the selected movies, the results show correlation between the findings on men- and women’s language use.

The qualitative case study has been conducted in a segregated preschool where the majority of all children had a common mother tongue and Swedish as a second language. The purpose was to study preschool staff's conceptions of mother tongue and Swedish as a second language. The issues concern the con-ditions for language development in mother tongue and Swedish as a second language and how the practical work is applied. Previous research indicates that mother tongue and Swedish as a second language is a complex problem area with contradictions. Therefore, it was interesting to find out what pre-school staff think about the matter in question. A semi-structured interview has been used as a data collection method. The analysis work was based on a phe-nomenographic strategy for identifying categories of the studied material. The identified categories that emerged are security, the mother tongue, time, moti-vation, visualizing, languaging and dividing. The main conclusion is that the mother tongue in general is seen as a means of achieving Swedish as a second language and that the Swedish language thus gets a higher priority and status.

Thesis supervisor: Elena Gavruseva. Includes bibliographic references (p. 121-127).

<p> This thesis examined the ways in which Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul sought to reconstitute the Republican Party at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference. After discussing the dual exigences that faced these senators after the GOP's loss in the 2012 presidential election and the rise of the Tea Party Movement and explicating a methodology of reconstitutive rhetoric which combined Maurice Charland's theory of constitutive rhetoric and Celeste Condit's critique of concordance, this thesis analyzes the ways in which Senators Paul and Rubio attempted to reposition the Republican Party within an ideology that addressed the party's ideological discord and disconnect with the changing electorate in the United States. This analysis led to several significant implications about reconstitutive rhetorical strategies, the use of ideographs within a reconstitutive and accommodationist model, and United States political discourse.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0557. Adviser: Thomas R. Conley. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-338) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling Psychology, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-08, Section: A, page: 3196. Adviser: Phil Carspecken. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 22, 2008).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

Univ. of California Los Angeles, Diss.--Los Angeles, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-402) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling Psychology, 2007. / Adviser: Phil Carspecken.