Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1988. / Illustrations on p. 516-633 of the original dissertation were not filmed at the request of the author. Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-498).

Thesis (D. M. A.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2006. / Department of Music. Includes bibliographical references. Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (July 14, 2006) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-419).

Thesis. / A. Soffici (1879-1964), painter and writer. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

When approaching old age, women's bodies face functional, esthetical, and reproductive changes that can represent a source of discontinuity in their lives. Moreover, women are constantly exposed to the social pressure of compelling stereotypes regarding their body image and functionality: from media to medical pamphlets, the feminine body is subjected to deep social observation and regulation. Given that the relationship between ageing and the body is socially mediated, how does the encounter with a different culture have an impact on it? In this research, migration has been employed to analyse the cultural aspects of bodily practices. Migration can be described as an embodied experience, in which a body is first displaced and then emplaced in two social locations - the community of origin and the culture of destination - a circumstance known as transnationalism. Interviews were carried out with women aged between 59 and 74, divided in three groups: RESIDENTS: women who were born in an Italian village and had lived all their lives there; MIGRANTS: women who moved from the same village to London and are still living in England; RETURNED: migrants who moved back to the village permanently after living in London. Four dynamics were identified to regulate the interplay of ageing, bodily practices, and migration: (i) Assimilation: encountering and integrating with the new community; (ii) Acculturation: observing, learning, and sometimes adopting norms and values of the culture of destination; (iii) Acceptance: the binding agent between body and self during the recognition of ageing; (iv) Adjustment: the set of changes in their habits that women put in place in order to accommodate transformations in their bodies and maintain social inclusion. Moreover, a new conceptualization of transnationalism is proposed, which helps to frame how, after many years of negotiation between the culture of origin and the one of settlement, migrants disengage from social normativity, gaining an augmented sense of agency.

Orientador: Cátia Inês Negrão Berlini de Andrade / Banca: Maria Celeste Tommasello Ramos / Banca: Sandra Aparecida Ferreira / Resumo: A dissertação é dedicada ao estudo das missivas do escritor italiano Italo Calvino (1923-1985) contidas no livro I libri degli altri (1991), de organização de Giovanni Tesio. Analisadas a partir de suas características próprias, as cartas configuram um importante testemunho sobre a literatura italiana do século XX, neste caso, especialmente, entre os anos de 1947 e 1969. Considerada como gênero literário, a correspondência - primeira manifestação das escritas de si - ao permitir adentrarmos o espaço cultural, social e histórico do missivista, nos garante observar ações que são inerentes à sua personalidade não só como editor e crítico literário, mas como indivíduo atuante na política de seu país. A leitura das cartas do escritor italiano revela o ambiente de suas atividades crítico-literárias, bem como seus pensamentos adquiridos a partir de suas vivências pessoais e profissionais a partir da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O primeiro capítulo, então, tratará do contexto histórico que precede à primeira carta do livro datada de 1947, e o cenário descrito inclui a participação da Itália na Segunda Grande Guerra, os reflexos do desastre na política, na economia e na vida da população, além do movimento de Resistência: a luta armada de oposição ao fascismo. O relato é importante para o entendimento das futuras manifestações literárias de Italo Calvino, em especial no seu ofício como crítico na editora Einaudi. Famosa por suas discussões literárias e políticas, a editora foi um dos princ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The dissertation is dedicated to the study of the missives of the Italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) contained in the book I libri degli altri (1991), organized by Giovanni Tesio. Analyzed by their own characteristics, the letters constitute an important testimony on Italian literature of the twentieth century, in this case, especially between the years of 1947 and 1969. Considered as a literary genre, correspondence - the first manifestation of the self-writing - allowing us to penetrate the cultural, social and historical space of the writer, assures us to observe actions that are inherent to his personality not only as an editor and literary critic, but as an active individual in the politics of his country. The reading of the letters of the Italian writer reveals the atmosphere of his critical-literary activities, as well as his thoughts acquired from his personal and professional experiences from the World War II. The first chapter will discuss the historical context that precedes the first letter of the book dating from 1947, and the scenario described includes Italy's participation in World War II, the repercussions of the disaster on politics, economy and the life of the population, in addition to the Resistance movement: the armed struggle of opposition to fascism. The account is important for the understanding of the future literary manifestations of Italo Calvino, especially in his occupation as a critic in the publisher Einaudi. Famous for its literary and p... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Astratto: La dissertazione è dedicata allo studio delle missive dello scrittore italiano Italo Calvino (1923-1985) contenute nel libro I libri degli altri (1991), a cura di Giovanni Tesio. Analizzate dalle loro caratteristiche, le lettere costituiscono un'importante testimonianza della letteratura italiana del XX secolo, specialmente tra gli anni 1947 e 1969. Considerata come un genere letterario, la corrispondenza - la prima manifestazione di sé - ci permette di penetrare nello spazio culturare, sociale e storico dello scrittore e ci assicura di osservare le azioni che sono inerenti alla sua personalità non solo come redattore e critico letterario, ma come individuo attivo nella politica del suo paese. La lettura delle lettere dello scrittore italiano rivela l'atmosfera delle sue attività critico-letterarie, così come i suoi pensieri acquisiti dalle sue esperienze personali e preofessionali dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Il primo capitolo affronterà quindi il contesto storico che precede la prima lettera del libro datata 26 novembre 1947, e lo scenario descritto include la partecipazione dell'Italia alla Seconda Grande Guerra, le ripercussioni del disastro sulla politica, l'economia e nella vita della popolazione, oltre al movimento della Resistenza: la lotta armata dell'opposizione al fascismo. Il resoconto è importante per la comprensione delle future manifestazioni letterarie di Italo Calvino, soprattutto nel suo ruolo come critico nella editora Einaudi. Famosa per le sue discussio / Mestre

This dissertation describes and analyses a selection of morphosyntactic phenomena from the nominal, verbal and clausal domains of Barese, an upper southern Italian dialect of Puglia. Chapter 2 analyses pragmatically unmarked and marked sentential word orders in Barese. Barese is a null-subject language whose unmarked transitive word order is (S)VO, in which syntactic constituents can be displaced in accordance with their pragmatico-semantic relevance to the discourse. One peculiarity of Barese regards intransitives encoding a loco-temporal (c)overt argument, where VS and SV orders may both mark sentence-focus. While VS encodes a null loco-temporal argument, SV serves to encode broad focus whenever S is ‘accessible’ in the mind of both discourse participants forming part of their ‘common ground’. Chapter 3 examines the structure of Barese nominal expressions, focusing on the interaction between adjectives, possessives and demonstratives. Barese nominals nearly systematically precede adjectives and possessives, except for a small class of rudimentary evaluative adjectives which may occur prenominally. These orders, derived via the phrasal movement of the nominal across its modifiers, are contrasted with the head movement of a morpholexically restricted class of kinship nominals which can be modified by a defective set of enclitic possessives. The final section analyses the behaviour of Barese demonstratives, which only occur in prenominal position. In particular, a peculiar Barese structure which combines the definite article with the distal demonstrative pronoun is analysed, highlighting how it specifically marks discourse-old referents. Chapter 4 describes the mechanisms of auxiliary selection and past participle agreement operative in Barese. In relation to the former, Barese displays three different factors which may determine auxiliary selection, namely person, tense and mood. These three dimensions of variation are analysed in terms of parameter hierarchies which formalise the complexity of the semantic features involved in the selection of the auxiliaries HAVE and BE. It is argued that this complexity reflects different diachronic stages of auxiliary selection across different generations of speakers. The final section investigates Barese active past participle agreement which, unlike auxiliary selection, displays a conservative distribution licensed by direct objects and Undergoer subjects. The peculiarity of Barese, however, is that agreement is morpholexically limited to a small number of ‘strong’ participles which mark agreement exclusively through metaphonetic alternation. The final chapter is concerned with Barese progressive and andative periphrases which variously show inflected forms of the lexical verb in the 2SG-3SG of the present in place of the infinitive. These structures have been argued for Salentino and Sicilian dialects to have developed from instances of coordination with Latin AC ‘and’, which were then reinterpreted as instances of (pseudo-)coordination, namely subordination. In contrast, a different origin for these inflected forms of the lexical verb is proposed for Barese, where AC-coordination is not historically attested. It is argued that the loss of the infinitival ending -RE produced morphophonological identity, viz. syncretism, between the 3SG(/2SG) present and the infinitive, enabling the latter to be reinterpreted as a finite form within the periphrasis. This spred further across the neighbouring dialects to include more grammatical persons (3SG/2SG > 1SG > 3PL > all), as well as past and irrealis paradigms.

<p> This research study was conducted with the intention of determining the most common errors that occur in the development of Italian oral language skills among 102 students participating in a 90/10 (90% in Italian/10% in English) dual language program offered at a California public elementary school. The 90/10 program breaks down instruction as follows: Kfirst grade 90% instruction in the target language/10% in English; in second grade 80/20; in third grade, 70/30; in fourth, 60/40, and in fifth, 50/50. Although the ratios change, the program is officially known as 90/10. The students in this study, a mixed group ranging from first to fifth grade, observed a series of pictures representing a story, which they then had to orally tell in their own words. The oral presentations were recorded and then transcribed word by word, including pauses and hesitations. The productions were then analyzed in depth, with special attention given to hesitations, the insertion of phrases and/or words in English, errors with lexical choice and grammatical errors (auxiliary verb choice, as well as the usage of subjects, verbs, and pronouns). The results from this study demonstrate that the age of the student influences second language oral fluency. In general, students with more schooling tended to commit fewer errors in their oral production. However, some categories of errors did not seem to be affected by the length of time students had been enrolled in the program. It is hypothesized that some errors persist due to the decreased amount of Italian instruction that characterizes the upper years in the program.</p><p>