Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2000. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 274-291).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2000. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 274-291).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-260)

Am 22. Januar 2011 wurde zugleich mit dem Neujahrsempfang der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig das Kunstwerk „Perspektive“ von Lada Nakonechna eingeweiht. Die über 100 Quadratmeter große Bleistiftzeichnung der ukrainischen Künstlerin wurde in dreimonatiger Arbeit erstellt und schmückt nun den vor zehn Jahren neu aufgebauten Alten Lesesaal. Die Stadt Leipzig ist unter den Sponsoren dieser Kunstaktion und hat den Neujahrsempfang zur festlichen Erinnerung an 50 Jahre Städtepartnerschaft zwischen Leipzig und Kiew genutzt.

Traditional Chinese woodblock New Year pictures face the danger of being marginalized and disappearing in the context of industrialization and technological development. It is, therefore, imperative to conduct research on traditional New Year pictures to address this challenge. This thesis analyses the content of New Year pictures from four representative bases (Yangliuqing, Taohuawu, Wuqiang, and Mianzhu) in China. The semiotic perspective is selected as a theoretical framework. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of representative New Year pictures, this study identifies commonly used signs in New Year pictures and explores their meanings from the perspectives of connotation and myth. The study also examines the construction relationship between the signifier and the signified of the signs. These findings preliminarily construct the semiotic system for Chinese woodblock New Year pictures. Furthermore, the analytical framework provides an innovative quantitative research approach to the study of traditional New Year picture signs, contributing to the current research on the New Year pictures’ semiotic system. In previous studies, quantitative methods have never been applied to the study of New Year pictures, nor have they been widely used in other similar folk art forms. Distant reading methods from the field of digital humanities open new frontiers in the study of folk art. While visual art may be better suited for traditional close-up reading, computational methods can help capture the overall characteristics of art from a macroscopic perspective.

The concept of the natural year (Swahili `mwaka´) is found throughout the Bantu family of languages (Guthrie 1970: iv, 143) Today there are three possible years for the Swahili. First there is the Swahili year, the first day of which was once celebrated by all the Swahili people, while the year itself was of especial importance to farmers, to sailors and fishermen as well as to travellers and scholars. Secondly there is the Islamic-Swahili year, the first day of which is, in practice, celebrated on the first day of the first month after Ramadhani - 1 mfungo mosi (and not on 1 Muharram). Finally there is, since the arrival of European- hristians in the the second half of the nineteenth century, the Gregorian year, which is known to Swahilis who have attended primary school and 1 January has been a government holiday ever since.

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The objective of this diploma thesis named ´Linguistic Analysis of Chosen Presidential Speeches from the periods of 1948 - 1989´ is the analysis of speeches by five Czechoslovak presidents - Klement Gottwald, Antonín Zápotocký, Antonín Novotný, Ludvík Svoboda, and Gustáv Husák. Their speeches will be analysed from the perspective of composition, speech technique, rules of standard pronunciation, morphology, syntax, as well as lexicological perspective. Greater emphasis will be put on phrases and clichés present in analysed speeches. The whole of the practical part will rely on the findings of the theoretical part, worked out on the basis of expert literature and focused on speech, communication, standard Czech language, objective and subjective literary stylistics. Further, the theoretical part also defines the rhethorics, its history, rhethorical functional style, its genres, and the speech technique.

Der Neujahrsempfang 2009 der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig fand diesmal in besonderen Räumlichkeiten statt: Das leergeräumte Erdgeschoß West der Bibliotheca Albertina enthielt früher u. a. einen Lesesaal, künftig werden die Räumlichkeiten für Schulungen, Ausstellungen und Vorträge genutzt. Als erstes wird im Sommer 2009 der neue Ausstellungsraum eröffnet werden.