Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 1983. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and index.

Eighteenth-century Scottish bibliography is a vast subject still awaiting exploration. There are, however, some landmarks to look for and guides to employ. I am thinking particularly, in the context of my own interests, of the writings of Philip Gaskell, and a work that should open up new sources, Robert H. Carnie’s awaited dictionary of the Scottish Book trade. The national Library of Scotland is in the early stages of compliling a catalogue of its eighteenth-century Scottish books which, no matter what form it takes, will provide scholars with a major tool. The description of books has been and doubtless will continue to be a controvertial subject, but those students who have much to identify can take encouragement, I believe from David Foxon’s ‘Thoughts on the History and future of Bibliographical Description’. In this work I map some particular and general areas of Scottish publishing history by examining the partnership of Gavin Hamilton and John Balfour, and the association they formed with the printer Patrick Neill. I study the partners in their own right as booksellers, publishers and printers, but I am concerned also with the larger bibliographical background. Hamilton and Balfour were strong-willed individuals who bought the force of their personal and private interests to bear on their professional lives; Hamilton, especially, in the period under consideration, saw little difference between his duty as a Scottish gentleman and his activities as a Scottish publisher. He and Balfour were far-sighted and adventurous, and deserve to be thought of as central figures in the story of the Edinburgh book trade.

Orientador: Arnaldo Cortina / Banca: Renata Maria F. C. Marchezan / Banca: Antonio Vicente S. Pietroforte / Resumo: A procura do leitor brasileiro pelo discurso de auto-ajuda tem sido um fato inegável contemporaneamente. Por isso, este trabalho visa descrever a organização e o funcionamento dos textos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos de 1991 a 2006, a partir dos rankings "auto-ajuda e esoterismo", listados semanalmente pela revista Veja. A partir de um corpus organizado por meio do levantamento dessas listas de livros, o objetivo central consiste em sugerir uma tipologia lingüística para os discursos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos atualmente. A abordagem semiótica de orientação greimasiana possui critérios adequados de descrição do plano de conteúdo, com vistas a oferecer uma definição tipológica mais refinada dos discursos. Os níveis fundamental, narrativo e discursivo, na sua dimensão sintagmática e paradigmática, do percurso gerativo de sentido, podem oferecer um quadro suficiente de elementos descritivos, segundo a maior ou menor incidência dos seus componentes na organização dos discursos, tais como: o investimento axiológico das categorias fundamentais (euforia e disforia); os percursos dos actantes funcionais (destinador-manipulador, destinatário-sujeito e do destinador-julgador); as fases da narrativa (manipulação, competência, perfórmance e sanção); a natureza do objeto-valor (cognitivo ou pragmático, modal ou descritivo); a projeção do sujeito da enunciação (as marcas do enunciador e do enunciatário); e a constituição discursiva (textos predominantemente figurativos, predominantemente temáticos ou equivalentemente temático-figurativos). A auto-ajuda, à maneira dos discursos técnicos (manuais de montagem, receitas de cozinha, por exemplo), tende a privilegiar a fase da competência. Nesta, o percurso do destinador-manipulador contribui para que o seu enunciatário (a projeção do leitor) saiba e possa construir o valor subjetivo que procura. Nesse caso... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The Brazilian reader's search for self-help discourses has been a fact nowadays. For this reason, this work proposes to study the linguistic and discursive processes related to bestselling books of self-help literature in the period 1991-2006, by means of the lists of bestsellers in the Self-Help genre organized and listed weekly by Veja, a Brazilian news magazine. Starting from a corpus collected from these book lists, the aim is to suggest a linguistic typology for the current best-selling self-help books. The methodological perspective of Greimasian semiotics has appropriate criteria for the description of the level of contents, aiming at suggesting more elaborate typological definitions of discourses. The deep, narrative and discursive levels, in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of the generative process of meaning, can offer enough descriptive elements, according to the large or small incidence - focus - of its semiotic components in the organization of discourses, such as: the axiological investment of thymic deep components (euphoria and dysphoria); the path of functional actants (sender-manipulator, receiver-subject and sender-judge); the narrative phases (manipulation, competence, perfórmance and sanction); the characteristics of the object of value (cognitive, pragmatic, modal or descriptive); the projection of the subject of enunciation (how sender and receiver can be linguistically manifest); and the discursive level components (texts which are predominantly thematic, predominantly figurative or thematic and figurative in equal measure). Self-help books, similarly to technical discourses (culinary recipes, instruction manuals), tend to focus on the phase of competence. In it, the sender-manipulator makes its receiver-subject (the reader's discursive projection) "knowing-how-to-do" and "be able-to-do" so he or she elaborate the subjective object wanted...(Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-06-30T13:21:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_JUNIA_CRISTINA_VAZ_VIEIRA_COMPLETO.pdf: 2896964 bytes, checksum: 44bc41c6391172e2702775996bd93e55 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-30T13:21:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_JUNIA_CRISTINA_VAZ_VIEIRA_COMPLETO.pdf: 2896964 bytes, checksum: 44bc41c6391172e2702775996bd93e55 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-01-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This thesis aims at analyzing the collections of publishing house Editora Globo of Porto Alegre with regard to innovations in the Brazilian editorial market between 1930 and 1960. It focuses on its then unprecedented editorial choices, which appealed to both readers who love adventure and mystery literature, with its Cole??o Amarela (Yellow Collection) and Cole??o Universo (Universe Collection), and those avid to read classics and award-winning authors, published as Cole??o Nobel (Nobel Collection) and Cole??o Biblioteca dos S?culos. Other relevant aspects addressed in this thesis are the attention to the literary quality of the books published by Editora do Globo and the methodology utilized for the selection of titles for its catalog. / Esta disserta??o tem como proposta analisar as cole??es editoriais da Editora do Globo de Porto Alegre como um elemento inovador no mercado editorial brasileiro entre as d?cadas de 1930 e 1960. O enfoque maior ser? dado ao ineditismo de suas escolhas editoriais que abrangeram desde os leitores amantes de literatura de aventura e mist?rio com os t?tulos das cole??es Amarela e Universo, at? os ?vidos por cl?ssicos da literatura e autores premiados que eram publicados na Cole??o Nobel e Biblioteca dos S?culos. Outro aspecto importante que ser? abordado ? a preocupa??o com a qualidade liter?ria das obras publicadas pela editora e a metodologia empregada para a escolha de t?tulos para o seu cat?logo.

<p>Objective: To explore views of medical doctors, veterinarians and drug sellers on use of antibiotics on humans and nonhumans and on factors that influences the development of resistance to antibacterial agents. Further, to look at the bi-directional relationship between antibiotic use and environment. </p><p>Methods: The study was a qualitative explorative interview study, analysed using conventional content analysis. It was conducted in Orissa, India. Data were collected by face to face semi structured interview. The interviews were tape recorded and transcribed into Oriya, then translated in to English. Each paragraph or sentence was coded. Similar codes were clustered together and collapsed into sub categories and categories. The main themes were allowed to emerge, based on the relationship between categories.</p><p>Findings: The main finding of the study was mishandling and abuse of antibiotics in patients as well as at professional level due to weak implementation of legislation, which appears to be the major cause of antibacterial agent resistance. Incomplete course or dose due to poverty in rural area and self medication in urban area are more common. The study also showed that climatic factors, pollution and population density are the major ecological factors which influence antibiotic prescriptions. Another major finding of this study was that, due to improper disposal system of pharmaceuticals; antibiotics are contaminating air, water and terrains which can cause major risk to aquatic and grazing animals. </p><p>Conclusion: This study emphasises the need for comprehensive actions including information, training, legislation and education at all levels of drug delivery system to rationalize antibiotic use by improving prescribing pattern and creating awareness among consumers. Proper disposal of pharmaceutical wastes is required to prevent the contamination of environment from pharmaceutical pollutants. Further study is essential concerning environmental impact of antibiotics.</p><p>Key words: Antibiotic use; antibiotic resistance; environment; qualitative; conventional; content analysis; veterinarians; medical doctors; drug sellers; Orissa; India.</p>

The current study extends the exploration of online relationship building by examining how Business Next top 100 online sellers use the popular social network site Facebook to assist dialogic communication with their fans. A content analysis of Facebook fan pages maintained by Business Next top 100 online sellers (n=100) and individual posts which posted on those pages (n=2804) examined the use of dialogic features within the Facebook fan pages as well as the individual. The contraction process of social networking sites effectiveness indexes used literature review and content analysis. Those indexes were revised by reexamining the circumstances of Facebook. Four dimensions of indexes were ¡§Usefulness of information¡¨, ¡§Generation of return visits¡¨, ¡§Conservation of return visits¡¨, and ¡§Dialogic loop¡¨. 25 indexes were developed. Results indicated that online sellers which manage Facebook fan pages (76%) employed the dialogic strategies of dialogic loop mostly (M=16.76). It presents the highly interactive of Facebook fan pages. Interact games on Facebook fan pages which combine asking interesting questions and special discounts are significantly related with user responses.

Objective: To explore views of medical doctors, veterinarians and drug sellers on use of antibiotics on humans and nonhumans and on factors that influences the development of resistance to antibacterial agents. Further, to look at the bi-directional relationship between antibiotic use and environment. Methods: The study was a qualitative explorative interview study, analysed using conventional content analysis. It was conducted in Orissa, India. Data were collected by face to face semi structured interview. The interviews were tape recorded and transcribed into Oriya, then translated in to English. Each paragraph or sentence was coded. Similar codes were clustered together and collapsed into sub categories and categories. The main themes were allowed to emerge, based on the relationship between categories. Findings: The main finding of the study was mishandling and abuse of antibiotics in patients as well as at professional level due to weak implementation of legislation, which appears to be the major cause of antibacterial agent resistance. Incomplete course or dose due to poverty in rural area and self medication in urban area are more common. The study also showed that climatic factors, pollution and population density are the major ecological factors which influence antibiotic prescriptions. Another major finding of this study was that, due to improper disposal system of pharmaceuticals; antibiotics are contaminating air, water and terrains which can cause major risk to aquatic and grazing animals. Conclusion: This study emphasises the need for comprehensive actions including information, training, legislation and education at all levels of drug delivery system to rationalize antibiotic use by improving prescribing pattern and creating awareness among consumers. Proper disposal of pharmaceutical wastes is required to prevent the contamination of environment from pharmaceutical pollutants. Further study is essential concerning environmental impact of antibiotics. Key words: Antibiotic use; antibiotic resistance; environment; qualitative; conventional; content analysis; veterinarians; medical doctors; drug sellers; Orissa; India.

The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the dominating discourse in the preliminary work of the Sex Purchase Act. In order to achieve the aim of this study we selected preliminary work of the Sex Purchase Act that was produced between 1977 and 1999. The selection is based on the fact that prostitution began to be recognized as a social problem and a gender equality issue between men and women in society. The ongoing debate during the chosen years resulted in the Sex Purchase Act, which was passed in 1999. By using discourse analysis as a methodological and theoretical approach, we have empirically studied and theoretically analyzed the dominating discourse in the preliminary work of the Sex Purchase Act. This study shows that the dominating discourse in the preliminary work is based on a perception that prostitution reflects violence against women, which prevents women and men from becoming equal in society. The dominating discourse in the preliminary work is characterized by a heteronormative standard and has influences that can be recognized as feminist ideology. The content in the dominating discourse is produced by people with high social status, which gives sex buyers and sex workers limited influence on how their categories are presented in the preliminary work.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2003. / Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 28, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2003; thesis submitted 2002. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-101). Also available on the World Wide Web.