Cindy McTee, Regents Professor of Composition in the College of Music at the University of North Texas, is one of America's leading composers. Her music is an eclectic blend of the "American" sound that is created by the use of a multiplicity of techniques. This document uses three of McTee's most recent (to date) works for wind band: Timepiece, Ballet for Band and Finish Line, to identify the primary stylistic characteristic's of the composer's music, which include: jazz influence; use of ostinati, pseudo-ostinati and machine-like rhythmic patterns and figures; creation of extended and angular melodic lines; progressive "walking" bass lines; and the use of octatonic and chromatic collections. Through the identification of stylistic characteristics, concise stylistic analysis of the works, interview transcript, list of composer's works to date, and selected discography, this document will add to the limited body of scholarly writing on the composer.

宇野浩二は精神病や挫折による執筆の空白期間を経るたびに異なる文体を編み出すと言われる作家である。本研究は、作品からデータを抽出し、計量的分析手法を用いて、宇野浩二の文体変化に関する諸問題を解明することを目的とする。文芸評論を踏まえ、病気後の文体変化、文体変化の時期、戦後の文体変化、同時代作家との比較の四つの問題を取り上げ、客観的なデータの分析結果に基づき、宇野浩二の文体特徴、文体変化の時期および戦後作品の独特性を明らかにした。 / Kouji Uno is a well-known Japanese littérateur, whose creative activity was interrupted twice because of a mental illness and frustrations. It was reported that his writing style had changed when he resumed writing. The study aims to investigated the differences of Kouji Uno's writing style in his different stages by using quantitative analysis. We demonstrated Uno's stylistic changes after the mental illness, the exact time of these changes, and the characteristics of works published after the War based on the literary criticism and statistical results. In addition, we clarified the uniqueness of his postwar works through a comparative analysis with contemporary writers. / 博士(文化情報学) / Doctor of Culture and Information Science / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

ABBREVIATION IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN LANGUAGE IN COMPARISON WITH THE CZECH LANGUAGE Dissertation work is aimed at confrontation study of abbreviation in Bulgarian in comparison with Czech and at the description of abbreviations as specific language symbols. Contemporary language tendencies and the changes in the field of abbreviation in relation to the language typology are taken into account. The work is dedicated to the grammatical, stylistic and semantic characteristics of the abbreviations, while a substantial part of the confrontation description addresses the graphical and initial abbreviations, which create a central part of the partial system of abbreviation formations. From the confrontational aspect, there is also described the ability of abbreviations to serve as word-formation base for derivatives. The dissertation work also includes the results of socio-linguistic research made by questionnaire method, where the respondents evaluated the abbreviations of an international character and the words containing abbreviated bases implemented into the text written in Cyrillic.