New Zealand Catholic lay women have actively participated in overseas missionary work for over forty years. From the 1960s, the Catholic Overseas Volunteer Organization (COVS), under the auspices of the New Zealand bishops, enabled lay women to respond to missionary bishops’ requests for assistance. Overseas, they worked in a range of mission stations with a variety of religious orders. Their experiences are the focus of this study. Their stories have not been told previously and part of the intent is to make their work visible, particularly, to add to the histories of New Zealand women, Catholic women and Christian missionary women more generally. This thesis contends that their overseas experiences were far from partnership and collaboration and have subsequently failed to provide opportunities for wider participation in the New Zealand Church. Vatican documents, archival material, interviews with fifty ex-volunteers and the two lay women directors of the organization provide the data for this thesis. Feminist theology forms the theoretical base and narrative analysis the interpretive tool. There were three volunteer cohorts: young, single volunteers, mothers with dependent children and older women. Most volunteers grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, came from Catholic homes, attended Catholic schools and were actively involved in New Zealand parishes. Overseas, the women continued lives of faith and service, contributing needed and valuable skills. Many younger women enjoyed professional opportunities and their missionary community. It was harder to fit in to a mission station as Catholic mothers or older women and many found it difficult to establish a missionary identity, to be accepted as part of the team. In all groups, there was great satisfaction when experiences matched expectations. The missionary insights and/or skills of these ex-volunteers have generally not been sought by their New Zealand parishes and they are, for the most part, an unappreciated and neglected resource. Lay women’s experiences of overseas mission point to a need for change – lay women seek not only to participate but to be valued partners in their Church. / Whole document restricted, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.

No digital copy at the request of the author - refer to citation field for details of published version. / The style of language at Vatican II made a break with the then-current scholastic language of Catholic theology. Less concerned to define, in scholastic mode, the language of Vatican II was more concerned to persuade, in a rhetorical mode that was identified as 'pastoral' at the time. This book takes the central word 'dialogue' as the important interface between these two modes of language, because 'dialogue' had a history in scholastic theology as the finding-the-end-result dialectic of Thomism, yet 'dialogue' in twentieth-century philosophical thought had acquired the Buberian sense of an ongoing relationship that did not lend itself to once-and-for-all definitions. Some of the difficulties that have arisen in implementing the teaching of Vatican II are shown to result from these two different understandings of dialogue, compounded for English-speaking readers by the fact that two different Latin words in the original documents were commonly translated as 'dialogue' in the five major English translations.

This visual art project has explored the ancient Maori pukorero (oral tradition) of Te Whatu o Poutini (The Eye of Poutini) that articulates the journey of Poutini Taniwha, Waitaiki and Tamaahua from Tuhua (Mayor Island) in the Bay of Plenty, to the Arahura River. An oral geological map, the pukorero also expresses through cultural values, the intimate spiritual relationship Ngati Waewae have with our tupuna, the Arahura River, pounamu stone and each other. Exploring the genres of digital storytelling and video art installation, this project combines them as new media storytelling. The current experience of colonisation and urbanisation emotionally parallel the abduction, transformation and multiple places of belonging experienced by the tupuna Waitaiki at the hand of Poutini Taniwha. The project explores and acknowledges this connection. The survival, restoration and celebration of Ngati Waewae culture and the need to assert control of our own destinies has infused every component of the project.

New Zealand Catholic lay women have actively participated in overseas missionary work for over forty years. From the 1960s, the Catholic Overseas Volunteer Organization (COVS), under the auspices of the New Zealand bishops, enabled lay women to respond to missionary bishops’ requests for assistance. Overseas, they worked in a range of mission stations with a variety of religious orders. Their experiences are the focus of this study. Their stories have not been told previously and part of the intent is to make their work visible, particularly, to add to the histories of New Zealand women, Catholic women and Christian missionary women more generally. This thesis contends that their overseas experiences were far from partnership and collaboration and have subsequently failed to provide opportunities for wider participation in the New Zealand Church. Vatican documents, archival material, interviews with fifty ex-volunteers and the two lay women directors of the organization provide the data for this thesis. Feminist theology forms the theoretical base and narrative analysis the interpretive tool. There were three volunteer cohorts: young, single volunteers, mothers with dependent children and older women. Most volunteers grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, came from Catholic homes, attended Catholic schools and were actively involved in New Zealand parishes. Overseas, the women continued lives of faith and service, contributing needed and valuable skills. Many younger women enjoyed professional opportunities and their missionary community. It was harder to fit in to a mission station as Catholic mothers or older women and many found it difficult to establish a missionary identity, to be accepted as part of the team. In all groups, there was great satisfaction when experiences matched expectations. The missionary insights and/or skills of these ex-volunteers have generally not been sought by their New Zealand parishes and they are, for the most part, an unappreciated and neglected resource. Lay women’s experiences of overseas mission point to a need for change – lay women seek not only to participate but to be valued partners in their Church. / Whole document restricted, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.

RODRIGUES, Ticiane. Tradições discursivas em gêneros jurídicos: um estudo sobre o gênero denúncia em processos criminais dos séculos XX e XXI. 2016. 271f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T13:50:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_trodrigues.pdf: 4169763 bytes, checksum: 89fa9e4aab0659f71044707b62299202 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T15:22:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_trodrigues.pdf: 4169763 bytes, checksum: 89fa9e4aab0659f71044707b62299202 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-06T15:22:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_trodrigues.pdf: 4169763 bytes, checksum: 89fa9e4aab0659f71044707b62299202 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / The language corresponds to a social interaction practice and it is made real through different texts shared between members of a community. It is characterized by its heterogeneity as well as its variability, so it is vulnerable in face of constant changes over the time. This characteristic makes possible that past facts kept safe for the posterity through old documents become objects of researchers during the time. In this way, such documents contribute in a value way in works of an uncountable researchers into different areas. The relevance of this documents is given by its highlighted contribution in the historical studies of the language as well as of the texts. The analyses turned more for that aspect that provides a knowledge concerning to constitution and functioning both in the language and the texts in previous societies of yore. In this perspective, the current work which is turned more to genre of legal sphere, it proposes itself describing and analyzing, in function of communicative purpose as well as social-historic context, the linguistic and discursive categories of formulaic expressions which points traces of permanence and/or changing . The corpus is formed by complaints which is the introduction of crime-processes practiced in cearense legal sphere from XX and XXI centuries. The corpus is formed by complaints that is the introductory part of crime-processes registered in Ceará State, Brazil. They are filed in Arquivo Público do Estado do Ceará (APEC). In order to develop the analyses, it was used the theoretical framework of discursive traditions with the goal of observing repetitions of one text or its textual forms, “formulaic expressions”, that can be taken as discursive traditions describing significants traces of changing and/ or changing . In this sense, It serves as theoretical bases, the studies of Kabatek (2001,2006), Koch (1997) e Koch; Osterreicher (2007). In the light of theoretical methodologic proposal of Zavam (2009). Then, this investigation focused in the analyses of six categories that covers the context in complaints which were written as well as the text that deals with the materiality of linguistic elements used. This work tried understanding how to society in the beginning of XX century interacted by means of ordinary text legal sphere. The results achieved show us that the genre has a high level of fixture, so it presents in its composition an intern reorganization, that is a change occurred in the interior of genre itself. Over the time, this demonstrates that, between the two centuries analyzed, the genre was transformed due to demanding of social practices, as in the case of information collected in order to form the accusation of the defendant and that are essential to stablish the complaint. In this way, this research, inside of the diachronic studies, traced a historical path of complaint genre, highlighting which changes/permanencies are perceived in the genre studied. So this researchers is dedicated to investigate the history of texts, linked to the history of the language highlighting aspects that categorizes the genre of the discourse in their more distinct realization. / A língua corresponde a uma prática de interação social e se realiza por meio de textos diversos entre os indivíduos de uma comunidade. Caracteriza-se por sua heterogeneidade e variabilidade, portanto está vulnerável a constantes mudanças ao longo do tempo. Essa característica possibilita que fatos ocorridos no passado guardados para a posteridade por meio de documentos antigos tornem-se objetos de pesquisa ao longo dos anos. Desse modo, tais documentos contribuem de forma valiosa para o trabalho de diversos pesquisadores em diferentes áreas. A relevância desses documentos se dá pela destacada contribuição aos estudos históricos da língua e dos textos. A análise voltada para este aspecto propicia, assim, o conhecimento acerca da constituição e do funcionamento, tanto da língua quanto dos textos, em tempos passados na sociedade de que outrora fizeram parte. Nesta perspectiva, o presente trabalho, voltado para gêneros da esfera jurídica, se propõe descrever e analisar, em função dos propósitos comunicativos e do contexto sócio-histórico, categorias linguísticas e discursivas que apontam traços de permanência e/ou mudança na peça introdutória dos processos-crimes registrados no estado do Ceará nos séculos XX e XXI. O corpus é constituído por 46 denúncias, que é a parte introdutória dos processos-crimes, os quais se encontram abrigados no Arquivo Público do Estado do Ceará (APEC). Para o desenvolvimento da análise, utiliza-se o arcabouço teórico das Tradições Discursivas a fim de observar a repetição de um texto ou de formas textuais, “expressões formulaicas”, que possam ser tomadas como tradições discursivas para, então, descrever traços significativos de mudança e/ou permanência. Nesse sentido, servem de base teórica os estudos de Kabatek (2001, 2006), Koch (1997) e Koch e Oesterreicher (2007). À luz da proposta teórico-metodológica de Zavam (2009), esta investigação focaliza, então, a análise em seis categorias que dão conta do contexto em que as denúncias foram escritas e do texto que trata da materialidade dos elementos linguísticos e discursivos empregados, uma vez que busca compreender como a sociedade do início do século XX interagia por meio dos textos que circulavam na esfera jurídica. Os resultados alcançados revelam que o gênero denúncia, a despeito do alto grau de fixidez que lhe é inerente, apresenta em sua composição o que se caracteriza como reelaboração interna, que é uma mudança ocorrida no interior do próprio gênero. Tal constatação evidencia que, no decorrer dos anos, entre os dois séculos analisados, o gênero foi se transformando devido às exigências de suas práticas sociais, como é o caso das informações apuradas para compor a acusação do réu e que são fundamentais para que se instaure a denúncia. Assim, esta pesquisa, inserida nos estudos diacrônicos, traçou o percurso histórico do gênero denúncia, destacando quais mudanças e/ou permanências são percebidas no gênero abordado, assim, este trabalho contribuiu para dar continuidade às pesquisas que se dedicam a investigar a história dos textos, atrelada à história da língua, de modo a evidenciar aspectos que caracterizam os gêneros do discurso em suas mais distintas realizações.

abstract: Geirr Tveitt (1908-1981) was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s. He studied composition with masters such as Arthur Honegger, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Nadia Boulanger, achieving international acclaim for many of his works. However, his native Norway was slow to follow this praise, as post-World War II intellectuals disregarded anything that resembled nationalism. Tveitt's music was considered obsolete. He became isolated and withdrawn and died in 1981 after a house fire destroyed the manuscripts of nearly three hundred opuses, leaving only a handful of works, some of which were not yet published. Tveitt was raised in a remote part of Norway where the folk tradition was strong. Because of his close ties with the Hardanger community, he was able to bring to light many undiscovered folk tunes and exceptional practices. Tveitt utilizes this first-hand knowledge in his works for solo piano, and successfully combines them with his roots in both Germanic and Nordic traditions, eventually becoming a well-known and respected composer to the Norwegian people. However, he remains virtually unknown to the rest of the world. All of his music was deeply influenced by folk traditions and instruments. Techniques such as planing, drones, modal scales and passages, ornamentation, and simple melodies are pervasive in each piece, and are often the building blocks of main themes and motives. Because of the ambiguity of the status of many works, this paper examines only his published works for solo piano. Discussions of each piece will focus on folk influences within each work, including basic form, texture, and pianistic concerns. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Performance 2014

The dissertation concerning a given topic {\clqq}Customs, festivities and way of life in Bavaria`` focuses on one federal country in Germany and the process of its festivals and traditions. The work is divided into 3 parts, where there is gradually explained the wide range of traditions. In the introduction there are mentioned and described the particular terms used in the work. At the beginning the reader is informed about the typical local traditions in individual regions of Bavaria. The separation of this federal country gives the possibility to compare traditions and festivals. In the following parts there are chapters where the seasons of the year are defined. There are mentioned the festivals and traditions according to their occurrence in actual season of the year {--} the religion festivals, the agricultural traditions and other celebrations. In some examples there is briefly described the gastronomy of the festival. In the last part of the work there is compared some Bavor´s festivals to Czech ones. The choice is limited on the main religion festivals, which are held in both countries. There is mainly described the process and variety of Christmas and Easter celebrations. The all three parts of the work are completed with the enclosed maps and pictures. These enclosures can help the reader to make the complete conception of the mentioned traditions and festivals. The aim of this work is first of all the introduction of different celebrations in Bavaria and giving such kind of the formation that can push out the frontiers of culture knowledge.

Människors alkoholkonsumtion påverkar både individen själv och dess omgivningen. I medier förekommer kampanjer om en vit jul vilket skapade intresset att undersöka hur alkoholkonsumtionen ter sig även vid nyår, påsk, valborg och midsommar samt om det finns skillnader mellan dem och andra tillfällen där alkohol förekommer. I studien deltog tolv personer, 23–58 år med olika erfarenheter kring ämnet. Datainsamling skedde med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer och intervjuguiden innehöll frågor som undersökte människors upplevelser. Fyra teman kunde urskiljas: (1) anledning till alkoholkonsumtion, (2) alkoholens konsekvenser, (3) normer och traditioner och (4) skillnader och likheter mellan högtid och vanligt tillfälle. Anledningar till att konsumera alkohol kunde bero på invant beteende och för att lätta upp stämningen och att avstå från alkohol grundade sig i dåliga minnen och att relationer förstörs. Studien skulle kunna bidra till ett öppet klimat om alkohol och belyser dess negativa konsekvenser.

La présente recherche s’intéresse à la problématique du régime linguistique algérien à travers l’étude du militantisme pour la langue amazighe. L’objectif est ainsi d’examiner le sens politique des revendications linguistiques amazighes et ses impacts sur le régime linguistique algérien. Autrement dit, nous étudions des représentations d’acteurs à l’intérieur des structures institutionnelles. Notre hypothèse postule un lien entre le militantisme linguistique amazighe et la notion de citoyenneté démocratique. Elle sera vérifiée à travers la théorie des « régimes linguistiques » et des « traditions étatiques » (Cardinal et Sonntag, 2015), du concept de « contexte de sens » (Cefaï, 1998 ; 2003) et de la méthode de la co-construction du savoir et de la notion de vraisemblance (Dubet, 1994 ; 2000). Ces outils théoriques nous permettent de voir, dans un premier temps, les formes que prend l’imaginaire militant qui se décline en un répertoire de sens (émotions, valeurs, idéaux…), mais néanmoins convergent vers l’idée de la citoyenneté démocratique largement récurrente dans le discours militant. L’étude des représentations militantes permet, dans un second temps, de voir comment celles-ci se traduisent dans les pratiques militantes ; comment l’imaginaire militant influence la trajectoire du régime linguistique algérien, et particulièrement à travers ses maintes conjonctures critiques (1980, 1994-1995, 2001-2002, 2011-2016). Les résultats de la recherche montrent que le militantisme linguistique amazigh impose des représentations citoyennes et contre-hégémoniques à l’intérieur d’un régime linguistique foncièrement hégémonique et autoritaire. Celles-ci sont traduites par des acquis / concessions au bénéfice de la langue amazighe au sein du régime linguistique. Elles sont aussi limitées par l’effet de dépendance au sentier des concessions sur certaines traditions étatiques. Cette analyse est fondée sur une méthodologie qualitative, se basant sur des sources primaires (entretiens semi-dirigés et observation) et secondaires (analyse de documents, archives, et autre œuvres artistiques de type militante).

This thesis examines references to priests and temples of the Japanese Pure Land Buddhist school claiming Ippen (1239-1289) as founder; the most important of the lineages was the Yugyō-ha, or 'itinerancy school'. Scattered in Noh plays, epics, documents, histories, diaries, et cetera over a four-hundred-year period, these references are the residue of a long-term and successful propaganda campaign advertising doctrines, miracles, and services to the military class. The thesis focuses especially on the themes and formulaic diction borrowed from existing texts and developed by the school as it distinguished itself from other Pure Land schools. The rôle of what became the Jishū (usually translated 'Time Sect') in the guardianship of the identity of the founder of the Tokugawa family is of special interest.