The humor of Mark Twain has long fascinated his readers. Critics such as Messent (2007), Budd (2005), Gerber (1988) and Camfield (2005) have all analyzed Mark Twain’s humor to reveal nuances and to help further the understanding of what makes Twain’s writing humorous. However, there is a distinct gap in the research so far conducted investigating Twain’s humor in relation to young readers, which this paper will begin to address. Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2007) poses a relevant subject for this research as Twain explicitly (in the preface to the novel) professes to write both for children and adults simultaneously. Writing in such a way can be categorized as either “double address” or “dual address”, understanding these terms according to the definitions of Barbara Wall (1991). In this paper I will argue that Mark Twain manages to create “dual address” in Tom Sawyer by using what Greg Camfield (2005) calls “amiable humor” and constructing scenes out of childhood in order to produce delight and nostalgia. By reading closely excerpts of the book and analyzing Twain’s specific use of humor through three prominent theories—superiority theory, relief theory and incongruity— it becomes possible to identify what the implied reader is meant to find humorous, and therefore if Twain manages to establish a “dual address”. An understanding of Twain’s humor from the perspective of both young and adult reader furthers our understanding of the novel by revealing Twain’s implementation of complex “dual address” narration and its implications.

Dans cette thèse nous nous intéressons à l'accélération des accès mémoire dans la traduction binaire dynamique.Pour cela, nous nous basons sur des méthodes dont la principale finalité est de gérer l'espace mémoire de la cible avec le matériel de l'hôte.Deux grandes méthodes pour cela ont été exploré, l'une basé sur la support matériel à la virtualisation, et l'autre sur un module Linux.Dans le cas du support matériel à la virtualisation, nous avons utilisé le simulateur comme un invité spécifique.Celui ci jouant un rôle analogue à celui d'un OS, en plus de son rôle de simulateur, pour la cible.En particulier il se charge de lui créer un espace d'adressage enchevêtré, qui puisse être utiliser directement, sans simulation logicielle de la gestion de la mémoire virtuelle.Dans le cas de la méthode basée sur un module Linux, les mêmes finalités sont poursuivi.Mais le simulateur continue de fonctionner comme un processus normal.En revanche, il possède désormais un module compagnon, avec lequel il peut communiquer au travers d'ioctl.Ce module est chargé de manipuler la gestion de la mémoire virtuelle de l'hôte et ce afin de créer un espace d'adressage enchevêtré pour la cible.Ces méthodes ont été implémenté dans Qemu et Linux et mène à des gains de performances significatifs. / In this thesis we are interested in the acceleration of memory accesses in dynamic binary translation.For this, we base ourselves on methods whose main purpose is to manage the target's address space with the host's hardware.Two main methods for this have been explored, one based on hardware assisted virtualization, and the other on a Linux module.In the case of hardware assisted virtualization, we used the simulator as a specific guest.This one playing a role similar to that of an OS, in addition to its role of simulator, for the target.In particular, it is responsible for creating an enmbedded address space that can be used directly, without software simulation of an MMU.In the case of a method based on a Linux module, the same purpose is pursued.But the simulator continues to operate as a normal process.On the other hand, it now has a companion module, with which it can communicate through ioctl.This module is responsible for manipulating the host's virtual memory management to create an embedded address space for the target.These methods have been implemented in Qemu and Linux and lead to significant performance gains.

[pt] Este trabalho investiga a aquisição dos pronomes tu e você e das formas de tratamento no português como segunda língua e a aquisição da cultura brasileira como segunda cultura. Objetivou-se identificar e caracterizar os fatores gerais (afetivos e sociais) envolvidos no processo de aquisição, caracterizar as estratégias de aprendizagem utilizadas, verificar como os fatores gerais influenciam as estratégias de aprendizagem usadas e analisar como esses fatores influenciam na aquisição da segunda cultura. Foram utilizadas importantes obras que usam o Modelo Sócio- Educacional de aquisição de segunda língua, além de outras que abordam os conceitos de aquisição de segunda cultura. Com os dados da pesquisa, verificou-se que: (i) grande parte dos alunos estrangeiros que vêm estudar no Brasil apresenta uma motivação integrativa; (ii) uma das estratégias de aprendizagem utilizada por esses alunos é a interação com os brasileiros; (iii) a atitude positiva diante da interação com os brasileiros e da exposição à cultura brasileira auxilia a aquisição da língua e da cultura. Por outro lado, a atitude foi o ponto principal do estudo, distanciando-se, um pouco, da teoria abordada. Ainda assim, foi possível constatar que o sucesso da aquisição da Língua Portuguesa vem acompanhado da aquisição da cultura brasileira. A pesquisa e o resultado encontrado podem auxiliar professores e pesquisadores na elaboração de novos materiais didáticos e no aperfeiçoamento de metodologias para o ensino do PL2-E. / [en] This work investigates the acquisition of the pronouns tu and você and other forms of address in Portuguese as a second language, and the acquisition of Brazilians culture as a second culture. It was aimed to identify and characterize general factors (affective and social ones) involved in the acquisition process, to characterize the learning strategies used, to verify the way general factors influence the learning strategies used and to analyse the ways those factors influence on the second culture acquisition. Important masterpieces were used - some that use the socio-educational model of acquisition of a second language, among others that approach the concept of second culture acquisition. With the data provided by this research, it was verified that: (i) a significant part of foreign students who came to Brazil to study presents an integrative motivation; (ii) one of the learning strategies used for foreign students is the interaction with Brazilians; (iii) the positive attitude toward the interaction with Brazilians and the exposition to Brazilian culture helps the language and culture acquisition. On the other hand, the attitude was the major point of this research, just getting a little bit far from the theory used. Even this way, it was possible to notice that the success on Portuguese language acquisition comes together with Brazilian culture acquisition. The research and the results found can help teachers and researches on the elaboration of new pedagogical material and on the improvement of new methodologies for teaching PL2-E.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:53:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 29 / Nenhuma / O objeto de análise desta tese é o sitcom A grande família, da Rede Globo de Televisão (RGT), procurando descrever as estruturas que moldam o programa, identificar os temas tratados e os modelos de comportamento construídos, observando a construção do perfil dos personagens e as propostas de atitudes que são oferecidas aos telespectadores. O estudo de caso, para identificar as propostas de interação do programa e suas lógicas de funcionamento, foi organizado em duas etapas. Na primeira, realizou-se uma observação descritiva das regularidades do programa para captar sua estrutura geral, nos aspectos formais: vinhetas, títulos dos episódios, cenários, figurinos e as temáticas abordadas. Foram observados para isso um total de 106 episódios. Para a segunda fase foram selecionados dez episódios, a partir dos perfis dos personagens e das seqüências e temáticas abordadas. Essa segunda etapa possibilitou identificar um conjunto de estereótipos relacionados às diferentes interações sociais no âmbito familiar/privado / The object of the analysis of this paper is the sitcom A grande família, from Globo Network Television, RGT, seeking to describe the structures that cast the program, identifying the themes presented and the behaviour models built, observing the contruction of the character’s profile and the attitude proposals that are offered to the televiewers. The case study, to identify the proposal of the program interaction and it’s logics of working was organized in two parts. In the first, we made a descriptive observation of the regularity of the program to capture its general structure, in the formal aspects: vignettes, episodes’ tittles, sceneries, patterns and the thematics approached; to do so, it was observed 106 episodes. For the second part ten episodes were selected analyzing the profiles of the characters and the sequences and the thematic approached. This second part made it possible to identify a group of stereotypes related to the different social interactions from the family/private scope that, treated i

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:21:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos Antonio Duarte Silva.pdf: 776115 bytes, checksum: de147c5d04b9bba1461eae9c313ed8cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-24 / Foucault is there times has attracted attention from scholars on his ingenious way of seeing the world, after describing his travels, studies and researches his thoughts in several areas of human knowledge. Underscoring its contribution on how it has developed the condition, since it also on the Law, Philosophy, and a refined analysis of society and its problems over the centuries / Foucault há tempos tem despertado atenção dos estudiosos por sua forma engenhosa de enxergar o mundo, descrevendo após suas viagens, estudos e pesquisas seu pensamento em várias áreas do conhecimento humano. Merecendo destaque sua contribuição sobre a forma como se desenvolveu o Estado, tratando também sobre o Direito, Filosofia e uma análise apurada da sociedade e seus problemas ao longo dos séculos. Em sua forma peculiar de enxergar o tempo, o mundo, os povos e os relacionamentos interpessoais, expunha com máxima clareza em suas aulas, conferências, de maneira única possibilidades para pacificação dos conflitos existentes nestes vários seguimentos. A proposta dessa pesquisa é demonstrar através do pensamento de Michel Foucault, sua visão sobre o poder de disciplina na sociedade e como isso tem sido usado pelo Estado como uma ferramenta de controle

Cet écrit traverse l'encre de la peinture par la sienne propre. Elle a ce corps en partage, à la fois fraternel et inconciliable. L'encre de l'écrit a voulu ici se frayer un chemin de liquidité dans la peinture, donnant à son mouvement l'ébranlement de la couleur, qui est un geste de la matière elle-même. Mon geste, lui, bu par le papier et retiré dans des plis de vagues, opère un glissement jusqu'au blanc d'une page sur la table qui se déploie jusqu'à cet objet singulier qu'est la thèse en arts. De fait, comme la peinture accompagne dans son sillage d'ombres le questionnement d'un regard, son itinéraire sans tracé, l'écrit depuis la peinture, se retourne sur son propre objet — d'une encre à l'autre. La construction d'une parole en prise avec une errance d'atelier est délicate. Elle mêle son corps résonant d'images à celui des mots des poètes, travaillant un langage inconnu au creux de l'impasse même que constituent les mots, la prise de parole. La voix du peintre est la seule que je connaisse. Elle est issue de l'abandon et du dessaisissement à l’œuvre. Elle engage la pensée dans le faire, au milieu d'une déposition qui est celle, multiple, d'un corps d'encre, d'une peinture en éclat, d'un geste et sa dépose, d'une voix et de ses fragments. La déposition appelle le sol. C'est bien de ce sol dont il est question tout au long de cet écrit. Un fondement, comme fondation mais aussi comme ce qui fond sous les pas. Liquide, fluide, mouvante. Une déprise qui est aussi un ancrage, une attache qui est aussi un débord. / This writing goes through the ink of painting through its own. It has this body to share, both fraternal and irreconcilable. Here the ink of writing sought to pave a liquid way in painting, giving to its movement the trembling of color, which is a gesture of matter itself. As for my gesture, drunk by the paper and withdrawn in folds of waves, operates a drift to the white of a page on the table, that unfolds to this singular object that is the thesis in fine arts. In fact, as painting accompanies in its shadowy wake the questioning of a gaze, its course without outline, writing from painting, turns on its own object - from one ink to another. The construction of a discourse in touch with the wandering of the studio is delicate. It merges its body resonant with images with that of words from poets, working an unknown language in the very core of the impasse that constitutes words, access to speech. The painter's voice is the only one I know. It is the result of the abandonment and divestment at work. It engages thought in making, in the midst of a deposition which is, multiple, that of a body of ink, of a radiant painting, of a gesture and its removal, of a voice and its fragments. Deposition calls for the ground. It is that very ground that is being discussed throughout this writing. A grounding, as foundation but also as what melts under the steps. Liquid, fluid, moving. A release that is also an anchor, a tie that is also an overflow.

<p>Denna uppsats undersöker varför vissa blogginlägg får många kommentarer jämfört med mindre kommenterade blogginlägg. Utgångspunkten är att undersöka en dagboksblogg skriven av en tonårig kvinna, då det finns förhållandevis lite forskning inom detta specifika område. Materialet som ligger till grund för undersökningen är en blogg som heter Kenza och de tre mest respektive minst kommenterade inläggen från denna blogg under perioder från 1 januari till 28 februari 2009.</p><p>William Labovs teori om narrativer och Wolfgang Isers reception theory utgör uppsatsens teorier. Metoderna som används är läsbarhetsindex, nominalkvot, narrativ analys och interpersonell analys.</p><p>Resultaten som framkommit ur analyserna visar att i jämförelse mellan de minst och de mest kommenterade blogginläggen har de mest kommenterade få långa ord och en utpräglad verbal stil. Blogginlägg med en tydlig narrativ struktur och ett direkt tilltal fick också fler kommentarer. </p> / <p>This essay examines why certain posts on weblogs get more comments compared to less commented posts. The purpose is to examine an online journal weblog that is written by a teenage girl, since there exists little research within this field. The material is taken from a weblog called Kenza and I examined the three most commented and the three least commented posts during January and February 2009.</p><p>The theoretical background for this essay is William Labov’s theory on narrative and Wolfgang Iser’s reception theory. The methods used are readability analyses, narrative analysis and interpersonal metafunction.</p><p>From the results it can be concluded that in comparison with the least commented posts the most commented posts have fewer long words and a distinct verbal style. Weblog posts with an evident narrative structure and direct address towards the reader also got more comments.</p>

Denna uppsats undersöker varför vissa blogginlägg får många kommentarer jämfört med mindre kommenterade blogginlägg. Utgångspunkten är att undersöka en dagboksblogg skriven av en tonårig kvinna, då det finns förhållandevis lite forskning inom detta specifika område. Materialet som ligger till grund för undersökningen är en blogg som heter Kenza och de tre mest respektive minst kommenterade inläggen från denna blogg under perioder från 1 januari till 28 februari 2009. William Labovs teori om narrativer och Wolfgang Isers reception theory utgör uppsatsens teorier. Metoderna som används är läsbarhetsindex, nominalkvot, narrativ analys och interpersonell analys. Resultaten som framkommit ur analyserna visar att i jämförelse mellan de minst och de mest kommenterade blogginläggen har de mest kommenterade få långa ord och en utpräglad verbal stil. Blogginlägg med en tydlig narrativ struktur och ett direkt tilltal fick också fler kommentarer. / This essay examines why certain posts on weblogs get more comments compared to less commented posts. The purpose is to examine an online journal weblog that is written by a teenage girl, since there exists little research within this field. The material is taken from a weblog called Kenza and I examined the three most commented and the three least commented posts during January and February 2009. The theoretical background for this essay is William Labov’s theory on narrative and Wolfgang Iser’s reception theory. The methods used are readability analyses, narrative analysis and interpersonal metafunction. From the results it can be concluded that in comparison with the least commented posts the most commented posts have fewer long words and a distinct verbal style. Weblog posts with an evident narrative structure and direct address towards the reader also got more comments.

This thesis explores memory performance for smartphone workloads. We design a Video Conference Workload (VCW) to model typical smartphone usage. We describe a trace-based methodology which uses a software implementation to mimic the behaviour of specialised hardware accelerators. Our methodology stores dataflow information from the original application to maintain the relationships between requests. We first study seven address mapping schemes with our VCW, using a first-ready, first-come-first-served (FR-FCFS) memory scheduler. Our results show the best performing scheme is up to 82% faster than the worst. The VCW is memory intensive, with up to 86.8% bandwidth utilisation using the best performing scheme. We also test a Web Browsing and a set of computer vision workloads. Most are not memory intensive, with utilisation under 15%. Finally, we compare four schedulers and find that the FR-FCFS scheduler using the Write Drain mode [8] performed the best, outperforming the worst scheduler by 6.3%.

With the enhancement of the Radio signal communication systems, Wi-Fi technology become a &ldquo / de facto&rdquo / standard used in Campus areas such as hospitals and universities. Besides being used as a data communication method, Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is also used as a location tracking method. There are lots of studies enhancing the RSSI based location tracking. In this thesis we tried to generate a test environment as close to a real Wi-Fi network scenario as possible. Our aim is to implement a simple moving client among different wireless local area networks, which is tracked across the internet by a stationary client. We also assumed that there is a Network Address Translation (NAT) at both LAN internet edges.