Unearthing is a hybrid of nonfiction genres, and follows a narrator as she attempts to piece together past and present memories and meditations about family history, travel, and the idea of home. Using an orchid as a metaphor for someone who is searching for home, Unearthing attempts to expose in the author what might also be found in the reader, an exploration of what is meant by home. By following a trail of biography, personal narrative, and memoir, the reader is given every opportunity to identify with the narrator's struggle with the idea of rootlessness and rootedness, travel and home. / by Erin Hobbie. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Acompanha CD-ROM / Orientador: Luciane de Paula / Banca: Renata Maria Facuri Coelho Marchezan / Banca: Marco Antônio Villarta Neder / Resumo: O presente trabalho visa compreender como se constituiu a canção brasileira enquanto gênero lítero-musical no início do século XX por meio de conceitos que integram a malha teóricoreflexiva desenvolvida pelo Círculo de Bakhtin. As canções analisadas são partituras para canto e piano e integram a série "Lendas Amazônicas" compostas por Waldemar Henrique. Foram produzidas entre as décadas de 1930 e 1940, momento em que as manifestações artísticas e culturais são fomentadas pela política econômica instaurada pela Era Vargas e servem de propaganda para a consolidação de um discurso nacionalista. Pretendemos, ainda, compreender de que modo os mitos e lendas da literatura oral são incorporados e reelaborados na produção das canções, a partir da relação recíproca estabelecida entre os gêneros primários e secundários. Nossa metodologia de trabalho é de caráter qualitativo e visa (por meio da abordagem dialéticodialógica) descrever, analisar e interpretar as canções. Uma vez que nosso objeto de pesquisa é composto por planos semióticos heterogêneos, nossas análises serão realizadas em dois grandes níveis: o verbal e o musical apenas por caráter metodológico uma vez que compreendemos a canção como um objeto que se situa histórico e socialmente por meio da mescla simultânea de seus dois planos. Bakhtin, em seu conceito de gênero como enunciado relativamente estável, permite-nos trabalhar com as canções de modo mais confortável dada a "instabilidade" de definição deste objeto. Para nós, a relação entre a letra e a música é algo que não se dá de forma estanque havendo a primazia de um ou outro elemento / Abstract: Based on concepts that integrate the theoretical and reflective mesh developed by the Bakhtin Circle, this study aims to understand how Brazilian art song was constituted while literarymusical genre in the early twentieth century through the analysis of the art songs which belong to the cycle "Lendas Amazônicas" composed by Waldemar Henrique. The art songs, for voice and piano, are registered in scores and integrate this set. They were produced between the 1930s and 1940s, when the artistic and cultural events were promoted by economic policy introduced by Vargas and serve as advertisement to the consolidation of a nationalist discourse. This work also aims to understand how the myths and legends of oral literature are incorporated and re-elaborated in the production of the songs from the established reciprocal relationship between the primary and secondary genres. Our work methodology is qualitative in nature and aims (through dialectic-dialogical approach) to describe, analyze and interpret the songs. Since our research object is composed of heterogeneous semiotic plans, our analysis will be performed in two main levels: the verbal and the musical only by methodological character. The song will be understood as an ideological sign that has a dual materiality (at least) - verbal (poem lyrics) and the music (implemented by the musical elements that constitute it: melody, harmony, rhythm, accompaniment etc.) / Mestre

Orientador: José Horta Nunes / Banca: Claudia Maria Xatara / Banca: Suzy Maria Lagazzi Rodrigues / Resumo: Seguindo a teoria e o método da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, propomos analisar discursivamente a produção lexicográfica de Francisco da Silveira Bueno. Este autor publicou diversas obras na área da Literatura e da Lingüística, mas também teve grande destaque público por sua produção lexicográfica. Nosso objetivo é analisar o discurso dos seus dicionários. Como questão específica, temos a noção de autoria, ou seja, a posição do autor Silveira Bueno na história da constituição de um autor brasileiro de dicionários e, também, as maneiras de se posicionar como autor no discurso dos dicionários. Assim, analisamos questões como a posição de Silveira Bueno como autor de dicionários na história da constituição das idéias lingüísticas brasileiras, a apresentação do autor no discurso dos dicionários, a maneira como ela é feita e quais as relações de sentido que são estabelecidas por essa apresentação. Nosso corpus é composto pelos prefácios e por uma amostragem de verbetes das edições de seus dicionários. Dividimos o conjunto de obras em três séries, de acordo com a tipologia e com algumas características discursivas. Na primeira série estão os dicionários escolares, incluindo os de versão mini; na segunda série estão os dicionários gerais de língua publicados por editoras independentes do Estado; já na terceira estão presentes os dicionários etimológicos. Entre outros resultados, observamos que, enquanto na primeira e na segunda série de dicionários o autor é apresentado por meio de uma discursividade relatada, pelas instituições publicadoras, a terceira série traz textos próprios de autoria, em que há uma afirmação dessa autoria por meio dos posicionamentos teóricos adotados por ele. / Abstract: According to the theory and the method of Discourse Analysis, we intend to analyse Francisco da Silveira Bueno's lexicographical production in a discoursive way. The author has published many works in the field of Literature and Linguistics, but is also known for his lexicographical production. Our aim is to analyse the discourse in his dictionaries. As a central research topic, we have the notion of authory, in other words, the author Silveira Bueno's position in history of the constitution of a Brazilian dictionary author and also, the ways to position himself as an author in his dictionaries discourse. Thus, questions such as Silveira Bueno's position as a dictionary author in the history of the constitution of the Brazilian linguistic ideas, the author's presentation in the dictionaries discourse, in what ways this happens and the sense relations which are stablished by this presentation were analysed. Our corpus is composed by the prefaces and a sampling of entries of his dictionaries editions. The set of works was divided into three series, according to the typology and some discursive characteristics. The school dictionaries are in the first series, including the minidictionaries; the general language dictionaries published by independent State publishers are in the second series, and in the third one, the etymological dictionaries. Among other results, we observed that, while in the first and second series of dictionaries the author is presented by a reported discursivity, by the publishing industries, the third series brings his own authory texts in which there is a statement of this authory through the theoretical positionings he adopts. / Mestre

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Rapping has long been used by people who are from the margin of society as a way to give a voice (Campbell, 2005; Ibrahim, 1999). As a member of the marginalized group and as the first and only Asian who claimed a seven-time victory on Freestyle Friday on Black Entertainment Television (BET), Jin Au-Yeung has received a noticeable amount of attention. At the same time, he has faced a lot of unfavourable experience as an Asian rapper in American society. This study employs Fairclough’s (1989) model of CDA approach to find out how Jin constructs his identity and establishes his ideology through his lyrics, and how his construction of identity and establishment of ideology reflect the social practice in American society. Fifteen songs written by Jin were chosen for the analysis according to the three interrelated stages in CDA: description, interpretation and explanation. Results show that Jin constructs his personal identities as a professional rapper and as a Chinese American and establishes his ideology of having one human nation despite the difference in races through his rap lyrics. These are achieved through the co-occurrence of “I” and “to be”, and promoted through the use of rhyming and code-switching. It was also interpreted that Jin’s personal identities and ideology are shaped through the social ideology on Asian Americans, which is probably reflected through the social practice in American society. / published_or_final_version / Applied English Studies / Master / Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics