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This study analyzes Norman Vincent Peale's bestsellers, A Guide to Confident Living and The Power of Positive Thinking, through the lenses of metaphoric criticism and invitational rhetoric. Invitational rhetoric includes characteristics such as openness, equality, mutual respect and reciprocal understanding. Metaphoric analysis includes the dominant categories of metaphors, their roles and transition across topics. The dominant tenors of mind and thought were identified, which shows consistency with Peale's main themes such as positive thinking, peace and faith. The meaning of the archetypal metaphors of light, water and sun are also discussed, along with the role of other metaphors in supporting invitational rhetoric. / Master of Arts

Includes Publication list by the author as appendix A. "July 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-324) A stratigraphically detailed taxonomic study of fossil bryozoans within the Late Eocene sediments of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia. These taxa are compared with existing knowledge of fossil and recent faunas in Australia and other regions to enhance understanding of bryozoan evolution and dispersal. Bryozoan taxa and growth forms are used to interpret the palaeoenvironments of the Eocene Vincent Basin.

Includes Publication list by the author as appendix A. / "July 2003." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-324) / xi, 324, [36] leaves, 61 leaves of plates : ill (some col.), maps ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / A stratigraphically detailed taxonomic study of fossil bryozoans within the Late Eocene sediments of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia. These taxa are compared with existing knowledge of fossil and recent faunas in Australia and other regions to enhance understanding of bryozoan evolution and dispersal. Bryozoan taxa and growth forms are used to interpret the palaeoenvironments of the Eocene Vincent Basin. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Discipline of Geology and Geophysics, 2003?

Copies of author's previously published articles inserted. / Bibliography : leaves 201-217. / ix, 216 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Concentrates on the settlement and nursery stages of the life history of Panaeus latisulcatus over a seven year history. Key nursery areas within the Gulf of St. Vincent were monitored between October 1989 and June 1996. It was determined that the best sampling technique was the use of a fully enclosed jet net. A mean index of abundance calculated from these trawls was used to estimate the relative abundance in the area sampled. No particular trend in post larval settlement patterns and juvenile abundance was obvious. A longer time frame may be required to observe significant changes in this species. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Environmental Biology, 1999

Copies of author's previously published articles inserted. / Bibliography : leaves 201-217. / ix, 216 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Concentrates on the settlement and nursery stages of the life history of Panaeus latisulcatus over a seven year history. Key nursery areas within the Gulf of St. Vincent were monitored between October 1989 and June 1996. It was determined that the best sampling technique was the use of a fully enclosed jet net. A mean index of abundance calculated from these trawls was used to estimate the relative abundance in the area sampled. No particular trend in post larval settlement patterns and juvenile abundance was obvious. A longer time frame may be required to observe significant changes in this species. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Environmental Biology, 1999

Title page, table of contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / The middle eocene to early oligocene Bowmans and Lochiel coal deposits of the northern St. Vincent Basin, South Australia have been studied to elucidate their depositional environments. These coals occur within predominantly fluvio-lacustrine transgressive system tract sequences that formed during the initial phase of basin infill. The aforementioned facies are unevenly distributed and their stratigraphic succession highlights evolutionary changes in local palaeoenvironments. Within individual seams the transition from subaquatic to topogenous forest swamps and ultimately ombrogenous conditions is most common. However, over the coal sequence as a whole, conditions evolved from exclusively terrestrial through mixed terrestrial and subaquatic to open water. Also detected were multiple rapid reversals of the water table, especially higher in the sequence, and cyclic patterns reflecting a brief basal subaquatic phase prior to the onset of sustained terrestrial conditions. These patterns suggest a fluctuating, although progressively rising, water table and a balance between accommodation and accumulation. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1280880 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2007

Title page, table of contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / The middle eocene to early oligocene Bowmans and Lochiel coal deposits of the northern St. Vincent Basin, South Australia have been studied to elucidate their depositional environments. These coals occur within predominantly fluvio-lacustrine transgressive system tract sequences that formed during the initial phase of basin infill. The aforementioned facies are unevenly distributed and their stratigraphic succession highlights evolutionary changes in local palaeoenvironments. Within individual seams the transition from subaquatic to topogenous forest swamps and ultimately ombrogenous conditions is most common. However, over the coal sequence as a whole, conditions evolved from exclusively terrestrial through mixed terrestrial and subaquatic to open water. Also detected were multiple rapid reversals of the water table, especially higher in the sequence, and cyclic patterns reflecting a brief basal subaquatic phase prior to the onset of sustained terrestrial conditions. These patterns suggest a fluctuating, although progressively rising, water table and a balance between accommodation and accumulation. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1280880 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2007

Thèse (Ph.D.)--Université Laval, 2001. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

Cette étude porte sur le discours en paraboles mis en récit au chapitre 13 de l’évangile selon Matthieu. Elle interroge la manière dont ce corpus défend un certain nombre de valeurs auprès des lecteurs. Dans un premier temps, la recherche établit les principaux axes d’interprétation de Mt 13 : sources rédactionnelles, structure, auditoires et fonction des paraboles. Cet état de la question invite à lire Mt 13 selon la relation dynamique qu’il nourrit avec le lecteur. Une exégèse synchronique, puis diachronique, propose dans un deuxième temps de préciser la question des valeurs, de la poser à partir du langage parabolique et de son sujet-Royaume des cieux. Dans un troisième temps, la méthode d’analyse développée par Vincent Jouve (Université de Reims) est appliquée à Mt 13 : issue de la sémiotique narrative, elle vise àdéterminer l’effet-valeur d’un texte, c’est-à-dire son système idéologique. L’étude met ici en évidence une valorisation du désir porté par le paraboliste, une vérité du texte située au plan existentiel. Une relecture du discours en termes d’effets est alors proposée et mesure l’effet parabole en texte puis hors texte. Délogé de son système idéologique habituel, le lecteur de Mt 13 est en effet conduit dans sa lecture à s’exposer aux paraboles qui, par l’imaginaire déployé, deviennent de véritables conductrices de réel. Les résonances, issues de l’interaction entre texte et lecteur, éveillent à une expérience parabolique dont le langage ne peut pas totalement rendre compte mais dont le récit garde les traces. L’espace susceptible d’être creusé par ce discours au cours de son appropriation par le lecteur peut ainsi devenir terre d’accueil pour "la parole du Royaume". / This study deals with parables’ discourse related in chapter 13 of Matthew’s Gospel. It questiones the way this corpus presents some values to the readers. In the first part, the research establishes the main interpretation’s axes of Mt 13 : redaction and sources, structure, attendances and parables’ fonction. This state of the art proposes to read Mt 13 following a dynamic relation with the reader. In the second part, a synchronic exegesis, then a diachronic exegesis are proposed and both specify the question of values based on the parabolic language and his theme, the Kingdom of heaven. In the third part, Vincent Jouve’s method of analysis (University of Reims) is applied to Matthew 13 : on the basis of narrative semiotic, it aims to determine the value-effect of a text, i.e. its ideologic system. At this stage, the study highlightes the desire’s valorization expressed by the parabolist, i.e. a truth of existential nature led by the story. A re-reading of the discourse in terms of effects is then proposed and measures the parable effect in text and out of text. Excluded from his usual ideologic system, the reader of Matthew 13 must indeed be confronted to parables : these promote the imaginery and make discover the real. Touched by the text, the reader can live a parabolic experience. This experience cannot be totally included by the langage but it leaves clues in the story. During the appropriation work of the reader, a meeting with the text can happen and "the word of Kingdom" can be received.