Comparison of the vocabularies of the Gregg shorthand dictionary and Horn-Peterson's basic vocabulary of business letters

This study is a comparative analysis of the vocabularies of Horn and Peterson's The Basic Vocabulary of Business Letters1 and the Gregg Shorthand Dictionary.2 Both books purport to present a list of words most frequently encountered by stenographers and students of shorthand. The, Basic Vocabulary of Business Letters, published "in answer to repeated requests for data on the words appearing most frequently in business letters,"3 is a frequency list specific to business writing. Although the book carries the copyright date of 1943, the vocabulary was compiled much earlier. The listings constitute a part of the data used in the preparation of the 10,000 words making up the ranked frequency list compiled by Ernest Horn and staff and published in 1926 under the title of A Basic Writing Vocabulary: 10,000 Words Lost Commonly Used in Writing. The introduction to that publication gives credit to Miss Cora Crowder for the contribution of her Master's study at the University of Minnesota concerning words found in business writing. With additional data from supplementary sources, the complete listing represents twenty-six classes of business, as follows 1. Miscellaneous 2. Florists 3. Automobile manufacturers and sales companie

A COMPARISON BETWEEN MOTIVATIONS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS IN RELIGIOUS TOURISTS AND CRUISE SHIP TOURISTS

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the motivations and the personality traits that characterize tourists who choose religious travels versus cruises. Participating in the research were 683 Italian tourists (345 males and 338 females, age range 18–63 years); 483 who went to a pilgrimage travel and 200 who chose a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Both groups of tourists completed the Travel Motivation Scale and the Big Five Questionnaire. Results show that different motivations and personality traits characterize the different types of tourists and, further, that motivations for traveling are predicted by specific —some similar, other divergent— personality trait

Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.

This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer a biography of Carter, provide excerpts from his full body of work, and analyze---using the hate speech tactics identified in "The Rhetoric of a Closed Society" by Waldo W. Braden---the degree to which Carter conforms and deviates from the accepted practices of rhetoricians in the "closed society" in which he operated. By identifying the milieu in which Carter operated, the organizations to which he belonged and for which he wrote pieces, the successes and failures which Carter experienced as a member of that milieu and those organizations, I illustrate the typical strategies and specific tactics deployed by one---sometimes successful and sometimes not---member of the White supremacist discourse community to enact hate speech in opposition to the Civil Rights movement. I illustrate further that this is true even in his later literary work and despite his identification with a pro-minority stance by demonstrating the great consistency between the works he produced during his candidacy for Governor of Alabama in 1969--71 and his first two novels, and by demonstrating his continued engagement in extremist White supremacist organizations during the period in which he wrote those novels. By locating patterns of White Supremacist, hate speech structures, I demonstrate that White supremacist, hate speech utterances manifest in unexpected ways within discourse types that are not generally recognized as being typical of the White supremacist milieu or of hate speech as previously defined