Some early Middle English dialect features in the South-East Midlands: an onomastic study

Uniformitarian principles suggest that the spoken English of 1100-1300 would have displayed regional variation. The written reflections of spoken regional diversity evident in Late Middle English (1300-1500) support this assumption, but the paucity of literary texts from the earlier period has made it difficult to test. This thesis uses the more plentiful placename evidence to show the extent of areal linguistic variation in the written English of this period in six East Midland counties: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire with Ely, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Middlesex.Chapter one introduces the period, geographic area and the aims of the project. It also gives an overview of the previous research into early Middle English. Chapter two reviews the use of onomastic data in Middle English dialectology. It discusses important contributions by Wyld, Ekwall, Bohman, Sundby, Kristensson and Ek and addresses some issues of methodology and ideology that arise from the study of place names for dialectal research.Chapter three discusses the tools and research methods used in this analysis. The data from five English Place-Name Society volumes, covering six counties was scanned, parsed and entered into a database. Bespoke software allowed complex searches by spelling, date and source, returning data sets in tabular or map form.Chapter four presents the data with analysis and discussion. Four variables were examined in fifty-year sub-periods: OE /a:/ data, OE /y/, OE /te:/ and voicing of initial fricatives [fj and [s]. Selected lexical items were investigated in name-initial and name non-initial position. The corresponding spellings are tabulated by county, and mapped to show geographic and temporal variation. Individual items are discussed in detail, with reference to source types in which they are recorded, and general patterns of variation are identified. Chapter five summarises the results, points out some limitations and offers suggestions for further development.There are six appendices. Appendix A: List of data identifiers (IDs) that allow crossreferencing the data in the tables, appendices and on maps. Appendix B: OE la-.l data. Appendix C: OE /y/ data. Appendix D: OE /æ:/ data. Appendix E: Voicing of initial fricatives [f] and [s] data. Appendix F: Geographical arrangement of data.The unrivalled level of detail achieved in this onomastic study, displayed on forty distribution maps, allows us to capture changes in progress, to identify archaic language strata in which pre-change forms are preserved, and to demonstrate the existence of new, post-change, layers of language in early Middle English. The data demonstrates greater variation in the selected variables than had been previously known.This work shows the value of onomastics as a source of data on early Middle English, supplementary to the documentary and literary evidence collected in projects such as the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English

Driveway Moments: Developing Syllabi According to Kenneth Burke

Have you ever remained parked in your car in order to hear the end of a song or a news story? This is called a driveway moment (Pine, 2007). Kenneth Burke refers to this fulfilling of our desires, the desire for the conclusion, as an “appetite” that humans have for form (Burke, 1931). Songs have form, movies have form, literature has form. As teachers of the Basic Communication Course, we should recognize this appetite for form and incorporate form into our syllabi. Form in the way Kenneth Burke describes—form that has one part leading to the anticipation of another part—is applied via Burke’s pentad to the Basic Communication Course syllabus in this essay. The idea is that students ought to be gratified by the sequence of the syllabus as well as informed by the matter of the syllabus, thus inducing driveway moments for students of the Basic Communication Course

They’re Monstrous! Teaching Flashed Face Distortion To Improve Speaking Apprehension

Researchers have long established that people who believe they are attractive have higher self-esteem (Aronson & Linder, 1965).  Recent studies show that students with higher self-esteem have less speaking apprehension (Elfering & Grebner, 2012).  Teachers in higher education can help students rethink their attractiveness in an attempt to help boost their self-esteem through an in-class activity that demonstrates Flashed Face Distortion Effect. This improved self-appraisal can reduce speaking apprehension in any class that includes a public presentation element. This interpretive qualitative research presents a novel single-class activity that can be useful in any course that includes a public presentation element.  The objective of the activity is to lower student speaking apprehension when they publically present

Building infrastructures for Web-based collaboration in humanities research networks

This paper will look at the digital services initiatives being implemented by the ARC Research Network for Early European Research (NEER) - particularly at its use of the enterprise wiki software Confluence for collaborative activities. We will report on how NEER participants are using Confluence and on our expectations for its future growth and development. We will also look at the role of Confluence within the Research Network and its contribution to furthering the Network's goals

Intercellular Interactions in PC12 Cells Overexpressing Beta/A4 Amyloid

The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is an integral membrane component of eukaryotic cells. A variety of research approaches have addressed the contribution of the β amyloid peptide region of the APP to neuritic plaque structure and formation in the Alzheimer disease brain as well as the relationship between β amyloid accumulation and the occurrence of dementia. However, there is limited information available concerning the cellular consequences of amyloid deposition. The present studies were undertaken to investigate the relationship between β amyloid and intercellular junctions. Transfected PC12 cell lines, that overexpress the β amyloid peptide, exhibit structural and functional alterations at the cell surface and tend to form aggregates more readily than normal control cells. Intermediate junctions were the most common intercellular interactions of both normal and transfected cells. However, the control and transfected cells differed since areas of continuous and extensive junctions were readily seen in transfected cells and infrequently seen in control cells. The data suggest that excess accumulation of β amyloid is associated with the junctional apparatus and may be related to increased intercellular adhesion

Transformative learning in educational tourism

Transformative learning is important not only for the learner, but so too the teacher-as-learner. Educational tourism - here defined as tourist experiences that explicitly aim to provide structured learning, in situthough active and engaged intellectual praxis - provides an opportunity for university teachers to engage with lifelong learners beyond the Academy. Both the medium (educational tourism) and the participants (lifelong learners) can generate transformative experiences for the teacher which may in turn inform and improve his or her classroom teaching. This paper outlines the results of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council study into how humanities scholars use educational tourism to engage with lifelong learners. The study found that educational tourism is characterised by intentional and structured learning experiences that provide opportunities for the teacher to immerse him or herself in experiences that have the potential to challenge previously held beliefs and biases. Furthermore, the typical educational tourist is a well-educated, critical lifelong learner and as such, challenges the teacher in ways which may not occur in the classroom

The Contributions of the Narrative Paradigm to Examining Prophetic Rhetoric

Religious leaders, politicians, and entrepreneurs frequently issue declarations about societal change and advancements, pronouncements that are in turn routinely deemed prophetic by the media and by members of the audience who hear those declarations. And yet, upon closer scrutiny, those comments may not actually be prophetic . The current project was born of an attempt to understand prophetic rhetoric and to examine specifically the example of Mother Teresa\u27s rhetoric. This project asks the research question: What structures are in place for examining rhetoric for prophetic qualities? The characteristic of speaking God\u27s word is essential to some scholars\u27 understanding of the nature of prophetic rhetoric, thus making the identification of prophetic rhetoric critical. The communication and religious communication literature is wide on the subject of prophetic rhetoric and includes a variety of methods for examination. This research builds on the extant methods of identification by using narrative as a method for examining rhetoric for prophetic qualities. The narrative paradigm augments the narrative method by illuminating additional prophetic qualities of a rhetor\u27s narrative, specifically the call to social action. This work contributes to a greater understanding of religious discourse by various publics and assists in developing religious common ground. This common ground allows publics to understand the value of prophetic discourse. This understanding in turn assists the progress of civil discourse in a postmodern society. Chapter one provides an historical context for the study of prophetic rhetoric. Chapter two provides a comprehensive review of the literature about prophetic rhetoric in communication studies. Chapter three discusses the narrative paradigm as a way of informing investigations of rhetoric, specifically searching for a call to social action. Chapter four examines the rhetorical case of the narrative of Mother Teresa. And chapter five connects civility and social action to the investigation of prophetic rhetoric

Qualities of teacher leadership in the face of technological change

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Independent woman, victim of a war, happy believer or humiliated slave? A picture of muslim women in chosen reportages

W naszych zachodnich umysłach, muzułmanka często jest postrzegana jako biedna i poniżana niewolnica swojego męża. Jak się okazuje, życie tych kobiet jest znacznie bardziej złożone. Jest wiele przykładów muzułmanek, które są szczęśliwe dzięki swojej wierze, nawet jeżeli nie jesteśmy w stanie tego pojąć. Są w stanie osiągnąć niesamowite rzeczy, ale niestety media newsowe rzadko nas o tym informują. Skupiają się raczej na złych rzeczach związanych z islamem – terroryzmem, morderstwami lub gwałtami. Na szczęście mamy jeszcze reportaże.Moja praca podzielona jest na sześć rozdziałów. Pierwszy skupia się na dylematach, z którymi mierzy się każdy dziennikarz, piszący z obcego kraju. W drugim rozdziale pokazuje, jak muzułmanki przedstawiane są w mediach newsowych. Pozostałe cztery rozdziały pokazują, jak muzułmanki przedstawiane są w reportażach. Przeanalizowałam ich obraz w czterech kategoriach: poniżanej niewolnicy, szczęśliwej wyznawczyni, silnej, niezależnej kobiety i matek, i żon wojny. Udowadniam, że życie muzułmanek jest znacznie bardziej zróżnicowane, niż pokazują nam to media.In our western minds, muslim woman is often pictured as a poor, humiliated person, who is a slave to her husband. As it turns out, lives of those women are far more complex. There are many examples of women, who are happy because of their faith, even if we can’t comprehend that. They are able to achieve amazing things but unfortunately – news media rarely shows us those achievements. They are focused at bad things connected with Islam – terrorism, murders or rapes. Fortunately, we have reportages.My thesis is divided to six chapters. First one is focused on dilemmas, that every journalist writing from a foreign country faces. In second chapter I’m showing how muslim women are presented in news media. Next four chapters are showing, how muslim women are presented in reportages. I’ve analyzed their image in four categories: humiliated slaves, happy believers, strong, independent women and mothers and wives of wars. I’m proving, that life of muslim women is much more diversified, than our media shows us

Identity parade

Niniejsza praca magisterska poświęcona została przedstawieniu czynności okazania zarówno w aspekcie karnoprocesowym, jak i kryminalistycznym. Punktem wyjścia wszelkich rozważań uczyniłam zagadnienie istoty okazania i określenie pojęcia tej czynności. Następnie przedstawiłam przedmiot, cele oraz funkcje okazania. Moim zamiarem było także scharakteryzowanie rodzajów omawianej czynności.Swoje główne wywody w pracy skupiłam natomiast na przedstawieniu zasad przeprowadzania okazania, a także na przebiegu samego okazania osoby. Zajęłam się również omówieniem kwestii przygotowania i sposobem udokumentowana tej czynności.Przepisy regulujące poruszaną tematykę to materia wywołująca wiele rozbieżności w doktrynie, dlatego też swoje przemyślenia ukierunkowałam na analizę przepisów kodeksu postępowania karnego, a także wydanych na jego podstawie aktów wykonawczych, tj. odpowiednich rozporządzeń i zarządzeń. W swojej pracy umieściłam również rozdział empiryczny dotyczący analizy akt sądowych w wybranych sprawach o rozbój. Zaprezentowałam w nim przebieg okazania osoby z praktycznego punktu widzenia. Poczynione przeze mnie badania pozwalają na pewne wyobrażenie, w jakim stopniu teoretyczne rozważania na temat okazania mają przełożenie na rzeczywistość i jak organy powołane do przeprowadzania okazania wywiązują się w praktyce z tych założeń. Z uwagi na powyższe w swojej pracy poruszyłam także materialno-prawną problematykę przestępstwa rozboju, jak również zaprezentowałam określone informacje o jednej z dzielnic Krakowa, którą wybrałam sobie za miejsce przeprowadzonych badań.This MA thesis is devoted to the presentation of identity parade both in terms of the criminal process, as well as forensics. The starting point for my analysis is the essence of identity parade and definition of the concept of this activity. Subsequently, I introduced the subject, objectives and functions of identity parade. My intention was also to characterise the types of the act in question.My main arguments in this thesis were focused on the presentation of the principles of conducting identity parade, as well as the course of identity parade itself. I took up the discussion regarding the preparation and method of documenting identity parade.The provisions governing the subjects hereof cause a lot of differences in doctrine, therefore, I focused my thoughts on the analysis of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and implementing acts, such as the relevant regulations and orders issued on the basis of these regulations.My work also includes empirical section on analysis of court records in selected cases of robbery. In that section I presented the course of identity line from a practical point of view. The research I conducted allows for same to imagine the extent to which theoretical considerations on identity parade are consistent with reality and how the authorities established to carry out the identity parade apply these principles in reality.In view of the above in these MA thesis I brought up the issue of substantive legal issue of robbery, as well as specific information about one of the districts of Krakow, which I chose as the place of my investigations