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• Pedagogical artifacts in teacher-initiated response pursuits: a conversation analytic study of interaction in the French foreign language classroom 

  Chazal, Kirby C (2015-08-28)

  Using Conversation Analysis (CA), this dissertation explores teachers' use of two pedagogical artifacts, specifically chalkboards and PowerPoint slides, in French foreign language classrooms. Based on a corpus of 29 hours ...

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• Mobile limits and the limits of mobility in French representations of urban space 

  Hunt, Brian Bartlett (2015-12-01)

  This dissertation proposes a new approach to conceptualizing the French city through a series of readings on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, cinema and theory. This project uncovers liminal protagonists in ...

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• The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers 

  Namjoshi, Jui (2015-11-17)

  The present research examines whether adults who learn a second language (L2) mainly in a classroom setting can develop linguistic representations that are qualitatively similar to those of native speakers for linguistic ...

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• Voilà, an orientation shift marker in modern French discourse: a conversation analytic perspective 

  Haileselassie, Azeb (2015-07-08)

  Using Conversation analysis as a methodology, this study investigates the use and functions of the discourse marker voilà in French interaction. As my literature review will show (chapter 2), prior studies on voilà focused ...

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• Defining postmodern masculinities: a symptomatic approach to understanding French masculinities 

  Maroun, Daniel Nabil (2015-07-14)

  This dissertation examines how the postmodern climate of the late eighties to nineties affords masculinity a new space to confront social and gender hierarchies while questioning dominant narratives and moving them to the ...

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