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2011-01-28
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2011: Word of mouth [WOM] influences the profits of companies whose products are being talked about. This project examines how conversation and content uniquely impact important outcomes for consumers and firms, by introducing a new concept to marketing from psychology:...
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2012-10-15
SSHRC IG awarded 2012: The research project I propose will lead to a book on the intellectual and cultural history of dictionaries in sixteenth-century England. The primary texts it will discuss are dictionaries and wordlists produced or circulated in England, both printed and manuscript. These...
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Fall 2012
Del Carpio Ovando, Karla Berenice
Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, this research investigated the situation of the Tsotsil language spoken in Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico, by focusing on the implementation of a Spanish-Tsotsil bilingual elementary school. It was possible to discover that the Tsotsil language is still alive...
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Spring 2012
This thesis examines the learning of Manx Gaelic by adults in non-formal settings on the Isle of Man. Using a participant observation method of ethnographic research conducted in 2010, 19 interviews were conducted with learners, 5 with instructors and several classes and conversation groups were...
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Fall 2012
Skilled worker immigrants, who are professionals that migrate to Canada for employment purposes, account for a significant proportion of newcomers to Canada each year. Upon arriving in Canada, they quickly learn that the education and experiences obtained in their countries of origin are of...
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2013
Introduction: Adorno’s words could be read alongside Klare’s critical focus on the political and moral dimensions of adjudicative law-making generally, and South African constitutional adjudication in particular. Klare (1998:150) asks: “Can we describe a method of adjudication that is politically...
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Are Chinese Immigrants Evaluated as More Competent than Warm? (In)congruence between Stereotypes and Speech Evaluations
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This study concerns the stereotypes of Chinese immigrants, perception of Mandarin-accented speakers, and the relationship between them. Whereas the study of accented speech has focused on attributes related to status and solidarity, recent research on stereotypes has centered on the two...
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Fall 2013
This dissertation examines four Indigenous novels published in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 2000. Building upon Indigenous and non-Indigenous theories of literary nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization, this project focuses on narrative articulations of Indigenous...
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2014-08-11
Clover, Jennifer, Pollock, Karen, Goerz, Naomi
This study investigates the language, academic and social skills of 36 school-aged children and adolescents who were adopted from China as infants and toddlers. All participants were part of previous studies by Pollock (2005), Pollock &Yan (2009) and Pollock, Fleming & Gerke (2011). Standardized...
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Using Social Media for Health Information: How New Technologies are Being Used in HIV/AIDS Communication
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Social networking sites, mobile technologies and other information and communications technologies have become popular ways of connecting. The health information field is no exception; however, what are best practices and strategies to effectively use the affordances of these tools, and currently...