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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: From Ms. Grundy to Peter Parker, comics and teachers are curious bedfellows. This interdisciplinary study examines the history of the teacher in North American comics, and involves a praxis-oriented approach to researching with this hybrid form, studying the relationship...
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Fall 2023
This thesis introduces a new approach for grounding concepts to vision using visual descriptions, which are text-based descriptions of visual attributes. We hypothesize that these descriptions can enhance the grounding of concepts to vision, thereby improving performance in vision-language tasks....
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Spring 2020
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of the body as a critical part of linguistic meaning-making, taking a cognitive and usage-based approach to language. These approaches prioritize the investigation of the linguistic conventions of everyday interactive contexts, namely, of spontaneous...