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L'emploi variable des signes diacritiques dans le français tchaté : une étude variationniste en temps apparent . (open access)

L'emploi variable des signes diacritiques dans le français tchaté : une étude variationniste en temps apparent .

After providing an historical overview of the French spelling system and orthographic variation, this study analyzes selected internal (i.e., linguistic) factors and one external (i.e., social) factor that can influence the use of diacritics in online French-language chat sessions. From a corpus of synchronous computer-mediated communication, 3,855 tokens of graphemes capable of bearing diacritics were coded with the following scheme: Letter, Diacritic, Grapheme (i.e., Letter and Diacritic combined), Date of Participation, and Age Group of Participant. A multivariate (VARBRUL) analysis determined that Grapheme exerts the most influence on variation.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Al-Rashdan, Omar
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Présentations de la Grammaire et Représentations du Discours Dans les Manuels de Français Publiés aux États-Unis: une Étude Diachronique (open access)

Présentations de la Grammaire et Représentations du Discours Dans les Manuels de Français Publiés aux États-Unis: une Étude Diachronique

This study partially replicates and re-explores specific dimensions of a textbook analysis of the presentation and use of specific grammatical elements and sociolinguistic variants in textbooks published in the United States for learners of French. Authenticity is situated as a central construct in the analysis of interrogatives, relative pronouns, and the negative particle ne in selected textbooks and ancillary materials. The findings reveal that little progress has been made over the past twenty years in integrating authentic representations of discourse into French-as-a-foreign-language textbooks.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Grall, Christophe
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
From "y as plus personne qui parle" to "plus personne ne dit rien": The variable use of the negative particle ne in synchronous French chat. (open access)

From "y as plus personne qui parle" to "plus personne ne dit rien": The variable use of the negative particle ne in synchronous French chat.

This study analyzes negative particle variation (i.e., the variable presence or absence of the negative particle ne) in synchronous French chat discourse within a labovian-inspired framework. Selected morphosyntactic, lexical, and phonological constraints are considered. Multivariate analyses performed by GoldVarb 2001 revealed that subject type (i.e., NP, [- overt] subject environment, pronoun) and the phonological environment preceding the position of neregardless of its presence or absenceare determining factors in the variation. In addition, discursive-pragmatic effect was explored in a sub-sample of data. The results indicate that ne is seldom present in verbal negation during explanatory discourse style, yet it is very likely to be retained in ludic, emphatic, and proverbial styles.
Date: May 2007
Creator: van Compernolle, Rémi A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Variable use of ne in Negative Structures: An Apparent-Time Variationist Study of Synchronous Electronic French Discourse (open access)

The Variable use of ne in Negative Structures: An Apparent-Time Variationist Study of Synchronous Electronic French Discourse

This study of the variable use of ne in synchronous electronic French discourse follows the methodological guidelines and the theoretical framework proposed and subsequently elaborated by Labov for analyzing variable features of language. This thesis provides a quantitative variable rule (i.e., VARBRUL) analysis including age as a factor group (i.e., independent variable), thereby making a new contribution to this area of inquiry. The data (50,000 words from the vingtaine 'twentysomething' channel and 50,000 words from the cinquantaine 'fiftysomething' channel) are a subset of 100,000 words from a corpus of one million words collected in 2008 by the thesis director from the public chat server EuropNet. This study aims to answer the following overarching question: To what extent does age-compared to other factors-influence the variable use of ne in verbal negation in synchronous electronic French discourse? In order to answer this question, and possibly others, the VARBRUL analysis will include age, subject (e.g., noun vs. pronoun), type of second negative particle (e.g., pas 'not', jamais 'never', personne 'no one'/'nobody', and so forth), as well as verbal mood/tense.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Gould, Rebecca J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reflections of Revolution: Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Public Opinion in France during the Algerian Conflict (1954-1962) (open access)

Reflections of Revolution: Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Public Opinion in France during the Algerian Conflict (1954-1962)

This thesis is an examination of the printed media in France (1955-1963), as represented by two mainstream newspapers: Le Monde (left-centrist) and Le Figaro (right-centrist). Using these newspapers, as well as Gallup polls recorded at the time, this study explores correlations of what was reported in newspapers and how French public opinion evolved during the course of the war. These two major sources of information are shown to have given contradictory information, thus accounting for some of the paradoxes found in public opinion polls. Specifically, the paradoxes analyzed in the study concern the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) and the Pieds-Noirs (the European population of North Africa).
Date: December 2002
Creator: Atkins, Michael
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learner use of French second-person pronouns in synchronous electronic communication. (open access)

Learner use of French second-person pronouns in synchronous electronic communication.

This study analyzes students' use of the French second-person pronouns tu (T) and vous (V) in small-group (2-3 students) inter-learner online chat sessions. The influence of internal linguistic factors (i.e., turn type and morphosyntactic environment) on learners' appropriate vs. inappropriate use of these pronouns is considered. The study also investigates the influence of Instructional Level on tu-vous use and the extent to which students from different instructional levels provide various types of peer assistance (e.g., lexical, morphosyntactic, and sociolinguistic/pragmatic) . Pronoun use was extremely unstable for learners of all levels, and a Kruskal-Wallis analysis revealed that Instructional Level did not significantly affect appropriate T/V use overall. Instructional Level and Syntax did, however, significantly affect interrogative T/V use, as shown through multivariate analyses. Peer-assisted performance was limited to lexical retrieval. Pedagogical recommendations are presented for teaching and learning second-person pronouns in French.
Date: December 2008
Creator: McCourt, Claire A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2013-10-04 – Bradley J. King, baritone

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master’s of Music degree.
Date: October 4, 2013
Creator: King, Bradley J.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daughters of the King and Founders of a Nation: Les Filles du Roi in New France (open access)

Daughters of the King and Founders of a Nation: Les Filles du Roi in New France

The late seventeenth century was a crucial era in establishing territorial claims on the North American continent. In order to strengthen France's hold on the Quebec colony, Louis XIV sent 770 women across the Atlantic at royal expense in order to populate New France. Since that time, these women known as the filles du roi, have often been reduced to a footnote in history books, or else mistakenly slandered as women of questionable morals. This work seeks to clearly identify the filles du roi through a study of their socioeconomic status, educational background, and various demographic factors, and compare the living conditions they had in France with those that awaited them in Canada. The aim of this undertaking is to better understand these pioneer women and their reasons for leaving France, as well as to identify the lasting contributions they made to French-Canadian culture and society.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Runyan, Aimie Kathleen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mariama Bâ: un féminisme né à l'intersection de deux cultures. (open access)

Mariama Bâ: un féminisme né à l'intersection de deux cultures.

Many critics consider Mariama Bâ as a feminist writer, but the reader of her two novels might wonder what characterizes her work as such. Therefore, the aim of each chapter, in order of appearance, is to analyze first the genres, then the elements of African tradition and Western modernity, the characters of both works and the themes of the novels, with the intention of defining the author's feminism, which takes its source in dichotomies, paradoxes and contradictions. In order to expose the author's point of view on the condition of women, it appears important to situate the diegesis in its context. Also, the study is supported by references on the Senegalese culture, by genres, narrative and feminist theories and by critiques on the work itself.
Date: August 2006
Creator: Perret, Arnaud
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2018-10-11 – Shinae Han, collaborative piano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: October 11, 2018
Creator: Han, Shinae
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-22 – Braun Oldenkamp, tenor

Recital presented at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Denton, Texas in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 22, 2017
Creator: Oldenkamp, Braun
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-05-15 – Kimberly Watson, soprano

Recital presented at the UNT on the Square in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: May 15, 2017
Creator: Watson, Kimberly
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2019-10-12 – Hannah Leeper, soprano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: October 12, 2019
Creator: Leeper, Hannah
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-03-26 – Benjamin Howard, baritone

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: March 26, 2017
Creator: Howard, Benjamin (Singer)
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-01 – Joseph Canuto Leon, baritone

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 1, 2017
Creator: Leon, Joseph Canuto
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-15 – Grace Gabriella Nelson, mezzo-soprano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 15, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Grace Gabriella
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-23 – Madelaine Martinez, mezzo-soprano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 23, 2017
Creator: Martinez, Madelaine
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-23 – Sung Sim, collaborative piano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 23, 2017
Creator: Sim, Sung
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-25 – Gabrielle Gilliam, soprano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 25, 2017
Creator: Gilliam, Gabrielle
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master's Recital: 2017-04-27 – Robert Andrew Smathers, tenor

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Date: April 27, 2017
Creator: Smathers, Robert Andrew
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Les Femmes Dans les Romans Principaux de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: Role et Presentation (open access)

Les Femmes Dans les Romans Principaux de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: Role et Presentation

The thesis states that women characters in the works of Ramuz have much more depth, life and variety than first meets the eye. In order to demonstrate this, it was decided to show women characters, main, secondary and in groups, and to look at their presentation in the novels recognized generally as the most important.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Williams, Gudrun B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2014-04-22 - Jordan Hampton West, soprano

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree
Date: April 22, 2014
Creator: West, Jordan Hampton
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Master’s Recital: 2013-04-20 - Stephen Carroll, tenor

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master’s of Music degree.
Date: April 20, 2013
Creator: Carroll, Stephen
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Online Discussion Forums into the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Case Study of Advanced Learners of French (open access)

Integrating Online Discussion Forums into the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Case Study of Advanced Learners of French

This exploratory case study aims to develop a set of best practices for integrating online discussion forums into the foreign language curriculum, focusing specifically on a group of learners in an advanced French grammar course at a large, public U.S. university. During a period of two months, 26 participants completed a series of tasks designed to provide three different types of data: 1) exploration and analysis of interactional, linguistic, and social features of Web forum discourse; 2) participation in Web forums; and 3) feedback from students. Since the feedback received from two questionnaires was ultimately the most consistent and reliable type of data collected, this study focuses on students' participation patterns and their perceptions of Web forums as a communication space having the potential to provide opportunities for learning French. Although some students indicated that they would neither consider visiting a French-language Web forum nor actually visit one, in both cases, more than half of the participants who completed these questionnaires indicated that they would both consider visiting a French-language Web forum and might actually visit one. Since encouraging students to use French beyond the classroom and to engage in the lifelong use of French for personal enrichment (following the …
Date: May 2011
Creator: Mbuye, Kanku Lisette
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library