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Grammatical Variation and Change in Spoken Ontario French: The Subjunctive Mood and the Expression of Future Temporal Reference
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation examines grammatical variation and change in spoken Ontario French, a minority language in a largely English-speaking province of Canada. The data are drawn from two sociolinguistic corpora for French ...
The Ends of Union Solidarity: Undocumented Labour and German Trade Unions
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation focuses on the contested practices of union solidarity with undocumented migrant workers in Germany. Unionists part ways when it comes to the practical meaning of solidarity with workers who lack work ...
Performance Through an Avatar: Exploring Affect and Ideology Through Narrative in Videogames
(2016-09-20)
Videogames are a major source of popular cultural narratives surpassing even Hollywood films. Videogames, however, cast the player as the active agent within the narrative as opposed to film, television, and traditional ...
False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South
(2016-09-20)
Why are theories of global governance unsatisfactory? Why are theories of global governance unable to integrate the lived realities of the people of the global South? International law and its institutions are growing at ...
Spiritual Economies of Evangelical Worship: Technology, Stewardship and Experience
(2016-09-20)
The present work explores how American evangelicals have learned to use and think about performance technology, such as professional audio, video and lighting technologies as they endeavour to craft worship environments. ...
To Play or Not to Play: Non/Participation in Eve Online
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation addresses a gap in the academic study of digital games whereby investigations remain focused on current players and the experiences of former or non-players are rarely accounted for. Using EVE Online ...
How Do Mainstream Cultural Market Categories Emerge: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Creation of Electronic Dance Music
(2016-09-20)
In my research I explore how a new market category is created in an existing market. I contribute to existing research in marketing by developing a novel framework that conceptualizes markets as constituted of three levels, ...
Realities and Anxieties to Live With: An In-Depth Inquiry of the Experience of Internationally Educated Professionals in the Bridging Programs at Universities in Ontario
(2016-09-20)
Researchers have identified a trend of brain waste, brain abuse and brain drain on the part of internationally educated professionals (IEPs) after they immigrate to Canada. University-based bridging programs have been ...
The Government Open Concept Office: A Study of Physical Design on Public Sector Office Communication
(2016-09-20)
Open concept designs have become common in private office environments, but they are a recent adoption in the public sector. Despite an overwhelming number of studies refuting the designs effectiveness, the Government of ...
Exploring the Potential of Polyelectrolyte-Aptamer Films For Use in Optical and Electrochemical Sensing
(2016-09-20)
Polyelectrolyte-aptamer films have emerged as versatile and easy-to-fabricate materials for applications ranging from cargo delivery to sensing. The films comprising charged polymers and DNA aptamers exhibit changes in the ...