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The Effect of Metaphoric-Image, Motion, and a Dual Modality Approach on the Perception of Vocal Tone

Parker, Donald (University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)

The use of imagery and movement to affect vocal tone has long been a part of choral pedagogy. These often used, yet little explored tools, are employed by choral directors on all levels. The present study sought to ...
Jerusalem and the Riparian Simile

Cohen, Shaul; Frank, David A. (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2002)

Many see the city of Jerusalem as an intractable religious political issue, beyond the pale of negotiation and problem solving. This view reflects a set of problematic assumptions, including beliefs that Jerusalem produces ...
Metaphor in Metamorphosis: Towards Comprehensive Translation of Chinese Figurative Language

Thompson, Katherine (University of Oregon, 2012)

Focusing on the unique challenges of Chinese-to-English translation, this thesis attempts to bridge the gap between practical concerns related to readability and the cognitive structure and functions of metaphor. It explores ...
Metaphorical Space and Enclosure in Old English Poetry

Waller, Benjamin (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)

While the political and social spaces of Old English literature are fairly well understood, this project examines the conceptual spaces in Old English poetry. The Anglo-Saxons possessed a richly metaphorical understanding ...
Metaphors and Models: Paths to Meaning in Music

Linsley, Dennis E. (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

Music has meaning. But what is the nature and source of meaning, what tools can we use to illuminate meaning in musical analysis, and how can we relate aspects of musical structure to our embodied experience? This dissertation ...
Pattern and meaning in Francois Couperin's Pieces de Clavecin

Snyder, Caitlin E., 1971- (University of Oregon, 2010-06)

The synthetic, historically sensitive, analytic method of this dissertation illuminates relationships between pattern and meaning in François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin --character pieces firmly rooted in traditions of ...
The Grammar of Fear: Morphosyntactic Metaphor in Fear Constructions

Lakey, Holly (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)

This analysis explores the reflection of semantic features of emotion verbs that are metaphorized on the morphosyntactic level in constructions that express these emotions. This dissertation shows how the avoidance or ...
Vogue Diagnoses: Functions of Madness in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Donnelly, Taylor (University of Oregon, 2012)

Fiction and drama have engaged with madness across the epistemes of the American twentieth century. Given the prominence of the subject of madness, both historically and literarily, we need a unified methodology for analysis ...