This study investigates the rhetorical organisation of the introduction section of English and Chinese research articles in the field of educational psychology using Swales’s (1990 & 2004) framework of move analysis. A ...

This thesis explores redress in Seamus Heaney’s poetry and prose. I argue that redress is a deeply considered intellectual construct that facilitates the process of writing and unwriting. Due to its dynamism and flexibility, ...

Previous critical commentary has considered the plays of James K. Baxter to be predominantly vehicles for his social criticism. They possess, however, a compelling subjective force, and female characters which appear to ...

The relationship between metaphor, language, and thought, as hypothesised by cognitive linguists, requires detailed investigation of actual metaphor use in different situations and contexts. Researchers have examined ...

In this thesis, I argue that Samuel Beckett’s 1932 encounter with late-medieval Nominalism in Wilhelm Windelband’s History of Philosophy (1901) was a decisive factor in the emergence of his mature aesthetic. Beckett’s early ...

This thesis argues that child actors played an important role in the political theatre of Queen Elizabeth I’s civic entertainments because of their function as inherently innocent symbols of the future. Functioning in this ...

Previous critical commentary has considered the plays of James K. Baxter to be predominantly a re-working of his social criticism in a different medium. In this study, I argue that a reassessment of Baxter’s plays using a ...

This study investigates the multi-dimensional learning style preferences, learning strategy use, and English proficiency of Chinese EFL students studying at a university in the north-eastern part of China, with a focus on ...

How do cultural stereotypes change? The following thesis addresses this question by examining how repetition and reiteration of cultural stereotypes in Selina Tusitala Marsh’s and Tusiata Avia’s poetry enables cultural ...

Scottish poet, Kathleen Jamie, published her first collection of poetry in 1982 and over the past three decades her work has observed and explored a transitory phase in Scottish constitutional politics. This thesis examines ...