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Item Ana Marie Cox Guest Lecture(Joynes Reading Room, 2014-10-02) Valentine, MattItem Imagining the Shala-Kazakh : codeswitching and satire in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan(2017-05) Foster, Hannah Lofton; Webster, Anthony K., 1969-This report addresses Russian-Kazakh codeswitching in Kazakhstan through a study of satirical skits called Shala-Kazakh Language Lessons that were broadcast on the sketch comedy show Nasha KZasha (‘Our Kazakh’). Using the theoretical frameworks of heteroglossia, language ideologies, satire, role alignment and publics, I analyze the performances as socially recognizable characterizations of speakers who codeswitch and the reflexive relationship between these satires and their subjects. Shala-Kazakhs, literally “‘half’-Kazakhs,” are typically described as young, urban, Russified Kazakhs who are unable to speak Kazakh or are semi-speakers of Kazakh. The term is employed by linguistic authorities to critique the public use of language that they deem “impure.” However, I find that the term is often used in the skits to characterize any language variety or speaker that is perceived as heavily influenced by Russian language and culture or does not fit into a binary classification. I trace the history of this ideology of linguistic purism through Soviet models of ethnolinguistic categories and analyze the ways that Kazakhstanis in the present day use the circulating, satirical portraits to negotiate the complex social environment shaped by these ideologies. Through the use of heteroglossic language, or language that pulls all associations of a word into each use, speakers who codeswitch create fluidity in the clearly-defined categories. Through this analysis, I contribute to the body of work that addresses how language mixing disrupts the ideology of linguistic purism and how ordinary speakers shape their speech practices in relation to easily recognizable portraits of speakers through social interaction. In this way, heterglossic speech draws attention to the heterogeneous nature of language that is often erased through the language policies, education system, and cultural programs of elite, government authorities. By refocusing on the permeable boundaries between these categories and the criticisms the comedians make of purist language ideologies, I address the speakers and languages that are otherwise erased through ideology.Item New media is a joke : tracing irony, satire, and remediation in online discourse(2014-12) Faina, Joseph Michael; Brummett, Barry, 1951-The social and political function of humor in any era is to provide commentary, insight, and catharsis into the concerns facing that time. In this dissertation I investigate the role humor, particularly irony and satire, plays in informing public discourse and civic participation in the contemporary Internet age. This age is often characterized a highly mediated one with the proliferation of increasingly powerful, and increasingly mobile, media an ongoing concern of communication scholars. Understanding how these new forms refashion public discourse to address new contexts is important. In order to understand these differences it is necessary to understand how newer media work in relation to older media. I contend this relationship can be understood through the trope of irony. More importantly irony shares a relationship to the rhetorical process of remediation, whereby newer media are placed in a dialectic relationship with older media. For rhetorical and media scholars these relationships represent an opportunity to understand new possibilities for discursive action. This dissertation provides answers to three questions. What is the relationship between irony and remediation? How can mediated texts of humor illustrate the relationships between irony and remediation? What rhetorical implications might these relationships have for communication scholars interested in civic engagement, political participation, and mass mediated public discourse?I argue that remediation, the underlying rhetorical structure of media, is ironic. This structure is best revealed through analysis of highly mediated humorous texts. To answer these questions I conduct a rhetorical analysis of several case studies using irony and remediation as guiding theoretical mechanisms. Each case study focuses on a text characterized as ironic, though not necessarily humorous. I illustrate how irony contributes to the creation of multiple, and often contradictory, meanings in a text while remediation illustrates how media forms influence the creation of increasingly fragmented texts. When combined in a rhetorical analysis these mechanisms work to reveal underlying ideological concerns prevalent in public discourse in an age of new media. The significance of these concerns, and their relationship to irony, satire, and humor is discussed.Item Poets and Teachers in Hades: The Katabasis as Authorial Satire(2014-04-29) Nilsson, IngelaThis lecture will focus on the underworld as a place where one may encounter authors and intellectuals of the past or the present; a platform where their issues may be displayed and discussed. These discussions may function as comical, critical, or subversive approaches towards power structures. Nilsson argues that this characteristic may be seen in early modern and modern European versions of the katabasis motif, but also in Greek models of late antiquity and in Byzantium. Special focus will be placed on twelfth-century Byzantium and the anonymous dialogue Timarion.Item Satiric infotainment TV shows(2012-08) Alonso, Paul, 1978-; Harp, Dustin, 1968-; Jensen, Robert, 1958-; Alves, Rosental; Dahlby, Tracy; De Uriarte, Mercedes Lynn; Dietz, HenryThis dissertation analyzes the discourse of three infotainment television shows built around their hosts – characters who have gained considerable importance and influence in their respective countries: American Jon Stewart (host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart); British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (the actor who incarnates the popular characters Borat, Bruno, and Ali G in the Da Ali G Show), and Peruvian Jaime Bayly (host of the Peruvian TV show El Francotirador/The Sniper). These three shows responded to their specific national, cultural, social, and political contexts, while simultaneously demonstrating important similarities: they parody journalistic genres while questioning traditional journalism authority and arbitrary media norms; they use humor to develop political, social, and cultural critiques; and they revolve around a talented character who is a media celebrity. Drawing upon theory and literature related to media spectacle, infotainment, tabloidization, celebrity, and the carnivalesque, this research analyzes the three media characters’ discourse and critiques within their respective national and cultural contexts in order to understand their role in those societies and how they negotiate discursive power in the public sphere. This analysis also seeks to reveal how Stewart challenges the mainstream news media by exposing the difficulties of debate in the U.S.; how the subaltern voices of Ali G, Bruno, and Borat position Sacha Baron Cohen to confront hegemonic culture and identity; and how ambiguity and contradiction allow Bayly to be a transgressor in a society where entertainment has a particular political history. This research establishes commonalities and differences among these three representative cases in relation to the broader, global phenomenon of satiric infotainment, and introduces the notion of “critical infotainment” to characterize this satiric trend that combines entertainment, comedy, journalism, popular culture, and politics to develop social critique. Critical infotainment is interpreted as a result of and a transgressive reaction to the process of tabloidization and the cult of celebrity in the media spectacle era. Finally, this dissertation includes recommendations for future critical infotainment experiments to fill the gap left by the traditional press in today’s mediascape.Item Some versions of the fragment, 1700-1800(2014-08) Schneider, Rachel Marie; Bertelsen, Lance; Cohen, Matt, 1970-; Moore, Lisa L; Baker, Samuel; Pagani, KarenSome Versions of the Fragment, 1700-1800 examines the eighteenth-century literary print fragment archive to redefine the fragment as a genre typified by its materiality. Eighteenth-century fragments included not just sentimental poems, but novels, satires, and political pamphlets. They are both long and short; written by famous and anonymous authors; canonical and unknown. This dissertation, in recuperating the eighteenth-century fragment’s rich variety, offers a taxonomy that includes three versions of the fragment: the unintentional, the intentional, and the complete. Examining the fragment in this way not only provides categories that can help us better understand how fragments fit within various social and cultural conditions in the eighteenth century, but also how these ways of understanding the fragment can help critics account for its evolutions today. Previous analyses of the literary fragment have emphasized its metaphorical qualities and its formal dimensions. This dissertation argues that the genre is defined no less by its materiality: prefaces, punctuation, and page arrangements are the common constitutive elements shared by all three versions of the fragment. By paying attention to the eighteenth-century fragment’s materiality, critics today can better account for the fragment’s role in the period’s generic developments, as well as its evolving literary marketplace.Item Texas Ranger, April 1948(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1948-04) Wade, Floyd; Bridges, Bill; Warmack, George; Yates, Bill; Nelson, C. W.Item Texas Ranger, April 1949(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1949-04) Wade, Floyd; Jeffery, Ben; Bridges, Bill; Yates, Bill; Warmack, George; King, Alice; Nelson, C. W.Item Texas Ranger, April 1950(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1950-04) Yates, Bill; Carter, Tom; Prince, Bill; Wolvin, John; Bridges, Bill; Smith, Maxine; Brunson, H. E.Item Texas Ranger, March 1948(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1948-03) Johnson, Robert E. V.; Jeffery, Ben; Porter, J. P.; Miller, Ed; Bridges, Bill; Warmack, George; Yates, BillItem Texas Ranger, March 1949(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1949-03) Wade, Floyd; Jeffery, Ben; Bridges, Bill; Yates, Bill; Warmack, George; King, Alice; Nelson, C. W.; Abram, LynwoodItem Texas Ranger, March 1950(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1950-03) Smith, Maxine; Roberts, Kenneth; Schmidt, Harvey; Capps, Joe; Wilson, Rowland; Wolvin, John; Bridges, Bill; Yates, Bill; Carter, Tom; Prince, BillItem Texas Ranger, May 1948(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1948-05) Bridges, Bill; Wade, Floyd; Yates, Bill; Nelson, C. W.; Bynum, MadelineItem Texas Ranger, November 1949(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1949-11) Yates, Bill; Guerra, Tony; Smith, Liz; Brewer, Olan; Nelson, C. W.; Prince, Bill; Wilson, Rowland; Bridges, Bill; Spencer, Don; Wolvin, John; Sanner, Fred; Smith, Maxine; Roberts, KennethItem Texas Ranger, October 1946(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1946-10) Bryson, John; Weinberger, Joe; Dobie, Frank J.; Tipton, Dave; Simms, EarlItem Texas Ranger, October 1948(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1948-10) Wade, Floyd; Jeffery, Ben; Bridges, Bill; Yates, Bill; Warmack, George; King, AliceItem Texas Ranger, October 1949(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1949-10) Yates, Bill; Guerra, Tony; Smith, Liz; Brewer, Olan; Nelson, C. W.; Prince, Bill; Wilson, Rowland; Bridges, Bill; Spencer, Don; Wolvin, John; Smith, MaxineItem Texas Ranger, September 1946(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1946-09) Bryson, John; Hart, Weldon; Zimmerman, Henry; Murray, Bernice; Pursley, Joyce; Jones, Joseph; Capps, Ben; Jeffery, BenItem Texas Ranger, September 1947(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1947-09) Johnson, Robert E.; Jeffery, Ben; Warmack, George; Schorre, Charles; Miller, EdItem Texas Ranger, September 1948(Texas Student Publications, Inc., 1948-09) Wade, Floyd; Jeffery, Ben; Yates, Bill; Warmack, George