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Hardening Phenomenon in the Xiāng Dialects
The focus of this study is on the hardening phenomenon found in the Xiāng dialects of the Chinese language family. According to Coblin (2011: 47), hardening is the phenomenon referring here to a previous dental, retroflex, ... -
Head for the Hills: Lateral Vernacular Adaptations and the Maithili Padas of Vidyāpati Ṭhākura (c. 15th-19th cents.)
Most studies on the emergence of the 'vernaculars' in South Asia have focused on two patterns of development. The first focuses primarily on the reactionary development of localized vernacular communities out of the Sanskrit ... -
Hyperfemininities, Hypermasculinities, and Hypersexualities in Classical Japanese Literature
(2012-09-13)This study is an attempt to elucidate the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, desire, and power by examining how premodern Japanese texts represent the gender-based ideals of women and men at the peak and ... -
Jian'an Literature Revisited: Poetic Dialogues in the Last Three Decades of the Han Dynasty
(2013-07-25)The Jian'an period (196-220), which is best known through the fictionalized account in the <italic>Romance of the Three States</italic>, is also an important literary period. It is celebrated for its major writers such as ... -
LEVEL UP!: Japanese Second Language Acquisition in the Classroom through Video Games
This exploratory study investigates the possibilities of utilizing digital gaming in the Japanese second language classroom. Whereas previous research in the field focused on game-enhanced pedagogy for the instruction of ... -
Manuscripts, Texts and Geographical Writings: A Study of Dunhuang Manuscript P.2005
This dissertation deals with Tang (618-907 A.D.) Dunhuang manuscripts, with a specific focus on the manuscript numbered P.2005 (Shāzhōu tújīng 沙州圖經) and its related historical-geographical materials. P.2005 is studied as ... -
Marks of Empire: Extracting a Narrative from the Corpus of Kuṣāṇa Inscriptions
University of Washington Abstract Marks of Empire: Extracting a Narrative from the Corpus of Kuṣāṇa Inscriptions Michael C Skinner Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Richard Salomon Department of Asian ... -
Metaphor and Pedagogy in Early Buddhist Literature: An Edition and Study of Two Sūtras from the Senior Collection of Gāndhārī Manuscripts
This dissertation examines the role of metaphorical language in early Buddhist literature through the lens of two previously unpublished Gāndhārī sūtras on a manuscript from the Robert Senior Collection. At the microscopic ... -
Mind in Dispute: The Section on Mind in Harivarman’s *Tattvasiddhi
This dissertation is an in-depth study of the dispute on the doctrines regarding the structure of mind as recorded in the fourth century CE Abhidharma work, the *Tattvasiddhi (成實論, TatSid hereafter) by Harivarman. Despite ... -
Multiple Correctness, Or Against "Orthography": On The Architecture Of Written Japanese
(2014-04-30)Standard written Japanese operates within an architecture of script that distinguishes itself from other major forms of writing in common use today. It is not phonographic nor can it be described as logographic. Instead, ... -
Niscaldas and his Vrttiprabhakar: Advaita Vedanta in the Vernacular
(2014-02-24)This dissertation is a study of Swami Niscaldas (1791-1863 CE), a highly regarded Advaita Vedantin and Dadupanthi, who lived in what is now the state of Haryana in Northern India. Niscaldas is best known for his Vicarsagar ... -
On the Criteria and Methods for “Discerning Inauthenticity” in the Context of Early Chinese Texts
This thesis encompasses discussions regarding the various aspects of Chinese bianwei 辨偽 studies ( “Discerning Inauthenticity Studies”). The first chapter delves into the notion of inauthenticity, distinguishing an inauthentic ... -
Painting the Formless and Strumming the Soundless: Yang Xiong's Taixuan jing as Expression of the Absolute
This dissertation is a study of Yang Xiong’s (53 BCE–18 CE) Taixuan jing that attempts to incorporate philological methods with philosophical insights by situating the text within the intellectual and historical context ... -
Playing Japanese: Fostering semantic language play in a Japanese as a foreign language classroom
How much fun can we have learning another language? This study explores the implementation of semantic language play tasks in an intact Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) classroom. In the study, I detail how I designed ... -
Postwar Japanese Humor: Dark Humor and Laughter After the Little Boy
This dissertation discusses dark humor in postwar Japanese culture, and examines the ways in which humor was used to assuage or avoid cultural trauma. This study provides a framework for understanding normative postwar ... -
The Pragmatics of Tense and Aspect in Narratives: A Linguistic Analysis of Indo-Aryan Texts
Abstract Amruta M. Chandekar This dissertation investigates the role of tense and tense and aspect in the creation and reception of structure and meaning of a narrative discourse. It does so by proposing an analytical ... -
Printing for Pleasure: Chen Diexian’s Literary Enterprise and Popular Magazines in Early 20th Century China
The thesis focuses on the career and works of Chen Diexian as an entrepreneur and literatus. These works provide a focal point for reflection on the activities of popular writers, publishers, literary magazines, and the ... -
Radical Language, Radical Identity: Korean Writers in Japanese Spaces and the Burden to "Represent"
This dissertation examines literary texts by colonial Korean writers in the Japanese empire and the post-war “Zainichi” Korean minority in Japan. Whereas colonial Korean literature and Zainichi literature have typically ... -
Rediscovering Sound in Tao Yuanming’s (365-427?) Poetry: A Data-based Study of Jin Phonology and Poetic Patterns
Tao Yuanming, an outstanding Chinese poet, utilized exceptional sound patterns in his poetry. However, due to the evolution of Chinese phonology over time, these sound effects are often overlooked in contemporary readings ... -
Referential Choices in Oral Narratives of Chinese among Immersion Learners
Much research has investigated the production of referring expressions made by bilingual children in terms of referential functions. Few studies have focused on bilingual Chinese-English children. This thesis explores the ...