Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Dolmage, Jay"
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Disablement, Diversity, Deviation: Disability in an Age of Environmental Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This dissertation brings disability studies and postcolonial studies into dialogue with discourse surrounding risk in the environmental humanities. The central question that it investigates is how critics can reframe and ... -
Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Plurality, promises and practice: A case of Nepali immigrants’ transliterating and translanguaging in Canada is a community-based study among sixteen Nepali immigrant students in graduate and undergraduate programs that ... -
The Rhetorical Life of Surgical Checklists: A Burkean Analysis with Implications for Knowledge Translation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)This dissertation uses the terms of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism to identify rhetorical aspects of surgical team checklists as they have been promoted, performed, studied, and surveilled. I argue that these terms can help to ... -
“Sorry If My Words Aren’t Right”: Writing Studies’ Partnership with Second Language Writing to Support Translingual Students in the Anglo-Canadian Classroom
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-02)Since the early 2000s, Canadian higher education has recognized the economic benefit of courting and enrolling visa students at higher tuition rates. Austerity measures in federal funding combined with falling domestic ... -
Talk, Body, Performance: Mental Health Rhetoric in Corporate, Government, and Institutional Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-17)Rhetorical studies in health and medicine often point out the ways in which medical empiricism is structured as an arhetorical entity. This dissertation delves into a rhetorical analysis of psychiatric illness through a ... -
“That’s Gold, Jerry, Gold!”: The Sophisticated Contradiction at the Heart of Stand-Up Comedy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-15)This dissertation examines the word “sophisticated” by re-situating it within the Greek tradition and explicating how such a move informs a study of humor and amusement. In regard to “techniques and theories,” the OED ...