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Item The narrative arc : exploring the linguistic structure of narrative(2015-12) Blackburn, Katherine Geraldine; McGlone, Matthew S., 1966-; Pennebaker, James W.; Peña, Jorge; Dailey, Reñe; Vangelisti , AnitaOver the millennia, philosophers and scholars have theorized on the building blocks of narrative. Until now, a reliable methodology to quantitatively investigate narrative structure has not been unavailable. The Narrative Arc Theory (NAT) was developed to investigate whether or not a common structure existed for narratives. To do this, the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) text analysis program was used on a corpora composed of over 5,000 narratives. A five equal sized parts segmentation strategy was developed to track how narratives develop. Simple word count analyses of function and emotion words identified five common narrative dimensions that were shared across diverse narrative text.Item Power in text : extracting institutional relationships from natural language(2016-12) Shaffer, Robert Bradley; Jessee, Stephen A., 1980-How do legislators allocate policy-making authority? Generally speaking, institutional design decisions involve a trade-off between efficiency and accountability, as legislators seek to simultaneously maximize bureaucratic effectiveness and ensure favorable policy outcomes. At least in the legal context, these design decisions are often articulated in textual documents (e.g. statutes and constitutions). Unfortunately, existing measurement schemes cannot capture the full range of institutional design technologies available to legislative actors. These limitations have prevented scholars from addressing important questions regarding the relationship between executive/legislative preference conflicts, background institutional context, and downstream design of legislation. In this paper, I develop a text-based measurement scheme intended to address these limitations, which I apply to an original dataset of American legislative texts.Item Thinking beyond utility and practicality : art education discussion viewed through the lens of a three-function model(2012-12) Lee, Elizabeth Rachel; Bolin, Paul Erik, 1954-; Mayer, Melinda MThis study was about language. Its purpose was to explore how a specific set of material culture ideas is represented in art education discussion through what is termed in this study “the three-function model.” The model states that all human-made objects, including images, perform multiple roles and/or serve multiple purposes, simultaneously, and without limit. These roles and functions of objects fall into three categories: technological (utilitarian); sociological (communicative); ideological (instructive). Discovering this model inspired two questions: (a) how might the three-function approach to the discussion of objects augment art education’s understanding and practice of Material Culture theory? (b) to what benefit might such an approach be integrated into art education practice? To answer these questions, I designed a two-stage analysis. First, the examination of literature written toward three audience groups (educator-oriented, practitioner-oriented, general audience) in order to identify three types of information (definitions, statements about objects, and statements about function) for the purpose of forming an overall understanding of how cohesive or disparate discussion appears to be within each audience group. Second, cross-analyzing the three information groups for the purpose of understanding the similarities of and differences between the discussions of the three audience groups. The results of this study suggest that the problem of multiple and contrary definitions for shared terminology may be restricted to only two important words: craft and art. Conceptual approaches employed by the writers included anthropological, philosophical, concrete, theoretical, advocate, and analytical. Although all 15 writers acknowledge the social nature of objects, and all employ the term function similarly, there are indeed gaps in art education discussion: social and ideological functions of craft and art objects that go unnoticed, and missed opportunities to explore those connections and their cultural relevance. The three-function model can provide names for the ideas we are talking around, but not quite about.