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Item Status & solidarity through codeswitching: three plays by Dolores Prida(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30) Anderson, Sheri L.This analysis employs the sociolinguistic framework of status and solidarity (Holmes, 2001) to examine the use of codeswitching on the relational development between the characters in three plays by Cuban-American playwright Dolores Prida. The three plays discussed are Beautiful Se?oritas (1978), Coser y cantar (1981) and Bot?nica (1991). Linguistic scholars recognize the lack of linguistic analysis of literary texts; specifically, codeswitching at present is not fully explored as a linguistic phenomenon in written contexts. Furthermore, Prida's works have never before been appraised using linguistic methodology. Hence, this work aims to add to scholarly research in the fields of codeswitching, discourse analysis, and literary linguistics, using the status and solidarity framework to examine the codeswitching in Dolores Prida's plays. Dolores Prida is a feminist and Hispanic dramatist whose central theme is the search for identity of Hispanic immigrants, specifically women, in the United States today. Due to her ideological stance, it is expected that a strong emphasis on solidarity rather than status and the use of affective rather than referential speech functions are present in the relationships in her plays. Accordingly, the analysis of Bot?nica reveals that indeed codeswitching between the characters does affect their relational development in maintaining solidarity and intimacy. However, the relationships found in Beautiful Se?oritas and Coser y cantar do not offer such conclusions, due to the variable nature of the relationships identified. Further analysis of these and other literary works will more accurately determine benefits of the status and solidarity framework as applied to the codeswitching research.Item Using Performance-Based Arts as a Delivery Strategy in International Agricultural Development(2014-07-28) Chatterjee, AparupaThe purpose of this qualitative study was to explore and describe the perceptions of purposively sampled International Agricultural Development workers who had experienced using performance-based arts as a delivery method in international education and agricultural development. This case study was based on the needs assessment, research paradigms and impacts of using Community Theatre, a performance-based art, as a delivery strategy for communication, education and development to eradicate health, political and socio-economic constraints posing a threat to the net agricultural production of the communities involved in the SPREAD project of the Rwandan coffee and pyrethrum co-operatives. Usually implemented in developing nations, Community Theater had brought itself to Africa post-genocide in 1994 and has been extremely successful in Rwanda. With a historic, tragic post-war and genocide aftermath, communities lacking considerable education and social awareness, found it difficult to address social change to transition into a more peaceful and developed condition. Addressing an establishment of such a reconstruction strategy, through employing Community Theater, the communities engaged themselves as artists and were stretched and challenged to transform into leaders of their communities to improve the lives of their generations and generations to follow. A qualitative research paradigm formed the basis of the methodology of the study. The study used a holistic, unique and descriptive case study research design. A purposive sample of respondents, selected on the criterion of having experienced the use of Community Theatre, a performance-based artistic strategy in the SPREAD project for international agricultural development, were interviewed face-to-face, by telephone and electronically. Findings were reported using categories or themes emerging from data analysis, which implied the positive impacts of theatre on understanding, assessing, staging or scripting and resolving socio-economic and health concerns, which in turn enhanced team building, empowerment, gender role resources, education and awareness, family planning and agricultural production. Owing to its proved success, Community Theater brings forth a considerable level of credibility and legitimacy and a power to engage communities at large, impacting the improvement of the livelihoods involved in agriculture, building capacity and increasing agricultural and industrial production of the cooperatives of Rwanda at each household level.