Abstract: “Nothing Stranger†is a collection of dystopian short stories concerned with themes of motherhood and violence submitted for consideration as a creative dissertation at the University of Tennessee.
The aim of this study is to look at the connections between speech and gesture at the level of iconic gestures and their lexical affiliates. The primary interest is to see if the lexical affiliates of gestures representing the four aspects of iconicity belong to any specific word class or take a...
Ultimately, the English language arts classroom seeks to help make students “literate†members of society. Due to the dominance of images in twenty-first century communication, the term “literate†has also slowly shifted to include an individual’s ability to...