IS3356 Introduction to Orality and Storying: After completing this 3 credit undergraduate course, students will be able to craft and tell culturally appropriate, accurate, natural stories in storying fellowship groups and other ethnic situations. They will be able to articulate characteristic differences between oral communicators and print communicators and describe the contexts in which oral…
Academic Forum: Object marking in Shekgalagari by Mical Hilbert Nov. 12, 12:20 – 1:15, Mahler 5/7 Mical’s paper will focus on a common synatactic problem in Bantu languages. A long-standing question in Bantu languages is if the object markers are agreement prefixes or incorporated pronouns (Bresnan & Mchombo 1987). Givón (1976) claimed that these processes…
World Arts graduate student Sarah York will play the Chinese erhu with Sino-Rhythm (Huayun) Orchestra on Nov. 7 at the University of Texas Denton in Richardson at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5. The group includes Chinese string, wind, and percussion as well as some Western instruments. View the full post for more info.
Academic Forum: The Household in 1 Peter: Family from a Contextual and Thematic View The next Dallas International Academic Forum will be held Nov. 5 at 12:20pm in Mahler 5/7. The presenter will be Ervin Starwalt, Dallas International Faculty member. His presentation is a discourse-based exegesis of some of the socially controversial statements found in…
Pondering Micah’s Structure: A Syntactical Discourse Approach to Micah’s Problems. Joanna Hoyt, Ph. D. October 22, 2015 12:20-1:15pm Mahler 5/7 The lack of agreement on Micah’s structure is well documented. In an effort to solve Micah’s structural riddles, this paper analyzes Micah based on discourse types. Building on Longacre’s approach to discourse analysis, this…
September 30th is Bible Translation Day. The first Bible Translation Day was proclaimed by the U.S. Congress more than 50 years ago in 1966. The church calendar remembers September 30 as the feast day for St. Jerome who was the translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible. Dallas International University continues the work of translation today…
Celebrate with the theme for each day. – Monday: Decades Day – Tuesday: Culture Shock Day – Wednesday: Suspicious Pairs Day – Thursday: Character Day – Friday: Dialectology (talk in an accent) Day Join the parade on Thursday and the Picnic and Volleyball Tournament on Saturday! See the SBA bulletin board for details.
The Center for Excellence in World Arts open house will be Thursday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. Mark your calendar! More information to follow.