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              Dividing to Connect: An Ethnography of Canal Zone Americans
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| Persons | Author (aut): Brewer, Marilee R. Thesis advisor (ths): Pelkey, Jamin R. Degree committee member (dgc): Trick, Edgar D. Degree committee member (dgc): Gardner, Lori P. | 
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| Organizations | Degree granting institution (dgg): Trinity Western University. SGS | 
| Abstract | Abstract This thesis is a linguistic ethnography of the Americans who moved from the Panama Canal Zone to the U.S. when the Canal was sold to Panama.  Theirs was a society of authoritarian socialism, lived beneath the Zone’s official motto: “The Land Divided, The World United.”  Close-knit, but wary of outsiders, they called themselves “Zonians.”  
Using Thomas More’s Utopia as a gestalt for the utopian experience, this study compares the features of More’s Utopia with the Panama Canal Zone.  In particular, it examines the utopian gesture of dividing from the old to connect to the new, arguing that the image-schematic metaphor of dividing in order to connect is constitutive of Zonian culture at multiple semiotic levels, from the physical transformation of the earth, to the social construction of group identity to everyday practices involving intercultural relations. | 
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| Keywords | Keywords Ethnography Semiotics Idealized Cognitive Model Image Schema Lakoff Experiential Gestalt Panama Canal Zone Zonian Embodied Metaphor Utopia Conceptual Blending Fauconnier Mark Turner | 
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| Language | English | 
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| Name | Dividing to Connect: An Ethnography of Canal Zone Americans | 
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