CLASSROOM GRAFFITI: INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

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Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.54513/joell.2023.10203

Peace Chinwendu Israel, Nancy Boadu, Richard Johnson

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Abstract

This qualitative study investigated classroom graffiti in connection to language, meaning and cognition. The aim was to unearth the intersection between the inscriptions on the walls of classrooms, the cognitive processes involved in such discourse and the context. The theoretical orientation hinged on a combination of cognitive discourse analysis (Tenbrink, 2015) and socio-semiotic approaches of language study (Halliday & Matthiessen, 1999). Through the purposive sampling technique, 40 classroom graffiti were captured from the classroom walls at Swedru School of Business, a senior high school in the Agona West Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. The graffiti were captured with a Samsung smart phone camera within the months of February and March, 2023. The findings revealed that the following themes (ideologies) were expressed in classroom graffiti: violence/threat, vulgarity, warning, nickname, love/encouragement and awareness, with violence/threat being the most recurring ideology and awareness the least. It was concluded that there is a strong connection between graffiti and cognition and evaluating the form of language in any socio-cultural setting is synonymous to evaluating the cognitive tendencies of the members of such community.

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教室涂鸦:探究语言与认知

本定性研究探讨了课堂涂鸦与语言、意义和认知的关系。目的是发掘教室墙壁上的铭文之间的交集，这种话语和语境所涉及的认知过程。理论取向取决于认知话语分析(Tenbrink, 2015)和语言研究的社会符号学方法(Halliday & Matthiessen, 1999)的结合。通过有目的的抽样技术，从加纳中部地区阿戈纳西市的一所高中Swedru商学院的教室墙壁上捕获了40个教室涂鸦。这些涂鸦是在2023年2月和3月用三星智能手机相机拍摄的。调查结果显示，教室涂鸦表达的主题(意识形态)如下:暴力/威胁、粗俗、警告、昵称、爱/鼓励和意识，其中暴力/威胁是最常见的意识形态，而意识是最少的。结论是，涂鸦和认知之间有很强的联系，评估任何社会文化背景下的语言形式都等同于评估该社区成员的认知倾向。

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期刊介绍： Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.