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Analysing the Functions of Lexical Bundles for Teaching Academic Writing to Graduate Students 分析研究生学术写作教学中的词法组合功能

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.22

Tanveer Hussain Mangnejo, Akhtar Abbas

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Beliefs about Difficulties in Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language in a Public Sector University 公立大学学生对汉语作为外语学习困难的看法

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.61

Mariam Aftab, Muhammad Hassan Abbasi

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A Semiotic Analysis of Social Class Representation in Pakistani Television Commercials 对巴基斯坦电视广告中社会阶层表征的语义分析

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.53

Sehrish Karim, Syeda Maryam Fatima, Shahid Hussain Mir

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Broadening Perspectives and Possibilities: Learners’ Pathways to Digital Multimodal Composition (DMC) in ESL Context 拓宽视野和可能性：学习者在 ESL 环境下的数字多模态作文 (DMC) 之路

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.62

Adeel Khalid, Fauzia Janjua

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Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Classroom Oral Presentations at Tertiary Level 对高等教育课堂口头报告的多模态话语分析

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.59

Ahmed Saeed, Nazra Zahid Shaikh

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English Language Speaking Anxiety: A Quantitative Study 英语口语焦虑症：定量研究

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.60

Nargis Mari, A. H. Panhwar, Sannaullah Ansari

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The Development of Semantic Processing in Children’s Emotional Advancement: An Analysis of the Movie “Inside Out” 儿童情绪发展中的语义处理发展：电影 "Inside Out "分析

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.70

Quratulain, T. Rehman, Bisma Butt

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Exploring Discourse Markers in Analyzing Gender Discrimination in Pakistani Drama Serials: A Corpus-Based Study 探索分析巴基斯坦连续剧中性别歧视的话语标记：基于语料库的研究

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.82

Arooba Abid, A. Siddique, Muhammad Ahmad

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Exploring Linguistic Choices as a Representative of Eastern Culture: A Study of Moni Mohsin’s “The Diary of Social Butterfly” 探索作为东方文化代表的语言选择：莫尼-莫辛的 "社交蝴蝶日记 "研究

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.41

Snober Gull, Muhammad Maaroof Iqbal

{"title":"Exploring Linguistic Choices as a Representative of Eastern Culture: A Study of Moni Mohsin’s “The Diary of Social Butterfly”","authors":"Snober Gull, Muhammad Maaroof Iqbal","doi":"10.58921/sjl.v3i1.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58921/sjl.v3i1.41","url":null,"abstract":"Language and culture are entangled (Translations, 2018). A specific language typically points to a particular cluster of individuals. Language and culture share a symbiotic relationship. When people intermingle with people of different languages, it means that people are also intermingling with the values, norms and beliefs of that speaker. People cannot comprehend one's values without retrieving its language directly. When people learn a new language, it not only involves the learning of the structure of that language but also involves the learning about the cultural norms, values, manners and behavior. The main aim behind this research is to explore the linguistic choices as representative of Eastern culture in “The diary of Social Butterfly”. Textual analysis is performed in order to investigate the representation of culture and language in novel. This research has been conducted in the milieu of framework given by Sapir & Whorf and Wardhaugh (2011). The findings of the research reveal that Moni Mohsin has used food terminologies, kinship terminologies, dress terminologies, religious terminologies, professional terminologies and Festival terminologies of Eastern countries in order to highlight the Eastern culture. She has used words like Gulab Jamans Luddoos, shahi tukras, kheer, badaam ka halwa, Behari kebabs seekh kebabs, kaala, gora, bhai, ammi, saas, bahu, in sha Allah and many others. These all words are representatives of the culture of East.","PeriodicalId":106618,"journal":{"name":"Sindh Journal of Linguistics","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140992111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring English language Related Anxiety in Higher Education Context of Pakistan: Teachers’ Perspective 探索巴基斯坦高等教育背景下与英语有关的焦虑：教师的视角

Sindh Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.58921/sjl.v3i1.49

Saba Ahmed, Dania Shoaib Khan, Dania Wasi Khan, Afifa Asif

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