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English for personal and career development and its importance for better employment opportunities 英语对个人和职业发展的重要性及其对更好就业机会的重要性

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-24 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i3.258

Fatima Akther

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引用次数: 1

A systemic functional analysis of mood system in Olu Obafemi’s “Dark Times Are Over?” 奥卢·奥巴费米《黑暗时代结束了?》中情绪系统的系统功能分析

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i3.216

Yusuf Musa Aliyu

引用次数: 1

Progressive inflectional patterns in Tiv 四音调的递进屈折模式

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i3.217

Torkuma Tyonande Damkor, E. Ugechi

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引用次数: 0

A comparative study of Kikuyu Proverbs and its English equivalents on the role and position of women: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage perspective 基库尤谚语与英语谚语对女性角色和地位的比较研究:自然语义元语言视角

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i2.152

Stella Nyanjugu Gichohi, Agus Subiyanto

{"title":"A comparative study of Kikuyu Proverbs and its English equivalents on the role and position of women: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage perspective","authors":"Stella Nyanjugu Gichohi, Agus Subiyanto","doi":"10.57040/jllls.v2i2.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i2.152","url":null,"abstract":"Proverbs are part of any culture. They are symbolic as they carry the cultural wisdom and heritage of any community. Studies in the past have shown that proverbs just like other oral traditions help in the construction of identities and ideologies. Such identities and ideologies are as in gender, the roles of those genders and stereotypes alike. Kikuyu proverbs, particularly those on the role and position of women are no different. They are carriers of meaning. Kikuyu proverbs, just like many other proverbs, can be translated to other languages and their equivalents are provided as well. This paper studies selected Kikuyu proverbs about women and their English equivalent. The aim is to investigate whether the Kikuyu and their English equivalent proverbs have a similar semantic structure. The study also makes a comparison of the cultural themes. This study was premised on the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach by Anna Wierzbicka (1996) and Cliff Goddard (2002). Data for the analysis were collected from both oral and written sources. From the collected proverbs, 10 were selected for analysis. The analysis involved semantic explication of proverb texts using the five-part semantic template for proverbs analysis: ‘traditionality’, ‘recurrent situation’, ‘advice’, ‘analogy’, and ‘status as folk wisdom’ as proposed by Goddard. The finding was that the selected Kikuyu proverbs did not have a similar semantic structure to their English equivalent. The proverbs lacked elements such as ‘advice’ or ‘analogy’ when compared alongside. There was also a difference in their cultural themes.","PeriodicalId":108341,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116012515","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}

引用次数: 2

Discourse analysis on the city ordinances of Tagum City 塔古姆市城市条例的话语分析

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i2.209

Lisa Labial Serafica

{"title":"Discourse analysis on the city ordinances of Tagum City","authors":"Lisa Labial Serafica","doi":"10.57040/jllls.v2i2.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i2.209","url":null,"abstract":"This study entitled DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON THE CITY ORDINANCES OF TAGUM CITY describes and analyzes the stance markers, lexico-grammatical patterns of verbs, and semantics of verbs in the city ordinances. The method of analysis of this descriptive-qualitative study is based on the frameworks of the elements of stance by Hyland (2005), sub-categories of verb groups by Burton-Roberts (1994), and classification of verbal prototypes by Dixon and Aikhenvald (2004) employing Wetherell et al.'s (2001) four approaches to discourse analysis. This study analyzed five (5) randomly selected city ordinances of Tagum City from 2000 to 2017 with topics focusing on health, women, children, gender, and family. Based on the analyses of data, the findings revealed that in the city ordinances’ (a) boosters are used to express persuasion; (b) complex transitive verb groups are used to provide justification or support to the provisions; (c) affective verbs are used to express commitment and responsibility; and (d) stance markers, lexico-grammatical patterns of verbs and semantics of verbs contribute to the overall meaning and understanding in the city ordinances and helped in the easy understanding of the local law. The results of this study are found to have implications concerning the students, language teachers, government officials, and future researchers.","PeriodicalId":108341,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115869490","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}

引用次数: 0

Investigating the correlation of EFL students writing apprehension and writing performance: Dire Dawa University in focus, Ethiopia 英语学生写作理解与写作表现的相关性研究:以迪勒达瓦大学为研究对象

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i2.149

Dejene Mendera Beleta, S. Kebede

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引用次数: 2

Power relations in the deployment of linguistic resources by world leaders during the Russian-Ukrainian war 俄乌战争期间世界领导人语言资源调配中的权力关系

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i2.192

Matthew Abua Ebim, E. Nta, Okune Sunday Tasen

{"title":"Power relations in the deployment of linguistic resources by world leaders during the Russian-Ukrainian war","authors":"Matthew Abua Ebim, E. Nta, Okune Sunday Tasen","doi":"10.57040/jllls.v2i2.192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i2.192","url":null,"abstract":"On the 24th of February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a war that has drawn widespread condemnations, criticisms, and reactions from world leaders. While an infinitesimal figure has spoken in support of the invasion, most world leaders have outrightly condemned the action of the Russian government led by Vladimir Putin who in the process of justifying his actions, claims that the reason for the invasion was to “de-nazify” the Ukrainian government policies. Ironically, Putin himself is a product of Nazism, a system of government that he strongly supported in his prime. Moreso, in the days of the USSR, the Russian government had been accused of the same offense the Russian government is accusing Ukraine of. Therefore, this is a clear case of linguistic labeling embellished in the exercise of power as a justification for the activity carried out by a more superior force. The theoretical framework of CDA was adopted in this study because it focuses squarely on the projection of ideology and the intersection of power play in any form of discourse. It also brings out indices of hidden meanings in texts and tries to proffer solutions to societal problems from the perspective of language use. The study reveals cases of polarization, ideological projection, the deployment of linguistic resources in form of labeling to justify the actions of Putin over the Ukrainians. There is also the deliberate attempt to “annex” or “conquer” the less powerful using application of force through the policy of “imposition”.","PeriodicalId":108341,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134495411","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}

引用次数: 2

Post-colonialism: Corruption and representation in Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun 后殖民主义:Ngozi Adichie的《半个黄太阳》中的腐败与再现

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i2.190

Stanley Ordu, Better Odukwu

引用次数: 1

A morphosyntactic and semantic analysis of toponyms among the Luhya: A case of Bungoma County 鲁希亚族地名的形态句法和语义分析:以邦戈马县为例

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i1.189

Lucy Mandillah

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引用次数: 3

Interreligious hate speech as a source of insecurity in Nigeria 宗教间仇恨言论是尼日利亚不安全的根源

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i1.174

Peter Tachia Benki, Stephen Shiaondo Ajim, Ternenge Torruam

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