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Fragmented psyche and postcolonial feminist construction: A study of Emeka Nwabueze’s The dragon’s funeral and tess Onwueme’s Then she said it 破碎的心灵与后殖民女性主义建构:埃梅卡·努瓦布兹的《龙的葬礼》与苔丝·翁乌梅的《然后她说了》研究

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i1.136

Walter Yong

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引用次数: 1

Lexico-stylistic analysis of Facebook postings on COVID-19 pandemic 新冠肺炎疫情Facebook帖子的词汇文体分析

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i1.137

Torkuma Tyonande Damkor

{"title":"Lexico-stylistic analysis of Facebook postings on COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Torkuma Tyonande Damkor","doi":"10.57040/jllls.v2i1.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i1.137","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 has been a global menace, hence a lot of awareness is being created in order to defeat the global menace and this awareness is carried out through language. Previous studies exist on lexico-stylistic analysis and the most related one to the present study is the stylistic analysis of a selected election campaign speech of President Goodluck Jonathan. The study looks at the use of words in utterances and their effect in the speech from the lexical, figure of speech, cohesion and context categories perspectives. This current study differs from the previous study because it is not about an election campaign speech but rather it is centred on the role of language in fighting COVID-19 by examining Facebook postings through a lexico-stylistic approach. The study is anchored on the Linguistic and Stylistic Categories by Leech and Short. The survey design was used for the study and data for the study were collected by extracting postings on COVID-19 from the Facebook and this was limited to selected Facebook posts of June and July, 2021 due to time and financial constraints. The findings of the study show that COVID-19 postings on the Facebook are majorly characterised by simple words or words without affixation. They also show that medical registers, figures of speech and collocations are featured in the Facebook postings on COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":108341,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134097061","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: 1

Languaging ethnicity and decolonising language ideologies in Cameroon contemporary urban music 喀麦隆当代城市音乐中的语言种族和非殖民化语言意识形态

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-30 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v2i1.127

Wanyu Ernest Nyamkoh

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引用次数: 2

Linguistic roles of surrogate language in the select literary texts 替代语言在文学文本中的语言作用

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-15 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v1i1.89

Terfa Aor, Margaret Nguemo Iorember

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引用次数: 2

Investigating into the varieties of language spoken at Benue State University, Makurdi 调查马库尔迪贝努埃州立大学使用的语言种类

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-15 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v1i1.73

Torkuma Tyonande Damkor, Stephanie Terna

{"title":"Investigating into the varieties of language spoken at Benue State University, Makurdi","authors":"Torkuma Tyonande Damkor, Stephanie Terna","doi":"10.57040/jllls.v1i1.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v1i1.73","url":null,"abstract":"In a multilingual speech community like Benue State University, Makurdi, where the members thereof have different native language backgrounds and English is chosen to be the official language, members of the university community speak different varieties of language in different domains. The paper entitled ‘Investigating into the varieties of language spoken at Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi’ is set to examine the varieties of language spoken on the BSU’s campus. The survey design was adopted, and questionnaires were used as the instruments for data collection for the paper. The analysis of the varieties of language spoken at the university was based on William Labov’s Variationist Theory which claims that differences are featured in the use of language among individuals based on the contexts. Through the analysis of the data, the researchers discovered that English, Pidgin, and native languages such as Tiv, Idoma, Igede, Etulo, Igbo, Hausa, among others, are spoken at the university. The study also discovered that Pidgin is predominantly used at the university despite the fact that English is the official language because academics and lecture rooms may be the only domains and settings that compulsorily enforce the use of English. The researchers, therefore, suggest that more efforts should be made to ensure a predominant use of English on the BSU’s campus since it is the official and prestigious language of Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":108341,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies","volume":"517 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127616160","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

Non-arbitrariness in the Tiv grammar: An appraisal of onomatopoeias and sound symbolism 四语语法的非任意性:拟声词和声音象征主义的评价

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-11 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v1i1.72

Terfa Aor, Torkuma Tyonande Damkor, Pilah Godwin Anyam

{"title":"Non-arbitrariness in the Tiv grammar: An appraisal of onomatopoeias and sound symbolism","authors":"Terfa Aor, Torkuma Tyonande Damkor, Pilah Godwin Anyam","doi":"10.57040/jllls.v1i1.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v1i1.72","url":null,"abstract":"The study entitled ‘Non-arbitrariness in the Tiv grammar: An appraisal of onomatopoeias and sound symbolisms’ has debunked a long acclaimed notion that there is no co-relationship between sounds and meanings; that objects or things are called not because of the resemblance. This study substantiates that Tiv grammar has cornucopious instances of onomatopoeias and sound symbolisms which are non-arbitrary in nature. The objectives of this paper are (i) prove that there is a presence of non-arbitrariness in the Tiv grammar; (ii) classify the concept of non-arbitrariness; (iii) establish that it is easy to comprehend words or expressions that are non-arbitrarily used. Peirce’s (1985) theory of sign has been used in this study to establish a convergence between sounds and meanings. This study used observation method and the data were selected using deliberate sampling. It has been found out that language is beyond arbitrariness as established by scholars. Though existed in minute instances, non-arbitrariness in language usage draws attention to such a word hence its sound aids in memorability and attention-grabbing. It has been discovered that onomatopoeias and sound symbolisms are sources of word-formation in Tiv. Non-arbitrary use of language is responsible for capturing sounding, feeling, looking, tasting or smelling of objects. This study has debunked a hackneyed dictum that human languages are solely arbitrary. This study is recommended to grammarians, linguists, lecturers, students, scholars who may want to establish a nexus between phonology and semantics (phonosemantics), discuss the iconicity in human languages and explore the efficacy of onomatopoeias and sound symbolisms as sources of word formation.","PeriodicalId":108341,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114292005","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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Referencing and transformation in Sarah Kane’s Blasted 莎拉·凯恩的《爆破》中的参照和变形

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-20 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v1i1.66

Emmerencia Sih Beh

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Phonemic substitutions in the English-Tiv loan phonology 英语-英语借调音系中的音位替换

Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.57040/jllls.v1i1.49

Terfa Aor

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