AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies最新文献

A survey of gender politics and the use of English among students of the department of English studies, University of Port Harcourt 哈考特港大学英语研究系学生性别政治与英语使用的调查

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.4

J. O. Ahaotu, Iworifama. R. Tobiahs

{"title":"A survey of gender politics and the use of English among students of the department of English studies, University of Port Harcourt","authors":"J. O. Ahaotu, Iworifama. R. Tobiahs","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated feminist consciousness and the differences in the use of English language among undergraduates in the Department of English Studies (EST), University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The theoretical basis of the study is Radical Feminism and the researchers used a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) to collect data for the study. The researchers collected data from three groups each of which consisted of ten final year students who formed panels to discuss gender issues while the researchers moderated. The data was analysed with framework analysis, simple percentages, and significant ratios. The study revealed that the participants were actively engaged in gender politics, used English in significantly different styles, but tended to be equally divided on their total allegiance to their gender groups. The study concluded that EST students are actively engaged in gender politics and confirmed the existence of some of the differences between male and female speech identified by earlier studies. Therefore, it recommended, among others, that curriculum design on the subject should shift from aggression and divisiveness to integration and mutual respect for not just named gender groups, but also for all humans. \u0000Key Words: gender politics, Feminism, focal group discussion, gender and language, variation","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"659 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133334571","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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Women, protest and social change in Julie Okoh’s Edewede Julie Okoh的《Edewede》中的女性、抗议和社会变革

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.3

Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo

{"title":"Women, protest and social change in Julie Okoh’s Edewede","authors":"Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st century African society is rife with oppressive and retrogressive customs and values that oppress and subjugate women. As a result, African women writers have embraced literary forms and subjects that highlight these issues and advocate for their elimination from society. Among these writers is Julie Okoh, a playwright, who projects her concerns about the dangers of female circumcision in her play, Edewede. Using feminism as a theoretical framework, this article interrogates Okoh’s adoption of the principles of two opposing feminist perspectives─African and radical feminism─with a view to revealing their impact in rousing her female characters from subservience, ignorance and passivity, to revolt against their oppression through social protest. It is discovered that education, consciousness-raising, sisterhood, female solidarity and resilience are powerful tools for women’s empowerment in the play. It is recommended that women should not be context bound in their choice and expression of feminist perspectives, strategies or weapons in the fight against gender inequality, oppression and exploitation; they should be open to contemporary avenues and progressive choices that will pave the way to their emancipation and social change.","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127801981","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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An investigation of questions in Ètùló language of Benue State, Nigeria 尼日利亚贝努埃州Ètùló语言问题调查

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.10

Adaobi Ngozi Okoye

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Igbo dialects and the citation-form: the possibility of a standard Igbo dictionary 伊博方言和引用形式:编写标准伊博语词典的可能性

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.9

Esther N. Oweleke

{"title":"Igbo dialects and the citation-form: the possibility of a standard Igbo dictionary","authors":"Esther N. Oweleke","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.9","url":null,"abstract":"It is the norm in lexicography to have dictionary headwords in the standard variety of the language. But up to date, no Igbo dictionary exists in this variety. Most Igbo lexicographers have adopted the dialectal or multidialectal approach in their choice of a citation-form. The multiplicity of Igbo dialects accounts for this situation. This paper examines both sound and lexical variations in the language; describes the lexicographic problems of choice and arrangement of headwords, and discusses the suitability of the Igbo dictionary as a tool for standardizing the language. Two major sources of data were employed: the modified Ibadan 400 wordlist of basic items - used for a survey of the seven dialect zones identified by Manfredi (1989), and the dictionaries of Welmers and Welmers (1968), Williamson (1972), Igwe (1999) and Echeruo (2001). The paper demonstrated that sound and lexical variants in Igbo can be harnessed by Igbo lexicographers to produce an Igbo dictionary in the standard variety. Considering the optimal benefits derivable from a standard dictionary, the following suggestions for future Igbo lexicographers are proffered: words from different dialects of the language should be included in the dictionary; the standard forms be selected and consistently entered as headwords. Words with sound variation should be treated as sub-entries and lexical variants be cited as main-entries in their right alphabetical positions. The paper argued that, for the Igbo dictionary to fulfil its indispensable role as a language standardizing tool, the production of a Standard Igbo dictionary is imperative in Igbo lexicography and Igbo language studies.","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130480194","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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The discourse of thesis assessment reports in a disciplinary community at the University of Cape Coast: An exploratory study 海岸角大学学科社区论文评估报告的论述:一项探索性研究

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.11

J. Afful

{"title":"The discourse of thesis assessment reports in a disciplinary community at the University of Cape Coast: An exploratory study","authors":"J. Afful","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.11","url":null,"abstract":"Thesis assessment reports constitute an important review genre in postgraduate education, though they largely remain occluded. This paper investigates the discourse of thesis assessment reports, with the view to gaining insights into their form and content in a Ghanaian university. Thirty-four (34) written assessment reports of 19 Master’s theses from the Department of English in the University of Cape Coast constituted the data set. A qualitative content analysis, supplemented with descriptive statistics, was adopted. Three key findings emerged from the analysis of the data. First, there were varying structural patterns adopted by assessors, thereby evincing individual preferences. Second, the least and most frequent comments in the assessment reports were on the methodology on one hand and literature review and analysis/discussion on the other hand. Third, theses assessors largely adhered to institutional guidelines in terms of the evaluative criteria. These findings have implications for the scholarship on thesis assessment reports in postgraduate education, postgraduate pedagogy, and further research in higher education in Ghana and elsewhere. \u0000Key Words: Discourse, thesis assessment reports, Ghana, postgraduate education","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114423480","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

Reinforcing the teaching of translation in Beninese Secondary Schools: A new challenge for EFL teachers 加强贝宁中学翻译教学:对英语教师的新挑战

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.14

Mahugnon Severin Mehouenou, A. M. Dossoumou, Djima Crépin Loko

{"title":"Reinforcing the teaching of translation in Beninese Secondary Schools: A new challenge for EFL teachers","authors":"Mahugnon Severin Mehouenou, A. M. Dossoumou, Djima Crépin Loko","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.14","url":null,"abstract":"This paper dealt with, after the scrutiny of advanced learners’ translation skills, the necessity of reinforcing the teaching of translation skills as a potentially effective method of teaching/learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL)in Benin high schools. In fact, the Beninese EFL learners study English for almost about seven years (four years in the first cycle and three years in the second) before joining university. For the last three years, they are exposed to translation skills during evaluation. Unfortunately, the designed curriculum has nowhere mentioned the teaching/learning/evaluation of translation. This paper then examined, through a well-established methodology based on field research investigation and questionnaires, some translation excerpts by EFL learners and hypotheses that no translation techniques are taught by teachers before evaluation. It finally concludes that the poor grades the learners culled are due to the lack of practice with their teachers who, in turn, have received no professional training in the matter. \u0000Key Words: translation, evaluation, techniques of translation, communicative performance, source language, target language.","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116163338","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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a Study of non-verbal communication in the Nigerian (Yorùbá) novels: The side code 奈及利亚(Yorùbá)小说中的非言语交际研究:旁码

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.7

A. Adésànyà

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Gender and racial trauma in Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 安吉罗的《我知道笼中鸟为何歌唱》中的性别与种族创伤

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.1

R. P. Adhikary

{"title":"Gender and racial trauma in Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings","authors":"R. P. Adhikary","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses racial and gender trauma evoking the tormented state of the narrator, Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Based on the cultural trauma, the researcher analyses the experiences of depressed African American women without identities. The narrator struggles to develop her dignified self and nonconformist outlook comes to block her after she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend Mr. Freeeman. The mysterious murder of her rapist creates the guilt, shame in her psychic as she thinks that she is responsible for his murder. The narrator suffering from the guilt and self-loathing results in her psychic turmoil. She stops speaking to people except her brother, Bailey. In the novel, Angelou tries to raise the voice of Black women to achieve dignified identity in the white racist and sexist America looking back on her childhood experiences. In this regard, this research aims to show reasons that cause the traumatic situation in the narrator due to several events that erupt in African American societies. Not only this, this research work explores issues related to the cause of racial and gender trauma and discusses how the narrator succeeds in working through trauma while in some cases the narrator just acts out it. \u0000Key Words: Race, Gender, Cultural trauma, Psychic turmoil, identity, self","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128925462","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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Out with old, in with the new: Negotiating identity in re-naming a Xhosa umtshakazi 旧的去了，新的来了:重新命名科萨umtshakazi的身份谈判

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.6

E. B. Zungu, Nomvula Maphini

{"title":"Out with old, in with the new: Negotiating identity in re-naming a Xhosa umtshakazi","authors":"E. B. Zungu, Nomvula Maphini","doi":"10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Umtshakazi (singular) is a bride and abatshakazi (plural) are brides in isiXhosa language. The word is derived from the word ‘tsha’ which means new in isiXhosa. The word is popularly known as Makoti in other African languages, such as isiZulu. In short, a bride is a woman about to be married or newly married and thus a “new member” of the husband’s family. In a South African context, naming is not reserved for new-born children as there are circumstances whereby older people get new names. In Xhosa re-naming of abatshakazi, is a religious practice where name-givers bestow a name on a newlywed and then expect brides to live up to their newly acquired names. Like most things cultural, the brides have no choice but to accept the new name, embrace what the name entails and live up to the family’s expectations. Through the re-naming process the bride assumes a new identity which means taking the responsibility that comes with it. This article examines how such a process gives brides new roles to play; how brides make a conscious effort to live up to the name and how this changes their identity. This article is going to take a phenomenology stance. The phenomenology theory is a theoretical proposition which focuses on people’s perceptions of the world in which they live and what it means to them. It focuses on people’s lived experiences. This theory is essential in this article as the article focuses on the individual experiences of Xhosa abatshakazi in the naming process. \u0000Key Words: gender, culture, names, identity, marriage","PeriodicalId":126753,"journal":{"name":"AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129125877","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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The influence of cultural constraints on comprehension among second language (L2) learners: Implications for language teaching and learning 文化约束对第二语言学习者理解能力的影响:对语言教学的启示

AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-28 DOI: 10.4314/LALIGENS.V9I1.12

U. Ikonne

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