A. Ainamon, Célestin Gbaguidi, Messan Kodjo Agonglovi
{"title":"Exploring the Issue of Marriage Rites in Selected African Novels","authors":"A. Ainamon, Célestin Gbaguidi, Messan Kodjo Agonglovi","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1002001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1002001","url":null,"abstract":"Marriage in traditional African society is performed with great importance and dignity. Marriage is a social institution which acknowledges both universally and socially the union between a man and a woman. In the traditional African society, the bride and the groom marry to procreate and provide children for their family. The custom of marriage is a significant component in the African culture and is also one of the most thought about issues in African literary works. The main purpose of marriage in traditional African society is to help the husband’s family grow and to obtain companionship.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121221411","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}
{"title":"A Potential Solution to Unintelligible English Accent: an Orthoepic Study of the Effectiveness of Stress Placement Intervention for Chinese English Speakers","authors":"Liwen Liu","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0904002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0904002","url":null,"abstract":"Although English has continued to grow as a major language spoken internationally, many non-native speakers have found learning to say English vocabulary correctly difficult because of proper word stress placement. This study was conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of word stress rules, created by Canadian linguist George Waldo (1968), in improving the pronunciation of English by Chinese college students. Given the problems associated with the pronunciation of English by nonnative American speakers. The purposes of this research were two-fold.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121640161","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}
{"title":"Postcolonial Conflict: Colonising and Decolonising Violence in Helon Habila's Oil on Water","authors":"Koubli Nouanwa","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1010002","url":null,"abstract":": This paper aims at discussing the postcolonial conflicts engendered by the imperialist oil process of Nigeria and the postcolonial reaction of nationalist movements. Despite the official independence of Nigeria since October 1, 1960, it is however observed that her economic riches like oil are still controlled and thieved away by the superpowers of Europe. These superpowers work in tandem with the local government to operate this neo-colonial crime. If, vis-à-vis this neo-colonial conspiracy some Nigerians remain supine in fear of military repressions, others have the nationalist courage to use the same colonising instrument of violence against their colonial tormentors for true decolonisation to take shape. This is what postcolonial Nigerian writer Helon Habila depicts in Oil on Water. In the text, the author portrays the exploitation of the Nigerian oil by western oil multinationals in connivance with the Federal Nigerian government. This neo-colonial exploitation is faced with the decolonising nationalist movements organised in guerrillas in a view to decolonising themselves and repossessing their hijacked oil dividend. The paper predicates on the postcolonial theory to postulate that the natives are bound to make recourse to nationalist violence to wrench their lives free from the shackles of imperialist and colonialist dominationism. The analyses from the text permit us to infer that in Oil on Water, Habila depicts postcolonial conflicts between neo-colonisers and nationalists and encourages the re-colonised post-independent populations to keep their nationalist endeavour on till real freedom is obtained.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126325516","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}
{"title":"Study on the Inheritance and Future-Generation Transmission of Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly Culture of the New Generation of Preschool Education Undergraduates in Shanghai","authors":"Haiyan Hao","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0711001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0711001","url":null,"abstract":"China is the country with the largest number of elderly people, accounting for about one-fifth of the total number of older people in the world. As the first city in China to enter an aging society, Shanghai has entered a stage of deep aging. By the end of 2014, the registered elderly population in Shanghai had exceeded 4 million for the first time, and it is expected to exceed 5 million by the middle of 13th Five-Year plan.[1] With the rapid economic development and the continuous improvement of the social security system, the material support has gradually improved. However, with the acceleration of China's population mobility and the change of family structure, the lack of spiritual comfort and mental health problems existing in the elderly in urban and rural areas have gradually become apparent. In response to the deep aging population structure and growing demand for elderly care services, it is planned that by 2020, Shanghai will build “a „five in one‟ comprehensive social old-age service system featuring service supply, social security, policy support, demand assessment, and industry supervision” , as well as old-age friendly city and elderly livable communities.[1]","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126407345","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}
{"title":"Wole Soyinka's Ake and African Philosophy of Culture","authors":"M. Dukor","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0706003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0706003","url":null,"abstract":"Ernest Emenyonu had said wisely that literature of a people is more or less an \"imaginative recreation of a people's account of their social, cultural, political and economic perspectives of a given time and place\".(Nnolim, 2015:30) The social and the cultural as an encompassing worldview including the political and the economic is here arrayed to crystallize the sublime philosophical perspectives and literary aesthetics out of a clash of civilizations, the rhythm and contradictions of traditional and natural environment in Ake and how they collectively and generally became a burden to one's curiosity in seeking to understand the other, the local, then the foreign or invading white man's modern views, nay acculturation and enculturation.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128069501","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}
Du Yakun, Linzhou Fan, Arbey Hernan Medina Rocha, Rodrigo Cabrera Perez, Clara Isabel Bermudez Santana
{"title":"Le Mariage Traditionnel Chez Les Moose De Koudougou Au Burkina Faso: Un Lien Sacre Entre Deux Familles","authors":"Du Yakun, Linzhou Fan, Arbey Hernan Medina Rocha, Rodrigo Cabrera Perez, Clara Isabel Bermudez Santana","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1105004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1105004","url":null,"abstract":"L’Afrique, continent marqué par une vie culturelle riche et variée, est remarquable par l’existence des actions sociales individuelles et collectives qui renforcent les liens interpersonnel et intercommunautaire. Ces liens contribuent à la consolidation des alliances dans la vie quotidienne des peuples. C’est le cas du mariage traditionnel chez les Moose de Koudougou au Burkina Faso. Célébré, le mariage traditionnel contribue à la consolidation des liens du futur couple et par ricochet crée des relations sacrées entre des familles voire même entre des villages. Au cours de la célébration du mariage traditionnel des actes sont posés et sont des symboles de pactes scellés entre les communautés concernées. Malheureusement, aujourd'hui, de nombreux foyers se déciment compte tenu de la perte de vue de l’aspect sacré tissé entre les deux communautés alliées. C’est ce constat amer qui nous a poussé à faire le choix du mariage traditionnel moaga de Koudougou comme objet d’étude. Cet état de fait positionne la réflexion sur la question principale suivante : comment s’organise le mariage traditionnel chez les moose de Koudougou ? Cette question centrale suscite des questions spécifiques à savoir:","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129972609","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}
Thierry Tsono Mowelle, Rinikso Kartono, T. Sulistyaningsih
{"title":"Is N- or Ø the Synchronic Class9 Prefix in Lekuwa (C27)?","authors":"Thierry Tsono Mowelle, Rinikso Kartono, T. Sulistyaningsih","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1001003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1001003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134110566","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}
{"title":"Code Choice in Cameroon Creative Writing in English: A Case Study of the Immortal Seed by Tah Protus","authors":"Yepdia Leundjeu Walter","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0812002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0812002","url":null,"abstract":"Code choice is a sociolinguistic phenomenon which is characteristic of bilingual and multilingual speakers, who in dialogic conversations, use two or more languages to negotiate personal relationships. This paper explores features of language choice in The Immortal Seed, a novel by Tah Protus. Also, it scrutinises the paralinguistic functions of selected codes and finally sorts out of the book the writers‟ preoccupations forming the basis of the discursive writing strategies used.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131864007","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}
Du Yakun, Linzhou Fan, Arbey Hernan Medina Rocha, Rodrigo Cabrera Perez, Clara Isabel Bermudez Santana
{"title":"Examining Alternatives to Conventional Classes for ESL/EFL Students","authors":"Du Yakun, Linzhou Fan, Arbey Hernan Medina Rocha, Rodrigo Cabrera Perez, Clara Isabel Bermudez Santana","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1103002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1103002","url":null,"abstract":",","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115518806","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}
{"title":"The Paradox of Cultural Decolonization through the Colonizer's Language in Achebe's Things Fall Apart","authors":"Abdulqawi A. S. Altobbai","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0805002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0805002","url":null,"abstract":"An important area of concern in postcolonial studies is language. In order to redeem the culture, some African writers have emphasized the need to reclaim the pre-colonial languages and cultural modes. Writers like Achebe were only concerned with finding ways in which English could be refashioned and appropriated to meet the requirements of the new context and thus overcome the disjunction between the experience of place of the colonized and the alien medium used. Achebe in his appropriation of English wanted not only to depict his own set of experiences but more significantly to achieve cultural decolonization. What strategies and techniques has he followed to turn English, the colonizer's language into a means of cultural decolonization? The answer is what this paper attempts to provide by examining Things Fall Apart. In their studies of Achebe’s novel, critics have examined the language's role in evoking the native culture. But the significant role Achebe’s version of English played in making the novel an important endeavor in the cultural decolonization is what this paper attempts to explore.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117293877","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}