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{"title":"Concepts as a Means of Organizing Artistic Discourse","authors":"Aleksandra Vishniakova, Tatiana Kuzioma","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-4-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-4-3","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the peculiarities of modern foreign prose on the material of English writer Martin Amis’s novels. The basis of individual-author's picture representation of the world is the author's concepts system, which have common characteristics with the concepts of other authors, but differ in author's content, which makes it possible to talk about the uniqueness of the author's conceptosphere. Martin Amis in his work takes a passive creative position, striving to portray reality as it is. The author does not show ways out of the situation or options for solving problems, he takes the position of an outside observer, which is characteristic of most modern authors. The novels “Yellow Dog”, “The House of Meetings”, “The Zone of Interest” underwent the research as contain the relation concept as the main representative of individual thinking. Keywords: concept, relations, literature, novel, space category, Martin Amis","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"123 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244812","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":"Healing Wounds in Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and An American Sunrise","authors":"Sally Michael Hanna","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-4-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-4-2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the healing of trauma of memory and history in Joy Harjo’s two recent volumes Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015) and An American Sunrise (2019). Such a task is achieved by rewriting the story from the perspective of the victimized by drawing upon themes of unison with nature, unity and fluidity of time, and music as an alternative language of nature, along with the English language, once considered a space of personal erasure, is now presented as the transformational space of naming and claiming. Healing through forgiveness ensues leading to transcendence over loss through the grace of letting go. The process presented is one of circular journeying in places and spaces of memory to transform anger into grace and forgiveness, and to perceive home as an internal space of memory rather than a place lost to an atrocious past. Keywords: healing, trauma, memory, history, alternative language of nature, grace, circular journeying, transcendence, naming and claiming","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"394 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244902","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 Use of Evaluative Adjectives and the Problem of Collocation","authors":"M. L. Drazdauskienė","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-4-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-4-4","url":null,"abstract":"On defining the basic terms and overviewing a few select publications, the problem question of how the meaning of the words in a nominal word group determines the unit‘s foundation and stability is answered while overviewing nominal word groups, most of them collocations, and searching the answer in experiential collocations as these turn into wholly attitudinal (evaluative) collocations. As experiential collocations turn into attitudinal, so their typical deep semantic bonds happen to weaken or disappear altogether. Only weak semantic links or, mostly, semantic features relevant to an object motivate attitudinal word groups and collocations. But attitudinal nominal groups are not entirely free combinations of words because numbers of such categories as animate, inanimate, concrete, abstract, thing, phenomenon, phenomenon, mental process and others determine how the words combine in a unit and how close the interior link in them is. Keywords: nominal groups, collocation(s), semantically, experientially motivated units, deep semantic bond, semantic link, experiential link, semic agreement, experiential relations, relevance of a feature to an object","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245804","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 Trouble of Others”: Solidarity, Social Bonds, and Visibility","authors":"Mary N. Layoun, Joseph Layon","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-4-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-4-1","url":null,"abstract":"Can we “share the trouble of others”? Andree Chedid’s novel, The Sixth Day – our point of departure here – poses and suggests a provocative response to this question, to how we might see one another as cohabitants, to how we might engage in a “politics of deep solidarity” (Alexander 2020). More than empathy or compassion, this sharing or solidarity demands we take on our portion of the trouble of others; it makes clear the need for “political friendship” (Allen 2004) or “political solidarity” (Scholz 2008) or “solidarity with strangers” (Dean 1996). And if we can see and hear the demand for sharing the trouble of others, can we imagine putting it into practice (the story Chedid’s novel tells), recognizing that the alternatives are, literally, deadly? In reflecting on our initial question, we arrived at another: what happens to the possibility of solidarity with those whom we do not, or refuse, to see? Drawing on our personal, intellectual, and political experiences, we reflect on these questions, following the lead of material-world clinical cases and of imaginative fiction to point to a radically inclusive sharing that, we argue, our historical moment demands. Keywords: literature, solidarity, social bonds, political friendship, solidarity with strangers","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"288 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245859","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 Impact of the Linus Literacy Programme on Reading Ability Skills in Malaysia","authors":"Gunasegaran Karuppannan, Junaida Sanudin, Fazal Mohamed Mohamed Sultan","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-3-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-3-1","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to identify factors contributing to reading proficiency among primary school students who attended the Literacy and Numeracy Screening (LINUS) Programme in Malaysia. A total of 108 students were selected to participate in this study, which used a mixed method. The findings show no significant difference in the proficiency of reading aspects between students in terms of gender. However, the findings proved that students whose parents work in the government sector show better achievement than students from families where their parents working in the private sector. This study also found that students obtained a better command in reading during the post-test was higher than during the pre-test. A qualitative approach is applied to obtain desired data by using observation, interview and document review techniques. The study found that the LINUS teachers used various methods such as demonstrations, instructions, drills and fun learning during teaching sessions while incorporating learning aids; for instance, scan cards and reading kits help students recognise syllables and increase reading ability. Low-income parents, type of occupation, passive LINUS students and frequent absenteeism are among the constraints identified in this study. Keywords: education, LINUS programme, literacy, primary schools","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130040667","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":"After Verkuyl’s Discovery Aspect is No Longer a Mystery, but Aspectology Needs a Reform Review Article: Henk Verkuyl, The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 167). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022","authors":"Krasimir Kabakciev","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-3-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-3-4","url":null,"abstract":"This is a review article on a new monograph by Henk Verkuyl, the finder of compositional aspect (CA), which crowns his research for six decades already. The paper summarizes Verkuyl’s contribution in describing the mechanism of aspect in CA languages by establishing two semantico-syntactic schemata, a perfective and an imperfective one. Defects, flaws and omissions in his model are also identified. Verkuyl’s discovery is widely recognized but his theory is misconceptualized in its very core by a large part of the aspectological community. The reasons for the massive misconceptualization are analyzed against the author’s own model, claimed to be capable of providing the most adequate explanation of CA vis-à-vis verbal aspect (VA) and of doing ultimate justice to Verkuyl’s “oeuvre”. Keywords: compositional aspect, verbal aspect, article-aspect interplay, boundedness/non-boundedness, perfectivity/imperfectivity, temporality of situation participants","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117127362","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 Nostalgic Home in E. M. Forster's Novels","authors":"N. Salim","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-3-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-3-2","url":null,"abstract":"Edward Morgan Forster wrote 6 novels, all of which revolve around the concept of home in relation to the representation of time and its impact on human soul and spirit. Homes of Forster are created by people and their emotions; hence they are very effective in their lives. In his Aspects of the Novel, Forster confirms that the art of fiction depends on facets like characters, plots, patterns, time, and places. This paper handles the representation of homes and the impact of time on these homes in E.M. Forester's Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room With A View and Howard's End. In these novels Forster uses a recurrent theme; that is the impact of time on places and people. As Angels Fear to Tread echoes Alexander Pope's line in his An Essay on Criticism: \"for fools rush in where angels fear to tread\", the novel deals with concepts like national character, connection across social differences, the passage of time and its impact on places and houses. In A Room with A View, Forster contrasts Florence, Italy and Windy Corner, England, showing their influence on the development of Lucy, the heroine. Lucy is torn between two different lives. She misses the feeling of home, warmth and domesticity. She struggles throughout the whole novel to embrace love, security, and belonging. Home as a concept is an evasive axis in Forster's Howard's End. The novel is set in the Victorian era where all houses were rebuilt, reconstructed and replaced. There was a demanding rebuilding initiative across Britain, especially in London. That's why houses and places were obviously an entity for people's emotional values. In Howard's End, the Schlegels are evicted from Wickham place, and this leads to their dichotomy. The concepts of places, dwelling, passing of time, and nostalgia, give an opportunity for readers to observe the importance of home in modern life. In Forster's novels, homes are experienced on many levels: homes as places people have already visited and lived in; homes as places people imagined through pictures or dreams; and homes that are never visited or even imagined by dwellers. As John Edward Hardy states: \"buildings, and the design of them, the architectural character of civilization, would seem to be in Forster's mind fundamentally related to its character of manners and morals\", it would be significant to have a deeper look into the concept of home, time and nostalgia in relation to modern man. Keywords: houses, homes, Forster's novels, passage of time, nostalgia and modernity","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125717811","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 Black Aesthetic in Rita Dove’s Playlist for the Apocalypse","authors":"S. Hanna","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-3-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-3-3","url":null,"abstract":"To Rita Dove, a renowned poet of great transformations and eclectic artistry, blackness is an aesthetic that must be embraced and celebrated. It is the project of this paper to reflect on the black aesthetic depicted in Rita Dove’s Playlist for the Apocalypse (2021); a breakthrough volume presenting blackness as an “Ars Poetica” an “X marks the spot” leading to Dove’s signature crossing. In this volume, Dove presents a playlist of the everyday and of the nation's history over the past fifty years. The title of the volume, while acknowledging the sequential playfulness of a music playlist, it maintains a cadence of finality brought about by the word “apocalypse.” Playlist for the Apocalypse presents “a lifetime of song” dramatizing Dove’s view of the idea of the apocalypse as both end and resurrection recorded in personal triumphs and pains as her stories meet with the grand arc of history. Keywords: Black aesthetic, grand arc of history, music, vocalization, orchestration, memory, race, anger, resignation, disease, death, resurrection","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114325575","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":"Second Language Vocabulary Teaching and Learning: Inspecting Alternatives and Analyzing Results","authors":"P. Luchini, Gabriela Mariel Ferreiro","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-2-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-2-1","url":null,"abstract":"For a long time now, the teaching and learning of L2 vocabulary has been underrated in second language acquisition (SLA). However, in the last three decades, there has been a reemergence of interest in this field and different proposals and perspectives have arisen that strengthen and encourage due attention. The purpose of this paper was to inquire into the effectiveness of the implementation of an array of vocabulary tasks to facilitate vocabulary acquisition. Three teachers of English at a private secondary school in Mar del Plata, Argentina, participated in this action research. Data were gathered by means of field notes, teaching activities, self- assessment reports and evaluation meetings. The results obtained shed some light on L2 vocabulary teaching and some new viewpoints are discussed that could help other language teachers develop conceptual knowledge to tackle lexical instruction. The decision to embark on this action research study led these three teachers to reflect upon their own teaching practice with regard to L2 vocabulary instruction and thus take cognizance of the importance of the inclusion of L2 vocabulary teaching on a regular basis in their classes. Finally, some suggestions for further research in this area were given. Keywords: vocabulary teaching/learning, L2 vocabulary, action research","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122097427","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":"Nalayira Divya Prabandham Kaṇnaṇ and Greek Herakles - Union of Binary Oppositions in Fighting with Animals and the Formula for Variation","authors":"D. Pugazhendhi","doi":"10.30958/ajp.10-2-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-2-4","url":null,"abstract":"It is mentioned by Greek historian Arrian that Indians worshipped Greek Herakles. The myths related with Greek Herakles like fighting against living creatures and wild animals and displaying their extra-ordinary power against natural elements are all found in the myths of Tamil God Kaṇnaṇ. So it is asserted that the Indian Herakles worshipped by Tamil people is none other than Tamil God Kaṇnaṇ through myths. Greek Herakles with lion head cap becomes Lion headed God in Tamil myth. Thus the binary oppositions between ‘Man and Animal’ and between ‘Man and God’ united as the God with animal headed human body. This research attempts to compare the Greek and Tamil myths with their theories of mythology. Keywords: Greek, Herakles, Krishna, myths, Tamil Kannan","PeriodicalId":199513,"journal":{"name":"ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125418280","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}