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{"title":"Eradicating Marine Debris in Bayelsa State: The Role of Language Education","authors":"Therese Marie Teibowei","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.1.51","url":null,"abstract":"The ocean is a major natural resource that supplies food such as fish, prawns, lobster, etc. It is also a platform for conveying materials and men, and it serves as a source of recreation for humans. Generally, one can authoritatively assert that the ocean is critical to life on earth, hence, it is almost impossible to overemphasize its usefulness. Therefore, this study explored the role of language education in eradicating marine debris in Bayelsa State. The concept of language and language education, sustainability and marine debris were clarified. Factors militating against the eradication of marine debris and language education and creating awareness were discussed. It was recommended amongst others that the government should inculcate the services of language experts for effective eradication of marine debris.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131277123","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":"What’s On Your Mind? Deathscape of Filipino Postmortem Remembrance and Mourning Practices on Facebook","authors":"Daphnie N. Costa, Raine E. Rillera, Chrissa J. Lorica, Annie G. Sorima, Jose P. Nacionales","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.38","url":null,"abstract":"People’s lives have had a major shift since the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic all over the globe. Death and burial practices in the Philippines during the pandemic have been a challenge faced by the bereaved family. Due to the threat of the deadly virus, these public religious practices were posed with serious challenges and necessary restrictions. In previous years, studies that investigate the digital practice of postmortem mourning and grieving are limited (Lagerkvist, 2013; Mukherjee & Williams, 2014; Gamba, 2018). In the Philippines, digital mourning is a relatively new phenomenon and Sapalo (2021) contended that this phenomenon must be paid with keen attention to how it develops over the next months and even years. A total of 50 Facebook posts (n=4,187 words) were gathered from the Facebook timeline of ten (10) deceased Filipinos contracted by the COVID-19 virus and 31 Filipino digital mourners who have shared the said posts were interviewed. Using qualitative research through netnography, the present study examined the language used by Facebook users when mourning with their loved once, including the analysis of their memorial confessions as posted in the timeline of the deceased and its role in the healing process. Using frequency counts, the findings indicated that the dominant language used by users is English. Also, based on the thematic analysis, the participants’ posts disclosed the following confessional status when remembering and mourning in digital spaces: reminiscing memory with the deceased, honoring the dead in positive ways, emotional disclosure, supporting the bereaved family, and prayers for the deceased eternal repose. The participants likewise reported that their memorial posts are intended for significant functions such as diffusion of traditional rituals into virtual space, instill grief solidarity for healing, communal mourning in support to the bereaved and by illuminating the deceased’s legacy.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131010601","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":"Aromanian Cultural and Linguistic Shift to Greek","authors":"Alex De Lusignan Fan-Moniz","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.54","url":null,"abstract":"Aromanian-armân, (Weigand, 1895) is an oral Eastern-Romance language spoken by the Aromanians (armâni, or armãneashti), an ethnic group historically known for transhumance, dispersed over a wide area of the Balkans in what is present-day Peninsular Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Southern Romania, Serbia, and Albania. These people have been noted as Aromanians or Vlachs sometime since the eighth century AD. (Caranica, 1990). Their ethnicity (Eriksen, 2010) is controversial with Greeks believing them Latinised Greeks, Romanians considering them Romanian, others as Balkan natives from Wallachia (Ruzica, 2006). In Greek, the current word for Aromanian is in fact ‘Vlach’ believed to originate from the Latin terms Volcae, Volci (Volks, Wolks) referring to a Celtic tribe from Gaul that had learnt Latin and become Latinized. The Volks-Wolks were the closest neighbors to Germanic tribes in the area, which resulted in Germans referring to all Latin speakers as ‘Volks,’ the same way they did with their language. For clarification, in this study: Aromanian, Vlach (-) Aromanian and Vlach will all be used to refer to this ethnic group and language. The word Volci was adopted by Germanic speakers and took different forms over time: Walachen, Welchland, Wallis, Wallais, Wallons, Wales, Welschme etc. These terms are still visible in different European languages today and refer to ‘Latin speaker.’ The Slavic speakers borrowed the word from the Germans as: Olahy, Olahi, Valachi, Voloh, Vloh whereas the Byzantines borrowed it as ‘Vlachs’ (Tapanikos, 2020). Their isolated modus vivendi, between pastoral valleys and high mountains, confined them to hardship and socio-cultural periphery, and allowed relative immunity from major European conflicts and periods of unrest spanning short of a millennium. From 1975 when the modern Greek Republic is finally consolidated, the ideology of ‘one people, one language’ is an intrinsic part of Greek nationality and nationalism (Moschonas, 2004). Lacking written, standardized forms, Aromanian has been transmitted orally from generation to generation in the Epirus, Macedonia and Thessally regions of Greece. With profound socio-economic changes and rewards, Aromanians left their pastoral lifestyle in large numbers (Beis, 2000) attracted by prospects of a better future in Greek urban centers and Western European countries, USA, or Australia. In modern times, with Greek being the only language of instruction and communication in the wider society (Chomsky, 1971), the generational language-transfer cycle has been broken, and Aromanian is now endangered (Dinas et al., 2011). On the other hand, Aromanian folklore and traditional festivals are very much alive through associations like the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs, while many self-identified Aromanians do not speak a word of their ancestral language, by choice (Kahl, 2004). How did this (apparent) contradiction come to be? What drove Aromanians a","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131102933","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":"Shakespeare’s Plays at the Royal Theatre in Athens in the Early 20th Century","authors":"Maria Kladaki, Kostantinos Mastrothanasis","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.53","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 20th century, the idea of creating a state theatre in Greece matured, that was responsible for establishing the foundation of a national dramatic tradition, as well as of the art of histrionics which until that time was characterized by amateurism. The Royal Theatre opened its doors to the public in 1900 and was based on the model of German Court theatres. In other words, theatre was considered a superior form of art that had to be kept away from the lower social classes. The absence of a powerful urban class and the lack of cohesion between the urban class and the lower classes favored the role of the Court, which was influenced by Drama when it comes on shaping its public guise and consolidate its dominance, by ensuring that a specific theatre style, aesthetics and ideology were preserved. Shakespeare’s performances in Greece were based on uncritical copying of practices applied in Europe in the light of the country’s agonizing struggle to build a new national and urban class identity. The audience of the Royal Theatre was seeking its own identity within that phantasmagorical ambience; that is for points of convergence with the western model, so as to receive social recognition and feel self-justified, as participation in such events were classified as “cultured persons”. The theatrical environment itself and the utilization of works of the English poet's works played a role in solidifying the idea in Greece that Shakespeare’s plays are the exclusive privilege of the urban class.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"525 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114095868","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":"Motivations for Patronage: Early Modernist Literature as a Case Study","authors":"W. R. Crozier","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.50","url":null,"abstract":"Patronage of early modernist English-language writers is investigated, drawing upon biographical source material. The process of identifying patrons started with Imagist poets in the first decades of the twentieth century followed by a search for their social connections with fellow writers and patrons. Fifteen patrons were identified who brought new money into the network of connections, twelve of them women. Analysis of their personal characteristics reveals a distinctive pattern of substantial, inherited financial resources, education, literary interests and unorthodox lifestyle, notably for the women in the sample. Explanations of motivation in terms of social identity, gift exchange and co-creation are discussed.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125355853","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 Cross-disciplinary Corpus-based Analysis of the Frequency and Syntactic Positions of Adverbials","authors":"P. Vakili, Reda Mohammed","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.43","url":null,"abstract":"Adverbials have been studied numerously by different linguists and have been classified and categorized differently across time by different syntacticians (Bellert 1977; Cinque 1999; Ernst 2002; Delfitto 2007) and semanticists (Ernst 2002; Bonami et al. 2004; Jackendoff 1972). However, all these studies have been conducted in discipline-specific domains. To fill this gap, the main focus of this study is to investigate the frequency of adverbials and their syntactic positions. For this purpose, we have designed our study to be on academically published research articles (RAs) in two hard sciences of Medicine and Engineering, and two soft sciences of Literary Studies and Linguistics. The results indicate that Literary papers have the greatest number of adverbials with 102 and Medical papers have the lowest with only 39 adverbials. In fact, this frequency of adverbials can show the direction of each discipline. When a discipline is based on facts, the researchers use more factual language rather than descriptive one to illustrate the real world. However, human sciences make all attempts to describe the world in which people live so they need a more descriptive language to fulfill their purpose. In terms of position, looking at the eight positions proposed by Quirk et al. (1985), the Medial position is the most favorite of all. In addition, End and Initial positions have second and third popularity in turn. In total, adverbials, due to their flexibility and free movement in sentences, belong to a very complicated class of words that require more research. Furthermore, writers should consider the objectives of their discipline in order to decide what type of adverbials to use and in which position.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128466932","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":"Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: The Dual Motif","authors":"L. Alzouabi","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.44","url":null,"abstract":"Following two world wars, the human essence was affected by pessimism and a loss of faith. As a result, new existentialist literature was produced, resulting in a new wave of absurdist fiction plays. The theatre of the absurd was first termed by Martin Esslin, whereas the term ‘absurd’ was first used by Albert Camus in his classic essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” a tragic comedy, (1952) is among the most mysterious dramas of the twentieth century that represents the philosophy of absurdism. By adopting the philosophy of theatre of the absurd in analyzing “Waiting for Godot,” this study focuses on Beckett’s employing the dual motif in the plot of the play and its implications, represented in chances that play a significant role rather than logic in the characters’ lives. As a result, the study concludes that Beckett’s use of such a technique underlines the equal opportunities in the world of the play, where chances have their effects on humans; Godot might or might not come, and the characters might leave or not: illustrating the unpredictability of the real world.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115707666","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 Sociolinguistic Explorative Study of Interactional Discourse in Dagbani and Ewe","authors":"Iddrisu Alhassan Sibdow, S. L. Yekple, F. Dorleku, Mohammed Abdul-Rashid Immorrow","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.41","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores greetings among the Dagbamba of Northern Ghana and the Ewe of Southern Volta, Ghana. The work investigates the time-of-day greetings as the sociocultural interactional functions and value of the people. The research is a qualitative type, which uses ethnography as its design. The primary data was solicited from information from observation, interviews, and participation in events in the research communities. Secondary data has been solicited from existing literature. Researchers participated in daily routines with the people in the research communities in Xavi Traditional Area and Tolon in Dagbon state. The data was descriptively analyzed. It was discovered that greetings in the two languages are culturally categorized with reference to the time of day, interlocutors, and specific events or occurrences. We demonstrate that the types of greetings associated to the Dagbani and the Ewe culture are important as they demarcate timelines and the phenomenal periods, in which these greetings must be cast. Apart from the time-of-day greetings, we demonstrate some referential greetings that are applicable in the languages in relation to specific events. It was further confirmed that greetings among the people encode politeness strategies fostering unity and healthy cohesion. The greetings are categorized as informal and formal or ceremonial. The investigations also reveal that there are social factors such as modernization and religious practices that contribute to changes in greetings, hence influencing society.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127689386","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":"Decoding the Perception of African Women in Amma Darko’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Selected Novels","authors":"Célestin Gbaguidi, Lonlonyo Amouzou","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.6.39","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to analyze how patriarchal society negatively perceives African women using Amma Darko’s and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s selected novels as backdrop. Through in-depth study and critical appreciation of the novels, these two authors depict the way the African woman is regarded, understood, and interpreted by herself in the male-dominated community or in a foreign territory; the African woman is nothing more than a naive, second-class citizen, reproducer, mere commodity, and man's appendage. Analysing the female characters in these novels, with a focus on Mara in Beyond the Horizon and Ifemelu in Americanah, we can understand the perception of African women from their own perspectives, while also considering the perception of African women by others in their given environment. Finally, this article will be informed by the decoding theory in terms of how these novels address the perception of the post-colonial and the modern African woman.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128985356","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":"Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People: An imagined Postapartheid South Africa","authors":"Khadidiatou Diallo","doi":"10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.5.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24018/ejlang.2022.1.5.37","url":null,"abstract":"Through aspects of style in July’s People, Nadine Gordimer provides a dystopian critique of the fallacious ideas and the oppressive patterns inherent in the apartheid regime and unfolds a utopian vision of post-apartheid South Africa. Wrapped in a futuristic narrative mode, the events in the novel examine the lying and dying days of apartheid and its harsh realities and imagine the life of whites in the postapartheid era. The analysis demonstrates that using irony, symbols, and allegory, the author rebukes power differentials, and primitive conditions born from racial hierarchy but also unveils the hypocrisy of white liberals, foregrounded in the representation of the black liberation movement. In doing so, the discussion elaborates on power dynamics and the forging of new identities and roles, with the Smales accommodated by their black servant, July. As a finale, the study argues that Gordimer hints at the future of whites after the demise of apartheid, and draws the contours of the anticipated society, with possible avenues for fairer interpersonal relations, a redefinition of power structures, and a redistribution of economic opportunities. This is, for the writer, an ineluctable road to the building of a new nation, symbolized by the Smales’ children’s immersion into village life, the only gleam of hope for a post-revolutionary rebirth.","PeriodicalId":204201,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Language and Culture Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124576302","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}