Dr. Neelofar Hussain Wani, Un Nisa, Dr. Narasimha Raju Prathikantam
{"title":"Language Use and Claimed Proficiency of Saudi Students at Undergraduate Level Spoken in Asir Region of Saudi Arabia","authors":"Dr. Neelofar Hussain Wani, Un Nisa, Dr. Narasimha Raju Prathikantam","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.13","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper involves comprehensive socio-psychological features of the Saudi student community at the undergraduate level in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia. It seeks to look at their sociolinguistic profile to understand the influence of the majority ethnic/linguistic community with their language on this group. It focuses on the language maintenance and language shift of the Saudi student speech community living in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia and tries to study and understand their linguistic usage, patterns of language use, identity, status, and patterns of language use occurring in this community. The paper is an attempt to postulate where this linguistic battle is likely to lead. In this regard, many socio-psychological variables were taken and analyzed quantitatively. As for the linguistic profile of Saudi students, all the language speakers are native speakers of Arabic, and most of them are familiar with Arabic.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130560311","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":"An Exploration of the Time Element in the Linguistic Landscape and Reconstructing Culture: The Case of Langtou Village in China","authors":"Jialin Zhong, Huiping Wei","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.12","url":null,"abstract":"The tourism industry has penetrated traditional Chinese villages, where the linguistic landscape reflects a dialogue between historical heritage and contemporary culture, thereby redefining the transformation of China's rural cultural ecology. The researchers gathered 475 images of the linguistic landscape through fieldwork in Langtou Village and conducted a qualitative investigation within the context of Chinese cultural history and village history. Based on Huebner's (2008) speaking model, researchers investigated the potential influence of time elements in the linguistic landscape on the cultural reconstruction of the village. We conclude that the linguistic landscape of Langtou Village encompasses seven types of time elements, which essentially observe content time, creation time, and feature time. The commonalities or differences among these elements give rise to time trajectories that influence the cultural reconstruction of Langtou Village. One is the cultural reconstruction of cherishing memory, which perpetuates historical information. Another is the cultural reconstruction of combining moments, which amalgamates contemporary culture and poses the risk of inauthenticity in historical villages. The study suggests that the distribution of time elements in linguistic landscapes exhibits hierarchy in real settings, which is related to the spatial regularity induced by the village's historical information. We believe that adopting a time-element-oriented perspective can deliver new recommendations for the linguistic landscape planning of traditional Chinese villages. This research inspires readers to comprehend the essence of the relationship between rural linguistic landscapes and cultural ecology, specifically: what is the smallest unit of interaction between historical and contemporary culture in the context of reconstruction?","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133584744","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":"Sacvan Bercovitch 's The Puritan Origins of the American Self (1975): Book Review","authors":"","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.9","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128887730","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 Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Racial Identity: A Study of the Dramatic Arts in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face","authors":"Xiaoxin Zhu","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.7","url":null,"abstract":"After the immediate success of M. Butterfly by Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang, Yellow Face is Hwang’s other play that carries forward innovation in terms of theatricality and delivers an ideal of harmonious intercultural relationships and multicultural integration. Yellow Face is a semi-autobiographical Pirandellian comedy built out of a trio of Hwang and his father’s real-life experiences in an attempt to blur the line between reality and fictionality, thus exposing the ambiguity and penetrability of boundaries. This article analyzes the Alienation-Effect of the structure, acting and stage setting in Yellow Face to probe into how, by means of A-Effect, Hwang deconstructs the essentialist notion of race and reveals the possibility of reconstructing a fluid identity.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127713042","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":"Olive Symbolism in Palestinian and Spanish Poetry: A Comparative Study","authors":"M. Ababneh","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.8","url":null,"abstract":"This comparative study aims at highlighting the symbolism of the olive tree in Palestinian and Spanish poetry. Since the olive tree is elemental in both cultures, the study attempts to tackle four main themes of such a dominant tree: resistance, peace, eternity, and homeland. In order to conduct the study, a number of poems employing the olive tree are investigated and analyzed in order to highlight the closeness between the Palestinian and the Spanish cultures. The study tries to prove the matchfullness between the symbolism of the olive tree in both poetries. The selection of the poems is based on the common ground of the olive tree symbolism in Palestine and Spain. The only theme in which the poetry in the two cultures does not completely coincide is resistance. In Palestinian poetry, the olive is used to signify resistance against occupation, while this tree is employed to denote the resistance to socioeconomic classism, urban sprawl, and natural disasters. In order to make an outstanding comparison in the three other themes, the author selected poems of both cultures where the olive tree signifies international symbolizations.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123092329","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":"Non-Conventional Spelling in Informal, Colloquial Arabic Writing on Facebook","authors":"Reima Al-Jarf","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.6","url":null,"abstract":"Arabic has a standard form used in formal situations and print materials and a non-standard, colloquial form used in daily conversation. Each Arab country has its own dialect. Before social media, educated Arabs used to use Standard Arabic when they communicated in writing. But with the advent of social media, people started to use non-standard Arabic, i.e., their own dialects, when they communicate in writing on social media. A corpus of spelling errors in Arabic was collected from Facebooks posts and analyzed to find out the types of errors made, the strategies Arab Facebook spellers use, why educated Arabs make those errors and their effect on decoding ability and communication. It was found that Facebook users completely ignore Standard Arabic spelling rules. They spell words the way they pronounce them in their local dialects. They delete vowels, substitute long vowels by short ones and vice versa and confuse consonants with the same sound. Some graphemes are no longer used. They connect several words together as one word, ignoring the pauses between them. The same word or phrase, in the same dialect, is spelled differently by different users. Sometimes it is difficult to understand what some users are trying to say. It seems that the non-standard Arabic spelling used on Facebook is undergoing a simplification process. Users do not seem to recognize word boundaries, cannot connect phonemes with the graphemes they represent and cannot distinguish vowel length in their spoken dialect. A detailed classification of spelling anomalies, the faulty spelling strategies used and reasons for those spelling weaknesses detected are reported.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133720901","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":"An Ecological Discourse Analysis of Silent Spring from the Perspective of Corpus-based Attitude System: Human Image as an Example","authors":"Zhu Yitong","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"The book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, a famous contemporary American marine biologist, has prompted environmental issues to become the biggest theme of our time and triggered the rise of the modern environmental movement. In this paper, Two corpus tools are used to analyze the attitude resources related to the human characters in Silent Spring from an ecological linguistic perspective of the attitude system. The study finds that the farmers and workers portrayed in the book are both destroyers and victims of ecology, while the scientists and ecologists play the role of protectors and managers of ecology. The article rejects the previous notion of \"an thropocentrism\" and reveals that the author advocates an ecological view of nature in which \"all things are equal and interdependent\", with a view to awakening the ecological consciousness of human beings and then taking the initiative to care for nature and protect the earth.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129936425","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":"Transformative Pedagogy towards Using Internet of Things in Teaching English at King Khalid University Context from Digital Native Perspective","authors":"Elsadig Ali Elsadig Elnadeef","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the greatest efforts exerted by the English Language Center at KKU to transform the traditional teaching style based on teacher-centeredness to student-teaching centeredness using the Internet of Things. The study entails the role of using the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the quality of teaching English at the English Language Center at KKU and cope with the rapid change among digital natives. This study adopts a descriptive-analytical method, and the main instrument used for collecting data is a questionnaire for teachers to investigate the use of the Internet of Things in teaching English. The study's findings have revealed that using and implementing the Internet of Things in teaching the English language Center at KKU context maximizes teaching quality and grasps learners’ awareness and interactivity. Furthermore, it enhances inquiry learning based, flipped class or blended class and autonomous learning. The study recommends implementing the Internet of Things in English classes at KKU.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129421085","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":"Rhetorical Structure Theory: Towards Writing with a Sense of Purpose","authors":"Rajaa Rhandy, Khadija Anasse","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, different writing researchers have stressed the importance of integrating text-based and reader-based approaches in writing instruction to enable EFL learners to write both coherently and purposefully. However, combining these two basic features in students’ writing remains a challenging task for both students and teachers. Given this challenge, the present paper describes a model of writing instruction that combines text-based and reader-based features based on both Rhetorical Structure Theory and the process genre approach to improve EFL learners’ writing quality.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121798456","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":"Nexus Analysis as a Tool for Investigation of Digital Literacy and Digital Competency in Using LMS Labeled to Unlock Textbook Taught at King Khalid University","authors":"Ayman Hamad Elneil Hamdan Abdala","doi":"10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates digital literacy and digital competency in using LMS among KKU students studying English as an intensive English course. The study is based on using nexus analysis. This study adopts a descriptive-analytical method, and the main instrument used for collecting data is a questionnaire for teachers to investigate how students can use LMS to do their homework and activities related to Unlock textbooks. The study's findings have revealed that most students use LMS professionally but feel bored because of lengthy tasks, exercises and activities which consume a long time. In addition, most of the activities, tasks and exercises do not match the textbook unit contents. The study recommends that Cambridge LMS should be loaded with tasks, exercises and activities matching the unit content, and they should not be lengthy.","PeriodicalId":228981,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation","volume":"812 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125280945","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}