Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies最新文献

The Trickster as Savior in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage 查尔斯-约翰逊《中间通道》中作为救世主的捣蛋鬼

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331580

Mahmoud Mahmoud

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Gendered Space in Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi’s A Heartless City (1959): A Feminist Geo-Critical Approach Seamus Heaney 的《自然主义者之死》（1966 年）和 Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi 的《无情之城》（1959 年）中的性别空间：女性主义地理批判方法

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331577

Ahlam Othman

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Empowering Nature and Women: Ecofeminist Analysis of Atwood's The Edible Woman and Watson's Tiny Sunbirds Faraway 赋予自然和女性权力：阿特伍德的《可食用的女人》和沃森的《远方的小太阳鸟》的生态女性主义分析

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331587

Abdulhamid Alansary

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Staging Absence: Postdramatic Aesthetics in Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life (1997/2007) & Rabie Mroué and Linah Saneh’s 33 Rpm and Few Seconds (2013) 上演缺席：马丁-克里姆普的《对她生命的尝试》（1997/2007）中的后戏剧美学与拉比-穆鲁埃和林纳-萨内的《33 转/分和几秒钟》（2013 年）

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331309

Ne’am Abd Elhafeez

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Transcendence and Belief after Postmodernism: A Performatist Reading of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls (2011) 后现代主义之后的超越与信仰：帕特里克-奈斯的《怪物召唤》（2011）的表演主义解读

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331310

Karima Mohsen

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An Objective Quality Assessment of English into Arabic Translation: An Analysis of Interpersonal Metafunction 英语到阿拉伯语翻译的客观质量评估：人际元功能分析

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331327

Mohamed Amin

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English-Arabic Localization of Taglines on Food and Beverage Brand Websites: An Eco-Translatological Approach 食品和饮料品牌网站标语的英语-阿拉伯语本地化：生态翻译学方法

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331325

Sama Dawood

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De-Legitimating the Russian War in Ukraine in US President Biden’s Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis 美国总统拜登演讲中的俄罗斯乌克兰战争去合法化：批判性话语分析

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331321

Mervat Ahmed

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The Search for Sincerity in the Contemporary Metamodern Sitcom BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) 当代元现代情景喜剧《BoJack Horseman》（2014-2020）中对真诚的追寻

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331313

Nehal Amer

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Motivation of Code-switching by Arabic-English Bilinguals in Social Media Influencers’ Short Videos 社交媒体影响者短视频中阿拉伯语-英语双语者的代码转换动机

Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331324

Shereen El Nahal

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