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Intervention through metacognitive development: A case study of a student with dyslexia and comorbid attention deficit disorder (ADD) 元认知发展干预:1名阅读障碍合并注意缺陷障碍(ADD)学生个案研究

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-07-01 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.042

Carol Goldfus

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引用次数: 6

Using blogs to promote reflective language learning 利用博客促进反思性语言学习

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-07-01 DOI: 10.5897/JLC12.011

Tekle Ferede Metaferia

引用次数: 4

Homonymy as a barrier to mutual intelligibility among speakers of various dialects of Afan Oromo 同音异义是阿凡奥罗莫不同方言使用者之间相互理解的障碍

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-02-27 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.085

Amanuel Raga, Samuel Adola

{"title":"Homonymy as a barrier to mutual intelligibility among speakers of various dialects of Afan Oromo","authors":"Amanuel Raga, Samuel Adola","doi":"10.5897/JLC11.085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/JLC11.085","url":null,"abstract":"This study intended to scrutinize how homonymous lexical items in Afan Oromo result in misunderstandings and confusions among speakers from differing dialect areas. The data for this study were collected from two groups of informants. The first category of informants consisted of twenty high school Afan Oromo teachers who have acquaintance with the media and people speaking different varieties of Afan Oromo. The second category comprised of ten native speakers of Afan Oromo who have spent their entire lives in one geographical area, and thus have barely heard of varieties of Afan Oromo other than theirs. The primary means of data collection for this study was elicitation. As the study established, homonymy which results from lexical variations among the dialects of Afan Oromo causes misunderstandings between speakers from the various dialect areas. Furthermore, the phonological and morphophonemic differences among the dialects of the language and the convention in the writing system of the language which allows speakers to write expressions as they pronounce also contribute to the communication problems by creating ambiguous homonymy-like lexical items. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Afan Oromo, dialect, mutual intelligibility, homonymy, communication barriers.","PeriodicalId":310631,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages and Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134646780","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}

引用次数: 5

Learners of medical English as problem posers/solvers tackling real-life concerns 医学英语学习者解决现实生活中的问题

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-02-27 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.090

Sue-san Ghahremani-Ghajar, Masoumeh Shabanzadeh

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引用次数: 0

Malaysian educational policy for national integration: Contested terrain of multiple aspirations in a multicultural nation 马来西亚国家一体化的教育政策:多元文化国家中多元愿望的竞争地形

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-01-30 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.025

Hazri Jamil, S. Raman

引用次数: 22

Language use in the Islamic faith in Cameroon: The case of a Mosque in the city of Maroua 喀麦隆伊斯兰教信仰中的语言使用:以马鲁阿市一座清真寺为例

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-01-30 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.068

J. Kouega, Franccedil, ois G. Baimada

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引用次数: 12

Strategies used in the translation of allusions in Hafiz Shirazi's poetry 论哈菲兹·谢拉兹诗歌典故翻译的策略

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2012-01-30 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.058

Naeim Bahrami

{"title":"Strategies used in the translation of allusions in Hafiz Shirazi's poetry","authors":"Naeim Bahrami","doi":"10.5897/JLC11.058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/JLC11.058","url":null,"abstract":"A translator who examines a text with a view to translate it will have a number of concerns. Among them, allusions are likely to become puzzles when they cross a cultural divide. Translating allusions can be a demanding task due to the fact that they simultaneously activate two texts and have specific meanings in the culture and language in which they arise but not _ necessarily in others. However, the use of allusions by an author shows an expectation that the reader is familiar with the references made, otherwise the effect is lost. Taking this into account, the present study focuses on personal proper noun and key phrase allusions in the poems of the- famous Persian poet Hafiz and their translations by Clark (1891) to investigate how translation- strategies would provide the translators, in particular the novice ones, with useful insights concerning intertextual references in general and allusions in particular in order that the translators might find it no more challenging a task. In order to achieve the above mentioned purpose, the personal proper noun and key-phrase allusions in Hafiz's Divan and their equivalents in the English translation by Clark (1891) were first identified. Then, Leppihalme's (1997) proposed strategies for the translation of allusions were analyzed. The analysis revealed that the most common strategy for the translation of personal proper nouns was that of 'retention without any guidance' and for key-phrase allusions was that 'literal translation with minimum change'. This is indicative of the translator's wish to be as faithful as possible to the source texts to demonstrate that the allusive language of the original texts and connotations conveyed by them were largely ignored by the translator of Hafiz's Divan. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Intertextuality, allusion, proper noun allusion, key phrase allusion, translation strategies","PeriodicalId":310631,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Languages and Culture","volume":"16 43","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113963137","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}

引用次数: 10

The functions of conceptual mappings in the interpretation of Omar Khayyams poetry 概念映射在解读奥马尔·海亚姆诗歌中的作用

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2011-12-31 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.047

L. S. Esfehani

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引用次数: 0

Invoking the community: Orality and cultural diversity in biographical narratives for children in Kenya 唤起社区:肯尼亚儿童传记叙事中的口头和文化多样性

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2011-11-30 DOI: 10.5897/JLC11.081

C. K. Muriungi

引用次数: 0

Co-enrollment as a facilitator of English as a second language (ESL) students' transition to non-ESL college courses 共同招生作为英语作为第二语言(ESL)学生过渡到非ESL大学课程的促进者

Journal of Languages and Culture Pub Date : 2011-10-31 DOI: 10.5897/JLC.9000009

E. Acar

引用次数: 0