{"title":"Echoes from \"Fight Club\"","authors":"Francisco Collado Rodríguez","doi":"10.18172/jes.5538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5538","url":null,"abstract":"This work addresses Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Adjustment Day as a satirical critique of the political radicalization of the USA and as a warning about the dangerous ideological effects narratives may have on our posthumanist understanding of reality. To reach his purposes, the novelist combines three stylistic strategies. First, he creates a satirical story that exposes the condition of American politics, the dangers of radicalized political correctness, and the present risks of populist revolutions. Secondly, he uses explicit metafictional references to Fight Club and to other literary works and critical theories to warn about the dangerous effects that the power of narrative can have. Finally, Palahniuk departs from the minimalist style he used in his earlier and most well-known fiction in favor of a heterodiegetic and omniscience narrative voice that, combined with multiple internal focalizations, endorses a plural, non-categorical understanding of reality.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41743478","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":"Old English-Origin Words in a Set Of Medieval Latin Accounts","authors":"Amanda Roig-Marín","doi":"10.18172/jes.5521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5521","url":null,"abstract":"For a long time, texts in Medieval Latin were poorly regarded for their linguistic hybridity: alongside Classical/post-Classical Latin lexemes, there were many words coming from the vernaculars (in the case of late medieval England, Anglo-French and Middle English) embedded in them. This traditional and restrictive view was superseded by a more nuanced conception of multilingualism, which appreciates the value of this kind of written evidence for our understanding of the multilingual dynamics of medieval texts. The present investigation uses a case study, the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham [1278-1538] (Fowler 1898-1901; henceforth, Durham Account Rolls), one of the largest edited and published collections of accounts in Medieval Latin, to discuss broader issues such as how to classify the vernacular lexical items present in medieval multilingual texts (are they borrowings, code-switches, or something else?) and to what extent this vocabulary can be deemed to be integrated/unintegrated into Medieval Latin. Since there are multiple underlying languages in the vernacular vocabulary of the Durham Account Rolls, this article will concentrate on the Old English-origin lexis in these accounts and its relation to Latin and French. An overview of 263 simplex (one-element) Old English-origin forms in the Durham Account Rolls proved to be a source of both basic-level terms and more specialised terminology. Finally, some examples from the most representative semantic domains (equipment, farming, animals, and materials) will be given.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41562796","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":"Discussing the Feminist Agenda in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Novels","authors":"Esther Muñoz González","doi":"10.18172/jes.4809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4809","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, an analysis is made of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and MaddAddam (2013) from a gendered and generic perspective. The Handmaid’s Tale was one of the novels that marked the dystopian turn in the 1980s writing of fiction, while MaddAddam is, for some critics, a feminist critical dystopia in which the ending retains hope for a better future. Consequently, both novels belong a priori to a specific branch of the dystopian genre: the feminist dystopian novel. However, some ambiguity or even contradictory readings can be inferred in both texts. This article explores The Handmaid’s Tale and MaddAddam’s portrayal of women and their acts of resistance in order to assess these texts’ liberatory or still inherently conservative messages of their endings, especially regarding women.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43203069","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":"Reassessing Constructions in the ARTEMIS Parser","authors":"Francisco Cortés Rodríguez, Ricardo Mairal Usón","doi":"10.18172/jes.5354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5354","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to reexamine the status of constructions in ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-based System), a Natural Language Understanding prototype that seeks to provide the syntactic and semantic structure of a given fragment in a natural language. The architecture of ARTEMIS has been designed to conform to the tenets of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), a theory in which constructions are a central tool for the linguistic description of languages. However, since ARTEMIS is a computational device, there are many formalization requirements which involve the adaptation of the LCM, a process which necessarily leads to reconsidering several issues, as are: (i) what counts as a constructional structure; (ii) how constructions contribute to parsing operations in ARTEMIS; and (iii) the location and the format of constructional patterns.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44008906","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":"Exploring Anxiety and Self-Efficacy in Writing","authors":"Selen Göncü, E. Mede","doi":"10.18172/jes.4746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4746","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the level and type of writing anxiety among Turkish EFL students along with the causes of the anxiety perceived by them and their instructors. The EFL writing self-efficacy level of the students was examined, and with the findings obtained, the relationship between writing anxiety and writing self-efficacy in EFL classes was investigated. To meet these objectives, 176 (A2, intermediate level) Turkish EFL students and 6 instructors enrolled in a language preparatory program offered by a state university in Istanbul, Turkey participated in the study. The data were gathered both quantitative and qualitatively through the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI), Self-efficacy in Writing Scale (SWS), Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI), and semi-structured interviews. The results revealed that the students had either a high or moderate level of writing anxiety in English, and they mostly suffered from cognitive anxiety. Their level of writing self-efficacy was also moderate, and there was a negative correlation between self-efficacy and writing anxiety among the participants. The results of this study suggest implications about coping with anxiety and self-efficacy in writing classes at language preparatory programs.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43304713","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}
Rezki Amelia Anggraeni, Sukardi Weda, Iskandar Iskandar
{"title":"PSYCHOLOGICAL CONFLICT OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PAUL GREENGRASS’ MOVIE “CAPTAIN PHILLIPS”","authors":"Rezki Amelia Anggraeni, Sukardi Weda, Iskandar Iskandar","doi":"10.26858/eliterate.v1i2.34095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26858/eliterate.v1i2.34095","url":null,"abstract":"Psychological conflict is a condition that we often encounter in our daily lives. It isalso known as interpersonal conflict and is defined as a conflict caused by the characteritself. Commonly, it arises when people make difficult decisions. According to Kurt Lewin’s theory, psychological conflicts are divided into three types: (1) approach-approach conflict (an individual presented with two desirable alternatives), (2) avoidance-avoidance conflict (an individual presented with two undesirable alternatives), and (3) approach-avoidance conflict (an individual presented with twochoices, desirable and undesirable alternatives at the same time). In literary work,a character is a person who has a conflict, and then they are taking action to solve the problem that happens. Every problem must also have an impact that can affect life, particularly on ourselves, both mentally and physically. That’s why the researcher carrying out this research is to analyze what kinds of psychological conflicts were experienced by Capt. Richard Phillips and how these psychological conflicts impact his mental state. This research method is descriptive and qualitative with a focus on Kurt Lewin`s theory. This research data is taken from Captain Phillips’s movie. Other data were collected from various references, namely journals, thesis, articles, and online sources. Data analysis techniques include data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing (Miles and Huberman, 1994). In this study, based on the actions, feelings, and utterances of the main character, the researcher found 29 data with the dominant psychological conflict being avoidance-avoidance conflict. The impact of the psychological conflict experienced by Captain Richard Phillips as the main character is mental stress and poor physical health.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":"1 2","pages":"55-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147897734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sang Ayu Kadek Pitria Dewi, I Gusti Ayu Vina Widiadnya Putri, I Wayan Juniartha
{"title":"Strong Desire To Be Of The Other Gender in Dean’s Portrayal in The Novel “Between Perfect And Real”","authors":"Sang Ayu Kadek Pitria Dewi, I Gusti Ayu Vina Widiadnya Putri, I Wayan Juniartha","doi":"10.36733/elysian.v2i4.4378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36733/elysian.v2i4.4378","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes a strong desire to become other Gender of Dean’s Portrayal in the novel Between Perfect and Real. The data was taken from a novel entitled Between Perfect and Real, which is monologue and dialog. This study analyzes the strong desire to be of the other gender of the main character named “Dean Foster.” The study uses the descriptive-qualitative method to analyze the data. The result of the study is presented in a formal and informal method. The library research method is used as the technique for collecting data. This study uses two main theories to analyze the data. The first leading theory is a diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders proposed by the American Psychiatric Association (2013) used to find out the strong desire to be of the other gender of Dean’s. The second leading theory is the Method of Characterization proposed by Kenny (1966), used to analyze how the writer presented the strong desire to become other gender Dean in Between Perfect and Real novel. This study obtained 18 data relating to the strong desire to be of the other gender experienced by Dean.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":"2 4","pages":"68-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://e-journal.unmas.ac.id/index.php/elysian/article/download/4378/4076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rama Jayantha, Putu Devi Maharani, I Putu Andri Permana
{"title":"Command Directive Illocutionary Act Found in “Hobbs & Shaw” Movie","authors":"Rama Jayantha, Putu Devi Maharani, I Putu Andri Permana","doi":"10.36733/elysian.v2i3.3615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36733/elysian.v2i3.3615","url":null,"abstract":"This study entitled “Command Directive Illocutionary Acts found in Hobbs & Shaw Movie” It aims for finding out the command directive illocutionary acts and the context of situation of directive illocutionary acts utterance expressed by the main characters. The command directive illocutionary acts are discussed using the theory of directive illocutionary acts proposed by Kreidler (1998: 189-190) and the context of situation is discussed using theory of the context of situation proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1985: 12). In collecting the data, the writer watched the movie and marked the utterances that contain command directive illocutionary acts in the movie script. The method used in analyzing data was descriptive qualitative method. The writer classified the data based on the sentence structure of the command directive illocutionary act and then analyzes the context of the situation. In presenting the findings, formal and informal methods are used. The formal method is used to show the percentage of sentence structure of command directive illocutionary acts using table and the informal method is used to explain the data descriptively through words. In this study, 31 data were found regarding illocutionary acts of directive orders.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":"2 3","pages":"64-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://e-journal.unmas.ac.id/index.php/elysian/article/download/3615/3720","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147889203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Lemmatization of Old English Class III Strong Verbs (L-Y) with ALOEV3","authors":"Roberto Torre Alonso","doi":"10.18172/jes.5324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5324","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents ALOEV3, a lemmatizer based on Morphological Generation that allows for the type-based automatic lemmatization of Old English Class III strong verbs beginning with the letters L–Y. The lemmatizer operates on the basis of the inflectional, derivational and morpho-phonological alternation rules characteristic of this class. The generated form-types are checked against the two most reputed Old English corpora, namely the Dictionary of Old English Corpus and The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose to validate their attestations and assign the corresponding lemma. Results show that 97 percent of the validated forms are successfully assigned a single lemma. The remaining inflectional forms (38 out of 1,256) show competition between two lemmas, which implies that despite the high level of accuracy of the lemmatizer, contextual, token-based analysis is still needed for disambiguation. However, the research shows that competition only occurs in a limited set of lemma pairs and their derivatives. Although the research focuses on but one strong verb class, it confirms that exploring the avenues of automatic lemmatization will contribute to the field of Old English lexicography by either lemmatizing attested inflectional form types or by highlighting areas for manual revision.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43855322","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}
Kumala dewi Anak Agung Ayu Istri, Ni Made Verayanti Utami, I Wayan Juniartha
{"title":"Finch’s Conflicts and Personality Analysis as the Main Character Portrayed in All The Bright Places","authors":"Kumala dewi Anak Agung Ayu Istri, Ni Made Verayanti Utami, I Wayan Juniartha","doi":"10.36733/elysian.v2i2.3591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36733/elysian.v2i2.3591","url":null,"abstract":"This research provided an insight into Finch's conflicts and personality as portrayed in the movie All The Bright Places. The qualitative method was used in this research to elaborate and deliver a clear and brief description of the conflicts and his personality as seen through the id, ego, and superego as the major personality structures of humans. The information was gathered by observing Finch's actions and conversations between characters. It was examined using William Kenney's (1966) conflicts theory and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory (1896). Finch was discovered to be dealing with both internal and external conflict. When Finch tries to control his negative thoughts caused by his abusive father and his environment mocking him, his internal conflict is depicted. Finch versus his father, Finch versus Roamer, and Finch versus society are the external conflicts. The researchers also discovered three main personalities represented by Finch in the movie All The Bright Places, namely the id, ego, and superego.","PeriodicalId":35112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Studies","volume":"2 2","pages":"96-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://e-journal.unmas.ac.id/index.php/elysian/article/download/3591/2866","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147892272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}