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The Mask Diction/Sensitivity: An Analysis of Selected Poems from The Outcast 面具语言/敏感:《弃儿》诗歌选集分析

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/gidiu29n

Ben-Fred Ohia

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English Language and Communication in Christian Assemblies 基督教聚会中的英语语言与沟通

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/g3l9440k

A. Jibowo, S. Omotosho

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A Study of Proverbs as Culture Carriers in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart 谚语在契努阿·阿契贝的《分崩离析》中作为文化载体的研究

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/gl4vnq45

Ojumah Sylvanus Uwamaka

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Voicing the Silence of the Stigmatised: Communication with the Landscape in Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins 为被污名化的沉默发声:托马斯·哈代和杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯诗歌选集中与风景的交流

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/goplkusr

Eric Ngea Ntam

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Application of the schema-theoretic approach in the interpretation of the stream of consciousness in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters 图式理论在索因卡《诠释者》意识流解释中的应用

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/godfo37y

Gerry Ayieko

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Internet-Induced?: A Re-examination of Sources of Writing Errors in Educated Nigerian English " ? "详情用对尼日利亚教育英语写作错误来源的再考察

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/g9swxb7v

J. Udoudom, Nkereke M. Essien

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Yanmiri, Aboki, Afonja: Discursive Construction of Ethnic Others in Nigerian Online Discussion Yanmiri, Aboki, Afonja:奈及利亚网路讨论中族群他者的话语建构

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/g0v59jv9

Rotimi Taiwo

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Because “War is much too serious to be left to the military,” Corpus linguistics is a thing, and it is a very useful thing too 因为“战争太严重了，不能留给军队”，语料库语言学是一种东西，也是一种非常有用的东西

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/g0v59cc9

Alexandra Esimaje

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Stylistic Foregrounding of ‘Silence’ in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie《紫色木槿》中“沉默”的风格前景

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/gsd0ykmm

Bridget Dahunsi Okunrobo

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The Floating Bottle 漂浮的瓶子

CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.56907/ge6gjbs1

Alexandra Esimaje

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