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Invaders, Attackers and Destroyers: Trespassing-related Terms and Representations in Nigerian Newspaper Headlines 入侵者、攻击者和破坏者：尼日利亚报纸标题中的入侵相关术语和表述
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.22.1.7
E. Igwebuike
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引用次数: 0
How Talented Second-language Learners Regulate their Emotions and Cope with Stress 有天赋的第二语言学习者如何调节情绪和应对压力
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.22.1.1
C. DeCoursey
{"title":"How Talented Second-language Learners Regulate their Emotions and Cope with Stress","authors":"C. DeCoursey","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.22.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.22.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Most studies of talented learners focus on the nature of their accelerated cognitive abilities, and on structuring curricula to support them in achieving academically. Few studies of talented learners explore their emotional regulatory and coping strategies, as part of how they learn. Yet emotional regulation and coping strategies are an essential component of self-efficacy and self-regulation. Many talented learners are now also second-language learners. Programmers are among the most talented of 21st century learners. Programming requires linguistic proficiency, advanced quantitative reasoning, and multiple, complex forms of procedural reasoning. Mixed methods were used to explore how 34 talented programmers responded to a stressful second-language task. Data was analysed using one deductive and one emergent content coding frame, Appraisal analysis, and transitivity analysis. Results show that talented programmers handle stress by identifying and solving contextual problems. They realise positive subjective attitudes as evaluations of context, but frame negative emotions as interior experiences. As actors, they represent themselves as closely aligned with their team.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42906081","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}
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Genre-Specific Irrealia in Translation: Can Irrealia Help Define Speculative Fiction Sub-Genres? 翻译中的体裁特异性不规则性：不规则性能帮助定义推理小说的亚体裁吗？
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.22.1.5
Martin D. Martinkovic
{"title":"Genre-Specific Irrealia in Translation: Can Irrealia Help Define Speculative Fiction Sub-Genres?","authors":"Martin D. Martinkovic","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.22.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.22.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Speculative fiction texts and their translation, particularly from English, have been gradually rising in prominence. However, not only do speculative fiction and its sub-genres remain only vaguely defined in general despite numerous attempts by both writers and theoreticians, but their specific features are often even less explored from the perspective of translation studies. This article aims to enrich translation studies understanding of irrealia as signature features of speculative fiction texts. It builds on existing conceptions of both irrealia and realia in order to propose the concept of genre-specific irrealia. Hence, it discusses how irrealia relate to individual sub-genres of speculative fiction and how such distinctions can help the recipient or translator realise the specificity of these elements. The paper has a particular focus on science fiction, although it also discusses fantasy and supernatural horror specific irrealia. The article then illustrates the concept of genre-specific irrealia and discusses its implications for translation on examples drawn from the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and its Slovak translation by the translator Jozef Klinga.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49550261","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}
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The Effect of Using Whatsapp on EFL Students' Medical English Vocabulary Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic 新冠肺炎疫情期间Whatsapp对EFL学生医学英语词汇学习的影响
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.22.1.2
S. Alenezi, Elias Bensalem
{"title":"The Effect of Using Whatsapp on EFL Students' Medical English Vocabulary Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"S. Alenezi, Elias Bensalem","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.22.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.22.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The role of social networking mobile applications such as WhatsApp in enhancing second language vocabulary learning among English language learners continues to be a subject of interest for many scholars. The current study aimed at examining medical English vocabulary learning among undergraduate students using WhatsApp compared to learning vocabulary via Blackboard platform during the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, 108 medical students (51 males, 57 females) enrolled in a first semester English for a specific English course participated in the study. A quasi-experimental design was adopted for two groups. Fifty-three students were assigned to the WhatsApp group and 55 students were assigned to the Blackboard group. Data were collected using pretest-posttest design. Results of t-test scores revealed no significant difference between the WhatsApp and Blackboard groups on a vocabulary test. Results of survey that gauged students' perception of the use of WhatsApp as a platform for learning new vocabulary showed positive perceptions since participants thought that WhatsApp enhanced their learning experience.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45244968","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: 2
Counter Class and Counter Identity: Confrontations of Power in Tony Harrison's Poetry 反阶级与反身份：托尼·哈里森诗歌中的权力对抗
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.21.2.7
Younes Poorghorban
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Expressing Lesser Relevance in Academic Conference Presentations 在学术会议演讲中表达较低的相关性
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.21.2.1
Diana Yankova, Irena Vassileva
{"title":"Expressing Lesser Relevance in Academic Conference Presentations","authors":"Diana Yankova, Irena Vassileva","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.21.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.21.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"While marking importance and relevance in academic discourse has been a widely researched topic, markers of lesser significance have so far been understudied. The article therefore focuses on some of the discoursal means of expressing lesser importance in conference presentations. The corpus of the study comprises recordings of 20 presentations in English at international linguistics conferences by speakers of various cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The methodology follows Deroey and Taverniers’s (2012) study of lecture discourse, whereby depending on the way lesser importance is expressed, the markers are grouped under five categories. Their methodology is checked against the data provided by the transcriptions of the conference recordings to ascertain the extent to which it is applicable to other spoken academic genres. The ultimate objective is to provide steppingstones for interpreting information and distinguishing between what is important and relevant and less so in conference presentations, as well as for the identification of presenters’ motivation for employing this type of metadiscourse.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47828026","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: 1
Since/Because Alternation: Insights from Clause Structures in Nigerian English Since/Because交替:从尼日利亚英语从句结构看问题
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.21.2.3
Mayowa Akinlotan
{"title":"Since/Because Alternation: Insights from Clause Structures in Nigerian English","authors":"Mayowa Akinlotan","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.21.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.21.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The choice between since and because allows language users to provide rationality which is part of the cognitive functions of language. Different conditions have been shown to explicate this alternation, with little attention paid to the clausal weight. The present paper shows how expression of rationality is alternated between choosing a since or because, since both have the semantic capacity to do so, in certain contexts. The study uses a simple measurement method to show the extent to which clausal weight relates to this alternation. Relying on corpus data from a well-known variety representing Nigerian English, the present study shows that the choice between since and because is related to a number of factors such as the type of text producing the usages. With 1074 usages showing such interchangeable usages extracted from academic and media text types in written Nigerian English, it is shown that, at least in the variety under examination, the choice of since over because as a rationality expresser is scarce, and that overall pattern can be predicted on the basis of certain contexts including clausal weight and ordering pattern. The scarcity of since as a rationality expresser is perhaps a reflection of interference from the local languages, which do not have semantic equivalents.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45806223","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: 1
The Status of English in Morocco: Lessons from Spontaneous Debates in Social Media 英语在摩洛哥的地位：社交媒体上自发辩论的教训
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.21.2.4
A. Bouziane, Mohamed Saoudi
{"title":"The Status of English in Morocco: Lessons from Spontaneous Debates in Social Media","authors":"A. Bouziane, Mohamed Saoudi","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.21.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.21.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Morocco, a multilingual country with historical and geo-political legacies, has opened a hot debate on languages recently. Within this debate, this article investigates spontaneous comments in social media on languages in Morocco, especially adopting English as a first foreign language. It aims to bring this topic to the surface and thus discuss it in the light of research on language attitudes and language awareness. To do so, it analyses the reactions to texts about the declarations by the Minister of Higher Education shared in social networks and sites. The data consisting of 2,018 comments is classified according to 12 frequent patterns whose frequencies are calculated. The findings show that most of Moroccans have positive attitudes towards English while some show opposing reactions towards French. These participants hold ambivalent opinions about the rest of languages used in Morocco; however, they tend to insist on Morocco having a clear language policy which, seemingly, prioritises the mother tongues, Arabic and Amazigh. The discussions show that some investigated reactions are mitigated as they may be illusionary.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49547553","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: 1
The Mind's Eye: Picture as Narrative in Thomas Hardy's 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' 心灵之眼：托马斯·哈迪《一双蓝眼睛》中的画面叙事
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.21.2.8
Dimitar Karamitev
{"title":"The Mind's Eye: Picture as Narrative in Thomas Hardy's 'A Pair of Blue Eyes'","authors":"Dimitar Karamitev","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.21.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.21.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes in discussing certain peculiarities of narration. The numerous descriptions of people and scenes in the book are examined as basic building blocks used by the architecturally trained novelist to carry vital narrative information. This decision is approached by way of utilising ideas from the realms of phenomenology, cinema and photographic theory to prove that in addition to carrying aesthetic merits, Hardy’s descriptions are intricate data containers that reflect how the human mind processes experience.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43071808","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}
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Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English 乌干达英语中的隐含论证
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English Studies at NBU Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.33919/esnbu.21.2.2
Bebwa Isingoma
{"title":"Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English","authors":"Bebwa Isingoma","doi":"10.33919/esnbu.21.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.21.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"In standard British/American English, some transitive verbs, which are ontologically specified for objects, may be used with the objects not overtly expressed (for example, leave), while other transitive verbs do not permit this syntactic behavior (for example, vacate). The former have been referred to as verbs that allow implicit arguments. This study shows that while verbs such as vacate do not ideally allow implicit arguments in standard British/American English, this is permitted in Ugandan English (a non-native variety), thereby highlighting structural asymmetries between British/American English and Ugandan English, owing mainly to substrate influence and analogization. The current study highlights those structural asymmetries and ultimately uncovers some characteristic features in the structural nativization process of English in Uganda, thereby contributing to the growing larger discourse meant to fill the gaps that had characterized World Englishes scholarship, where thorough delineations of Ugandan English have been virtually absent.","PeriodicalId":40179,"journal":{"name":"English Studies at NBU","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69556471","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}
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