{"title":"Interpersonal Functions of Engagement Markers in Interaction Phase of Lectures from the Perspective of Appraisal Theory: A Case Study of an Online Lecture","authors":"Yu Bao, Yi Zhang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.399","url":null,"abstract":"Classroom discourse has been widely discussed for decades, while little attention has been paid to academic lectures. This study focuses on the interaction phase of an online lecture and investigates the occurrence of engagement markers as well as their interpersonal functions from the perspective of appraisal theory. The results show that both dialogic contraction and expansion occurred in the interaction phase. Enlightened by appraisal theory, it can be concluded that with engagement markers lecturers can establish authority and adjust negotiation space with their audience to disseminate academic knowledge.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124949049","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":"A Case Study of Online Teaching in a Higher Vocational College in China during Covid-19","authors":"Kai Wang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.393","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is based on a researcher’s exploration into a teachers’ implementation of teaching students English writing online in a higher vocational college in China during Covid-19, which aims to find the role of teacher to facilitate the efficient online teaching. It adopts a qualitative research design with the samples including one teacher, 34 students and a sample class. The research instrumentals include the researcher’s online classroom observation in the sample class and the semi-structured interview of the teacher and all the students after the sample class. All the data are collected for content analysis and triangulation. A theoretical framework of Community of Inquiry (CoI) is applied in the content analysis of the data within the context. A conclusion is drawn by the result and discussion that a leader and helper role of teacher who provides scaffolding in class and consultation after class with the modern educational ideal and information technology helps to promote the effective online teaching.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127523760","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":"Freedom Delimited: An Analysis of Humanist Manifestos","authors":"Ross A. Jackson, Brian L. Heath","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.390","url":null,"abstract":"Freedom is ambiguous and elusive. Context is useful for delimiting this ideal, though the notion of delimited freedom is itself paradoxical. Humanism, with its emphasis on humans as the basis of inquiry and understanding, places significance on self-defined pursuits of meaning and happiness. Freedom is essential to that endeavor. Given the centrality of freedom to humanist philosophy, an analysis of a strategic subset of their major writings and manifestos holds potential for unlocking insights about freedom. An author-created, corpus of humanist manifestos was collected, comprised of twelve texts from three organizations. Specifically, the corpus contains documents from the following organizations: the American Humanist Association (n = 3), Humanists International (n = 7), and the Center for Inquiry (n = 2), with publications ranging from the year 1933 to 2022. Frequency analyses of words of merit provided context for the centrality of freedom in humanist literature. The term freedom was analyzed in terms of time, organization, and functional form to determine the degree of consistency in usage. These insights make explicit what was ambiguous and provide a foundation from which individuals and organizations can articulate and pursue the type of humanist freedom defined in their literature.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130173234","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":"Advanced Foreign Language Learners: Prosodic Transition from L1 to L3","authors":"Lijie Yang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.167","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides more data from more typologically distant languages and focusing on interrogative sentences. Thus, this research addresses a key gap from previous studies that have only studied prosodic transitions between more typologically close languages. Moreover, this study successfully controls for the background of participants in a more detailed way by setting limitations on participants’ language proficiency and the recency of their language usage. These limitations are necessary since it is difficult to conduct research on prosodic transitions within 3 languages due to the limited number of trilingual participants. Finally, this paper finds that for people who speak second language (L2) and third language (L3) with high proficiency, the influence of phonological characters from L1 will be more prominent than that of L2 on L3 intonational status. This study can be improved, as the amount of data collected is limited. Besides this problem, intonational typology considered in this paper should be reevaluated in further studies.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125231774","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":"A Study on the Training Strategies of Spanish-English Application-Oriented Talents","authors":"Wen Guo","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.391","url":null,"abstract":"With application-oriented talents of foreign languages being concerned and acquiring great attention, compound Spanish-English bilingual professionals should follow the trend. It is an important way for the foreign language colleges of universities to meet the requirements of the new external economy. This paper explores the problems of bi-foreign languages–majors, and probes into the bi-foreign languages application-oriented professionals cultivating strategies in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, teaching level and students’ extracurricular practice, and puts forward the specific suggestions on the discipline construction, reform and innovation according to their own conditions.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129331945","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":"Language Preservation: The Rise of Māori-Language Picture Books in Aotearoa","authors":"Lawa Iwan","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.396","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview and analysis of Indigenous-language picture books in Aotearoa. The Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa, underwent a long period of colonisation and experienced culture and language loss. Indigenous movements demanding human rights and revitalisation of the Māori language remained prevalent until the 1970s. Several scholars proclaim that literature in the Indigenous language is one avenue that effectively preserves language and suggest printing more than educational materials [1–3]. However, Māori attempts to increase Indigenouslanguage literature to safeguard their native tongues have been constrained by the limited number of language speakers and writers. Currently, Indigenous-language picture books are the primary Indigenous-language literature in Aotearoa. This paper analyses the history, authors and translators of Māori-language picture books, as well as the ethnic identity, language and subject of these books.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130260003","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":"Comparative Analysis of Translators’ Style in Chinese Versions of Hamlet from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory","authors":"Leyun Mei, Hongmei Ruan","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.2.394","url":null,"abstract":"Each translator’s ideology will be formed differently due to his different time background and social environment, which will have an influence on their translation process. When translating the same work, the translator’s understanding of the original text will be different. Based on Andre Lefevere’s manipulation theory and taking Shakespeare’s Hamlet translations in China as an example, this paper makes a comparative study of the translation styles of Zhu Shenghao and Sun Dayu. The translation styles of the two famous translators are different. The former is more prosaic, while the latter is more poetic. Starting from the translator’s life experience and social background of translation creation, the paper discusses the different influence of ideology, poetics and patronage on the two translator’s translation process through the analysis of specific examples.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130335077","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":"The Role of Phonological Priming in Backward Priming Effects of Chinese Four-Character Words","authors":"Yanjing Zhang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.1.376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.1.376","url":null,"abstract":"The backward priming effect is found in the masked lexical decision tasks deploying Chinese four-character words as targets and the backward-presented words as primes. To explore whether phonology plays a role in this backward priming effect, we conducted two experiments using the masked priming lexical decision tasks. Thirty-two and sixty-three native Chinese speakers participated in the two experiments. Experiment 1 was designed to investigate the phonological priming in backward conditions and to ensure the exclusion of phonology in Experiment 1, the primes were presented forward in Experiment 2. The results showed that no significant phonological priming effect was found whether the primes were backward-presented or forward-presented. Therefore, it can be concluded that phonological priming did not contribute to the backward priming effect in lexical decision tasks.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121316831","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":"A Study on Chinese and English Transfer in French Writing of L3 French Language Beginners","authors":"Junhui Wang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.1.379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.1.379","url":null,"abstract":"In order to investigate the language transfer existing in the field of third language acquisition, and to provide effective strategies of learning two or more languages, this research, based on theories related to the third language acquisition and error analysis, collected 32 French compositions written by English majors’ undergraduates as a corpus, analyzed errors in those compositions, and further discussed the negative transfer of Chinese and English in their French learning. Eight types of errors from the lexical and syntactic perspectives were identified in the research findings. What is more, the negative transfer of English and Chinese appeared at both lexical and syntactic level, and the negative transfer of English is more than Chinese. “lexical errors” occupied more than “syntactic errors” in the transfer of English, while syntactic errors existed more frequently than lexical errors in the transfer of Chinese. There are three main reasons for results of transfers: language distance, language exposure, and language frequency, which provide effective strategies for third language acquisition.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129327683","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":"The Use of Modal Adverbs of Certainty in Linguistic Academic Discourse: Case Study of Empirical Research Articles in Language Learning and TESOL Quarterly","authors":"Rui Deng, Yi Zhang","doi":"10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.1.383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.1.383","url":null,"abstract":"Attitude and disciplinary culture are 2 frequently discussed topics among the studies on academic discourse. To explore the use of modal adverbs of certainty in linguistic academic discourse from the macro structure perspective, 9 kinds of modal adverbs of certainty which occur 56 times in 10 linguistic empirical research articles (Ras) with ILMRDC structure published in 2 high—Quality journals (Language Learning and TESOL Quarterly) are analyzed. The research results show that these modal adverbs of certainty are mainly located in Literature Review and Discussion Part. As for the communicative functions, modal adverbs of certainty are generally used to express certainty towards propositions. Specifically, in Literature Review Part, they can also be used to show authors’ appreciation of other scholars; in Discussion Part, they are also used to hedge the certainty in both authors’ and previous studies’ proposition. This research hopes to help its readers better understand modal adverbs of certainty in academic reading and accurately use modal adverbs of certainty in academic writing.","PeriodicalId":408181,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130511820","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}