{"title":"“May the path never close”","authors":"Pyeaam Abbasi, Maryamossadat Mousavi","doi":"10.1075/etc.21013.abb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.21013.abb","url":null,"abstract":"Resistance to postcolonial oppressive ideologies assumes significance within Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987), portraying predicaments of a post-independence fictional African state of Kangan. Drawing on the Deleuze-Guattarian “ontology of becoming”, “rhizome”, “nomad thought”, distinction of “striated” and “smooth” spaces, their account of the “State Apparatus” and the “war machine”, and “assemblage”, the study demonstrates how Achebe entertains possibilities of convergence with their philosophy. It displays how the Kangan people, while engaging in “ontology of becoming”, strive to deterritorialise themselves from Sam’s State that attempts to define their subjectivity. Concurrently, Sam’s State implements varieties of schemes to re-subjugate its subjects under its territorial authority. The study concludes how the war machine’s menacing force eventually destabilises the whole “State Apparatus”.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"116 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263134","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":"‘Narrative structure’, ‘rhetorical structure’, ‘text structure’","authors":"Nelly Tincheva","doi":"10.1075/etc.21016.tin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.21016.tin","url":null,"abstract":"The paper seeks to provide a cognitive-linguistic re-interpretation of the centuries-old notion of whole-text structure. The investigation presented here draws on 317 data sources selected through a scoping literature review. The paper demonstrates how text structure, narrative structure, rhetorical structure, etc. all represent metonymically one and the same multi-faceted underlying concept. That concept is argued to result from the amalgamated operation of conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy combined with the simultaneous and dynamic operation of (what are known in gestalt psychology as) profiling shifts. The paper further demonstrates how such shifts in profiling operate on text-worlds and discourse-worlds to bring about perceptions of a text’s ‘progression’ and of whole-text structure.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"458 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139266176","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":"Dating “Sweet Desire”","authors":"Dennis Wilson Wise","doi":"10.1075/etc.22017.wis","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.22017.wis","url":null,"abstract":"C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien are two key figures in the Modern Alliterative Revival, and each sought to revive Old English poetics with close to absolute metrical fidelity. While scholarship on Tolkien’s alliterative verse has seen an uptick in recent years, though, Lewis remains the odd poet out. Nominally, this article attempts to assign a composition date for Lewis’s poem “Sweet Desire.” My dating to early 1930 associates this text with Lewis’s famous conversion to theism. More broadly, this article tracks one revivalist’s painstaking adaptation of the alliterative meter into Modern English, outlining the technical challenges faced by Lewis and which other contemporary revivalists must overcome as well.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264952","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":"Creating an information security policyin a bank","authors":"Olivier Mozard T. Kamou","doi":"10.1075/etc.22001.tio","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.22001.tio","url":null,"abstract":"Information security policies are particularly important when it comes to maintaining information security within an organization. As a result, creating an information security policy is an invaluable process that cannot be undermined. This study aims at investigating how these information security policies are created, specifically in banks, from a linguistic perspective. The study employed the use of corpora and analyzed ten information security policies of banks randomly collected online. The analyses were categorized under five levels of linguistic analysis which included: the mode, lexis, grammar, speech acts, and discourse. Some statistical analyses which involved clustering were also performed at the level of discourse in order to find similar patterns in the information security policies. The results show that banks use the same linguistic features when writing their information security policies. The results also reveal how these linguistic features are used to develop a comprehensive and effective information security policy.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"195 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139262926","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}
S. Ostovar-Namaghi, Fatemeh Khorram, Farhad Moezzipour
{"title":"Exploring the use of modality in EFL learners’ writing","authors":"S. Ostovar-Namaghi, Fatemeh Khorram, Farhad Moezzipour","doi":"10.1075/etc.00050.ost","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00050.ost","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Due to prevalence of formal analysis in language education, the implications of Systemic Functional Grammar has\u0000 largely been ignored by materials and methods of language education. To illustrate the inadequacies of formal analysis and make a\u0000 case for functional analysis and assessment of writing samples, this study aims at exploring the use of modality in a random\u0000 sample of expository essays written in an EFL context. To this end, 20 expository essays, written by undergraduate students of\u0000 English language and literature, were randomly obtained from writing instructors and professors teaching in the English department\u0000 of Shahrood University of Technology (SUT), Iran. Leaners’ use of modality was then analyzed in line with the framework presented\u0000 by Halliday & Matthiessen (2014). Analysis revealed learners’ lack of variation in\u0000 the expression of uncertainties and doubts and as such lack of mastery over modality since they tended to express their opinions\u0000 as implicit and as objective as possible. There seems to be a link between this problem and the dominance of formal analysis in\u0000 teaching and assessing writing; hence, the findings of this study have clear implications for teaching instruction in this context\u0000 and other similar contexts, where the implications of systemic functional grammar for language education seem to be ignored.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44823387","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":"Teaching eco-translation","authors":"Angela Kölling, M. Lieb","doi":"10.1075/etc.00056.kol","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00056.kol","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic has kept us individually as well as publicly in a state of preoccupation that prohibited us from staying with the trouble of an ecologically damaged planet. The authors of this contribution are sharing their experience and reflections upon teaching, as an active intervention to this absent presence in everyday Covid-19 lives, an eco-translation course. For this we will first offer a short discussion of our scholarly backgrounds and biases. Second, we will describe our efforts in translating these biases into concrete teaching. The course that serves here as a case study was taught in a project format in the 2021 winter term 2 at the Faculty for Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Mainz University. It was a five-day course which blended localisation and nature writing framed by a holistic approach to scholarship and teaching. Third, we will discuss the teaching experience in terms of the presences and absences it made apparent.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45376895","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 contrastive look at Theme as point of departure in English and Spanish academic writing","authors":"Jorge Arús-Hita","doi":"10.1075/etc.00048.aru","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00048.aru","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper offers a detailed study of Theme as point of departure in English and Spanish academic texts. A corpus\u0000 of around 45,000 words is examined from different perspectives to compare the realizations, functions and interplays of the point\u0000 of departure in these two languages. Examples reveal crosslinguistic contrasts in terms of (a) the preferred realizations of\u0000 thematic elements, (b) the strategies to maintain participant identity and present new participants and (c) the resources used to\u0000 construe texture. We will see that whereas English favours thematic non-pronominal noun groups, Spanish combines these with other\u0000 realizations. Additionally, the different syntactic characteristics of each language have a reflection on different ways of\u0000 signalling semantic continuity and on textual development in general. The findings presented in this paper should make a\u0000 significant contribution to the existing literature on Theme, as well as on academic writing and contrastive typological\u0000 research.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41961288","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 more perfect dissolution","authors":"Laura Michiels","doi":"10.1075/etc.00055.mic","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00055.mic","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Samuel D. Hunter’s 2019 play Greater Clements is named after a fictional former mining town in Northern Idaho, which straddles the space between presence and absence. The locals have decided to put an end to a dispute with the Californian second-homers that have flocked to town in recent years, by voting to unincorporate. Hunter has indicated that the play relies heavily on the “toxicity of nostalgia”, on which the present essay concentrates. This article explores nostalgia as connected to two marginalised communities in Greater Clements: the miners, now out of work due to the effects of deindustrialisation, and the town’s Japanese American residents, who are still reeling from the trauma of wartime internment.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49242039","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":"“Shadowtime”","authors":"S. Lambert","doi":"10.1075/etc.00054.lam","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00054.lam","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores “shadowtime”, or the co-existence of multiple temporalities, in Michelle Paver’s novel Dark Matter: A Ghost Story (2010). Dark Matter is filled with temporally strange figures that evade human vision and understanding. Central among these is the spectral presence of a gengånger, or ghost, which haunts the Arctic research station where the novel is largely set. After tracking some of the metaphorical and material dimensions of the spectral, this essay investigates “shadowtime” in the context of the novel’s various ‘archives’. It then looks at how the incorporeal or immaterial concepts of value and choice frame the novel’s ‘dark matters’. ‘Possibility’, or the question of ‘what if?’ pervades the novel’s pages, encouraging readers to imagine multiple realities simultaneously. This essay argues that, although set in a period predating wide awareness of climate change, Dark Matter’s “shadowtimes” create forms of temporal and ontological instability that resonate with the existential uncertainties of the Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42031072","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":"Animals squawking their mysteries","authors":"Marco Malvezzi Caracciolo","doi":"10.1075/etc.00053.car","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00053.car","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Scholarship on literature’s engagement with the climate crisis has frequently highlighted the limitations of the\u0000 realist novel vis-à-vis the scale and wide-ranging ramifications of climate change. This article reads Laura Jean McKay’s\u0000 The Animals in That Country (2020) as a powerful example of how\u0000 the cross-fertilization of narrative and poetic forms can expand the imaginative reach of the novel. Through the plot device of a\u0000 pandemic that enables human-nonhuman communication, McKay’s novel explores the fragility of nonhuman life in a world shaped by the\u0000 violence of advanced capitalist societies. The poetic nature of the animals’ utterances complicates interpretation and draws\u0000 attention to the complexities of human-nonhuman entanglement, echoing – and performing through literary form – the ethical\u0000 position formulated by Deborah Bird Rose under the rubric of “ecological existentialism.”","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48679781","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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