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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1086/724024

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The Role of Corpus Linguistics in Grammar Instruction: A Review of Literature 语料库语言学在语法教学中的作用:文献综述

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-25 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20500

Basim Alamri

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Conceptual Metaphors and the Smell Perception in English and Arabic 概念隐喻与英语和阿拉伯语的嗅觉

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-25 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20517

Salha Mohammed Alqarni

{"title":"Conceptual Metaphors and the Smell Perception in English and Arabic","authors":"Salha Mohammed Alqarni","doi":"10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20517","url":null,"abstract":"Perception has long been seen as a basis for understanding abstract concepts and experiences and their linguistic encoding. Conceptual metaphor is considered a cognitive link between physical and sensory experiences and abstract mental representations. The olfactory perception has been treated as peripherical in contrast to other sense modalities. The purpose of the study is to establish how the smell sense is conceptually structured in Arabic in comparison with English and to examine conceptual metaphors based on our olfactory perception. Using the theory of conceptual metaphor, the study sought to compare the conception of smell and its metaphorical extensions in both languages. The data collected for this study was Modern written Standard Arabic acquired from online Arabic corpora and the total number of sentences searched is 3400 sentences. The study demonstrated that smell is used as a source domain to express suspicion, knowledge, and emotions. Arabic expresses a few extra metaphors including experiencing and anticipating. The domain of emotions in Arabic is closely connected to the smell sense more than English is. On the other hand, the most prevalent conceptual metaphors that employ smell as their target domain are INTENSITY OF SMELL IS EFFECT STRENGTH and SMELL IS A PHYSICAL FORCE, which exist in both languages equally. Besides, the study demonstrated that the sense of smell is not peripheral to cognition as it was previously believed. It is hoped that this study has contributed to further appreciation of the smell domain and its function in cognition.","PeriodicalId":46577,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of American Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78487479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flaps and Trills in Najdi and Hijazi Arabic Najdi和Hijazi阿拉伯语的襟翼和颤音

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20592

Eisa S. Alrasheedi

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The Relationship Between Reading Self-Efficacy and Perceived Use of Reading Strategies Among Saudi EFL Students 沙特英语学生阅读自我效能感与阅读策略使用感知的关系

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20037

Effat S. Altumigah, Tarek A. Alkhaleefah

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Moroccan Arabic Consonant Clusters Resulting From Negation as an Exception to Benhallam’s SSAA: An Optimality-Theoretic Account 作为本哈勒姆SSAA的例外，摩洛哥阿拉伯语的辅音群是由否定而产生的:一个优选理论解释

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20593

Radouane Belkhadir

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Effects of Perceptual Learning Styles on Chinese EFL Learners’ Writing Proficiency in the Reading-writing Integrated Continuation Task 感知学习风格对中国英语学习者读写综合接续任务写作水平的影响

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20521

Huafeng Wang, M. Tu, Meiqiong Liang

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A Corpus-Based Study on Politeness Used by L1 Thai EFL Learners 基于语料库的母语泰语学习者礼貌行为研究

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20436

Zhaoyi Pan

{"title":"A Corpus-Based Study on Politeness Used by L1 Thai EFL Learners","authors":"Zhaoyi Pan","doi":"10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20436","url":null,"abstract":"This research aimed to identify politeness super-strategies, the strategies under each category of super-strategy, and common lexical patterns in each strategy when performed by L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners in English conversation. It attempted to use the corpus-based approach to examine the pattern of how L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners use politeness in English conversation and, on the other hand, to examine the existing problems with L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners’ use of politeness super-strategies based on the findings. In total, 30 L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners were involved in this research. A learner corpus was built to investigate the use of politeness super-strategies and the frequencies of lexical patterns. The findings illustrated that L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners tended toward using the negative politeness super-strategy, while no off record super-strategy was found. Moreover, L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners used a limited number of politeness strategies under the super-strategy categories identified in this research, with a limited selection of lexical patterns in each strategy. The findings reveal that L1 Thai intermediate-level EFL learners adopt only a small range of politeness strategies, thereby resulting in a discrepancy in the performance of politeness in English conversation.","PeriodicalId":46577,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of American Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76025907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Occurrence of Apology Expressions in Moye's Me Before You and After You: A Pragmatic Study 莫耶的《我在你之前》和《你之后》中道歉用语的出现:语用研究

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20645

A. Albadri

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Code-Switching Elicitation Task in Standard Arabic, Dialectal Arabic, and English Among Bilingual Saudi Arabian Students in the United States 在美沙特阿拉伯双语学生标准阿拉伯语、方言阿拉伯语和英语语码转换引出任务

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International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20356

Sharif Bahri

{"title":"Code-Switching Elicitation Task in Standard Arabic, Dialectal Arabic, and English Among Bilingual Saudi Arabian Students in the United States","authors":"Sharif Bahri","doi":"10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v14i6.20356","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores code-switching practices among bilingual Saudi Arabians within three language varieties: English, Standard Arabic (SA), and Dialectal Arabic (DA). While there are studies that examine the use of code-switching between SA and DA, and others that investigate Arabic-English code-switching, no study to date has examined natural code-switching into English in conversations of SA vs. DA as compared to code-switching into Arabic in English conversations. Controlling the language of the interviewer (English, SA, or DA), this study examines (1) the likelihood of code-switching relative to the language of the interview, (2) the rate of switches in each interview context, and (3) the mean duration of those switch segments. Results show that code-switching to Arabic was very rare in English interviews (only 0.89% of interview time was in Arabic with a switch rate of 1.74 switches/minute and average length of 0.59 s). However, participants in SA and DA interviews did code-switch to English 8.32% and 10.08% of the time, respectively. The mean rate of switches was about twice as frequent for participants interviewed in DA (14.18 switches/minute) than for participants interviewed in SA (7.21 switches/minute). Moreover, participants in SA interviews had significantly longer mean English segments than DA interviewees (1.21 s vs. 0.81 s, respectively). The results demonstrate that (1) English has the greatest impact on participants’ tendency to code-switch, (2) SA encourages code-switching in a way that aims to preserve its formal status, and (3) DA encourages code-switching the most, i.e., code-switching is an emblem of DA conversations.","PeriodicalId":46577,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of American Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87978945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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