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Positioning and Footing in Chinese Social Media News Comments: The Case of the Mercedes Car Quality Dispute 中国社交媒体新闻评论的定位与立足点——以奔驰汽车质量纠纷为例

Word & world Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2025.2455238

Juan He

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Defining the word 定义单词

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2237272

Martin Haspelmath

引用次数: 2

Ba in the Chinese Ba-Construction: A Cardiff Grammar Approach 汉语“Ba”构式中的“Ba”:加的夫语法分析

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2237267

Wei He

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Rendition of Noncanonical Opposition: A Case Study of Qur’anic Composition in Bilingual Transposition 非正典对立的翻译:以《古兰经》双语译制为例

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2237271

Hamada S.A. Hassanein

{"title":"Rendition of Noncanonical Opposition: A Case Study of Qur’anic Composition in Bilingual Transposition","authors":"Hamada S.A. Hassanein","doi":"10.1080/00437956.2023.2237271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2023.2237271","url":null,"abstract":"Grammar and meaning, form and function, are two linguistic levels intrinsic and indispensable to reading and rendering the Qur’an, the Divine Word of Islamic Scripture, in a foreign tongue. Nida and de Waard’s (1986) ‘functional equivalence’, an amalgamation of formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence, posits that emphasis in translation activity and practice must also be laid on SL form which must be retained and maintained in TL where possible as long as it performs discourse functions and conciliates SL fidelity and TL legibility. The present study argues that the syntactic frames that host noncanonical oppositions in the Qur’an trigger distinct discourse functions that must be transposed as lexicosyntactic and lexicosemantic translation units into Qur’an translation. Building on a typological analysis of a representative dataset retrieved from Qur’anic Arabic Corpus (QAC), the study reveals remarkable variations among the translators in their renditions of noncanonical opposition frames and functions owing to explicitation and domestication. This study recommends revival and reuse of the grammar-translation method in Qur’an translation when SL meaning and function are based on SL grammar and form.","PeriodicalId":84010,"journal":{"name":"Word & world","volume":"98 1","pages":"253 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83591795","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 Word-building Category Potential in the Analysis of the Names of Persons in the Russian and Bashkir Languages 俄语和巴什基尔语人名分析中的构词范畴潜力

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2202604

Z. Khazhieva, O. Novikova, Andrey G. Belyaev, Larisa Ivanova

{"title":"The Word-building Category Potential in the Analysis of the Names of Persons in the Russian and Bashkir Languages","authors":"Z. Khazhieva, O. Novikova, Andrey G. Belyaev, Larisa Ivanova","doi":"10.1080/00437956.2023.2202604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2023.2202604","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to perform a comparative analysis of the word-building category with the person meaning in the Russian and Bashkir languages. The research was conducted on the material of Russian-Bashkir dictionaries. The structural-functional research method made it possible to determine the morphemic affixal composition of the compared languages, the types of a functional connection between the morphological components of the suffix base and the special morphological relations developed between the components under the influence of sociolinguistic factors. The results of the study showed that the development of agricultural terminology is determined primarily by internal language factors. In borrowed words from the Russian language, the Bashkir language mainly adds the affixes -сы, -се, -со, -сө (-sy, - sə, - so, - sɜː); there are also less productive suffixes: -даш, -дәш, -таш, -тәш, -ҙаш, -ҙәш (- dash, -dæsh, -tash, -tæsh, -ðash, - ðæsh). Both languages are an example of the expansion of English names that retain their form in these different languages. The results obtained are significant for language education and lexicography; they can serve as a basis for continuing research in the cognitive and functional areas.","PeriodicalId":84010,"journal":{"name":"Word & world","volume":"119 1","pages":"160 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77944494","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 Acquisition of the English Spatial Prepositions: in, on, and at by Saudi EFL Students 沙特学生对英语空间介词的习得:in、on和at

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2208897

Reham Alhammad

{"title":"The Acquisition of the English Spatial Prepositions: in, on, and at by Saudi EFL Students","authors":"Reham Alhammad","doi":"10.1080/00437956.2023.2208897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2023.2208897","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the acquisition of the three English spatial prepositions: ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘at’ by 100 Saudi EFL students within the framework of the Markedness Theory. From the markedness point of view, marked/infrequent structures are more difficult in acquisition compared to their corresponding unmarked/frequent structures. English and Arabic differ in the way they express the semantic relations of these prepositions. This is assumed to pose difficulties in learning for EFL students where learners compare the English prepositional system to that of Arabic and resort to literal translation; thus, L1 transfer takes place. The study aims to provide insight into the challenges that Arab EFL learners encounter when learning English and to fill a gap in the literature of second language acquisition regarding the acquisition of prepositions by Arab EFL learners when semantic asymmetries are attested. Results show that the unmarked preposition ‘in’ is learned easily because its Arabic equivalent ‘fi’ covers more functions in the native language. As for the prepositions ‘on’ and ‘at’, results show that participants are struggling to learn them because only a few meanings correspond between ‘on’ and its Arabic equivalent ‘ʕala’, and that Arabic lacks an equivalent for ‘at’.","PeriodicalId":84010,"journal":{"name":"Word & world","volume":"17 1","pages":"175 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87799719","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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‘Noticeably Better / Visibly Shaken’: The Use of Four Adverbs of High Perceivability with Meanings of Attitude “明显好转/明显动摇”:四个具有态度意义的高感知副词的使用

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2202602

M. Carretero

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Non-finiteness: A Process-Relation Perspective 非有限性:过程关系的视角

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2202601

Dajun Xiang

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On the Syntax of Existential Sentences in Standard Arabic 论标准阿拉伯语存在句的句法

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2202603

Khawlah Sulaiman Allahem, B. Alharbi

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Unpacking the Semantics of Coronaviruses’ “Referent Things”: A Corpus-Driven Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis 解开冠状病毒“指涉物”的语义:语料库驱动的系统功能语言分析

Word & world Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2022.2160147

A. Salama

{"title":"Unpacking the Semantics of Coronaviruses’ “Referent Things”: A Corpus-Driven Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis","authors":"A. Salama","doi":"10.1080/00437956.2022.2160147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2022.2160147","url":null,"abstract":"The current study seeks to unpack the corpus-driven semantics of the “referent things” underlying the use of the lexical item coronaviruses in the data of The Coronavirus Corpus [Davies, Mark. 2019-. The Coronavirus Corpus. https://www.english-corpora.org/corona/]. Drawing on the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) Model of the Cardiff Grammar, a concordance-bound analysis has been conducted on the item coronaviruses as expounding the structural element head (h) of its relevant nominal-group patterns in the corpus data. The Cardiff Grammar Model has systematically revealed the semantics of coronaviruses’ referent things as realized by corpus-driven syntactic patterns of eleven coronaviruses-expounded nominal groups in two respects in the corpus data. First, the item coronaviruses has been empirically shown to have three dominant types of referent: (i) a particularized referent has been expressed through the system of PARTICULARIZATION, (ii) a substantive referent through QUANTIFICATION (selection by quantity, selection by typicity, and selection by representation), and (iii) cultural-classification referent through the two overlapping systems of CLASSIFICATION and SELECTION (selection by quality and selection by qualification). Second, these referents demonstrated two aspects of semantic representation via participant-role (PR) conflation: (i) a cultural-classification referent assumes the complementary participant roles of Identifier, Actor, and Patient; (ii) a particularized substantive referent has the sole PR of Agent.","PeriodicalId":84010,"journal":{"name":"Word & world","volume":"23 1","pages":"49 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81143792","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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