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Akan, Md. Faruquzzaman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This research paper explores much of the basic and background knowledge of English and Bangla sentence patterns or structures as well as tries to compare and contrast between these two very languages, English and Bangla at the sentential levels. As it is known the concept of basic sentence structures is necessary for classroom teaching and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Syntax, Indo European Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
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Lan, Tian; Jingxia, Liu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Language, as a tool for people's daily communication, has no gender bias itself. With the development of society, the language has changed correspondingly. Language serve as the mirror of society, inevitably reflecting people's minds or ideology as well as the culture and social conditions of a society. While in English, as the mother tongue of…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Interpersonal Communication, English
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Sameer, Imad Hayif – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study attempts to analyze Bush's second inaugural speech. It aims at investigating the use of linguistic strategies in it. It resorts to two models which are Aristotle's model while the second is that of Atkinson's (1984) to draw the attention towards linguistic strategies. The analysis shows that Bush's second inaugural speech is successful…
Descriptors: Presidents, Rhetoric, Public Speaking, Models
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Lihan, Kang – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Based on a report on Dr. Li Wenliang in the British mainstream BBC media under the epidemic of COVID-2019, this paper analyzes from three perspectives guided by Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar: transitivity, mood and personal pronoun. It is found that the material process appears most frequently which shows that the news reports mainly…
Descriptors: Grammar, News Reporting, Form Classes (Languages), Programming (Broadcast)
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Soylu Bastug, Dilek; Broutin, Jonathan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
In modern methods, in line with the social constructivist and action-oriented approaches, knowledge should be (co-) constructed by the learner in interaction with his or her learning environment which has been established by the teacher prior to the session. A social constructivist approach can be described as learning-centered. This approach…
Descriptors: Grammar, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tasnim, Zakiyah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
With millions of non-native English language users, English has gained the position of 'global language' in the last century. English literature also has a significant number of non-native writers from around the world. While grasping their own cultures in English, these non-native writers have been transforming English language to a remarkable…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Rahman, Syed Mahmudur – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Current day literary criticisms written in world englishes often seem to be a little hard to comprehend for readers because of critics' tendency to use too much decorative language with too many theoretical views, jargons, and references of different sorts just to stick to an assumed standard of scholarly writing. This paper, based on a…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Rabea, Reem Ahmad; Almahameed, Nusaiba Adel – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The paper intends to reread Jamaica Kincaid's short story, 'Girl' (1978) and provide new insights into its understanding. It aims to analyse the poetic qualities, word choice, and structure of the text that are left not fully discussed by recent scholarship. The structure as well as the poetic language of 'Girl' make it an unconventional piece of…
Descriptors: Fiction, Poetry, Literary Genres, Language Usage
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Al Sharaqi, Laila; Abbasi, Irum – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Twitter, synonymous with social networking, has become a successful social platform for the exchange of ideas, news, and information. It has also emerged as an experimental platform through which users explore creative realms of poetic and narrative content, albeit in 140 characters. The real-time tweets are fundamentally unique and increasingly…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Fiction
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Ihina, Zoia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This article is dedicated to revealing linguistic means that realise "the event" in the gothic narrative--H. James's novella "The Turn of the Screw" and the opera libretto of the same name. The event is treated as a situational change of states and presupposes that "the real" and "the unknown" should meet.…
Descriptors: Fiction, Novels, Discourse Analysis, Literary Devices
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Cui, Huanle; Liu, Lingling; Li, Juanjuan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
It is widely believed that tourist trade has been the fastest developing trade in the world. In China, with the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standard, travelling has been an indispensable part of living. Therefore, tourism text becomes one of the most effective publicity tool to attractive tourists. A tour guide…
Descriptors: Grammar, Tourism, Economic Development, Living Standards
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El-Sharif, Ahmad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This article makes a literary review to the linguistic research in the use of metaphor in didactic discourse; especially the religious one. Acknowledging Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the primary theory in the field, the researcher embarks upon how metaphor is perceived and analysed in discourse in order to pertain its persuasive function. The…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Islam, Religion
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Adjei, Daniel Oppong – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper shows how humour is deployed in Achebe's "A Man of the People" by analysing the make-up of the various instances of humour as well as their significance in attaining the desired effects. To Veatch (1998), humour contains two incongruous elements; one element is socially normal while the other is a violation of the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Attachment Behavior, Humor
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Labidi, Abid Larbi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
My major purpose in studying Caryl Phillips's widely acclaimed novel "Crossing the River" is to examine, through a close textual analysis, the severe identity crisis inflicted upon slaves under the three-century long slavery institution. I explore how slaves' tragic rift of separation from their African homelands led to a disastrous loss…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Novels, Slavery, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Al Zuraigat, Asma M.; Zeidanin, Hussein Hasan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study aims at identifying the poetic devices overlapping with the genre of fiction in Laila Al Atrash's novel "The Sons of the Wind". The devices the study explores are the poetics of the title, poetics of the prologue and poetics of the language upon which the writer relies to support her point of view about the topics and issues…
Descriptors: Fiction, Novels, Narration, Authors
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