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Yang, Yikuan – English Language Teaching, 2018
In response to an age of turmoil and oppression, Lu Xun's fiction features irony and it is manifested in artistic form which should be retained in English translation to achieve equivalence. Failure to do so would weaken or lose the ironical effect intended by Lu Xun and result in Western readers' inclination to neglect historical and social…
Descriptors: Fiction, Translation, English, Chinese
Liu, Zhengyuan – English Language Teaching, 2012
Idiom variation is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon which has raised a lot of research questions. The past approach was either formal or functional. Both of them did not pay much attention to cognitive factors of language users. By putting idiom variation in the framework of linguistic subjectivity, we have offered a new perspective in the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Guidelines, Grammar, Language Usage
Al-Meshhedany, Amna A. Hasan; Al-Sammerai, Nabiha S. Mehdi – English Language Teaching, 2010
Semantics is a study of human beings cultural background, has from its beginning as a field of study been concerned with the study of humans understanding of culture. Understanding the meaning of "death" has been of great importance to many of the central theoretical developments in this field, especially as it imposes on studies of…
Descriptors: Death, Culture, Arabs, Semantics
Muniandy, Mohan K.; Nair, Gopala Krishnan Sekharan; Shanmugam, Shashi Kumar Krishnan; Ahmad, Irma; Noor, Norashikin Binte Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2010
This paper aims to highlight the importance of teaching sociolinguistic competence to ESL learners in Malaysian schools. Sociolinguistic competence is the knowledge of socio cultural rules of language and of discourse. This type of competence requires an understanding of the socio context in which language is used. It is proposed that carefully…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Competence, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency