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Kuleli, Mesut – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to make a semiotic analysis of William Shakespeare's play titled Othello in the light of Jean-Claude Coquet's "Theory of Instances of Enunciation" and compare Turkish translations of the contexts analyzed in the original play from semiotics of translation point of view with a view to determining the meaning…
Descriptors: Translation, Semiotics, Classification, Linguistic Theory
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Huang, Kuan-Chung; Tseng, Ming-Yu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Many studies investigated metaphors in news; however, few of them focused specifically on headlines. By investigating metaphors in 133 collected NBA news headlines written in Chinese, this paper analyzes the creativity in them. Conceptual Metaphor Theory, including conceptual metonymy, is adopted to discuss creative linguistic metaphors and their…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Verbs
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Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This theoretical study aims at raising awareness of the existence of lexical false friends (FFs) in English and Arabic as genetically unrelated languages. It also provides a general categorization for FFs from a semantic point of view. A sample of more than fifty FF pairs is examined by contrasting their form, pronunciation and meaning. The…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Metalinguistics
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Seker, Emrullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This is a longitudinal and naturalistic study of the bilingual acquisition of English and Turkish languages simultaneously by a 28-month old Turkish infant. The emphasis is on empirical findings collected from a two-year period of observations beginning from the subject's birth and lasting until his 28-month old linguistic status. The study is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Language Acquisition, Turkish
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Al Ghazali, Fawzi – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study investigated the various linguistic, psychological, and sociocultural variables that explain the sociolinguistic variation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) among Arab siblings. The variables are not predetermined but extracted from the participants' contributions and data in a grounded theory research. The siblings participated in…
Descriptors: Arabs, Sociolinguistics, Native Language, Discourse Analysis
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Cangir, Hakan; Büyükkantarcioglu, S. Nalan; Durrant, Philip – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Several attempts have been made to illustrate the organization of the monolingual mental lexicon and each model proposed so far has highlighted different aspects of lexical processing. What they have in common is the fact that their depictions rely on single lexical items and paradigmatic relations come to the fore in their explanations. Hoey's…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Turkish, Priming, Language Processing