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Cultural Translation Strategies in Translating Word-Plays in A Series Of Unfortunate Events: Slippery Slope
No full textWord-play is one of the biggest challenges in cultural translation due to
differences of cultural references from Source Text (ST) to Target Text (TT). The
researchers observe this phenomenon by comparing the original and translated
work of The Slippery Slope, a book of A Series of Unfortunate Events. This study
applies cultural translation approach and is qualitative in nature. There are four
strategies employed namely Literal Strategy, Adaptation Strategy, Faithful
Strategy, and Communicative Strategy. Those strategies reveal failures of cultural
translation from the lack of context and cultural references in the translation
product, Lereng Licin. The four strategies employed in the TT do not focus on
delivering the cultural references within the ST, making the word-plays losing the
same impact in the translated work. This research offers a source or reference for
other researchers interested in cultural translation strategies of works with wordplays
The Portrayal of Women in Jaishankar Prasad’s Plays
Get PDFJai Shankar Prasad is the most celebrated personality of modern Hindi literature who belonged to the Chhayawad/svacchandatavada called as Romantic era, which gave rise to a new facelift in Hindi literature and Hindi theatre. He was an excellent Indian poet, novelist and dramatist. He was very much influenced by the Vedas, Indian Philosophy and culture, which was very well portrayed in his works. He had mixed up art and philosophy in his writings. As we say Literature reflects the images of the society and portrays human life through its characters, Prasad’s plays have witnessed the role of women evolving through ages. Jai Shankar Prasad has chosen the title of his writings with different names which ranges from the romantic to the nationalistic. Through his writings, he became famous which lead him to win so many awards in the period of Indian independence movement. He has shown the life history of many great personalities of ancient India through his Dramas. His dramas proved to be the most pioneering ones in Hindi literature. All his plays displayed a vivid range of social, political and personal issues which were prevalent in the society during his times. Portrayal of women in literature was unusual during his times, but Jaishankar Prasad was well known for portraying women in the centre stage which not only glorified them but dignified them too. The women in his plays are individuals who in her own way, are independent, self-sufficient and unconventiona
The Psychology of a Language Learner: The Out-turn of Self-motivation on a Learner’s Linguistic Self-competence
Get PDFPeople always quote, “We are all the same.” Is this really the case? For us human beings, are we really the same with no slight difference? When we say “same”, it is about the way we communicate, our etiquette, our lifestyle, and our emotions as well. This quote is just flawed in a specific perspective, especially when we examine our way of learning language and how we get motivated and most importantly, motivate ourselves; we are the opposite of the same! For this purpose, it becomes a major essentiality to inspect or investigate the theoretical anatomy of “motivation” in second language acquisition and learning. This paper offers to throw light on the essence of motivation and mainly „selfmotivation‟ as a catalyst to reach linguistic self- confidence and therefore self-competence in linguistic communication. This quantitative research scenario examined the contribution of Egyptian EFL learners‟ motivation, self- motivation, and linguistic self-confidence in their proficiency, as well as language-use anxiety to their willingness to communicate (WTC) level, along with a minor possible impact of age and gender on the learners‟ reported L2 WTC. 50 university students – 25 freshman students vs. 25 graduating senior students – were randomly selected to fill in a questionnaire for this study. Results indicated that L2 self-motivation and self-confidence made a remarkable contribution to the prediction of L2 WTC. Furthermore, it was found that the learners‟ age and gender did not make a statistical difference to their WTC, since the learners were freshmen vs. graduating seniors. The findings could contribute to the ongoing debates on the theory and practice of WTC and feed into further research that is germane to second language pedagogy and learners‟ self- motivation to be willing to communicate in their second language
Extemporaneous Speech Engagement among English Language Major Undergraduates at AlQuds Open University in Palestine
Get PDFExtemporaneous speech is one of the main natural forms of public speaking, exercising students to speak in public with little preparation. Many English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners, especially those at Al-Quds Open University have difficulty to speak spontaneously in front of the public due to their inability to speak, rooting from their lack of speaking proficiency. Due to the students’ lack of competence in extemporaneous speech, the researcher aimed to investigate the English language undergraduates’ engagement in an extemporaneous speech at the English Language and Literature Department of the university. The researcher employed the qualitative approach to gain profound knowledge and understanding of the research problem. The researcher selected a purposive sampling to collect and analyze the required data for efficient usage of the resources. The observation was performed on a selected class of ‘Language Use’ course, consisted of 35 students, at the English language and Literature Department at Al-Quds Open University, Palestine, to explore students’ engagement in extemporaneous speech. Then, five students of the same class were interviewed by the researcher to check and examine how much extent do extemporaneous speech develops students’ abilities in speaking skills. The researcher utilized the Analytical Field Notes and Thematic Analysis to analyze the collected data. The findings of the study indicated that undergraduate English language major students engaged pleasantly and positively in extemporaneous speech. Also, they had positive views, perspectives and beliefs towards engaging in extemporaneous speech represented by their active participation and their willingness to share and participate in this activity. The findings also showed that students found their speaking abilities are improved and developed based on their experiences in extemporaneous speech. They indicated that they could speak more fluently, their utterances are increased and developed, and they could speak freely in front of their peers and instructor. Furthermore, students’ self-confidence is reinforced according to their experiences and beliefs
Determining the Cultural Dynamic Shift in Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies
Get PDFAs Raymond Williams in his work Culture and Society, conceptualize the culture as the ‘progressive process’, which keeps on shifting over time and in order to illustrate the present culture one has to analysis its roots i.e, past cultural changes. Celestial Bodies written by Jokha Alharthi is considered as representative novel with transitional theme in Arabic literary circle. It has taken the fancy most particularly of the western readers since it portrays the unseen aspects of Omani society and also captures the spirit of Mid- Eastern transitional societies faced with new challenges and opportunities. Like Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Alharthi also tied her novel intimately to the real history of Oman by capturing the rapid social changes and consequent shift in the cultural panorama through an Omani family over three generation. This paper aims to examine the cultural dynamic shift in Omani author Alharthi’s International Man Booker- Prize 2019 winning novel, Celestial Bodies. It also examined the shifting cultural outlook through blend of old tradition with the modern, changing patterns of gender roles, breaking the taboos, enfeeblement of social structure, attitude towards education and love- stained relationships etc
Language Usage in Different Domains by the Chakmas of Bangladesh
Get PDFThe language policy of Bangladesh advocates the use of the national language ‘Bengali’ in all spheres of life. While English serves as a foreign language and taught as a compulsory subject in the academic domain, the dominance of Bengali prevails. As a result, the leading indigenous group known as the ‘Chakma’ has no other choice but to speak these languages regardless of having a distinct vernacular. The situation evoked the possibility of language shift by the Chakmas to Bengali which brought about this investigation. For serving the purpose, a mixed-method approach was applied through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to know the language usage in seven major domains by the Chakmas who live in the Chattogram city and Rangamati of Bangladesh. The research outcomes portray the domination of the national language Bengali in the formal domains along with a noticeable interference of it in the intimate spheres. The Use of English turned out minimal in all domains. The findings confirmed that the Chakmas have not completely shifted their language to the Bengali. However, the presence of Bengali in the intimate domain may indicate that the coming generations who will live in the city areas will completely shift their language to Bengali. The study will draw the attention of the policymakers of Bangladesh to acknowledge the indigenous languages in the existing language policy. Besides, both the Bengali and Chakma society will be aware of the necessity of maintaining the Chakma language, which is a part of the national cultural heritage. The study will further inspire the Chakma speakers to increase their Chakma use in the social domains, especially the migrated families in the city areas
Discursive Inclusion and Exclusion of Transgressor(s) in English and Arabic Political Condemnations
No full textPolitical condemnations are expressive illocutionary acts enacted by political actors to publicly denounce and raise awareness of a certain moral transgression(s) committed by particular transgressors(s). The current article aims to cross-culturally investigate the linguistic devices deployed by politicians to include or exclude the identity of the transgressor(s) in selected English and Arabic political condemnation statements and to investigate how political affiliations and disaffiliations of political actors affect and influence the ways social actors are represented in political condemnations. The article mainly draws on Van Leeuwen’s (2008) Social Actor Representation framework to analyze the selected dataset. The study concludes that in both languages, condemners adopt, more or less, similar linguistic devices and discursive strategies to including and excluding of transgressor(s). It was also found that unlike the English statements, whereby implicit inclusion, i.e. backgrounding is utilized, transgressor(s) in the Arabic statements is found to be either included or excluded in the condemnation statements. Moreover, transgressors’ inclusion and exclusion were found to be, to a certain degree, ideologically motivated and deeply affected and mostly demarcated by the relationships between the condemners and the condemned parties on one hand, and between the condemning party and the parties affected by the transgression act(s)
Error Analysis of English Compositions of Medical Students in Govt. College of Sindh
No full textError analysis is a significant procedure used in English language to identify
errors. The present study identifies various errors committed by intermediate
medical students studying in the government college of Pakistan in their written
English essays. It aims to explore and explain the most frequently committed
errors in the English compositions of students. The current study uses English
Essays as an instrument of data collection from a sample of 50 students studying
in Government Agha Nizamuddin Girls Degree College Sukkur. Data was analyzed
following three step process as designed by Corder’s (1967) theory of Error
analysis. Findings from the data analysis informed the researcher that students of
aforementioned colleges commit errors in spelling, subject-verb agreement and
use of tenses most frequently followed by misappropriate use of singular/plural,
preposition, infinitives, word order and possessives
Transforming News Journalism from Newspapers into Online Media in Kosovo
Get PDFThe development trend of online journalism in Kosovo continues with great strides in relation to newspaper journalism. Some newspapers are continuing to survive and still on market despite the decline of readers as part of a worldwide trend of readers moving to online platforms. This paper will analyze the content of journalistic texts in newspapers and online media, measuring their core values. This paper will be seen the transformation, namely the change of journalism standards from traditional media (newspapers) to online media. Journalism theorists argue that the standards of journalism should be the same in newspapers and online media. But the practice in Kosovo is completely different. The main hypothesis of this paper is that professional standards in online journalism in Kosovo have fallen; in newspaper journalism, however, there is still a high level of professionalism in writing and reporting. To test these two hypotheses, texts were analyzed in two newspapers and two online media. Therefore, the analysis was done on the texts of “Zëri” and “Koha Ditore” newspapers, and their online versions, “zëri.info” and “koha.net”
Fragmentation of the Media Audience in Kosovo in the Era of the Internet
Get PDFAudience fragmentation in the internet era is present also in Kosovo. The few studies of this topic in Kosovo make this article very important as it first studies the Kosovar audience in this form. The research question in this paper is: What kind of fragmentation is most prevalent in the Kosovo audience? Fragmentation of the audience is divided into two types, ranging from access to fragmentation media and access to the user as fragmentation. The research is based on two main methods, survey, and the comparative method. To measure the audience in the case study, a survey was conducted with 1051 Kosovo citizens from seven main regions of Kosovo. This paper finds that audience fragmentation in Kosovo occurs due to several factors. In terms of the type of media, fragmentation is mostly attributed to new types of communication that have a high frequency of use. As for demographic fragmentation, young people are the ones who mostly use new media