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Persuasion in the Mirror Newspaper: A Linguistic Approach to Vuwani Demarcation Discourses
Get PDFThis paper is extracted from a study about persuasion in Vuwani demarcation discourses concerning series of articles released in the “Mirror” newspaper within a period of three years ranging from 2015 to 2017. The purpose of this paper was to explore how communicators within a media text deploy linguistic elements in their verbal and non-verbal messages to persuade targets to comply with their desired goals since message production is a result of a goaldriven process and communication is strategic and purposive to gain compliance. The objectives of this paper were to examine specific goals exhibited in messages constructed by communicators who were involved in the Vuwani demarcation discourses and to flag out linguistic strategies and tactics used by communicators to gain compliance. This paper reviews literature pertaining to communication, compliance gaining, persuasion, message production and language usage. Qualitative research design was taken as an approach for this study and media content analysis was adopted as a research methodology whereby four (4) selected articles in the “Mirror” newspaper pertaining to Vuwani demarcation discourses comprising fifty-one (51) excerpts were considered as the population of the study. Using purposive sampling, fifteen (15) excerpts were selected as the sample of the study, while, discourse analysis was used as the method of data analysis. The findings reveal that there are goals exhibited in messages constructed by communicators, ideological realities expressed and ethnic power-relations between the people of Malamulele and Vuwani. The current researcher recommends further exploration into compliance gaining and persuasion within textual discourse
The Effectiveness of Globish in Facilitating Business Oral Interpersonal Communication between Saudi Businessmen and Native Speakers
No full textThis paper investigates the effectiveness of Globish in facilitating business oral interpersonal communication between Saudi businesspersons and native speakers and it exposes the constraints hindering mutual comprehension between native and nonnative speakers. The study aims at accentuating the suitability and role of Globish, which is a simplified version of English that uses only the most common English words and phrases, in facilitating oral communication among Saudi businesspersons who do not master English proficiently. Moreover, it clarifies the simplicity and practicality of Globish in real life communicative settings. It shows the main features, date back of Globish evolution, advantages and disadvantages of Globish, peculiarities of Globish, ingredients of Globish and techniques of using Globish. It demonstrates the disagreement about the notion of Standard English, especially about linguistic levels. Furthermore, the study explains the importance of speaking English to Saudi business persons. In addition, it illustrates a vast number of intercultural communication principles. It exposes that Saudi learners are highly motivated to learn and speak English but they lack practice time in real life settings. The study shows that Globish can be useful to Saudi business persons because it meets their communicative needs in various social communicative situations as telephoning, messaging, booking flights, practicing at airport, making appointments, organizing meetings, agenda setting, interrupting, agreeing negotiations, making tricky conversations, resolving difficulties, asking for a pay rise, tackling clients, disagreeing and business condensed presentation
Traumatic Effects of Social Stratification and Class Conflicts and the Shadows of Marxism in Strindberg's play “Miss Julie”
No full textBy the beginning of modernity, a new horizon was composed by the middle class who abrogated hierarchy and monarchy by viewing social identity through the lens of the economy, hence capitalism emerged and social identity became vitally dependent on economic power. Traumatic effects of social stratification and social conflicts leading to tremendous endeavor to bridge a gap between high and lower classes of society were of the most important purposes of Marxist writers. It should be mentioned that Carl Marx defined the scaffolds of the society in relation to struggle between high and lower strata of the society. Marxism is defined during the history as a plethora of conflicts between major classes of the society who are suppressing majority and suppressed minority to at conflict leads to a social change. Strindberg's play “Miss Julie” is a naturalistic tragedy but it also includes social stratification and social conflicts between two classes of the society with symbolic characters in a symbolic setting. Court's house, the setting of the play, symbolizes a capitalist society in which Miss Julie and John belong to different classes of the society. John is a waiter and Miss Julie is the mistress of the house and symbol of a high-class person. What is outstanding in this play is the hidden structure of the play, emerging through detail and tone, is based on the special relationship between class and sex. Strindberg juxtaposes these two characters who are the symbol of different classes by strings of Marxism in the play. Strindberg also put strings of the idea that if a person from aristocrat family makes a relationship with a lower class one, it would be taken as her fall down and if a person makes relation with a higher class of the society it works as a ladder to better his position in society. As in the play, John who is aware of his position always warned Julie about the dangers of their relation and always care about his position when he refused to call Julie ''Dear''. As John used this relation as a mean to improve his status in society, he symbolically rebelled against the capitalist society which led to another capitalism at the end of the play. This paper respectively is going to delve into the Marxism, social stratification and shed light on the social conflicts in Strindberg's play “Miss Julie”
An Approach to English Phonology
No full textThis study aims at clarifying various concepts in the linguistic field of English phonology. The researcher has adopted the descriptive research methodology. The study has emerged upon the observations of the researcher in teaching English pronunciation and phonology classes at the tertiary level. A very big number of students lack the correct information about some fundamental concepts in the domain of English phonology. Thus, this study has been conducted as an attempt to illuminate some vague and obscure concepts that cause a real learning problem to students who study English phonology in particular and those who study English language in general. Students are not aware of basic English phonological concepts such as homophones, homographs, homonyms, etc. In addition, students lack knowledge of the structure of the syllable, syllabification process, counting syllables in words, etc. Moreover, most English language learners are not familiar with stress patterns, stress shift, unstressed syllables, etc. In a nutshell, this study has been carried out due to several noticeable learning weaknesses that students encounter in their learning process, so it attempts to resolve some of these problematic difficulties and ease the way to assimilate some essential English phonology concepts
The Indirectness of Directive Speech by Prophet Muhammad in The Hadith of Bukhari
No full textThis research aims to describe the pattern of the indirectness speech of directive speech act used by the prophet Muhammad in the Hadith of Bukhari. Hadiths as a resource for Muslims are dominated by directive speech acts that have consequences to demand hearer (H) to do something, although there are also utterances that are delivered indirectly. This research tries to investigate the form of indirectness speech, so the language pattern would be found. This research is a descriptive research. The analysis method of this research used a pragmatic approach which has function to see the phenomenon of language completely because it noticed the context aspect in its analysis. The results of this study found that the indirectness used by the prophet Muhammad manifested in the domain of friends, families, and non-Muslims. The form of indirect speech happened because of the dissimilarity between the sentence mode with the intention of speech, such as the interrogative or declarative sentence mode which has the intention of commanding, ordering, or prohibiting. In addition, the form of indirectness can be seen because of the context of the speech. Indirect speech occurred due to various factors. The factors of the use of indirectness are the large imposition, the social distance, and the relative rights and obligations. Related to the function of the use of indirectness, it serves to guard H's face, to reduce his offense, to avoide H's discomfort, to preserve H's dignity or self-esteem, and to give options to H because the indirectness speech requires the interpretation to find the true meaning
Power of Identity in Charity Advertising: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach
Get PDFIn previous research on advertising discourse, not much attention was given to the significance of the linguistic choices used by endorsers to show their power of identity. This study aims to analyze the linguistic choices made in three ads of Children Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 (57357 CCHE) to show the power of identity of political and social authority. Only the parts in which the authorities give their unfiltered verbal feedback on their visit to 57357 CCHE are chosen to be investigated. The uniqueness of the event in which a social authority appears as a political authority (conscript) in 57357 CCHE advertisements urged the need to explore the discourse of such ads to consider the power of identity. The first advertisement is that of the political authority (Egyptian Armed Forces representative) visit to 57357 CCHE. The second advertisement is that in which Egyptian celebrity Mohamed Ramadan as a conscript (a political authority) gives his verbal feedback on the visit to 57357 CCHE. In the third ad, Mohamed Ramadan as a social authority visits 57357 CCHE. A Critical Discourse analysis is applied through Holliday’s Systemic Functional linguistic (SFL) approach. Based on the ideational, interpersonal and textual analysis, it is concluded that each of the authorities derives his power of identity from the authority he embodies. The power of identity affected the linguistic choices, the logical sequence of discourse and the use of language by the endorsers to relate to audience
Ecranization from Novel to Movie Friends but Married by Ayudia Bing Slamet and Dittopercussion
Get PDFEcranization is an adaption of a novel into a movie. Novel Friends but Married is a novel that told about the real life of a man who loves his own best friend. This novel contained their true stories that have been lived for 12 years. This novel had become one of the best-selling novels which was finally appointed as a movie in early 2017. The novel Friends but Married underwent a change agreed upon by the director and novelist. The agreement provided a process of shrinking, adding, and changing variations with the focus of the story that is still the same and similar to the original novel. However, changes in the process of ecranization will affect the readers and viewers. Based on the results of research and discussion of the ecranization of the novel into the movie Friends but Married by Ayudia Bing Slamet and Ditto Percussion, it could be summarized as follows. Decreasing or reducing the process of exposing the novel to the movie Friends but Married by Ayudia Bing Slamet and Ditto Percussion occurred 26 times. This shrinking occured in the plot, character, and background of the ecranization of the novel into the movie Friends but Married. Additions to the process of exposing the novel to the movie Friends but Married by Ayudia Bing Slamet and Ditto Percussion took place six times. This addition occured in the plot, character, and background of the ecranization of the novel into the movie Friends but Married. Variation changes in the process of exposing the novel to the movie Friends but Married by Ayudia Bing Slamet and Ditto Percussion occurred 10 times. These changes existed in the plot, character, and background of the ecranization of the novel into the movie Friends but Married
Revisiting the Morphological Features and Syntactic Constituents of Ibanag Literary Texts: A Meta-Synthesis of Related Literature
Get PDFResearches on the Ibanag language and literary texts have long been explored by researchers. This paper deals with the meta-synthesis of published and unpublished papers dealing with the grammatical constituents of Ibanag literary texts focusing specifically on its morphological features and syntactic constituents. Using a systematic review of literature employing the inclusionexclusion criteria, this paper reviewed and assessed the evidence for the existence of these morphosyntactic patterns through explicit review of the accessible documents and information. Hence, it was found that in terms of morphology, vowel loss, vowel change and reduplication were found among the literary texts. As to syntax, it was revealed that in non-verbal clause, the nominal clauses, adjectival clauses, the existential clauses, the locative clauses, and the prepositional clauses are present. As for the verbal clauses, intransitives and transitives are evident. Furthermore, intransitives have monovalent and divalent or bivalent, whereas transitives have divalent and trivalent
A Gender-based Analysis of Refusals as a Face Threatening Act: A Case Study of Iranian EFL Learners
Get PDFPoliteness is a phenomenon which is common to all cultures. Each culture has a different perception of what is polite and each language has various devices for expressing politeness. Besides, gender can be considered as an important variable in language use and research suggest that men and women use language differently. Speech acts is not an exception. Thus, this study investigates gender differences of EFL learners in making refusals. To analyze this, a DTC questionnaire consisting of fourteen situations was given to 100 students (50 male / 50 female) asking them to write how they would make refusals for each situation. The results of the analysis indicated that both male and female students use substantially more indirect strategies than direct strategies in most cases. Although indirect strategies are preferred by these two groups, there still exists difference between male and female subjects in terms of the probability of indirectness. Female students’ refusals tend to be more gentle and indirect than those of male students. Female students like to explain reasons, and they prefer to use detailed and specific response instead of a direct “no”. By contrast, male students’ refusals tend to be direct, brief and even blunt. Besides, male and female students have different tendency in four different refusing situations
The Meanings and Functions of ʔlħin in Informal Arabic in Saudi Arabia
Get PDFThe present study inspects the semantic and pragmatic meanings of ʔlħin, which is one of the most frequently used discourse markers in informal Arabic. Studies on the discourse marker ‘now’, which is the equivalent of ʔlħin in English, discuss its use as a temporal adverb and a coherence marker. Similarly, the meanings and functions of ʔlħin are examined in this paper. A dataset from Twitter, which is one of the most popular platforms that are rich with millions of conversations between users in all languages, was used to examine temporal and coherence meanings of ʔlħin within different contexts, and whether it works as a constraint on relevance. The analysis showed that ʔlħin conveyed a semantic meaning ‘now’ when used as a temporal adverb to refer to the present time, and was indicative of a pragmatic meaning when used as a discourse marker that has a coherence function. Similar to Schiffrin’s analysis of ‘now’ as a discourse marker, the functions of ʔlħin as a coherence marker include ideational shifting, raising the possibility of disagreement, marking of a reason, engaging in negotiations, and orientation shifts. In relation to relevance, the analysis showed that ʔlħin facilitates the recovery of the most relevant pragmatic interpretation by constraining the addressee’s search for the required interpretation in different contexts