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A Review Study on the Enhancement of Oral Fluency in L2: An Investigation into Processes and Didactics
Get PDFThis paper principally endeavors to grant a thorough understanding of the cognitive and expressive mechanisms perpetually involved in the production of speech. It must be noted that oral fluency has proven to be one of the major skills that almost all EFL learners strive to achieve through conscious mental efforts and constant exposure. Oral fluency is then a cognitive process that requires the learner to use their meta-cognitive skills to both enhance the effectiveness and flow of speech, and simultaneously avoid speech errors
The Importance of Politeness and Linguistics Aspects in Translation to Avoid Rejection
Get PDFThis study aims to investigate the importance of translators' language politeness and linguistics aspects as a way to avoid rejection. The study method used was a descriptive qualitative study with a library research design. It is done at Universitas Kristen Indonesia from September 2021 to January 2022. The type of data used in this study is qualitative data, which describes some opinions, concepts, or theories that describe or present problems related to the topic of this study. Research data is taken from sources in books, journals, and offline articles. The result of the study is that the higher the understanding and mastery of the linguistic aspects of a translator, the better the translating work will be, and the translators' language politeness also influences the high and low value of acceptability. For the translation to be well received, the translators must present the translation using good vocabulary and a sentence structure that is not rigid and polite in its delivery. The translators' language politeness also makes the translation more effective and has high communication values
Grammatical Properties of the Indonesian Language as a Case Marker
Get PDFThe case marker in Indonesian is frequently discussed in typological linguistic scope. This study discussed the grammatical properties that mark cases in Indonesian. The data of this study was obtained from oral and written sources. The oral data was acquired based on the intuition of the researcher as an active speaker, so that the data was displayed without reference and the analysis was carried out using the introspective-intuitive technique. Meanwhile, the written data was obtained from various printed media. The study results showed that grammatical properties, such as affixes, prepositions, pronouns, correspondence, and word order, were marked in the case of the Indonesian language
Gender Differences in the Use of Hedging Devices in the Pakistani Opinion Columns: A Corpus-Based Study
Get PDFThis study investigates the use of hedges in the opinion columns written by Pakistani male columnists and female columnists. For this, the present study uses Hyland (2004) model interpersonal metadiscourse to recognize hedging devices. This study also investigates how or both genders show difference and similarity in the employment of hedges. The corpus was built of 580 opinion articles. The columns totaled 290 by male and 290 by female writers. For the present study, a mixed method approach was used. As for sampling, this study uses random sampling. The finding of this research reveals that both Pakistani male and female writers did not differ in the use of hedges devices in their opinion columns and concludes that the choice and distribution of hedges depend on genre of the text rather than on the gender of the text
Critical Discourse Analysis of Power Struggle and Marxism Theory in Hwang Dong Hyuk’s Series Squid Game
Get PDFThis paper attempts to explore the abuse of power and powerlessness in the discourse of Hwang Dong Hyuk’s series squid game according to Marxism. The main focus of the paper is how powerless people are targeted through communication and are tricked to believe that they can also be rich and be able to live easy lives if they do what they are told to. It is clear that in today’s society poor class has to follow every order of the elite class in order to survive. The powerlessness of the poor and abuse of power of the elite is clearly shown in this series. By CDA of the selective text it is clear that two classes are being discussed, poor class and elite class. Elite giving orders and poor following them. Abuse of power is clear where it is said by the rich person that he never forced them to play the game. You came back on your own accord. The elite living in luxury is manipulating the poor for his own entertainment. Marxism clearly fits in this situation. If they had power or money of their own, they would have never resorted to such methods. Fairclough 3D model 1992 can also be taken into perspective. As the murder was practiced by a single criminal in that game and some of them also got into doing so
Intertextuality in Orientalists’ Discourses: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Watt’s Concept of Revelation
Get PDFFor the last many centuries Islam has been discursively represented in the Orientalist discourses. These discourses are intertextually well-linked and share the same epistemological grounds. So, the broader focus of this study is to explore the linguistic modes, discursive strategies and intertextuality of the Orientalists’ discourses representing the Muslim Meta- narrative about the revelation of the Holy Qur’an. The data is selected through purposive sampling technique from Montgomery Watt’s books “Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman” and “Muhammad at Mecca”. For critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the data, Fairclough’s (1989, 1993) three dimensional model is used as a theoretical framework. Insights from the works of Kristeva (1980) and Bakhtin (1973, 1981) have also been incorporated for intertextual study. This study foregrounds that the Orientalists’ discourses are highly intertextual and Watt’s perspective about the revelation of the Holy Qur’an is intertextually embedded in the Orientalists’ Meta- narrative, which challenges its Divine nature. Watt discursively structures his narrative, which in fact is the sophisticated sequel of the Orientalists’ discourses about Islam. This study helps the readers to analyse how the Orientalists’ discourses intertextually construct and reinforce their stereotypical stance about the divine nature of the revelation.
Corpus-Based Investigation of Explicitaion Shifts in Self-Translation
Get PDFThe study examines explicitation shifts in the translation of the novel "Perfect Mentor" from its source text in Urdu (ST) to its target text (TT). Explicitation is the process of making something clear and unambiguous, divided into two levels: substitution and addition. The study used a corpus-based methodology and a valid framework for investigating explicitation shifts in the text. Results are presented both quantitatively and qualitatively, showing that obligatory explicitation leads to a uniform and understandable TT, while optional explicitation may have both positive and negative impacts on the TT's style and added elements. Pragmatic explicitation was found to be neutral. To avoid awkward structures and misunderstandings, the translator must strive to maintain a balanced text and appropriate use of explicitness strategies, considering the language typology.
 
Pragmatic Annotation of Manipulation in Political Discourse: The Case of Trump-Clinton Presidential Debate
Get PDFWithin a pragmatic analysis framework, this research investigates manipulation in the political discourse of the 2016 American Presidential Debate by pragmatically annotating and visualising the text in the CATMA tool. The manipulation types that are used to decide about the tag set and its guidelines are in light of Baron’s (2003) and Asya’s (2013) categorization of manipulation. The chosen manipulative language tool in the selected manipulative context to be observed are the direct and indirect manipulative speech acts of Ivanova (1981) and Brusenskaya (2005), which are based on Austin’s typology of speech act theory. This study concerns itself, first, with the notion of manipulation, manipulative speech acts, and selected manipulation types, and then manifests the practical annotation of manipulation to analyse the top-layer hypothesis, that political debates are manipulative and there are certain manipulative criteria to be observed, and finally, the selected manipulative features are supposed to play an obvious role at the pragmatic level in these debates. This research confirms, manifests, and analyses the existence of manipulative evidence in the selected presidential debates
Representation of Man and Woman in the Selected Novels of Sidhwa and Singh: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis
Get PDFThe present study is a comparative stylistic analysis of two novels Train to Pakistan and The Ice Candy Man by Khuswant Singh (1956) and Bapsi Sidhwa (1988) respectively. The purpose of this study is to explore the depiction of Man and Woman in the selected texts to find out the similarities and differences through which these characters are represented. The study utilizes a mixed method approach which combines both qualitative and quantitative methods. The focus of the research is the analysis of adjectives that have been used with Man and Woman in both the texts. For this purpose, the study utilizes corpus linguistic tool AntConc (3.2.1) to carry out a stylistic analysis of the texts. A total number of 56 adjectives with a total frequency of 107 times were analyzed. The study has found that women are underrepresented in the selected texts as more adjectives are used to represent men. Moreover, both the male and female writers, mostly, portray men positively while women are portrayed negatively. It is expected that this study will open new doors for future researchers and teachers to explore and understand the language of literature from new perspectives
Investigating Shades of Modality in an Autobiography, “If I am Assassinated”: A Corpus-Based Analysis
Get PDFThis study investigated the attitudes and shades marked by the writer in an autobiography through the corpus expressions developed on modalities (i.e., boulmaic, deontic, epistemic, and perceptual). The study also put to the test the patterns created to examine modality across fiction genre. A corpus was created for this purpose and tagged using the Parts of Speech (POS) Tagger for analysis using AntConc 3.4.4.0. This analysis was then further interpreted using Simpson's (1993) model. It was discovered that the author used many modalities, such as (un)certainty, attitude, point of view, ability, possibility, and likelihood, to form the meaning in the autobiography. These features highlighted the text's persuasiveness, interest, and realism. By including these features, the autobiography was given positive and negative undertones that helped readers comprehend the author's perspective. In conclusion, the content seemed more upbeat than downbeat. The deontic and boulomaic modalities that indicated estrangement and uncertainty on the writer's part were used to mark the positive shade. Additionally, the use of the suggested patterns was successful in analysing the modality aspects using corpus techniques. They were suggested in the study as a paradigm for additional research.