107 research outputs found
An Interdisciplinary Study of Narrative Structure in Dash Akol as a Short Story and Dash Akol as a Movie
No full textThis paper undertakes an interdisciplinary study of the short story “Dash Akol” and the movie adapted from it. “Dash Akol” is a short story written by a famous Iranian author Sadeq Hedayat in 1932. Hedayat’s “Dash Akol” was made into a movie in 1971 by Masoud Kimiai. There are some discrepancies between the short story “Dash Akol” and the movie, triggering a number of significant implications. This article discusses these discrepancies along with Hedayat’s and Kimiai’s narrative techniques. To this end, it applies Genett’s (1988) Narrative Discourse and his three main narrative methods: narrating, characterization, and focalization. Meanwhile, it brings in Rimmon-Kenen’s (2002) strategy to study characters, and Stam and Burgoyne and Flitterman-lewis (2005) to show the ways in which the movie has deviated from the story. In terms of characterization, it studies traits such as, action, speech, naming and setting
An Applied Linguistics Look at the Linguistic Comparison of Nominal Group Complexity between Two Samples of a Genre
No full textThe roles and effects of changes in syntax on comprehension and processing effort, and the relationships between these two, comprise a large and separate field of inquiry, with the general belief now in place that such changes and variations bring about varied psycholinguistic and discursive implications for comprehension, manifesting themselves differently in different genres.The current study is a brief attempt at bringing out the differences in the complexity of the noun groups in two novels, one of which is a 19th century novel, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and the other is a 21st century one, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight. Each novel was analyzed for the ten longest nominal groups used in them, representative also of the complexity inherently evidenced by a long nominal group. It turned out that there is little difference between the size of noun groups in the two novels. Thus, the added complexity and challenge in processing and comprehending 19th century prose fiction can be explained by the generic tendency in such genre towards the deployment of a higher rate of rank-shifted embedded structures in the noun groups and more varied qualifiers that employ more non-finite clauses as post-nominal qualification. There is need to look into processing difficulty and interpretation challenge posed by different literary genres for different groups of learners, because, in line with a now common SLA understanding, full and conscious comprehension, parsing and interpretation of syntactic components play a marked role in rich and native-like writing for learners
Bringing the Attitudinal System of Affect to the EFL/ESL Classroom as a Way of Further Critical Education and Reflection: An Analysis of Affectual Language in Two American Presidents’ Inauguration Speeches
No full textAppraisal/Evaluation within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a rather new framework for the analysis of evaluative language, focusing on how human beings reveal their emotions directly or indirectly, how they take stances, and how they align or dis-align themselves with social subjects. Through an attitudinal analysis of the system of Affect in lucid and teacher-friendly ways, this paper aims to smoothly invite ESL/EFL teachers into possible employment of this model in classes of intermediate levels and above, to align themselves with and avoid losing sight of the constant need to maintain a critical pedagogical atmosphere in foreign language literacy and education. To this end, we provide a simple analysis of the affectual language of two inauguration speeches delivered by two American presidential candidates, geared to equipping teachers with some quick tools of reflective and critical pedagogy and use the exploration and display of different categories of Affect in the classroom to engage students in critical reflection on the world and everyday events
Exploring the Metaphors of Loyalty, Courage and Friendship in Harry Potter Novels and their Turkish Translations
No full textIn studies on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Metaphor Master List scholars have come
up with over the years, the metaphors (target domains) of loyalty, courage and friendship
figure among very important ones. In this study, we undertake to explore these three
metaphors in the Harry Potter series, as these three conceptual domains also happen to
constitute three underlying themes in these novels. Cross-linguistic work in this regard is in
its infancy and would benefit from ongoing research, because our knowledge of metaphors
is only useful insofar as we can determine if a domain is universally and cross-linguistically
also used to conceptualize a given target concept similarly in another language, or if it is
found to be subject to some variation between the two languages being compared. We look
at how these three generic-level concepts are conceptualized in English and their translations
into Turkish, and if the cross-domain mappings are similar/different in the two languages,
offering further insights into how far cognitive reality and its metaphorical realization differ
between English and Turkish from a Cognitive Linguistics vantage point
Psychiatric consultations and length of hospital stay
No full texthospital stay (LOS) of patients referred to psychiatric
consultation liaison (C-L) services.
Methods: The study sample prospectively included
all the referrals in 2004 to the C-L psychiatry unit
at King Khaled University Hospital in Riyadh,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The following factors
were documented for each consultation: patient
demographic characteristics, dates of admission,
consultation, and discharge, and total days of stay,
medical specialty service requesting the consultation,
reason for referral given by the referring physician,and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders DSM-IV diagnosis, based on the
consultation interview.
Results: The total number of referrals was 264. The
LOS showed positive correlation with referral time
(p=0.0001) accounting for 22% of the variance
in LOS. Surgical ward admission and diagnosis of
delirium predicted longer LOS, while obstetric/
gynecology ward admission, diagnosis of anxiety,
and diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder predicted
shorter LOS.
Conclusion: The direct correlation between the timing
of referral and LOS reinforces that it is important for
medical professionals to identify and detect patients
who require early psychiatric intervention. Ways of
detecting high-risk patients are discussed.Corresponding Author:
Dr. Yaser R. Alhuthail,
Assistant Professor and Consultant, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and King Khaled University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Email: [email protected]
Transferability of Privacy-related Behaviours to Shared Smart Home Assistant Devices
No full textSmart assistant devices (such as Amazon Echo or Google Home) have notable differences to more conventional consumer computing devices. They can be used through voice control as well as physical interaction, and are often positioned as a shared device within a home environment. We conduct an exploratory online survey with 97 UK-based users of smart assistant devices, to examine the differences users perceive between smart assistants and more familiar devices (such as smartphones and computers), in terms of shared use dynamics, privacy-related behaviours, and privacy concerns. The survey explores typical usage, setup practices, perceived ease of use and control, privacy concerns for multiple users, shared usage of existing devices, and smart assistant privacy control usage. Approximately half of participants were unsure of where to access privacy settings on their smart home assistants; basic device controls and informal privacy controls saw general use. Those who had used privacy controls with previous devices used at least one smart assistant privacy control. Results have implications for supporting transferable privacy behaviours from computing devices to smart home devices, and improving privacy-related design for smart assistants.Accepted Author ManuscriptOrganisation & Governanc
Systemic Functional Linguistics as Interpersonal Semantics: Appraisal and Attitude in the Stylistic Analysis of an English Novel
No full textDiscontinuous Residue and Theme in Higher-Order Semiotic: A Case for Interlocking Systems
No full textThe fallacy persists in discourse analysis research to explore lexicogrammatical phenomena detached from any adjacent plane of the meaning potential. In an attempt to dispel this and toss out some preconceived notions about what a modern SFG vantage point should involve, this study homes in on one aspect of SFG within prose fiction in particular, which is very revealing in terms of how separate system networks are actually in synergistic simultaneity, and how SFG allows one , phenomenally well, to bring such synergies out, getting to the heart of the fact that language pervasively operates on multiple planes of textuality simultaneously. Thus, building upon Halliday’s 2004 work, the quest is if it is interpersonally significant when the Residue is split into two parts; more importantly, if it is also laced with some lexicogrammatical quality on the textual plane, in light of the fairly well-entrenched assumption that there is always Theme at work when the Residue is split. Halliday is the only scholar to touch upon the topic of Discontinuous Residue and its relationship to Marked Theme in the culmination of his groundbreaking career, i.e. his 2004 work. Having driven home the proposal to make into a watchword the ubiquity of interlocking macro-semantic system networks, some pedagogical and research implications and suggestions flowing from this are brought up
The System of Engagement in a Sample of Prose Fiction and the News
No full textEmerging within Systemic Linguistics, Appraisal/Evaluation is a framework for analyzing the language of evaluation, providing techniques for the systematic analysis of evaluation and stance as they operate in whole texts and in groupings of texts. There are three systems in the Appraisal framework: Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation. This study sets out to analyze the use of the system of Engagement within a sample of English Literature (prose fiction) and the News (news articles). Engagement is a medium through which the speaker or the writer engages dialogistically with others (i.e., the addressees, within the process of evaluation). A corpus of 20,000 words was selected from each genre, involving five cornerstones of short fiction and a collection of news articles from CNN, Reuters, BBC, Daily Mail and Yahoo News. The study sheds light on the fact that both genres are strikingly close in using the four subsystems of Engagement, and both are inclined towards dialogic expansion, albeit for different generic reasons, with dialogic contraction taking a backbench. Appraisal as a whole is a promising model to explore texts in different genres, paving the way for richer more illuminating analyses of the interpersonal semantics operating in them
Empirical model for frequency content estimation of strong ground motion records of Iran
No full textThis paper presents a new empirical model to predict the mean period (Tm) as a frequency-content parameter of earthquake record using the strong ground motions recorded in Iran during 1975–2019. An updated earthquake databank containing 2281 horizontal acceleration records was employed to develop the empirical model through a systematic fitting procedure. A simple functional form for the model was found as a function of epicentral distance (R), moment magnitude (Mw), and the shear wave velocity averaged at the top 30 m of the recording sites (Vs30). The proposed model is compared with three existing predictive models and the results are discussed in terms of magnitude, source-to-site, and site dependencies.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Geo-engineerin
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