Vol 4, Issue 3, April 2016
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Journals
Analysis and Critical Reflection of Acehnese Language Phonology
The uniqueness of any language arises because of its distinct phonetic system. For one to learn a new language and effectively communicate in it, he or she will have to incorporate new intonation patterns, new grammar rules and new sounds among other skills. The number of local languages spoken in the Indonesian province of Aceh
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The Treatment of Cultural Content in an Integrated English Course 1 for Chinese College English Majors
This paper presents a cultural analysis of the textbook “An Integrated English Course 1” that is widely used by college English majors in China. Based on the previous studies on culture teaching and materials evaluation, the paper has examined the textbook and found out that it is aimed at introducing western cultures, especially American culture
Iconicity vs. Arbitrariness of Sound Symbolism Phenomenon through a Contrastive Analysis Framework
This paper reports on the comparison and contrast drawn between sound symbols of Persian, English, and Spanish In order to embody the form-meaning relationship from a universal point of view. 140 sound symbols chosen from Persian onomatopoeic dictionary (1996) and their English and Spanish counterparts were first categorized according to Hinton et al.’s (1994) typology.
Translating Arabic Proper Names: A Foreignising Approach
The recent increase in random approaches to translating Arabic proper names into English has led to serious discrepancies in their transliterations as well as difficulties and problems in identifying one’s identity. This paper is an attempt to shed light on this phenomenon and to investigate the many problems and difficulties encountered in transliterating Arabic proper
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An HPSG Approach to Free Relatives in Arabic
This paper describes free relative constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth, MSA) and aims to provide an HPSG analysis for them. MSA has two types of free relative constructions. One, which is introduced by the complementizer ʔallaði , looks just like a relative clause. The other, which is introduced by the elements man and maa,
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EOP Needs of Najran University Students As Perceived By Students and Faculty Members
The fact that English nowadays occupies the place of the first language used globally stresses the need for EOP-based curricula. Therefore, analysis of learners’ EOP needs and problems has become merely inevitable. Thus, the present study aimed at examining EOP needs of students at Najran University in the second semester 2014/2015. Two questionnaires were used
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A Socio-Stylistic Analysis of Niyi Osundare’s “Blues for the New Senate King”
Style is an important aspect of literary analysis of text. The manipulation of words by a writer creates a distinct style through which he/she reaches out to the audience. A literary stylistic analysis of Niyi Osundare’s “Blues for the New Senate King” is carried out in order to demonstrate to the readers that a poet
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English Arabic Cultural Effect in Translation: A Relevance Theory Perspective
This study is framed within a competence-oriented model which provides the target text (TT) receiver with communicative clues. These clues allow inference to be optimally captured. Hence, this approach looks at translation as an example of communication mainly based on the cost and effect model of inferencing and interpretations. Strategies adopted in this paper are
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