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Something Is Like Somebody in Some Way: A Quale Explanation of Verbal Personification
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
65-71
Received:
17 July 2018
Accepted:
30 July 2018
Published:
27 August 2018
Abstract: This article takes the Ternary Perspective of Sign Representation in semiotics as its theoretical foundation and constructs quale explanation framework of verbal personification to explain the use mechanism of verbal personification and its quale-sense. Verbal personification contains very rich quale-sense, which is expressed by linguistic symbol and may be perceived in mind by “something is like somebody in some way”. Image construction is a critical conscious activity in the forming of verbal personification. Quale explanation is the crucial medium that connects personification and its quale-sense. Quale explanation framework of verbal personification comprehensively interprets the production and comprehension processes of verbal personification.
Abstract: This article takes the Ternary Perspective of Sign Representation in semiotics as its theoretical foundation and constructs quale explanation framework of verbal personification to explain the use mechanism of verbal personification and its quale-sense. Verbal personification contains very rich quale-sense, which is expressed by linguistic symbol a...
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Investigating the Significance of the Communicative Approach in Teaching Grammar and Language Learning Activities—A Case Study of General English Students at Red Sea University
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
72-79
Received:
29 April 2018
Accepted:
21 June 2018
Published:
19 September 2018
Abstract: The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of the communicative approach on teaching grammar and language activities. The sample of the study consists of 193 (male and female students) of general English language at Read Sea University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities for the academic year 2012/2013. It is a mixed method research design "mixing both methods", using descriptive and interpretive analysis. A descriptive-correlation design was employed among the samples of the study to find out the effectiveness of communicative approach in teaching grammar and language activities, a student's pre-test and post- test and teachers' questionnaire were used for data collection. The data was analyzed by using a variety of statistical methods. The analysis of the data has focused on verifying the effectiveness of the communicative approach in understanding grammar and language activities compared to traditional approaches. The results of the investigation have revealed the following: a. Using the communicative approach in second language teaching is more effective in understanding grammar and language activities than traditional approaches. b. The Communicative approach is more sufficient in learning than other approaches. The study concluded with some recommendations.1. Language lab is important in order to provide learners with opportunities to be exposed to the target language as used by native speakers. 2. It is useful for EFL teachers to follow training courses in applying CA principles as other countries 3. Finally, further researches which are related to the communicative approach are suggested.
Abstract: The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of the communicative approach on teaching grammar and language activities. The sample of the study consists of 193 (male and female students) of general English language at Read Sea University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities for the academic year 2012/2013. It is a mixed method research desi...
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The Pragmatic Functions and Prosodic Features of the Sentence-Final Particle "ba" in the Imperatives
Dong Fangliang,
Chen Xiangyue,
He Rui
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
80-87
Received:
15 August 2018
Accepted:
11 September 2018
Published:
12 October 2018
Abstract: "Ba" is one of the common used sentence-final particle in Chinese. This paper studies the spoken language of film and television drama to analyze and verify the pragmatic functions of “ba” by means of the multidimensional study of language form, meaning, pragmatics and phonetics. First, from the perspective of different category distribution of the imperative sentence, it probes into the distribution rules of “ba”, the co-occurrence with adverbs, auxiliary verbs etc, and reveals the grammatical meaning. Statistical analysis shows that the use of modal particles is the "marked form" of the imperative sentence. Among them, "ba" is the most frequently used, and its core meaning is "Suggestion Discussion". Secondly, through the semantic analysis of “ba” in terms of Discourse Politeness Theory, it concludes that “ba” can serve the purpose of softening the manner of speaking and the degree of courtesy/discourtesy. Thirdly, from the perspective of phonetic experiment, the phonetic features of the sentence-final particle "ba" under different functions, were observed and analyzed, which again verified the rationality of our pragmatic classification. Thus, it is proved that the elements of language do not exist in isolation, and the characteristics of function words such as sentence-final particle can be better revealed by studying them from the comprehensive perspective of form, meaning, pragmatics and phonetics.
Abstract: "Ba" is one of the common used sentence-final particle in Chinese. This paper studies the spoken language of film and television drama to analyze and verify the pragmatic functions of “ba” by means of the multidimensional study of language form, meaning, pragmatics and phonetics. First, from the perspective of different category distribution of the...
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Inferential Pragmatic Analysis of Religious Utterances in Requestives
Issue:
Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2018
Pages:
88-98
Received:
25 September 2018
Accepted:
24 October 2018
Published:
14 November 2018
Abstract: This paper investigates the pragmatic use of religious utterances in requestive speech acts in Egyptian spoken Arabic. The main objective of this study is to explain how the speakers of Egyptian Arabic use metaphysical religious utterances directly and indirectly to perform the materialistic acts of requesting, pleading, petitioning, asking, soliciting, begging, and supplicating. Religious utterances in requestives have been collected from natural talks of various age groups and social backgrounds, social TV series and programs, and movies. The most frequent religious utterances have been sorted out and analyzed in twenty-four examples to identify the types of religious utterances to describe how they occur with requestive sentences and how the users of Egyptian Arabic infer their intended meanings to perform the speech acts of request. The analysis of data exposes two main types of religious utterances which have been referred to as bound and unbound religious utterances. These two types are classified according to their locutionary occurrences with or without requestive utterances in the main unit of discourse which has been given the term global requestive sentence. The analyses of bound and unbound religious utterances and their uses in requestives are based primarily on inferential pragmatics as represented in relevance theory (RT) and Neo-Gricean inferential pragmatics. This inferential pragmatic approach is primarily adopted to explain the inferential processes of religious utterances as locutions and perlocutions to illustrate their roles as facilitators of requestive acts or as part of the communicative illocutionary acts of requests according to the intentions of the speakers. Finally, the study has shown that bound religious utterances are used to facilitate and perform literal requestive acts while unbound religious utterances are often used as nonliteral acts of request which are used mainly as a face-saving strategy.
Abstract: This paper investigates the pragmatic use of religious utterances in requestive speech acts in Egyptian spoken Arabic. The main objective of this study is to explain how the speakers of Egyptian Arabic use metaphysical religious utterances directly and indirectly to perform the materialistic acts of requesting, pleading, petitioning, asking, solici...
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