Communication and Linguistics Studies

Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2020

  • America’s Future as a Wasteland in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2007)

    Radwan Gabr El-Sobky

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 65-72
    Received: 3 August 2020
    Accepted: 14 August 2020
    Published: 30 October 2020
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    Abstract: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road presents an awesome future vision of America as a wasteland. It predicts the American nightmare in the future. There is unknown catastrophe has ruined the earth and destroyed human civilization. McCarthy believes that human beings are constantly aware of the influence of nature on their lives in the form of the air they b... Show More
  • Discursive Strategies in Selected Political Campaign Songs in Southwestern Nigeria

    Ayo Osisanwo

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 73-81
    Received: 26 November 2020
    Accepted: 8 December 2020
    Published: 22 December 2020
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    Abstract: Discursive strategies are often deployed to create awareness, capture and persuade electorate in political campaign songs. Existing scholarly works on political and electoral issues have examined different aspects of political discourses but have not sufficiently examined the import of political campaign songs in electoral and political discourses.... Show More
  • The Communication Dilemma of Guqin Art Within the Context of New Media

    Zhang Yan

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2020
    Pages: 82-86
    Received: 9 December 2020
    Accepted: 25 December 2020
    Published: 31 December 2020
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    Abstract: It is difficult to avoid the impact that digital technology has had on the media. Maintaining the original form of traditional art and music within the changing media environment is vital for Chinese traditional art and music communication, especially there is a lack of Chinese traditional art and music inheritors at the same time. This paper takes... Show More