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Freeman, Bradley C. "Claims, Frames, and Blame." SAGE Open 7, no. 1 (January 2017): 215824401667519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244016675199.
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As economies in Southeast Asia develop, there is renewed interest in the impact such growth has on nature. This study seeks to investigate how environmental issues have been covered in the English-language press of the region. Are some countries providing greater print news coverage versus others? Are there detectable patterns or noticeable biases in the coverage? What sources are relied upon in the print media stories? And what frames do we see in the coverage? This study identified general coverage patterns of the environment over a 10-year period (2002-2012), in several of the region’s English-language newspapers. News stories were analyzed to discern the nature of the coverage, coding for several variables as indicated by previous literature. Results indicate that use of the term climate change became preferred over that of global warming. In addition, coverage increased greatly starting in 2006. Government officials were most often the sources quoted within stories (Claims). Articles contained more “judgments” about the issue than “solutions” (Frames). Finally, though most articles eschewed mentioning a specific actor as causing climate change, “man” was implicated in a number of stories more often than simply “nature” (Blame).
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Minami, Masahiko. "Telling good stories in different languages." Narrative Inquiry 18, no. 1 (August 15, 2008): 83–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.18.1.05min.
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There are many ways to tell a story, but whether a story is good or bad depends on whether or not the listener/reader can comprehend all that the speaker/writer wants to convey in his or her story. This study examines the characteristics of stories that native speakers of given languages consider to be good. Forty English-Japanese bilingual children ages six to twelve were asked to narrate a picture storybook in both English and Japanese. Also involved in the study were 16 adult native Japanese speakers and 16 adult native English speakers who evaluated the stories produced by the bilingual children. An analysis of narratives receiving high ratings from evaluators shows that most stories considered good in English or Japanese should be lengthy stories with a large and varied vocabulary, and should be told in the past tense. In addition to those similarities in effective stories told in the two languages, we also found dissimilarities between “good” stories in English and “good” stories in Japanese. English evaluators felt that relating a series of events in chronological order is only one part of a good story. Providing evaluative comments (i.e., statements or words that tell the listener/reader what the narrator thinks about a person, place, thing, or event) is an indispensable part of telling good stories. So, in stories in English, aside from the standard expectation of a sequential series of events, providing the listener with emotional information is considered equally important. On the other hand, Japanese speakers accepted stories that emphasize a temporal sequence of action with less emphasis on nonsequential information, especially evaluative descriptions, and which effectively use passive forms and subject-referencing markers to enable a clear chronological sequence of events. Because the standards of what makes a good story may differ in the home and school languages/cultures, and because of the complex nature of such differences as shown in this study, it seems advisable that schools intervene and support the development of bilingual children’s skills in the use of the mainstream culture’s standards.
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Bennett, Julia. "Imagining Englishness through contested English landscapes." European Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 5-6 (August 2, 2018): 835–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549418786414.
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This article adds to current debates on the nature of English identity through examining some of what Kathleen Stewart calls the ‘incommensurate qualities that … link complexly’ to create a certain feel of a place. Based on the premise that landscape and the story of the landscape, its history, are key elements of a national identity, the article explores the shaping of an imagined community of England through memory, forgetting and ‘official’ stories by using the examples of three specific but mundane places in north west England. One is urban ex-industrial, one a formerly industrial but rural site and one rural agricultural. These stories are unravelled to show how the landscapes are integrated ‘taskscapes’ where both national and local identities are performed. Class and race are hidden behind essentialised notions of Englishness. These exemplify a particular moral vision of English landscapes as natural and timeless countryside that serves to sideline urban and working landscapes and their populations. The article proposes treating a ‘taskscape’ as a gift to future generations, thus enabling all those who are a part of the present taskscape to belong.
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Setecka, Agnieszka. "“He certainly was rough to look at”: Social Distinctions in Anthony Trollope’s Antipodean Fiction." Australia, no. 28/3 (January 15, 2019): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.28.3.04.
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The following article concentrates on the representation of social class in Anthony Trollope’s Antipodean stories, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) and “Catherine Carmichael” (1878). Although Trollope was aware of the problematic nature of class boundaries in the Antipodes, he nevertheless employed the English model of class distinctions as a point of reference. In the two stories he concentrated on wealthy squatters’ attempts to reconstruct the way of life of the English gentry and on the role of women, who either exposed the false pretences to gentility, as in “Catherine Carmichael,” or contributed to consolidation of the landowning classes as in Harry Heathcote of Gangoil.
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Silcock, B. William. "Global News, National Stories: Producers as Mythmakers at Germany's Deutsche Welle Television." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79, no. 2 (June 2002): 339–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900207900206.
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This article explores the mythic nature of television news in a global-newsroom context. News routine analysis of newscast producers and ethnographic data from a case study of the English-language newsroom at Germany's Deutsche Welle point to the existence of sociocultural filters influencing news decisions and, in turn, mythmaking. These filters reveal a uniquely German myth—the Past—not shared and even resisted by English-language (Anglo) producers framing stories and constructing newscasts from a German news organization for a global audience.
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Jenkins, E. R. "English South African children’s literature and the environment." Literator 25, no. 3 (July 31, 2004): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.266.
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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the changing roles of nature reserves, to modern ecological concern for the entire environment. Until late in the twentieth century the literature usually endorsed the assumption held by whites that they had exclusive ownership of the land and wildlife. In recent years English-language children’s writers and translators of indigenous folktales for children have begun to explore traditional beliefs about and practices in conservation.
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Acha, Walter Abo. "AN ECOCRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ANTHROPOCENTRISM IN THE CAMEROONIAN PRESS." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 5, no. 2 (March 15, 2022): 120–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v5i2.4202.
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The manner in which the media presents nature matters a lot. The media legitimises abusive beliefs. On this basis, this work investigated the ecologically oppressive ideologies reinforced by the Cameroonian English newspaper. Analysis focused on uncovering-to-resist discursive patterns that activated anthropocentrism (human dominance over nature). The data comprised thirty-five newspaper articles randomly selected from nine English Language newspaper publishers in Cameroon. Ecocriticrical discourse analysis (EcoCDA) is the theoretical framework adopted in this study. The descriptive statistical method (DSM) was used to analyse the data. Analyses subsumed identification, quantification and interpretation of discourse entities. Findings revealed that the Cameroonian press used diverse language patterns to manipulate agents, processes and aftermaths of environmental depletion. The press, thus, encoded anthropocentric ideologies in discursive forms like pronouns, verbs, transitivity, personification and jargon. Ecological injustices uncovered and resisted included deforestation, consumerism and growth, mineral extraction and construction, inter alia. Cognizant of the sustenance nature that offers earthly life, it was recommended that press [wo]men should refrain from manipulative language forms and stories that downplay efforts to conserve nature. They should rather cover nature-conserving stories regularly, and in language forms that align with and reinforce global efforts to protect and conserve the biophysical environment.
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Hála, Peter. "The Slovak Stories of Timrava and their English Translation." TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 7, no. 1 (June 15, 2015): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21992/t9kg9s.
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Božena Slančíková Timrava (1867-1951) is an eminent Slovak writer. Her highly regarded realistic novels dealt with the rise of the modern Slovak nation. The intricate historical circumstances of the early 20th century, and the eventual emergence of the Slovak nation within complex European culture, made Timrava’s effort even more important. Due to the multicultural nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Timrava’s work is also meaningful in our trans-national and trans-cultural Global village. Timrava and other Slovak literary women were virtually unknown outside Slovakia until the extensive work done by Professor Norma L. Rudinsky (1928-2012), whose translation of six “Slovak stories by Timrava” was published in1992. However to truly understand and appreciate the importance of Timrava’s work, the English-speaking reader needed cultural and historical context. Rudinsky’s life-long effort culminated in the publication of “Incipient Feminists: Women Writers in theSlovak National Revival,” which was meant as a preamble to the works of Timrava for the English-speaking world. This paper introduces the life and work of Timrava within the intricate historical context of Slovak nation-building. It further outlines the importance of Rudinsky’s work and describes some interesting aspects of her translation. Attempting to present a practical cultural and historical approach to translation, the paper stresses the significance of so called ‘cultural grids’ and identifies the key elements, the ‘historical grids’, as well as author’s and translator’s biography, all within the wider context of the translator’s historical and sociological ‘matrix’ which ultimately determines the success of any translation of realistic historical literature.
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COATES, PETER. "Eastenders Go West: English Sparrows, Immigrants, and the Nature of Fear." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 3 (December 2005): 431–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805000605.
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The Tortilla Curtain (1995), a novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, juxtaposes the existence of southern California's affluent whites and non-white underclass by relating the stories of two couples whose lives become irrevocably entangled following a fateful automobile accident. The period flavour derives from racial tensions that culminated in the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the passage, two years later, of Proposition 187, a package of prohibitive measures to curb the influx of “undocumented” immigrants from Mexico. Delaney Mossbacher, the book's main character, is a freelance nature writer with orthodox liberal views – a caricatured Sierra Club member. He contributes a monthly, Annie Dillard-esque nature column (“Pilgrim at Topanga Creek”) to an outdoor magazine. He lives in an upscale hilltop community designed in impeccable Spanish mission style – the product of white flight – apparently safe from the Mexican hordes that have broken through the border (the brittle “tortilla curtain” of the novel's title) and are overrunning the flatlands.
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Anuradha, V., Saira Siddiqui, and Mariya Sheema. "Multilingual Composition in Translated Versions of Premchand's Selected Short Stories." International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills 4, no. 4 (July 4, 2022): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.15864/ijelts.4402.
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Throughout history, written and spoken translations have played a crucial role in inter-human communication, providing access to important texts for scholarship and religious purposes. The practice of translating is longestablished, but the discipline of translation studies is new. In academic circles, translation was previously related to just a language-learning activity. The study of literary translation began through comparative literature, translation workshops and contrastive analysis. Translation studies have expanded hugely and are now often considered interdisciplinary. History of Indian Translation in Literature has always been an attempt to reveal the various facts of ancient and modern Indian literature and its effect on the contemporary scene of Indian literature in English. It also highlights and discusses the very nature of translation to the Indians. The notion of translation was encouraged during the colonial period by the British. The translation is culture related. The interpreted approach is the branch of translation which is also known as the 'theory of sense'. This paper aims to analyse the interpretative approach in multilingual composition and translated versions of works of Premchand's selected short stories. Multilingual composition in translated versions of Premchand's short fiction published in Urdu and Hindi and translated into English by different translators over a period of time. It focuses on the translating process, particularly on the nature of meaning as sense- as opposed to linguistic or verbal meaning and the nature of linguistic ambiguities. The resultant theory makes a distinction between implicitness (what the writer intends to say or means) and explicitness (what is said or written).
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Dr Kiritsinh P. Thakor. "Ruskin Bond as a writer of short stories." Creative Launcher 4, no. 4 (October 31, 2019): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.4.03.
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This paper focuses on the view of ‘Ruskin Bond as writer of short stories’. In the modern age, the short stories highly impressed to the whole world. It is a highly complex form of literature and it has considered technically today, has been a very challenging form of literature. A short story is a type of prose fiction, which has grown up beside the fiction, and it has its own value and recognized place in literature today. Ruskin Bond is known internationally as one of India's most prolific writers in English for children, adults and young adults. His short stories are well-finished and integrated works of art in literature. His plots are not well constructed but his characters are appearing to be the living women and men to the nature. Most of his stories depend upon the characters and His work provides an insight or outside into universal themes such as the tension between present and past, culture elements, city life versus rural values, the dignity of ordinary folk song, preservation of the environment, and the living in harmony with nature.
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Susanto, Susanto, Deri Sis Nanda, and Wan Irham Ishak. "Reconstructing Teachers’ Language Intervention for Phonological Aspects in EFL Classroom." Tadris: Jurnal Keguruan dan Ilmu Tarbiyah 7, no. 2 (December 29, 2022): 383–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24042/tadris.v7i2.12309.
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Teachers’ language intervention can play a key role in helping students in the classroom interaction to learn a foreign language. In this paper, we discuss the teacher’s language intervention for phonological aspects in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. We used a qualitative descriptive approach with a phenomenological research design. As the data, we recorded the language exchanges between the students and their teachers at the fifth year of a Primary School (Sekolah Dasar) in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. We categorized three types of teachers’ language intervention, i.e. focalization, correction, and solicitation. Focalization intervention is manifested by the production of a lexical element. The intervention was observed in three situations, namely when reading familiar and unfamiliar English short stories, and playing a game with cards containing English words with their respective pictures, introduced in the stories. The teachers’ language interventions were coded in relation to phonological aspects, i.e. phoneme, syllable, and rhyme. The results show that there are 159 interventions in total. The teachers’ language interventions have the number of speech turns and the duration of the interactions varied in accordance with the context of situation, the Speech-turns mostly occur in reading unfamiliar English stories either for focalization, correction, or solicitation. Thus, this study concluded that teachers intervened more often in reading time of unfamiliar English stories, used focalization more frequently in the intervention, and utilized syllables more preferably as the focus in the intervention. As the implication, variability in the frequency and nature of interventions by the teachers could be at the origin of the differences observed in the performance of students.
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Ali, Dr Kamran, Noor-Ul-Ann Farrukh, Naila Rashid, and Hafiz Imran Nawaz. "Morphological Analysis Of Hybrid Compounds In Urdu Afsanas (Short Stories)." Migration Letters 21, S8 (March 14, 2024): 584–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.59670/ml.v21is8.9364.
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One of the significant morphological processes in a language is the way separate lexemes combine to form compound words. This process gives birth to Hybrid compound. Hybrid compounds are the compounds which are formed by the combination of one word from the source and one from the target language. As Pakistan and India have been British colonies and English still holds elite status in these regions, Urdu and Hindi have a large number of lexis which borrowed from English. The paper aims at analyzing the existence and nature of hybrid compounds in Urdu Language resulting from borrowing English words. A qualitative study was carried out by researchers and the selected corpus from Urdu short stories of Saadat Hussain Manto, Intazar Hussain, Shafeeq-ur-Rahman, Patras Bukhari, and Nimrah Ahmed was used to explore hybrid compounds in Urdu Literature. Fifty compound words were identified out of which 20 Hybrid compounds were observed. Partial borrowing was observed in short stories which provides evidence of hybrid compounding. Endocentric attributive, coordinative and subordinative and Exocentric attributive and subordinative compounds were observed and analyzed. Semantic transparency has been detected in all endocentric compounds where semantic opacity appears in exocentric compounds with some cultural schema at work.
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Golubkova, O. N. "PECULIARITIES OF THE RUSSIAN - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OF NATURE IN A LITERARY TEXT (BASED ON A.P. CHEKHOV’s STORIES)." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 32, no. 4 (August 26, 2022): 752–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2022-32-4-752-761.
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The article discusses the features of the transfer of elements of nature descriptions in the texts of A.P. Chekhov when translated into English. In the course of study, the ways of translating nouns that make up the thematic group of words “nature” are analysed. The choice of the translation option is explained by the coincidence or non-coincidence of the features of the meaning of the nature description elements in both languages. In case of coincidence of meanings of the analysed lexical units in the Russian and English languages, the equivalent is used in the translation, and if the features of the meanings don’t coincide, variant correspondences are used. The article analyses personification as a leading figurative means, and concludes that the use of verbal elements in it is more frequent, and the strengthening of the personifying potential of the trope in translation occurs due to attributing the images nature, moon, earth to the feminine gender through the use of personal and possessive pronouns.
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Sabeen. "Nature's Metaphorical Tapestry: Unravelling Green Discourse in Pakistani Newspapers in English through an Ecolinguistic Lens." Review of Human Rights 9, no. 1 (October 15, 2023): 24–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.35994/rhr.v9i1.252.
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Metaphors wield a profound influence on our cognitive processes and actions. This research investigates the nature metaphors embedded in Pakistani newspapers in English within the context of green discourse. It delves into an analysis of how metaphors shape our conceptualization of the environment by considering their multiplicity, duality, and cultural diversity. By employing Stibbe's stories model as a foundational framework and applying semi-automated corpus methods to achieve the research objectives, this study discerns prevalent metaphorical structures that portray nature as a competitive entity, a personified being, a mechanical construct, a interconnected web, and a valuable resource. This research advocates for adopting a more responsible use of metaphorical language by the media personnel to have a more harmonious relationship with nature.
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Younas, Muhammad, Beenish Pervaiz, and Babar Riaz. "Lexical Meanings and Mistranslation: an Analysis of English Translation of Munshi Premchand's Short Stories." Global Language Review VII, no. I (March 30, 2022): 209–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(vii-i).18.
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This study is qualitative in nature and aims to highlight a genuine difficulty with the translation that many foreign translators have. Put another way,idiomatic expressions and cultural terms cannot be translated easily. They need to be translated very carefully, keeping in view the intercultural subtleties. In this study, Munshi Premchand’s three short stories originally written in Urdu and translated into English have been selected for qualitative analysis. These shore short stories are Eidgah, Qazaaqi, and Kafan respectively translated into English by KhuswantSingh, Fatima Rizvi and Frances W. Pritchett. The study concludes that the translators, especially those whose own mother language is other than the source language, have a hard time translating idiomatic expressions and cultural terms embedded in the very culture of the source language because they are not fully aware of the intercultural transnational intricacies and the intercultural pragmatics. This is what creates mistranslation and misleading meanings.
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Reynolds, Jackie. "Stories of creative ageing." Working with Older People 19, no. 1 (March 9, 2015): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wwop-11-2014-0035.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the benefits and issues relating to arts participation in later life. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on literature relating to older people's arts participation, and also includes discussion of the author's doctoral research into arts and ageing. The research was a qualitative study, influenced by narrative approaches and life-course perspectives. It involved interviews with 24 participants who have connections with a case-study town in the English Midlands. Findings – The paper focuses on the findings from six participants belonging to a male voice choir. The themes that are discussed include the importance of continuity; issues of identity; mutual support; impact of ill health and the sustainability of group activities. Research limitations/implications – This is a small-scale study, based in one case study town. Care should therefore be taken in generalising to different populations and areas. Potential for future research includes: other geographical locations, including larger urban areas. Specific focus on choir participation, or other art form. Involving people from a wider range of ethnic backgrounds. Social implications – This study adds to a growing body of evidence about the value of arts and culture to society. Originality/value – This study is original in adopting life-course perspectives to understand later life arts participation. It also offers original insights into the nature of arts-generated social capital and how this may be viewed within a wider context of resourceful ageing.
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Budhathoki, Mahendra Kumar. "Human and Nature Interactions in Kesar Lall’s Folk Tales from Nepal: An Eco-Critical Reading." Kaumodaki: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 4, no. 1 (April 9, 2024): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/kdk.v4i1.64555.
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Folktales are traditional stories orally handed down to the succeeding generations. They portray the co-existence and collaborations of humans, non-human characters and environments. This study explores the relations and interactions of humans, non-humans and nature in Kesar Lall’s Folk Tales from Nepal: The Origins of Alcohol and other Stories from ecocritical perspective. It has used ecocriticism as a theoretical tool. It is a library and qualitative research. The main finding of this study portrays the association and interactions among humans, non-humans and nature. The attitude of humans exploits the biological and physical environment for the sake of humans. Humans have hostile relations with non-humans like ogre in the natural world. The folktales demonstrate metamorphosis nature of gods and nagas. They portray the death of human beings as the natural process. They have abundant evidences of environments, and they transfer the value of ecological wisdom more to the readers. This study increases the environmental literacy of youths and expands the Nepali folktales to English speaking communities.
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Yang, Yunjeong. "Teaching English to Children Using Narrative Texts: Anthony Browne’s Gorilla." Korean Society for Teaching English Literature 27, no. 3 (December 31, 2023): 147–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19068/jtel.2023.27.3.06.
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This study discusses the educational value of narrative texts in order to utilize them in English education for elementary school and younger children. As children are born with the storytelling gene, listening to stories and storytelling are language acquisition methods close to children’s nature. In addition, the English curriculum was revised in 2022 to achieve ‘English communicative competence.’ Sub-competencies are presented as ‘cooperative communication,’ ‘knowledge information processing,’ ‘creative thinking,’ ‘self-management,’ ‘community,’ and ‘aesthetic sensibility’ (Ministry of Education, 2022c), emphasizing emotional aspects. Therefore, English education using narrative texts is urgently required. This study discusses academic and practical considerations to utilize narrative texts more effectively. Furthermore, it analyzes Anthony Browne’s picture book Gorilla as an example and creates a lesson plan.
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Astvatsaturov, Andrey. "Franny’s Jesus Prayer: J.D. Salinger and Orthodox Christian Spirituality." Religions 12, no. 8 (July 21, 2021): 555. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12080555.
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The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way—is a Russian hesychast text that was first published in 1881 and translated into English in 1931. It has gained popularity in the English-speaking world thanks to J.D. Salinger who mentions and re-narrates it in his stories “Franny” and “Zooey”. This reference has often been noted in both critical works on Salinger and studies dedicated to the book The Way of a Pilgrim. However, scholars have never actually attempted to fundamentally analyze the textual interconnections between Salinger’s stories and the hesychast work. In this article, the text of The Way of a Pilgrim is read within the framework of Salinger’s stories and is interpreted as being significant for his later texts. From the hesychast book Salinger borrows a number of images and presents its philosophy as a spiritual ideal. At the same time, he approaches it with a certain irony and exposes several pitfalls of incorrectly interpreting the Jesus prayer, as illustrated by Franny, one of Salinger’s characters. Having brought to light the nature of Franny’s mistakes and her peccant intention, Salinger reestablishes the hesychast ideal and connects it with Søren Kierkegaard’s principle of theistic existentialism.
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Moiseenko, Anna V. "Characteristic of the digital news story genre." International Journal “Speech Genres” 17, no. 1 (February 21, 2022): 66–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/2311-0740-2022-17-1-33-66-73.
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The article deals with the genre of news stories clustering around the theme of coronavirus infection in the English electronic newspaper The Daily Mail. The purpose of the paper is to systematize the main characteristics of various news stories within the selected topic. The key genre-forming features of electronic news stories are the explicit nature of authorship, a wide range of readers, synchronous and asynchronous comments. There is a description of three news stories with various structures – an inverted pyramid, an hourglass and a multimedia story. It has been determined that such kinds of news stories combine different types of information (factual, probabilistic, normative, program and evaluative); a significant event is described by alternating a verbal text and visual material, which is represented by illustrations, video segments and infographics. Interactivity is presented at two levels – on the one hand, in the interaction between a reader and a news story, on the other hand, between several news stories, divided by time, but written within the same topic. Key thematic lexis captures the theme of the text, and synonymic sets with literary and informal lexical units diversify the narrative and reduce the distance between the electronic newspaper and its audience.
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Anwar, Desvalini. "UNDERSTANDING TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH STORYTELLING WITHIN A POSTCOLONIAL FRAMEWORK." Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa 10, no. 1 (July 3, 2016): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/ld.v10i1.6339.
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This study provides an account of my doctoral research with respect to the methodological choices that I have made. It focuses on the heuristic value of storytelling for English teachers within a postcolonial setting like Indonesia to construct meanings and understand their experiences ‘consciously within and against accepted forms’ (Miller, 1995, pp. 25-26). It inquires into the finding of ourselves - to understand who we are, who we have been and who we will become for the benefits of the young people in our care. First, I write and construct my autobiographical narrative and then solicit further stories from my teacher interviewees. Our stories allowed us to understand how our professional identities have been influenced and shaped by the social, political, cultural and historical contexts that surround our lives. Placing my study within a postcolonial framework, I was prompted to investigate the ‘heteroglot’ nature (Bakhtin, 1984) of Indonesia as a language community shaped by the history of colonization and the globalization of English. Our stories highlight our efforts to ‘speak back’ to not only our own habitual practices but also to the hierarchical structure of power perpetuated in English. They are not simply told in response to the ‘imagined communities’ of Indonesia as they shape the struggles of those who fought for independence from Dutch rule but are also in conflict with the New Order attempts to impose an ‘official nationalism’ (Anderson, 1991, p. 83) on Indonesians at the expense of any recognition of their regional languages, dialects and cultures. Key words/phrases: storytelling, professional identities, English teachers, postcolonial framework, habitual practices,
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Wing Bo Tso, Anna. "Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Literature Classics and their English Versions." International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal 16, no. 1 (September 25, 2014): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ipcj-2014-0008.
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Cross-dressing, as a cultural practice, suggests gender ambiguity and allows freedom of self expression. Yet, it may also serve to reaffirm ideological stereotypes and the binary distinctions between male and female, masculine and feminine, homosexual and heterosexual. To explore the nature and function of cross-dressing in Chinese and Western cultures, this paper analyzes the portrayals of cross-dressing heroines in two Chinese stories:《木蘭辭》 The Ballad of Mulan (500–600 A.D.), and 《梁山伯與祝英台》The Butterfly Lovers (850–880 A.D.). Distorted representations in the English translated texts are also explored.
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A, Jayasree, and Shobha Ramaswamy. "A STUDY OF RUSKIN BOND’S “TENACITY OF MOUNTAIN WATER”." Kongunadu Research Journal 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2017): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/krj165.
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“I am not a religious person but if I were to say I have a religion then I would say I am a nature worshipper.” Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond, a prolific writer, is known for his short stories, novellas and poems and is widely popular especially in Children’s Literature Circles. His stories can be likened to an ecological narrativedesigned to spread awareness about the bitter consequences of human actions that damage the planet’s basic life support system. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India for ‘Our Trees Still grow in Dehra’ in 1992. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Ruskin Bond’s stories breathe his great love and sincere concern for nature which is all encompassing and all pervasive.The prismatic portrayal of nature in Bond’s stories enraptures the soul. He draws our sense towards the natural brilliance manifest all around us by presenting a painstakingly drawn out record of the the natural life around him. The amazingly captured landscapes with its myriad forms of life inked by Bond’s imagination and his inimitable style come with a strong lesson on the need to protect and preserve nature. My paper proposes to study Bond’s short story entitled “Tenacity of Mountain Water” that exploresthe interlinked web of life through a simple narrative. Weaving the threads of eco consciousness through the narrative, he marvels at how a tiny rivulet of water becomes a beautiful roaring cascade nourishing and beautifying the entire landscape. The story offers the informed reader a chance to investigate the underlying ecological values and also revisit the human perception of natural resources.
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Bystrenkov, Dmitry L. "Russian and English literary traditions and the poetics of comic elements in the “English” stories of Evgeny Zamyatin." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 2 (2022): 106–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/79/8.
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The paper aims to show how the Russian and English literary traditions influenced the way of creating satirical and ironic text by analyzing the poetics of the comic elements in the stories “Ostrovityane” (The Islanders) and “Lovets chelovekov” (The Fisher of Men) by Evgeny Zamyatin. The analysis has revealed the dystopian text in world literature to be closely related to humor, with this relation being particularly apparent in the English stories of Evgeny Zamyatin, the latter having interconnections with the literature of nonsense. It is for this reason that a dystopian text, representing an anti-genre (with humor, irony, and parody in the foreground), can be considered a reaction to a utopian one, or it can be regarded as a unique phenomenon, not restricted to the negation of the utopian tradition. The latter case highlights the problems of human nature, the propensity to move along a spiral trajectory, according to which forward movement occurs not without destroying the old foundations and returning to something even more ancient, forgotten. This movement is seen to be infinite, there being no way to stop at one point and create something perfect, unchanging and finite. The problem of the humor in Zamyatin’s work has an obvious research perspective. Future research is expected to extend knowledge of early 20th-century Russian-English literary connections and develop an understanding of the English literature influence (in particular, nonsense) on the mature work of the Russian writer and the formation of a dystopia of the 20th century as a genre.
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Degwale, Yibeltal, and Simachew Gashaye. "Representation of Literary Texts in English for Ethiopian Textbooks and Their Practice in the Classroom: Grade 9 and 10 in Focus." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 623. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1006.01.
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This study aimed to assess the representation of literary texts and their actual practice at Grades 9 and 10 in general secondary schools in Ethiopia. The study employed descriptive research design involving both qualitative and quantitative methods. Participants were selected purposively. Textbook analysis, classroom observation and focus group discussion were data sources. The textbook and classroom observation data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Whereas, the focus group discussion data were analyzed qualitatively using thematic analysis. Findings showed that poems took the lion’s share in the literary texts. However, short stories, novel extracts, moral stories, fables and true stories were scarcely found in the textbooks. Besides, the findings revealed that language skills and language areas incorporated in the literary texts focused more on developing reading and speaking skills. Moreover, the findings obtained from focus group discussion and classroom observation showed that teachers were not regularly practising literary texts due to teachers’ lack of pedagogical skills, students’ lack of interest to learn literary texts and the difficulty nature of the literary texts.
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Islary, Tezashree. "Newspaper Coverage of Environmental Stories: A Content Analysis on Selected Newspapers of Assam." Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism 1, no. 4 (April 30, 2024): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.54105/ijmcj.d1036.01040622.
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This study seeks to find out how the newspapers cover the environmental stories. The study employed a content analysis technique and had specifically focused on environment stories between January 2020 to December 2020. It identified 482 environmental stories from the three newspapers i.e. The Assam Tribune, The Sentinel and The Telegraph. The time frame was chosen for the study based on the time when the environmental issues like flood, deforestation, poaching was at the peak. The selected newspaper dailies were the highest circulated English dailies in the region. This study used the technique of content analysis that captures the variables: magnitude and type, news priority and nature. The study concluded that some important environmental topics such as Disaster management, Wildlife conservation, and Pollution issues did not gain much importance in those newspapers. Overall the findings of the study indicate that the issues related to environmental issues are needed to be more exposed to educate the public.
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Pudełko, Brygida. "A Tribute to Joseph Conrad and Aleksandr Grin in Anastasia Tsvetaeva’s Poem “Twins”." Yearbook of Conrad Studies 15 (2023): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843941yc.20.002.19285.
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Anastasia Tsvetayeva was a Russian writer, poet and memoirist. She started to write earlier than her younger sister Marina Tsvetayeva. Although Anastasia Tsvetaeva published several stories in the 1910s, she was not a representative of any leading literary association or group. She worked as a teacher of English, and a librarian in the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts. She also translated literary and philosophical works from French, English and German. Living in Moscow, Tsvetaeva was not fundamentally involved in politics, giving time and energy to creative work. However, the religious nature of her works made her unreliable in the eyes of the official authorities. She was arrested twice. During the second arrest in 1937, all her writings were confiscated and destroyed by NKVD. On the far-fetched charge Tsvetaeva was sent to Siberia. While in the camp, at the age of forty-one, Tsvetaeva started writing poems, first in English, and then in Russian. Her only book of poetry Moi edinstvenny sbornik (My Only Collection) was published posthumously in 1995. Tsvetaeva wrote about twelve poems in English. Seven of them – “Maturity,” “Twins,” “My Fate,” “A Dream,” “To Raya,” “A portrait attempt” and “To Thomas Caryle” – are included in her collection of poems. Tsvetaeva’s four-page poem “Twins,” which was also translated by the author into Russian, praises Joseph Conrad’s novella Typhoon (1902) and Aleksandr Grin’s adventure novel Scarlet Sails (Алые паруса 1923). Except the fact that both writers had Polish ancestors, they were fascinated by the beauty and mightiness of the ocean. Life at sea, perceived as the embodiment of freedom, is something both Conrad and Grin longed for. The sea also occupies a central place in Typhoon and Scarlet Sails. The characters in both stories also struggle with adversities of fate and water – one of the most powerful elements of nature.
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Adnan, Muhammad, Amir Hamza Marwan, and Mussarat Anwar. "Coverage of Health News in the English-Language Newspapers of Pakistan: A Case Study of Dawn and The News." Global Sociological Review VII, no. II (June 30, 2022): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(vii-ii).09.
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This research study investigates health news coverage in the two mainstream English-language newspapers of Pakistan – Dawn and The News – to understand how they covered it. The researchers have focused on the frequency of published news stories, contributors of the news items; nature of coverage;contextualization and use of jargon in the published stories. The researchers applied the Quantitative Content Analysis to answer all the outstanding inquiries of this research project. Based on the data collected in February2019, the researchers found that both the newspapers played down the health-related coverage in their pages –besides relying on the same contributors to report it. The findings revealed that The News needs to bring more diversity in its coverage of different issues related to health, while Dawn needs to work on the language – by avoiding jargon. The Gatekeeping Theory guides the findings.
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Lenska, S. V. "Impressionistic poetics of the short stories „Kew Gardens” by W. Woolf and „Intermezzo” by M. Kotsyubynsky." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, no. 3 (341) (2021): 114–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2021-3(341)-114-124.
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The article compares two examples of modernist short stories of the early twentieth century – „Kew Gardens” by the British writer W. Woolf and „Intermezzo” by the Ukrainian writer M. Kotsyubynsky. Such a comparative study has been carried out for the first time. Most researchers associate Woolfe with „stream of consciousness” literature, but in the short story „Kew Gardens” we see signs of impressionist poetics. “Intermezzo” by M. Kotsiubynsky is traditionally regarded as an example of impressionism. In both texts, the narration is in the first person, there are elements of the „stream of consciousness”; the opposition of social and natural worlds is shown. The narrators in both short stories enjoy the contemplation of nature. The English literary writing contains a fragmentary composition, combining disparate, unrelated episodes. In the Ukrainian text, we observe the internal evolution of the main character-narrator, who is internally reborn in the bosom of nature, filled with new forces. Differences between short stories: Virginia Woolf depicts several visitors to London’s Kew Gardens; Kotsyubinsky creates an autobiographical image of the writer, who is reborn under the influence of nature. In both literary writings, sound, visual, tactile images play an important role, in particular, images of flowers, a snail (W. Woolf), summer fields, the sun, larks, three white shepherd dogs (M. Kotsyubinsky). Both literary writings are examples of the psychological mood of the modernist novella. A comparative analysis of the two texts allows us to compare the Ukrainian literary process with world trends.
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Drozdovskyi, Dmytro, and Nataliia Naumenko. "Korotko’s phenomenological myth of Odesa in Bera and Cucumber: otherness, melancholy and anthropocene." Revista Amazonia Investiga 13, no. 73 (January 30, 2024): 307–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2024.73.01.26.
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In the research, with the help of the method of mytho-criticism and archetypal analysis (Carl Gustav Jung), the author has analyzed and outlined the chronotope represented in the stories in Bera and Cucumber by Aleksandr Korotko. This book, translated into English by M. Pursglove, was published in London in 2023. With the help of archetypal analysis, the Odesa text was characterized as a mythological one. It has been investigated that the Odesa narrative represents a special worldview of the heroes, who are characterized by a combination of kabbalistic worldview, Christian humanism, Turkish melancholy, contemplativeness that results from the unity of the heroes of the Odesa space with eternal nature elements. The writer reconstructs the Odesa identity in its ontological form: the social interaction between the characters reveals their essence superficially, on the other hand, the anthropocene way of depicting the characters as immanently connected with the elements of nature reveals their universal ontological essence. The Odesa text is represented as mythological one, the loci of which are subordinated to the idea of the immutability of space and time. This is the peculiarity of the chronotope marked by mythological intentions: the characters appear only as variable, fluid entities in the macrocosm of Odesa that as depicted in Korotko’s stories is characterized by the intertwined relationships between the spirit, nature, and humanity from ancient times. Rather than viewing human beings and nature within a subject-object framework, the writer presents a holistic system that reflects an anthropocene perspective of the world. The article argues that traditional logocentric paradigms fall short in capturing and unraveling the identity of Odesa that is intricately woven into the interconnected narratives of Korotko's stories.
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Donnelly, Amy, Denise N. Morgan, Diane E. DeFord, Janet Files, usi Long, Heidi Mills, Diane Stephens, and Mary Styslinger. "Transformative Professional Development: Negotiating Knowledge with an Inquiry Stance." Language Arts 82, no. 5 (May 1, 2005): 336–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la20054410.
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The South Carolina Reading Initiative is a statewide, long-term, site-based professional development project designed to improve children’s literacy achievement by increasing teachers’ knowledge of reading and literacy instruction. Three specific bodies of research informed this project: (1) research on effective staff development, (2) research on teacher quality and (3) research on best practices in English Language Arts. The program is grounded in social constructivist theory and inquiry-based pedagogy. Five data-driven stories, spanning various iterations of this learner-centered initiative, illustrate the transformative nature of this approach to professional development.
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Trześniewska-Nowak, Agnieszka. "Wizja wiejskiego krajobrazu w noweli bułgarskiej przełomu XIX i XX wieku." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 62, no. 1 (June 24, 2024): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.876.
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The rural landscape in the stories mentioned here is not idyllic, because even the descriptions of spring that fill with positive emotions show the temporary nature, because the inhabitants have time to contemplate the landscape only because of the church holiday. It seems interesting that in this affirmation of the world of nature, the characters see numerous parallels between humans and other species inhabiting the globe. This is, of course, a clear allusion to the works of Charles Darwin, in particular On the Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), in which the English researcher proved that we are really not much different from other creatures. The theory of evolution has revised the notion of nature into which man has been drawn, becoming part of a global spectacle in which some beings perish and then others take their place.
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Brown, Daniel. "GEORGE EGERTON'SKEYNOTES: NIETZSCHEAN FEMINISM ANDFIN-DE-SIÈCLEFETISHISM." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 6, 2010): 143–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000318.
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The title of George Egerton'sfirst collection of short stories,Keynotes(1893), announces a concern with the beginnings of sequences, the first principles from which larger patterns are orchestrated. The stories introduce premises from which new social and sexual relations may be engendered and individual existential choices made, a philosophical intent that harks back to the preoccupation in classical Greek thought with the nature of the Good Life and how to live it, which Friedrich Nietzsche renews for modern Western philosophy. Egerton's broad but nonetheless radical engagement with Nietzschean thought can be traced through the references she makes to the philosopher inKeynotes, which are widely credited with being the first in English literature. Indeed, such allusions are, as Iveta Jusová observes, “the most frequent literary reference[s] in Egerton's texts” (53). They were also recognised and mobilised against her by some of her earliest critics.
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Ismail, Syofianis. "An analysis on Learning Condition in Developing of Listening Comprehension Model by Using Social Media for English Students." J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic 7, no. 1 (February 29, 2020): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/jshmic.2020.vol7(1).4645.
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Learning a foreign language by using social media is getting important because it has great potential to support student-centered learning, as it is flexible, interactive, and content–rich in nature. This research was aimed to develop an English listening comprehension model by using Social Media You tube. A Research and Development methodology ADDIE was used: analyzing students’ and teachers’ needs, designing a new learning materials, Developing material, Implementing it in a group, and evaluating the existing learning materials, validating the learning materials by experts, revising learning materials, trying out the learning materials, and revising learning materials. It was found that the existing learning materials were not appropriate for the students’ characteristics and were not organized in a systematic way. Students and lecturers indicated that they appreciated enjoyable English language learning materials such as songs, stories and games using You Tube. Based on these findings a new model for developing materials was developed for English Listening Comprehension Program at the Islamic University of Riau.
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Khan, Aisha. "Untold stories of unfree labor: Asians in the Americas." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 70, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1996): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002630.
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[First paragraph]The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba. The Original English-Language Text of 1876 (Introduction by Denise Helly). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. viii + 160 pp. (Paper US$21.95)Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. WALTON LOOK LAI. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xxviii + 370 pp. (Cloth US$ 39.95)The world system formed by European mercantile and industrial capitalism and the history of transcontinental labor migrations from Africa to the Americas have been amply documented. The genesis, evolution, and demise of New World slavery are subjects much scrutinized and debated, particularly since the 1960s. Enjoying a less extensive tradition of historiography are the variously devised alternative labor schemes that came on the heels of emancipation: the colonially-orchestrated efforts to contract free and voluntary workers to take the place of slaves in a system of production theoretically the moral antithesis of that earlier "peculiar institution." Yet scholarship on indentured labor systems has consistently revealed that the "freedom" of immigrant workers was merely nominal, the "voluntary" nature of their commitments arguable, and the indenture projects often only ideally a kinder, gentier form of labor extraction.
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Zhykharieva, Olena, and Olga Vorobyova. "Narrative ecotopics in English biblical discourse: A study of the Old and New Testaments." Revista de Investigaciones Universidad del Quindío 34, no. 1 (November 23, 2022): 248–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33975/riuq.vol34n1.725.
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Objective: This paper addresses the Old and New Testaments viewed from the econarrative perspective in environmental and social contexts.
Method: The method applied combines the techniques of conceptual, semantic, thematic, and narrative analyses in the authors' original interpretation.
Results and discussion: It examines biblical narrations via four discourse-forming concepts – GOD, NATURE, MAN, and SOCIETY, various combinations of which shape a set of narrative ecotopics focused on the concept of MAN. Such ecotopics as "Man and nature in their interaction", "Man and family relations", "Man in society", "Man's path to God" reveal the relationships between man, nature, God, family, and society as well as man's responsibility before God. Their ecological component is marked by verbocentric ecodescriptors actualized in narrative schemes.
Material: This study zeroes in on the narrative ecotopic "Man's path to God" with its subtopic "the way through sacrifice", presented in the stories of Abraham in Genesis and Hannah in 1 Samuel from the Old Testament as compared to the story of Jesus in 1 Peter, 1 John, and the Gospel of John from the New Testament.
Conclusions: In the Old Testament the path to God through sacrifice in ecologically charged narrations reflects the readiness of man to sacrifice his/her most valuable thing to prove their faithfulness and faith. In the New Testament Jesus' sacrifice involves the whole humankind, thanks to His sufferings for their sinless life.
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Mol, Annemarie. "Language Trails: ‘Lekker’ and Its Pleasures." Theory, Culture & Society 31, no. 2-3 (January 21, 2014): 93–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276413499190.
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This is an article about bodily pleasures, words and some of the relations between them. It is a turn in a conversation between the author (‘me’) and Marilyn Strathern (‘Strathern’). It talks theory, but not in general. Instead, this theory gets situated in traditions; specified; in relation to concerns; and exemplified with stories to do with the term lekker. This article is in English, but lekker is not an English term. It is Dutch. The stories come from long-term field work in various sites and situations close to home for the author, who is also Dutch. They were driven by a concern with fostering bodily pleasures in contexts such as nursing homes and dieting practices where nutrients and calories are granted more importance. The difficulties of translating lekker (tasty? pleasant? delicious? fun? nice?) are used as a set of intellectual resources. In contrast to Strathern, the author insists on the fleshy particularities of the practices where lekker is spoken. Along with Strathern, the author seeks to escape nature/culture divides. Inspired by Strathern, the author follows lekker around merographically – that is, along iterative trails and between sites and situations that are connected, but only partially so. In homage to Strathern, finally, the author plays with the question of who the collective subject of anthropological theory – we – might be, and who belongs to the others that form its object – they.
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Noguerón-Liu, Silvia, Courtney Hokulaniokekai Shimek, and Chelsey Bahlmann Bollinger. "‘Dime De Que Se Trató/Tell me what it was about’: Exploring emergent bilinguals’ linguistic resources in reading assessments with parent participation." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 20, no. 2 (April 23, 2018): 411–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468798418770708.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the ways emergent bilingual first-graders draw on multiple linguistic resources during reading assessments and the participation of their Spanish-dominant parents in those assessments, as children engaged in English and Spanish retelling tasks. Informed by a translanguaging lens, sociopsycholinguistic and holistic approaches to reading and critical approaches to family literacy, the analysis centres on assessment sessions with two mother–child dyads whose children attended school in a relatively new migration setting. Primary data were drawn from four reading assessment sessions and audio-recordings over a 7-month period with each child, individual interviews and home visits with mothers, and field notes from research team members. The analysis examined linguistic patterns related to second-language approximations and code-switching in miscues and oral retellings. The analysis also includes coding of strategies and resources children used in their English and Spanish retelling of the same text, using their home language to retell the texts to their mothers. Findings illustrate that while children’s miscues may be shaped by their developing control of syntactic structures and new vocabulary, they draw from multiple language resources in English retellings, conveying their complex understandings of texts. We also found that the children negotiated translating and retelling for their parents in different ways, shaped by their family literacy practices. These involved co-construction of stories, a focus on accuracy and the paraphrasing and embellishing of stories and dialogue. Insights from this study highlight the complexity of pooled language resources in young children’s repertoires. Findings also document the situated nature of oral retelling at home, when parents engage children in the sharing and translating of English books in ways that align with existing roles, practices and goals. Implications for equitable literacy assessment in new migration contexts are discussed.
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Ramsey-Kurz, Helga. "A Difficult Passage to Navigate: From Asylum Story to Refugee Tale." European Journal of Life Writing 12 (September 12, 2023): 146–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.12.41234.
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This article draws on the results of a life writing initiative, ARENA (Archive of Refugee Encounter Narratives), developed at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. It involves students of English collaborating with refugees over periods of three months to write down the latter’s stories. Like other storytelling ventures spawned by the perceived European refugee crisis of 2015, ARENA aims to enable a better understanding of the situation of refugees in Europe than the dominant asylum discourse allows. To this end, students arrange regular encounters with participating refugees and encourage them to tell whatever they consider to be their stories. The texts the students craft from these exchanges capture not only the refugees’ stories but also their own experience of hearing them. I will examine the embodied act of narration thus recorded in the ARENA corpus and contest critical claims that, too indebted to the rigid veracity standards defining official refugee testimonials, refugee life writing is unable to augment new ways of thinking about refugee experience and forced migration at large. My argument is that such criticism does not apply where the dialogic nature of live telling is consciously experienced and given due expression in the life writing it eventually becomes.
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Wasserman, Herman, Wallace Chuma, Tanja Bosch, Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, and Rachel Flynn. "South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19: A content analysis." Journal of African Media Studies 13, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 333–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00052_1.
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The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to unprecedented media coverage globally and in South Africa where, at the time of writing, over 20,000 people had died from the virus. This article explores how mainstream print media covered the COVID-19 pandemic during this time of crisis. The news media play a key role in keeping the public informed during such health crises and potentially shape citizens’ perceptions of the pandemic. Drawing on a content analysis of 681 front-page news stories across eleven English-language publications, we found that nearly half of the stories used an alarmist narrative, more than half of the stories had a negative tone, and most publications reported in an episodic rather than thematic manner. Most of the stories focused on impacts of the pandemic and included high levels of sensationalism. In addition, despite the alarmist and negative nature of the reporting, most of the front-page reports did not provide information about ways to limit the spread of the virus or attempt to counter misinformation about the pandemic, raising key issues about the roles and responsibilities of the South African media during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study shows that South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19 was largely negative, possibly to attract audience attention and increase market share, but that this alarmist coverage left little possibility for citizens’ individual agency and self-efficacy in navigating the pandemic.
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Amaliah, Amaliah. "Language Attitudes on English Informal Learner of Non-English Graduate through Lifespan." Al Qalam: Jurnal Ilmiah Keagamaan dan Kemasyarakatan 18, no. 3 (April 3, 2024): 1790. http://dx.doi.org/10.35931/aq.v18i3.3486.
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<p><em>Globalization has produced cutting-edge technology that allows people, especially young people, to access information anywhere. Blommaert calls globalization a historical keyword. Despite their similarities, the process of globalization is revolutionary in scope, complexity and dimensions. Over time, globalization can change locations, people, societies, cultures, economies, education, technology, and markets. Many generations consider English to be a universal language. This research is qualitative in nature. Creswell states that qualitative research investigates group intentions in social or human matters. Qualitative research evaluates participants' meaning in this way. Qualitative research uses specific methods to investigate social or human problems. Problem-oriented qualitative research collects data about primary object phenomena. Because it can store and replicate the most profound events and deal with complexity, moral relativism, and live animals, this research uses narrative inquiry. Narrative humanizes humans through the creation and restructuring of stories. Based on interviews and tables about language attitudes among casual English learners across the age range, respondents are very enthusiastic about the English skills learned on YouTube. Baker (quoted in Thuan) says that effective language learners develop a favorable attitude toward their language, which must be taken into account when defining language acquisition attitudes. Divita's lifelong theory helped her learn English. Since learning English, respondents have increased substantially, according to the time scale interview. When the respondent learned English on YouTube informally, he found many channels helpful. Language variation and evolution can be better understood with life span studies, and statistics show that respondents want to learn English. The problem of researching student attitudes by age is solved. The research found that respondents now enjoy their skills across a lifetime, spanning periods and life events. The author concludes that respondents prefer learning English informally. He enjoys learning English on YouTube, which he has used since childhood. This research should investigate respondents' local language skills before and after learning English and whether they prefer formal or informal English learning.</em></p>
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Halchuk, Oksana. "“Apple Blossoms” and “The Apple Tree”: Two Perspectives Typological and Ideological Similarities in Short Stories by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky and John Galsworthy." Respectus Philologicus, no. 38(43) (October 19, 2020): 150–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2020.38.43.64.
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The article provides comparative analysis of Apple Blossoms by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky and The Apple Tree by John Galsworthy. Both authors explore human morality in a crisis of confrontation between sensuality and death, the beauty of life and the beauty of art. At the structural level, the works share an element of paratext, novelistic nature, polysemic images-landscapes, and methods of psychologization. Galsworthy engages the antinomy of the city – province, resorts to irony, and combines elements of impressionist writing with the traditions of realistic socio-psychological prose. In contrast, Kotsiubynsky systematically implements the impressionist fragmentary nature of the composition, symbolism of visual and auditory images, in-depth psychoanalysis, and the conventionality of the chronotope.
The issues of short stories are diversified and aesthetic – as is distinct for modernist literature – implicitly in Kotsiubynsky’s work, and most explicitly through the connections with the Antiquity and English intertext in Galsworthy’s prose.
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Cohen, Andrew D. "Attrition in the Productive Lexicon of Two Portuguese Third Language Speakers." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 11, no. 2 (June 1989): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100000577.
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This study investigates loss of productive vocabulary in oral language, specifically in Portuguese as a third language for two English-Hebrew bilingual children, ages 9 and 13. The study investigated the lexical loss in Portuguese storytelling behavior after 1, 3, and 9 months of discontinued contact with the language. The analysis focused on the nature of the attrited productive lexicon, lexical production strategies used to compensate for forgotten vocabulary, and lexical retrieval processes during storytelling in Portuguese and in the children's two dominant languages.A significant decrease was found in the total number of words produced in the Portuguese stories of the two children after 9 months, both in comparison to word total in earlier months and in comparison to total words in English and Hebrew stories. There was greater attrition in the case of the younger subject after 9 months than in that of his older sister. He used a more limited number of different words, as well as fewer and shorter T-units per utterance, which was not the case with regard to his sister. He also attrited proportionately more nouns than words from other word classes.The subjects used at least six lexical production strategies in order to compensate for forgotten words—two of them L1-based (borrowing and foreignizing), and four of them intralingual (the use of a general word, approximation, circumlocution, and word abandonment). Their data also provided evidence of lexical retrieval processes. Examples of lexical production strategies and lexical retrieval processes are given.
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Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "TROUBLE WITH SHE-DICKS: PRIVATE EYES AND PUBLIC WOMEN INTHE ADVENTURES OF LOVEDAY BROOKE, LADY DETECTIVE." Victorian Literature and Culture 33, no. 1 (March 2005): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150305000720.
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C. L. (CATHERINE LOUISA)PIRKIS'S“The Murder at Troyte's Hill,” second in her series of stories about Detective Loveday Brooke, begins with Brooke's boss debriefing her on a case: “Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary, has the case in hand…. Those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows, and very jealous of outside interference. They only sent to me under protest, as it were, because they wanted your sharp wits at work inside the house” (528). This is a typical beginning for one of Brooke's adventures, which were published in the London magazineLudgate Monthlyin 1893 and 1894. As one of the earliest professional female detectives in English literary history, Brooke's career was marked by conflicts with territorial male officers and the ever-present pressure to keep her detective work “inside the house.” Emerging at a historical moment when understandings of women, criminality, and law enforcement were rapidly changing in Britain, Pirkis's stories offer an interpretation of these intersecting cultural shifts that is surprisingly different from her contemporaries. In a decade rife with scientific interrogation into the nature of criminality, such as in the work of Havelock Ellis and Francis Galton, detective fiction of the 1890s tended to mimic scientific discourse in its representations of criminals. The Brooke stories, however, challenge such conceptions of deviance and reveal the poverty of their underlying understandings of crime as well as gender.
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Safonova, Victoria V. "Creative Writing as Part and Parcel of Developing Communicative & Intellectual FL Learners’ Powers." European Journal of Social Science Education and Research 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2018): 130–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ejser-2018-0014.
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Abstract For many years in ELT methodology the questions of teaching writing in ELT coursebooks have been given much attention in terms of its nature, differences between written and spoken speech, ELT objectives and approaches to teaching writing, types of writing genres, writing assessment. But one rather neglected area in that regard is a graded teaching of creative writing to FL learners. The fifteen-year experience with organizing language-and-culture competitions launched by the Research Centre “Euroschool” for foreign language /FL/ students across Russia have proved that even intermediate FL learners, not to speak about advanced students are quite capable of writing in a FL: a) poems and songs expressing their ideas about teenagers’ lifestyle & visions of contemporary world; b) short stories describing family and school life experiences of their own or their peers; c) essays based on their comparative study of native and foreign cultures; d) presentations of Russian culture & other cultures of the Russian Federation in an English environment while being on exchange visits; e) translations of English poetry, short stories, excerpts from humours books, stripes of comics. The paper compares teaching creative writing in Russian and English, discusses the questions arisen from the outcomes of the language-and-culture competitions, arguing that effective teaching of creative writing presupposes: 1) teaching a FL in the context of the dialogue of cultures and civilizations, 2) introducing creative writing into a FL curriculum, 3) designing a package of thought-provoking teaching materials aiming at developing communicative, intellectual & mediating learners’ powers, 4) applying appropriate assessment scales for observing the dynamics of learners’ development as creative writers, 5) marrying students’ bilingual and crosscultural/ pluricultural classroom activities stimulating their participation in language-and-culture competitions.
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Nirmala, T., and I. Arul Aram. "Newspaper Framing of Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in India." International Journal of E-Politics 9, no. 1 (January 2018): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2018010102.
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This article describes how climate change influences nature and human life and it is the basis for social and economic development. News reporting on climate change must address the challenges in the deeper social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps people to better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. This article aims to examine how dominant newspapers in Tamil Nadu have framed climate change and sustainability issues. This is done by analyzing climate change articles (N = 120) in two mainstream newspapers – The Hindu in English and the Daily Thanthi in Tamil. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.
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Raja, S., and Dr V. Peruvalluthi. "Continuity and Change: A Socio-Cultural Study of select Tamil Short Stories Translated in English." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 1 (January 28, 2020): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i1.10351.
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Any society and every society is a continuation of the past, but a range of continuity is maintained even in the midst of change coming into the same society from time to time. This is how the identity of a society is maintained over a period of time. Even otherwise some continuity is essential because human nature is immutable. The notions of ascribed status, hierarchy, ritual purity and impurity have been the basic ingredients of Tamil social structure. These have been attacked from time to time by social and religious reform movements, secularization process and host of others. But the system seems to have a remarkable resilience. It yields some ground but returns again. For instance, when caste is sought to be dislodged from the religious (ritual) domain, it enters into the political process and caste consciousness comes back with a vengeance through urbanization. In the face of scientific temper, religiosity and ritualism also increased and a substantial segment of the modern educated class shows latent and sometime overt acceptance of the religious phenomenon sometimes steeped in irrationality and superstition. The joint family norms instead of fading away in the face of urbanization and industrialization may still be retained by adapting to the process of democratization and acceptance of dissent. The joint family today is more democratic and the traditional autocratic authority head of the joint family has become a thing of the past. All these examples point to the past.
Another dimension of continuity in Tamil society may be explained through the continuity of Traditions. Even among the modern, educated urban people, during sickness in the family, a modern physician visits the patient in the morning. Tamilnadu’s village is the puja for the tractor bought by a farmer, invoking the blessings of the local deity, performing aarti and applying pottu to the tractor, a product of modern technology. Not only the continuity between the Traditions and also in everything, even two different Traditions may go together or get fused into one another. Praying in a temple in nor unusual or mutually contradictory. It does not dilute their beliefs. It tells us that there is something inherent in Tamil tradition which facilitates the cultural continuity. “Kameshwara iyer had offered a lot of dowry and gifts at the wedding. Rukmani’s in-laws were very satisfied. After the marriage, her mother in law would often take Rukmani away to her house” (“Peepul by the Tank” P.7 )
In the story of peepul by the tank by va ve su iyer portrayed marriage ceremony and dowry system. Still it is exist in our society.
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Huang, Zhongju, and Xiaoxuan Feng. "Analysis of the Narrative Perspective of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”." Studies in English Language Teaching 8, no. 3 (July 17, 2020): p71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v8n3p71.
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Katharine Mansfield is a successful female writer in the literary history of the 20th century, who marks a new period of English short stories. She uses tremendous modernistic techniques and digs deep beneath the surface of life to show the causes of human happiness and despair in her works. “The Garden Party” is one of her most famous and representative short stories. Previous studies have mostly focused on its artistic methods, themes and characters, as well as the combination of all, but there are only few studies choosing its narrative perspectives as their study topic. This paper analyzed the narrative perspective in this story, focusing on the use of nonfocalization, internal focalization and covert progression and the effects they have. It is found that the change of ways of focalization combining with covert progression in this story forms a parallel of objective description and ironic description with the plot development, adds a new group to the relationship between the former implied author and target readers, and reveals two different ways (idealistic and realistic) of understanding this story, letting readers reflect on the behaviors of the upper-middle-class people and ironically pointing out their selfish nature.
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Ayesha Siddiqua, Ghulam Shabir, Atif Ashraf, and Ammad Khaliq. "Media Framing of Pandemics: A Case Study of the Coverage of COVID-19 in Elite Newspapers of Pakistan." Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies 6, no. 4 (December 4, 2020): 1251–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i4.1410.
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Considering the outbreak of Corona pandemic as a case study the article explores the dominant frames used in the coverage of COVID-19 pandemic by the Pakistani English e papers. The media framing is analyzed through qualitative inductive content analysis of the COVID-19 related news stories published in the e papers of Dawn and Express Tribune. Three broad themes emerged as a result of the inductive content analysis which included Scientific Development related to Pandemic; Scale of Pandemic; Social and Economic Impact of Pandemic. The results indicated that the coverage by the e papers was mostly aimed at educating the readers; difficult jargon related to medicine was mostly avoided and where the use of jargon was unavoidable it was properly explained. Most of the stories were developing in nature as the pandemic itself was unfolding at a very fast pace during the selected time frame. The news related information was mostly compiled in a manner which was meant to both warn the readers and the policy makers about the growing scale of the pandemic. The coverage also provided recommendations for the revival of economic and social activities which were halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic.