Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2021.227128
Dr. Najlaa Hosny Ameen Mohammed
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2021.227126
Iman Farouk Mohamed El Bakary
This study examines the extensive use of metaphor in the poetry collection entitled Balancing Acts (2016) by Yahia Lababidi (1973), Egyptian Lebanese American poet, philosopher and aphorist . Lababidi’s use of metaphors seems to be the key to his poetry. In Balancing Acts, the poet’s obsession with Egypt is revealed. Besides, his poems express the dilemma of an immigrant poet experiencing a split identity, homesickness, a conflict between selfexpression and self-suppression, and the struggle between an ideal, spiritual existence and the reality of life in the US. While referring to Lakoff’s and Johnson’s definition of conceptual metaphor, this study will also allude to Martin Gannon’s notion of cultural metaphor, Michael Kimmel’s views about metaphor clusters, Zoltan Kövecses’ emotion concepts (2014), as well as Edward Buzila’s evaluation of the power of metaphor. Significantly, Lababidi’s use of metaphor will be analyzed in terms of Tina Krennmayr’s “bottom-up approach” in such a way as to focus on Lababidi’s cultural and universal metaphors in his attempt to reach out to his fellow humans.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2021.227125
Doaa Fawzy Abdelrahman Yousseif
This study investigates similarities and differences in Cairene Arabic (CA) and American English(AE) refusals, using a modified discourse completion test (DCT) consisting of three requests, three invitations, three offers, and three suggestions. Each situation includes one refusal to a person of higher status, one to a person of equal status, and one to a person of lower status. Interactions were oral. Thirty United States interviews resulted in 358 refusals and 25 Caireene Arabic interviews resulted in 300 refusals. The refusals are categorized by formula and analyzed for order, directness, and frequency of semantic formulas. Results suggest that both groups use similar semantic formulas with similar frequency in making refusals and use a similar number of direct and indirect formulas, although Caireene Arabic interviews used more direct formulas in the equal-status situations. Both groups have similar reasons for refusing. In some situations, however, the order of semantic formulas varies and the American respondents used more expressions of gratitude.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2021.227130
Zeinab A. Hussein
This paper posits that Martin Ruiz, the narrator of Peter Shaffer’s drama The Royal Hunt of the Sun , serves as a catalyst for demythologization. The paper first offers a brief account of the concept of demythologization, coined by German philosopher Rudolf Bultmann, and heavily influenced by the writings of fellow German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Bultmann’s two suggested phases of demythologization, namely, negative and positive demythologization are discussed in order to shed light on the role played by the narrator as a demythologizer of events. The narrator is dramatized as two distinct characters, Old Martin and Young Martin, each of whom represents a different perspective than the other, from a different temporal vantage point. Old Martin is the one who engages the audience in deconstructing the play's events and characters, while Young Martin goes through the events themselves, unaware of what the future holds. This elicits the collective engagement of the audience, even if unconsciously.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134070
H. Ismail
Grounded in an integrative cognitive model in which the researcher incorporates McNeill’s (2005, 2013) model of growth point (GP) where the two opposite modes of speech and gesture intersect in the context of speaking, together with Kendon’s (2004) concept of gestures as visible actions and Müller’s (2013) gestural functional model, the present article investigates the gesture-speech ensemble in Field Marshal Al-Sisi’s resignation and presidency speech, delivered on 26 March 2014, from a cognitive semantopragmatic perspective. AKVIS Sketch software version 17.0.2946.11963-r and Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software version 12.0x64 were used as data transcription tools paving the way for the analysis. Findings indicate that the integrative cognitive model constitutes a valid tool of analysis in the present study. Moreover, the interplay of the two modes (speech and gestures) in Al-Sisi’s talk is an instantiation of the discourse of charismatic leadership delineated in the content of the speech and discerned in the use of different gestures. This article, thence, contributes to the understanding of the rhetoric of charismatic leaders from a cognitive linguistic perspective.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134098
Reham Mohamed Abu Zaid Abu Zaid
---------------------------------------------------Muslims are often misrepresented in the American movies. This helps to depict degrading stereotypes about them in the American society – or even in the West as a whole. Their images differ according to the concurrent political events. Negative images turned from bad to worse accompanying the changes in politics. These negative images have a direct effect on the internal and the external American policies. They also play a pivotal role in constituting the public opinion against Muslims not only in America but also in the West as a whole. This research paper tries to trace these misrepresentations and their effect. It also discusses some strategies and solutions to enhance them, the role of the departments of English Language, literature and simultaneous interpretation of AlAzhar El Sharif and the roles of the members of the Islamic countries.
--------------------------------------------------- 穆斯林通常歪曲的美国电影。这有助于描绘美国社会——甚至整个西方社会——对他们有辱人格的刻板印象。他们的形象因同时发生的政治事件而不同。随着政治的变化，负面形象也变得越来越糟糕。这些负面形象直接影响着美国的对内对外政策。不仅在美国，而且在整个西方，他们在形成反对穆斯林的公众舆论方面也发挥着关键作用。这篇研究论文试图追踪这些虚假陈述及其影响。它还讨论了一些策略和解决方案，以加强他们，英语语言，文学和AlAzhar El Sharif的同声传译部门的作用和伊斯兰国家成员的作用。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134078
Moustafa Abdel Hameed Mohamed Atyya El Ashry
This paper detects and analyzes bias from a cognitive linguistic perspective, in selected works of Abdulwahab El-Messiri and Francis Fukuyama. The analysis focuses on the prominent conceptual metaphors which are available to construe bias and how patterns of this construal might foreground the ideologically oriented discourses. A contrastive analysis is undertaken of ElMessiri’s and Fukuyama’s selected works under investigation. Drawing on the cognitive linguistic framework of conceptual metaphor, this paper provides an examination of how cases of epistemological and ideological bias are represented and interpreted in the English and Arabic philosophical and political discourses selected for study.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134077
May Samir El Falaky
The present study aims at investigating Egyptian humor towards the Egyptian Nuclear Program. Based on ninety trending Facebook posts (liked by at least 1000 users), both the Cooperative Principle and the General Theory of Verbal Humor are applied. The data are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively to measure the societal evaluation of the Nuclear Program which is part of the governmental reform plan. The findings suggest that people's practices of humor on Facebook could reveal their evaluative perception and the ideological discernment of the Nuclear Program along with other sociological phenomena. Such practices of humor explicate how the Facebook posts reflect the people’s perception and evaluation of the prospective effect of the Nuclear Program on the Egyptian society.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134079
Nardein Maged Makram
This research aims at analyzing Representatives and Expressives Speech Acts in Toni Morrison’s novel Jazz to examine the narrator’s intention the characters' utterances. Various types of Speech Acts are explored within the paradigm of a literary discourse. The crux of the thesis is to investigate how linguistic analysis can help in understanding literary works and to address the following research questions: 1) What types of speech acts especially Representatives and Expressive are found and commonly used in the novel? 2) What are the messages of the author by using these types of Speech Acts? 3) Is Morrisons’ Jazz a suitable discourse for applying speech acts? 4) How does applying speech acts help in understanding its course? 5) Can characters be analyzed through speech acts?. Therefore, this thesis is a pragmatic study focusing on speech acts, as manifested and investigated in Morrison’s Jazz. Finally, the richness of the Pragmatics of literature can be inspiring for further studies. The integration between literature and linguistics underscores the significance of the interdisplinary approach to interpret linguistic aspects in terms of literary discourse and to interpret linguistic markera in terms of aesthetic or poetic style.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134088
R. Allam
The present paper is a comparative study probing the two translations of AbdelTawab Youssef’s (2008) book للها ىلص دمحم ةايح ةصق نيرشع ىف ملس و هيلع the first by Calderbank in (2010) and the second by Enani in (2017a), using Nord’s (2005, 2018) text analysis, looping model. The source text (ST) is intended for young readers, as a biography of the Prophet related by animals and objects. It has referential, expressive and appellative functions exhibiting literary ingenuity. Applying Nord’s functional extratextual and intratextual factors proves that the two translators adopt dissimilar translational strategies, resulting in variant target texts (TTs) with divergent skopoi. Calderbank adopts a documentary, literal type of translation creating a market-oriented text, greatly echoing the ST with rather simple diction and mostly paratactic constructions, targeting mainly young children, however with less originality and amusement. Enani adopts an instrumental, well schemed type of translation resulting in an ingenious target language-oriented text, with rather elevated diction and mostly hypotactic constructions, targeting mainly elder, more mature readers with notable resourcefulness and inventiveness. Thus, Calderbank’s TT skopos is empowering the hit of an amusing
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