Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134103
Yasmin M. El-Sayed El-Sayed
The present paper focuses on the semantic relations that hold between the text and image in advertisement. Advertisement is a discourse genre in which both textual and visual modes are employed for attaining communicative goals. The paper investigates text-image relations in commercial and noncommercial advertisements. Drawing upon the recently developed field of multimodal discourse analysis, within Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly Martinec & Salway's system, the paper examines the integration of the textual and visual modes and the ways they contribute to the meaning-making process in the genre.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134093
R. Gad
Many linguistic studies have been conducted as a reaction to this neverending bewilderment at people’s ability to acquire or learn two or more languages. This gave rise to Psycholinguistics as a major field of linguistics that explains the difficulties faced by learners of L2 during their long tiring journey of L2 acquisition. The present paper investigates the relation between psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in general, and the way learners of L2 acquire tense-aspect in particular. It addresses the following questions: (1) What are the most commonly occurring English L2 language errors in the writing of Egyptian students with Arabic L1 language? (2) How can these errors be accounted for? (3) Does the acquisition of tense-aspect as a grammatical and lexical category by L2 learners foster these errors? (4) To which extent is the way learners of L2 acquire tense-aspect as a grammatical and lexical category affected by L1 interference? The data used in this paper come from 68 university students studying at the Department of English in Mansoura University. Learners have been requested to provide free composition writing, and a corpus of 184 structures was collected to analyze the source of verbs, verb types, functions and form associations. Results were discussed in the light of Error Analysis. The study concludes that learners tend to follow similar processing techniques no matter what language is being acquired; this gives rise to Transfer, and hence to written errors.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134069
A. Abdeen
This research examines some lexical and semantic devices such as collocation, semantic preference, semantic prosody and lexical clusters in a compiled corpus of four trilogies of young adult dystopian fictions that cover the period from 2008 to 2013. The AntConc software is used for the Word List, Collocation, N-Grams and Concordance tools. The employed linguistic framework is eclectic because it draws on techniques and models from Mahlberg (2007), Leech and Short (2007), and Sinclair (2007). The main objective of this study is to illustrate how the techniques of corpus linguistics validate literary analysis. Findings of the study revealed that corpus linguistics aids the exploration of textual and thematic features that may transcend traditional stylistic analysis. Findings also showed that frequent occurrence of nouns referring to different parts of human body is associated with the important role played by body parts in dystopian fiction to identify the characters' physical and habitual traits. Furthermore, the frequent occurrence of adjectives as collocates of nouns referring to body parts reveals that dystopian fiction is descriptive and visual in nature.
本研究以2008 - 2013年四部青少年反乌托邦小说三部曲为研究对象，对其搭配、语义偏好、语义韵律和词汇聚类等词汇和语义手段进行了研究。AntConc软件用于单词列表、搭配、N-Grams和协和工具。所采用的语言框架是折衷的，因为它借鉴了Mahlberg(2007)、Leech and Short(2007)和Sinclair(2007)的技术和模型。本研究的主要目的是说明语料库语言学技术如何验证文学分析。研究结果表明，语料库语言学有助于探索可能超越传统文体分析的语篇和主位特征。研究结果还表明，指代人体不同部位的名词频繁出现，与身体部位在反乌托邦小说中识别人物身体和习惯特征的重要作用有关。此外，形容词作为指代身体部位的名词的搭配频繁出现，表明反乌托邦小说具有描述性和视觉性。
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134102
Sally Galal Ahmad Alnabawy
Media discourse is considered a good example of how different modes of communication are employed to produce meanings which construct ideological representations of events and situations. The study seeks to investigate the role of images in media discourse as an important mode of communication in constructing different representations of the events of the Egyptian revolution. Over the last two or three decades a revolution has taken place in the area of communication, and particularly in media. The images of news events have come to play an increasingly central role in the discursive practices of media channels whether they are printed newspapers, online newspapers or TV news programmes. The effect of this revolution is that language has lost its position as the central mode of communication, whereas, other modes such as visual, music, gesture,...etc., have become dominant. Thus, multimodal texts have increasingly come to dominate the sphere of social communication. There emerges the need to explore the role images play in influencing our perception to and reaction towards different events. Adopting Kress and van Leeuwen's (2006) theory of multimodal discourse analysis, the study attempts to analyze the visual structures used in media discourse in order to construe different representations of the revolution. The study adopts a visual analysis of the online news of Egyptian and Arabic media that report on the 25 January Egyptian Revolution during the period from 25 of January till 11 of February 2011. Particularly, it examines ten images accompanying the news stories selected from the coverage of four major news networks: Alahram electronic gate as representative of state media on one side, and Alwafd electronic gate, Alyoum7, and Aljazeera network as representatives of oppositional media on the other side.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134067
Ayman Khafaga
This paper investigates the contradictory significations of the audiospatial signs in Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Four linguistic signs with their inconsistent semiotic meanings are examined in this paper: Cell, School, Office and Music. This paper addresses one research question: How does Stoppard shift the semiotic focus of the four selected signs from their schematic encoded meanings towards new contradictory significations? The main objective of the paper is to explore the extent to which the significations of the four selected signs, within particular contexts, can be reallocated to assign new meanings that run counter to their cognitive framework. The paper draws on two approaches: The first is the semiotic approach developed by Ferdinand de Saussure (1916/ 1959) and Charles Peirce (1931-1958). The second is van Dijk's (2008, 2009b) socio-cognitive approach .This paper has two main findings: First, Stoppard manages to rebalance the semiotic interpretative nature of the selected audio-spatial signs away from their schematic focus towards new specific contradiction-oriented significations. Second, Stoppard creates a cognitive connection between the play's character-to-character level of discourse, motivated by a dexterous use of some contextualization cues, and the play's intended message on the author-to-reader level of discourse, supported by the reader's cognitive ability to grasp the play's communicative context pertaining to the contradictory significations of each linguistic sign.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134092
Reda A. Shehata Shehata
This paper contends that Picture Bride (1983)—by the contemporary American poet of Asian descent Cathy Song (b.1955) — contains distinctive autobiographical lyrics about her family. Reflecting a feminist consciousness, the "autobiographical paratext" of her poems reveals interesting pictures of her family members. She writes with sympathy about her grandparents' transpacific journey to the States and the hardships they suffered in the plantation in order to establish a family. And she records with understanding the process of transformation by which they became American citizens, thus allowing their children and grandchildren to live the American dream. And she uses two of the most important techniques of autobiographical art to access their past: looking at photographs of some of them and recalling her lived experiences with them. The final aim of her voyage to the past is both selfdiscovery and self-recognition. And her narratives about them are colored with emotions and meditations and blend with her distinctive vocabulary, images, and rhythms to create her special autobiographical lyric poems.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.21608/ejels.2018.134074
M. Ramadan
This paper traces the influence of violence and passive resistance, as two competing modes of postcolonial theory and practice, on two African American plays: Amiri Baraka’s The Slave (1964) and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1988). Freedom of the oppressed African Americans sits at the heart of both plays, but the liberation strategies adopted by the protagonists are totally different. While The Slave suggests that violence is an indispensable tool in the fight for freedom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone focuses on peaceful struggle and spiritual liberation. Analyzing the dilemmas of Walker Vessels in The Slave and Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, subjecting the means and ends of their pursuits to comparative critical analysis, the paper explores the validity of the different paths they take to attain freedom. Through the critical lens of postcolonial theory, the texts are situated within the larger cultural and historical context of African American struggle for freedom, with special reference to Malcolm X’s black power movement influenced by Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary violence theory and Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement inspired by Gandhi’s theory of passive resistance.
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