This study is projected to discuss prominent issues in teaching kinship terms of Sinhala, Tamil, and Chinese in second and foreign language teaching in Sri Lanka. This study involves with communicative functional approach methodology. Detail descriptive analysis is done on the usage of the kinship terms in different cultural backgrounds, based on the information collected from different languages. The concepts of language, culture, kinship term will be defined, respectively. The relationship between language and culture will also be pointed out. Moreover, factors such as grammatical importance that have an impact on the success of teaching culture-oriented kinship terms to second and foreign language students will be examined. Detail analysis was done to understand the functions of the kinship terms in different languages. From the communicative approach, it is investigated how kinship terms are used in various social environments and how could teach them in second language teaching. The work and analysis undertaken in this paper significantly contributes to identify the language patterns via the kin relationship between the society and the language.
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ABSTRACT:This photo essay traces Robert Rodriguez’s career as a filmmaker and teacher from the time he was a film student at the University of Texas to the present. It examines a little-known aspect of the director’s career—his role as filmmaking teacher. I argue that from his first feature, El Mariachi (1992), to a recent thriller, Red 11 (2019), he has used his films as a means of teaching his low-budget, no-frills “Mariachi style” filmmaking method to beginning moviemakers.
{"title":"Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity","authors":"C. Berg","doi":"10.7560/tsll63204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63204","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This photo essay traces Robert Rodriguez’s career as a filmmaker and teacher from the time he was a film student at the University of Texas to the present. It examines a little-known aspect of the director’s career—his role as filmmaking teacher. I argue that from his first feature, El Mariachi (1992), to a recent thriller, Red 11 (2019), he has used his films as a means of teaching his low-budget, no-frills “Mariachi style” filmmaking method to beginning moviemakers.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"173 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47783559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article examines Robert Rodriguez’s construction of a transborder, hemispheric Américas space sci-fi storyworld in his film Alita: Battle Angel (2019). After considering a tradition of mainstream sci-fi narratives that erase or reconstruct ethnoracial peoples as exotic ornament, the article provides a critical overview of how Latinx sci-fi creators such as Alex Ri-vera, Carla Cavina, and Rodriguez use a “Brown-optic” to strike back at this tradition. It continues with an analysis of Rodriguez’s building of transborder storyworld spaces and Alita’s becoming a cyber-Latina warrior.
{"title":"Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior","authors":"F. Aldama","doi":"10.7560/tsll63205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63205","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines Robert Rodriguez’s construction of a transborder, hemispheric Américas space sci-fi storyworld in his film Alita: Battle Angel (2019). After considering a tradition of mainstream sci-fi narratives that erase or reconstruct ethnoracial peoples as exotic ornament, the article provides a critical overview of how Latinx sci-fi creators such as Alex Ri-vera, Carla Cavina, and Rodriguez use a “Brown-optic” to strike back at this tradition. It continues with an analysis of Rodriguez’s building of transborder storyworld spaces and Alita’s becoming a cyber-Latina warrior.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"199 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47343742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:In 2013, El Rey launched as an ad-supported cable channel. Cofounded and majority owned by Robert Rodriguez, El Rey tapped into the filmmaker-entrepreneur’s appeal by targeting both a young Latino audience and a wider audience of genre fans. Unfortunately, shifting industrial, economic, cultural, and technological conditions ultimately led the channel to cease operations in 2020. This article traces El Rey’s evolution from its initial inception up through its programming strategies in the COVID-19 era. El Rey is presented as a small, upstart channel that differentiated itself in an increasingly challenging television landscape. Although larger structural conditions in the end made its survival untenable, the story of El Rey can be seen as representing a new direction for linear cable television in the 2010s.
{"title":"From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s","authors":"Alisa Perren","doi":"10.7560/tsll63206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63206","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In 2013, El Rey launched as an ad-supported cable channel. Cofounded and majority owned by Robert Rodriguez, El Rey tapped into the filmmaker-entrepreneur’s appeal by targeting both a young Latino audience and a wider audience of genre fans. Unfortunately, shifting industrial, economic, cultural, and technological conditions ultimately led the channel to cease operations in 2020. This article traces El Rey’s evolution from its initial inception up through its programming strategies in the COVID-19 era. El Rey is presented as a small, upstart channel that differentiated itself in an increasingly challenging television landscape. Although larger structural conditions in the end made its survival untenable, the story of El Rey can be seen as representing a new direction for linear cable television in the 2010s.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"213 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48096276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Robert Rodriguez is an innovator of cinema that exalts the speculative over the constraints of realism, a fact made all the more conspicuous by the sheer dearth of Latinx-identified directors in this filmic tradition. The historical importance of Rodriguez’s concerted efforts to claim this expansive mode of storytelling is crucial to assessing his contributions, which recalibrate audience’s expectations of Latinx culture in speculative cinema specifically and visual narratives more broadly.
{"title":"The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling","authors":"Christopher González","doi":"10.7560/tsll63203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63203","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Robert Rodriguez is an innovator of cinema that exalts the speculative over the constraints of realism, a fact made all the more conspicuous by the sheer dearth of Latinx-identified directors in this filmic tradition. The historical importance of Rodriguez’s concerted efforts to claim this expansive mode of storytelling is crucial to assessing his contributions, which recalibrate audience’s expectations of Latinx culture in speculative cinema specifically and visual narratives more broadly.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"151 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44556741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Robert Rodriguez is an iconic Latino filmmaker who presents captivating Latinx characters and storyworlds in genres dominated by whiteness. His Tejano upbringing and sensibility also play an important role in shaping his films. Bringing Tejano history and culture as well as biographical and critical commentary from Rodriguez to bear on the Spy Kids series, I suggest the storyworld is informed by a Tejano sense of place/belonging and identity that delights in independence and ingenuity while upsetting conservative Tejano ideals through representations of nontraditional family and gender hierarchies. In Spy Kids, viewers apprehend less about the dominant US nation-state—often understood as the oppositional motivation of Latinx film—and more about the restorative power of imaginative Latinx kinships.
{"title":"“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series","authors":"Jennifer M. Lozano","doi":"10.7560/tsll63202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63202","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Robert Rodriguez is an iconic Latino filmmaker who presents captivating Latinx characters and storyworlds in genres dominated by whiteness. His Tejano upbringing and sensibility also play an important role in shaping his films. Bringing Tejano history and culture as well as biographical and critical commentary from Rodriguez to bear on the Spy Kids series, I suggest the storyworld is informed by a Tejano sense of place/belonging and identity that delights in independence and ingenuity while upsetting conservative Tejano ideals through representations of nontraditional family and gender hierarchies. In Spy Kids, viewers apprehend less about the dominant US nation-state—often understood as the oppositional motivation of Latinx film—and more about the restorative power of imaginative Latinx kinships.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"133 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46196887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts","authors":"D. Pérez","doi":"10.7560/tsll63201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"127 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45311604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The fairy tale Charlotte’s Web written by the American writer Elwyn Brooks White is featured with concise language, childlike innocence and profound meaning. It has been translated into various languages and introduced to many countries. In China, there are also different Chinese translations, among which the most influential and widely accepted translation goes to Ren Rongrong’s. Ren is one of the most experienced translators in children’s literature, making great contributions to the development of children’s literature translation in China. This paper first attempts to analyse the status quo in terms of the previous studies on Charlotte’s Web at home and abroad and then provide a review of domestic researches of Ren’s translation, focusing on the researches of Ren’s Chinese translation of Charlotte’s Web from the perspectives of skopostheorie, reception aesthetics, among others, and pointing out the deficiencies of the previous studies so as to make clear the current situation of the studies and provide some suggestions for the further studies of children’s literature translation in China.
{"title":"Literature Review on Ren Rongrong’s Chinese Translation of Charlotte’s Web","authors":"Yu Zhou, Changbao Li","doi":"10.3968/12065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12065","url":null,"abstract":"The fairy tale Charlotte’s Web written by the American writer Elwyn Brooks White is featured with concise language, childlike innocence and profound meaning. It has been translated into various languages and introduced to many countries. In China, there are also different Chinese translations, among which the most influential and widely accepted translation goes to Ren Rongrong’s. Ren is one of the most experienced translators in children’s literature, making great contributions to the development of children’s literature translation in China. This paper first attempts to analyse the status quo in terms of the previous studies on Charlotte’s Web at home and abroad and then provide a review of domestic researches of Ren’s translation, focusing on the researches of Ren’s Chinese translation of Charlotte’s Web from the perspectives of skopostheorie, reception aesthetics, among others, and pointing out the deficiencies of the previous studies so as to make clear the current situation of the studies and provide some suggestions for the further studies of children’s literature translation in China.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"30 1","pages":"35-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87456217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the sense of women individuality as a critique of patriarch society in in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway . As a matter of fact, Woolf is considered one of the most influential writers in English literature in the twentieth century and even before. Her writings reflect the modern literary realism in all its features. She writes in fictional modes that suggests departure from the previous literary fashion. In so doing, she provides experimental literary strategies which could be imitated by writers who follow her. Woolf tried her hands to write in new experimental forms to offer new insights into the literary modernism. At this point, she represents an outstanding figure in modernism. The aim if this study, therefore is to explore the realistic depiction of Woolf’s appropriation of women’s ordeals as an indictment of the contemporary patriarchal social attitudes awards women.
{"title":"Women Individuality: A Critique of Patriarchal Society in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway","authors":"Abdalhadi Nimer Abu Jweid","doi":"10.3968/12024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12024","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the sense of women individuality as a critique of patriarch society in in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway . As a matter of fact, Woolf is considered one of the most influential writers in English literature in the twentieth century and even before. Her writings reflect the modern literary realism in all its features. She writes in fictional modes that suggests departure from the previous literary fashion. In so doing, she provides experimental literary strategies which could be imitated by writers who follow her. Woolf tried her hands to write in new experimental forms to offer new insights into the literary modernism. At this point, she represents an outstanding figure in modernism. The aim if this study, therefore is to explore the realistic depiction of Woolf’s appropriation of women’s ordeals as an indictment of the contemporary patriarchal social attitudes awards women.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"31 1","pages":"5-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83323171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present study focuses on the components of Chinese corporate apologies by adopting both quantitative and qualitative methods. The investigation is based on 25 corporate apology statements posted on Weibo, one of the most popular social media platforms in China. The results indicate that two apology components, namely explicit apology and offer of repair, are more salient than others, and more than half of the apology statements contain the components of explanation and taking on responsibility, while the use of another two components which include promise for forbearance and expression of sorrow depends on the severity of the offensive act. In addition, apologies made by Chinese companies via Weibo are realized through various linguistic means, such as IFIDs, intensifiers, commissives, appraisal resources, presupposition and metadiscourse (attitude markers, boosters and code glosses). Hopefully, this study might provide insight into future research on corporate apologies and how to restore corporate images in crisis communication.
{"title":"“We Are Deeply Sorry”: Chinese Corporate Apologies Posted on Weibo","authors":"Xiaomei Zheng, Jiaping Wu","doi":"10.3968/12080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12080","url":null,"abstract":"The present study focuses on the components of Chinese corporate apologies by adopting both quantitative and qualitative methods. The investigation is based on 25 corporate apology statements posted on Weibo, one of the most popular social media platforms in China. The results indicate that two apology components, namely explicit apology and offer of repair, are more salient than others, and more than half of the apology statements contain the components of explanation and taking on responsibility, while the use of another two components which include promise for forbearance and expression of sorrow depends on the severity of the offensive act. In addition, apologies made by Chinese companies via Weibo are realized through various linguistic means, such as IFIDs, intensifiers, commissives, appraisal resources, presupposition and metadiscourse (attitude markers, boosters and code glosses). Hopefully, this study might provide insight into future research on corporate apologies and how to restore corporate images in crisis communication.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"48 1","pages":"42-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90494520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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