Abstract This paper examines the determinant factors motivating language choice in churches in coastal Accra, an area characterized by a high degree of urbanization and multilingualism. As this region is also ethnically Gã, we survey the attitudes of Gã congregants to the use of other languages in their churches, bearing in mind the pressure faced by Gã from the more dominant vehicular languages, Akan and English. Data was obtained via participant observation, questionnaires and interviews. Using domain analysis, we show that language choice in the church domain is guided by the diametric principles of inclusiveness and church expansion on the one hand, and the conservation of a homogeneous socio-cultural identity on the other. Multilingual churches espouse the former while monolingual churches prize the latter. Gã congregants in churches that make extensive use of Akan and English report feeling satisfied with the language choices in their churches as they see these lingua francas as necessary for reaching out to the wider community. Although in other spheres of life there is irritation among Gã natives about the diminishing role of their language, in the church domain, this is readily tolerated for the greater good of advancing the church’s work.
{"title":"Language choice in churches in indigenous Gã towns: a multilingual balancing act","authors":"A. Campbell, J. Anderson","doi":"10.1515/multi-2021-0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2021-0063","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the determinant factors motivating language choice in churches in coastal Accra, an area characterized by a high degree of urbanization and multilingualism. As this region is also ethnically Gã, we survey the attitudes of Gã congregants to the use of other languages in their churches, bearing in mind the pressure faced by Gã from the more dominant vehicular languages, Akan and English. Data was obtained via participant observation, questionnaires and interviews. Using domain analysis, we show that language choice in the church domain is guided by the diametric principles of inclusiveness and church expansion on the one hand, and the conservation of a homogeneous socio-cultural identity on the other. Multilingual churches espouse the former while monolingual churches prize the latter. Gã congregants in churches that make extensive use of Akan and English report feeling satisfied with the language choices in their churches as they see these lingua francas as necessary for reaching out to the wider community. Although in other spheres of life there is irritation among Gã natives about the diminishing role of their language, in the church domain, this is readily tolerated for the greater good of advancing the church’s work.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"53 1","pages":"445 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90958615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Gogolin, Christoph Gabriel, Hanne Brandt, Nora Dünkel
{"title":"Foreign language learning in multilingual Germany","authors":"I. Gogolin, Christoph Gabriel, Hanne Brandt, Nora Dünkel","doi":"10.1515/multi-2021-0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2021-0112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"325 1","pages":"735 - 743"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73151015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This paper examines translation and transcultural remembrance of the 1918–19 Great Influenza or the more often yet mistakenly called “Spanish flu” for lessons to combat COVID-19 in Chinese online media. It presents a case study of “covert transediting” in the Shanghai Observer, i.e., a journalistic opinion that interweaves Chinese renderings of selected excerpts from four British and American media texts. With an integrated approach to travelling memory (Erll, Astrid. 2011. Travelling memory. Parallax 17(4). 4–18) via transediting, our analysis shows that the transeditor does not only choose source texts in terms of media and content, but also selectively reframes the “Spanish flu” memory for lesson learning in conjunction with the mainstream Chinese discourse and practice of COVID-19 control. It unveils how the Great Influenza is thus transculturally remembered in more simplified and ideologically agreeable manners through omission, summary translation, and transformation, while faithful transference is not sheerly dispensed. We contend that transcultural remembrance via transediting is a purposive, socio-culturally shaped practice involving interrelations and interactions of manifold factors, and we need a more complex approach to the politics of memory in translation. Journalistic translation, which is mostly covert and transediting, is among different genres of translation that shape transcultural memory; more research in their interplay is called for.
{"title":"Translation, transcultural remembrance and pandemic: a covert transediting of the Great Influenza memory for lessons to combat COVID-19 in Chinese online media","authors":"Song Hou, M. Yuan","doi":"10.1515/multi-2021-0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2021-0054","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines translation and transcultural remembrance of the 1918–19 Great Influenza or the more often yet mistakenly called “Spanish flu” for lessons to combat COVID-19 in Chinese online media. It presents a case study of “covert transediting” in the Shanghai Observer, i.e., a journalistic opinion that interweaves Chinese renderings of selected excerpts from four British and American media texts. With an integrated approach to travelling memory (Erll, Astrid. 2011. Travelling memory. Parallax 17(4). 4–18) via transediting, our analysis shows that the transeditor does not only choose source texts in terms of media and content, but also selectively reframes the “Spanish flu” memory for lesson learning in conjunction with the mainstream Chinese discourse and practice of COVID-19 control. It unveils how the Great Influenza is thus transculturally remembered in more simplified and ideologically agreeable manners through omission, summary translation, and transformation, while faithful transference is not sheerly dispensed. We contend that transcultural remembrance via transediting is a purposive, socio-culturally shaped practice involving interrelations and interactions of manifold factors, and we need a more complex approach to the politics of memory in translation. Journalistic translation, which is mostly covert and transediting, is among different genres of translation that shape transcultural memory; more research in their interplay is called for.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"63 1","pages":"443 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86877855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract is one of the most important parts of a scientific and technological paper, and also a high degree of generalization and concentration of a scientific and technological paper. Abstract plays a key role in whether a paper can be accepted by journals, cited or read by readers or not. At the same time, the proper writing of English abstract is also conducive to the paper and exchange of scientific research results. Therefore, authors of papers should follow the writing norms of English abstract, but some authors have some shortcomings in English abstract writing. This paper analyzes the types of English abstracts of scientific and technological papers, the contents that should be included in the abstracts, the writing skills such as tense voice and the principle of choosing key words, so as to avoid more mistakes in structure, tense and voice and improve the quality of the papers.
{"title":"On Writing the Abstract in Scientific and Technological Papers","authors":"Yushan Zhao","doi":"10.3968/12287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12287","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract is one of the most important parts of a scientific and technological paper, and also a high degree of generalization and concentration of a scientific and technological paper. Abstract plays a key role in whether a paper can be accepted by journals, cited or read by readers or not. At the same time, the proper writing of English abstract is also conducive to the paper and exchange of scientific research results. Therefore, authors of papers should follow the writing norms of English abstract, but some authors have some shortcomings in English abstract writing. This paper analyzes the types of English abstracts of scientific and technological papers, the contents that should be included in the abstracts, the writing skills such as tense voice and the principle of choosing key words, so as to avoid more mistakes in structure, tense and voice and improve the quality of the papers.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77317136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on an Indian doctor Aziz’s experience in contact with the British people and the subsequent “Aziz’s Incidents”, A Passage to India reflects the cultural clash between the suzerain and the vassal state and the crisis of ethnic identity caused by cultural conflict during the colonial times in India. Obviously, the Indian “Cultural Other” was marginalized and repressed by the British “Culture itself” at that time, human weakness revealed once again attributed by ethnocentrism. After the novel was published, it once aroused strong repercussion from readers, academic circles such as Criticism of Orientalism was incessant, the author Foster was also pushed to the top of the critical wave and was acused constantly. In fact, study shows that Aziz’s story was both universal and symbolic, it was an inevitable result of the cultural boundary which existed between Britain and India during the colonial period, and this problem was the key factor for the unequal ethnic groups’ identity between British people and Indian people.
{"title":"Cultural Boundary and Ethnic Identity in A passage to India","authors":"Jiansheng Yan","doi":"10.3968/12208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12208","url":null,"abstract":"Based on an Indian doctor Aziz’s experience in contact with the British people and the subsequent “Aziz’s Incidents”, A Passage to India reflects the cultural clash between the suzerain and the vassal state and the crisis of ethnic identity caused by cultural conflict during the colonial times in India. Obviously, the Indian “Cultural Other” was marginalized and repressed by the British “Culture itself” at that time, human weakness revealed once again attributed by ethnocentrism. After the novel was published, it once aroused strong repercussion from readers, academic circles such as Criticism of Orientalism was incessant, the author Foster was also pushed to the top of the critical wave and was acused constantly. In fact, study shows that Aziz’s story was both universal and symbolic, it was an inevitable result of the cultural boundary which existed between Britain and India during the colonial period, and this problem was the key factor for the unequal ethnic groups’ identity between British people and Indian people.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"68 1","pages":"17-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89619457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L’investissement dans le capital humain par le biais de l’education est un investissement a long terme consenti par l’Etat pour ameliorer le bien-etre de ses citoyens. En investissant dans l’education, leurs competences, leurs connaissances et leur experience dans les differents secteurs de l’economie va permet Le developpement du capital humain est donc une condition prealable a la croissance economique et au developpement et une condition necessaire et suffisante pour la reduction de la pauvrete au Niger. Malheureusement, les gouvernements nigeriens successifs ont continue a se vanter de la question des investissements dans l’education. Je suis d’avis que pauvrete est synonyme de sous-developpement. Par consequent, investir dans le capital humain est la meilleure strategie pour surmonter les problemes de developpement du pays, notamment la reduction de la pauvrete. Pour ce faire, il faudra mettre en place un systeme educatif efficace, dote de moyens financiers suffisants, bien equipe, axe sur la science et la technologie, dynamique et innovant.
{"title":"Investissement dans le Capital Humain Un Moteur du Développement Economique et Lutte Contre la Pauvreté au Niger","authors":"Seyni Mamoudou","doi":"10.3968/12148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12148","url":null,"abstract":"L’investissement dans le capital humain par le biais de l’education est un investissement a long terme consenti par l’Etat pour ameliorer le bien-etre de ses citoyens. En investissant dans l’education, leurs competences, leurs connaissances et leur experience dans les differents secteurs de l’economie va permet Le developpement du capital humain est donc une condition prealable a la croissance economique et au developpement et une condition necessaire et suffisante pour la reduction de la pauvrete au Niger. Malheureusement, les gouvernements nigeriens successifs ont continue a se vanter de la question des investissements dans l’education. Je suis d’avis que pauvrete est synonyme de sous-developpement. Par consequent, investir dans le capital humain est la meilleure strategie pour surmonter les problemes de developpement du pays, notamment la reduction de la pauvrete. Pour ce faire, il faudra mettre en place un systeme educatif efficace, dote de moyens financiers suffisants, bien equipe, axe sur la science et la technologie, dynamique et innovant.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"78-87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80975829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mass Communication as a field of discipline has undergone several evolutions from one stage to the other in the course of its existence. One reason is because different fields have been incorporated into Mass Communication to make it a coherent field of study. Such fields include mechanics, electronics, mathematics, economics, psychology, sociology, just to mention a few. Whatever evolutions that have transpired in these fields have had great impact on Mass Communication. From the early 1900s, the rise of Mass Communication followed a pattern of industrial revolution following every subsequent revolution in media technology. The media were among the many technologies that shaped the world and were shaped by other as well.. From the oral tradition, the print, the rise of the electronic media and ultimately to the digital-networked communication, Mass Communication has undergone changes from diverse paradigms. The field of Mass Communication is an ever-changing field with notable changes taking place almost on a daily basis. In this paper, we focus on a number of economic factors that shaped, (and still continue to shape) the epochs and annals of Mass Communication in Nigeria. This paper identifies the political climate, advertising, news commercialization, and entertainment as some of the identifiable socio-economic factors.
{"title":"Reflection on Some Socio-Economic Factors That Shaping the Evolution of Mass Communication in Nigeria","authors":"Solomon Samuel Gonina, Christiana Chundung Pam","doi":"10.3968/11877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/11877","url":null,"abstract":"Mass Communication as a field of discipline has undergone several evolutions from one stage to the other in the course of its existence. One reason is because different fields have been incorporated into Mass Communication to make it a coherent field of study. Such fields include mechanics, electronics, mathematics, economics, psychology, sociology, just to mention a few. Whatever evolutions that have transpired in these fields have had great impact on Mass Communication. From the early 1900s, the rise of Mass Communication followed a pattern of industrial revolution following every subsequent revolution in media technology. The media were among the many technologies that shaped the world and were shaped by other as well.. From the oral tradition, the print, the rise of the electronic media and ultimately to the digital-networked communication, Mass Communication has undergone changes from diverse paradigms. The field of Mass Communication is an ever-changing field with notable changes taking place almost on a daily basis. In this paper, we focus on a number of economic factors that shaped, (and still continue to shape) the epochs and annals of Mass Communication in Nigeria. This paper identifies the political climate, advertising, news commercialization, and entertainment as some of the identifiable socio-economic factors.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"28-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88516017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Systematically understanding the global characteristics of green technology innovation research and studying the hotspots and trends of international green technology innovation research can provide beneficial directional references for subsequent scholars’ research. Papers on green technology innovation published in the core database of Web of Science from 2007 to 2021 were selected as the research objects. Knowledge map analysis method and CiteSpace software were used for visual analysis, and the trend of published papers,research countries and institutions, authors and keywords of green technology innovation research was summarized. It is found that the research on green technology innovation is on the rise and is the focus of most scholars at present; The publication of papers mainly comes from China, and universities are the main force of research; The research is mainly gathered in technological innovation, environmental regulation and sustainable development, which has very important theoretical value and reference significance for the development of green technology innovation.
系统地了解绿色技术创新研究的全球特征，研究国际绿色技术创新研究的热点和趋势，可以为后续学者的研究提供有益的方向性参考。选取Web of Science核心数据库2007 - 2021年发表的绿色技术创新论文作为研究对象。运用知识图谱分析法和CiteSpace软件进行可视化分析，总结了绿色技术创新研究的发表论文、研究国家和机构、作者和关键词等趋势。研究发现，对绿色技术创新的研究正在兴起，是目前大多数学者关注的焦点;论文发表主要来自国内，高校是研究的主力军;研究主要集中在技术创新、环境规制和可持续发展三个方面，对绿色技术创新的发展具有非常重要的理论价值和参考意义。
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Over time Clash of Identities in Kaduna North-west Nigeria often manifest into ethno-religious conflict in the state. This paper examines however the nexus between politics, ethno-religious and sharp identity question that formed the basis of ethno-religious conflict in the area. These however, affect sustainable development in Kaduna state. Historically, this conflict has played itself out in the contest for space, resources and access to power between different communities in the state; it also accesses how state failure and elite competition for power and resources in a multi-ethnic nation causes ethno-religious conflict and sharp identity question in Kaduna state. The paper adopts Human Needs theory. This theory explicates the reason to meet basic needs of man and if these needs are not met, conflict is likely to occur. The paper also adopts qualitative methods of data collection; this is drawn from both primary and secondary sources of data. It utilizes instrument of in-depth interviews with the key actors, community leaders and religious leaders. It is the finding of the paper that politics of identity and ethno-religious conflict have been the fundamental issue that poses security challenges to Nigeria. These challenges have taken the form of bombing, injury; killing and kidnapping that threatened Nigeria national security. The study recommends that government; ethno-regional and religious groups should adopt preventive diplomacy and dialogue to attaining cohesion and symbiotic relationship.
{"title":"Clash of Identities and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Kaduna State Nigeria","authors":"D. Michael, E. Egwemi, Jibrin Boniface","doi":"10.3968/12234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12234","url":null,"abstract":"Over time Clash of Identities in Kaduna North-west Nigeria often manifest into ethno-religious conflict in the state. This paper examines however the nexus between politics, ethno-religious and sharp identity question that formed the basis of ethno-religious conflict in the area. These however, affect sustainable development in Kaduna state. Historically, this conflict has played itself out in the contest for space, resources and access to power between different communities in the state; it also accesses how state failure and elite competition for power and resources in a multi-ethnic nation causes ethno-religious conflict and sharp identity question in Kaduna state. The paper adopts Human Needs theory. This theory explicates the reason to meet basic needs of man and if these needs are not met, conflict is likely to occur. The paper also adopts qualitative methods of data collection; this is drawn from both primary and secondary sources of data. It utilizes instrument of in-depth interviews with the key actors, community leaders and religious leaders. It is the finding of the paper that politics of identity and ethno-religious conflict have been the fundamental issue that poses security challenges to Nigeria. These challenges have taken the form of bombing, injury; killing and kidnapping that threatened Nigeria national security. The study recommends that government; ethno-regional and religious groups should adopt preventive diplomacy and dialogue to attaining cohesion and symbiotic relationship.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"72 1","pages":"38-46"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87081984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines literary experimentation in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Modernism’s rejection of pre-modern tradition lies in literary experimentation. Before embarking on answering the question, I will introduce modern literary experimentation to derive the idea home. The core conceptual appropriation of modern literary experimentation with the novels’ narrative structure which had emphasized the genuine artistic quality which corresponds to modernism’s departing point from pre-modernism. This departure is the artist experimentation with the main narrative components of the novels. Therefore, modernism has offered a technical narrative analysis of this experimentation in literature, especially the novel. Artistic experimentation yields the necessity of exposing pre-modernism’s literary decline and its possible amendment. Modern fiction relies on literary imitation of previous literary works in an almost similar manner. Modern fictional authors did not compose innovative literary forms so that they could not produce any literary genuineness. Such literary imitation has culminated in literary decline which limits the artistic creativity of fiction. In modernism, the proper agent to confront literary decline is the creative experimentation with fictional techniques to avoid such literary decline.
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