The widespread presence of Anglicisms in the Macedonian language is undisputable. Anglicisms are particularly conspicuous in political discourse as politicians seem to have pronounced tendency to insert English borrowings in their public statements, speeches, discussion and debates quite frequently. While politicians thus clearly attempt to reinforce the persuasiveness of the political messages they impart to the masses, the question that arises is whether the general public endorses or condemns such a linguistic strategy. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on Macedonian native speakers’ perceptions and understanding of a list of Anglicisms that have become an integral part of Macedonian political discourse. For the purposes of this research, a tailor-made questionnaire was conducted among Macedonian speakers of different ages and educational levels. The aim was twofold – to inspect the influence of age and education on the informants’ understanding of Anglicisms, and to ascertain whether they perceive Anglicisms as a serious threat to the purity of their mother tongue or as a welcome addition that enriches it and increases its expressive potential.
{"title":"Anglicisms in the Macedonian political discourse: A serious threat or a welcome addition","authors":"Silvana Neshkovska","doi":"10.46687/ecmv6463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/ecmv6463","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread presence of Anglicisms in the Macedonian language is undisputable. Anglicisms are particularly conspicuous in political discourse as politicians seem to have pronounced tendency to insert English borrowings in their public statements, speeches, discussion and debates quite frequently. While politicians thus clearly attempt to reinforce the persuasiveness of the political messages they impart to the masses, the question that arises is whether the general public endorses or condemns such a linguistic strategy. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on Macedonian native speakers’ perceptions and understanding of a list of Anglicisms that have become an integral part of Macedonian political discourse. For the purposes of this research, a tailor-made questionnaire was conducted among Macedonian speakers of different ages and educational levels. The aim was twofold – to inspect the influence of age and education on the informants’ understanding of Anglicisms, and to ascertain whether they perceive Anglicisms as a serious threat to the purity of their mother tongue or as a welcome addition that enriches it and increases its expressive potential.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140701556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The building of spaces based on the stereotypical gender roles was widely discussed in many Victorian novels. Other concepts frequently used in the 19th-century novels are those of ‘marginality’ and ‘Otherness’ which are illustrated by Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu through the marginalized individuals who strive to climb the social ladder or to preserve the newly acquired social status. We read this survey because it mainly focuses on women who seem to be enclosed in marginal positions and because it differentiates the perspective of a male author from the one of a female writer. The author, however, tries to emphasize the marginality of different individuals from different social classes, regardless of their race or gender. In her book, A Topography Plagued by Marginality in Victorian Novels (2022), Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu lets herself be guided by the existentialist mantra “essence precedes existence” which Simone de Beauvoir transformed into a feminist phrase: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” (The Second Sex, 1998, p. 267) suggesting that gendered stereotypes influenced the construction of spaces and of conventional norms which is an idea generally transmitted to readers in order for them to follow a specific set of values. __________________________
{"title":"Book review: A topography plagued by marginality in Victorian novels","authors":"Veronica-Loredana Balan","doi":"10.46687/befa8992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/befa8992","url":null,"abstract":"The building of spaces based on the stereotypical gender roles was widely discussed in many Victorian novels. Other concepts frequently used in the 19th-century novels are those of ‘marginality’ and ‘Otherness’ which are illustrated by Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu through the marginalized individuals who strive to climb the social ladder or to preserve the newly acquired social status. We read this survey because it mainly focuses on women who seem to be enclosed in marginal positions and because it differentiates the perspective of a male author from the one of a female writer. The author, however, tries to emphasize the marginality of different individuals from different social classes, regardless of their race or gender. In her book, A Topography Plagued by Marginality in Victorian Novels (2022), Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu lets herself be guided by the existentialist mantra “essence precedes existence” which Simone de Beauvoir transformed into a feminist phrase: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman” (The Second Sex, 1998, p. 267) suggesting that gendered stereotypes influenced the construction of spaces and of conventional norms which is an idea generally transmitted to readers in order for them to follow a specific set of values. __________________________","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140702575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The use of educational technology (EdTech) in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning in Bangladesh has already been accepted due to its amenities. This paper aims to explore the EdTech tools and devices currently used in EFL context in Bangladesh. Concurrently, it unearths the pragmatism of the EdTech resources along with what consequences they come with. The study applied a mixed-method approach consisting of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. 100 undergraduate students from 19 different private and public universities and colleges of Bangladesh were the sample population, and they were interviewed over the phone and provided with a semi-structured survey questionnaire using a Google Form sent via email and social networking sites. The findings reveal that almost all the participants have an idea of what EdTech includes, but they do not get the required support and environment to utilize them properly. Institutions offering EdTech support are quite a few in number whereas many have access to the latest EdTech inventions and innovations at their personal initiatives. Nevertheless, the learners encounter a number of crucial obstacles while exploiting EdTech scopes and arrangements, which are essential to address. Finally, the findings assert that learners are interested in utilizing EdTech in EFL learning with proper logistical support.
{"title":"Educational technology (EdTech) in English as a foreign language (EFL) in Bangladesh: Necessities, innovations, and implications","authors":"Mozaffor Hossain, Rakib Al Hasan","doi":"10.46687/nreo6623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/nreo6623","url":null,"abstract":"The use of educational technology (EdTech) in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning in Bangladesh has already been accepted due to its amenities. This paper aims to explore the EdTech tools and devices currently used in EFL context in Bangladesh. Concurrently, it unearths the pragmatism of the EdTech resources along with what consequences they come with. The study applied a mixed-method approach consisting of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. 100 undergraduate students from 19 different private and public universities and colleges of Bangladesh were the sample population, and they were interviewed over the phone and provided with a semi-structured survey questionnaire using a Google Form sent via email and social networking sites. The findings reveal that almost all the participants have an idea of what EdTech includes, but they do not get the required support and environment to utilize them properly. Institutions offering EdTech support are quite a few in number whereas many have access to the latest EdTech inventions and innovations at their personal initiatives. Nevertheless, the learners encounter a number of crucial obstacles while exploiting EdTech scopes and arrangements, which are essential to address. Finally, the findings assert that learners are interested in utilizing EdTech in EFL learning with proper logistical support.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139183000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food in literary production signifies the cultural and cross-cultural relations from which it is produced. The emergence of Literary Food Studies engages food as a signifier to magnify human relations and emotions. Food is a mosaic system of signs symbolising diasporic, class, caste, racial, and gender relations. The paper focuses on commensality, one of the mushrooming trends in literary food studies. Commensality is the act of eating together that helps to build relationships and create conviviality, the social pleasure among people. It helps to reinforce the identity and sense of belongingness among the community members. Drawing on the theoretical readings from Mary Douglas and Arjun Appadurai’s semiotics of food, the paper explores the possibilities of commensality in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The paper tries to argue that, commensality and its food practices along with representing togetherness could also symbolise the complex cultural functioning of the Igbo tribal community. The ingredients of the commensality, the culinary tools, and the order of eating convey cultural meanings. It throws light into the hierarchy and various power relations existing in the community.
文学作品中的食物象征着产生食物的文化和跨文化关系。文学食物研究的出现将食物作为一种符号来放大人与人之间的关系和情感。食物是一个马赛克符号系统，象征着散居、阶级、种姓、种族和性别关系。本文的重点是 "共食"，这是文学食物研究中雨后春笋般出现的趋势之一。共餐是一种共同进餐的行为，有助于建立人际关系，创造愉悦的社交氛围。它有助于强化社区成员的身份认同和归属感。本文从玛丽-道格拉斯（Mary Douglas）和阿俊-阿帕杜赖（Arjun Appadurai）的食物符号学理论出发，探讨了奇努瓦-阿契贝（Chinua Achebe）的《分崩离析》（Things Fall Apart）中 "共食 "的可能性。本文试图论证，"共生 "及其食物习俗在代表团结的同时，也象征着伊格博部落社区复杂的文化功能。共食的成分、烹饪工具和进食顺序都传达了文化含义。它揭示了社区中存在的等级制度和各种权力关系。
{"title":"Commensality and culture: a semiotic reading of Igbo tribal life in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart","authors":"Sreelakshmi K P","doi":"10.46687/vjjw6739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/vjjw6739","url":null,"abstract":"Food in literary production signifies the cultural and cross-cultural relations from which it is produced. The emergence of Literary Food Studies engages food as a signifier to magnify human relations and emotions. Food is a mosaic system of signs symbolising diasporic, class, caste, racial, and gender relations. The paper focuses on commensality, one of the mushrooming trends in literary food studies. Commensality is the act of eating together that helps to build relationships and create conviviality, the social pleasure among people. It helps to reinforce the identity and sense of belongingness among the community members. Drawing on the theoretical readings from Mary Douglas and Arjun Appadurai’s semiotics of food, the paper explores the possibilities of commensality in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The paper tries to argue that, commensality and its food practices along with representing togetherness could also symbolise the complex cultural functioning of the Igbo tribal community. The ingredients of the commensality, the culinary tools, and the order of eating convey cultural meanings. It throws light into the hierarchy and various power relations existing in the community.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An award winning and critically acclaimed movie, New Delhi Times is among a very few films which grapples with the dark and dubious relationship of politics, media, and corruption. The film debates on the traditional construction of objectivity in news reporting. It sets our sight on the journalistic ethics by reviving the debate whether if a journalist is covering a riot, should he or she help a wounded victim on the road or rejoice at a perfect photograph or a story he or she has chanced upon? In the contemporary media scenario, journalists are often accused of compromising the ethical standards while reporting a disaster or a tragedy. Taking the film as a case study, this paper ponders on the desensitization of media professionals towards tragedies and questions the role of a journalist as a detached observer or someone who bears the obligation of unravelling truth behind the incident.
{"title":"From reel to reality: Exploring the notion of objectivity and media ethics through the film ‘New Delhi Times’","authors":"Ravi Chaturvedi Ravi Chaturvedi, Ashish Verma","doi":"10.46687/yijg4195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/yijg4195","url":null,"abstract":"An award winning and critically acclaimed movie, New Delhi Times is among a very few films which grapples with the dark and dubious relationship of politics, media, and corruption. The film debates on the traditional construction of objectivity in news reporting. It sets our sight on the journalistic ethics by reviving the debate whether if a journalist is covering a riot, should he or she help a wounded victim on the road or rejoice at a perfect photograph or a story he or she has chanced upon? In the contemporary media scenario, journalists are often accused of compromising the ethical standards while reporting a disaster or a tragedy. Taking the film as a case study, this paper ponders on the desensitization of media professionals towards tragedies and questions the role of a journalist as a detached observer or someone who bears the obligation of unravelling truth behind the incident.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper reports on the outcomes of research carried out at a North Macedonian public university aimed at developing the language competences of prospective EFL teachers through formative assessment. For the study’s purposes, a CEFR-based assessment tool was designed for teacher, peer and self-assessment of the ETP (English-for-teaching purposes) competences of fourth year student–teachers (n=15) micro-teaching lower year students. Fluency, accuracy, interaction, stimulating the development of ideas, and addressing audiences were the formative assessment criteria used to check if there was progress from the first to the third micro-teaching session as a result of formative feedback and assessment training. Additionally, two surveys for student-teachers and peer-assessors were used aimed at exploring: a) the effects of formative feedback on students’ language competences and teaching skills; b) the effects of formative assessment training on students’ peer- and self-assessment skills; and c) the professional and personal benefits of formative assessment training for students. Apart from many personal benefits from the project, findings revealed positive effects of formative assessment on students’ language competences and teaching skills; specifically on the awareness of the complexity of ETP competences and the skills for tackling various classroom, assessment and material design challenges.
{"title":"The impact of formative assessment on developing EFL student-teachers’ language competences as domain-specific","authors":"Anzela Nikolovska, Mira Bekar, Zorica Strezovska","doi":"10.46687/fwvc2082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/fwvc2082","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports on the outcomes of research carried out at a North Macedonian public university aimed at developing the language competences of prospective EFL teachers through formative assessment. For the study’s purposes, a CEFR-based assessment tool was designed for teacher, peer and self-assessment of the ETP (English-for-teaching purposes) competences of fourth year student–teachers (n=15) micro-teaching lower year students. Fluency, accuracy, interaction, stimulating the development of ideas, and addressing audiences were the formative assessment criteria used to check if there was progress from the first to the third micro-teaching session as a result of formative feedback and assessment training. Additionally, two surveys for student-teachers and peer-assessors were used aimed at exploring: a) the effects of formative feedback on students’ language competences and teaching skills; b) the effects of formative assessment training on students’ peer- and self-assessment skills; and c) the professional and personal benefits of formative assessment training for students. Apart from many personal benefits from the project, findings revealed positive effects of formative assessment on students’ language competences and teaching skills; specifically on the awareness of the complexity of ETP competences and the skills for tackling various classroom, assessment and material design challenges.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This piece of research, which is part of a project concerned with the translatability of figurative language in AV content from English into Arabic and vice versa, investigates the translatability of visual puns in the animated movie Shark Tale from English into Arabic in both its subtitled and dubbed versions. The data of this study consist of the original English film scenes and their Arabic subtitles and dubs. Based on Aleksandrova’s (2019) taxonomy, which treats pun translation as a cognitive game in the translator’s mind, it was confirmed that puns can be translated by accepting the game of translation using two different strategies: (a) Quasi-translation: where the translator preserves one of the signs of the original pun and replaces the other with a suitable one from the target language. (b) Free Translation: where the translator replaces the two signs of the source pun with new signs from the target language. It was also confirmed that the game of translation can be rejected by using Literal Translation where the translator literally translates the pun into the target language. Another minor issue raised in this study is that visual puns and complex puns that are culturally very local are subject to be ignored by No Translation, which is the omission of the linguistic host of pun. The current study concludes by providing some implications and solutions for translators dealing with pun in animated films.
{"title":"Visual puns in the Arabic subtitled and dubbed versions of Shark Tale","authors":"Rozzan Yassin, A. Jaradat, Ahmad S. Haider","doi":"10.46687/iqad3665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/iqad3665","url":null,"abstract":"This piece of research, which is part of a project concerned with the translatability of figurative language in AV content from English into Arabic and vice versa, investigates the translatability of visual puns in the animated movie Shark Tale from English into Arabic in both its subtitled and dubbed versions. The data of this study consist of the original English film scenes and their Arabic subtitles and dubs. Based on Aleksandrova’s (2019) taxonomy, which treats pun translation as a cognitive game in the translator’s mind, it was confirmed that puns can be translated by accepting the game of translation using two different strategies: (a) Quasi-translation: where the translator preserves one of the signs of the original pun and replaces the other with a suitable one from the target language. (b) Free Translation: where the translator replaces the two signs of the source pun with new signs from the target language. It was also confirmed that the game of translation can be rejected by using Literal Translation where the translator literally translates the pun into the target language. Another minor issue raised in this study is that visual puns and complex puns that are culturally very local are subject to be ignored by No Translation, which is the omission of the linguistic host of pun. The current study concludes by providing some implications and solutions for translators dealing with pun in animated films.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Linguistic representations of contested identities in the media: The special case of South-Eastern Europeans as ‘Others’ in the British press","authors":"Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva","doi":"10.46687/jyyp7695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/jyyp7695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This review aims to highlight how digital competence and English as a foreign language were addressed in research and how the integration of digital tools in the teaching and learning process was reflected in the pertinent research area. For that purpose, it examines the studies published in notable journals between 2017 and 2022. Criteria-based review approach was used to search the relevant articles. Following this approach, review of 24 articles was categorized under five main themes; a) article distribution into years, and according to the contexts, b) target groups as participants in the studies, c) focal points of the relevant research, d) methodological tendencies in the studies and e) implications drawn from studies. As a result of the analysis of the papers, the review suggests that digital competence needs being inspected from different perspectives relating it to psychological constraints. Further, longitudinal studies and action research can yield more fruitful results to understand the dimensions of teacher digital competence.
{"title":"A review of studies on digital competence in teaching English as a foreign language","authors":"Tuğba Yalçin, Elif Bozyiğit","doi":"10.46687/ankn3258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/ankn3258","url":null,"abstract":"This review aims to highlight how digital competence and English as a foreign language were addressed in research and how the integration of digital tools in the teaching and learning process was reflected in the pertinent research area. For that purpose, it examines the studies published in notable journals between 2017 and 2022. Criteria-based review approach was used to search the relevant articles. Following this approach, review of 24 articles was categorized under five main themes; a) article distribution into years, and according to the contexts, b) target groups as participants in the studies, c) focal points of the relevant research, d) methodological tendencies in the studies and e) implications drawn from studies. As a result of the analysis of the papers, the review suggests that digital competence needs being inspected from different perspectives relating it to psychological constraints. Further, longitudinal studies and action research can yield more fruitful results to understand the dimensions of teacher digital competence.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Important subjects such as Flat Earth, global warming, Covid 19, Ukrainian war have given out the existence of two major factions on antagonistic stances, the pros and the cons, that aggressively deny their adversaries’ opinions on any of the aforementioned topics. One side’s arguments formed by heavy reliance on previous beliefs that stand in high credibility (Nilsson 2014, 16) to that group are denied by the other side’s that builds, at their turn, their current beliefs on others their group is usually fond of. This article aims at inventorying the discursive practices which each side makes use of firstly in building their own arguments for their believers and secondly in dismantling the discourse of the opponents. In building their own arguments, the focus of the analysis will be laid on the persuasive strategies used to convince those that already have a serious grounding in either of the sides. In dismantling the others’, special attention will be paid to address formulas and any other derogatory means used for the credibilisation of one’s stand and the discreditation of the others’.
{"title":"Mindsets and irreconcilable positions: A linguistic representation of Corona 19 social fractures","authors":"Cristina Silvia Vâlcea","doi":"10.46687/qbbo6934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46687/qbbo6934","url":null,"abstract":"Important subjects such as Flat Earth, global warming, Covid 19, Ukrainian war have given out the existence of two major factions on antagonistic stances, the pros and the cons, that aggressively deny their adversaries’ opinions on any of the aforementioned topics. One side’s arguments formed by heavy reliance on previous beliefs that stand in high credibility (Nilsson 2014, 16) to that group are denied by the other side’s that builds, at their turn, their current beliefs on others their group is usually fond of. This article aims at inventorying the discursive practices which each side makes use of firstly in building their own arguments for their believers and secondly in dismantling the discourse of the opponents. In building their own arguments, the focus of the analysis will be laid on the persuasive strategies used to convince those that already have a serious grounding in either of the sides. In dismantling the others’, special attention will be paid to address formulas and any other derogatory means used for the credibilisation of one’s stand and the discreditation of the others’.","PeriodicalId":509524,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139182162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：