Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2063146
Taha El Hadari
Abstract The study intends to describe the acquisition of the English tenses among Moroccan EFL learners. The analysis investigates each tense, employing the constraint demotion algorithm (CDA). The belief here is that errors emerging at the initial learning stages are indicators of L1 transfer. Based on the L1 properties, CDA rearranges the constraints to establish a constraint ranking, identical to that of English, based on the hierarchy detected through universal grammar (UG). Two hundred and twenty students, belonging to three different academic levels, participated in the study. The questionnaire they answered tested tenses through three different tasks. The output stemming from the analysis was that students’ mother tongue plays an important role in the acquisition of the tenses of English. The article concludes that the learners reach an intermediate phase in the interlanguage before eventually learning the correct tense form.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2064315
Ntṡoeu Seepheephe
Abstract This article investigates stigmatisation through metaphors that were borrowed from religious discourse in the early coverage of HIV and AIDS by the Sesotho press. The goal of the study is to provide insights into how stigma against people living with HIV emerged and developed in Lesotho. Employing the tenets of critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study examines the stigma that was encoded by religious metaphors used in the period 1986–2010, and the social agency behind the use of these metaphors. The analysis shows that the newspapers used the religious metaphors to perpetuate the stereotypes of people living with HIV as ‘sinners’. The findings show that one set of metaphors that the newspapers used was that of cleanliness metaphors. These metaphors portrayed both the conduct of people living with HIV and the people living with HIV themselves as ‘unclean’, with the expression ‘clean’ used as a metaphor for ‘being holy’. Another set of metaphors that the newspapers used involved the idea of a journey. These journey metaphors portrayed people living with HIV as sinners who followed ‘a wrong way or path’. The wide distribution of these metaphors from 1986 to 2010 suggests that the perceptions of people living with HIV as sinners were widespread.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2058037
Sérgio N. Menete
Abstract This article examines the expression of motion events in Changana. The typological classification of this southern African Bantu language is proposed based on the results collected from the elicited narrative of Mayer’s picture book Frog, where are you?. Fifteen frog stories narrated by adult Changana speakers from Mozambique were analysed. In the light of Talmy’s typology expanded by Slobin, the results suggest that Changana falls into the domain of verb-framed languages (or Path languages), a typology that is shared by most languages across Africa. However, it differs fundamentally from the prototypical verb-framed language in terms of the expression of manner. In its turn, Changana is a manner-salient language, with a diversified lexicon of manner verbs and a dense lexicon of motion ideophones, which makes it a non-prototypical verb-framed language.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2064318
A. Zaini
Abstract This research article reports on a study that investigated the associations between co-text and reading texts critically. Four international postgraduates at an Australian university, through purposive sampling, volunteered in a qualitative study (i.e. a collective case study). Data collection involved reading four texts, participating in individual interviews, and focus group discussions, while data analysis was executed through a thematic analysis which yielded co-text as a main theme. Co-text was subsequently studied through Foucault’s theories of discourse, subjectivities, the power-knowledge complex and resistance. The findings propose that there are associations between co-text, meaning construction and critical reading. Participants’ cognisance of co-text, owing to their academic and political identities, informed meaning construction and led them to resist text ideas for potential co-text manipulation and what was reported as deliberate inadequate information. Pedagogically, this study suggests that teachers explicitly instruct students on the workings of co-text when reading texts critically.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-06DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2037443
Hong Lei
Pragmatic competence is the ability of learners to use language (speech) strategies to express themselves appropriately, to understand each other correctly, and to communicate fruitfully in specific contexts (Jiang 2013). Studies in this field have been centred on the development of pragmatic competence (awareness) and teaching methods (Taguchi 2015), pragmatic testing and assessment (Roever 2011), as well as the distribution of pragmatic knowledge in textbooks (Ren and Han 2016), all of which focus mostly on learners’ language forms and strategies, yet ignore the role of modalities other than language forms in the process of meaning construction and expression, as well as the contribution of corpus linguistics to the study of pragmatic competence. Professor Zhanhao Jiang’s new book, Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners’ Pragmatic Competence , is a timely attempt to address the paucity of studies in this respect, by presenting an interface study between multimodality, corpus linguistics and pragmatic competence. The book consists of eight chapters, which are engagingly structured into four parts, leading readers through the practical process of building a multimodal corpus and showing them how to apply it to learners’ pragmatic competence research.
语用能力是学习者使用语言(言语)策略恰当地表达自己，正确地相互理解，并在特定语境中进行富有成效的交流的能力(Jiang, 2013)。这一领域的研究主要集中在语用能力(意识)和教学方法的发展(Taguchi 2015)、语用测试和评估(Roever 2011)以及教科书中语用知识的分布(Ren and Han 2016)，所有这些研究都主要关注学习者的语言形式和策略，而忽略了语言形式以外的模式在意义构建和表达过程中的作用。以及语料库语言学对语用能力研究的贡献。蒋展灏教授的新书《学习者语用能力的多模态语料库的开发与应用》及时地解决了这方面研究的不足，提出了多模态、语料库语言学和语用能力之间的接口研究。本书共有八章，分为四个部分，引导读者了解构建多模态语料库的实际过程，并向他们展示如何将其应用于学习者的语用能力研究。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-06DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2038222
Feihong Gai, Lianrui Yang
Discourse analysis (DA) considers how language constructs social and cultural perspectives and identities. ‘Of all the aspects of language, discourse analysis is singularly interdisciplinary’ (Lakoff 2015: 293). It is a broad and multifaceted research area that facilitates understanding hierarchical relations and participants’ positions in various discourse communities. Discussing the emergence and importance of power dynamics in shaping the production and reception of messages, Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective addresses political, media and academic discourse, and encompasses representative instances of this heterogeneity. Its post-disciplinary account of DA from a state-of-the-art collection draws on theoretical and methodological analysis to outline the background, methods and outcomes of DA, with a range of cutting-edge scholarship providing detailed guidelines and findings in the linguistic and discursive processes regarding reason and emotion. With an introductory chapter, the book consists of seven more chapters. The first two chapters focus specifically on message processing and the subsequent five chapters present the dynamics of power in specific discursive representations of social interactions. The introductory chapter argues for the inter- and transdisciplinarity of DA, and sketches the theoretical and methodological frameworks used in the book under review. Acknowledging the post-disciplinarity of DA, it points out the significance of a pragmatic and constructive synthesis that is based on interdependence and reciprocal influence of different theories, practices and strategies originating from specific areas of research. Targeting the reason-and-emotion
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2043169
Masoomeh Estaji, Mohammad Reza Montazeri
Abstract: This study examined the use of lexical bundles in the results and discussion sections of public health research articles (RAs) by comparing the native English writers with Iranian non-native English writers. To this end, four-, five-, and six-word lexical bundles were contrastively investigated in two different sub-corpora i.e. a native English corpus (NEC) and a non-native English corpus (NNEC). The corpus contained 496 985 words, and each sub-corpora included 100 RAs. The RAs were then examined structurally and functionally. The data were analysed both quantitatively, using frequency count and chi-square analyses, and qualitatively through content analysis. Based on the results, from among the lexical bundles, 29 four-word, 17 five-word, and one six-word bundles were identified in the NEC, while 52 four-word, 27 five-word, and five six-word bundles were found in the NNEC. The findings highlight that Iranian non-native English authors employed more four-word, five-word and six-word lexical bundles than native English authors. The descriptive and overall findings also suggested some differences in the two groups’ functional and structural patterns of lexical bundles, whereas statistically insignificant differences were identified in the structural patterns of bundles in the groups. These findings lay considerable emphasis on the central part that lexical bundles play in English for academic purposes (EAP) and English for specific purposes (ESP) courses.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2049834
T. Ajayi
Abstract A number of sociocultural phenomena have been explored in Yoruba through the pragmatics lens. However, metapragmatic disclaimers, which also provide deep insights into the cultural dynamics regarding the use of the language, have not been given much scholarly attention. Thus, this study investigates metapragmatic disclaimers in Yoruba to establish their forms and contextual use. Data comprised excerpts generated from a corpus of naturally occurring conversations in Yoruba in different communication contexts. Mey’s pragmatic acts theory (as modified) served as the analytical tool. Two forms of metapragmatic disclaimers were identified in Yoruba: status-bound and non-status-bound, riding on shared cultural knowledge (SCK) among the people. Beyond serving as a tool for (re)creating a positive identity by the user(s), they also serve as face-management devices in the language and culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2022.2056064
R. Esfandiari, Zarrin Khatibi
Abstract In this empirical study, we have focused on the cross-cultural and cross-contextual analysis of interactional metadiscourse in a corpus of 240 English academic research articles published by American and Persian scholars in national and international journals. Drawing on Hyland’s interpersonal model of metadiscourse, we discuss the most frequent interactional features and different rhetorical purposes across abstracts, introductions and conclusions in three corpora: an American international corpus, a Persian international corpus and a Persian national corpus. We report on the significant differences in the frequency of interactional metadiscourse (sub)categories in the three corpora. In the international context, we find close similarities between American English academics and their Persian peers in metadiscoursal preferences. We discuss differences in the use of metadiscourse markers among writers in light of the communicative purposes that metadiscourse features may serve across sub-genres. The results of the study suggest that although rhetorical purposes contribute to the frequency and use of interactional resources, cross-cultural factors seem to exercise a more powerful influence on regulating the frequency and use of these discursive features. The findings carry implications for English for academic purposes (EAP), discipline-specific genre writing for novice non-native English writers.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2021.2011755
Ying Zhang
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