Category: Language, Linguistics
AI-Driven Dialect Classification: Enhancing Language Education with Speech Feature Detection and Deviation Scoring
This study aims to develop and evaluate an AI-assisted pronunciation feedback tool to enhance dialectal awareness among kindergarten Hakka language …
GenAI – What Does It Mean for Graded Assessments
The use of GenAI in language, as well as other subjects in tertiary institutions has called into question the validity …
Alphabetical Collation Sequence of Arabic Words With Special Characters in Microsoft Office Software
Arabic is a language characterized by a large number of special characters, such as accents and symbols, in its script …
Discourse Analysis in Action: A Hands-On Approach Using a Variety of Tools
This workshop offers a follow-up immersive overview of discourse analysis – a prominent and important field within language studies. As …
Tri-Lingual Aesthetics: Leveraging Generative AI for Multilingual Education and Cross-Cultural Expression in the Arts and Humanities
This presentation demonstrates how to incorporate GenAI-aided digital platforms, Canva and Pictory.ai, in foreign language education within multilingual contexts. The …
Recognition of Sound-Imitative Words: A Case Study of English and Georgian Languages
Onomatopoeias defy the general linguistic belief that words are arbitrary and reflect universal and language-specific characteristics across languages. Cross-linguistically, it …
Language Barriers Encountered by Georgian Students While Studying Abroad
Language barriers encountered by Georgian people while studying abroad is highly prevalent in university students and has a negative impact …
Anglicisms in Financial Italian: A Corpus-driven Analysis of Italian Press from 2008 to 2020
This paper is a corpus-driven analysis conducted on a specifically build monolingual corpus that aims to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse …
Intersubjectivity and Emotion in Narratives of Inherited War Memories
Inherited-memory transfer differs from direct-experience transfer, although the mechanisms, effects, limitations, and transformations in terms of how historical facts are …
From Data Points to Polygons: An Innovative Approach to Geolinguistic Mapping
This paper introduces a software tool that implements an innovative type of geolinguistic map, originally proposed by Hideo Suzuki in …
Standardizing Borrowed Pronunciations: Bridging the Gap Between Native and Adopted Languages in Indian and Japanese English
Introduction: English, like many other languages, evolves by incorporating words and expressions from diverse languages and cultures. This naturalization process, …
The Legitimation Strategies by the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, in His Political Speeches Regarding the Aging Society
The former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, declared that Japan has been facing a national crisis regarding the aging …
An Investigation Into English Language Tutors’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Grammar at Some Selected Colleges of Education
This study aimed to investigate English language tutors’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in teaching grammar at selected Colleges of Education …
The Visual Representation of Gender Roles in Primary School Textbooks in Indonesia
This article focuses on the extent to which visual representations of both males and females in widely used primary school …
Translating English Articles into the Mongolian Language
Acquiring proficiency in the English article system presents a formidable challenge for students whose native language lacks articles. This study …
Unravelling Social Narratives in Advertisements on India’s Sustainable Development Goals
This study explores the linguistic representation of environmental, social and governance issues (ESG) within advertisements, employing the Corporate Social Responsibility …
Preparing Teachers for the Challenges of Teaching in English
English-medium instruction (EMI) refers to the use of English as a medium of higher education in non-English-speaking countries. Its main …
Approaches to a Semiotics of Visual Language: Reconstructing Images of the Filipino Superheroines
The approaches to a semiotics of visual language were presented to provide background on semiotic analysis and interpretation of Filipino …
On the Appropriation of Critique of Ideology by the Conspiracy Discourse
Critique of ideology aims to analyze power relations and mechanisms of domination and questions the emergence and spread of ideologies …
“Rainforest Alliance Logo” as a Key Element of Conspiracies in the German and Slovak Language Space
The irrationality of the context in the shared content, which is often immediately noticeable, yet often unprecedented viral character... these …
Cultural Linguistics: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of Language and Culture in Contemporary Society
After a meticulous exploration of the intricate relationship between language and culture, this research, conducted through the lens of Cultural …
Study of the Variation of Words in Thai Language: LINE Stickers
The study of the variation of words in Thai language LINE stickers aims to present the results of a study …
Politeness Strategies in an Indonesian Graduate EFL Classroom
In teaching English as a foreign language, politeness has become a major issue. It is regarded as one way to …
The Role of Translation in Creating Literary Creativity and Cultural Awareness –Epistemological Approach
Studies confirm that there is a relationship between scientific fields, known as inter-fields, including the subject of translation, which moves …
Romance Scam and Legal Interpreting/Translation
Due to COVID-19 starting in 2020, the flow of people or goods was restricted. Along with that, the mobility of …
Determinants of Learning Amongst 21st Century ESL Learners
This study focuses on determinants of learning amongst 21st century English as a second language (ESL) learners at Wenzhou-Kean University. …
Pinoy-made Nutricosmetics e-advertisements: A Critical Discourse Analysis
The advent of modern technology and digitization of information has transformed the advertising of beauty products through electronic devices and …
A Study of Good Chinese Learners at the University of Hong Kong
This is my sixth consecutive year of doing the research. As China is still the engine of world economy, there …
The Jizani Arabic in Saudi Arabia: Communication Accommodation and Attitudes
The study attempts to examine the communication accommodation behaviours of Jizani speakers living in Riyadh-Saudi Arabia (SA). It seeks to …
Exploring the Linguistic Identity of Lebanese Undergraduates: Experiences and Perceptions of Lingua Franca Speakers
Globalization has turned English into the world’s dominating lingua franca. Its rapidly- growing spread of English has brought changes to …
Phatic Communion: How It Works in Face-To-Face and Online Communications
This is a paper that demonstrates how phatic communion works in both face-to-face and online communications. Communication is the act …
“Our Gipsy Blood”: A Pragmatic Analysis of Minor Languages in Peaky Blinders
The present paper seeks to explore how, in the popular TV series Peaky Blinders (BCC, 2013-2022), minor languages are employed …
Politeness Strategies Among University Students in Myanmar
This present research investigates the politeness strategies used by Myanmar university students while they are trying to request something from …
Audiovisual Translation Through NMT and Subtitling in the Netflix Series Summertime
Over the past few years, the rise of Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime Video and other streaming platforms has made it …
Production of English Consonants by Yemeni EFL Learners of English: The Case of /p/ and /v/
EFL learners commonly strive to attain near-native English pronunciation. Nevertheless, Arab learners of English may incorrectly produce certain sounds of …
The Views on Linguistic Imperialism in Multicultural Classroom
This study reports on a project in a Japanese university’s multicultural classes where international and Japanese students studied together. Students …
Building Resilience in the Classroom: Empowering Students/Teachers Against Linguistic Discrimination via Linguistic Skills
This study aims to bring Linguistics to classrooms to advocate Linguistic Equality and build resilience against discrimination. Modern linguists regard …
A Study of Metaphorical Expressions Based on Up Sense of Happiness in English and Vietnamese
In daily life of human beings, it seems the knowledge and experience is transferred in the ways which may not …
Pragmatics and Family Discourse in Contemporary TV Series
The present study investigates the impoliteness strategies presented in season 1 of the American TV series The Ranch (2016). The …
Translating Gay Identities in TV Series: Gayspeak and Camp Talk in Looking
Today, the representation of sexual and gender diversity cuts across all media (written, audiovisual, oral; radio, film or television; radio, …
Sociocultural Issues Experienced by Adults Learning Maltese as a Second Language
The pedagogy of language since time immemorial has majored on the use of pens and other printed materials. However, there …
Embodied Interaction in Language Learning Materials: A Multimodal Analysis
The purpose of this research is to explore the potential of English-language learning materials as a source of multimodal communicative …
A Comparative Analysis of Romeyka and Turkish Personal Experience Narratives
In this presentation, I offer a comparative study of personal experience narratives in Turkish and Romeyka, an endangered Greek dialect …
Analysing Politeness Changes when Speaking Indonesian and English: A Case Study of Indonesian-English Multilingual
Being fluent in English as a foreign language in Indonesia is not as easy as learning the language itself since …
Dementia Patients as Discursively Constructed in Taiwanese Newspapers: Taking United Daily News Samples as Examples
As the prevalence of dementia continues to rise, improving public awareness of this disease is of growing importance. Newspapers are …
Illustration Can Be Seen as One Kind of Translation: Case Studies of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland Picture Books
Through analyzing different versions of Alice in Wonderland picture books, this paper reveals that illustration can be seen as one …
Pictograms and Japanese Construal in Cognitive Linguistics
Recent scholarship in cognitive linguistics reveals that Japanese speakers prefer subjective construal, while English speakers prefer objective construal. Japanese speakers …
A Cognitive Linguistics Application for Second Language Grammar Pedagogy
Due to the complexity of the English tense-aspect system, tense and aspect constitute a major source of error for EFL …
Error Analysis: The Main Writing Errors of EFL Learners Task 2 IELTs Academic Essay
This study sought to examine and analyze the frequency of writing errors and determine the causes behind such errors made …