Category: Linguistics
Political Language in Austria and Slovakia Under the Sign of Alternative Truths
A clear trend toward populist and nationalist parties is evident in many European countries. This development is part of a …
Synonyms of Basar in Sahih Bukhari
Synonymy, while generally understood as words with similar meanings, often carries subtle connotations that reflect deeper linguistic and semantic layers, …
Exploring the Culinary Landscape in Children’s Literature
The relationship between children's literature and food serves as a captivating lens through which to examine cultural, social, and educational …
Correlation of Factors Influencing Japanese Proficiency Among Undergraduates at Two Sites in Vietnam
The global popularity of the Japanese language has underscored the challenges associated with attaining proficiency in diverse contexts. This cross-sectional …
Morphological Assimilation of Arabic Loanwords in Maguindanaon
The study is synchronic, i.e. examined the integration of Arabic loanwords in Maguindanaon at present. It used qualitative, descriptive, and …
Adaptation of COVID-19-related Loanwords into Japanese
In recent years, the quantity of loanwords that have been adapted from foreign languages has increased as globalization advanced. Among …
If You Know What I Mean: Rendering the Causative in Japanese and Croatian
One of the things expressions “make” and “let” have in common is that they can be used to express causative …
Elimination Mechanism of Glue Variables for Solving SAT Problems in Linguistics
We propose GVE(Glue Variables Elimination), an algorithm that organically combines neural networks with a deterministic solver to solve SAT(Boolean satisfiability …
Progressive Expressions in the Papiamentu Language
Linguists have described the functions of the markers expressing the grammatical categories of tense, aspect, and modality in Papiamentu, a …
English Vowel Duration Affected by Voicing Contrast In Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese
Learning a foreign language, especially to second language learners, comes with learning new phonetics contrasts. Adults often have difficulty in …
The Production of English Affricates by Yemeni EFL Learners of English
The production of English sounds by non-native speakers of English has been extensively discussed in the phonetic literature, particularly in …
A Cross-Linguistic Investigation on ‘Outer Circle’ Englishes: A Corpus-Based Approach
Kachru (1994) provided a model to categorize the three concentric circles of World Englishes: ‘Inner circle’, ‘Outer circle’ and ‘Expanding …
Ching Phra Chan Collection: A Reflection to Theravda Buddhist Legend
It is undeniable that Thai classical music plays significant role in ritual context in Thai society since the ancient time …
Feeling Righteous? Stress Shift in English L2 Learners
This study examines the stress assignment of English suffixed words produced by L2 learners. The stimuli were disyllabic words and …
The Derivation Words Recognition: Understanding the Suffixational Patterns of English Vocabulary
Words are one of the important elements that language learners must master as having insufficient words will be a barrier …
A Corpus-Based Analysis and Appraisal of News Reports on Protesters from Political Conflicts in Thailand by Foreign News Agencies
Appraisal has been employed in previous foreign studies. They have focused on corpus-based analysis and comparison of news reports. However, …
The Role of Vocabulary in Reading Comprehension
It is generally agreed that many factors contribute to one's reading comprehension and there is consensus that vocabulary size one …
A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Visual Cues on Sentence Stress Production of EFL Elementary Students
Teaching English phonics is a common practice in pronunciation instruction in Taiwan’s elementary English language classes. However, elementary students in …
A Move Analysis of the “About Us” Page on University Engineering Websites
This study investigated the rhetorical structure of the “About Us” page on North American universities’ engineering website based on move …
A Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis of the Highest-Frequency Vocabulary in Advanced and Native English
Corpus linguistics has vastly developed and been addressed in order to mirror the frequencies of naturally occurring lexical items not …
The Reflections of Mental Processes in Language: Verbs of Perception
The verbs which notify the work, action, event and state are important words in the languages. These verbs meet the …
Can Machine Translation Be as Effective as a Human Translation? A Cross Linguistic Analysis of Machine Translation Ambiguity between English, French and Armenian.
Statement/Research Question: Machine Translation (MT) still remains a tough challenge for both linguists and programmers. In spite of all the …
The Common Semantic Feature of ‘Irregular’ Noun Plural Forms in English
There is only a limited number of Noun Plurals like foot-feet, goose-geese and Past Tense verb forms such as sing-sang, …
Place-Name Target Multi-Source Metaphor and Metonymy
The paper considers metaphorical and metonymical descriptions of places when a place-name target domain correlates with two or more source …