scholarly journals Grammar-and-Interlocution: English Articles as Markers of Recipient Role

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Douay
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Article System ◽  
English Articles

My core hypothesis is that the article system is directly motivated by a universal communicative problem, which is the necessity of mutual understanding. In the first place I argue, following Gardiner 1932, that a word does not mean per se and that a referent (Gardiner's "thing-meant") can only emerge from the agreement reached by the interlocutors in the referring process. I then suggest that articles play a key role in the process by which referents come to be shared. Their primary function is to determine the interlocutive framework within which the validating process can be achieved. Articles are thus defined as being basically markers of the role assigned to the recipient (β) in the referring process. Detailed examination of contextualized uses supports my analysis. To conclude I suggest that the distinction between different ways of reaching self and other agreement does not only structure the article system but the whole internal organization of the English language.

Migrant Voices in the Polish Classroom: Canadian Literature on the Tertiary Level of Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-427
Author(s):  
Dagmara Drewniak
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Language ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Cultural Heterogeneity ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Language Literature

Abstract This paper explores the possibilities of introducing contemporary Canadian texts into a Polish university classroom. It contextualizes teaching English language literature in Poland as well as seeks options for promoting values such as openness and tolerance while facilitating global reading and raising students’ awareness on global conflicts and their meaning in the contemporaneous world. The paper aims at demonstrating that Canadian literature courses composed of texts concerned with immigration and multiculturalism turn out to have an enormous potential in creating valuable debates on the problem of embracing otherness, seeking bridges in mutual understanding, and promoting openness towards different identities. On the basis of close readings of three texts, M. Ondaatje’s The English Patient, A.J. Borkowski’s Copernicus Avenue, and E. Stachniak’s Necessary Lies, the present article also demonstrates how Canadian literature enriches and rescales students’ perception of cultural heterogeneity and responsibility of reading, thus offering new perspectives on the rapidly changing world.

scholarly journals The Trends of Urolithiasis Therapeutic Interventions over the Last 20 Years: A Bibliographic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e14-e14
Author(s):  
Amir Reza Abedi ◽  
Mohammadreza Razzaghi ◽  
Saeed Montazeri ◽  
Farzad Allameh
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Minimal Invasive ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Laser Application ◽  
Stone Removal ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Stone Treatment ◽  
English Articles

Introduction: The clinical and economic burden of kidney stones is a challenge for the healthcare system. There is a limited bibliometric project exploring the literature trends on ‘urolithiasis’ and its related management. Methods: A systematic review was conducted to discover the related abstracts regarding each specific issue, investigated year by year from May 2000 to May 2020 (20 years). To make an effective comparison, the statistics resulting from every single study were allocated to two 10-year periods: period 1 (2000 to 2010) and period 2 (2010 to 2020). In this study, we included all English language articles, all non-English articles with English abstracts, and studies in which interventions were used for stone removal, including laser technology. Also, we excluded the studies without a published abstract, an intervention or a laser, animal and in vitro studies, and case reports. Results: These articles are about ureteroscopy (URS) (n=10360, 33.45%), percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCN) (n =10790, 34.84%) and extra-corporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) (n=9846, 31.76%). When evaluating the two time periods, there were 9912 studies available in period one, which increased by ×2.12 times (112.71% rise) to 21084 studies in period two (P = 0.001). The increase was 133%, 103.51%, and 70.4% for URS, PCN, and SWL respectively. A total of 855 studies on Laser application via URS were published on PubMed over a 20-year period. There was an increasing trend toward using laser application via URS over the study period. Also, there were 230 articles published in period one, which increased by nearly 2.71 times (rise of 171.73%) to 625 papers in period two (P<0.001). There was an increasing trend toward using laser application via PCN; 126 papers were published in period one, which increased by nearly 3.05 times (rise of 205.5%) to 385 papers in period two (P = 0.002). Conclusion: The minimal invasive interventions for stone removal, including URS and PCN, increased dramatically in the last decade, and the use of lasers in stone treatment increased significantly in the last decade.

The Poetics and Aesthetics of Otherness

Experiment ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Maria Taroutina
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
National Romanticism

Abstract Although traditionally associated with the ascendance of National Romanticism, Slavic folklore, and the Neo-Russian style in painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, the Abramtsevo artistic circle was also privy to the inception and production of a number of manifestly Orientalist works, such as Vasilii Polenov’s Christ and the Adulteress (1888), Mikhail Vrubel’s ceramic sculptures of The Assyrian, The Egyptian Girl, The Pharaoh, and The Libyan Lion (1890s), and the costumes and set designs for the theatrical productions Judith (1878, 1898), Joseph (1880, 1881, 1887, 1889), The Black Turban (1884, 1887, 1889), King Saul (1890), and To the Caucasus (1891). In addition, a series of hybrid works that fused elements of the exotic with national thematic and stylistic content, such as Viktor Vasnetsov’s Underwater Kingdom (1884) and Mikhail Vrubel’s Princess Volkhova (1898), were likewise produced under the auspices of Savva Mamontov and the Abramtsevo community, thus blurring the boundaries between native and foreign, local and global, self and other, and Slavophilia and Orientalia. The present article posits that an understanding of the romanticized, Neo-Russian artistic and theatrical productions, and the nationalist polemics of the Abramtsevo artistic circle is necessarily incomplete without a detailed examination of the various Orientalist crosscurrents which informed and structured many of the group’s artworks throughout the 1880s and 1890s—a narrative that has been largely left out of scholarly accounts of the movement.

Maori and Pakeha English: Some New Zealand social dialect data

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Phonological Features

ABSTRACTAspects of the extent and nature of the influence of the Maori language on English in New Zealand are explored here within a broad sociolinguistic framework. The current sociolinguistic distribution of Maori and English in New Zealand society is described, and typical users and uses of the variety known as Maori English are identified. Characteristics of Maori English are outlined as background to a detailed examination of the distribution of three phonological features among speakers of Pakeha (European) and Maori background. These features appear to reflect the influence of the Maori language, and could be considered substratum features in a variety serving to signal Maori identity or positive attitudes toward Maori values. Moreover, Maori English may be a source of innovation in the New Zealand English (NZE) of Pakehas, providing features which contribute to the distinctiveness of NZE compared with other international varieties. (Social dialectology, ethnic identity, Maori English, New Zealand English, language change)

SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS' THEORIES ON THE USE OF ENGLISH ARTICLES

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuko Goto Butler
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Article System ◽  
English Articles ◽  
Metalinguistic Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

Although it is well known that many second language (L2) learners have trouble using articles “properly,” the primary causes of their difficulties remain unclear. This study addresses this problem by examining the metalinguistic knowledge of the English article system that learners employ when selecting articles in a given situation. By doing this, the present study attempts to better understand the process of “making sense” of the English article system by learners who are at different stages in their interlanguage development. Eighty Japanese college students with varying levels of English proficiency participated in this study. Immediately after completing a fill-in-the-article test, a structured interview was conducted to investigate the reasons for their article choices. The quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal a number of conceptual differences with regard to their considerations of the hearer's knowledge, specific reference, and countability, which may account for learners' errors in article use across different proficiency groups.

scholarly journals Developing Cosmopolitan Communicative Competence Through Online Transnational Encounters

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-131
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Wu ◽  
Xinqiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Nous Avons ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
American University ◽  
Google Docs ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Values And Beliefs

This article reports on a study examining the extent to which pedagogical activities can affect students’ cosmopolitan communicative competence (CCC) through online transnational encounters. A total of 58 students from a Hong Kong university and 25 students from an American university were divided into 25 transnational groups. They communicated with each other through Google Docs, sharing culturally rich texts, exchanging views on these texts, and discussing rhetorical and cultural preferences/differences. After analyzing 90,000-word communication transcripts, we found that most of the students demonstrated and developed their cosmopolitan dispositions, skills, and knowledge. Based on these findings, we discuss how the activity contributed to the students’ CCC by addressing four dialectical relations: historicity–modernity, text–context, self–other, and universality–particularity. The participants were challenged to make seemingly culturally irrelevant texts relevant to the transnational peers by moving the (ancient) texts across time scales and sociocultural contexts. The online communication based on the culturally (ir)relevant texts was a valuable site for the learners to enhance understanding about self and other, and examine the intricacies between universal and particular norms, values, and beliefs. The four dialectical relations can function as a set of heuristics for practitioners and researchers to reframe digital English Language Teaching (ELT) practices from the perspective of cosmopolitanism. Cet article est un compte rendu d’une étude menée pour permettre de jeter un regard sur la mesure dans laquelle les activités pédagogiques peuvent affecter la compétence de communication cosmopolite (CCC) des étudiantes et étudiants grâce à des rencontres internationales en ligne. Un groupe d’étudiantes et étudiants dont 58 provenaient d’une université hongkongaise et 25, d’une université américaine, a été subdivisé en 25 groupes transnationaux. Ceux-ci ont communiqué entre eux dans Google Docs pour partager des textes à forte teneur culturelle, échanger des vues sur leurs textes et discuter de préférences/différences en matière de contenu stylistique et de culture. Après avoir analysé des transcriptions d’une longueur globale de 90 000 mots, nous avons été à même de constater que la majorité des étudiantes et étudiants possédaient et développaient des dispositions, des compétences et des connaissances cosmopolites. Sur la base de ces constatations, nous avons cherché à voir ce que l’activité avait apporté à la CCC des étudiantes et étudiants en appliquant quatre relations dialectiques : historicité–modernité, texte–contexte, soi–autre et universalité–particularité. Les participantes et participants ont été mis au défi de prendre des textes en apparence dépourvus de pertinence culturelle et de les rendre pertinents à des pairs transnationaux en transposant les textes (anciens) sur des échelles temporelles et à travers divers contextes socioculturels. La communication en ligne basée sur des textes (non)pertinents a procuré un point de rencontre important pour permettre aux apprenantes et apprenants d’approfondir leur compréhension de soi et de l’autre et de se sensibiliser à la subtilité des rapports qui existent entre les normes, les valeurs et les croyances universelles et particulières. Les quatre relations dialectiques peuvent fonctionner comme un jeu d’heuristiques au niveau de l’enseignement et des recherches en permettant de recadrer les pratiques numériques d’enseignement de l’anglais (ELT) sous l’angle du cosmopolitisme.

scholarly journals A Survey on English Language as a tool in Academic Writing

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-182
Author(s):  
MANISANKAR SANNIGRAHI
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Japanese University ◽  
The Core ◽  
English Articles

English language is an important tool in academic writing, millions of students of thousands of Universities are using English to write research papers. The various obstacles that the researchers face while using English language is the core of this study.Ellis, R et al. (2008), The Study is about the faith of teachers and educators about writing corrective feedback and investigate the effects of it in subsequent writing. This study also shows that CF is helpful in the context of EFL. In this paper the comparison of the written CF on accuracy of using English articles as a reference between the unfocused and focused students of Japanese University had been done.

scholarly journals Influence of native language and general English proficiency on the use of articles in English

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-121
Author(s):  
Selma Elyildirim
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Article System ◽  
English Articles

Second language learners face a great difficulty in the use of English articles since their native language does not have an article system which is similar to the target language they learn. Turkish is one of the languages which have an article system marking the semantic features ‘definiteness’ or ‘specificity’ in different ways.  It encodes these features by using case morphology, word order, stress and tense-aspect modality.  Being aware of the fact that this difference and lack of an article system similar to English may cause problems to learners, this study investigates the acquisition of the English articles by Turkish learners.   The data used in the study came from a fill-in-the blank task and a cloze test.  The former included 20 test-sentences assessing the production of English articles in terms of definiteness and specificity whereas the latter had 20 blanks measuring the proficiency of learners. Thirty five English major students attending a university in Turkey participated in the study. Following the data collection, the data were analysed to find out the effect of the learners’ native language as well as their general English proficiency on the production of English articles.  The results provided supporting evidence that the participants had some difficulties in the production of the definite and indefinite articles in English. In view of this finding, this paper discusses both the results and pedagogical implications of the study. Keywords: English articles, definiteness, specificity, L1 influence, language proficiency

scholarly journals Dynamic norm and variability of personal pronouns in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 234-241
Author(s):  
Adelia Abdul'manova ◽  
Andrey Sergeevich Parfenov
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
English Language ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
The North ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Rich

The subject of this research is the dynamic variability in the sphere of personal of the Middle English Period. The object of this research is the personal pronouns of the Middle English (in form of the nominative case) used in the &ldquo;Canterbury Tales&rdquo; by Geoffrey Chaucer. Insufficient study of this layer of lexicon necessitates detailed examination of the rich tapestry of variability of pronouns for determination of the area of Medieval language norm that influenced the establishment of modern literary English language, which defines the relevance of this research. The goal consists in description of the dynamic norm of the Middle English. Research methodology consists in systematization, description and classification of language material, extracted through the method of continuous sampling from the first part of the &ldquo;Knight&rsquo;s Tale&rdquo; of the &ldquo;Canterbury Tales&rdquo; of Geoffrey Chaucer, and setting quantitative parameters that reveal and confirm linguistic patterns that regularly manifest within the system of personal pronouns of the Middle English. The scientific novelty lies in comprehensive research of variability of personal pronouns and establishment of the dynamic norm and &ldquo;quasi-norm&rdquo; of the national literary standard of English language formed in the XIV century. The main conclusion consists in substantiation of the leading role of central dialects in comprising dynamic norm of the Middle English (namely with regards to pronouns), while the forms developed in the north and south should be attributed to quasi-norm.

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