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Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Contradictory Significations of the Audio-Spatial Signs in Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor: A Semiotic-Cognitive Approach
Ayman F. Khafaga
Khafaga
This paper investigates the contradictory significations of the audio-spatial signs in Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Four linguistic signs with their inconsistent semiotic meanings are examined in this paper: Cell, School, Office and Music. This paper addresses one research question: How does Stoppard shift the semiotic focus of the four selected signs from their schematic encoded meanings towards new contradictory significations? The main objective of the paper is to explore the extent to which the significations of the four selected signs, within particular contexts, can be reallocated to assign new meanings that run counter to their cognitive framework. The paper draws on two approaches: The first is the semiotic approach developed by Ferdinand de Saussure (1916/ 1959) and Charles Peirce (1931-1958). The second is van Dijk's (2008, 2009b) socio-cognitive approach .This paper has two main findings: First, Stoppard manages to rebalance the semiotic interpretative nature of the selected audio-spatial signs away from their schematic focus towards new specific contradiction-oriented significations. Second, Stoppard creates a cognitive connection between the play's character-to-character level of discourse, motivated by a dexterous use of some contextualization cues, and the play's intended message on the author-to-reader level of discourse, supported by the reader's cognitive ability to grasp the play's communicative context pertaining to the contradictory significations of each linguistic sign
significations
audio-spatial signs
semiotic-cognitive approach
Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
2018
12
01
13
64
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134067_39b4fb76800859ac2e7d129ad8d01e7b.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Some Lexical and Semantic Devices in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
Azza Abdel Fattah Abdeen
Abdeen
This research examines some lexical and semantic devices such as collocation, semantic preference, semantic prosody and lexical clusters in a compiled corpus of four trilogies of young adult dystopian fictions that cover the period from 2008 to 2013. The AntConc software is used for the Word List, Collocation, N-Grams and Concordance tools. The employed linguistic framework is eclectic because it draws on techniques and models from Mahlberg (2007), Leech and Short (2007), and Sinclair (2007). The main objective of this study is to illustrate how the techniques of corpus linguistics validate literary analysis. Findings of the study revealed that corpus linguistics aids the exploration of textual and thematic features that may transcend traditional stylistic analysis. Findings also showed that frequent occurrence of nouns referring to different parts of human body is associated with the important role played by body parts in dystopian fiction to identify the characters' physical and habitual traits. Furthermore, the frequent occurrence of adjectives as collocates of nouns referring to body parts reveals that dystopian fiction is descriptive and visual in nature
corpus stylistics
collocation
semantic prosody
lexical clusters
body parts clusters
dystopian fiction
2018
12
01
67
126
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134069_655a626f6aefa591d8e0b23d46749302.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
A cognitive semanto-pragmatic analysis of the gesture-speech ensemble in Field Marshal Al-Sisi’s resignation and presidency speech
Hanaa Youssef Shaarawy Ismail
Ismail
Grounded in an integrative cognitive model in which the researcher incorporates McNeill’s (2005, 2013) model of growth point (GP) where the two opposite modes of speech and gesture intersect in the context of speaking, together with Kendon’s (2004) concept of gestures as visible actions and Müller’s (2013) gestural functional model, the present article investigates the gesture-speech ensemble in Field Marshal Al-Sisi’s resignation and presidency speech, delivered on 26th March 2014, from a cognitive semanto-pragmatic perspective. AKVIS Sketch software version 17.0.2946.11963-r and Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software version 12.0x64 were used as data transcription tools paving the way for the analysis. Findings indicate that the integrative cognitive model constitutes a valid tool of analysis in the present study. Moreover, the interplay of the two modes (speech and gestures) in Al-Sisi’s talk is an instantiation of the discourse of charismatic leadership delineated in the content of the speech and discerned in the use of different gestures. This article, thence, contributes to the understanding of the rhetoric of charismatic leaders from a cognitive linguistic perspective
charismatic leadership discourse
cognitive semanto-pragmatic analysis
gesture-speech ensemble
2018
12
01
129
162
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134070_440bb105b4918caac9baff3269e2ac0c.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Revolutionary Violence Vs. Passive Resistance: Liberation Strategies in Amiri Baraka’s The Slave and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Marwa Ramadan
Ramadan
This paper traces the influence of violence and passive resistance, as two competing modes of postcolonial theory and practice, on two African American plays: Amiri Baraka’s The Slave (1964) and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1988). Freedom of the oppressed African Americans sits at the heart of both plays, but the liberation strategies adopted by the protagonists are totally different. While The Slave suggests that violence is an indispensable tool in the fight for freedom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone focuses on peaceful struggle and spiritual liberation. Analyzing the dilemmas of Walker Vessels in The Slave and Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, subjecting the means and ends of their pursuits to comparative critical analysis, the paper explores the validity of the different paths they take to attain freedom. Through the critical lens of postcolonial theory, the texts are situated within the larger cultural and historical context of African American struggle for freedom, with special reference to Malcolm X’s black power movement influenced by Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary violence theory and Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement inspired by Gandhi’s theory of passive resistance
Amiri Baraka
August Wilson
Black Power
Civil Rights Movement
passive resistance
postcolonial theory
revolutionary violence
2018
12
01
165
208
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134074_148360a5c018e810b5cd639538fa3ca2.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Serious Humor about the Egyptian Nuclear Program: A Pragmatic Analysis of Facebook Posts
May Samir El Falaky
El Falaky
The present study aims at investigating Egyptian humor towards the Egyptian Nuclear Program. Based on ninety trending Facebook posts (liked by at least 1000 users), both the Cooperative Principle and the General Theory of Verbal Humor are applied. The data are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively to measure the societal evaluation of the Nuclear Program which is part of the governmental reform plan. The findings suggest that people's practices of humor on Facebook could reveal their evaluative perception and the ideological discernment of the Nuclear Program along with other sociological phenomena.Such practices of humor explicate how the Facebook posts reflect the people’s perception and evaluation of the prospective effect of the Nuclear Program on the Egyptian society.
humor
Cooperative Principles
maxims
general theory of verbal humor
stereotyping
knowledge resources
2018
12
01
211
256
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134077_bdecb3a074c6ed23fcea61eb30f02a50.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Bias Through Metaphors in Selected Works of El-Messiri and Fukuyama: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis
This paper detects and analyzes bias from a cognitive linguistic perspective, in selected works of Abdulwahab El-Messiri and Francis Fukuyama. The analysis focuses on the prominent conceptual metaphors which are available to construe bias and how patterns of this construal might foreground the ideologically oriented discourses. A contrastive analysis is undertaken of El-Messiri’s and Fukuyama’s selected works under investigation. Drawing on the cognitive linguistic framework of conceptual metaphor, this paper provides an examination of how cases of epistemological and ideological bias are represented and interpreted in the English and Arabic philosophical and political discourses selected for study
bias
cognitive linguistics
Conceptual Metaphor
2018
12
01
259
298
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134078_7f01cef4199ff93c638c804f1bc158ee.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
A Pragmatic Study of Speech Acts in the Novel “Jazz” by Toni Morrison
Nardein Maged Makram Dab’e
Makram
This research aims at analyzing Representatives and Expressives Speech Acts in Toni Morrison’s novel Jazz to examine the narrator’s intention the characters' utterances. Various types of Speech Acts are explored within the paradigm of a literary discourse. The crux of the thesis is to investigate how linguistic analysis can help in understanding literary works and to address the following research questions: 1) What types of speech acts especially Representatives and Expressive are found and commonly used in the novel? 2) What are the messages of the author by using these types of Speech Acts? 3) Is Morrisons’ Jazz a suitable discourse for applying speech acts? 4) How does applying speech acts help in understanding its course? 5) Can characters be analyzed through speech acts?. Therefore, this thesis is a pragmatic study focusing on speech acts, as manifested and investigated in Morrison’s Jazz.Finally, the richness of the Pragmatics of literature can be inspiring for further studies. The integration between literature and linguistics underscores the significance of the interdisplinary approach to interpret linguistic aspects in terms of literary discourse and to interpret linguistic markera in terms of aesthetic or poetic style.
Pragmatics in literature
Jazz
Morrison
Postmodern Aesthetics
Speech Acts
2018
12
01
301
322
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134079_c9cdbda503a0c2fbcc4f5cb2186f2baf.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Comparing Two Translations of Abdel-Tawab Youssef’s A Biography of Prophet Mohammad Peace Be upon Him in Twenty Stories: A Skopos Functional Approach
Rania Abdel Baky Allam
Allam
The present paper is a comparative study probing the two translations of Abdel- Tawab Youssef’s (2008) book حياة محمد صلى اللهعليه و سلم فى عشرين قصة the first by Calderbank in (2010) and the second by Enani in (2017a), using Nord’s (2005, 2018) text analysis, looping model. The source text (ST) is intended for young readers, as a biography of the Prophet related by animals and objects. It has referential, expressive and appellative functionsexhibiting literary ingenuity. Applying Nord’s functional extratextual and intratextual factors proves that the two translators adopt dissimilar translational strategies, resulting in variant target texts (TTs) with divergent skopoi. Calderbank adopts a documentary, literal type of translation creating a market-oriented text, greatly echoing the ST with rather simple diction and mostly paratactic constructions, targeting mainly young children, however with less originality and amusement. Enani adopts an instrumental, well schemed type of translation resulting in an ingenious target language-oriented text, with rather elevated diction and mostly hypotactic constructions, targeting mainly elder, more mature readers withchildren best seller, while Enani’s TT skopos is creating a mediating channel between the TR and the SC, in cross cultural translational communicative action notable resourcefulness and inventiveness. Thus, Calderbank’s TT skopos is empowering the hit of an amusing
Skopos
translation-orientated source text analysis
extratextual and intratextual factors
translation brief
documentary and instrumental translation
2018
12
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325
360
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134088_629ad198d68d55a7e4597c84834d1552.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Writing Family Life: A Feminist Inquiry into the Autobiographical Self in Cathy Song's Picture Bride (1983
Reda A. Shehata
Shehata
This paper contends that Picture Bride (1983)—by the contemporary American poet of Asian descent Cathy Song (b.1955) — contains distinctive autobiographical lyrics about her family. Reflecting a feminist consciousness, the "autobiographical paratext" of her poems reveals interesting pictures of her family members. She writes with sympathy about her grandparents' transpacific journey to the States and the hardships they suffered in the plantation in order to establish a family. And she records with understanding the process of transformation by which they became American citizens, thus allowing their children and grandchildren to live the American dream. And she uses two of the most important techniques of autobiographical art to access their past: looking at photographs of some of them and recalling her lived experiences with them. The final aim of her voyage to the past is both self-discovery and self-recognition. And her narratives about them are colored with emotions and meditations and blend with her distinctive vocabulary, images, and rhythms to create her special autobiographical lyric poems
family— autobiography—feminist—self
2018
12
01
363
394
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134092_a1577f4f612e5f3251f2d88d005c55e4.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Error Analysis: The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect
Rehab Farouk Gad
Gad
Many linguistic studies have been conducted as a reaction to this never-ending bewilderment at people’s ability to acquire or learn two or more languages. This gave rise to Psycholinguistics as a major field of linguistics that explains the difficulties faced by learners of L2 during their long tiring journey of L2 acquisition. The present paper investigates the relation between psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in general, and the way learners of L2 acquire tense-aspect in particular. It addresses the following questions: (1) What are the most commonly occurring English L2 language errors in the writing of Egyptian students with Arabic L1 language? (2) How can these errors be accounted for? (3) Does the acquisition of tense-aspect as a grammatical and lexical category by L2 learners foster these errors? (4) To which extent is the way learners of L2 acquire tense-aspect as a grammatical and lexical category affected by L1 interference? The data used in this paper come from 68 university students studying at the Department of English in Mansoura University. Learners have been requested to provide free composition writing, and a corpus of 184 structures was collected to analyze the source of verbs, verb types, functions and form associations. Results were discussed in the light of Error Analysis. The study concludes that learners tend to follow similar processing techniques no matter what language is being acquired; this gives rise to Transfer, and hence to written errors
Interference
Error analysis
Primacy of Aspect Hypothesis
transfer
First and Second language Acquisition
interlanguage
Intralanguage
2018
12
01
397
444
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134093_3ad8363fd36d556f9ba45038c5194162.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Misrepresentations of Muslims In Some American Movies
Reham Mohamed Abu Zaid
Abu Zaid
Muslims are often misrepresented in the American movies. This helps to depict degrading stereotypes about them in the American society – or even in the West as a whole. Their images differ according to the concurrent political events. Negative images turned from bad to worse accompanying the changes in politics.These negative images have a direct effect on the internal and the external American policies. They also play a pivotal role in constituting the public opinion against Muslims not only in America but also in the West as a whole. This research paper tries to trace these misrepresentations and their effect. It also discusses some strategies and solutions to enhance them, the role of the departments of English Language, literature and simultaneous interpretation of Al-Azhar El Sharif and the roles of the members of the Islamic countries.
(1) Misrepresent: -to describe falsely an idea
opinion
or situation
often in order to get an advantage (2) StereotypeA term used to define all people of a certain belief into a mostly negative category that may only reflect a selected few of the racial demographics (3) The Other: -A group or a member of a group that
foreign
strange
etc. (4) Racism: -Prejudice
Discrimination
or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior (5) Terrorism: - The unlawful use of violence and intimidation
especially against civilians
in the pursuit of political aims
2018
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https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134098_d945d6bceb781e771f61d8ef88cd2284.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Image Analysis of Online News Coverage of the 25th January Egyptian Revolution
Sally Galal Ahmad Alnabawy
Alnabawy
Media discourse is considered a good example of how different modes of communication are employed to produce meanings which construct ideological representations of events and situations. The study seeks to investigate the role of images in media discourse as an important mode of communication in constructing different representations of the events of the Egyptian revolution. Over the last two or three decades a revolution has taken place in the area of communication, and particularly in media. The images of news events have come to play an increasingly central role in the discursive practices of media channels whether they are printed newspapers, online newspapers or TV news programmes. The effect of this revolution is that language has lost its position as the central mode of communication, whereas, other modes such as visual, music, gesture,…etc., have become dominant. Thus, multimodal texts have increasingly come to dominate the sphere of social communication. There emerges the need to explore the role images play in influencing our perception to and reaction towards different events. Adopting Kress and van Leeuwen's (2006) theory of multimodal discourse analysis, the study attempts to analyze the visual structures used in media discourse in order to construe different representations of the revolution. The study adopts a visual analysis of the online news of Egyptian and Arabic media that report on the 25th January Egyptian Revolution during the period from 25th of January till 11th of February 2011. Particularly, it examines ten images accompanying the news stories selected from the coverage of four major news networks: Alahram electronic gate as representative of state media on one side, and Alwafd electronic gate, Alyoum7, and Aljazeera network as representatives of oppositional media on the other side
2018
12
01
497
540
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134102_98b477dc86b5e48ecf2b34ce841055d8.pdf
Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
2735-4431
2735-4431
2018
9
1
Text-Image Relations in Print Advertisement: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Yasmin M. El-Sayed
El-Sayed
The present paper focuses on the semantic relations that hold between the text and image in advertisement. Advertisement is a discourse genre in which both textual and visual modes are employed for attaining communicative goals. The paper investigates text-image relations in commercial and non-commercial advertisements.Drawing upon the recently developed field of multimodal discourse analysis, within Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly Martinec & Salway's system, the paper examines the integration of the textual and visual modes and the ways they contribute to the meaning-making process in the genre
multimodality
Multimodal discourse analysis
advertisement
text-image relations
2018
12
01
543
605
https://ejels.journals.ekb.eg/article_134103_2f376c4690c09a36ceff61c4367bcaca.pdf