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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania"”.
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Ujaran berimplikatur dalam teks Sulalatus Salatin
… fokus kajian lebih kepada pemikiran yang terkandung dalam teks tersebut. Kajian yang berkaitan dengan ujaran berimplikatur dan nilai Melayu dalam ujaran menggunakan data korpus ini masih belum diteroka. Kelompangan tersebut diisi melalui kajian ini. Kajian Kualititatif ini menggunakan Teori …
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The Acquisition of Verb Inflection in Libyan Arabic: The Role of Input
This thesis investigates the acquisition of verb inflection in Libyan Arabic (LA), and the role of input. It is a case study in which there is a single participant, a girl acquiring LA as a first language, and her parents are the main source of input. Data were collected by observation of …
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Stress and Syncope in Tobruq Arabic an Eastern Libyan Dialect: A Stratal OT Account
This dissertation studies in detail a number of phonological aspects accounted for through a Stratal OT analysis, in Tobruq Libyan Arabic (TLA), which is a variety that belongs to the set of dialects that are referred to collectively as Eastern Libyan Arabic. As will transpire from this work, TLA …
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Pragmatic theory applied to Christian mission in Africa: with special reference to Luo responses to ‘bad’ in Gem, Kenya
… language meaning discloses the integral linking of the Luo language with their departed ancestors and the upholding of customary laws. Meaning and impact being transformed in the process of translation from one context to another explains the severe limitations found in previous attempts at …
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Lexical Organisation in Chinese Spoken Word Production: Evidence from Studies of Homophones
… thesis was designed to shed light on the nature of the functional lexical organisation in Mandarin Chinese spoken word production. Two main theoretical issues were investigated: The lexical representations of homophones in Chinese, and how activation is transmitted from lexical to phonological …
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Rethinking translation unit size: an empirical study of an English-Japanese newswire corpus
… regarding, in particular, their identification and size. This study attempts to rethink these two central issues of translation units with the help of a parallel corpus: the ARC (the Alignment of Reuters Corpora), an English-Japanese newswire corpus. The main achievements of this study are: the …
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Creolizing the canon: engagements with legacy and relation in contemporary postcolonial Caribbean writing
… authors have responded to the canonical texts of the coloniser, and how they have rewritten certain genres, modes and the ideological biases that inform them. In Chapter One, the continuing presence of representations of the Caribbean as paradise or Eden – evident, I suggest in my Introduction, …
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A comparative study of gender representations in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and its Chinese translation
… has created a great impact in the field of children’s literature. The purpose of this thesis is two-fold. Firstly, the thesis analyzes gender representations in Pullman’s trilogy in the context of how he rewrites female archetypes through the subversive re-inscription of Eve, the …
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Politics of Place in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore
This Ph. D thesis investigates the politics of place in three modernist poets—T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. Through the critical lens of both human geography and social construction theories of place, this project aims to uncover the underlying political connotations of …
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Investigating the Challenges of Translating Arabic Collocations into English with Reference to the Quran
… Quranic collocations fit into the general theory of collocation. It explored the importance of demystifying the collocational and phraseological theoretical base in order to facilitate the task of translators to deal more efficiently with collocation and phraseology from a Quranic perspective. …
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Cultural translation problems with special reference to English/Arabic advertisements
The thesis deals with the problems of translating "soft-sell" advertisements between Arabic and English. It is argued that a standardisation strategy of any international advertising campaign across cultures of soft-sell advertising is unsuccessful at any time in the case of Arabic and English. …
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Representations of Political Violence in Contemporary Middle Eastern Fiction
Today many Middle Eastern states are experiencing political violence, either in the form of foreign occupation, civil war, revolution or coup d’état. This regional violence is not dissociated from international politics. In fact many foreign states are directly involved through influencing, …
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External Language Spread Policies in Mozambique and Guniea-Bissau at the turn of the 21st Century.
This study explores the argument that Postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. To explore the topic I examine the case studies of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, in the time frame …