10 articles in this issue
Saif Raed Nafia Fakhrulddin,Ida Baizura Bahar
Terrorist (2006) by John Updike has been classified within the post-9/11 novel genre where many American authors depict their counter-narratives to the horrific event of 9/11. The novel revolves around the life of a young teenager named Ahmad and his reli... see more
Abeer N. Alqahtani
This study focused on the speech act of asking for a favor in Saudi Arabic due to the lack of studies done on Saudi Arabic in general and favor asking in specific. The core strategy and modification strategies used in each response were investigated. It a... see more
Mahmoud A. Al.Sobh,Ameen Z. Al Khamaiseh,Samer M. Al-Zoubi
This Study sheds a new light on William Golding’s view of evil and good in Lord of the Flies. For many writers, critics and theorists, evil is a societal construct, while good is an internal one. Both are structured by external factors. William Golding, h... see more
Emodi Livina Nkeiruka,Emeka Otagburuagu
This study was aimed at analyzing lexical metaphors identified in proverbs Achebe’s two novels: Things Fall Apart and A Man of the People. Objectives of this study were to identify these lexical metaphors from Achebe’s novels, discuss their meanings, func... see more
Chaka Chaka
This paper is undergirded by two sets of analytic tools: the onto-cartographies of both memory and postmemory, and (trans)raciolinguistics and practice of race theory. Employing these types of analytic tools, the paper sets out to answer the following two... see more
Vivian Bongka Tah
This paper entitled, “Surmounting Gender Disparities: A Case Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow” set to investigate the effects of gender disparities and how these could be surmounted. Wa Thiong’o was chosen as an expert informant whose liter... see more
Zahra Rezaei,Ida Baizura Bahar,Zahraa Abdullah Mohan
This study examines how the American science fiction author Octavia Butler (1947-2006) reflects the issue of how Olamina, the protagonist of Parable of the Talents (1998), attempts to establish a new religion, Earthseed, while changing her dystopian world... see more
Md. Harun Rashid,Yu Lan,Wang Hui
Many ESL teachers find it difficult to build their students’ linguistic competency, which makes teaching one of the most productive talents in the English language. The main objective of the study is to investigate the difficulties that ESL teachers have ... see more
- Agbeleoba,Samuel Oyeyemi,- Bamisaye,- Toyin
This paper is an exploration of the Generic Structure Pattern of news commentaries. Previous studies have applied the GSP approach to a number of discourses in the mass media as well as some religious texts in order to establish their generic structures. ... see more
Ali Albashir Mohammed Alhaj,Majda Babiker Ahmed Abdelkarim
The present study aims at investigating pragmalinguistic problems encountered in rendering Qur’anic satirical expressions into English, with special reference to Surrat Al-Masad, that is in English translations of Abdel-Haleem, Khan, and Mohammed Taj Al-D... see more