40 articles in this issue
Ramzi Brahmi
The invisibility of the community of Arab Jews living in the United States, better known as the Mizrahi community is intriguing. Its identity combines two seemingly paradoxical elements and it is assumed that this community is encompassed by two larger et... see more
Christophe Sékène Diouf
This paper explores the effects of missionaries’ opposition to African cultures which led to the creation of Independent Churches. It mainly focuses on Kenyan colonial history. These facts are incorporated in Ngugi’s novel: A Grain of Wheat. In this liter... see more
Adel Alharthi
Humour and culture are inseparable since humour is a mirror of the culture and in which it is produced. However, topics that provoke laughter are not specific to one culture. We are all human beings and we sometimes laugh at the same things, even though w... see more
Ramadan Ahmed Elmgrab
Although different criteria have been proposed in applied translation literature in order to eliminate the subjectivity of the evaluator, these attempts remain tentative and, consequently, evaluation is still an area of controversy. A sound evaluation sho... see more
Syed Md Golam Faruk,Syeda Shabnam Mahmud
The paper investigates whether the cultural unfamiliarity is a hindrance to reading comprehension or not and, if this is a barrier, whether pre-reading activities can be of any help to overcome it. The study was conducted with 19 foundation English course... see more
Olfa Gandouz
The present paper is an attempt to investigate the notion of excess in Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the poet by analyzing Con Melody’s ethnic experience and his movement between two contradictory spheres of self-hatred and self- endearment. Excess has nega... see more
Seddik M. Gohar
The present paper examines the difficulties encountered by Emirati students in comprehending English and American literary texts due to semantic and trans-cultural ambiguities deployed in the target texts. The paper identifies several types of culturally ... see more
Abdelfattah Ghazel
The paper studies the notion of class in D H Lawrence’s last novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It argues that Lawrence offers his vision of social and cultural reform in the aftermath of the Great War. The paper sheds a rehabilitative look at the novel and e... see more
Koffi Ganyo Agbefle
The purpose of this article titled The marginalized status of French in Ghana: A real misrepresentation by the Media and Academia, is to highlight the actual status of French in current communication in Ghana, an Anglophone country. It focuses on demonstr... see more
Alžbeta Hájková
This article explores Arendt’s and Patocka’s accounts of the questions “who am I” and “what am I.” For Arendt, we need to abandon the given meaning of life and pursue excellence through means of action and speech in order to find our “who am I.” When it c... see more
Nodhar Hammami
The article studies the division of gender roles in nineteenth-century British and American societies. It deals first with man's possession of public spaces and imprisoning of woman in the private sphere, then focuses on woman's resistance to this policy ... see more
Amy M. Johnson
This article examines the practices of captivity among the Maroons of Jamaica during the early colonial period. In this paper, I argue that the practice of holding people in bondage in Maroon communities, which was strongly influenced by the West African ... see more
Imed Lassoued
Man has always been seen as a reasonable creature whose actions are the manifestations of reason. As a matter of fact, the dominance of reason has resulted in the establishment of rules and norms that enhanced the superiority of man in general and the Wes... see more
Isam M. Shihada
The Arab Spring seems to represent a new era of emancipation for women in the Arab world. Yet, it remains to be seen whether women will be afforded the opportunity to play substantial roles in the futures of their respective countries, or whether they wil... see more
Bryan Mead
Although normally utilizing parody and humor when dealing with film noir, Woody Allen has made two films that deal more directly with the style and themes of classical noir cinema: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Match Point (2005). Both films differ f... see more
Samson Fabian Nzuanke
This article attempts to explain the role played by international relations in developing the French language and giving it a foothold in Nigeria. In fact, the entire process is founded on a two-century long tripod: the arrival of French traders in the Ni... see more
Ndongo Kamdem Alphonse
The reading of a text starts undoubtedly with its title: this meta-text offers the first thread which the reader follows in the course of reading. It goes without saying, that there always exists a correlation between a title and the text that follows it.... see more
Ayodele Omojuwa
"The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency wishes to inform all stakeholders of the commencement of the formal removal of the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, Petroleum products marketers are to note that no one will be paid a subsidy on PMS discha... see more
Sandy Pecastaing
Published in 1848 – one year before Poe’s death – Eureka is one of the last direct legacies of the English and French Enlightenments. This work is placed under the patronage of Newton, Laplace and Humboldt to whom Poe dedicates his essay “with [his] very ... see more
Fabienne S. Portier-Le Cocq
In the 20th century European countries recognised the need of young people to receive sex education within the limitations of what was perceived morally acceptable. Sweden was a pioneer in introducing sex education in its curriculum. On the other hand, Gr... see more
Jayana Jain Punamiya
Borders and boundaries are not limited to the domain of geography. The discourse and metaphor of borders extend beyond geopolitical to sociological, biological, affective, linguistic, racial, gender concerns and so on. They regulate power as they enforce ... see more
Mourad Romdhani
Linda Hutcheon describes the postmodernist text as a manuscript that “signals its dependence by its use of the canon, but reveals its rebellion through its ironic abuse of it” (130). Irony is a key word in postmodernist philosophy and a key narrative stra... see more
Ikram Rouissi
The notion of communicative competence goes beyond the acquisition of linguistic competence to include pragmatic competence. Pragmatic competence is concerned with the use of language according to context and culture. A lack in the development of pragmati... see more
Aladeyomi S. A,Ade Adejumo
This paper examines the dilemma of the educated African elite who is torn between the realities of two conflicting cultural realities. Using the fictional character, Lawino, Okot P;Bitek provides a meeting point between the two conflicting cultures of the... see more
Kamal-deen Olawale Sulaiman
There will be no peace within the nation without peace and tolerance among the religions. This paper intends to investigate how to sustain the mutual co-existence between Muslims and Christians through inter-religious dialogue in Yorubaland of the South W... see more
Shu- Chin Su
This qualitative research examines the main outcomes of a short-term dramatic presentation offered as a community service, utilizing a survey and semi-structured interviews of students enrolled in a drama course who participated in the play. These views w... see more
Musa Al-Halool
The Syrian version of the Arab Spring is arguably unique in that it has generated right from the start a concurrent sexual rhetoric not so conspicuously noted in the Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, or Yemeni revolutions. This idiosyncrasy has to do with a num... see more
Sharon Worley
With the publication of Roderick Hudson in Atlantic Monthly in 1875, Henry James anticipates the Freudian theory of the ego, super-ego and id. Through the impulse to create, James defines the will as the artist’s desire to achieve self-actualization. But ... see more
Nizar Zouidi
It is quite common to consider Robin Goodfellow the jester of fairy king Oberon, a trickster. His tricks, however, are in no way common. He plays tricks on time and space. There is an abundance of words that belong to the semantic field of time and place ... see more
Leke Oke
Religion, which presupposes belief in the existence of a God or gods, cannot exist exclusive of society. Indeed religion has a huge responsibility of shaping the peoples thoughts, beliefs, and values, correcting fallacies, and providing the adherents with... see more
Nawel Zbidi
The narrative of four Arab female protagonists, Mawal, Soraya, Khadija and Hala tackled in Layla Halaby’s West of The Jordan (2003) depicts the complexities of transnational belonging and fragmented identities for Arab American women physically and psychi... see more
Mohamed Salah Bouomrani
This research broaches the issue of the novel and the values and their relation to modernity. Such endeavor is undertaken from theoretical perspectives that originate from social cognition and Critical Discourse Analysis as represented by eminent scholars... see more
Shamim Ali
The disagreement in speech act is a pertinent aspect of pragmatics; however it has not been allocated distinction. The primary aim of this article is to investigate how power influences the strategy of politeness in a disagreement scenario. Twenty ESL lea... see more
Mojtaba Rafiei,Akbar Bahmani
The main purpose of this paper is to develop a model for the behavior of the Islamic system's agents. The method of this research is based on the purpose of the research type and is based on the method of data collection as a descriptive-survey method. Ba... see more
Johnson Olaosebikan Aremu
This article attempts an exploration of Ghana’s mediatory role in a bid to broker peace between the Federal Military Government of Nigeria and its dis-affectioned Eastern Region to prevent the impending Nigerian civil war of July 1967 to January 1970. It ... see more
Alina Ioana Bako
The dream imaginary has been explained starting from the classical definitions in order to put the concept in a larger context. This imaginary is conceived by the poets who wrote between 1964 –1974, and who called themselves "The Oniric Group”. It is a li... see more
Awatef Boubakri
This article is based on the assumption that the analysis of literary discourse from pragmatic perspectives takes into consideration the specificity of the literary work. The literary work under focus is Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The ... see more
Ogunode Sunday Abraham
Security within the context of this paper can loosely be viewed as safety from any form of attack or harm. It is a term that has different dimensions and meanings in public safety, defense and military matters. It is the state or feeling of being safe and... see more
James Boucher
This paper proposes an analysis of the culture of the automobile in J.M.G Le Clézio’s early fiction. Tracing the emergence of the automobile as icon and myth during the trente glorieuses of post-war France, cinematic representations of the car in Jacques ... see more