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Emirati animated sitcoms emblemize the idiosyncratic concerns and ethnolinguistic identities in the United Arab Emiratis (UAE). They depict various social, political, economic, religious, and other day-to-day topics in a wryly humorous fashion with a socio-moral outcome as a part in the process of reproducing the Emirati group recognizability, thus consolidating their social citizenship (Silverstein 2003b: 538). Shaabiat Al-Cartoon [Paperboard Neighborhood] (SAC) (2006), is one of the earliest and

The second language(L2) learners often struggle to identify possible grammars in their second languages. In particular, they fail to form a sentence with an appropriate functional morpheme (Lardiere, 1998; White, 2003). A functional morpheme refers to a morpheme which performs some kind of grammatical function, playing a role in lexical change. It consists of the function words in the language such as definite markers. The inflection of a definite marker, in other words, definiteness, distinguishes

Displacement and Delay in Photography “Photography endows place with a certain freedom, liberating place from the commitment to a specific point in time and space, exposing some generic dimension that exists there, enables place to be a ‘sort of place’ (…).” Taking into account the sentence of Miki Kratsman, I would like to present his photographs entitled Territory and the way in which they relate to the concepts of space and time. First, it is necessary to emphasize that the author, born in Argentina

Rap is a highly popular music genre with distinct similarities to poetry. A rapper's lyrics are very important as they give 'aesthetic completeness' to the song, rhyme and can give powerful messages such as political ones which sell the song. As a result, the language used in the lyrics needs to be unique to get critical acclaim and incorporate rhyming to make the song memorable and have targeted messages to portray to the audience. My language investigation will focus on the different language techniques

1 Three Waves of Variation Study: The emergence of meaning in the study of variation Penelope Eckert Stanford University Abstract The treatment of social meaning in variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established broad correlations between linguistic variables and the macro-sociological categories of socioeconomic class, sex class, ethnicity and age. The second wave employed ethnographic methods to explore the local categories and configurations

Shojo and Adult Women: A Linguistic Analysis of Gender Identity in Manga (Japanese Comics) Junko Ueno Abstract: This study analyzes the linguistic behavior of female characters in shoJo (girls) and ladies (women) manga (Japanese comics) and discusses the portrayal of female gender identities in the context of popular print media. Considering the great impact that Japanese print media has had over Japanese women's speech patterns throughout history, a linguistic analysis of female characters' speech

The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom Radical Pedagogy (2001) ISSN: 1524-6345 The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom Language And Culture: What IS Culture And Why Should IT BE Taught? In this section, we will briefly examine the relationship between language and culture and see why the teaching of culture should constitute an integral part of the English language curriculum. To begin with, language is a social institution, both shaping