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Ditransitive Verbs: An English Print Media Based Comparison of Pakistani English and British English

Asadullah Balouch & Farida Panhwar · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

The present study highlights the ditransitive complementation between Pakistani English (PE) and British English (BE). The ditransitive verb complementation allows double objects in a sentence i.e. indirect object and direct object. Since the current study uses qualitative resear...

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Exploring Contemporary Art Performance as a Didactic Mode to Mirror Human Society: Focus on the Drama Film “Mugisha”

Bazimaziki Gabriel · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Art cannot be distanced from society. Contemporary art performance reflects human action over his fellow human being(s). In this paper, the researcher demonstrates that art is a didactic tool to society as produced by society about society for society. How filmmakers use the past...

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Are the New Indian States Ecologically Secured, Economically Efficient and Socially Equitable? (Assessment Using the Sustainable Livelihood Security Index Framework)

Aditya Kumar & Zareena Begum Irfan · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Sustainable Livelihood Security Index is one of the efficient and flexible frameworks to analyze a territory’s sustainable security encompassing the social equity, ecological security and economic efficiency heads. The focus of this study is to look into the sustainability of thr...

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Revisiting Radio, Newspapers and Mobile Phones as Mediums of Enhancing Agricultural Productivity: A Review

Toh Kelvin Nkwain & Lamin K. M. Fatty · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Several approaches are used by extension systems to disseminate agricultural information and these approaches depend on the objectives of the extension systems, locality and available resources. Radio, newspapers and mobile phones have been used for the dissemination of agricultu...

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Acquired Human Violence and Taught Humanhood in South African Fiction: A Perspectivism of the Protagonists in Alex La Guma’s a Walk in the Night and Peter Abrahams’ Mine Boy

Bazimaziki Gabriel, Mukadisi Florence & Twahirwa Jean Bosco · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Literature mirrors society and the two cannot be disconnected. Mine Boy and A Walk in the Night are two tools used by South African writers cum literary critics from other parts of the globe to depict and mirror South African society during Apartheid. This study pinpoints the int...

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Objectifying Intuitive Response in Stylistic Analysis: A Study of Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”

Imikan Nkopuruk & Odusina, Kehinde Saheed · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Intuitive response is an antagonistic phenomenon in the stylistic analysis of a literary work. This is given the fact that stylistics relies on tangible linguistic evidence to unfold the writer’s meaning or the communicative purposes of an author. This paper however, examined obj...

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Teachers' Cognition and Implementations of Inductive Grammar Teaching in Oman

Faisal Al Maqbali, Chahrazed Mirza & Elham Farrozendeh Shahraki · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Aim: To examine teachers' cognitions and implementations of inductive grammar teaching in Oman. Study Design: This was a qualitative case study. Place and Duration of Study: A 3-month study was conducted at Masoud Bin Ramadan school in Suhar, Oman at the Basic Education level for...

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Learning Persian as a Second language: The Perspectives and Challenges of International Medical and Allied Health Science Students

Ibrahim Yakubu, Elham Shakibazadeh & Shamsudeen Mohammed · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

Background: International medical and allied health science students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) speak languages different from the official language (Persian) of the Iranian people. To integrate well into the Iranian community and interact well with patients...

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Normalising the Concept of Death and the Promotion of Religiosity, Sociocultural Norms and Prejudices in Newspaper Obituary Announcements: A Review

Ahmed Tanimu Jibril · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2019

This review article was intended to examine related literature on how the discourse of death and dying is naturalised, normalised and communicated to the target audience as designed and portrayed by the producers of the death announcements. Findings from the critique revealed the...

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