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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThis article addresses the issue of multimodal instantiation of conceptual metaphors in documentaries about plastic pollution: A Plastic Ocean (2016) and Recycling Sham (2019). Theoretically, it departs from conceptual...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedApproaches of discourse analysis, however, are at variance regarding their perspectives to discourse definition and its relationship with language and society. Based on such variance, each approach posits certain tools...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWith the fast pace of globalization, cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) has gradually become a vital goal in English language teaching. However, whether the English Viewing-Listening-Speaking (VLS)...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe use of authentic tasks in Task-Based Language Assessment seems to facilitate the extrapolation of assessment performance to the real-life situation. The question arises as to how effective Task-Based Language...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSemantic disorientation refers to the phenomenon where sentence constituents with direct syntactic relations have no direct semantic linkage. The phenomenon is ubiquitous in Mandarin and related structures have been...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBased on "Three Beauties" theory of Xu Yuanchong, this paper conducts an analysis on Arthur Cooper's translation of "[phrase omitted]"(2nd poem) from three aspects: the beauty of sense, sound and form, finding that,...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTranslation is a language activity that involves intercultural activities. The study's focus is on subtitling as a didactic tool for relating exactness of information and cultural preservation: The Igbo language...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAlthough cosmopolitanism has a long history, it has become even more relevant in the global era and, especially, since the COVID-19 global pandemic has made communication and understanding across cultures more important...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn the seventeenth century British literary arena appears a unique school of poetry called "metaphysical school". The most remarkable characteristic of the metaphysical poetry is the original and arresting conceits. John...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of frequent quizzes applied to subject-based business English courses designed for students in Sichuan University of Arts and Science in China. Besides, this...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedCompared to the processing of the words alone, the processing of Chinese two-character words in sentences will be closer to a natural scenario, and the understanding of the sentence will be influenced by both linguistic...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe study examines the presidential campaign manifestos of Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2015 and Donald Trump of the United States of America in 2016. Specifically, it sets out to...