Hasil untuk "English literature"

Sergej Macura

The paper discusses two aspects of Boris Hlebec’s 1983 translation of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: the versificational and the lexical. It sheds light on the regularities and peculiarities of Chaucer’s metre, like the iambic pentameter, but also its extrametrical eleventh syllable, and sets the original against the hendecasyllabic metre, one of the most natural metres in Serbian poetry, to demonstrate a higher incidence of the 5+6 syllable matrix in translation than is the frequency of the pure iamb in the English text. The caesura is also shown to occur more often after syllable 5 in Serbian than after syllable 4 in English. By far the most frequent rhyme in translation is feminine, with sporadic occurrences of masculine or dactylic variants, and some instances of words shifted within a line, or occasionally lines with switched places within couplets. In order to give the text a more archaic overtone, the translator resorted to a number of Turkish/Oriental loanwords used from the epic stock; he also employed specific trade-based lexical items for the pilgrims, and he relied on some comic-epic vocabulary present in folk tales and the best of Serbian translations of humorous mediaeval narratives.

Katja Plemenitaš

The article examines the discourse of Slovenia’s official tourism brand I Feel Slovenia. It presents a study of the English version of the official website, focusing on the ways in which the text establishes connections between emotions and emotions in the construction of the brand. Special attention is paid to the role of the word green in the discourse construction of Slovenia’s official image. The study is based on the framework of evaluative language (Martin and White 1995). The analysis shows that the word green is primarily used as a value-laden term, functioning as a placeholder for different evaluative meanings. The word green ties different strands of Slovenia’s image into a holistic concept rooted in the English-language slogan I Feel Slovenia and the label Slovenia Green.

Kimberley Pager-McClymont

Pathetic fallacy (hereafter PF) has received varied definitions by educators, scholars, and literary critics. Pager-McClymont created a model of PF based on a survey of English teachers, using a checklist of stylistic tools and foregrounding theory. The model views PF as a specific type of conceptual metaphor: a master metaphor, and defines it as a projection of emotions from an animated entity onto the surroundings. Three indicators of PF were identified: imagery, repetition, and negation. Furthermore, multiple effects of PF were observed, such as conveying suspense through surroundings, particularly thunder and lightning. In this paper, I explore if Pager-McClymont’s model of PF can be applied to texts from popular culture, such as the television show RuPaul’s Drag Race, the film Clue, and the song “The Thunder Rolls”. The analysis employs McIntyre’s multimodal stylistic methodology to the texts’ transcripts and focuses on the multimodal presentation of PF’s criteria and indicators. Findings show that PF’s effects are present in popular culture texts and contribute to enriching suspense, thus making Pager-McClymont’s model of PF applicable to everyday entertainment.

Mastewal Misganaw Alemayehu

Peer-led team learning (PLTL) has become common in ESL classrooms across Ethiopia. This study explores factors affecting PLTL in students' verbal participation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). A descriptive survey was employed as a research method, and mixed approach data collection methods were used. Twenty-four EFL teachers and 114 students of three secondary schools in Ethiopia were taken as the research participants by systematic random sampling. The data collected from questionnaires, interviews, and classroom observation were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using a statistical tool in frequency, percentages, ANOVA and multiple regression. The findings indicated that students differ significantly in their level of verbal participation in PLTL groups. Of the twenty-two expected factors, no single factor predicted whether students would participate in PLTL groups. More than one factor was usually working together, or one factor led onto another to affect students' participation. Personality characteristics, motivational factors, and group situation factors were significant to student participation in PLTL. Not every student could get the opportunities to become a group leader, and the groups were static. Since there was an absence of active monitoring, most groups drifted away from tasks and were involved in noisy chat in their mother tongue. Few students in a group dominated others who persevered at group activities. The qualitative findings are consistent with the quantitative ones.

Caitlin Rajala, Camden Waterhouse, Emily Evans et al.

BackgroundThe return to participation in meaningful life roles for persons with acquired brain injury (pwABI) is a goal shared by pwABI, their families, clinicians, and researchers. Synthesizing how pwABI define participation will help to identify the aspects of participation important to pwABI and can inform a person-centered approach to participation outcome assessment. To-date, the qualitative synthesis approach has been used to explore facilitators and barriers of participation post-stroke, and views about participation among individuals with stroke in the UK.ObjectivesThis paper's objectives are to (1) conduct a scoping review of qualitative literature that defines and characterizes participation from the perspective of pwABI of any type, (2) synthesize how pwABI define and categorize participation, and (3) link the themes identified in the qualitative synthesis to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) using standardized linking rules to enhance the comparability of our findings to other types of health information, including standardized outcome measures.MethodsWe completed a scoping review of qualitative literature. Our search included PubMed, APA PsychInfo, CINAHL, and Embase databases and included articles that (1) had qualitative methodology, (2) had a sample ≥50% pwABI, (3) had aims or research questions related to the meaning, definition, perception, or broader experience of participation, and (4) were in English. Qualitative findings were synthesized using Thomas and Harden's methodology and resultant themes were linked to ICF codes.ResultsThe search identified 2,670 articles with 2,580 articles excluded during initial screening. The remaining 90 article abstracts were screened, and 6 articles met the full inclusion criteria for the qualitative synthesis. Four analytical themes emerged: (1) Essential Elements of Participation (2) How pwABI Approach Participation, (3) Where pwABI Participate, and (4) Outcomes of Participation. Each overarching theme included multiple descriptive themes.ConclusionIn this paper, we identified themes that illustrate key components of participation to pwABI. Our results provide insight into the complex perspectives about participation among pwABI and illustrate aspects of participation that should hold elevated importance for clinicians and researchers supporting participation of pwABI.

Zaher Ali Al-Sai, Mohd Heikal Husin, Sharifah Mashita Syed-Mohamad et al.

Big Data and analytics have become essential factors in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. As no company can escape the effects of the pandemic, mature Big Data and analytics practices are essential for successful decision-making insights and keeping pace with a changing and unpredictable marketplace. The ability to be successful in Big Data projects is related to the organization’s maturity level. The maturity model is a tool that could be applied to assess the maturity level across specific key dimensions, where the maturity levels indicate an organization’s current capabilities and the desirable state. Big Data maturity models (BDMMs) are a new trend with limited publications published as white papers and web materials by practitioners. While most of the related literature might not have covered all of the existing BDMMs, this systematic literature review (SLR) aims to contribute to the body of knowledge and address the limitations in the existing literature about the existing BDMMs, assessment dimensions, and tools. The SLR strategy in this paper was conducted based on guidelines to perform SLR in software engineering by answering three research questions: (1) What are the existing maturity assessment models for Big Data? (2) What are the assessment dimensions for Big Data maturity models? and (3) What are the assessment tools for Big Data maturity models? This SLR covers the available BDMMs written in English and developed by academics and practitioners (2007–2022). By applying a descriptive qualitative content analysis method for the reviewed publications, this SLR identified 15 BDMMs (10 BDMMs by practitioners and 5 BDMMs by academics). Additionally, this paper presents the limitations of existing BDMMs. The findings of this paper could be used as a grounded reference for assessing the maturity of Big Data. Moreover, this paper will provide managers with critical insights to select the BDMM that fits within their organization to support their data-driven decisions. Future work will investigate the Big Data maturity assessment dimensions towards developing a new Big Data maturity model.

Tetsuya Kawamoto, Satoru Kiire, Rachel Zambrano et al.

In this study, we conducted the translation and validation of the K-SF-42 in Japan (Figueredo, 2017). The K-SF-42 is a new short form of the Arizona Life History Battery. We obtained empirical evidence that the original seven-factor structure could be applied to the Japanese translated version of K-SF-42 (K-SF-42-J). We also observed good internal consistency of the seven scales of K-SF-42-J. The multi-group confirmatory factor analysis findings suggest that the K-SF-42-J can be used in both sexes and diverse age groups. The K-SF-42-J scales showed similar correlates as the English original, with higher scores of other life history strategy measurement, trait emotional intelligence, well-being, and cultural and social resources in childhood. Use of the K-SF-42-J will allow researchers with Japanese speaking samples to integrate their findings with the existing life history strategy research literature. The brevity of the K-SF-42-J will be appealing to researchers who are concerned about taxing the time and motivation of their participants.

Nur Aini Syah

Talk show program on TV One is a program that uses language as a means of communication. To create the success of cummunication, it needs a strategy. This study aims to find out the politeness srategies used in Satu Jam Lebih Dekat talk show on TV One. The method used in this article is descriptive qualitative method. The data source of this research is oral data source, which is focused on the speeches between the presenter, interviewees, and mystery guest with the sources from a number of ministers in our country by downloading on the site www.youtube.com. For data analysis technique, the researcher used the contextual method with the pragmatic competence-in-dividing. And for the theory, the researcher focuses on politeness strategies by Brown Levinson's theory (1987: 94).The results indicate that there are 16 types of politeness strategies of Satu Jam Lebih Dekat program namely Bald on record, Positive Politeness-attend to hearer, Positive Politeness-intensify interest, Positive Politeness-use group identify marker, Positive Politeness-seek agreement, Positive Politeness-avoid disagreement, Positive Politeness-assert speaker’s knowledge, Positive Politeness-include both speaker and hearer in activity, Positive Politeness-give or ask reasons, Positive Politeness-give gifts, Negative Politeness-be conventionally indirect, Negative Politeness-question, hedge, Negative Politeness-give deference, Negative Politeness-impersonalize speaker and hearer, Off record-give hints, and Off record-give association clues. The most dominant use of politeness strategy is positive politeness-asking an agreement with the 42 percentage. The politeness strategies of this speech acts support the effectiveness of talk show and will minimize threats, protect, and extract information from interviewees without any compulsion due to the use of this politeness strategy.

Farhad Golpour, Touran Ahour, Saeideh Ahangari

The purpose of this study was to find the Iranian less and more experienced EFL teachers' beliefs in marking students' errors in writing, their preferred types of written corrective feedback, the most useful kind of teachers' written error correction feedback, and the differences between what they believe and what they actually do in giving feedback. The study was done by the cooperation of 120 available university teachers (53 less experienced and 67 more experienced) teaching writing to EFL learners at different universities in Iran. A written feedback questionnaire was employed in this descriptive survey in which both quantitative (closed-ended questions and paper investigation) and qualitative (open-ended questions) ways of data collection were used. Descriptive statistics including frequency and percentage were estimated in the quantitative data analysis. The results revealed that in error marking and in finding the most useful kind of error correction, less and more experienced teachers had different preferences; and for pointing out the errors, they also had different ideas. The reviewing of the open-ended questions for the qualitative data showed no belief discrepancies in teachers’ responses to the closed-ended items and open-ended questions of the questionnaire. However, the investigation of teachers’ error correction on learners’ actual papers indicated that both groups’ beliefs were different from their actual paper correction. The implications of the study are for teachers, policymakers, and decision-makers in educational settings.

Vignoli, Alessia

Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney

K. B. Chan MBBS, FRCSEd(Orth), Raymond Yeung MBBS, FRCSEd(Orth)

Background: Although percutaneous surgery for the treatment of hallux valgus is popular in Europe, there is sparse English written literature documenting its efficacy. This study described the operative techniques using percutaneous basal closing wedge osteotomy of the first metatarsal in correction of moderate to severe hallux valgus (HV) and its short-term clinical outcomes. We postulated that satisfactory correction of hallux valgus (HV) angle, intermetatarsal (IM) angle, and patients’ clinical outcomes could be achieved with this technique. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of 25 feet in 23 patients who underwent a percutaneous basal closing wedge osteotomy of the first metatarsal (MT1) combined with a mini-open modified McBride procedure and mini-open resection of medial eminence. Follow-up averaged 21.5 months. Radiographic outcomes included pre- and postoperative HV angle, IM angle, absolute and relative shortening of MT1, and time to union. American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) scores were compared between pre- and postoperatively. Results: The average HV angle improved from 39.4 (range, 29-58.3) degrees preoperatively to 14.7 (range, 0.1-23.2) degrees postoperatively ( P < .05). IM angle improved from 14.9 (range, 6.7-22.4) degrees to 6.6 (range, 0.9-14.8) degrees ( P < .05). The average absolute shortening was 3.8 (range, 0.27-12.91) mm and the relative shortening was 0.8 (range, 0.05-1.91) mm. There was no delayed union or malunion at the osteotomy site. The average AOFAS score improved from 39 (range, 12-50) to 81 (range, 70-93) ( P < .05). Conclusions: Satisfactory hallux valgus deformity correction and patients’ outcomes were achieved with this technique. Our results are similar to results reported in other studies using open techniques. There was no malunion or delayed union of the osteotomy. Level of Evidence: Level IV, case series study.

Susanne Berthier-Foglar

In the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century the culture of leisure came to New Mexico and Indian Detours were organized for the “Anglo” tourists eager to witness the exotic (and so-called primitive) cultures within the United States. The authentic setting, the historic villages (i.e. Pueblos1), and the pre-industrial lifestyle of their inhabitants contributed to the tourists’ experience of Otherness. The primitive way of life was not perceived by the tourists as being negative but as an escape from the pervasiveness of industry and urbanization. However, the wishes of the tourists clashed with the federal assimilation policies. Indian Commissioner Charles Burke issued numerous circulars to the Superintendents with strict rules concerning the exhibition of Indianness. He lamented the fact that Indians catering to the tourist industry postponed their assimilation as productive members of the American society. This paper also questions the intrusiveness and long-term impact of the “tourist gaze” upon Indians viewed at the train stations or in “Indian villages” set up in hotels or tourist destinations. New Mexican architecture and more particularly the Santa Fe Style have largely copied Pueblo vernacular. Under such extreme circumstances of colonial appropriation, coupled with the advent of the market economy, it is astounding that the Indians survived the onslaught of cultural tourism. Despite the marketing of tours targeting their villages and history as well as their arts and crafts production, the Pueblo have never given in to selling their ceremonies. They have set up barriers of secrecy limiting the primitivist experience of the tourists to what they wanted them to see. They have accepted the advice of traders in matters of styles of objects produced. But they have gradually taken over the management of the “tourist gaze” and have profited from the fetishization of all things Indian. With a lively market for tourist goods, it seems tourism has become a tool of integration while elements of what was formerly called “primitive” survive (non-Christian ceremonials for instance). Moreover, tourism has not destroyed those who were formerly the seemingly passive object of the “tourist gaze.” (363)

Shirley Bricout

Valentine Vasak

In the plays of Edward Albee, the animal – or as Jacques Derrida would say, the animot – can only be approached indirectly: in The Zoo Story, Jerry is haunted by the glaring eyes of a dog and a whiff of bestiality pervades the stage of The Goat. In their monologues, male characters keep reenacting their visual encounters with animals. Yet, although theater is etymologically bound up with the act of seeing, the audience hardly ever sets eye on non-human species. This paper seeks to investigate this paradoxical dramatization through speech of animals lurking offstage. I will therefore question Emmanuel Lévinas’ claim that animals cannot partake in face to face encounters, dwelling on the ethical consequences of Derrida’s postulate that “The animal looks at us and we are naked before it”. In the plays under study, these encounters, be they confrontational or lustful, enable the male characters to assert their predatory masculinity by “catching sight” of these figures of the other. Indeed, as the often feminized beasts remain offstage, or are even sacrificed in a gruesome reenactment of the tragic goat song, the audience is led to question the boundaries between species, speeches, gender and genre.

Kirti Bushan, Sanjay Sharma, Niket Attarde

Background: As an alternate to open surgery, laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) is currently being performed in many centers, and has gained a wide clinical acceptance. The aim of this review article is to compare oncologic adequacy and safety of LG with open surgery for gastric adenocarcinomas with respect to lymphadenectomy, short-term outcomes (postoperative morbidity and mortality) and long-term outcome (5 years overall survival and disease-free survival). Materials and Methods: PubMed was searched using query “LG” for literature published in English from January 2000 to April 2014. A total of 875 entries were retrieved. These articles were screened and 59 manuscripts ultimately formed the basis of current review. Results: There is high-quality evidence to support short-term efficacy, safety and feasibility of LG for gastric adenocarcinomas, although accounts on long-term survivals are still infrequent.

Francesco Inzirillo, Casimiro Giorgetta, Eugenio Ravalli et al.

Valproic acid (VPA) is one of the most frequently used antiepileptic drugs for the treatment of focal and generalized epilepsies, absence seizures, and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). VPA has been demonstrated to have a negative effect on both the intrinsic and extrinsic coagulation systems and controversy exists about the clinical relevance of such hematological abnormalities. We describe a case of reversible lung hemorrage due to VPA. In English-language literature only two other similar cases (one of which fatal) have been described so far.

Oslay Mijail Tirado Martínez, Arianna Hernández Pérez, Marilyn Linares Guerra et al.

Las enfermedades maculares constituyen una causa importante de discapacidad visual a nivel mundial. La mejor comprensión de la relación existente entre estructura y función a nivel macular ha permitido el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías capaces de relacionar estos parámetros. Esto permite la rehabilitación de áreas retinianas con mejor función, convirtiéndolas en nuevos puntos de fijación de la mirada. Con el objetivo de sintetizar los conocimientos actuales sobre rehabilitación visual utilizando el microperímetro MP1, se realizó una búsqueda en la literatura digital contenida en MEDLINE, Academic Search Premier y MedicLatina a través de la plataforma EBSCO con acceso al texto completo del artículo por HINARI, cuando no estuvo disponible en la interfase inicial. Se utilizaron los términos de búsqueda: microperímetro, microperimetría, rehabilitación visual y plasticidad neuronal. Se revisaron artículos en idioma español, inglés y francés, publicados entre enero 2005 y mayo 2011 que resultaron más significativos de la temática en estudio.<br>Macular diseases are an important cause of visual disability all over the world. Better comprehension of structure- function relationship at macular level has allowed developing new technologies capable to relate these parameters. This permits rehabilitation of retinal areas with better function, transforming them into new preferred retinal locus for sight fixation. A search in the digital literature contained in MEDLINE, Academic Search Premier and MedicLatina through the EBSCO platform with access to the full text article through HINARI, when not available in the initial interface, was carried out with the objective of synthesizing the current knowledge on visual rehabilitation using the MP1 microperimeter, The search terms used were: microperimeter, microperimetry, visual rehabilitation and neuronal plasticity. Those articles in Spanish, English and French languages, published from January 2005 and May 2011, were considered as the most significant on this topic and were reviewed.

Pierre Iselin

Himmet Umunç

Since the early 1990s, there has been a great deal of serious in-depth research on the Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), whereby his historically admitted career and connection with Shakespeare have been revisited, and consequently a comprehensive controversy among Marlowe students has risen with regards to a wide range of issues including his involvement in Elizabeth's secret service. Historically, it is true that, while he was a student at Cambridge from 1580 to 1587, he was secretly recruited to become an agent and, thus, from 1583 onwards, was sent abroad on secret missions; hence, his frequent and prolonged absences from his studies at the university. His espionage activities and their geographies have always been a mystery except his visits to France and, perhaps, to other Catholic countries. In this context, if one recalls that the first diplomatic relations between the Ottoman Empire and Elizabeth's England were officially established in 1583 when William Harborne was appointed the first English ambassador to the Ottoman court, it was also of vital importance for Elizabeth's government to secure the Ottoman support and alliance against the growing Spanish and Catholic threat. Therefore, Harborne's appointment was a timely political and diplomatic manoeuvre, and evidently a close watch on Ottoman politics and international relations came to the fore as a serious and vitally important exigency. Indeed, besides the regular staff of Harborne's embassy, three "gentlemen," who may have been assigned special missions, also accompanied him. Could one of them be Marlowe? It is hard to be specific and certain in the absence of documented evidence. However, given the Turkish contents and references of Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta, one can argue that he was fully familiar with Turkey and Turkish history and that some of the names and material in these plays seem to indicate his first-hand knowledge in this respect. So, through reference to some historical facts and a close textual study of the Turkish material in these two plays, this article is an attempt to demonstrate Marlowe's direct connection with Turkey and, thus, to argue that he must have visited this country in his capacity as Elizabeth's secret agent.