scholarly journals Genre Analysis: A Study of Pakistani Wedding Invitation Cards

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Nazish Amjad ◽  
Fakhira Riaz
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Sentence Complexity

The present study has examined the Pakistani wedding invitation cards. The objectives of this study are to conduct the genre analysis of wedding cards i.e. to analyze the moves, its order, communicative purpose and nature; and to explore the micro-linguistic features of the language of wedding invitation cards. For this purpose, fifty Baraat invitation cards, Mehndi invitation cards and wedding cards envelopes each was selected for the analysis by using models proposed by Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993). The results revealed eleven moves in Baraat invitation cards, ten in Mehndi cards and five in wedding cards envelopes out of which some are optional and some are obligatory depending on the frequency of its occurrence in wedding cards. For the analysis of micro-linguistic features, Bhatia’s model (1993) has been used. The micro-linguistic analysis includes sentence complexity, length of the sentence, verb, nouns, conjunctions and prepositions

An Analysis of Indian English News Headlines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samapika Roy ◽  
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Sukhada ◽  
Anil Kr. Singh ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
News Article ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
British English ◽  
Sentence Construction ◽  
News Headlines

News Headlines (NHs) are of the most creative uses of natural languages in a media text. An NH is the frontline of a news article. Specific characteristics make NHs standout: for instance, article omission, use of active verbs, dropping the copula to save space and to attract the reader’s attention to the most significant words, etc. Some research has been done on linguistic analysis of British English NH, Hindi-Urdu NHs, but hardly any work has been conducted on IndENH. This paper attempts to analyze Indian English newspaper headlines (IndENH), and aims to contribute to the accuracy of News Headline parsing. This study determines the linguistic features of the IndENH, to improve the quality of the parsed output of NHs. This paper covers sentence construction, tense, punctuation marks, metaphors, etc. for linguistic analysis.

Weak hand holds in two sign languages and two genres

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sáfár ◽  
Vadim Kimmelman
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Modality Effects ◽  
Corpus Data

In this paper, we provide a quantitative analysis of weak hand holds based on corpus data. We include both a cross-linguistic analysis of these holds in narrative data from Russian Sign Language (RSL) and Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), and a language-internal, cross-genre analysis comparing NGT narrative and conversational data. We classified the functions of all holds found in two corpora of RSL and NGT, and analyzed their formal characteristics. We found that holds in RSL and NGT have similar functions. However, holds are significantly more frequent in RSL than in NGT. In addition, we found that the distribution of holds across different functions varies between different genres in NGT. The similarities between RSL and NGT in the domain of holds may be attributed to modality effects. The differences in frequency of holds ask for a language-specific explanation, and we discuss several possible scenarios.

scholarly journals Exploring the Psychological Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement in China: A Psycho-Linguistic Analysis on Weibo Data Pool

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peijing Wu ◽  
Nan Zhao ◽  
Sijia Li ◽  
Zeyu Liu ◽  
Yilin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Repeated Measure ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Measure Analysis ◽  
Repeated Measure Analysis

BackgroundsWith the rapid spread of COVID-19, strict home confinement has been implemented in most parts of Chinese regions. Millions of people were not allowed to leave their homes except for special reasons. Home confinement plays an essential role in curbing pandemic and promoting preventive behaviors, but it may affect individuals’ mental health as well.ObjectsThe objective of this study was to explore the psychological impacts of home confinement.Materials and MethodsWe collected more than 150,360 Weibo messages from 5,370 Chinese active users, and then extracted psycho-linguistic features from these messages. Psycho-linguistic analysis was carried out using the 2 (confinement vs. non-confinement) × 2 (before vs. after confinement) repeated measure analysis of variance (RM ANOVA).ResultsThe results showed that the frequency of positive emotion words was remarkably decreased during home confinement [F(1,5368) = 7.926, p = 0.005, η2 = 0.001]. In high-endemic subgroup, home confinement also reduced the frequency of exclusion words [F(1,3445) = 4.518, p = 0.034, η2 = 0.001] and inhibition words [F(1,3445) = 10.154, p = 0.001, η2 = 0.003].ConclusionHome confinement caused a decline in the use of positive emotion words. This indicates that home confinement can increase the frequency of negative emotions. The changes of exclusion words and inhibition words in high-endemic areas may be related to the high epidemic threat and the urgent need for social distancing in these areas.

scholarly journals A GENRE-BASED TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF EXPERT ONLINE REVIEWS OF ELECTRIC GUITAR FUZZ PEDALS

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Che Moya
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Consumer Spending ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Electric Guitar ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
Insight Into

This study uses genre analysis to analyze contemporary online text.  Through an analysis of the linguistic features of text from a highly specialized discourse community, perceived expert online reviews of electric guitar fuzz pedals, findings from this study provide insight into the relevance of online reviews. Although there is a layman quality to the actual production of the textual online reviews, genre analysis reveals hybridized genres, authorial power within occluded genre chains, subconscious marketing techniques, and manipulation of perceived expert online reviews. Findings from this study indicate that online reviews have complex occluded genre chains, which are not readily obvious when the reviews are read only for entertainment purposes.  This research has real world applications as relationships between textual generic qualities of online reviews and consumer spending habits are now easily acquired from online data-mining techniques to assist in targeting online consumers’ habits and to increase sales. Online reviews are now what consumers use to assist in shopping. Control of reviews translates to control of consumers’ shopping habits.

Measuring Style in Isaiah: Isaiah 34–35 and the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Joshua Berman
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Text Corpus ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Diachronic Development

Abstract Scholars routinely discern the diachronic development of the book of Isaiah with a discreet focus on vocabulary, phrases, themes, and motifs. All but absent from consideration are the distribution and recurrence of grammatical, morphological, and syntactic features within the text. This study serves as a proof-of concept for the linguistic analysis of such features now available with the launch of the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible (https://tiberias.dicta.org.il/#/). Measuring and weighing the linguistic features of Isa 1–33 and Isa 40–55, the study brings to light the morphological and syntactic features most characteristic of each text corpus. The study also demonstrates that chs. 34 and 35 of Isaiah are much closer in morphology and syntax to chs. 1–33 than they are to chs. 40–55. The implications of these findings are examined in consideration of the scholarly debate concerning the provenance of these two chapters.

Modern Judeo-Provençal as Known from Its Sole Textual Testimony: Harcanot et Barcanot (Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-237
Author(s):  
Peter Nahon
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Relevant Document ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theatrical Play ◽  
Phonetic Features

Abstract This study offers a linguistic description of the idiom of the Jews of the Comtat Venaissin (“Judeo-Provençal”) at the end of the 18th century, based on a critical edition of the only relevant document illustrating this language, a theatrical play in verse entitled Harcanot et Barcanot. The introduction provides a philological inventory of all known sources of “Judeo-Provençal.” The critical and variorum edition of the text, accompanied by linear glosses in English, is followed by a commentary comprising a glossary and analysis of all relevant linguistic features. It reveals, inter alia, that this language possessed words pertaining to the linguistic repertoire of French Jews since the Middle Ages; as for the phonetic features of the Jewish dialect of Provençal, their etiology is to be found in the history of the communities. The study concludes with a reassessment of the nature of linguistic variation in the dialect of the Jews of Provence.

Exploring Socio-cultural Perspective and Stance in Obituary Emails: A genre-based study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-240
Author(s):  
Tazanfal Tehseem ◽  
Summaya Afzal ◽  
Sanam Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
The Social

This paper aims at exploring socio-cultural stance and perspective in writing practices for condolence emails. The social purpose of condolence emails is to express deep sadness on the passing souls. Therefore, such texts note life stories and commemorate inspirations of the deceased both famous and infamous so account for the genre analysis (Christie & Martin, 1997). Since personal emails are written by the individuals concerned so necessarily outline significant cultural elements. The study builds on the topological genre analysis (James R Martin & Rose, 2008) of the condolence emails mainly looking into staging (sequential and ascriptional) and describing linguistic features (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). The analysis shows significant socio-cultural variations in writing condolence emails. Therefore, genre features of the selected texts reveal that differences in perspectives and stance in constructing such texts are mainly attributes of the socio-cultural distinction’s peculiar to different dominant cultures. For example, texts from the European cultures highlight the deceased’s professional achievements then services to the wider community; while emails from the Asian cultures construe interpersonal relationships in the orientation stage then append personal attributes of the deceased followed by the professional services rendered to a wider SFL community. The classified data is obtained from the sys-func and sysfling mailing list archives and has been anonymized to secrete identity.

scholarly journals Linguistic Analysis of Selected TV Cartoons and Its Impact on Language Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arfan Lodhi ◽  
Syeda Ibrar ◽  
Mahwish Shamim ◽  
Sumera Naz
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Language Competencies ◽  
The Impact

The new generation is fascinated by the overwhelming exposition of media. Today, media is performing powerful role in the mental growth and emotional development of children. At the very first stage of cognitive development, children copy the words and expressions used in their surroundings. Cartoons and language used in them directly affect cognitive and linguistic development of children. The present study dissects the linguistic patterns and ideologies used in cartoons shown in Pakistani media. It further attempts to overlook the impact of linguistic features of cartoons on language learning propensities of children. The study adopted mixed method research design by following qual-quan approach. The linguistic analysis of the cartoons was done qualitatively whereas its impact on children’s language was measured through quantitative way. 100 students and 100 teachers were selected to determine the sample by applying random sampling technique. Self-developed questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The collected data shows that cartoons are source of education, entertainment and information for children. Children can improve their language competencies by watching cartoon. However, students were found using many Hindi words in their daily conversation. Linguistic benefits of cartoon language collide with the cultural threats faced by a large number of parents. The findings of the study recommend that children should be shown level oriented and culturally specific cartoons so that students may get maximum linguistic benefits from them.

scholarly journals Genre Analysis of Accounts of Methodology in Arabic Educational Research Articles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-301
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Rhetorical Features ◽  
Rhetorical Structures

Genre analysts have conducted studies on research articles (henceforth RAs) written in different languages, giving primary attention to the introduction section. The methodology has not been given similar attention although it is an essential part of empirical RAs. There are no studies, to the best of my knowledge, which have tackled accounts of methodology of Arabic RAs. This research, therefore, aims to identify the rhetorical features of accounts of methodology of Arabic educational RAs with their realisations. In pursuing this aim, 40 method sections were selected from RAs published in refereed Arabic journals in the field of Education. These were analysed based on Swales’ (1990) ‘move and steps’ analysis approach and bottom-up processing. The linguistic features, realising the moves and steps, were analysed using the transitivity framework (Halliday 1985). The findings show that there are five moves representing the methodology: 1- sample and population of study; 2- procedures of study; 3- measure; 4- variables of study; and 5- data analysis procedures. These moves are realised by a number of steps and sub-steps which are represented most often using material and relational process types. The results of this research provide insights into Arabic academic discourse. The results may also help empower beginner academic writers and enhance writing textbooks. Keywords: Methodology, Research articles, Rhetorical structures and transitivity framework.

scholarly journals How Software Features and Linguistic Analyses Add Value to Orthographic Markup in Transcription of Multilingual Recordings for Digital Archives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Rodriguez ◽  
Robert Vann
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Linguistic Analyses ◽  
Digital Language

This report discusses the importance of accounting for language contact and discourse circumstance in orthographic transcriptions of multilingual recordings of spoken language for deposit in digital language archives (DLAs). Our account provides a linguistically informed approach to the multilingual representation of spontaneous speech patterns, taking steps toward documenting ancestral and emergent codes. Our findings lead to portable lessons learned including (a) the conclusion that transcriptions can benefit from a bottom-up approach targeting particular linguistic features of sociocultural relevance to the community documented and (b) the implication (for researchers developing transcriptions for other DLAs) that the principled implementation of particular software features in tandem with systematic linguistic analysis can be helpful in finding and classifying such features, especially in multilingual recordings.

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