scholarly journals COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MODALITY IN ENGLISH AND KARAKALPAK LANGUAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
M. Bayimbetova ◽  
D. Kurbanbaev
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Semantic Category ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
Established Fact ◽  
Complex Verbs

Modality is a semantic category indicating the degree of factuality the speaker ascribes to his message. A message can be presented by its author as a statement of basic, a request or an order, or something obligatory, possible or probable but not an established fact. Modal verbs are widely used in English to express various kinds of modality. The English language is rich in modal verbs and their equivalents. As for Karakalpak language, it uses complex verbs as modal expressions, which consist of the combination of simple verbs and modal words. This paper aims to analyse these modal verbs in Modern English and their equivalents in Karakalpak. Such comparative research is significant for nowadays as this approach has the potential to make the learning of English language easier for Karakalpak speakers, while the number of people who are willing to English is only arising. Until now, no scientific work made a comparison of modality in Karakalpak and English.

Working With Asian Language Interpreters in Qualitative Research: A Comparative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 868-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Wong ◽  
Jane Koziol-McLain ◽  
Marewa Glover
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Asian Languages ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Health researchers employ health interpreters for research interviews with linguistically diverse speakers. Few studies compare inconsistencies between different interpretations of the same interview data. We compared interpreted with independently reinterpreted English language transcripts from five in-home family interviews conducted in five different Asian languages. Differences included augmented, summarized, and/or omitted information. Researchers should ensure that they, and their interpreters, follow rigorous processes for credible qualitative data collection, and audit their interpreted data for accuracy. Different interpretations of the same data can be incorporated into analyses.

Code-switching in Jamaica Creole: Some Educational Implications

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (1&2) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Velma Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Actual Speech ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Jamaican Creole

The importance to educational practice of linguistic research in the Caribbean has never been underplayed. Although linguistic descriptions have a validity all their own, it is in their application to educational practice that they can best serve our societies. Bailey, in the conclusion to her definitive work "Jamaica Creole Syntax", comments that the work should help "provide the basis for a thorough comparative study of the two languages on which alone satisfactory English language texts for the island's schools should be based." This paper hopes to look at the phenomenon of code-switching in Jamaican Creole by examining in detail certain actual speech situations, with a view to discovering how the classroom operation can benefit from first-hand knowledge of how situations tend to condition the individual's choice of speech style.

scholarly journals The Perceptions of Information Literacy by Students in English Language Departments: A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Irfan Tosuncuoglu ◽  
Halil Küçükler
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Language And Literature

Information literacy is a fundamental component of the educational process. One of the most essential considerationsinvolved in the course of providing effective education to students, is the need to instil in them the need to be awareof the information and facts that most impact their own lives and the societies in which they live. Informationliteracy includes accessing the essential pieces of information that are necessary for the purpose of functioning as afully informed adult in a democratic society. When these statements are considered within the scope of education andforeign or second language teaching, it is apparent that teachers need to be information literates since they are theones who transfer information or show the way towards it. In order to find out the Information literacy levels of thestudents of two state universities in Turkey, a survey was conducted in the study. The participants were the studentsof the English Language and Literature departments of these universities. As one of universities prefers to remainanonymous, we called them University1 and 2 in the study. University 1 had 50 participants and University 2 had 47,so there were a total of 97 participants in the survey. Descriptive research design was used in this research. The twouniversities were compared, from the point of view of information literacy awareness in the study, and somedifferences were found. For further studies, many more universities can be included in order to obtain a more generaland common conclusions.

scholarly journals Translating Commons’ ‘Industrial Goodwill’ Into Italian: Some Conceptual and Linguistic Considerations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Pietro Manzella ◽  
Bruce E. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Context Specific

This paper examines the English-language term ‘industrial goodwill’, which was introduced into industrial relations discourse by John R. Commons in his book Industrial Goodwill (1919). The paper then goes on to investigate the challenges resulting from the attempts to translate this concept into Italian, as no equivalent exists in the target language which fully captures its English meaning. More generally, this case study is used to highlight the relevance of language in comparative research. This is particularly true in industrial relations, as concepts in this domain are frequently culture and context specific.

A Comparative Study on the Professional Identity of Current and Prospective Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Dara Tafazoli ◽  
Sajad Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Whitney Test ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Spss Software

The main purpose of this study was to probe whether or not there is a statistically significant difference between the prospective teachers' perceptions of professional identity and current teachers' self-perceptions. To meet the end, the researchers applied the Teachers' Professional Identity Questionnaire, by Hasegawa and Kudomi, which contains 48 items on a four-point Likert system. This questionnaire was distributed among 440 Iranian professionals who had majored in one of the majors related to English language. After collecting the data, the researchers tapped them into SPSS software and analyzed them statistically. A Mann-Whitney test on the scores of the two groups of participants highlighted a statistically significant difference. Hence, data analysis indicated that there is a statistically significant difference between the prospective teachers' perceptions of professional identity and the current teacher's self-perceptions.

scholarly journals A Corpus-based Comparative Study of Learn and Acquire

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Bei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
Natural Discourse ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
National Corpus

<p>As an important yet intricate linguistic feature in English language, synonymy poses a great challenge for second language learners. Using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool, this article compares the usage of <em>learn</em> and <em>acquire </em>used in natural discourse by conducting the analysis of concordance, collocation, word sketches and sketch difference. The results show that different functions of SkE can make different contributions to the discrimination of <em>learn</em> and <em>acquire</em>. Pedagogical implications are discussed when the results are introduced into the classroom.</p>

scholarly journals Prophylaxis of Pain and Fractures within Feet in the Course of Osteoporosis: The Issue of Diagnosing

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bitenc-Jasiejko ◽  
Krzysztof Konior ◽  
Kinga Gonta ◽  
Magdalena Dulęba ◽  
Danuta Lietz-Kijak
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
English Language ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Locomotor System ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Fatigue Fractures

Background. Considering the enormous risk of fractures in the course of osteoporosis in the area of the feet, an important aspect of prophylaxis is periodic and, in special cases, ongoing monitoring of defects and deformations as well as pressure distribution. The purpose of this article is to indicate the role of the examination of posture and pressure distribution during standing, postural balance, and gait, in the prevention of fatigue fractures in the course of osteoporosis, based on the literature review and examples of patients. Methods. The manuscript consists of two parts; it has a review-analytical character. The first part reviews the literature. The data were obtained using the MEDLINE (PubMed), as well as Cochrane and Embase databases. The database review was carried out focusing mainly on English-language publications, while taking into account the topicality of scientific and research works in the area of osteoporosis. The problem of multiaspects in the area of bone density was pointed out. Considering the above, in the second part, the authors analyzed 11 exemplary patients with osteoporosis, referring to the assessment of foot and lower limb defects using traditional posturological methods and including pedobarography to diagnostic procedures that are used in the assessment of pressure distribution, standing and moving, and an attempt to balance. Results. Analysis of the research and scientific literature proved the lack of unambiguous diagnostic procedures of the locomotor system recommended for the prevention of fatigue fractures in the course of osteoporosis. The main diagnostic recommendations are imaging tests (most often X-ray), which are recommended in the case of specific clinical symptoms. The analysis of exemplary patients with osteoporosis showed numerous disorders in the distribution of pressure in the plantar part of the feet, which are related, among other things, with their individual defects and lower limbs. Conclusions. Detailed posture diagnostics and gait estimation, along with the analysis of pressure distribution within the feet are a very important aspect of the prevention of structural degradation and fatigue fractures within the feet. An important postulate for further research and scientific work is the elaboration of the procedures that will serve the preventive diagnostics of the locomotor system, aimed at early detection of threats of fatigue fractures.

scholarly journals The Comparative Study of Empires

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 222-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phiroze Vasunia
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
English Language ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Law ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Classical Association ◽  
The Comparative Study

On the basis of a random sample of English-language internet websites about empires, we can now formulate the first law of comparative imperialisms as follows: as an online discussion of empire grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Roman Empire approaches 1. (This is a variant of the general law that states that ‘as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1’.) The comparative study of empires is thriving, and the recent intensity of interest is connected, at least in part, to the international military interventions of the United States. But comparisons between empires are nothing new, and, in the 1960s, Peter Brunt wrote an insightful article on British and Roman imperialism. That analysis was the product of the age of decolonization, an age which also acted as a spur to comparative approaches within classical scholarship: witness Nicole Loraux's suggestion that it was anti-colonial movements associated with the Algerian and Vietnam wars that led Jean-Pierre Vernant to embark on his series of comparative investigations into Greek thought and religion. Brunt's article was written in a retrospective key at a time when it was possible to look back to the completion, or the near completion, of a major period of European colonialism and arrive at a sort of reckoning. Some two generations prior to Brunt, in the early twentieth century and at the apogee of the British Empire, Lord Cromer delivered an address to the Classical Association on ‘Ancient and Modern Imperialism’ in which he found it unimaginable to think of independence for Britain's overseas colonies. Francis Haverfield responded sympathetically to Cromer and in his own writings associated the British and the Roman empires. Any discussion of comparative imperialisms, therefore, will need to consider not just the recent concentration of debates over empire but also a lengthy trajectory that extends back to Cromer and Haverfield and indeed further beyond into the eighteenth century. None of the books under review reflects in detail on the intellectual history in which they may be situated, but this is a subject that at least needs to be acknowledged and that we shall have occasion to return to later.

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