Language foregrounding is the artistically motivated deviation of language,with which readers'attraction is drawn to the author's attention so that the effect of literary depiction is enhanced.The present paper analyz...
The paper considers syntactic stylistics as an index of an author's aesthetic-communicative strategy in explicating his/her subjective-evaluative and cognitive modality in a most effective and expressive way. By the ...
This paper aims at describing the syntactic properties of the Hijazi Arabic negative particles. It presents the basic hierarchy within which the negatives under study occur. It then shows the properties of the Hijazi ...
Interference of Thai numeral phrase structure on Vietnamese numeral phrase structure has been occurred when Vietnamese living in Udon Thani province (Thailand) talk about the number of something in Vietnamese within...
After a message to be conveyed emerges, how a syntactic outline of the intended sentence is constructed is an intriguing issue. Previous research shows that people are more likely to use a particular syntactic structu...
This study aims to examine the relationship between college-level ESL students' speaking and writing. 10 college-level ESL students currently studying in an American university are drawn from a total number of 40 stu...
Macrolinguistically speaking, language is a system of arbitrary symbols used for human communication. However, from a microscopic viewpoint, every language is uniquely different. Absolute correspondence is rarely seen...