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Advances in Literary Study (ALS) is an open access journal. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in all areas of Literary Study.All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subjec…
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The Northern drama ( zaju ) of the Yuan Dynasty has distinct formal characteristics in terms of script structure, arias and speaking lines, musical modes and song suites, as well as the linguistic register and metrical requirements. By comparing the three Eng…
Aboubakar Nana Aichatou
The paper studies Hausa films language through the analysis of communication strategies, namely figurative language (proverbs, metaphor), Code switching/Code mixing and Coded-language. The paper attempts to demonstrate how the characters’ use of these devices…
Fatema Akter, Bithi Mojumder, Maruf Rahman
This study aimed at investigating the students’ responses towards the course entitled “History of English Language” in the English Department, learning whether the course was effective or not and also identifying some teachers’ views towards the course. In or…
Yan Li
Chinese herbal medicine features strong national characteristics, and carries heavy cultural connotations. The use of Chinese herbal medicine originated in ancient China, which was called Japanese Kampo medicine after it was introduced into Japan. With the cl…
Yan Li
First of all, this paper briefly reviews Nida’s “functional equivalence” theory, and clarifies the core element of functional translation theory, that is, the response degree of the target readers to the translated text is roughly the same as that of the sour…
Yan Li
This paper gives a brief introduction to Nida’s life experience and the formation of “functional equivalence” translation theory. Nida’s translation theory was not formed overnight, but perfected and deepened through unceasing practical exploration. From the…
Daniel Tia
Black characters’ social life is bothersome; its study in fiction is a comprehensive concern for various literary critics. But because of the complexity of this study, researchers are much more interested in their behaviors and actions. The study of Paule Mar…
Abdoulaye Hakibou
Africa is almost fully known for the great number of its local languages, number diversely appreciated by natives and non-natives, mainly researchers in linguistics. Some take the great number of local languages in individual countries as a handicap to nation…
Hansjörg Martin Rothe
Linguistically speaking, the family of West-Germanic languages contains English (Englisch/Engels), Hoch-Deutsch (Duits/German) and Nederlands (Dutch/Niederl ä ndisch). All of them have Germanic roots to a certain degree but each one differs a lot from th…
Chaibou Elhadji Oumarou
In this paper, I focus on the attitudes of Sarki (chief or king), Malamai (Islamic leaders or elite) and Azne (non-Muslim or pagan) as well as on their motivations for actions and on how they end up constructing identities in the process. For the sake of meth…
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Advances in Literary Study (ALS) is an open access journal. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in all areas of Literary Study.All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subjec… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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