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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of…
Inna Kovalchuk, Oksana Kostiuk, Halyna Kraichynska, Lesia Kotsiuk, Vadym Bobkov
The article is devoted to the description of systems of measure and measurements of English, German, Polish and Ukrainian languages. It goes about the history of measures, the origin and formation of units of measurement. It studies the synonymous and variant…
Ghina Itani
Writing coherent and cohesive comparison-contrast (CC) essays has proved to be challenging for university students. To this end, universities establish intensive English programs to boost their students’ writing skills, yet the problem persists. In class, tea…
Xiaolin Mao
This article is an attempt to bring acronym under a closer review. As an exceptionally creative way of forming new words, acronyms have long been marginalized in the study of English word-formation and easily confused with initialisms. This essay is an effort…
Mark J. Davenport
The purpose of this paper is to explore the systemic issues of ambiguity, complexity, and contradiction in legal contracts, and how these flaws have led to significant legal disputes, operational inefficiencies, and financial losses. Through an in-depth analy…
Yulia Kostogorova-Beller
A child born into a dual-language speaking family has the potential to grow into an accent-free bilingual; yet, with all the ubiquity of bilingualism, this tongue is rare. While the mere occurrence of such uniqueness, emerging in a nearly monolingual environm…
Waquar Ahmad Khan, Abdulmohsin A. Alshehri
Bilingualism, in general, is a process of using two different languages in different context of language contact to share the ideas and concepts. It is not only a characteristic of people but also a characteristic of societies. Saudi Arabia, for example, is s…
Yoko Ichiyama
This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the consistency between phonology and orthography as well as the absence of vowel phonemes in the first language in English language textbooks used by third-year junior high school students in Japan and South Ko…
Nouf Fahad M. Alashjaai, Ida Baizura Bahar, Florence Toh Haw Ching, Manimangai Mani
This paper focuses on the research problem of how Irish female immigrant characters in selected novels written by Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903) face racial prejudice and social struggle while transitioning to their new lives in America. These are overlooked t…
Laurence Ajaka, Hiba Kamal Al Chami
Using graphic organizers as a technique is considered one of the techniques that is considered effective in helping students organize their writing and motivate them to learn. The study investigated the effectiveness of graphic organizers as an intervention t…
Zaina Tsouhlaris
The semantics of Modern Greek adjective polis “many, much, more, very, a lot” is of ultimate semantic interest. Greek polis “many, much, more, very, a lot” appears to be under the influence of polysemy and grammaticalization as it appears in specific syntacti…
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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