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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…
Wu Xian, Ida Baizura Bahar, Mohammad Ewan Awang
Midnight at the Dragon Café (2004), a novel by the Chinese-Canadian author Judy Fong Bates, recounts the intergenerational experiences of a Chinese immigrant family in Canada, as narrated by the young protagonist, Su-Jen. While previous scholarship has largel…
İsmet Macit, Ilyas Ustunyer
The question of whether an individual may seek justice by their own means when institutional mechanisms fail has long been a central issue in philosophical, legal, and literary debates. Under despotic regimes, where law loses its legitimacy, justice mechanism…
Hamid Abdalla Arabi
This study investigates the deployment of metadiscourse resources in the Discussion sections of research articles authored in two languages: English and Arabic. It explores differences in the use of metadiscourse markers and whether these variations stem from…
Hui Liao, Guohong Li
This study adopts the design of pre-test, watching English TV programs and timely post-test to test the correlation between watching English TV series and the oral ability of English as a second language (ESL) learners, as well as the correlation between list…
Run Mu, Xinhua Zhu, Xiaomeng Zhang, Choo Mui Cheong
Citation in academic writing serves to provide evidence for arguments and demonstrate academic literacy. Previous research has largely focused on single perspectives, limiting insights into how source texts are used in citations. Furthermore, studies examinin…
Naif Almulla
AI tools, such as large language model (LLM) chatbots, have made attaining many learning and educational tasks much easier, and probably even more efficient. These easily accessible and useful resources have made it easy for many students to rely on these too…
Hongjun Chen, Yubo Zhang
This study investigates the untranslatability of Cultural-Loaded Words (CLWs) between English and Chinese through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). By analyzing functional mismatches across phonological, lexicogrammatical, semantic, and conte…
Rong Xiang, Sheriguleng Bao, Yufang Hou
Cultural identity is increasingly seen as a relevant outcome of language learning or teaching beyond intercultural communicative competence. In the process of learning and using languages of Mongolian (mother tongue), Chinese and English, trilingual teachers…
Xiangchen Zhang, Hanyu Xia, Han Zheng
As a burgeoning retail format, cross-border e-commerce has become increasingly influential in shaping international trade, particularly within the textile sector. This study adopts a multimodal discourse analysis framework to investigate how live-streaming is…
Jia Bi, Tingting Meng
Most studies on the relationship between lexical sophistication and writing quality operationalize lexical sophistication as distributional property of words and focus on argumentative essays. This study examines the various aspects of lexical sophistication…
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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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