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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…
Anmin Mao
Due to their heterogeneous and multi-functional property, interjections investigated in this paper are narrowed down to emotive interjections only. A respective subdivision of primary and secondary interjections is made at the beginning for a better elaborati…
Yunfeng Shi, Yuhong Xie
Garden path sentence is a kind of complex sentence which may cause structural and semantic ambiguity. Psycholinguistic analysis is the conventional approach to it. This paper will survey garden path sentence via viewpoint analysis within a systemic functional…
David Kernot, Terry Bossomaier, Roger Bradbury
The debate that language strongly influences thought is equally met by those who suggest language does not influence thought. While historically, the ability to communicate with words was believed to be intimately tied to an ability to form thoughts, we would…
Xiaoling Yang
With the rapid development of global economy, food culture is indispensable for human. The need to delicate food is demanding. Chinese diet is profound. Chinese food fronts some problems, one of which is English translation. In this paper, the author aims to…
Xiaoli Zhou, Yaxin Wu
This study inquires into Chinese working couples’ (both the husband and the wife have a paid job) marital power relations manifested in their use of face-threatening utterances in family situations. A quantitative approach is adopted and the data come from 4…
Yunfeng Shi, Yuhong Xie
What makes some seemingly meaningless sentences frequently useful in the daily communication and thus meaningful? This paper proposes an innovative perspective of studying pragmatic meaning via considering the language users’ viewpoint, which influences and d…
Wei Chen
The research on the omission in the field of linguistics can be divided into the perspective of transformational generative grammar and functional grammar. The research on the omission from the perspective of transformational generative grammar is mainly embo…
Mohammad Reza Najjarian
Abolfaraj Rouni is a pioneer of a new poetry style who has influenced all the 6 th century (A.H) poets directly and indirectly. His own and his followers’ poems have served as a basis for changing the Khorasani style to Iraqi style. His anthology is fraught w…
Mable Chan
This study examines how teachers perceive the difficulties and strategies of acquiring simple past tense, and the pedagogical implications. Findings show that teachers’ understanding of the nature of the acquisition problem of tense, and their use of teaching…
Douglas J. Wulf
Accurate use of the article system in English is a common problem even for advanced students of English as a second language (ESL). Articles are non-salient and there is much idiosyncrasy in their patterns of use. Extensive lists of rules and exceptions have…
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