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The EL Journal is an academic open-access, double-blind peer reviewed international journal publi... more The EL Journal is an academic open-access, double-blind peer reviewed international journal published on a biannnual basis and appearing both in print and on-line. It is meant for all those involved in research in English Studies. The journal publishes research papers in all fields of language, linguistics and literature, discourse analysis and pragmatics, fundamentals of languages, origins/evolution of language, language and nature, linguistic anthropology, philosophy of language, psychology of language, ELT, sociolinguistics, language and gender, English syntax, historical linguistics, communicative strategies, field methods in linguistics, dialectology, applied linguistics, language and society, stylistics and literature, and related fields.
ELJ publishes original papers, review articles, dealing with conceptual frameworks, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Occasional special issues will be devoted to current key topics in language, literature and linguistics.
This international-refereed journal is a publication of DSPM RESEARCH LAB, MOSTAGANEM UNIVERSITY PRESS, ALGERIA.
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The EL Journal is an academic open-access, double-blind peer reviewed international journal publi... more The EL Journal is an academic open-access, double-blind peer reviewed international journal published on a biannnual basis and appearing both in print and on-line. It is meant for all those involved in research in English Studies. The journal publishes research papers in all fields of language, linguistics and literature, discourse analysis and pragmatics, fundamentals of languages, origins/evolution of language, language and nature, linguistic anthropology, philosophy of language, psychology of language, ELT, sociolinguistics, language and gender, English syntax, historical linguistics, communicative strategies, field methods in linguistics, dialectology, applied linguistics, language and society, stylistics and literature, and related fields.
ELJ publishes original papers, review articles, dealing with conceptual frameworks, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Occasional special issues will be devoted to current key topics in language, literature and linguistics.
This international-refereed journal is a publication of DSPM RESEARCH LAB, MOSTAGANEM UNIVERSITY PRESS, ALGERIA.
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The book is a brief survey intended for readers new to the formal study of language in general. I... more The book is a brief survey intended for readers new to the formal study of language in general. It introduces schemata, what people in a particular community regard as normal and predictable ways of organizing the world and communicating with others. The author provides a succinct but lucid outline of the ways schemata have been defined, described, and explored, and illustrates basic concepts related not only to schema theory, but also to discourse, language in use. Then, studies the consequences such theory might have on foreign language teaching, English in particular. The book ends up with stressing the importance of not only the pragmatic discourse in the acquisition of a foreign language and how it is schematically related to culture and society, but also the pragmatic relevance of the act of learning a foreign language outside the classroom world.
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The aim of this paper is to give a brief introduction of Systemic Functional Linguistics to peopl... more The aim of this paper is to give a brief introduction of Systemic Functional Linguistics to people new to this theory of linguistic description by shedding light on some of its aspects, chief among these the insights that this theory gives on language learning and its contribution to the field of education in general and pedagogy in particular. Written in an accessible style, this paper tries, to the utmost, to simplify when possible, the theory by avoiding the use of all the metalanguage and technical jargons that theorists display in their writings. It thus requires no prior knowledge or readings, as it uses no indexical references to other theories of linguistic descriptions or other sources but the ones that they inform this paper. 1. Introduction One alternative way of dealing with language description would be from a functionalist perspective. The concern herein is on how language is organised to achieve the social functions it is meant to serve (Widdowson, 1996). The focus is thus on language as a social phenomenon. MAK Halliday talks about 'language as social semiotics', i.e. as a system of set signs (meanings) socially motivated that are used to express our beliefs, cultures and communion needs. Language, in systemic functional perspective, is regarded as a semiotic tool/resource that interacts with the eco-social environment for making and exchanging meaning. Halliday's systemic functional description is meant to answer the question of how language works. Halliday views language as a meaning –making resource i.e., language as 'meaning-potential'. To learn a language is to learn how to mean (Halliday, 1975). Indeed, we are creatures who mean. Linguistics is then seen as the study of meaning in society. But what is meant, first, by the expression: systemic functional description of language? Functional is used in opposition to formal so far as it considers language as 'a practical means of expressing meaning rather than as an abstract set of relations' (Flowerdew, 2013:11). Grammar, in Systemic Functional Linguistics (henceforth SFL), and lexis are two poles of the same continuum that combine together so that to construe meaning. This combination is referred to as ' lexicogrammar'. In other words, SFL is concerned with how language is used. This functionality, according to Halliday (1985) lies on 'three distinct aspects of its interpretation of: text, system and structure' (ibid: xiii). Language has evolved through time with the evolution of the human species so that to cope with its needs. It is, hence, organized as such. What is of interest is the way language has been fashioned to meet our social needs. The Systemic Functional model of linguistic description should, hence, reflect the essential social nature of language. Its design has to represent the social purposes/ functions language has evolved to fulfil. To serve these functions language is organised around two kinds of meanings: the ideational and the interpersonal. A third metafunctional component, the textual, is said to bestow relevance on the first two. All elements of language are then explained by reference to these functions. I will return to this issue later. This tripartite structure, as Widdowson (2004:26) refers to, and around which the model is built, accounts for how language is intrinsically fashioned so that to mean. Systemic contrasts with systematic and refers to the range of multiple options that the language producer has at his disposal so that to realise meanings. This range of choices is set paradigmatically and concerns the elements that can be substituted for each other in a particular context. A systemic grammar differs from other functional grammars (and from all formal grammars) in that it is paradigmatic: a system is a paradigmatic set of alternative features, of which one must be chosen if the entry condition is satisfied. ((Emphasis in the original) (Halliday, 2003 [1992]: 209) Therefore, choice-from within the semantic system networks-is the primary organizing element of the linguistic resources of the language system. This 'system network formalizes the idea that language is a potential from which choices can be made in particular environments (Taverniers, 2002:30) (Emphasis in the original). A
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Literary critics classify Harold Pinter's drama under the heading of the absurd just because it d... more Literary critics classify Harold Pinter's drama under the heading of the absurd just because it deals with a drama where characters experience a dull meaningless life in which nothing happens. No action seems to take place. Boredom and futility top man's life. However, I take the view that the absurdity of Pinter's drama is of another type. It is a linguistic absurdity, where language-this essential characteristic of our being-is distorted, tweaked to make the text means. The aim of this paper is to argue for the absurdity of Pinter's drama at the level of language by drawing on pragmatic theories namely, Austin and Searle's Speech Act Theory (1962, 1969), Grice's Cooperative Principle (1975) and Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory (1986). Key pragmatic features that characterise interactions in Pinter's drama are not only highlighted but also discussed and described.
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The theoretical framework that informs this paper is systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1... more The theoretical framework that informs this paper is systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1994, Mathiessen, 1995 and Halliday and Mathiessen, 2004). This paper is not meant to be a guide for foreign language teachers on how to teach with a list of prescriptive tips to be adequately followed, but meant to highlight the importance of language teaching as a social functional activity. It stresses the need for a particular type of literacy that helps learners reflect on the ideational content of the educational input, questions beliefs and settled practices of their societies, and dwells on the educational requirement for any country to join the socioeconomic revolutionary processes of Globalisation.
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The use of English as the global lingua franca highlights the need for an understanding of the pr... more The use of English as the global lingua franca highlights the need for an understanding of the pragmatic principles governing communicative practices to successfully communicate across diverse cultures. ELF users are necessarily engaged in multilingual and multicultural practices. They thus have an ideal opportunity to use English in order to negotiate multiple ‘hybrid’ interactions, rather than interactions based on traditional, shared native speaker norms. This paper argues that although the overriding importance of pragmatics as norms of use has been recognized in second language communication, it needs re- consideration in the light of the more fluid communicative practices of English when used as a global currency in international encounters between people from different lingua-cultural backgrounds. Key pragmatic features that characterise ELF interactions are discussed and some of the pragmatic ELF users need to acquire in order to engage successfully in such interactions are described and exemplified.
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Chomsky’s linguistic theories are concerned with what, as human beings, know about language, and ... more Chomsky’s linguistic theories are concerned with what, as human beings, know about language, and how this knowledge is acquired. It is a linguistics that focuses on the general properties of LANGUAGE rather than on a particular one such as English, Arabic, etc. However, this linguistics has, undoubtedly, raised the most controversial claim in linguistics history when Chomsky asserted that humans are born with an innate ability to acquire language. Though this claim has never been proved biologically, it has also never been refuted on scientific grounds. Chomsky remained unmoved by his critics and even when he undertook major revisions to his theories, he neither rejected nor abandoned them.
The aim of this paper is to retrace/discuss the essential of these revisions and give a concise account of their diachronic evolution. In this respect, key features of Chomsky’s claims are highlighted with appropriate exemplifications and their veracity revisited.
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The present paper aims to study the amount of pragmatic information that Algerian EFL textbooks a... more The present paper aims to study the amount of pragmatic information that Algerian EFL textbooks at college level provide to learners. The comparative qualitative and quantitative study between four (04) Algerian EFL textbooks and other four ones meant for international markets- Oxford Headway series- was carried so that to determine the amount of information and realistic language included.
Artículo publicado en CLAN (Corpus of Language and Nature): Neddar: Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Information In Algerian EFL Textbooks http://conference.clancorpus.net/?p=824
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One of the dreadful experiences that one could go through is that of exile, be it externally or ... more One of the dreadful experiences that one could go through is that of exile, be it externally or self-imposed. A state of being (physical or moral) that can be either a permanent or transient stage. And in both cases it is very hurtful with a lot of inflicted suffering and ‘an un-surmounted essential sadness’ (Said 2000). I once said when going through it that exile is like a sexual experience. It cannot be described but lived. Even though, in what follows I will venture and try to describe it.
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We are all expecting English to become the dominant shared language whilst our own languages wo... more We are all expecting English to become the dominant shared language whilst our own languages would be, like any local currency, relegated to – if not ignored at all - a peripheral zone with restricted use. Will the notion of speech community disappear, at our expense and that of our cultures, to give place to the notion of community of practice? Is this the death of multilingualism, or is it all just speculation?
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The present paper aims to shed light on the relation which exists between discourse, pragmatics, ... more The present paper aims to shed light on the relation which exists between discourse, pragmatics, culture and the possibility of integrating these three components in the language classroom. It stresses the need for adopting a purely cross-cultural pragmatic approach to foreign language teaching. This need is paired to the equally important approach based on idealisation traditions. The paper ends up by teasing out two major issues: the problematic relationship between theory and practice and the future perspectives of pragmatics in the act of EFL learning in an era where English has become the dominant linguistic medium of international communication.
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ELJ publishes original papers, review articles, dealing with conceptual frameworks, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Occasional special issues will be devoted to current key topics in language, literature and linguistics.
This international-refereed journal is a publication of DSPM RESEARCH LAB, MOSTAGANEM UNIVERSITY PRESS, ALGERIA.
ELJ publishes original papers, review articles, dealing with conceptual frameworks, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Occasional special issues will be devoted to current key topics in language, literature and linguistics.
This international-refereed journal is a publication of DSPM RESEARCH LAB, MOSTAGANEM UNIVERSITY PRESS, ALGERIA.
Papers by Bel Abbes Neddar
The aim of this paper is to retrace/discuss the essential of these revisions and give a concise account of their diachronic evolution. In this respect, key features of Chomsky’s claims are highlighted with appropriate exemplifications and their veracity revisited.
Artículo publicado en CLAN (Corpus of Language and Nature): Neddar: Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Information In Algerian EFL Textbooks http://conference.clancorpus.net/?p=824
ELJ publishes original papers, review articles, dealing with conceptual frameworks, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Occasional special issues will be devoted to current key topics in language, literature and linguistics.
This international-refereed journal is a publication of DSPM RESEARCH LAB, MOSTAGANEM UNIVERSITY PRESS, ALGERIA.
ELJ publishes original papers, review articles, dealing with conceptual frameworks, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Occasional special issues will be devoted to current key topics in language, literature and linguistics.
This international-refereed journal is a publication of DSPM RESEARCH LAB, MOSTAGANEM UNIVERSITY PRESS, ALGERIA.
The aim of this paper is to retrace/discuss the essential of these revisions and give a concise account of their diachronic evolution. In this respect, key features of Chomsky’s claims are highlighted with appropriate exemplifications and their veracity revisited.
Artículo publicado en CLAN (Corpus of Language and Nature): Neddar: Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Information In Algerian EFL Textbooks http://conference.clancorpus.net/?p=824
Thus, rather than expecting learners to abandon their own social identities and communicative competencies in an attempt to replicate some native speaker ideal, the tendency now is to develop-within our learners- their intercultural communicative competence. This, indeed, gives us the possibility to emphasise on knowledge and skills needed to understand people from other unfamiliar cultures and to mediate between the foreign cultures and the learners’ own culture in a way that leads to successful communication. This is what a lot of learners with limited experience of ‘otherness’ lack.
The aim of this paper is, indeed, to deal with such issues and highlight the need for a shift in pedagogy so far as the teaching of English as an international language is concerned. Such a shift requires, so to speak, a move from ‘native-speakerism’ to ‘multiculturalism’.
Algeria is pleased to announce its first international conference on Intercultural, Cognitive and
Social Pragmatics to be held in May 17- 18th. 2016.
The first edition of this conference will be devoted to “Intercultural Pragmatics and Language
Teaching”. It will serve as a forum where applied linguists and practitioners of Pragmatics and
Discourse Analysis can meet, share experiences, discuss common problems, and present papers
on their latest research in the field. We also wish to create awareness among postgraduate
students of the growing interest in this area of linguistic expertise.