• 수완나부미
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.229-254
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• 2023

This study observes the language attitude and maintenance of the border community in Telok Melano, Lundu (Sarawak, Malaysia) and Desa Temajuk, Sambas (West Kalimantan, Indonesia). The main objective of this study is to study the language attitudes of two cross-border community who shares the socio-cultural, language, and economic realms. The research data is collected qualitatively through conversation recordings, face-to-face interviews, and participant observations. In this preliminary study, twelve informants (six from Telok Melano and six from Desa Temajuk) were chosen based on the quota sampling method. The questions for the interview were set according to three characteristics of language choice proposed by Garvin and Mathiot (1968), namely language loyalty, language pride, and the awareness of norms. The result of this study indicates that language loyalty, language pride, and awareness of the norms towards the speakers' mother tongue and national language are relatively high. In terms of identity maintenance issues, this study found that the community in Telok Melano (Sarawak), originally identify themselves as "Sambas Malays," shifted to "Sarawak Malays" after the formation of Malaysia in 1963. This preliminary study serves as a basis for further research particularly on the complexity of issues concerned with the border communities in the Southwest of Sarawak.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.599-624
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• 2011

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (and the Border Trilogy) can be used as a touchstone with which the limit of American literature is tested. For his text is particularly significant in the sense that its language mixes English with Spanish; its characterization confronts Americans with non-Americans; and its narrative structure traverses the geographical and symbolic borderlands between America and Mexico. In this sense, his novels deserve to be reexamined under the rubric of Chicano/a Studies, Hemispheric American Studies, transnationalism, etc. Rereading McCarthy's Blood Meridian, this paper attempts to rethink its historical complexity in relation to Manifest Destiny, focusing on the border-crossing motifs of filibustering and scalp-hunting. For this purpose, I pay due and careful attention to the ways in which the ideology of Manifest Destiny was created, circulated, and manipulated among the 19th century American expansionists and border-crossing agents. Of course, my discussion does not omit the significance of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the contemporary Chicano/a Studies and Hemispheric American Studies. In these historical and interdisciplinary contexts, I investigate how the 19th century filibusters like Captain Smith and his followers fall prey to the imperial practice of Manifest Destiny. I would also interrogate whether and how the Glanton Gang's scalp trade is involved in the capitalist desire of Manifest Destiny.

• 이베로아메리카
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.179-208
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• 2021

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, as a witness to the accelerated changes in Tijuana since the 80's, has built a chronicle of the city based on nostalgia, fantasy, popular language, music, and criticism of the inequality between both sides of the border, but above all, on humour and irony. Among the gallery of characters that populate his stories, the common resident of the border has a special place. Here we are not talking about the passing person or newcomers, but of those who have shaped their social and personal identity from a long every day relationship with the city and the borderline, which makes up what we will call the border-being. In this work, we dialogue with the psychoanalytic concept of border personality or borderline disorder, which refers in a general way to subjects with a deep fracture between the self and the being, which prompts a psychotic search to reconcile this division. In addition, we will engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue to analyse how Crosthwaite characterises the fracture of the border-subjects in some of the stories of the book Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera, to point out the psychosis caused by the sociocultural tensions of life in a border city like Tijuana.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1964-1972
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• 2000

For the Korean language, on acoustics, it creates a different form of phonetic value not a phoneme by its own peculiar property. Therefore, the construction of extended recognition system for understanding Korean language should be created with a study of the Korean rule-based system, before it can be used as post-processing of the Korean recognition system. In this paper, text-based Korean rule-based system featuring Korean peculiar vocal sound changing rule is constructed. and based on the text-based phonetic value result of the system constructed, a preliminary phonetic value segmentation border points with non-uniform blocks are extracted in Korean isolated word speech. Through the way of merge and recognition of the non-uniform blocks between the extracted border points, recognition possibility of Korean voice as the form of the phonetic vale has been investigated.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2024

The role of social networking mobile applications such as WhatsApp in enhancing second language vocabulary learning among English language learners continues to be a subject of interest for many scholars. The current study aimed at examining medical English vocabulary learning among undergraduate students using WhatsApp compared to learning vocabulary via the Blackboard platform during the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, 108 medical students (51 males, 57 females) enrolled in a first semester English for a specific English course participated in the study. A quasi-experimental design was adopted for two groups. Fifty-three students participated in the WhatsApp group and 55 students formed the Blackboard group. A pretest-posttest design was employed to collect data. Results of t-test scores did not show a significant difference between the WhatsApp and Blackboard groups on a vocabulary test. Results of a survey that measured students' opinion of the use of WhatsApp as a platform for learning new vocabulary showed positive perceptions since participants thought that WhatsApp enhanced their learning experience.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제46권
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• pp.85-112
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• 2017

미국의 제45대 대통령으로 취임한 도널드 트럼프는 선거캠페인이 시작된 이래로 '영어유일주의'를 천명해 왔다. 이 단일언어 정책은 세계화가 본격화된 1990년대 이후 미국의 인구학적, 문화적 변화에 직면하여 이민자와 다문화주의를 거부하고 토착주의를 강조하는 흐름의 연장선상에 놓여있다. 특히, 미국의 히스패닉화와 스페인어의 성장에 대한 반작용으로 백인중심의 문화와 가치를 고수하려는 시도와 연결되어 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 트럼프의 단일언어주의를 대표적인 라티나 작가인 글로리아 안살두아가 제안하는 '경계의 언어'와 대비시키면서 코드스위칭의 효과와 이중언어 공동체의 가능성을 탐구한다. "경계지대/국경"(1987)에서 안살두아는 하위언어인 스페인어를 텍스트에 포함시키며 자신의 언어적 현실을 드러냄과 동시에, 영어와 스페인어의 교차사용을 통한 번역작업을 시도한다. 다른 한편으로는 번역의 불가능성을 드러내면서 이중언어 사용의 불가피함을 암시하는 한편, 단일언어 독자들에게 타자의 언어와 문화를 이해하고 소통해야할 필요성에 대해 역설한다. 안살두아가 구현하는 '경계의 언어'는 이질적인 민족, 계급, 세대의 언어가 충돌하고 교섭하는 게임의 과정을 통해 생성된다. 고정되기보다는 계속적으로 변화하는 언어적 형태를 통해 안살두아는 단일 언어주의를 넘어서는 새로운 시각과 더불어 다양한 언어들 사이에서 대안적 소통방식의 필요성을 제기한다.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.59-78
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• 2009

Language Capital is one of the most important academic abilities and competencies for new era of globalization worldwide. In Europe and Asia where English is not the native language, it is necessary to encourage higher education to improve language competency from both qualitative and quantitative aspects. In so far as online university concerned, it appears of significance to prepare for globalization from the perspective of cross border education, and it needs to focus on how to design and develop English-medium teaching (EMT) or in other words English mediated instruction(EMI) for both teachers and students. In order to provide supportive programs of English-mediated class for teachers and students, the study examined and analyzed what abilities are needed for teachers based on DACUUM approach, suggesting teachers' competency as well as strategies for online- EMT. Based on literature review, DACUUM analysis, focus group interview with teachers and students who experienced online EMT, online programs supporting both teachers and students for online EMI were developed. This program expects to play roles of practical guidelines and reference for both teachers and students online in an extension of language capital improvement.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제51권
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• pp.213-233
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• 2018

이 글은 언어로 미래를 그리는 일은 지금과는 다른 언어의 세계를 그리는 일임과 동시에, 언어가 달라진 미래와 현재 사이에 동일성을 현재의 언어로 확보해야 한다는 매우 어렵지만 중요한 일이라는 문제의식 하에, 다와다 요코의 "불사의 섬"과 "헌등사"를 중심으로 디스토피아의 언어 세계를 고찰하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 먼저 이중언어 작가로서 독일과 일본어 사이의 경계를 횡단하던 다와다 요코에게 있어 2011년 동일본대지진과 이에 따른 후쿠시마 원자력 발전 사고는, 방사능 누출로 인한 신체적 변동에 따른 기존의 시니피앙과 시니피에 사이의 질서가 파괴된 세계의 출현이라는 의미로 받아들여졌음을 "불사의 섬"을 통해 확인할 수 있다. "헌등사"는 쇄국정책 등을 통해서 기존의 언어적 질서가 파괴된 세계 속에서도 다중적인 의미를 담아낼 수 있는 언어활동을 통해서 인간적인 유대가 유지될 수 있음을 보여준다. 다와다 요코의 소설에 대한 이상의 고찰을 통해서, 인간이 다양한 언어의 힘에 기대고 그것을 유지시킬 수 있는 이상 그 산물로서 어떤 생생한 디스토피아 속에도 실은 희망이 숨겨져 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.237-264
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• 2011

Based on its geophysical feature, the island has long been recognized as a separate and self-sustaining space independent of neighboring continent or other islands. Literary tradition has used the island as a metaphor for a utopian alternative to mundane human society with its various kinds of wrongdoings. Recent nature writings have taken up this island metaphor to emphasize the wholeness of the ecosystem in specifically designated natural community or landscapes such as national parks or wilderness preservation areas. Human-nature relations as border-divided area is also recognized as the island. Modern island biogeography, however, has disproved such a concept of islands as autonomous, revealing the contrasting fact that the richness of species on an undisturbed island is determined largely by species immigration from and emigration to a source of colonists. This scientific finding has posited the island as the interconnected nature, but the public and metaphoric use of it still resorts to the old concept of it as isolated and autonomous nature, because this image has been ingrained deeply in our consciousness and culture. Considering the negative consequences from the recognition of nature and nature-humans as isolated space, we need a new nature metaphor that embodies interconnectedness in nature and of human-nature relations. Such feature of interconnectedness is best embedded in the concept of ecotone. Some ecotones are created and maintained through human participation in nature, and this human induced nature of ecotone denotes the possibilities of a constructive relation between them. The substitution of the island with the ecotone as the concept of nature and the image of human-nature relations is expected to correct ecocritical practices of reading of nature writing, which has been predominantly interpreted within the orientation of nature itself and nature-human relations as an isolated and self-autonomous island. Adopting the ecotone in literary study enables ecocriticism to dig out cultural elements embedded in nature writing and reveal socio-political, ideological factors hidden behind the writers' portrayal of nature as islands.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권3호
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• pp.469-481
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• 2018

When literatures and cultures encounter their counterparts in terms of the big data or statistics of a new reconfiguration in the cognitive map, the tangential points of the borderland will be reduced to what Mitchell calls "a mere abstraction on a map," which nevertheless will provide a vast interstitial zone of "intersections, competition, and exclusions." This zone will be the dynamic vortex for the aesthetics, politics, and ethics of cultural translation. The translated discourse will engage in carrying across the disturbing region of untranslatability and demonstrate how the literary texts of world literature reveal enriching but threatening human experience. This dynamic border of vortex will construct the translational space of world literature, transcending the fragmentary untranslatable nature of the hybrid convergence of the ethnic, racial, cultural and national intermixtures and constructing what Pascal Casanova terms "The World Republic of Letters." In this paper, I will demonstrate how the very concept of scale is related to literary space as well as how distance creates a poetics of literary landscapes which looks ahead of world literature. Also, I will attempt to find the possibility to relate the "micro-scale" with the "macro-scale," and to construct the scale politics of representation. "Glocalization" is a convenient theoretical tool for the double movement of the up-scale and down-scale.