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From the perspective of functional grammar, there are three metafunctions in language, experiential metafunction, interpersonal metafunction and textual metafunction (Halliday, M. A. K. 1994). This thesis will analysis the process of the protagonist’s identity construction from transitivity in experiential metafunction, so as to reveal the transformation of the protagonist’s identity and expose the process of identity construction. What’s more, this thesis also gives a new perspective to analyze the literature works and demonstrates the feasibility and practicability of analyzing novels in transitivity from functional grammar.

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L’étude intitulée « Regard du travailleur social sur la persistance des conflits de chefferie dans les villages Atchan : une illustration à partir du village d’Anonkoua-koute » a pour objectif l’analyse des facteurs explicatifs de la persistance des conflits de chefferie dans ledit village. De cette analyse se dégage la question de savoir pourquoi, malgré les médiations et sensibilisations de l’Etat à travers la Préfecture d’Abidjan et des partenaires au développement, le village d’Anonkoua-kouté est en proie à des conflits de chefferie à répétition ? Pour y arriver, les thèmes que sont l’organisation sociopolitique du peuple Atchan, les obstacles au rétablissement des liens entre les différentes générations, l’efficacité, les limites des actions et les stratégies mises en place pour régler le conflit ont soutenu l’enquête. Egalement l’enquête a permis d’élucider l’hypothèse selon laquelle, ce sont les perceptions du pouvoir qu’ont les villageois d’Anonkoua-kouté qui expliquent la persistance des conflits. Avec les instruments que sont l’observation, les entretiens et les focus groups, les résultats obtenus sont liés aux divergences d’interprétation de la coutume, les intérêts en jeu, le mode de gestion des chefs qui se sont succédés. En définitive, le présent travail s’inscrit dans la théorie de l’acteur stratégique.

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Contrastive analysis (CA) is a branch of applied linguistics that focuses on the study of two languages in contrast (Brown, D. 1984). Teaching through this method may help the students of translation and EFL learners to use language effectively, accurately and naturally. The paper aims to present a study that explores the role of CA, comparative and contrastive collocational analysis of Persian and English, to teach collocations in Persian to English translation of journalistic texts. More specifically, it tries to provide an answer to the question on whether raising awareness of students to correct English collocations through CA has any significant effect on Persian-English translation ability of Iranian undergraduate students in translating journalistic texts. Hence, this paper invited two groups of Iranian undergraduate students majoring in English translation as the experimental and control group totaling 34 to sit for the pre-test and the post-test. Having shown no significant difference between the control and the experimental group by the pre-test (t32= 0.507, p= 0.616) regarding collocational knowledge of the participants, the study showed that applying CA led to a significant difference between the two groups in the post-test (t32= 11.56, p= 0.000).

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The paper focused on factor affecting provision of rural public library services in northern Nigeria. Survey research using questionnaire was used to collected data from the heads of rural public libraries under study. The findings of the study revealed that nearly to 60% of rural libraries have available reading tables and chairs. It also identified that 77.53 of the rural libraries have their own building but not built to suit as library which might affect the provision of effective and efficient library services. With regards to contribution of library resources and facilities towards the provision of library services, the findings disclosed that library staff ranked 1 with the WAM score of 4.27, followed by ‘library collections’ and ‘library furniture’ ranked the 2nd and 3rd place with score 3.49 and 3.46 while ‘internet facilities’ found the least facility with WAM score of 2.27 and ranked 17th. Regarding the factors affecting rural public libraries in the provision of library services, it was found that, out of 16 variables ‘lack of proper meeting hall/room to host or organize community meetings’ ranked 1st, ‘lack of children materials and facilities’ ranked 2nd and ‘lack of governments’ concern towards rural libraries ranked 3rd. The study concluded with the suggestions to address the factors affecting provision of rural public library services in northern Nigeria.

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One of the powerful trends in developing contemporary translation theories is to employ linguistic theories to settle translation problems. Register is an important theory in Systemic-Functional Grammar, characterized by three main dimensions of variation, namely field, tenor and mode. Subtitling translation is one of the most frequently used devices of audiovisual translation. Due to the differences between English and Chinese, the accuracy and appropriacy of subtitling translation are essential to cultural comprehension and interaction in the English movies. This paper attempts to originally explore the expressions of the three areas in the subtitling translation in the movie Green book and demonstrate the instructional role of register theory on movie subtitling translation. Through the analysis, a better cultural understanding of subtitling translation in foreign movies within the framework of register is available and further implications on cross-cultural translation from the standpoint of linguistics can be reached.