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Title: SUBJECTIVITY OF TRANSLATORS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATIONS OF ZHUANGZI BY JAMES LEGGE AND ZHAO YANCHUN Authors: Zhang Yihan and Hua Jing, China Abstract: Through a comparative analysis of James Legge’s and Zhao Yanchun’s English translations of Zhuangzi, this study explores the manifold embodiments of the translator’s subjectivity in cross-cultural translation and the impact of such embodiments … Read more

Title: MERANAW BAYOK CHANTS: ORAL TRADITIONS IN PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION Authors: Alia I. Pacasirang, Philippines Abstract: Music and oral traditions have long served as vital instruments in peacebuilding, providing communities with a shared language to negotiate conflict and foster unity (Howell, 2022). This study examines two selected bayok texts—Bayok sa Ka-Khapal (Reunion Chant) and Bayok sa Kasimpala … Read more

Title: THE DECOLONIAL POETICS OF THE COLONIZED Authors: Dr Bawa KAMMAMPOAL and BOUSSANGUE Kokou, Togo Abstract: Colonialism, in its entirety, involves territorial, economic, political and cultural subjugation, appropriation as well as exploitation of another country and its people, with the intent and purpose of establishing one’s dominance. In fact, colonialism was not restricted to the countries and … Read more

Title: POLITENESS IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH: A PRAGMATIC CONTRASTIVE STUDY Authors: Lect. Bahaa A. Muslim Al-Zobaidy, Iraq Abstract: This article scrupulously explores the subtle appropriation of politeness strategies in Arabic and English from a general pragmatic and contrastive viewpoint. Having built on what Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory has provided, the research examines in detail how both … Read more

Title: THE INVENTION OF FRENCH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN CANADA Authors: Laurent Poliquin, Canada Abstract: This article traces the emergence of French language literature in Western and Northern Canada, a vast prairie and boreal region largely absent from international literary maps. It examines how francophone writing developed in this minority setting, far from Québec and France, and … Read more

Title: ERROR ANALYSIS ON WRITING ACADEMIC ESSAYS IN FILIPINO OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Authors: Rica Rose P. Arsate*, Flora Mae T. Tupiasan, Jessica T. Tabat and Dr. Elleine Rose A. Oliva, Philippines Abstract: Writing proficiency is a vital academic skill that must be developed among students; however, the correct use of language structure and adherence to … Read more

Title: REVISITING THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: WOMEN AND TRAUMA IN ATTAH’S HUNDRED WELLS OF SALAGA Authors: Lydia Apio, Ghana Abstract: This paper seeks to explore how women recount the pains slavery subjected them to in Attah’s Hundred Wells of Salaga. Women who were enslaved in pre-colonial Ghana were seen as chattel by their slave masters and were exploited … Read more

Title: THE ORIGINS OF BUDDHISM – CONFUCIANISM – TAOISM INTEGRATION ISSUE IN VIETNAM Authors: Dũng, Trần Văn, Vietnam Abstract: Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism come to be through the synthesis of all aspects of life to attain all-encompassing advantages, with the nation’s and the fatherland’s interests given priority. Initially, we emphasize the fundamental basis of patriotism and the sense … Read more

Title: POLITICAL POWER SECESSION AS A CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR IN MAXWELL NKEM NWAGBOSO’S THE ROAD TO DAMNATION Authors: SIDI CHABI Moussa, Benin Abstract: This paper aims at examining critically political power secession as a cause of civil war through the lens of Maxwell Nkem Nwagboso’s The Road to Damnation. Political power secession generally occurs in a country … Read more

Title: CRISIS OF EXISTENTIAL SELF-APPREHENSION IN ESIABA IROBI’S NWOKEDI Authors: Dr. Olufemi Adeosun, Nigeria Abstract: This paper interrogates crisis of existential self-apprehension in Esiaba Irobi’s Nwokedi. Consequently, it explores a possible nexus between the playwright’s existential experiences and the framing of his dramaturgy, particularly as it is mirrored in the violent dispositions of Nwokedi, the central character in … Read more