Traditional modes of communication, including songs, riddles, appelations, and proverbs, remain predominant in small African communities and should be given greater attention as a means of disseminating government policy on family planning. An examination of the folklore of the Akan, an ethnic group in Ghana, demonstrates both the power of traditional communication and its intrinsic stability ...

Although, the fair amount of works in sentiment analysis (SA) and opinion mining (OM) systems in the last decade and with respect to the performance of these systems, but it still not desired performance, especially for morphologically-Rich Language (MRL) such as Arabic, due to the complexities and challenges exist in the nature of the languages itself. One of these challenges is the detection ...

This chapter describes a study that investigates the potential value of using traditional fairy tales as reading material for English language learners (ELL). Using the computational textual analysis software, the Gramulator, the authors analyzed the linguistic features of fairy tales relative to a corpus of ELL reading material and a corpus of baseline educational texts for native English spea...

Proverbs are unique metaphoric expressions, and the translator should be familiar with their meanings in both source language (SL) target (TL), keeping mind of similarities distinctions. The research aims to find out class shift it is affected translation result on novel “The Black Cat Other Stories” by Edgar Allan Poe. This study focused finding types proverbs. qualitative method uses Catford’...

Proverb is a word that often used by people in ancient times until now and part of Chinese culture. Proverbs have many elements, namely animals, plants, the human body, numbers, colors, flavors other elements. Mandarin proverbs are old general become their lives. Until now, people's lives, both learning daily conversation.However, young today rarely know about use Therefore, writer chose mandar...

Adopting an Ethno-pragmatics framework, the current study aims to describe sentential structures and communicative imports of selected proverbs in Nzema, a Kwa language Ghana, West Africa. Using data obtained from primary secondary sources, this identifies structural properties by further highlighting which contribute pragmatic interpretations these proverbs. The findings revealed that such as ...