Indonesian exhibits parallel patterns of truncation in the short forms of terms of address and the short forms of personal names. As illustrated in (1a), many common terms of address are formed from the base of a kinship term and appear in both a "long" and "short" form. It is the short forms that are understood here to be truncated. For personal names, a similar pattern is seen where a vocativ...

muhammad al-maqut is considered as one of the most important pioneers of blank verse in arab world. his literary works include different forms such as novel, drama, blank verse, movie script and diary. simplicity, pragmatism and sadness are characteristics of his works. this article attempts to study the language used by al-maqut in “badvi al-ahmar”. the simplicity of the terminology applied by...

This study investigates message change in vocative sentences in the glorious Qur'an when translated to English. The present study aims to find the answers to the following research question: “Do the syntactical and grammatical changes affect the quality of the rhetorical message when translating vocative sentences of qur’anic texts [source language text (ST)] to English [target language text (T...

1 This paper analyzes the vocative truncation pattern in Korean from the viewpoint ofMessage2 Oriented Phonology (MOP: Hall et al. 2016), which capitalizes on the idea that sound patterns 3 are governed by a principle that makes message transfer effective. In the traditional naming 4 pattern, Korean first names consist of a generation marker and a unique portion, and the or5 der between these t...

This paper investigates calling melodies produced by 21 Standard German native speakers on a discourse completion task across two contexts: (i) routine context—calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) urgent context—calling a child from afar for a chastising. The intent of this investigation is to bring attention to other calling melodies found in German beside the vocative chant a...