Vol. 6, No. 2 (2016), English Language and Literature Studies

• • Parallels in Search of an Intersection: The Manifold Marcus Aurelius Resonances in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
  • •  Joanna Caytas   
    • p1
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• • Weblogs as Tools for Encouraging Self-Reflection and Peer Feedback among Student Teachers
  • •  Sarah AL-Ajmi   
    • p15
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• • Nobody’s as Powerful as We Make Them Out to Be: A Psychopolitical Reading of The Third Life of Grange Copeland
  • •  Shahram Sistani   
    • p36
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• • A Visual Asian American Diaspora: Belle Yang’s Hannah is My Name (2004) and Guene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese (2006)
  • •  Marwa Fahmi   
    • p43
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• • Magical Realism as Feminist Discourse in Raja Alem’s Fatma: A Novel of Arabia
  • •  Laila Al-Sharqi   
    • p58
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• • The Book of Job: A Greco-Hebrew Rhetorical Drama
  • •  John Kuriakose   
    • p72
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• • Image of the Noble Abdelmelec in Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar
  • •  Fahd Al-Olaqi   
    • p79
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• • Apocalyptic Imagery and Its Significance in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie
  • •  Sabri Mnassar   
    • p91
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• • A Thematic Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
  • •  Yuan Shen   
    •  Fang Liu   
    • p102
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• • The Physical Beauty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
  • •  Chunli Ma   
    • p110
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• • A Comparison of an English Editorial and Its Chinese Translation from the Perspective of Ideology
  • •  Ge Guo   
    • p120
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• • Influences of Cultural Elements on Metaphor
  • •  Keyu He   
    • p126
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• • Browning’s Religion: The Undecided Philosophy
  • •  M. Harmoush   
    • p132
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• • An Analysis of English Verbal Humor Based on Language Memes
  • •  Xiaoli Bao   
    • p141
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• • A Discourse Study of Insurance Sales Agent-Client Interactions in China’s Rural Areas—From the Perspective of Topic Management
  • •  Weichao Wang   
    •  Huan Peng   
    • p146
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• • A Diachronic Approach to the Motive of Crypto-Functions of Formal Markers in English
  • •  Baohua Dong   
    • p161
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• • Death and Immortality—An Everlasting Puzzle: A Comparative Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Two Poems
  • •  Qigang Liu   
    • p172
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• • Developing EFL Learner’s Speaking Ability, Accuracy and Fluency
  • •  Ali Derakhshan   
    •  Atefeh Khalili   
    •  Fatima Beheshti   
    • p177
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• • A Brief Literature Review of Studies on Lexical Chunks at Home and Abroad
  • •  Kefeng Fu   
    • p187
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• • A Pragmatic Analysis of Humor Words in English Advertisements
  • •  Xiaqing Li   
    • p193
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• • Reviewer Acknowledgements for English Language and Literature Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2
  • •  Alice Ding   
    • p202
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