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This essay aims to analyze the reaction of religious camps to secularism as seen through the debate between Charles Kingsley and John Henry Newman, both of whom were well-known religious leaders in the Victorian age. First, a scientific and rational faith was observed in Kingsley’s claims attacking Newman’s faith. Kingsley denounced Newman’s faith as lacking historic evidences and scientific rationality. Kingsley believed newly discovered scientific knowledge should be incorporated into and bolster religious convictions. Kingsley’s vision for the progress of the world is exemplified by his poems, “Saint Maura: A. D. 304” and “The World’s Age.” On the other side, Newman responded to all critiques raised by Kingsley by elevating the value of the Church’s history and tradition. He recommended using imagination to understand the Church’s history, instead of scientifically deducing what happened. Newman’s two poems, “Hidden Saints” and “Warnings” reflected on how to oppose the tendency to analyze faith with new scientific knowledge. Newman’s vision for a traditional world was clearly in opposition to Kingsley’s progressive one, yet in their own way they were both suggesting a solution to the same problem; a way for religion to cope with the rapid spread of secularism.

This paper aims to find why crying and language of children with brain damage play an important role in lots of Don DeLillo’s works and to analyse the similarity between words unconsciously used by ordinary people and ‘Human stain’ in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain. All human languages are contaminated by experiencing historical events like wars, murders, the threat of nuclear, and capitalism and have negative aura. Consequently, All human beings except children with brain damage live together with terror of death. This is similar to Coleman Silk who is imprinted as a racist. He is also represented as a representative intellectual and seems to be contaminated by knowledge. Teaching Greek in college, reciting Shakespeare’s works and arguing about feminism are examples of how people have become polluted by knowledge. To look for the purest language, Don DeLillo has regressed into the past and found roots of words. He has consistently tried to use absence of a predicate, short sentences, and conversations consisting of only monosyllables and repeated phrases which are like chanting a spelling in most of his works. But the most extraordinary tool he used is children with brain damage because only children with brain damage are not stained by human’s negative aura.

This article aims to examine how socio-econo-political values of homelands interrupt immigrants’ adjustment to American society by reading Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban, Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, and Jumph Lahiri’s The Namesake in the perspective of M. M. Bakhtin, emphasizing the importance of ideas or ideologies in a hero’s identity formation. In these novels, the authors commonly criticize that the ideologies of homelands make it impossible for immigrants to enjoy a free and independent life. Here, ideological criticisms are entirely done in the way that anachronic ideologies in mother cultures are meticulously projected into the images of ancestor characters, and the absurdities are candidly exposed by protagonists interacting with them. Why these ideological criticisms are persuasive is that the incompatibility between traditional values of homelands and American reality is revealed through the protagonists’ ideological becoming. As a result, it is found that Cuban androcentrism and Castro’s communism, Korean Confucian patriarchy and careerism, and Indian family centrism are inappropriate for the diasporic reality. With the world being globalized and expatriates increasing, understanding these ideological problems is important not only to immigrants, but also to immigration policy-developers.

This study focuses on finding the multiple queer meanings in the three novels of Willa Cather. Her works having various backgrounds show flexible queer traits of identities of characters, places, nature, and work, etc. Thea in The Song of the Lark exerts her own efforts to be a true artist in the queer space of the opera. In the process of pursuing her dream, she overcomes the qualities of her acquaintances like paedophile characteristics and their desires for materialism, and thoroughly tries to embrace old ancestors’ value in the Panther Canyon. Likewise, although Ántonia in My Ántonia is an alien in Nebraska, she finally builds her own queer world by making her constant physical labors erotic and meaningful. St. Peter in The Professor’s House himself shows biophilia by preserving ancient spirit and their relics against his family members’ soulless materialism. This work especially includes diverse erotic scenes of Tom and St. Peter that can destroy a heterosexual frame and it leads to enhance the queer atmosphere in general. To sum up, the queerness of Cather as a way of being has numerical values and its own ethica, so it has positive influences on the readers, Cather’s other novels, and American novels.

Throughout her entire life, Elizabeth Bishop constantly reveals her preferences for writing poems full of images and motifs of water. Bishop’s poems often suggest elusive meanings like the dual properties of water which shows the difference between the surface and depth at the same time. Particularly, it is worthwhile to note Bishop’s third book of poems entitled Questions of Travel. This book includes a number of poems about recognizable water images from Nova Scotia to Brazil where the poet spent precious periods in her life. Images of water in a lot of her poems set in North America are described as dry and barren landscapes due to her sense of homelessness derived from the loss of her parents in her early childhood. This is best exemplified in her expression of “the water doesn’t wet anything.” However, it is important that Bishop’s maternal desire is latent under the surface of her poems on the loss of maternity. Her maternal imagination linked to the water images is most manifested in her poems on the “Brazil” section of Questions of Travel. Moreover, a series of poems with images of water devoid of fluidity and maternity set in Nova Scotia allude to Bishop’s latent maternity. Bishop’s water images lurking in maternal desire act as a source to dissolve the dichotomous thinking originated from Western Chauvinism.

The purpose of this paper is to examine Nathaniel Hawthorne’s major novel, The House of the Seven Gables from ecological perspectives. What Hawthorne makes an attempt to pursue in his works is an ecological community whose primary goal is symbioses. In The House of the Seven Gables the garden makes visible co-existence that is including all life forms. The garden’s setting facilitates a diversity that defies oppositions between such concepts as nature and culture, the country and the city. And the garden facilitates reciprocal communion. Hawthorne accords Phoebe as a resolution to the problems of the society, by endowing her with ecological virtues such as sympathy, caring ethic. Phoebe illuminates light on the dark garden and gloomy house of the seven gables and supplies Hepzibah and Clifford with vitality by caring for them. The marriage of Phoebe and Holgrave preludes the recovery of Eden, which, although some skeptical commentators have been quick to point out, is not recoverable, if it ever existed. Hawthorne presents a possibility of an ecological community that can be recovered by love and care for others. The ecological utopia emphasizes interdependence and symbioses in the ecological vision.

This study focuses on modern Antigones’ ordeals and sufferings caused by the irrationality and partiality of laws in Antigone Project. It also examines their continuing efforts and struggles against the suppression and unjustice in modern democratic societies. Five plays included in the work were written by 5 female playwrights. In the work, Antigone symbolizes a conscientious fighter as well as a person excluded from public areas by power and laws. Each playwright commonly thinks that the modern Antigones’ efforts toward peace or justice are in crisis more severely in the process of ‘the war against terrorism’ due to the leaders’ hysteric reaction and the suppression of governmental authorities in democratic countries since the 9/11 terror. They also think that reviving Antigone is needed because she acts against the unjust reality, and is willing to sacrifice herself for defending human rights and dignities. This is why the work uses the motif of revival. When Antigone rises again, she does not adjust herself to her fate, but continues struggles to change the society, as the hope and potential for a new history are achievable. Moreover, she invites people to take part in her efforts to stop injustice and suppression under modern democratic countries.

The position of W. B. Yeats as a poet in the twentieth century English literature is firm. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 and has been universally regarded one of the greatest poets in the last century. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote a considerable amount of plays, novels, and prose besides the poems. Among them, he had a great interest in drama throughout his life and wrote plays until just before his death. Not only did Yeats write a lot of plays, he also founded a theater (The Abbey Theatre) and had done many innovative experiments there. But Yeats’s reputation as a playwright or dramatist is not so high. One of the reasons for his low reputation as playwright is the negative estimation of influential critics. The purpose of this paper is to defend Yeats as a playwright. To do so, this paper seeks to find causes that Yeats’s theatrical endeavors have not been recognized so far and tries to refute the critics’ negative arguments. To explain the nature and characteristics of Yeats’s plays which are very different from the realistic ones, At the Hawk’s Well, one of his dance plays, is examined as an example. And then tries to examine what Yeats wanted to accomplish through drama and his contribution to the European drama.

One of well known ways to quantify an event is via quantifying an object in the assumption that the quantification force of an object can be transferred to an event. Unlike this common means to quantify an event, there is another way to contribute to event quantification with a verbal classifier. A verbal classifier consists of a classifier and a numeral and it quantifies an event denoted by the VP, similar to a nominal classifier that quantifies a noun. This paper examines a verbal classifier in Mandarin in comparison to a similar type of adverbial in English, Russian, and Finnish. It is shown that verbal classifiers in Mandarin are also a means to quantify an event like adverbials in those languages. However, this paper shows that verbal classifiers in Mandarin have interesting differences from the adverbials in those languages. For example, unlike Russian or Finnish, verbal classifiers in Mandarin are not (accusative) case marked. Moreover, unlike those languages, verbal classifiers in Mandarin are associated with a particular type of an event, namely semelfactives. This paper provides evidence that verbal classifiers in Mandarin are associated with the countability of semelfactives. The consequence of this paper suggests that semlefactives can be viewed as an independent class of an event, which is not a common assumption in the literature.

This paper aims to examine whether Korean people’s experiences with the cultural artifact, namely calendars, can influence our understanding of ambiguous metaphorical expressions about time in English and Korean. Two experiments investigated calendars would influence reasoning about time. The results of two experiments indicate that the calendar that the days of the week were arranged in ascending order from left-to-right can influence temporal reasoning. Specifically, in the case of English target sentence, the calendar produced a greater proportion of Friday responses relative to Monday, while in the case of Korean target sentence, the calendar produced no greater proportion of Friday responses in the Normal Calendar conditions than in the Metalinguistic or Reverse Calendar conditions. I suggest it is because Korean’s familiarity with time-moving sentences in everyday language has more influence on temporal reasoning than their experiences with the cultural artifact, namely calendars. Based on the results of Experiment 1 and 2, I conclude that Korean participants may also use culturally specific spatial representations when reasoning about time but they have a tendency to prefer the time-moving perspective to the ego-moving perspective in their interpretation of ambiguous metaphorical expressions about time.

This paper explains the difference and similarity of ergativity of Korean and English verbs. This study critically reviews Korean ergative verbs of Ko, K.J. (2001), Lee, E.J. (2014), Burzio (1996) and Korean middle verbs of Yeon, J.H. (1989, 2008). And we found out some problems in their explanations. For example, Ko, K.J. (2001) explains that an ergative verb or an unaccusative verb of Korean includes an adjective or an intransitive verb which is nonagentive, whereas an unergative verb includes an intransitive verb which is agentive. It is because some unaccusative verbs can’t be ergative verbs that Ko’s explanations are not always correct. We need to use the affectedness of the object noun (Levin 1993, Haspelath 1993 Dixon 1991, 2005), the change of state (Levin 1993), causer–causee (Fagan 1988), and spontaneous occurrence (Haspelmath 1993, Dixon 1991, 2005) to investigate Korean ergative verbs. We found out some differences between Korean and English ergative verbs. In Korean ergative constructions, the causer can appear within an adverbial phrase, whereas it can’t appear in English. And Korean ergative verbs have many onomatopoeic words but English counterparts don’t.

This paper investigates the syntax of polarity particles ‘yes’ and ‘no’ as responses to negative utterances such as negative questions and assertions. It has been noted by Krifka (2013), among others, that negative utterances can be responded to in four different ways, such that ‘yes’ and ‘no’ are both part of positive or negative responses. We argue that ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in negative responses to negative utterances are derived from feature checking/valuation between the polarity particle and the TP-internal Pol head, followed by TP ellipsis. By contrast, ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in positive responses to negative utterances are immediately followed by the empty TP, which recruits its antecedent semantically from the propositions denoted by the preceding negative question or assertion. It is shown that the line of our analysis musters empirical support from Goodhue and Wagner’s (2018) recent analysis of the interaction between polarity particles and intonation, in that unlike the unmarked cases that employ syntactic feature checking/valuation, the marked cases of polarity particles that rely on semantic binding and composition are bound to bear the peculiar intonation of contradiction contour.

This study aims at the study of metonymy phenomenon in English and Korean. Following Cruse (2004), we compare and examine six types of frequently used metonymy data in two languages. First, in the type of ‘container for contained’, ‘car’ and ‘room’ are frequently used in both languages. Inherent properties like name and age are usually omitted, but the extrinsic referents such as briefcase are not. And there exists a hierarchy of individual < team < nation, in which a nation stands for either an individual or a team, and a team for a person. Humans can be used for any actions of certain body parts. It has also been noticed that upper body parts such as ‘face’ or ‘mouth’ are commonly used for people. In addition, whereas Korean allows most examples to be used in the type of ‘people for institution’, English only allows some of the types. Finally, in relation with sensory verbs, ‘hear’ or ‘smell’ are freely used without nouns like ‘sound’ or ‘scent’ in English, whereas verb ‘taste’ is used without noun ‘taste’ in Korean. In most types of metonymy, both languages show similar patterns which should be regarded as ‘language universal’ and there exist subtle differences as ‘language specific’.

The idiomatic examples in Korean are cases of the PNI sentences in which the direct object is incorporated to the verb. The distributional properties of accusative case drop phenomenon in Korean object-verb idioms can be analyzed on a par with pseudo noun incorporation (PNI) found in Niuean discussed by Massam (2001). This challenges the empirical basis for any head-movement account (Baker 1988, 2009). Therefore, head movement does not extend straightforwardly to PNI structures. There are four essential traits of PNIed direct objects in Korean: (i) omission of case-markers, (ii) low scope, (iii) ban on extraction out of the VP, and (iv) phrasal elements such as NPs, NumPs and DPs. The PNIed version forms a separate word/phrase and there is an interaction at the boundaries between PNIed direct objects and Vs, which is testified by the verb stranding VP-ellipsis (VVPE). If the PNIed direct object is extracted out of the VP, the sentence simply crashes in derivation. Importantly, it has been tested by Barrie’s three-pronged diagnostics for (pseudo)-incorporated nouns ((P)INs) whether the data in question confirms to PNI. The caseless direct object in question readily undergoes PNI to the verb, showing obligatory low scope over the subject.

This paper analyzes dissimilatory processes in English in terms of locality. Zymet (2015) reports that rule applicability decreases as distance between the target and the trigger increases. Specifically, this paper analyzes liquid dissimilation processes in English in Surface Correspondence Theory. In this theory, two constraint families are posited. One is the Corr constraints that require correspondence among similar segments, and the other is the CC-Limiter constraints that penalize corresponding segments if they do not meet certain criteria. In this paper, three cases of distance-based liquid dissimilation are analyzed with different CC-Limiter constraints. The first one is local dissimilation in which corresponding segments are in the same syllable. Therefore, distance between correspondents is shortest and the ratio of rule application is highest. The second one is dissimilation where corresponding segments are in adjacent syllable. Finally, dissimilation where one transparent syllable is between corresponding segments is analyzed. Since this shows the longest distance between correspondents, the proportion of rule application is lowest. In addition, variants (e.g. columnar～columnal) are analyzed by a different constraint ranking.

With the recent proliferation of world Englishes, the urge for an expanded range of pedagogical approaches that facilitate meaningful teaching and learning experiences has been brought to the forefront. Some of these pedagogies are taking place within the context of what has been called English as an intercultural language (EIcL). In EIcL, English usage is almost always universal, dynamic, and multidimensional means of communicating sociocultural values and meanings among its users. The purpose of this study is to identify the perceptions of 80 Korean university students via an EFL classroom activity that was designed to address one aspect of EIcL. This activity aimed at promoting students’ awareness of the interconnected relationship between socioculture and language. By comparing pairs of English and Korean sentences and translating English and Korean sentences, the participants were asked to identify aspects of socioculture embedded within the two languages. The study’s results revealed that the participants identified ten such aspects; the high majority also remarked that the activity was effective in enhancing their awareness of the connection between socioculture and language and further into English use in the EIcL paradigm.

Many experimental studies have reported factors affecting English listening comprehension in Korea. However the reported results do not specifically deal with how effective the factors are in improving English listening comprehension. This quantitative meta-analysis study, therefore, aims to investigate the effectiveness of the factors (vocabulary, sound discrimination, syntactic ability, background knowledge, and listening strategy) on the improvement of listening comprehension in Korean EFL classrooms. A total of 117 studies with 133 samples were collected, and their effect sizes (ES) were calculated based on Hedge’s g with the CMA software (ver. 2.2.056). The results of this study showed that syntactic ability had the greatest effect on listening comprehension (ES=.816, p=.012). Vocabulary learning (ES=.421), sound discrimination training (ES=.453), grammar education (ES=.816), activation of background knowledge (ES=.599), and listening strategy training (ES=.498) all contribute to effectively improving listening comprehension regardless of the age of Korean EFL learners. In addition, the length of listening instruction did not affect listening comprehension. Based on the findings, pedagogical suggestions are also discussed.

This paper aims to develop a word list for learners whose major is English education. For this purpose, the following three processes were taken. First of all, two corpora including around 5,000,000 running words were compiled. One is Korean Writers’ Articles Corpus(KWAC) constructed from 256 articles published in two journals from 2013 to 2017: English Teaching and The Journal of English Language Teaching. And the other is Foreign Writers’ Articles Corpus(FWAC) that contains 387 articles extracted from two journals: Foreign Language Annals and TESOL Quarterly. Secondly, Heatley & Nation’s (2002) Range program was utilized to extract General Service List(GSL), Academic Word List(AWL), Technical Word List(TWL) and others from the corpora listed above. Thirdly, frequency and range were set as criteria to extract a proper English education word list. As a result, this paper identified a total of 744 word families comprised of GSL, AWL, TWL, and others. And this paper concluded that there was a need to develop a word list in the specific field, i.e., English education and that the best way to study English in that field was for learners to acquire a relevant word list in advance without any order.