16.3601, FYI: JLL Online Article: Interlanguage Subjectivity

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Date: 16-Dec-2005
From: Ahmad R. Lotfi < arlotfi at yahoo.com >
Subject: JLL Online Article: Interlanguage Subjectivity 

	
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:22:15
From: Ahmad R. Lotfi < arlotfi at yahoo.com >
Subject: JLL Online Article: Interlanguage Subjectivity 
 


Dear Colleagues,

Our recent article ''Interlanguage Subjectivity'' published in
Journal of Language and Linguistics ISSN 1475 8989 Vol. III No. 2 (@005, Sept. p.p. 152
-160) is now available at

http://www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/4_2/lotfi_shahrokhi.pdf.

The abstract of the article appears below. Critical comments are welcome.

Regards,

Ahmad R. Lotfi, PhD
Assistant Prof of linguistics
English Dept (Graduate Studies)
Azad University at Khorasgan
Esfahan, IRAN.
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Interlanguage Subjectivity
Ahmad R. Lotfi 
Azad University at Khorasgan (Esfahan)

Mohsen Shahrokhi 
Azad University at Majlesi (Esfahan)

ABSTRACT

This article investigates persons and semantic verb types as indexes of subjectivity in 
English and Persian as well as English (L1=Persian) Interlanguage. Our data were collected 
through informal classroom debates arranged for adult intermediate speakers of English as 
a foreign language at Azad University at Esfahan. The results of the study reveal that 
Interlanguage contains all verb types that are present in Persian and English. The 
percentages of the frequencies of different verb types in Interlanguage, however, are closer 
to those in Persian. Since Interlanguage contains verb types and persons also present in 
both L1 and L2, it can function like L1 and L2 for expressing subjectivity. English 
(L1=Persian) Interlanguage has got the capacity to be as subjective as any other language. 
Interlanguage subjectivity, however, is remarkably influenced by patterns of subjectivity 
expression in L1. Although the participants have attained some measure of independence in 
other linguistic respects, traces of transfer at macro-levels of language functioning such as 
subjectivity are still left behind. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition





 




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