GAJRC | Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature

Journal Name:	Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature
Abbr. Title:	Glob Acad J Linguist Lit
ISSN(Print):	2706-9028
ISSN(Online):	2707-2541
Frequency:	Bi-Monthly
Language:	English
Chief Editor:	Dr. Saeid Rahimipoor
Publisher:	Scholars Middle East Publishers
Country of Origin:	United Arab Emirates

Journal Name:

Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature

Abbr. Title:

Glob Acad J Linguist Lit

ISSN(Print):

2706-9028

ISSN(Online):

2707-2541

Frequency:

Bi-Monthly

Language:

English

Chief Editor:

Dr. Saeid Rahimipoor

Publisher:

Scholars Middle East Publishers

Country of Origin:

United Arab Emirates

This article presents a contrastive, theory-led analysis of politeness strategies in the baku (high standard) registers of Malay and Indonesian, focusing explicitly on normative expectations: how politeness is conventionally expected to be realised in formal interaction, rather than how it may be variably enacted in everyday usage. The discussion is grounded in established pragmatic approaches to politeness, while also attending to culturally salient concepts such as face, honour, and shame as organising principles of interaction. In both languages, politeness in the standard register is closely associated with mitigation in face-threatening acts, particularly requests, directives, refusals, and apologies, where speakers are expected to minimise imposition and preserve interlocutors’ autonomy. In standard Malay, politeness norms strongly favour indirectness, hierarchy-sensitive address practices, and conflict-avoidant strategies, especially in situations involving refusal or disagreement. Indonesian politeness in formal domains likewise foregrounds mitigation, but typically allows for comparatively greater explicitness, provided that respect and procedural clarity are maintained through appropriate linguistic devices. The article concludes by translating these contrastive insights into pedagogical considerations for tertiary-level instruction in Indonesian and Malay as foreign languages. It argues that politeness should be treated as a central component of communicative competence and cultural literacy, and that explicit instruction in normative politeness strategies can significantly enhance learners’ ability to navigate formal interaction in Malay- and Indonesian-speaking contexts.

This study has examined the ‘urban infrastructural development in Birnin Kebbi town, 1960-1991’. The study discussed both social and economic infrastructure in Birnin Kebbi town, to fill the inherent gaps left by previous scholars of urban history. It’s evident that, demographic and spatial expansion of Birnin Kebbi town during the period of study was largely due to government bias policies on developmental projects allocated to administrative centers in Nigeria, such as Birnin Kebbi town. The environmental factors, Local Government Reform of 1976, State creation, and natural population growth, among others, contributed greatly to infrastructural development in the town. The urbanization of Birnin Kebbi town is largely owed to government influence through developmental projects, such as the emergence of new wards, employment opportunities, among others. Methodologically, the study largely relies on the synthesis of primary and secondary sources of historical data collection and interpretation, which includes oral interviews, government documents, as well as textbooks and journals.

Nov. 29, 2025

Embodied (Semi-) Universalities and Differences in the Metaphorical Conceptualization of Love and Anger: A Conceptual Metaphor Theory Study of English and Korean

Balazs Huszka, Suciyati Haji Sulaiman, Eum Sangran, Indah Aini, Alexander Stark
Glob Acad J Linguist Lit; 2025, 7(6): 150-164
DOI : https://doi.org/10.36348/gajll.2025.v07i06.001

Oct. 30, 2025

Language Use as a Tool for Peaceful Coexistence: A Lexico-Semantic Study of The Post Newspaper in Cameroon

Donald Beteyeh Nchofua
Glob Acad J Linguist Lit; 2025, 7(5): 139-149
DOI : https://doi.org/10.36348/gajll.2025.v07i05.005

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism stand as challenging issues for peaceful coexistence in Cameroon today. This situation has been worsened by the escalation of the Anglophone Crisis that has taken a more violent turn in recent times. Cameroon, a nation with a rich linguistic and cultural tapestry, and with a history of colonial tensions, thus, presents itself as a compelling case study for exploring language as a tool for peace building. It is in this regard that this research paper examines how The Post Newspaper uses vocabulary and meaning-making strategies to shape public discourse and foster social harmony. The corpus for the study consists of forty-five (45) purposively sampled news-related stories or articles on the concept of Living Together/Peaceful Coexistence within the newspaper’s content, drawn from the 2016, 2017 and 2018 publications. The paper is framed on Halliday‘s (1985) theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to analyse editorials, articles, and opinion pieces within The Post Newspaper. Upon the analysis of the data, prominent themes related to peace and social cohesion within the newspaper’s content and the lexico-semantic features employed by The Post to navigate the complexities of Cameroon’s social landscape were identified. Such included the use of some lexical preferences that denote togetherness such as ‘Living Together,’ ‘National Unity,’ and ‘National Integration,’ lexical items suggestive of dialogue, the use of religious situated lexicons, moral situated lexicons, lexical items associated with radicalism, lexical items associated with good ethics and the use of rhetorical questions. The analysis highlighted the newspaper’s use of inclusive language, reframing of divisive narratives, and promotion of intercultural understanding. Overall, the analysis revealed that The Post’s language choices have an ideological function in fostering national unity as an ingredient for peaceful and harmonious coexistence.

This paper entitled “The Competency-Based Approach and the EFL Learner: An Analysis of Common Grammatical Errors of Terminale Students in GHS Biyem-Assi, College Vogt sets out to examine the grammatical errors of Terminale EFL learners of some selected schools in Yaounde, within the CBA teaching/learning context. The Error Analysis perspective to language analysis was adopted for this article. Data was collected from 100 essays and also through a teacher questionnaire and an interview. The 100 participants were asked to write an essay on specific topics. Errors from the essays were identified and classified under various categories such as prepositions, nouns and determiners. A questionnaire of 15 questions was administered to 10 teachers to seek their opinions on the sources of learners’ errors. Eight teachers were interviewed. The results revealed so many grammatical and structural deviations in EFL students’ writings even though exposed to CBA. Most of the errors were noticeable in the learners’ use of verbs. It was realised that EFL students get to secondary school with very little knowledge of the English language use and this affects their writings. The poor performance of EFL Learners in grammar even though being exposed to the CBA Teaching/Learning method can be attributed to the fact that CBA was this year at its first implementation in Terminales classes and no precise course book or programme is designed to fit the teaching/learning needs.