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Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2022

  • Unraveling Joseph Conrad's Racist Ideology in Heart of Darkness

    Sameen Junaid

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2022
    Pages: 53-56
    Received: 13 February 2022
    Accepted: 8 April 2022
    Published: 25 April 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ellc.20220702.11
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    Abstract: Joseph Conrad is a Polish-born English novelist and prose stylist who portrays the nature of evil, depth of human soul, his pessimistic approach in struggle and highlights the life of a modern man with isolation, chaos and moral decadence in his novel Heart of Darkness. This research paper sheds light on Joseph Conrad as racist who presents Europea... Show More
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  • Tragedy and African Cosmic Reality: Readings in Wole Soyinka’s Death and The Kings Horseman and Esiaba Irobi’s The Fronded Circle

    Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2022
    Pages: 57-61
    Received: 22 February 2022
    Accepted: 23 March 2022
    Published: 25 April 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ellc.20220702.12
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    Abstract: It is understandable why critics like Ruth Finnegan would not see drama or theatre in the make-up of Africa due to their approach to judging African theatricality from Aristotelian templates. Africa is a unique race. Their understanding of the world and their place in it forms the bedrock on which they live and relate with both themselves and their... Show More
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  • The Function of Phatic Communication in the English Language

    Zahraa Adnan Fadhil

    Issue: Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2022
    Pages: 62-65
    Received: 25 October 2021
    Accepted: 15 November 2021
    Published: 27 June 2022
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ellc.20220702.13
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    Abstract: This paper considers the social function of phatic communication in English. Phatic communication does not inform; it strengthens social bonds and ensures that the channel of communication is open. In other words, phatic communication is concerned with the process of communication not the content of communication. The following question is explored... Show More
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