Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home journal of crJournal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature (JCSLL) is a bimonthly double-blind peer-reviewed "Premier" open access journal that represents an interdisciplinary and critical forum for analysing and discussing the various dimensions in the interplay between language, literature, and translation. It locates at the intersection of disciplines including linguistics, discourse studies, stylistic analysis, linguistic analysis of literature, comparative literature, literary criticism, translation studies, literary translation and related areas. It focuses mainly on the empirically and critically founded research on the role of language, literature, and translation in all social processes and dynamics. en-US jcsll@gta.org.uk (Claudia Davis) support@gta.org.uk (Claudia Davis) Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:59:44 +0000 OJS 3.2.1.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Linguistic Markers of Gender Stigmatization: Media Narratives as a Case Study https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home/article/view/322 <p>Gender stigmatization prevails in the Moroccan media mainly in films, and series where the sexist language used against women is tied within cinematic narrative elements. Women are portrayed as primarily responsible for the domestic task, but men are the dominant of public sphere. The Moroccan media plays a salient role in contributing to the perpetuation and reinforcement of traditional gender roles through the use of sexist language and stigmas in dialogues tied within narrative scenes. The current research aims at investigating the representations of the sexist linguistic discourse used against women. The research studies the linguistic derogatory terms, gender stereotypes, reification of women, and dismissive attitudes of women’s interests. The study utilizes a mixed approach of selected Moroccan films and sitcoms through the analysis of dialogues, and interactions among characters. It aims at discerning the representations of the sexist language in media and how gender inequalities are maintained. The data analysis points out the various ways of gendered stereotypes or negative derogatory terms used against social groups typically women. The results unveil prominent interrelations between gender representations and the reinforcement of gendered stereotypes. The research concludes that the Moroccan media has a role play in structuring prerequisite linguistic stigmas. Through drawing the significant ways in which the sexist language is used in films and sitcoms. The findings display the linguistic stigmatization used against the female kind. Such stigmatization could be touching the stereotyped gender discourses prevailing in societies with patriarchal system.</p> Amal El Mhaoudar , Noreddine Bourima Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home/article/view/322 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Translating Detective and Mystery Stories: A Skopos Perspective https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home/article/view/323 <p>The mysteries or the detective fictions are one type of popular novels which mainly describe the process of reasoning and detection of the case. With translation practice examples of two mysteries and detective fictions——<em>A Philosophical Difference</em> and <em>Phoney Friend, t</em>he paper describes the translation skills on the titles, rhetorical devices and references of the mysteries from the perspective of Skopos theory and functional equivalence theory in details. It is found out that liberal translation is the best way to translate the titles with the guidance of Skopos theory, which is easy to attract the readers’ attention. The rhetorical devices like alliteration, pun and acrostic puzzle, can be translated in two ways--literal translation and amplification according to the functional equivalence theory. References can be translated in a repetitive way to realize the coherence in the text.This paper describes the translation skills of the titles, rhetorical devices and references in mysteries and provides a first-hand corpus for theoretical studies of translation, as well as methodological guidance for translation practice. It shows that flexible application of theories in translation can reach a better effect in translation practice.</p> Biyu Wu , Jing Hua , Ruoyu Chen Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home/article/view/323 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Transposing of the Cognitive-Centered Space to Marginal in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home/article/view/327 <p>Cognition always mirrors human psychology; the more it is acknowledged, the more it highlights human behavior. The individual's ‘cognitive space’ in Western society is entangled and has broken away to worsen. People of color in the West are going through the stereotypical pandemonium of racially discriminatory remarks. The bewilderingly baffled racial incidents jeopardize the identity of the people of color. Each day in the West, people are curious about their survival. It seems all the circumstances after each turmoil incident threaten the foundations of humanity. The human cognitive space stance insists on acquiring, systematizing, utilizing, and revising the environmentally received knowledge, but this outer space-societal received knowledge imprints various psychosis. The paper hits the nail on the head that socioenvironmental factors directly challenge the embodied human mind. Evidence that overshadowed racial incidents aligned in the present commenced in the past. Then, the study gives various examples of postcolonial binaries to examine how the individual-centered space is marginal. The study provides multiple possible solutions and crucial rules to educate societies on geopolitical tolerance and individual freedom. In conclusion, the article critically highlights a white man who has witnessed misfortune after turning black one morning in Mohsin Hamid's&nbsp;<em>The Last White Man</em>.</p> Lihui Liu , Nawazish Ali , Hafiz Muhammad Sikandar , Azam Sarwar Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.jcsll.gta.org.uk/index.php/home/article/view/327 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000