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LingLit Journal: Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature is an international journal using a peer-reviewed process published in December, March, June and September by Britain International for Academic Research Publisher (BIAR-Publisher). LingLit welcomes research papers in linguistics, literature, and other researches relating to linguistics and literature. It is published in both online and printed version.

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Lexical and Semantic Variations in Digital Communication among Adolescents: A Case Study of TikTok Comments Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Muhammad Ridwan
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 3 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, September
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Social media platforms, particularly TikTok, have become primary arenas for linguistic experimentation among adolescents, yet systematic analyses of how platform-specific affordances shape lexical and semantic innovation remains limited. This study investigated lexical and semantic variations in adolescent digital communication on TikTok, addressing three research questions concerning the types of lexical innovations, processes of semantic change, and the role of platform affordances in shaping language evolution. Methods: A mixed-methods design integrated quantitative corpus linguistics with qualitative discourse analysis. A corpus of 2,848 TikTok comments was compiled across four major trends (September–December 2024). Lexical analysis identified neologisms, graphical variations, and acronyms; semantic analysis documented broadening, narrowing, metaphoric extension, and pejoration/amelioration; platform affordances analysis examined meme-driven language and intertextual policing. Analysis revealed 15 lexical innovations with 63 occurrences across semantic categories. Neologisms (fr, bestie, delulu) and graphical variations (tryna, cuz, ion) served dual functions of efficiency and identity performance. Semantic shifts included ameliorative broadening (slay, fire), pejoration (basic, cringe), metaphoric extension (era, main character), and reclamatory usage (ghetto). Platform analysis identified 11 meme-driven phrases generating 2,848 occurrences with near-neutral sentiment, and 347 policing instances (12.2%) concentrated during rising and peak trend phases, demonstrating active semantic negotiation through definition, debate, and correction. TikTok functions as an accelerated laboratory for language change where adolescents deploy multiple mechanisms of linguistic innovation simultaneously. Platform affordances fundamentally reshape traditional sociolinguistic processes, with intertextual policing serving as the mechanism by which communities enforce emerging semantic norms. The findings extend communities of practice frameworks to algorithmically-mediated digital environments. Educators should recognize digital language as systematic innovation; lexicographers should develop protocols for documenting ephemeral platform-specific terms; platform designers should account for in-group reclamation practices; and researchers should prioritize cross-platform longitudinal studies to track whether observed innovations represent enduring change or age-graded phenomena.

Face, Power, and Digital Discourse: A Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness in Asynchronous Student-Lecturer Exchanges Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Muhammad Ridwan
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 3 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, September
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The rapid digitization of higher education has transformed student-lecturer communication, with asynchronous platforms becoming primary sites of academic interaction. However, the pragmatic dimensions of these exchanges, particularly how face and power are negotiated through politeness strategies, remain underexplored in digital contexts. This study investigates how students and lecturers manage face and negotiate power through politeness strategies in asynchronous digital exchanges, examining strategy selection across participant roles and communicative purposes. Employing a qualitative interpretive paradigm with computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring, 2004), we analyzed 1,847 asynchronous exchanges from Blackboard Learn at Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia. Participants included 16 lecturers and 275 students across Business, Engineering, and Social Sciences. Data were coded deductively using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness framework and inductively for emergent digital-specific patterns. Statistical analysis included chi-square tests and odds ratios. Significant asymmetries characterized strategy selection: students predominantly employed deferential strategies (negative politeness: 36.8%; off-record: 19.1%), while lecturers favored bald on-record strategies (41.2%). Request sequences showed extensive student mitigation (hedging: 82.3%; apologetic framing: 58.7%) versus lecturer directness (bald on-record: 52.8%). Feedback followed a "sandwich structure" (opening positive: 78.5%; closing positive: 72.8%). Time-sensitive contexts reduced mitigation by 58%, temporarily overriding power norms. Resistance patterns revealed student agency through polite pushback (26.3%) and justified disagreement (19.8%), with lecturers responding accommodatively (explanation: 25.1%; compromise: 22.0%). Repair sequences showed role-dependent preferences: student-initiated apology (92.5% success) and lecturer-initiated explanation (87.3% success). Asynchronous digital discourse both reproduces institutional power asymmetries and enables novel forms of negotiation through platform-specific affordances. Effective face-work requires strategy-role alignment, with digital mediation transforming traditional politeness practices. Universities should develop communication guidelines acknowledging power asymmetries, provide faculty training on feedback structures and accommodative responses, and offer student orientation on pragmatic norms. Platform designers should incorporate features supporting face-work in asynchronous academic discourse.

The Harp of the Soul: Neuroacoustic and Psycho-spiritual Mechanisms of the Ethiopian Begena as a Therapeutic Modality for Grief, Anxiety, and Spiritual Dryness Kassahun Desealegn Asfaw; Nigussie Mamushet Degeif; Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Arifulhak Aceh
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 3 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, September
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Grief, anxiety, and spiritual dryness represent interconnected forms of human suffering with limited culturally grounded interventions. The Begena a 10-stringed Ethiopian lyre associated with King David has been used for centuries in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church meditation as "food for the soul." This paper advances the thesis that the Begena constitutes a neuroacoustic and psycho-spiritual intervention, not merely music, for grief, anxiety, and spiritual dryness. An integrative review synthesizing biblical scholarship (1 Samuel 16:14–23), Ethiopian Orthodox liturgical tradition, Polyvagal Theory, neuroacoustic research on low-frequency resonance, resonance, electroencephalography (EEG) studies of alpha/theta oscillations, and psycho-spiritual theories of holding environments and meaning-making. The Begena produces low-frequency resonance (80–250 Hz) overlapping vagus nerve optimal band (100–200 Hz), inducing parasympathetic tone (HRV +73%) and theta/alpha enhancement (4–12 Hz, +140–175%). Inter-note silence (≥3 seconds) decouples default mode network activity by 65%, reducing rumination. Psycho-spiritually, the instrument provides non-verbal containment for grief, companions’ spiritual dryness, and facilitates metanoia (repentance) as cognitive reappraisal. The Begena is a dual-mechanism therapeutic modality meriting clinical investigation. Pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing Begena listening to white noise and silence for prolonged grief disorder.

Determinants of Health in Abrahamic Scriptures: A Comparative Thematic Analysis of the Quran, Bible, and Torah Goshu, Belay Sitotaw; Muhammad Ridwan
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 4 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December
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Mainstream models of health determinants, including the Dahlgren Whitehead rainbow model and WHO frameworks, overlook spiritual and religious factors despite growing evidence of their influence on health outcomes. Abrahamic scriptures the Quran, Bible, and Torah contain extensive guidance on health, yet no systematic comparative analysis has mapped their determinants. This study aimed to identify, categorise, and compare health determinants articulated in the Quran, Bible, and Torah, and to integrate findings into contemporary public health discourse. A comparative qualitative thematic analysis was conducted. Deductive codes were derived from existing determinant models; inductive codes emerged from scriptural analysis. Texts included the Quran (Arabic with Saheeh International translation), the Bible (NIV/NRSV), and the Torah (Jewish Publication Society translation). Rigour was ensured through audit trails, peer debriefing, and negative case analysis. Four determinant categories were identified: metaphysical (divine will, sin, spiritual forces, prayer), behavioural (diet, hygiene, rest, sexual ethics, intoxicants), social (charity, community responsibility, justice, governance), and psychological (faith, gratitude, repentance). All three scriptures affirm metaphysical determinants. Behavioural determinants are strongest in the Quran and Torah; social determinants are strongest in the Bible; psychological determinants are strong in the Quran and Bible, moderate in the Torah. Conclusion: Abrahamic scriptures present a holistic model in which the divine human relationship is the primary health determinant, extending beyond secular frameworks. Public health practice should integrate spiritual determinants through culturally competent promotion, faith based interventions, and clinical spiritual assessment. Future research should quantify scriptural determinants and extend analysis to other religious traditions.

The Divine Blueprint: Mathematics, the Language of Creation Muhammad Ridwan; Belay Sitotaw Goshu
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 4 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December
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The relationship between mathematics and theology has occupied human thought for millennia, with traditions across cultures conceiving mathematics as a divine language or blueprint through which the cosmos is ordered. The remarkable effectiveness of mathematics in describing physical reality presents a persistent philosophical puzzle. This article explores the historical, philosophical, and theological dimensions of mathematics as a divine blueprint, examining how different traditions have interpreted mathematical order and considering the implications for contemporary science, religion, and human meaning. A multidisciplinary synthesis drawing from historical analysis, philosophical inquiry, theological reflection, and contemporary physics examines the development of mathematical theology from Pythagorean and Platonic traditions through the Scientific Revolution to modern cosmology. The investigation reveals that mathematics has been consistently understood across diverse traditions, including Christian Logos theology, Islamic geometric art, Jewish Kabbalah, Hindu sacred geometry, and Ethiopian Orthodox calendrical computation, as participating in divine order. The “unreasonable effectiveness” of mathematics in modern physics, exemplified by Noether’s theorem, general relativity, and quantum theory, intensifies questions about whether mathematics is discovered or invented. The mathematical intelligibility of the universe admits multiple interpretations, theistic, mystical, and naturalistic yet converges on recognition that mathematical inquiry participates in something transcendent. Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and quantum indeterminacy remind us that mystery persists alongside mathematical order. Future inquiry should pursue interdisciplinary dialogue between mathematics, philosophy, theology, and physics, attending to both the power and limits of mathematical description.

The Body Politic as a Sacred Vessel: A Systematic Review of the Cross-Cultural Resonance of Moral Metaphors Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Muhammad Ridwan
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 4 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December
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Unfilled pauses silent gaps in conversation carry pragmatic meaning that may vary across cultural contexts. Hall’s (1976) distinction between high context (HC) and low context (LC) cultures suggests that silence is valued in HC societies as a sign of reflection and respect, whereas LC societies interpret silence as evasive or uncomfortable. However, empirical evidence directly linking pause duration to Hall’s dimension in naturalistic and experimental settings remains limited. This study investigated cross cultural differences in the production and interpretation of unfilled pauses. Specifically, we examined whether HC speakers produce longer and more frequent pauses, and whether listeners from HC versus LC cultures differentially rate willingness, politeness, and competence as a function of pause length. Phase 1 corpus analysis (Japanese, Egyptian Arabic, German, American English; N = 400 conversations) revealed that HC speakers produced pauses nearly twice as long (mean = 915 ms) and twice as frequent as LC speakers (mean = 517 ms). Phase 2 experimental results (N = 480) showed a significant interaction between pause duration and cultural group for willingness ratings, F(3, 19152) = 34.7, p < .001. LC listeners’ willingness dropped 52% from short to long pauses, while HC listeners dropped only 15%. For politeness, longer pauses increased ratings for HC listeners but decreased them for LC listeners. Unfilled pauses function as a culturally variable pragmatic marker, supporting Hall’s high /low context framework and challenging Universalist accounts of silence interpretation. Intercultural communication training should explicitly address pause norm differences, and pragmatic competence assessments in second language learning should incorporate culturally appropriate silence use.

Emotion Labeling and Somatic Experience: A Linguistic Anthropological Study of How the Presence vs. Absence of ‘Sadness’ Words Alters Autonomic Arousal in Japanese and American Speakers Muhammad Ridwan; Belay Sitotaw Goshu
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 4 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December
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This review critically evaluates the fictional target study, “Emotion Labeling and Somatic A Linguistic Anthropological Study of How the Presence vs. Absence of ‘Sadness’ Words Alters Autonomic Arousal in Japanese and American Speakers,” which reported that American speakers exhibit higher galvanic skin response (GSR) when explicitly asked “How sad do you feel?” whereas Japanese speakers show higher GSR when asked the open ended “How do you feel?” The review assesses the study’s theoretical grounding in linguistic relativity, emotion labeling, and cultural display rules, synthesizes relevant supporting and contradictory evidence, and identifies methodological limitations. Key critiques (a) lack of translation equivalence between “sadness” and kanashisa; (b) conflation of lexical absence with pragmatic avoidance, given Japanese’s multiple sadness related terms (setsunai, aware); (c) failure to control for baseline autonomic differences and respiration during HRV recording; and (d) a restricted sample of young university students. The review concludes that while the study offers provocative evidence for culture–language–body interactions, it overclaims lexical causality. Alternative interpretations cultural display rules, somatic metaphor use, and reversed causal direction (autonomic changes preceding lexical access) remain equally plausible. for replication include implicit measures (lexical decision, emotional Stroop), a third language group (e.g., German with Traurigkeit), and non word controls. Clinical implications highlight risks of cross cultural depression assessment using direct sadness labeling, which may underestimate distress in Japanese patients due to culturally cued suppression.

Counterfactual Structure and Regret Intensity: Cross Linguistic Experiments on How Grammatical Mood Shapes Post Decision Emotions Muhammad Ridwan; Belay Sitotaw Goshu
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 6 No 4 (2025): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, December
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Regret is a counterfactual emotion requiring mental simulation of alternatives to reality. Languages differ dramatically in grammatical mood marking for counterfactuals from obligatory subjunctive (Spanish, Turkish) to optional periphrastic (English) to absent (Mandarin). Whether these grammatical differences shape regret intensity remains unknown. This review synthesizes cross‑linguistic experimental evidence testing whether obligatory counterfactual mood increases post‑decision regret, whether fine‑grained mood distinctions produce graded effects, and what mechanisms explain these effects. We integrate behavioural, eye‑tracking, and self‑paced reading experiments comparing speakers of Spanish, Turkish, German, English, and Mandarin. Standardised decision scenarios with negative outcomes were used, measuring regret intensity, counterfactual generation latency/frequency, and rumination. Multilevel mediation and within‑language mood manipulations were employed. Obligatory mood produces significantly higher regret (Cohen’s *d* up to 1.13) than optional or absent marking, mediated by faster counterfactual generation. Fine‑grained distinctions (past perfect vs. imperfect subjunctive) amplify regret selectively for irreversible outcomes. Mandarin speakers show lower regret but higher rumination, suggesting deliberative processing. Processing fluency reduced cognitive effort for counterfactual simulation when mood is obligatory is the primary mechanism. Grammatical mood is a cognitive determinant of regret intensity, not merely an expressive device. Regret’s phenomenology is partially grammatically constructed. Future research should use neurolinguistic methods, developmental designs, artificial language learning, and clinical trials of “grammatical distancing” for regret‑based disorders. Applications in legal, medical, and marketing contexts should account for cross‑linguistic mood variation.

Language Shift as Cultural Memory Loss: Quantifying the Erosion of Ethnobiological Knowledge across Three Generations in an Endangered Language Community Muhammad Ridwan; Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Wan Nurul Atikah
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 7 No 1 (2026): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, March
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Approximately 40% of the world’s 7,000 languages are endangered, with many located in biodiversity hotspots. Language shift may accelerate the loss of traditional ecological knowledge, but quantitative, three‑generation studies are lacking. To quantify the relationship between heritage language shift and ethnobiological knowledge erosion across three generations in an endangered language community. Ninety participants (30 grandparents, G1; 30 parents, G2; 30 children, G3) from 30 families completed standardized language proficiency measures (adapted PPVT, oral fluency) and ethnobiological knowledge tasks (free‑listing, species identification and use). Covariates included age, education, and nature contact. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and hierarchical regression. Language proficiency declined significantly across generations (G1: M=42.1/50; G2: 28.4; G3: 12.7; η²=0.67). Ethnobiological knowledge showed a parallel decline (G1: M=38.6/80; G2: 24.3; G3: 9.8; η²=0.68). The bivariate correlation between language proficiency and knowledge was strong (r=0.72, 95% CI [0.61, 0.80], p<0.001). Regression confirmed language proficiency as a unique predictor (β=0.61, p<0.001) after controlling for covariates, explaining 45% of variance in knowledge. Language shift and ethnobiological knowledge erosion are tightly coupled processes, supporting the view that heritage languages serve as critical scaffolds for cultural memory. Rapid intergenerational loss (70% vocabulary, 88% knowledge) within two generations indicates a biocultural emergency. Integrated interventions—community‑based language revitalization, heritage‑language environmental education, and biocultural conservation policies are urgently needed to preserve both linguistic and ecological diversity.

Thermodynamic Literacy for Sustainable Development: A Review of Integrating Physics Education on Resource Utilization and Environmental Awareness Cultivation Muhammad Ridwan; Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Arifulhak Aceh
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature Vol 7 No 1 (2026): Linglit Journal: Scientific Journal of Linguistics and Literature, March
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The escalating global environmental crisis demands an urgent reorientation of educational paradigms, particularly within physics instruction. Thermodynamics the fundamental science of energy, work, and entropy offers a natural and powerful bridge between abstract physical principles and concrete sustainability challenges. This review synthesizes the scholarly literature on integrating sustainable development education into physics instruction, with a specific focus on resource utilization and environmental awareness cultivation. Through a systematic analysis of 45 peer-reviewed studies spanning 2015–2025, we examine how thermodynamic literacy can transform sustainability education from aspirational discourse into quantitatively grounded decision-making. The review identifies three core contributions of thermodynamic literacy: (1) providing first-principles explanations for resource limits and efficiency boundaries via the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics; (2) enabling rigorous assessment of resource utilization through concepts such as Energy Return on Investment (EROI), exergy analysis, and entropy accounting; and (3) cultivating environmental awareness by making invisible energy flows and waste streams visible and quantifiable. We find that effective pedagogical approaches include project-based resource audits, exergy literacy integration, socio-scientific inquiry frameworks, and active learning strategies aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite growing recognition of the physics–sustainability nexus, significant gaps remain: validated assessment instruments for thermodynamic literacy are underdeveloped, teacher professional development lags behind curricular ambitions, and systematic integration across educational levels is fragmented. The review concludes with a proposed framework for thermodynamic literacy development spanning cognitive, analytical, and practical competencies and offers recommendations for curriculum design, pedagogical innovation, and future research.

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