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Флора и фауна у приповеткама Милоша Црњанског

Author(s): Jelena Đ. Marićević Balać / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 15/2017

This paper is a summary of the complete initial phase in the research of flora and fauna in Miloš Crnjanski’s prose. Thus far, there has merely been research of either the flora, or the fauna motif, but it failed to analyze and examine their ecaustics, and it was not systematical. Our aim is not only to contribute a new reading of the Serbian classic writer to literary science, but to point out the potential of the given singularities the writer counted on during the process of literary creation. The paper analyses the short stories most relevant to the issue and stories which mutually correspond to the flora and fauna motif. They are “Adam and Eve,” “The Killers (a grotesque),” “Holy Vojvodina” and “The Garden of Blessed Women”. Based on our research and analyses, we have discovered no less than three mutual links – the garden, the rose, and the opera – through which the plant and animal life is semanticized in Crnjanski’s prose.

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Парампарчад Џејмса Фреја: једна ревизија мемоарског жанра

Author(s): Mirjana Bojanić Ćirković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 19/2019

The subject of this paper is the analysis of the genre characteristics of one of the most controversial memoirs of today, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. Without neglecting the social and cultural context in which Frey's work was published, the paper focuses on the study of the relations of A Million Little Pieces with the classic memoir canon, as well as with contemporary observations of cognitive psychologists regarding the mentioned genre. An in-depth analysis of A Million Little Pieces between the "classic" and the contemporary view of the memoir characteristics suggests that this piece of work uses the potential of "classic" memoirs in an innovative way (the re-creation of memories, issue of objectivity and the status of truth, narration about the feat, moral witness’ story, interference with literary and non-literary genres), varies in content and significantly reviews classic definitions of memoirs.

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Motiv traume u pjesmama „Noćna dama” i „Bljesak” Đovanija Paskolija

Author(s): Sanja N. Kobilj Ćuić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 15/2017

The present article examines the poetics of Pascoli’s traumatic experience (the murder of his father) in the key of Cathy Caruth’s theory of trauma. In two of Pascoli’s poems, “Il Gelsomino notturno” and “Il Lampo”, there poet’s unaware psychological symbolism is used as a constant attempt to overcome the trauma.The most frequent one, the symbol of the nest, in its various forms represents the impossibility of that process, because the poet remains isolated and alienated from the Other, trying to build the security of the family nest destroyed in his early childhood. The only dialogue that is possible is the one between the poetry and its Reader.

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Надзирање као метод истраге и (ре)конструкције стварности у новели Налог Фридриха Диренмата

Author(s): Branka B. Ognjanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 15/2017

This paper provides an insight into constituting an investigation and the nature of its relation with the reality in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s novella The Assignment. It examines the way in which character F. creates the reality by conducting an investigation – at first by searching for the truth by means of a biographic method, by interpreting the diaries, photographs, and notes of Tina von Lambert, and then by moving through staged realities, which raises the issue of who is really conducting the investigation: character F. or an instance of power. It points to concerns with regard to the border between the truth and fiction and to various aspects of cognition embodied in Polyphemus, a cameraman and a logician, and his assistant, Achilles, as well as to the possibility of findings of the investigation being manipulated depending on the point of view. Thus, an important role in the novella is given to surveillance as a method of monitoring, controlling, and creating the reality, with the author relying on Foucalt’s theory of power and surveillance as the starting point of her research.

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Tragovima velikana: O germanistima Beogradskog univerziteta 1905–1941

Author(s): Nikolina N. Zobenica / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 15/2017

Review of: Aćimović, Ljiljana (2016), Germanisti Beogradskog univerziteta 1905–1941, Banja Luka: Filološki fakultet Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.

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Quelle féminisation linguistique dans la francophonie?

Author(s): François S. Schmitt / Language(s): French Issue: 15/2017

Review of: Pleško, Martin (2015), Les femmes, le français et la francophonie. La féminisation linguistique en Belgique, en France, au Québec et en Suisse, Olomouc : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.

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Why do sparkles make a sound in English? The impact of media exposure on child L2 vocabulary acquisition

Author(s): Mateja Hendrih,Stela Letica Krevelj / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Due to their features of multi-modal presentation and their abundance in terms of availability and diversity, the media have been assumed to have a distinct effect on second language acquisition (SLA). Although their beneficial effect on overall SLA has been found in various studies, very few of them examined the characteristics of different types of media in relation to how they may influence second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition at an early age. We present a case study of a 9-year-old Croatian girl who had achieved high competence in the English language primarily through exposure to television (TV) content in English. We examined her production for the evidence that some features of television as a medium might have influenced the development of her vocabulary and the way she experienced and used the L2. The production data was collected in a series of unstructured conversations in the informal atmosphere of the participant’s home. Additional data on the participant’s language learning background were collected in interviews with the participant and her parents. The results suggest that exposure to TV as a medium, which provides opportunities for repeated exposure to rich input, contextualized language, and a combination of visual and aural stimuli, may have an important influence on L2 vocabulary acquisition. However, it has to be emphasized that the influence was evidenced in the production of a highly motivated language learner in an environment that was truly supportive of her language development.

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GRAPHOMANIE UND SCHRIFTRAUM IN GOGOL’S ZAPISKI SUMASŠEDŠEGO

Author(s): Alexander Hartl / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2016

The aim of the following article is to illustrate and to highlight specific semiotic tendencies in Nikolai Gogol′s "Zapiski sumasšedšego". To begin with, thematically relevant connections between communicative acts such as speaking, writing and being silent, as discussed by the narrator himself, are presented. The main part of this paper focuses on the practice of writing itself and the implicit relation between the writer and the written. Finally, an analysis closely linked to the theory of Jacques Derrida provides some findings that may be helpful for a more thorough understanding of this complex and accurately constructed piece of literature.

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MULTICULTURALISM IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Author(s): Mary Lee Behar / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

This paper addresses the socio-political situation around multiculturalism in the United States up to the present day in Los Angeles, California, taking into consideration the history of minorities and how they have interacted and assimilated with “American” culture or not. Some of the ideas covered are monoculturalism, segregation, racism, tolerance, anti-discrimination policies, affirmative action, Black Power, the Chicano Movement, immigration and religion. The paper seeks to analyse the current demographics of one of the most diverse cities in the world and to highlight the challenges and benefits of such diversity and the prospects for peace, understanding and true equality in such a society.

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Систематична библиографија лексикографских радова

Author(s): Slađana M. Cukut / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 15/2017

Review of: Ljiljana Nedeljkov i Brankica Marković (2015), Dijalekatska leksikografija štokavskog narečja (od 1818. do 2014. godine) – Bibliografija, Srpski dijalektološki zbornik LXII, Beograd: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti i Institut za srpski jezik SANU.

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Епска пјесма као по(р)ука

Author(s): Saša D. Knežević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 14/2016

Review of: Lajić Mihajlović, Danka (2014), Pevanje uz gusle – guslarska praksa kao komunikacijski proces, Beograd: Muzikološki institut SANU.

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Some Considerations about Discursive Antonymy

Author(s): Daniela Gheltofan / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2019

The contextual-discursive and syntactic-combinatorial side of the canonical and non-canonical antonyms contribute to the shaping of an antonymically configured discourse, as well as to the relief of an antonymic communicative-discursive impact. We consider that, in a functional-contextual plan, one can delimit the hyperonym concept discursive (functional) antonymy, along with the hyponymic concepts: stylistic antonymy, phraseological antonymy, paremiologic antonymy, aphoristic antonymy, terminological antonymy, scientific antonymy, etc. At the same time, contextual or occasional antonymy is part of discursive antonymy because its context or statement is specific to both canonical and non-canonical, occasional, contextual antonyms. In the present study, the focus is on stylistic antonyms, trying to identify in the present discourse a linguistic paradigm of opposing terms.

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The Implicit Causality in Verbs

Author(s): Sofiana Iulia Lindemann,Sabina Homana / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2019

Natural languages display a great variety of devices that are used to speak of causal relations, ranging from prepositions, subordinating conjunctions and verbs. The present contribution provides a review of both theoretical and psycholinguistic approaches to causality in language. The focus will be causal relations expressed by verbs. Implicit causality refers to the observation that certain verbs tend to prefer statistically reliable causal antecedents (Garvey and Caramazza, 1974). These causal biases can affect the likelihood of remention in the subsequent discourse.

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Learning by Teaching at University Politehnica of Timişoara

Author(s): Liliana-Luminița Todorescu,Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir,Anca Greculescu / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2019

The current study tackles teaching as a leading source of learning as part of the educational process. The research was conducted at University Politehnica of Timişoara (UPT), and it is based on an exploratory case study that consisted of an in-depth analysis of the institutional documents, archives, periodical reports and statistics available on the university web site. The study highlights the way teaching is perceived and addressed by teachers, as a means to both educate the educable and ensure the quality of the educational process.

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Speaking about SPOC

Author(s): Ramona Bran,Gabriela Grosseck / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2019

The article looks at the process of designing a language SPOC (Small Private Online Course) for second- and third-year students from the West University of Timisoara (WUT), Romania, who chose Learning English with Technology (LET) as Transversal Discipline. The course recommends ways of using free online tools for practicing English grammar and lexical items. After running the pilot course, we requested the students’ feedback to find out how they evaluated their progress and what we still needed to work on in order to adapt the course to the Transversal Disciplines curricula and thus ensure sustainability of SPOCs at WUT.

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INTERNET KAO VAŽAN SEGMENT INFORMACIONO-KOMUNIKACIONIH TEHNOLOGIJA PRILIKOM UČENJA I U NASTAVI ENGLESKOG JEZIKA

Author(s): Katarina Savković,Nikola Vasić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

Cilj rada je da utvrdi stepen upotrebe interneta (važnog segmenta informaciono-komunikacionih tehnologija) kao sredstva za učenje i poučavanje na srednjoškolskom nivou. Sprovedeno je istraživanje među učenicima prve, druge, treće i četvrte godine Gimnazije i tehničke škole „Kosovska Mitrovica”. U skladu sa ciljem istraživanja, korištena je deskriptivna metoda. Analizom rezultata došlo se do zaključka da se internet i jedan od najpoznatijih veb-sajtova na internetu, Jutjub (YouTube), u velikoj meri koriste među učenicima srednjoškolskog uzrasta, premda ne uvek i ne najčešće za učenje jezika. Učenici u velikoj meri zavise od ove tehnologije, iako se još uvek u potpunosti ne oslanjaju na nju kada je u pitanju ovladavanje školskim gradivom. Ipak, istraživanje je pokazalo da većina njih smatra da bi ona bila od velike koristi za nastavni proces i proces učenja, ali i da njihovi nastavnici retko koriste internet kao nastavno sredstvo.

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INCREASING MOTIVATION FOR IN-CLASS READING COMPREHENSION IN A BUSINESS ENGLISH COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA(UCR)

Author(s): Jose Fabián Elizondo González / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

When teaching an integrated-skills English class, teachers normally know what to do to increase students’ motivation to speak in the classroom; for example, they can achieve this through the use of creative and amusing conversational activities. However, when it comes to increasing students’ motivation to read in class, instructors normally consider this a more challenging task. This mixed-methods research examines the role of reading strategies as a tool to increase students’ motivation to read in class in a business English course at the University of Costa Rica (UCR). To collect the data, the researcher made use of a pre-test, a post-test, two questionnaires, and an observation form. The results of the research show that 67% of the students claimed to feel more motivated to read in class after the teaching of reading strategies, as well as an increase of 58% in the approval rate in students’ performance. From the data obtained, the researcher concludes that explicit strategy training helps students become more actively engaged when doing in-class reading activities and boosts students’ confidence when tackling written texts.

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Ф. М. Достоевский в переписке Е. А. Штакеншнейдер с Я. П. Полонским

Author(s): Anna Indzinskaya / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 4/2019

Elena Andreevna Stackenschneider (1836–1897), memoirist and hostess of the literary and art salon in St. Petersburg in the 1870s — early 1880s, was keeping records on F. M. Dostoevsky and his creative work for 25 years (1860–1885). She used to remark his public speeches, describe his appearance and habits, give a critical assessment of his writings, and tried to identify the features of his artistic world, never doubting the magnitude of his talent. The unpublished correspondence of Yakov Polonsky with Elena Stakenschneider, as well as previously unpublished fragments of the diaries of the latter, made it possible to clarify the facts of the biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky and to enrich the collection of vital criticisms and evidence of his activities and creative work. Thanks to her meticulous and longstanding work in accumulating materials and keeping memoirs, her deep analysis of Dostoevsky’s genius whose underlying message consists in Christian axiology, it is possible to consider this woman one of the first female researchers of the writer’s creation. The example of E. A. Stackenschneider evidentiates how despite the negative criticism grew up the number of sympathizers of her ideas who aspired to keep the image and heritage of their great compatriot for the descendants.

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Ф. М. Достоевский в переписке Е. А. Штакеншнейдер с Я. П. Полонским

Author(s): Oksana A. Sosnovskaya / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 4/2019

The topic of financial relations of F. M. Dostoevsky with his numerous creditors has not been yet exposed to a comprehensive study. Neither the exact total amount of the writer’s debt, nor the amount of his debts to particular individuals or to what extent those were repaid by him, are known for certain. A detailed study of Dostoevsky’s heavy debt obligations in the mid-1860s as well as their weigh on the writer for almost all his life, may become promising for future researchers. This article presents the analysis of the letters of one of the writer’s creditors, a publisher and public figure L. F. Panteleev, as well as of his father-in-law V. N. Latkin, industrialist and researcher of the Russian North. These documents, dating back to the mid-1860s, make it possible to clarify some data on the numerous debt obligations of Dostoevsky at that time, to consider the relationship (both personal and financial) between two contemporaries — L. F. Panteleev and F. M. Dostoevsky, and also to make more clear the involvement of Latkin. Despite the fact that the communication between the publisher and the writer in the mid-1860s was not durable, the relationship between them can be described as completely trusting and friendly. The facts obtained from their letters to the writer, correlated with information from Dostoevsky’s extant account books and notebooks of that time as well as Panteleev’s memoirs, supplement the general picture of the financial situation of the writer in the mid-1860s.

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Дорогами Ф. М. Достоевского: поляки в Сибири

Author(s): Elena Novikova / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 4/2019

The review of the Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia. Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles by Elizabeth A. Blake (Boston 2019) is devoted to the description and analysis of the modern study of the destinies of the members of the Petrashevsky circle and the Polish exiles in Siberia. It is shown that extensive factual material has been introduced into scientific circulation and that Siberian life of F. M. Dostoevsky and the members of the Petrashevsky circle performs the function of historical and cultural background, on which the history of the Poles’ stay in Siberia is drawn.

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