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The study of linguistic landscape is an emerging interdisciplinary field which encompasses areas of research such as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning as well as other disciplines.
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The study of linguistic landscape is an emerging interdisciplinary field which encompasses areas of research such as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning as well as other disciplines.
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The concept of postcolonialism with regard to Canada seems to be more complex than in other cultures because it needs to include the three founding nations (First Nations People, the French and the English), and at least two races (red and white) with a variety of ethnic perspectives of numerous immigrants (Moss 2003, Hammill 2007). The offi cial cultural mosaic policy was designed to lead to cultural decolonization and decentralization in Canada. However, while white people, however heterogeneous, can merge into a homogenous nation, other races remain visibly diff erent, which allows for the existence of the imperial (white) center and the distant (colored) margin. For this reason, feminism in postcolonial countries overlaps with nationalism as a subversive activity aiming at a redefi nition of the power relations between the margin and the center, while in Canada particularly the postcolonial feminist writing criticizes the position of the First Nations women within the decolonized but still dominantly patriarchal and hegemonic corporate society generally intolerant towards the indigenous population. Multiple marginalization of native Indian and Métis women is a historic fact in Canada. The author, Beth Brant, believes the situation basically remains the same to this day. Her own marginalized position of woman, Métis and lesbian, which she projects onto her female characters, off ers itself as material for research to answer the question as to how gender, race, and class function in a colonial and postcolonial discourse, which is also the aim of this paper.
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Establishing inter-textual links between the so-called “epiphany” segment of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the epiphany patterns in the classical poetic opera: Homeric epics and Ovidian poems Ars amandi and Metamorphoses, this paper aims to develop a sequence of analogies which will bring to a better understanding of the meta-poetic meaning of Joyce’s famous text. The Joycean epiphany echoes the Homeric one, but omits the key-point: the revelation of an Olympic god or goddess, instead of whom a diff erent kind of divinity, the intrapsychical Daedalus, artifex, is revealed. This transformation of the actual divine beings into the divinity of art and artistic self-consciousness echoes Ovid’s version of the Daedalus-Icarus myth, taken by the Latin poet as a parabola of the artistic eff ort and creation. The Homeric proto-text enables a reader of Joyce to seize the metaphorically divine status of the artifex in the modern world, and to interpret Joyce’s works in the context of the relation between the immanent and the transcendent. Thanks to Ovid’s insights, the inner Daedalus and Icarus, transferred from A Portrait to Ulysses and to Finnegan’s Wake, can be seen as an iconic self-contemplation of Joyce-artifex. As author, Joyce creates simultaneously in the manner of a poeta vates, of an inspired creator in the de-divinized world, and of a poeta faber, of an innovator on the téchne plan. Due to such inner poetic ambiguity, he remains a slave to an endless wish that leads him not only to self-deconstruction, but also to self-annihilation – through divine sublimation, that deep negativity gives birth to the impenetrable wonder of Joycean creation. Poetics of Ulysses and of Finnegan’s Wake alike, reveal a creative self, which, being Daedalus, always remains Icarus as well. That insight, owed to Homer and Ovid, might help enlighten the idion of Joyce’s powerful originality.
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Research of this work was carried out on Italian proverbs, which have all the features of the sentence, and some special features that make them different from the usual sentence in everyday communication. The bare nouns in the initial part of the proverbs occur because of the relocation of the informative focus into the initial position regardless of the function that later they carry out. Furthermore the omission of the article is due to various changes in syntactic structure, permutation or omission of sentence constituents, such as verbs and conjunctions. Realizing the most important principles of these changes led us to a better understanding of this phenomenon in Italian proverbs, but also to significant variety of their syntactic structures.
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Review of: Simić, Charles (2010), The Horse Has Six Legs. An Anthology of Serbian Poetry (updated and expanded). Minneapolis: Greywolf Press.
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Review of: Martin, Holly E. (2011) Writing between Cultures: A Study of Hybrid Narratives in Ethnic Literature of the United States. Jefferson: McFarland.
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This paper reports findings from a questionnaire-based study on the internal structure of the category HOUSE PARTS, conducted among 211 respondents, all native speakers of Serbian. The semantic organization of the category is represented by two ranking lists based on the frequency and order with which the category members were named by the respondents. The results show that the most dominant members of the category core and the areas close to it are the segmental parts of a house, seen either in terms of spaces or in terms of the structural elements which define those spaces.
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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has had a considerable number of screen adaptations. The legendary Scottish thane has been since played by many actors as diverse in their portrayal as the adaptations themselves have been diverse in their contextualization of the plot and accentuation of certain aspects of the originals. Mark Brozel’s adaptation follows a contemporary perspective on Macbeth, removed from the medieval Scottish realm to a three star Michelin restaurant. The adaptation thus substitutes the title role of a blood-thirsty warrior into that of a no less ambitious master chef. In this manner, Brozel’s adaptation tackles the issues Shakespeare addressed centuries ago albeit in the context of the 21st century. These issues examine the interplay of power and fate. Brozel problematises the classical play from our contemporary viewpoint. Issues of bloodshed, motherhood, ambition, waste, and alienation intertwine into a general defamiliorization of reality. The cultural-materialist interpretative approach to this work has proven as the most appropriate key to comparatively reflect on the original and Brozel’s adaptation, as it emphasizes Shakespeare’s modus operandi (thanks to which Macbeth so intensely lives to his present day) that makes it impossible to separate the narrative away from its sociopolitical context.
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Review of: Paul Fleming und das literarische Feld der Stadt Tallinn in der Frühen Neuzeit. Studien zum Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturkontakt einer Region. Unter Mitarbeit von Heiko F. Marten hrsg. von Mari Tarvas . Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg 2011. 250 S. ISBN 978-3-8260-4544-8 (€ 39,80.). Reviewed by Dorothee M. Goeze.
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This report aims to analyze the opportunities and perspectives of professional development of the profession of philologist, to present opportunities for realization of professional skills and to identify development trends.
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The main aim of this paper is to prove that the modernization of testing university students makes the learning process more effective and helps teachers to improve and make this process more interesting for students. The Department of Foreign Languages from University of Žilina has recently changed its way of testing and evaluating students capitalizing on the impact on test item analysis and diagnosing easy, optimal and difficult tasks. The most significant part of this piece of research deals with a marker of individual students’ achievement called "student gain" reflecting the knowledge students gain during a semester.
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It has been recently acknowledged that there are certain factors that have contaminating influence on test takers’ performance. One of these is the influence of the test method. This paper presents the results of a study the aim of which was to find the extent to which the performance of 4th-year secondary school students differs depending on test tasks of various formats. The study compared and correlated students’ performance in five different tasks in order to see how their knowledge of certain grammatical features is demonstrated through the various testing instruments. The results indicate that there is a close relationship between the form of a test task and students’ performance.
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The present attempt aims at a reading with reference to the text – reader – reading relationship, on the one hand, and with reference to intertextuality, on the other hand. The main assertion is that, in order to be adequate, a model has to take stock of the paradoxical nature of the text, in other words of it having the same properties – being completed and endless at the same time, simultaneously present and virtual, etc. The codes in the short story written by Dinev mutually doubt their foundations – each of them calls into question the other’s cognitive model as if having doubts as to its own at the same time.
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The subject of this work is the analysis of interrogative sentences used in A level textbooks intended for students of Serbian as a foreign language. The aim of this work is to examine interrogative sentences according to: the range of the relevant situation; the degree of informativeness аnd the degree of grammaticalisation. The following points are considered: the most dominant model of interrogative sentence; the forming of the interrogative sentence and the impact that the acquisition of interrogative sentences has on the development of receptive and productive language skills in the process of learning Serbian as a foreign language. This analysis demonstrates that interrogative sentences from part of microstructures in textbooks. The acquisition of the various types of interrogative sentences contributes to the development of communicative and productive language skills.
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