Sfârtecarea lui Cioran

Author(s): Natasa Maxim / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2014

La série synonimique – fragmentarisme, décomposition, écartèlement – se propose à illustrer la modalité cioranniene de rédiger, une méthode pleine de valences esthétiques, valeurs existentielles, psychanalitiques. La recherche compare deux essais biographiques qui retracent la vie et l`oeuvre de Cioran. Dans les portraits de L`exercices d`admiration, l'un des points de départ d`Ilina Gregori - Cioran. Sugestii pentru o biografie imposibilă, le philosophe parle de soi-même, l`introverti, l`égocentrique incorigible, Les Exercices... étant un élément essentiel de sa philosophie qui pivote autour de l`individu, de l`identité. Nous croyons qu`il ne s`est pas proposé de surprendre le monde littéraire par l'aspect fragmentaire de l`écrit; pourtant, cela évoque parfaitement sa structure psychique angoissée, scindée. Peut-être qu`il n'était pour le grand spectacle du logique, c`est encore que le fragmentarisme désigne une structure intérieure greffée sur Nietzsche et Pascal. Un Cioran ambivalent, partagé entre le morbide, le régressif par la peinture des morts et la rédemption par le portrait même, les deux pôles plus représentatifs par rapport au couple intérieur-extérieur, proposé par Ilina Gregori, dont la source d'inspiration se trouve dans la philosophie de Schopenhauer: la pitié et la méchanceté. On a mis en évidence le style de Cioran, la forme fragmentaire, destructurée, aphoristique de son écrit. L`essai biographique de Stéphane Barsacq Cioran. Ejaculări mistice în oglindă est centré sur la perspective religieuse, mystique, théologale de la vie du philosophe roumain, depuis que chaque journal ou biographie est un devenir du héros, une initiation aux mystères du monde. Le journaliste tente à effacer le versant roumain de l`oeuvre cioranienne, en la jugeant d`hystérique et désagréable, tout en prenant Cioran pour un sacré tombé et ressuscité grâce aux moralistes français, une tentative de s'emparer de Cioran pour la culture française.

NTELECTUALII ROMÂNI ȘI IMAGINEA JAPONIEI ÎN PRIMA JUMĂTATE A SECOLULUI AL DOUĂZECILEA

Author(s): Alexandra Marina Gheorghe / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2014

During the modern age, the Romanian image of the Japanese people and country undergoes a sustained positive evolution. It starts forming a specific frame around the end of the nineteenth century and it reaches a well attuned outline during the first half of the twentieth century. There are many economical, as well as social factors which justify this incredibly positive turn in the Romanian imaginary, yet among the most influential of all these aspects may also be taken into consideration the personal experiences of the intellectuals who had the opportunity to reach Japan, as well as the scholars’ work, who undertook a privileged step towards the first aspect of presenting Japan by introducing the positive basic Japanese cultural aspects for the great public of this Eastern European culture. Well-known names like historian Nicolae Iorga (1871 – 1940), or less famous thinkers, writers, poets, travelers or linguists like Bazil Assan (1860 – 1918), Ioan Timuș (1890 – 1969), Ion Simionescu (1873 – 1944), Corneliu Diaconoviciu (1859 – 1923), Gheorghe Flaișlen (? – 1942), George Oprescu (1881 – 1969), General Ion Manolescu (1869 – 1946), General Constantin Găvănescul (1871 – 1942), General Gheorghe Băgulescu (1886 – 1963), Traian Chelariu (1906 – 1966), Alexandru Teodor Stamatiad (1885 – 1956) and Radu Flondor (1900 – 1956) make Japan a model state with an incredible strength, cohesion, moral excellence and a nationally spread taste for achieving beauty, no matter how trivial things may look like. The spectacular transformation of Japan from an agriculturally oriented state with very narrow political views into a strong, well acknowledged industrialized power, well respected all over East Asia and in the Western world as well, in less than half a century, is regarded with intense feelings of respect and it is always present in the Romanians’ texts regarding the Far Eastern country. It is the aim of the present study to outline and analyze the methods used by the Romanian intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, in creating an ideal image of a distant land that is Japan.

A METHODOLOGICAL MODEL OF AN ELECTRONIC COLLECTION OF WIDESPREAD EUROPEAN FOOD IDIOMS

Author(s): Petronela SAVIN / Language(s): English Issue: 31/2014

The present paper aims at presenting the research methodology for creating an electronic collection of widespread European food idioms, corresponding to the shared European cultural heritage. This study intends to make use of digital scientific lexicographical methods in the field of phraseology, providing an answer to the challenge regarding the research strategies of studying language from the perspective of cultural universals. Even if the cross-linguistic similarities of idioms according to their cultural foundations seem to gain ground in today's research, the electronic collections are less convincing. In response to the current situation of the onomasiological cross-linguistic corpus of idioms, our study’s main objective is the elaboration of a methodological model of an electronic collection of widespread European food, which exceeds the perspective of a simple compilation of phrasemes that are separately treated and alphabetically ordered, but organised as organic elements related to a coherent system.

Influencing factors on further development of bilingual education in Macedonia

Author(s): Hajrulla Hajrullai / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Macedonia has implemented bilingualism in schools for more than a decade. However, this bilingualism has been realized in a step-by-step program in the Macedonian schools by introducing minorities to bilingual programs first starting from primary, then secondary and lately tertiary education in mother language of minorities. This approach was originally thought to help minority students learn the majority language and in that way find their way in the market economy. In practice, bilingual programs in Macedonian schools as well as teacher training programs in the state universities have limited view of what it means to have bilingual education, professional bilingual teachers, and how these teachers should teach bilingual students. This paper explores how political, social, and economic developments in one country influences by further developing or limiting bilingual education in all levels in Macedonia and how bilingualism in schools can be misused for the government to keep the minorities oppressed. This paper will overview the major political and educational events that took place in Macedonia that concern and seriously affected further development of bilingual education in the country.

A Facebook-based approach to asynchronous communication in medical English

Author(s): Anișoara Popa / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

Social media are widely used in informal communication, but how about in professional communication? This study reflects on a task-based action research intervention focusing on asynchronous Facebook (FB)-integrated professional communication for Medical English (ME). The purpose of the study was to understand if and how FB-integrated learning could be successfully customised to Medical English in order to provide further asynchronous communication to medical students and to evaluate their opinions in terms of its "usefulness" and "satisfaction". Methods: Online class observation, rubric-based assessment of students' productions, a Google form questionnaire and informal class discussions were selected for data collection. Main Argument: Specific Medical English task elements (peer evaluation) and factors (communication versus accuracy) could influence the students' performance, satisfaction, and motivation in FB-based ME communication. Conclusion: Incorporation of Facebook-integrated communication was a quantitatively (democratic participation) and qualitatively (comfort of a synchrony) positive experience in ME blended learning.

Academic infractions of assessed work in Japanese langauge

Author(s): Junko Winch / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Google Translate (GT) is a free on-line translation tool and accessible to anyone including students who study languages.Before the advent of GT, dictionaries have been used by language learners, which have only receptive translation function.Unlike dictionaries, GT has two translation functions: receptive and productive. This productive function of GT has been increasingly creating problems in university language assessment and language teachers with students’ cheating, plagiarism or academic infractions. The purpose of this article is to find evidence that GT has a causal effect of students’ cheating,plagiarism or academic infractions. In addition, how coherence also seems to be associated with academic infraction is discussed before the methodology. The study investigated the formative Japanese coursework essay writings of three students who have studied Japanese for 1 year but with no basic understanding or knowledge of the Japanese language at a university of South of England. It is concluded that all the three students were suspected of committing plagiarism in spite of teacher’s warning of plagiarism. The implications of this study are directed at institutions, teachers and students. Institutions should review the information gap between the websites which are written for students and the university’s official published website statement on plagiarism. Institutions may also need to mention GT specifically in the plagiarism documentation. Institutions may also consider adopting an additional cover sheet system to use as students’ declaration of plagiarism. Language teacher should be familiar with the differences between plagiarism vs. cheatings, plagiarism vs.academic infractions/offences and the components of academic infractions of the university they work. Students shouldsubmit their own work, not using GT or copying and pasting translated sentences from websites.

Многовекторность творческого пути ученого

Author(s): Vyacheslav P. Stepanov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2020

The article presents the main milestones of the life of a prominent researcher, classic of modern Ukrainian literature, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Konstantin Popovich (1924–2010). Attention is drawn to the multi-vector nature of the scientist’s creative career: eminescology studies, literary relations of the Moldovan-Ukrainian-Russian frontier, the folklore heritage of the Ukrainian-Moldavian borderland, and, of course, the writing profession. The paper proposes new data about Popovich as an organizer of science, a teacher and an innovator. Along with the well-known biographical information, the reader gets the opportunity to get acquainted with the author’s personal memories of this versatile and extraordinary personality.

Once again about the names of Bulaesti and Woloka: some refinements to the issue of origin of Bulaestian Ukrainians

Author(s): Aleksey A. Romanchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article considers some new facts and ideas concerning the origin of the toponym Bulaesti in the context of the issue on the origin of the Bulaestian Ukrainians ethnic group. The key fact is the existence of Moldavian dialectal words bu| lai and bu| la, which are evidently related with the Slavic булава, and, consequently pre-Slavic *bula “bump, bulge; knob”. These words were found in the Prut river basin, in the area of those Ukrainian dialects that are closely related to Bulaestian dialect in the lexis and phonetics. In the same region, and in several times, we encounter another important toponym of the Bulaesti vicinity, Woloka. It is namely Woloka village (of Vijnitsa district) where the lexeme bula was found. Therefore, not only the lexis and phonetics of Bulaestian dialect points to the area of Pokutian-Bukovinian Ukrainian dialects, but the place names of Bulaesti and Woloka as well. Apparently, all considered in the article facts present important arguments to the idea that the names of Bulaesti and Woloka arose namely among Bulaestian dialect speakers, that brought this toponymic tradition from the area of Prut-Bukovinian Ukrainian dialects to the region of Orhei Kodry.

Создание нового ромского читателя в СССР (1927–1938): противоречивые подходы

Author(s): Victor Shapoval / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2020

The Gypsy Cultural Revolution is an unusual phenomenon, the most active period of which, if we take into account Romani book publishing, lasted a little over a decade. The analysis of special messages to the Roma readers in the books of the 1930s in the Gypsy language is very important for understanding how the culture of reading was developing after Romani books appeared as a new social practice in this previously almost illiterate community. That was a genre of communication between Roma authors and their readers which was aimed both at receiving feedback and at promoting the authors’ new (sometimes barely assimilated) ideological views and new esthetic and behavioral values. The contradictory goals were reflected and refracted in a not fully developed literary language. It was a dramatic collision of aims and opportunities, which nevertheless shaped a new Romani reader for a decade. The means used in order to guide and assist readers were varied and mostly traditional for old literatures: footnotes to explain less known words, short dictionaries of new terms, textbooks proposed by authors and translators, illustrations. On the other hand, the authors were waiting for readers’ help asking them to send Romani words instead of Russian borrowings. Thus, it was a mutually enriching communication that opened up really new horizons of language use beyond the everyday life experience.

About the Gypsy (Romani) Renaissance in the Soviet Union (1925–1938) and its successors

Author(s): Valdemar Kalinin / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

This article attempts to summarize the main landmarks of the Gypsy (Romani) Educational History in Russia. Gypsies and non-Gypsies established good relations following their first encounter in 1697. Shortly afterwards Gypsies were separated into urban and camp Gypsies. The urban Gypsies were integrated into high society since their musical performances captured the minds of the Russian aristocracy to a significant extent. Consequently they started to intermarry including in such noble families as: the Golitsyns, the Obolenskis, the Tolstoys, etc. The October Revolution followed by the Civil War destroyed the traditional way of life for the Gypsies. The Pan-Russian Gypsy Union was founded in 1925, in Moscow. It started to promote the ideas of a Socialist way of life. The Gypsies were involved in all spheres of life of the Soviet State: Gypsy (Romani) schools taught children and adults. The parents were involved in all branches of industry and Socialist agriculture (Gypsy collective-farms – ’kolkhozs’). Suddenly the schools were closed in August 1938 by a secret note of the Soviet Government. After WWII many Gypsy wrote letters imploring Stalin to reopen schools, but there were no replies. Later the notable Gypsy poet Nikolai Satkevich managed to open a Gypsy school in Irkutsk (Siberia) in 1963. His example was followed by J. Nielands (Latvia), N. Belugina,L. Manush and L. Cherenkov (Moscow) while the author continued this good tradition in London and the Miheiki settlement (Slutsk region, Belarus’). The versatile literature of the Romani Renaissance left a remarkable legacy about the Romani Renaissance and it inspires other generations to follow this unique process.

Romanian a cinsti in the light of some Romanian-Slavic contacts

Author(s): Aleksey A. Romanchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

A group of Slavic loanwords with epenthetic /n/ in the Romanian language, to which a cinsti belongs, is considered. Interpreting the existing set of facts, the author supposes that the semantic convergence between the Slavic честь ‘honour’ and угощение ‘treat’ appeared as far back as the Late Slavic period. The Romanian a cinsti, which is an early Slavic borrowing, also clearly testifies Slavic origin of this semantic convergence. Accordingly, the Ukrainian частувати and Polish częstowac appeared independently from each other, as well as from the Romanian a cinsti. Whereas the Romanian a cinsti (and cinste), as well as the whole group of Slavic loanwords in the Romanian language with the epenthetic sound /n/, are the result of early contacts of the Romanian language with some late Slavic dialect (or dialects), which was characterized by a tendency of widespread epenthetic nasal vowels. We can suppose that some traces of this for-Slavic dialect (dialects) could also be found in the Carpathian Ukrainian dialects as well. In particular, such traces, perhaps, should include both the Ukrainian dialectal чандрий, шандрий, чендрий and another Ukrainian dialectal form, recorded in the Bulaesti village, /мон|золетеи / ‘procrastinate; fiddling around in vain’ (in Russian: ‘мусолить; впустую теребить’).

ROMANUL „MOROMEŢII” DE MARIN PREDA DIN COLECŢIA BIBLIOTECII ŞTIINŢIFICE USARB LA A 65 ANIVERSARE

Author(s): Natalia Luchianciuc,Olga Dascal / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

This article is a tribute to the work of Marin Preda „Morometii” („The Moromete Family”, 65 years since publication). In the reading room no. 2 Philological Sciences and Mediatequie were organized exhibitions with several editions of the novel on this occasion. From the volumes on display we find out about Ilie Moromete, the hero of the novel and hispeasant dignity crushed by deep changes brought about by capitalism, industrialization ,„the obsessive decade” of the 1950s and finally communism.

Od anagogicznej pokraczności do analitycznej sztuki: Teologia symboliczna w “Expositiones in Ierarchiam Coelestem” Jana Szkota Eriugeny

Author(s): Antoni Źrebiec / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXVl/2020

The aim of the article is to compare the differences between the accounts of symbolic theology in the thought of two greatest Neoplatonist Christian philosophers of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and John Scot Eriugena. The analysis is based mainly on Eriugena’s commentary on the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy: Expositiones in Ierarchiam Coelestem. The first part of the article considers the crucial aspects of Pseudo-Dionysian symbolic theology. The second examines the concepts of similar and dissimilar symbols in the works of Eriugena. The third consists of an examination of the 15th chapter of Expositiones revealing the original Eriugenian concept of the analytical discipline applied to symbolical exegesis. The inquiry leads to the conclusion that although John Scot Eriugena tried to keep to the original thought of the Areopagite, he presented a different understanding of the anagogical role of the figurative images of God and the Angels.

DRAGA ZAVRATNICA - A NE "FJORD"

Author(s): Srećko Božičević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2002

Iako iskreno vjerujem da naši čitatelji sigurno znadu za točnost naslova mog priloga, ali i njih - koji svojim mogućnostima mogu utjecati na "mjerodavne" - kao i druge kojima će po raznim školama ili čitaonicama i knjižnicama ovaj Senjski zbornik doći do ruke, želim još jednom upozoriti na ovu našu prirodnu rijetkost uz Jadransku obalu i na činjenicu prečestog pogrješnog navođenja!

Synergia epistemologiczna na przykładzie wybranych zagadnień semiotyki znaku językowego w retrospektywie

Author(s): Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Przedmiotem artykułu jest studium synergii epistemologicznej w domenie semiotyki znaku językowego na przykładzie niektórych aspektów semiotycznego wymiaru dzieła językoznawców, często przesłanianego przez ich bardziej spektakularne teorie językoznawstwa formalnego. Badanie wpisuje się w kanon semiotyki językoznawczej, rozwijany od wielu lat w pracach Zdzisława Wąsika (np. 1996, 2017). Do bazy analitycznej wybrałam omówienia dwojakiego rodzaju: zarówno przykłady dzieł językoznawców mniej popularnych wśród polskojęzycznej akademii (na przykład Yishai Tobin, Julia Kristeva), jak i przykłady myśli naukowców bardzo znanych, ale rozważanych z nietypowej perspektywy ich mniej cytowanych dzieł (Ferdynand de Saussure (1878-79), Charles Morris czy Roman Jakobson (1973). Główną tezę artykułu ‒ synergię epistemologiczną ‒ rozumiem jako uwypuklenie sposobu, w jaki badania prowadzone w jednej dziedzinie wspierały rozwój pokrewnych paradygmatów. // The subject of the article is a study of epistemological synergy in the realm of the semiotics of a linguistic sign as exemplified by selected aspects of semiotic dimension of the work of linguists, which tends to be foreshadowed by their more spectacular achievements in formal linguistics. The study fits in the canon of linguistic semiotics, developed for many years in the research of Zdzisław Wąsik (e.g. 1996, 2017). The paper contains two types of research avenues: on the one hand, the study of some aspects of the work of linguists who are less popular among Polishlanguage scholars (for example, Yishai Tobin, Julia Kristeva) and, on the other, thoughts of well-known scholars, but considered here from an unusual perspective of their less cited works (Ferdinand de Saussure (1878-79) or Roman Jakobson (1973)). Epistemological synergy, the analytical pivot for the presented discussion is understood as the way in which research conducted in one field can foster the development of related paradigms.

М. Йорданова. Морфосинтаксис на прилагателното име в турския език. София: УИ „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2020. 272 с.

Author(s): Irina Saraivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

И. Димитрова. Българската картина на света в обучението по български като втори език. Велико Търново: УИ „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, 2019. 236 с.

Author(s): Irina Aleksandrovna Sedakova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2021

Społeczna dyskursywizacja terminów naukowych na przykładzie wybranej nomenklatury z zakresu "Gender Studies". Przypadki polski a rosyjski. Część 2.

Author(s): Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska,Magdalena Zakrzewska-Verdugo / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXIII/2021

The aim of this paper is to present the impact of discourse social practices on the content of scientific terms. Chosen nomenclature such as: gender (ru. гендер), homosexuality (pl. homoseksualizm;ru. гомосексуализм / гомосексуальность), LGBT (ru. ЛГБТ) is researched. First, the methodological frame is established (discourse analysis), which is followed by a description of Gender Studies and the significance of the researched terms. With this background, it is analyzed how the non-scientific interest in the terms proper for Gender Studies was forming. Subsequently, the main actors of the debates concerning Gender Studies and basic argumentation schemas are pointed out.

JAK WYKORZYSTAĆ OPOWIADANIE W CELU WPROWADZENIA „EXTENSIVE READING" DLA STUDENTÓW UNIWERSYTECKICH NA POZIOMIE ZAAWANSOWANYM

Author(s): Dorota Lubińska-Pyla / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2020

University students at an advanced or proficiency level of English can benefit greatly from exposure to a kind of instruction which not only offers more variety and deeper involvement in terms of reading and writing skills development but also taps into students’ own creative and critical potential of interpreting an authentic text. I have tried to achieve this through a more extensive reading practice programme, which can be implemented with an eager class as part of regular general English university classes. I have created a lesson plan based on The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe, which was the starting point in my attempt to develop extensive reading.

WARSZTATY: WYKORZYSTANIE ZASOBÓW GRUPY W CELU UZYSKANIA INDYWIDUALNYCH ROZWIĄZAŃPROBLEMÓW ETYCZNYCH W MIEJSCU PRACY (C1/C1+)

Author(s): Anne Lassieur-Raynal / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2020

The workshop presented here is based on techniques used in different classes. It has been designed to give an overview of different activities that have been conducted several times in different groups to try and address the issue of helping students acquire transferrable problem- -solving skills and autonomy when working in large groups.