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Митра Рељић, Српска гробља на Косову и Метохији: уништена споменичка и језичка баштина, Матица српска 2020, 343 стране
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Митра Рељић, Српска гробља на Косову и Метохији: уништена споменичка и језичка баштина, Матица српска 2020, 343 стране
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Figurative expressions, such as idioms, are used orally and in writing in everyday language. An idiom is an expression used by itself or as a part of a sentence, and its meaning cannot be derived from the literal meaning of its constituents. Idioms can add an extra level of difficulty to the language learning process (either L1 or L2) because after understanding the literal meaning of each word, the learner has to make sense of the figurative meaning and how to use it correctly. From a pedagogical point of view, social media platforms appear to be influential with regard to learning literal and figurative meaning because they provide a context where this new language item is being used. This research investigates the role of social media platforms in figurative language learning. Different idioms are retrieved from social media platforms to show the effect of intercultural inclusion between speakers of different languages (English and Arabic). It is expected that watching a video containing figurative expressions or reading the comment section where an idiom is used can help the learners infer the meaning and know precisely how to use it and in what context. Moreover, new idioms are starting to be translated and borrowed to different languages due to L2 learners' exposure to this idiom in different contexts, which gives them an accurate depiction of it. The light is shed on the role of bilinguals and L2 learners who can work as an intercultural link between speakers of Arabic and English.
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The article presents several parallels between the s-selection and argument selection of, on the one hand, speech predicates and speech-perception predicates, and, on the other hand, dative predicates and their converse antonyms. The focus lies on the differences and similarities between Bulgarian, Swedish and Danish as regards the deriving prototypical basic sentences containing such predicates, and analogies are made with predicate pairs such as give ~ receive. The main theoretical framework is a minimalist version of X-bar theory.
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This article explores a phenomenological outlook in the work of Algerian writer Malika Mokeddem. Such an approach departs from the standard scholarship on this author and proposes a wide-ranging alternative to postcolonial studies. The themes of nomadism, language of origin and corporeal expression are investigated through the lens of Merleau-Ponty’s “chair” and the pairing notions of “parole parlante” and “parole parlée.” A strong case study can be made with her novel N’zid (2001), which exploits the amnesia of the female protagonist sailing alone on the Mediterranean Sea, castaway from human interactions and without clues of her whereabouts. Inside and outside worlds meet up as she embarks on a silent journey to her innermost self and physical fantasies. Through uninhibited drawings and by reminiscing sensual flashbacks, she soothes her impaired memory and seizes back her blurred identity.
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The article constitutes an analysis of Les Mots de Russie, an autobiographical novel by Isabelle Bielecki, a contemporary Belgian writer of Russian-Polish origin. The theoretical framework of the study is provided by two key concepts: Jean-François Perrin’s novelistic poetics of memory and Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory. The author analyses the composition of the text, based on a problematic (post) memory. Two plots coexist there: one that corresponds to the story of the return of memories and its circumstances; and the other which is made up of the content of these memories. The phenomenon of post-memory, the result of a historical trauma, modifies the novelistic poetics of memory by introducing a discontinuous structure, uncertainty about what happened, an ambiguous moral aspect of the figures of direct victims of the trauma, the story of the physical sufferings of its indirect victims, but also the possibility of overcoming the traumatic legacy through writing. (Post)memory is thus presented as a powerful creative stimulus.
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This study explores different variations on the theme of “memory” in Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry and translations. In his latest works, the poet bequeaths to his readers his childhood memories entrusting them with a mission with which he invests poetry: to celebrate, against oblivion, the “memory” of the experience shared with others. Moreover, memory is both the source and the process of poetic creation, as his practise as a translator also demonstrates. If the task of the translator, according to Bonnefoy, coincides with a search, an exploration of the depths of the sea that is every language, in order to bring forth from the dark the light of a restorative word, then, by translating the verses of other poets, Bonnefoy relives the experience of poetry through a new poetic act, recalling each time the intuition and the emotion.
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In this article, we will analyse the novel Manèges, written by the Franco-Argentinian author Laura Alcoba. More specifically, it is the connection with the French language, able as it is to echo the Argentinian memory, that will be the subject of this study. As she was silenced during her clandestine childhood in Buenos Aires, Laura Alcoba found an unhoped-for liberty in this language of exile, which sheemployed in order to put her experience, so far been silenced and unnamed, into words. As a medium of memory, the French language seems to be the only way to reconnect with the past whose expression in the mother tongue would probably be insuperable for the author. The distance created by French – synonymous with liberty and rebirth – from the Spanish language – synonymous with repression and silence – is the necessary condition for her memory to be finally able to speak.
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More than forty years after the end of the Khmer Rouge regime, the trauma of genocide still weighs heavily on the French-Cambodian diaspora. Confronted with the silence of the previous generation who refuses to talk about the genocidal past, Jean-Baptiste Phou uses Khmer spoken theatre to give voice to four Cambodian women and to portray their lives on stage. In this essay we propose a reading of Cambodge, me voici in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory. The intersection of the axes of the protagonists’ desire and the creation of a familial, feminine and maternal space will allow us to analyse the formation of this diasporic memory and its intra- and intergenerational transmission through two sororal and mother-daughter pairs. We postulate that the choice of casting and the staging of the two, French and Khmer, versions of the play transform the stage into a site of shared memory in which the role played by women in the reparation and transmission of Cambodian cultural heritage is revealed.
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In this paper, I present and discuss the ways of intensifying in Polish and Slovak language communication using reduplication, because one of the semantic properties of reduplication is intensification. Various linguists have pointed out that reduplication may perform many different functions. Reduplication is also associated with a large subset of semantic and syntactic operations, including intensity. Although it is heavily semantically limited to adjectives and adverbs, it applies to nearly all parts of speech. According to its intensifying function, it is common in contemporary Slovak, being mainly associated with compound adjectives, i.e. šírošíry, číročíry, dennodenný. Reduplicative constructions are understood as independent language signs, formally and semantically different from their components. Reduplication means a reinforcement of a statement, so there are various semantic constraints on the reduplicant: it involves only gradable attributes and attributes denoting a higher degree of feature intensity (in plus). The reinforcement does not necessarily mean the increase of intensity of a state - the aim of reduplication is not only to modify but also to specify the meaning. Intensifying reduplication is one of the many ways of expressing the intensive degree or intensity of an action that is something above the assumed norm and it is a legitimate way of expanding the lexis.
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The medicinal plant industry, and the people of Appalachia, have relied on the rich natural resources of the Appalachian Mountains for centuries, collecting plants for food, medicine, and livelihood. By the 1700s, Appalachia had become a major supplier of medicinal plants and was recognized internationally as a source of American ginseng. Today, the value of these products is substantial, with more than $11 billion in 2020 U.S. sales. There is a growing concern, however, that many medicinal herbs are disappearing. We review current research on wild harvesting, forest cultivation, and efforts to create markets for sustainably sourced Appalachian medicinal herbs. There is a critical need for ecologically sound management and sustainable economies in Appalachia, to support our natural resources and communities.
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The history of the Jiu Valley has gone through multiple stages that have polished the identity of the communities. The development of mine exploitation has attracted immigrants from all over the country and from abroad. This has led to the emergence of two types of local identity communities: the natives and the newcomers. The relations between them have influenced the strategies used in building their constitution of identity. This paper focuses on the idea that these two types of identity are directly responsible for the degree of community homogeneity. In this respect, the natives belonged to a homogeneous community, with one dominant source of collective identity, while the arrival of the newcomers transformed the community into a heterogeneous one, with pluralistic sources of identity. These aspects reflect in the identity narratives which can be found in Jiu Valley nowadays. The analysis of these narratives shows a common history, filled with tension, negation, disappointment, and acceptance.
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Wielu nauczycieli studentów uniwersytetu na poziomie zaawansowanym (advanced i proficiency) odkrywa, że osiągnęli oni pewien poziom stagnacji, który oznacza brak zauważalnych postępów. To może stanowić poważne wyzwanie dla obu zainteresowanych stron. Istnieją jednak metody na walkę z tym problemem i w niniejszym artykule chciałabym podzielić się kilkoma własnymi obserwacjami i zaproponować pewne rozwiązania. [Many teachers of advanced university students find that their students have reached a plateau, which means progress is not easily seen. The problem can pose significant challenges for both interested parties. There are, however, methods to combat it and in this article I would like to share some of my own observations and ways of tackling the problem.]
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The objective of this paper is to bring to light an important early 16th-century Polish rendition of the Psalter, Żołtarz Dawidów, translated by Walenty Wróbel and prepared for print by Andrzej Glaber. We argue that in spite of its unique position in the line of Psalter translations into Polish, the Żołtarz has not received a comprehensive and exhaustive treatment. While some detailed issues have been diligently addressed by individual scholars, research on the Żołtarz has generally been overshadowed by Brückner’s (1902) pioneering study, to the extent that one of its two surviving manuscript copies has not received official recognition in the scholarly literature. In particular, alongside the Kórnik manuscript (from 1528) described by Brückner, there exists another 16th-century exemplar (1536), which has been in the possession of the Jagiellonian Library since 1928. Its rediscovery by the authors of the present paper has two important consequences. First of all, the Jagiellonian Żołtarz should become an object of study in its own right. Secondly, its existence requires a re-assessment of the current state of knowledge on the Żołtarz in the light of the data it contains.
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This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the cognitive processes in death euphemisms in Nzema, a Kwa language of Ghana. The article highlights the metaphorical “mappings” across conceptual domains, where the concept of death (target domain) is well understood in terms of more physical events such as journey, departure, return, invitation, continuous sleep, lose a fight, etc. (source domain). It is demonstrated that the Nzema conceptualise death also as retirement, subtraction, bereavement as living in darkness, being missing at the crossroads, burial as hiding/preserving, burying as sowing a seed, coffin as house for an individual, cemetery/grave as better place, place of rest, and corpse as a thing among others.
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Stefan Strelcyn – a Polish scholar whose achievements were acknowledged by the Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1967 with a Haile Selassie Award for Ethiopian Studies – initiated African studies at the University of Warsaw. His main field of scholarly activity covered cataloguing manuscripts in various European library collections as well as studying traditional Ethiopian medicine and medicinal plants. However, during his field trip to Ethiopia in 1957/58 he recorded 26 tapes of various examples of Ethiopian orature in Ethiopic classical Ge’ez language and five other languages of Ethiopia: Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Gurage, and Harari. These recordings have been recently digitized. The first attempt to present their content, as well as a sample translation and literary analysis of four Amharic love poems recorded by Stefan Strelcyn, is undertaken in this article.
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Medieval Kyivan Rus and Metropolitans of Kiev Cyprian and Gregory Tsamblak – data on members of the Bulgarian noble family Tsamblak in Western Europe after the fall of Constantinople.
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For professionals inside HE, university activity implies three major requirements: lecturing, conference participation and article publication. The question is to what extent these forums cover the whole range of academic communication, and what would happen if other debate outlets were recognised as equally valid? Letters to the editor may be one pertinent category. Although present in few scientific journals, usually as part of Comments, Letters or Opinion sections, letters play the same role in these publications as discussions usually do at the end of a lecture. Moreover, some publications validate them as scientific research in their own right. What this article aims to disclose are some of the topics of concern expressed by academics from different parts of the world in their letters about university life during the recent pandemic. Not surprisingly perhaps, their main concern seems to be the same: the transformations in education and publication imposed or accelerated by the pandemic, and the response of HE institutions to this massive and unexpected challenge.
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In addition to speaking, listening, and reading, writing represents a very important skill that needs to be given special attention. The paper will focus on some theoretical aspects that have to be taken into consideration when teaching writing; the second part of the paper will refer to the principles of effective writing in the academic environment and last, but not least, the focus will be on the main challenges associated with teaching writing-based classes.
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Book Review: Ю. Стоянова. Проблеми на психолингвистиката. София: УИ „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2022. 575 с.
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