Strategic realization of the intercultural communication

Author(s): Tatiana Pochinok / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2020

The author states that the mentality of a representative of a linguistic culture in the intercultural communication is manifested through behavioral strategies. In the article the key idea is revealed that for each typical feature of the mentality of a native speaker of the target language, there is a basic, universal strategy of behavior, which is simultaneously nationally specific in terms of speech content and linguistic implementation. The author defines three key national mental features of a speaker of a target language which are revealed through key three behavioral strategies. So, typical mental feature ―preservation of personal space‖ is manifested in the strategy of communicative distance, typical mental feature ―formal friendliness‖ is actualized in the strategy of communicative friendliness, and positive perception as a mental feature is manifested in the strategy of communicative self-presentation which establishes a contact and creates a positive microclimate of interaction. The content and the tactics of the strategies are defined in the article as well. The author makes the conclusion that the use of the strategies which correspond the mentality of a native speaker will make the intercultural communication effective.

Рецензия на монография: Бартош Д. К., Гальскова Н. Д., Петкова-Калева Ст., Стоянова Е. Пътят към професията учител по чужд език

Author(s): Milena Paliy / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

Из лексиката в говора на българите католици от Белене

Author(s): Magdalena Abadzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

The article offers an analysis of selected vocabulary from the dialect of the Bulgarian Catholics living in the region of Belene, placing the study in a wider dialectal context. The author argues for the need to publish a dictionary of this dialect, stressing its simila-rity to the dialect of the Banat Bulgarians. She illustrates this claim with examples from several lexical groups: Christianity, animals, life, nature, diseases, the human body.

Кратка езикова характеристика на един слабо проучен родопски говор (говора на с. Брезе, Девинско)

Author(s): Elena Kanevska-Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

The article describes phonetic, morphological and word-formation features of an un-derstudied Rhodopean dialect spoken in the village of Breze in the region of Devin. The study takes a synchronic perspective, drawing comparisons with other Rhodopean dialects. As a result of the examination of the reflexes of the stressed nasal and yer vowels, the currently established classification of the Breze dialect and the dialect spoken in the village of Beden as o-dialects has been reconsidered. The article illustrates typical phonetic and morphological changes, phonetic and word-formation variants and interesting word-formation patterns found in this regional variety of Bulgarian.

Университетска олимпиада по български език и стил „Език мой, приятел мой!“ (28 март 2024 г.)

Author(s): Silvia Koeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

Семантико-когнитивное моделирование как способ познания механизмов метафоризации

Author(s): Yuliia Kravtsova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

This article discusses the problem of modelling as a way for cognition of metaphorization mechanisms. In Eastern Slavic linguistics two approaches to modelling of metaphorization was formed – semantic and cognitive, which have similar and distinctive features. The author has developed a new semantic-cognitive approach to the study of metaphor and modelling of metaphorization. It allows, through the study of the semantics of the metaphorical nominations of a language and the construction of corresponding metaphorical models, to establish the models of national metaphorical thinking, characteristic of any historical period. Briefly outlines main points of this approach, presents a parametric description of the metaphor as a semantic-cognitive model, provides a rationale for the introduced concepts of metaphorical mega-model and submodel, semantic-cognitive formant. The proposed technique is intended both for corpus research of metaphors and for the study of separate facts of a metaphorical nomination.

Названия грибов в говорах Кузбасса

Author(s): Nikolay A. Balanchik / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2019

Article is devoted to studying of functional and semantic features of dialect names of mushrooms. The analysis of the studied lexicon gave the chance to sort out their system organization and the motivational relations reflecting a language picture of the world. The main empirical base of a research – the Russian dialects of Kuzbass.

Изучение экологии языка и культуры в дидактических целях

Author(s): Olga Senatorova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2018

The article is devoted to the research of the dynamics of language processes under the influence of extra – and intralinguistic factors, from the point of view of ecology. The results of the research are taken into account in the selection of the lexical, textual material for educational purposes and the compilation of language and culture review. The research is based on the material of the Vladimir region lingvoculture.

Нравственная цельность личности как отражение экологии души (по материалам прозы А. Н. Плетнева)

Author(s): Liudmila Khanoyan / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2018

The report is devoted to the work of A. N. Pletnyev, in whose works the ecology of the human soul is embodied in the characters of his heroes. Love for the motherland, for the mother, duty to the society, understanding and knowledge of one's business, responsibility not only for the collective, but also for oneself, the ability to forgive and understand - these are far from all the moral problems raised in the work of A. Pletnyev.

АПОТЕОЗА НА СЛОБОДАТА (КОН РОМАНОТ СОК ОД ПРОСТАТА ОД ЈОВАН ПАВЛОВСКИ)

Author(s): Kristina Nikolovska / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

This paper refers to the latest, critical edition of the novel “Prostate Juice” from 2022, enriched with texts from literary criticism. “Prostate Juice” is the cult novel of a Macedonian: poet, storyteller, novelist, children’s writer, translator, publicist, encyclopedist, cultural worker. The most provocative novel of our 20th century has become a new redefinition of values such as: honesty, openness, originality, the brutal truth of intimacy. The novel is the apotheosis of freedom – spiritual, sexual, social, political. With this work, Pavlovski immortalized himself as the most widely read author of his time, but also as a grand master of the word and an instigator of the advanced, the avant-garde, the new, the thought-inducing and the rebellious.

Konferenca shkencore “Zhvillimet në shkencat e ligjërimit dhe lënda e gjuhës dhe e letërsisë në arsimin parauniversitar”

Author(s): Tomorr Plangarica / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 01-02/2019

Report on the conference "Developments in the sciences of discourse and the subject of language and literature in pre-university education" held on July 12, 2019, in the halls of the Academy of Sciences of Albania.

Útěk do tmy — o tělesnosti a umírání v románu Anny Bolavé Do tmy

Author(s): Robert Kulmiński / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2024

Anna Bolavá’s prose debut Into Darkness presents an extraordinary picture of neurosis and an extraordinary record of the psychosomatic disintegration of man in the contemporary world. The narration is conducted in the first person, which brings with it a number of interpretative implications. In my reflections I have endeavoured to adhere to the subject areas proposed by the author: the disintegration of Anna’s world, escape from reality, corporeality, dying and death. In other words, I view the work from the perspective of the dominant themes in the novel. With this in mind, the interpretive framework is defined by the philosophical conceptions of dying and death — particularly those involving Epicureanism, which reject the real existence of death (Epicurus), thanatological considerations of the impossibility of thinking of death (Zygmunt Bauman), maladic discourse in the sense of analysing the phenomenon of illness and dying in language, as well as the theory of “staring” described in detail by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

Serial „Westworld” — badanie etycznych granic „przesadnej przesady”

Author(s): Marcin Telicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

Based on the Westworld series created by the directorial duo of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the author of the article discusses exaggeration as a diagnostic tool of contemporary culture. He analyses the image of a fantastic, post-humanist landscape in which the boundaries between reality and illusion and between humanity and its ideal imitation constructed by artificial intelligence are blurred. One of the most important points in the reflection on androids is the attitude to death and its ways of showing it. It leads not only to asking in-depth philosophical questions, but also to showing the literary and cultural series which Westworld is a part of. Finally, the series becomes a contribution to ethical considerations that are inscribed in the contexts of the most contemporary events and phenomena: the pandemic, the war in Ukraine or the development of AI. The threads of history and tradition, temporality and technological fantasies collide here, which makes the viewer and the reader reflect on the conditio humana.

ТЕХНИКИ НА ОБЈАСНУВАЊЕ НА НЕПОЗНАТИТЕ ЗБОРОВИ ВО НАСТАВАТА ПО ГЕРМАНСКИ ЈАЗИК

Author(s): Marica Tasevska,Natasha Sarafova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

The goal of every modern German language teaching is acquisition of language competences, that is, training students to manage themselves in everyday communicative situations. Knowing as many words as possible of the target language is certainly one of the main elements for smooth communication. Apart from the continuous practice and repetition of the words, teacher’s approach towards the explanation of new words in German language teaching is also of great importance. One of the oldest and at the same time easiest explanation technique for teachers is the direct translation into the native language. Since the emergence of the grammar-translation method, the direct translation of unknown words has been the main and basic technique applied in the German language teaching. With the appearance of the direct method, through the audio-lingual and audio-visual method, up to the pragmatic-functional concept, various techniques of explaining the unknown vocabulary appeared, with the aim of more effective and long-term memorization of the certain vocabulary. The purpose of this paper is to determine how much various techniques for explaining new words are applied in German language teaching. This paper presents a large number of techniques for explaining unknown words, namely non-verbal and verbal techniques of explanation, and through a questionnaire conducted among German language teachers, mostly from the Eastern region, it determines which technique is most used in modern German language teaching.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF ENGLISH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS — CREATING BONDS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ALBANIAN CULTURE

Author(s): Arburim Iseni,Demush Bajrami,Afrim Aliti / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2023

This study investigates the role that the English language plays in the formation of linkages between different cultures, with a particular emphasis on the role that the English language plays in bridging the cultures of English speakers and Albanians. By evaluating historical and present variables, linguistic patterns, and cultural exchanges, this paper focuses on the ways in which English has helped to bridging cultural gaps, fostering understanding, and facilitating meaningful connections across two separate cultural worlds. These goals are accomplished through the language's ability to communicate effectively across cultural divides. According to the findings of the study, English can be a helpful tool in promoting intercultural understanding and communication between the English culture and the Albanian culture.

Theatre Reviews

Author(s): Maria Sławińska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

ПОИМОТ HAMARTIA ВО НАРОДНИТЕ ПЕСНИ ЗА БОЛЕН ДОЈЧИН

Author(s): Trajce Stameski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 5/2023

In Aristotle's theory of tragedy, the concept of hamartia (tragic flaw) has a crucial influence on the dramatic action, as it causes the downfall of the hero from happiness to misery and is connected with the concept of an unexpected reversal of the hero's fate. The entire history of literature encompasses various interpretations of hamartia, from an unintentional mistake, failure in something, or wrong belief, to a tragic flaw or sin. In principle, Aristotle's hamartia can be used in three basic meanings: first, as a synonym for an individual error that arises from insufficient knowledge of certain circumstances that could have been known to the hero. In this case, the error itself is unintentional, and his eventual moral responsibility depends on whether he is guilty of his own ignorance. Second, when it comes to conscious but also unintentional individual wrongdoing, which is more interpreted as the hero's action in an affective state. The third meaning of hamartia is related to various types of human weaknesses, due to which the error is a consequence of some character flaw. In the Christian interpretation of the concept, the tragic flaw is identified with sin. If we refer to Aristotle's indications of natural similarities between heroic epics and tragedy, then the structural and conceptual connection of Macedonian heroic folk songs for Sick Dojchin with the concept of fatal flaw characteristic of dramatic characters is indicative. That is precisely why, in this text, we will interpret the concept of hamartia in the extended variants of the folk songs for Sick Dojchin, in which the fatal flaw of the hero is not only intellectual (ignorance of some essential data) but also necessary hybridization of his deep mythological substrate and religious moral code. If a tragedy, in an ontological sense, represents a fiction about the downfall of the leader (hero) at the zenith of his glory, then the reason for the downfall is interpreted as the only way for his separation from society. In that case, his death is experienced as a necessary moral act. In the epic poems about Sick Dojchin, the dignified death of the hero is understood as a metaphor for cathartic purification, and the act of cultic self-conscious sacrifice is perceived as the highest expression of the ideal: the culmination of heroism, reintegration into the memory of the community and re-establishment of order.

Maternitate, coping religios și afectiv în confesiunea Floricăi Baţu-Ichim

Author(s): Emanuela Ilie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 49/2023

The following study continues some of the research I published a few years ago (particularly, the papers interested in the reflection of the imaginary of the traumatized corporeality in the women's confessive writings). It analyzes a very provocative, sadly almost unknown, cancer narrative: Florica-Baţu Ichim's book, entitled La porţile disperării, începutul speranţei/ At the Gates of Despair, the Beginning of Hope. As most of the confessive texts, written during radical identity crisis (caused by receiving a diagnosis perceived as lethal), this auto-biographical splendid text articulates itself as a hybrid narrative, in which the author mixes fragments of micro-family novel, diary notes, hospital reports, reading notes, etc. But the truly specific note of this volume – as in the case of Mioara Grigore's Cancer, my love – is given by the way in which the writer (priest's wife and devoted mother of six children) intuitively mixes religious coping with a sort of affective coping, with the aim of strengthening her spiritual identity during the terrible struggle with the Great C.

SCIENTIFIC-JUBILEE ACTIVITY ON THE 85™ ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ACADEMIC BAHRI BECI

Author(s): Anila Omari / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2021

The Albanian Academy of Sciences (Department of Social and Albanology Sciences) on March 2, 2021, on the 85th anniversary of the birth of academic Bahri Beci held a scientific-jubilee activity along with the promotion of his recent publication "L’union linguistique balkanique a la lumiere des donnees de la langue albanaise” (The Balkan linguistic relation in the light of Albanian language data”).

First language and second language English editorialists’ use of interactional metadiscourse

Author(s): Khulood Al-Anbar,Sharif Alghazo,Marwan Jarrah,Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This study explores the use of interactional1 metadiscourse by first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorialists. The study uses Hyland’s (2019) model of metadiscourse to analyse 80 editorials published between 2020 and 2021 in The Guardian and The Jordan Times newspapers (40 from each newspaper). A mixed-method approach – adopting quantitative and qualitative measures – was used to analyse the data. The frequency of interactional metadiscourse resources was statistically examined to find similarities and differences (if any) between the two corpora. The analysis revealed a statistically significant difference in the use of interactional metadiscourse resources in the editorials of the two newspapers. For instance, L2 editorialists used fewer hedges in their editorials and more boosters than L1 editorialists. In addition, engagement markers were used the most by L1 editorialists. The study provides some implications for editorialists who write in English and recommendations for future research.