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Aspecte ale enunţării poetice

Author(s): Beatrice Diana Burcea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2018

In recent years, the links established between literature and linguistics create the prerequisites for the pragmatic reception of the postmodern texts of poetry. In the present study, we propose to present the aspects of the poetic enunciation that are influenced by the innovations in the postmodern Romanian poetry. In the research, we will take into account the specific elements of the phenomenon with a special impact in the analysis of the postmodern poetic discourse: deixis, anaphora, speech acts. The declarative and communicative strategies have fostered an interdisciplinary understanding of the postmodern poetic text.

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Enhancing Students’ Communicative Competence in English for Professional Roles

Author(s): Mariana Coancă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The article focuses on the four components of communicative competence which language teachers can implement in their teaching practices, through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) scenarios, described thoroughly in a course tailored for intermediate and upper-intermediate students who wish to work in the hospitality sector as receptionists. Students’ feedback was positive mainly because they enhanced their knowledge of English by using it appropriately in a given social context. The role-play proved to be challenging but after a few rehearsals of pitch, tone, and intonation they felt they improved the communication skills to meet the requirements for the field of reception.

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Decizii gramaticale şi etimologice discutabile ale Academiei Române

Author(s): Adrian Damșescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2018

The article has two parts: one dedicated to present different debatable decisions taken in the grammar of the Romanian Language that complicate it, increasing the difficulty level in her understanding and learning, the second is about etymology. Regarding orthography, is well known the controversy of the last decision in using „î” and „â”, as a result of it are written with „î” words as „ânger” („angel”) and with „â” other ones like „a rîde”, „rîu”, „rîpă”. This last rule came as a consequence of a longer row of debatable decisions on the subject and probably the situation was now different if from the beginning would win the partisans of the graphic redaction of altered vowels by primitive ones with a small particular sign, what would make the language more logic, more regular, more similar with the rest of Europeans languages. I think there is no doubt about the controversy of those decisions; nevertheless Romanian Academy strongly fight against forms that she consider incorrect, unlike the Spanish one (Spanish language = „the bigger sister” of Romanian, the most important Romanic language) who’s limiting herself in observing that some forms are erroneous (for example that some verbs, as „reír” or „morir”, should not to be reflexive), without combating, in order to make disappear, that form.

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El léxico de los manuales de ELE editados en Rumanía bajo el comunismo entre adecuación y relevancia

Author(s): Razvan Bran / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2018

In the history of Romanian communism, the 70’s were marked, among others, by a certain liberalization and openness towards the West. Given this context, there were edited a series of foreign languages books, among them the Spanish language, dedicated to the public system student, emphasizing the national identity of Romanians, the communist values and the achievements of the Party. That is why, through the content and the graphic support, these books, which had a design that was controlled by the Party, were transformed into a political and ideological propaganda tool. This paper analyses these Spanish for foreigners (ELE) books, and it is focused on vocabulary and semantic competence. Following a corpus analysis, apart from the vocabulary that is marked from an ideological perspective, we identify some lexical elements which are not necessarily related to the student’s environment and his age, interests or cognitive development. A large part of that vocabulary used for ideological reasons do not belong to the basic Spanish vocabulary (L1 or L2), so it does not match the student’s level.

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Enquête sociolinguistique menée auprès de lycéens. Le questionnaire

Author(s): Mihaela-Gabriela Ene / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2018

As part of our doctoral research, we're analyzing the linguistic representations of young Romanian learners on the French language and its learning. In this article, we propose to highlight the first stage of the sociolinguistic survey, the pre-survey. We have designed a questionnaire, taking into account relevant parameters, such as social background, school environment, personal history, attitudes and beliefs about France and the French language. Then, we conducted the questionnaire with two groups of learners.

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La adquisición del lenguaje económico mediante las técnicas de traducción existente

Author(s): Loredana Miclea / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2018

When a text belongs to the economic terminology and it is related to a specific topic, I, as a translator, need to have certain linguistic, communication and textual abilities to fully understand its significance. Then, my objective as a translator is to see how the text was created in relation to its stylistic, syntactic and lexical characteristics and also to its semantic, pragmatic and semiotic particularities that might create confusion during the translation process. The first two translation options would be carefully revised to see if the similarity situations I found have been analysed appropriately. It is a mandatory demand for a professional translator to know the communicative value of the economic text of the object language and of the closest equivalent of the metalanguage.

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Wichtigkeit und Relativität des literarischen Ichs. Die Beziehung zwischen Ich und Stil in deutschen Texten

Author(s): Cristina NICULESCU-CIOCAN / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2018

This article discusses the issues of literary and nonliterary ego and the style of different types of texts from Willy Sander's perspective, which is presented in his book "Good German-better German" is presented. There is a relationship between the ego in literary works and the individuality of the writer, but the author's own style influences the extent of this connection. The individual style is emphasized as the most important feature in all German literature and also in non-literary texts.

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Estructuras turísticas de alojamiento en el turismo rural

Author(s): Mihaela Ciobanu / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 2/2017

Rural tourism is a form of tourism widely used by tourists. Regarding the specific language, there are being used specific terms, reflecting local tradition and architecture, which provoke some problems regarding equivalences in other languages, given the terminological and denominational diversity of the tourist structures of rural tourism. These cultural terms are a source of authenticity preservation and reflect the local architecture and tradition.

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Creating Learning Opportunities for Language Learners

Author(s): Mariana Coancă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The paper discusses the principles and components of constructivist pedagogy and its implications in language teaching and learning, and highlights the student-centred learning approach which is considered a genuine and meaningful learning where tasks are relevant to real-world contexts. The key components of student-centred learning are project work, group work, problem solving, reflective thought and variation in language learning tasks. The second section of our paper focuses on the role of the language instructor as a facilitator who encourages students to work independently and interdependently, provides supportive ICT resources and creates thinking opportunities for students to extend their understanding of the languages for specific purposes. The third section addresses the barriers to the implementation of constructivist instruction and proposes a stakeholder framework which favours the development of a platform for learning and inclusion to align pedagogy with technology in order to foster students' motivation and engagement. The paper concludes that technology access is an important resource for today's constructivist pedagogy of language learning and teaching. Students need to learn and produce cooperatively (Pitler et al., 2007) in an ecosystem based on inclusive teaching strategies which support and incentivize them to think outside of the box. If motivated intrinsically students are more likely to use more logical information-gathering and decision-making strategies, while the use of ICT allows them to explore various real-life issues and become more autonomous learners. Many researchers assert that ICT usage encourages practices that promote deeper cognitive opportunities and engage the learner in intellectual activities with some control over learning. However, the role of the teacher is critical in scaffolding, mentoring, guiding the learners and facilitating the outcome of the language learning tasks (McKenna et al., 2013).

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Bilder von Flüchtlingen in den Sprachäuβerungen von Präsidenten

Author(s): Zdenko Dobrík / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2017

In the article, attention is drawn to the extent to which the same, refugee images of the previous president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck, the current President of the Slovak Republic, Andrej Kiska, concretizations Miloš Zeman of the Czech Republic are linguistically shaped. The statements of individual presidents are analyzed in this paper against the background of the functional-pragmatic analysis, i.e. they are analyzed as concretizations of individual speech acts through their communicative function(s) or through the speaker's intention(s).

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El español - argentino y su traducción como dialecto

Author(s): Loredana Miclea / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 2/2017

A language is a unique, particular form of manifestation, of a peculiar nature, since in its depths there are certain rhetorical and semantic codes that the language brings to light or blurs. That is why the translation of a dialect represents a considerable difficulty, that of trying to express in a language precisely what the language would have preferred to keep secret. For me, as a translator, the difficulty lies in reproducing a dialect, since this means spreading a linguistic variety. It is very frustrating to not be able to reproduce exactly the same effect that exists in an original text, assuming the fact that each dialect has its particular features: its own culture, its own history, its own customs and these features can be seen in the language but they are not revealed in any way except under the dazzling radiance of another work, tender, new, striking that is the result of the translation. Through this research, I, as a translator, aim to demonstrate the responsibility that comes with translating a dialect.

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Ludopoetic Interplay in Baba is You

Author(s): Imre Olivér Horváth / Language(s): English Issue: 3 - SI/2024

The study investigates aspects of ludopoetic interplay in Baba is You, a digital puzzle game that radically reimagines the relationship between language, gameplay, and meaning-making. Through a close reading of selected game levels, we identify several features that render the game poetic: its use of emotive linguistic markers, its emphasis on verbal creation, and the player’s engagement with and enjoyment of linguistic play. By analysing the game’s unique mechanics of rule manipulation, we examine how players interact with language as both a procedural system and a poetic medium. The study identifies five modes of interaction between referential (metaphorical) and intraprocedural (metonymical) transfers of meaning, including exclusion, diversion, and mutual support. We argue that the game achieves its poetic quality especially by prioritising metonymy over metaphor, foregrounding the materiality of language and the performative power of words. By enabling players to dynamically reconstruct game rules through linguistic manipulation, Baba is You transforms gameplay into an act of linguistic creativity.

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Objects Really Matter: Ludo-Representationalism and the Reality of Digital Games

Author(s): Tamás Csönge / Language(s): English Issue: 3 - SI/2024

The aim of this paper is to identify the reasons for the contradictory conclusions of the fictionalist and the realist theoretical positions on the ontological status of digital game objects. First, the applicability of the Waltonian notion of fiction regarding digital game objects and events is challenged. The paper clarifies that the debate contains a categorical misunderstanding, and that it is not really about the discursive quality of fictionality (or factuality), but about an ontological opposition between represented and real objects. It is then demonstrated that digital game objects belong to a special category of non-physical informational entities that realists rightly consider real because they exhibit systemic behaviour, but fictionalists are also correct regarding their function as signifiers of non-real, represented objects. Following Aarseth, a distinction is made between represented, simulated and real objects. It is argued that simulated digital game objects are real objects, but not necessarily the same kind of objects as those they represent: a virtual library is a library, but a virtual kitten is not a kitten. Finally, it is suggested that the main reason for the confusion about the existential status of game elements is an issue of descriptive language: a confusion between signifier and signified and the uniform designation of heterogeneous phenomena.

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Preparing a Tabletop Role-Playing Game Experiment: Methodological Notes for Studying the Immersion of Tabletop Role-Playing Game Participants

Author(s): András Hlavacska / Language(s): English Issue: 3 - SI/2024

The study aims to contribute to the research that seeks a better understanding of the language of tabletop role-playing games through the analysis of video recordings of game sessions. In the autumn of 2021, the Tabletop Role-playing Game Research Group at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the University of Debrecen performed an experiment, the aim of which was to analyse the communication of role-playing participants through video recordings. During the experiment, the research team recorded 38 hours and 47 minutes of video footage of the games played by participants with no previous role-playing experience; a text transcript was made of the recordings, in which different types of utterances were marked with colour codes. In this study, we present the preparation and execution of the experiment, paying special attention to preliminary proposals for similar experiments in the future. The experiment served as a basis of a subsequent quantitative and qualitative analysis, the purpose of which was to make the role-play participants’ immersion the subject of a closer examination. It is important to emphasise that this study does not discuss the results of the analysis due to the partial processing of the video recordings. However, it scrutinises the methodological possibility of examining the immersive experience of role-players through their communication.

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Arabo-islamski ključevi u Don Kihotu - među Moriscima

Author(s): Pilar Garrido Clemente / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 65-68/2024

Don Quixote de la Mancha, the monumental work of Miguel de Cervantes, is one of the pillars of world literature. This research focuses on the vast Islamic and Arabic components of a masterpiece whose legacy continues to inspire new generations and to be studied and reinterpreted.

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Vklad Antona Habovštiaka k problematike teritoriálnej diferencovanosti slovenských nárečí a ich klasifikácie

Author(s): Mária Mikolajová,Gabriela Múcsková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2024

The article presents some models of territorial classification of the Slovak dialectal area, which were created in the course of the development of Slovak linguistics and dialectology. At the same time, it reminds that the differentiation of Slovak dialects has to a large extent the character of a dialectal continuum, therefore territorial classifications are always the result of a certain abstraction and selection of linguistic criteria as well as the consideration of extra-linguistic factors. The first classifications were based almost exclusively on extra-linguistic factors (namely the division of the territory into the old administrative units in the Hungarian Empire). During the development of classifications of Slovak dialects, it is possible to identify a gradual tendency to increase reflection of linguistic data and isoglosses, and extra-linguistic factors served as one of the potential motivations. In this article, special attention is paid to the contribution of A. Habovštiak’s work to the research of dialect differentiation and the basic principles of their classification.

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Otázky sociálnej diferencovanosti slovenského národného jazyka v diele Antona Habovštiaka

Author(s): Stella Ondrejčiková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2024

This paper presents views on the social differentiation of the Slovak national language with regard to the works of A. Habovštiak in the context of development of the Slovak linguistics. The social differentiation of the national language and, within its framework, the relation between the literary or standard language and the territorial dialect was studied by linguists such as J. Horecký, J. Bosák, I. Ripka, D. Slančová and M. Sokolová, Ľ. Kralčák and others. The views on this relation were influenced by the historical development, political situation and the development of society, and it was the topic of several linguistic conferences and discussions. Within this framework, Anton Habovštiak dealt mainly with the questions of the standard – dialect relationship, the influence of other languages on dialects, semi-varieties, the stylistic differentiation in dialects and specific social varieties as slang and argot, in particular, the language of the linen weavers and merchants. The aim is to present an overview of linguistic perspectives and unique contribution of Habovštiak, who looked at these issues from a dialectological perspective.

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Lexika slovenských nárečí v celoslovanskom kontexte. Príspevok ku konfrontačnému slavistickému výskumu Antona Habovštiaka

Author(s): Gabriel Rožai / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2024

This paper presents the results and clarifies the scientific contribution of A. Habovštiak’s confrontational Slavic research focused on the lexicon Slovak dialects in the Slavic context, which he presented in numerous articles published in domestic and foreign scientific journals and proceedings and later in a summarized form in the monograph Zo slovensko-slovanských lexikálnych vzťahov (so zreteľom na lingvistickú geografiu) [From Slovak-Slavic Lexical Relations (with Regard to Linguistic Geography)] from 1993. With an emphasis on the Slovak-Slavic context, we can summarise that the author significantly contributed to the discussions about defining the place of Slovak in the group of Slavic languages, shed light on its West Slavic character and its relations with South Slavic and East Slavic languages, pointed to the peculiar development of the Slovak lexical fund and on the special continuity of the Slovak dialect lexicon with its Proto-Slavic linguistic origin.

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Изгнанието като травматичен претекст за една контранаративна литература: "Музеят на безусловната капитулация" на Дубравка Угрешич

Author(s): Dimitar Kamburov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2025

The text undertakes another attempt to read Ugrešić’s great novel from the viewpoint of the recent phenomenon of an East European world literature. It is an attempt to demonstrate how features such as counter-narrativity, anti- fictionality, and non-linearity, summoning key novels by Tokarczuk, Cărtărescu, Krasznahorkai, and Gospodinov, find their paradigmatic model in the novel of this Croatian exile. Her prose invents and implements the paradoxical regime of an intellectual commentary distance, pursuing identification through pain. An amateurish authenticity, shining out from an imitation of exemplary art, is the artistic program that, openly formulated and fulfilled by Ugrešić, was indirectly inherited and developed by Tokarczuk and Gospodinov, bringing them world audiences and awards. At the end, the text reflects on why a program that proved so successful with Tokarczuk and Gospodinov did not make Ugrešić the literary star and cult writer she deserves to be.

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Replacement of Infinitives By Da-Constructions In The History of Bulgarian: Diachronic and Formal Analysis

Author(s): Tomislav Sočanac / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2025

The paper studies the diachronic patterns of competition between infinitives and da-constructions (also known as ‘Balkan subjunctives’) in Bulgarian. The use of these grammatical categories is studied across different historical periods (from Old Bulgarian to Modern Bulgarian) and in different syntactic contexts. It is argued that certain aspects of infinitive loss and its replacement by da-constructions were due to a broader typological drift from non-finite to finite structures, while others were a result of local language-contact pressures within the Balkan-sprachbund area. The paper also provides a formal analysis of the diachronic syntax of the mood marker da, which accounts for its spread to control contexts typical of infinitive use and the eventual complete replacement of infinitives by da-complements in Bulgarian.

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