Rola paratekstu w czeskim oraz angielskim przekładzie Pół wieku dziejów polski Andrzeja Paczkowskiego

Author(s): Ludmila Lambeinová / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The history book Pół wieku dziejów Polski by Andrzej Paczkowski was translated to Czech by Petruška Šustrová (Paczkowski, A., Půl století dějin Polska 2000). The book wastranslated to English by Jane Cave (Paczkowski, A., The Spring Will Be Ours. Poland and thePoles from Occupation to Freedom 2003). As the source language text was written originallyfor Polish readers, some culture bound items may not be obvious to foreign readers. Thus theAmerican edition contains these elements of the paratext: Preface by Author, Appendixes andBibliography of English‑Language Work on Recent Polish History etc. In the Czech edition,only Bibliography and Preface translated from Polish could be found, however that is nota recommended solution. Because of the lack of paratext in the Czech translation, the Czechtranslation does not seem to take into account its readers.

Method of Natural Critical Learning Environment as a Means of Improving the Quality of Translator Training

Author(s): Julia Rastorgujewa / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The study examines the feasibility of using the method of Natural Critical Learning Environment (Ken Bain), bringing together the principle of active learning and techniques ofcritical thinking development. As part of the study, the students of the study programme “Translation and Interpreting” of Baltic International Academy handle socially important projects related to translation of authentic texts and aimed at creating a Natural Learning Environment. The idea of translation of authentic texts is not a new concept.The comparison of the translation process during the standard in‑class session and creatinga Natural Learning Environment allows us to formulate the following benefits to attractstudents to work in real translation projects: social and personal values (a great sense of socialbelonging); intercultural values (a deeper study of the culture of target languages and culturalissues of translated texts to improve the translation quality); linguistic interaction and improving language skills (a more active role of students in the training process to improve the translation quality); authentic translation difficulties (feeling the taste of real translation problems and attempts to solve them); the value of the actual fruits of their labour.Even the interim results of the study convince us that the creation of Natural LearningEnvironment within the process of translation training helps to improve the quality of training, the quality of translated materials, to stimulate and to motivate students to master their translation competence.

Asar Eppel (1935–2012) – a word about a writer and translator

Author(s): Tadeusz Borucki / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The paper presents a literary biography of the recently deceased writer and translator. Asar Eppel translated into Russian works of such writers and poets as: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Brecht, Kipling and Singer, but it is his renditions of Polish poetry and prose, encompassing works from baroque to the 21st century, that constitute a special part of his legacy. Thanks to Asar Eppel Russian readers have had an opportunity to get acquainted with the prose of Sienkiewicz and Schulz and poetry of Tuwim, Gałczyński, Grochowiak, Różewicz, Wojtyła and Szymborska. In Russia Eppel is also appreciated as a writer. His three collections of short stories and a collection of essays are characterized by an unusually wide variety of literary devices.

Tadeusz Boy‑Żeleński jako tłumacz tekstów filozoficznych

Author(s): Barbara Brzezicka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In this paper we try to present Tadeusz Boy‑Żeleński as a translator of philosophy. First of all, we try to define philosophical translation as such, placing it rather among scientific writings than literary works. Some norms and criteria determined for example by Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden are then explained. Finally, we present Boy‑Żeleński’swork as a translator, its reception in Poland, as well as some critical texts. In the last part his translation of Discourse on Method (being the most “philosophical” and the least “literary” among his translations of French philosophy) is thouroughly analysed, so as to show its strong and weak points.

Francuski muzyczny symbolism stylu późnego

Author(s): Jolanta Szulakowska-Kulawik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The following article is based upon the premise of intertemporal comparative studies, the concept of which originated in a publication by Gustav R. Hocke on the stylistic similarity of European mannerism and surrealism, as well as a historical monograph on Burgundy by Norman Davies, and the canonical treatise by Norbert Elias. Thus, the article presents a picture of social and artistic transformations of the courtly culture of Burgundy in the late Middle-Ages, referring to the early French humanism and the works of Guillaume Dufay, and contrasts it with the nostalgic post-Romantic art of the declining bourgeoisie French elites in the late 19th century. The article analyses selected works by Maurice Ravel, André Caplet, Reynald Hahn and Ernest Chausson. Both socio-political processes of those belles époques exhibit similar stylistic markers – the decorative character of the works of art, an increase in symbolism, mysticism and etherealness as well as mannerism of the medium,which emerged on the basis of social changes connected with the decline of knighthoodand the bourgeoisie, respectively.

Pomiędzy, czyli tu indziej. Kwestia dyscypliny z szanghajskiej perspektywy

Author(s): Karolina Pawlik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Identitate şi postmodernism în poezia lui Ioan Flora

Author(s): Virginia Popović / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Ioan Flora, with his memory of the Serbian Banat, the native place he left behind, focuses on this space he regards as full of magic and confers upon it a multicultural and postmodern identity, these being specific connotations which turn the poet into a unique voice in the context of contemporary Romanian literature. Ioan Flora is Romanian poet from Serbia, who is placed by literary criticism and history among the writers of the 1980s generation. Flora's poetry uses space as a central point of view in many of his poems, a space where the poet located himself. In the same time, in parallel with the theories of postmodernism, Flora uses memory irony to describe the true landmarks in Romanian literature from the Serbian Banat. This paper presents the most significant poetic motifs of Ioan Flora’s poetry.

Exilul ca modus vivendi

Author(s): Maria-Miruna Ciocoi-Pop / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

This article sets several guidelines for the coordinates of the exile, which becomes, in the case of many authors, a sine qua non condition of moral and spiritual survival. It is interesting that even though the exile, as a social and political reality, has disappeared, it still exists in the moral context of authors. In what follows I will underline the reasons why Petru Popescu and Jeffrey Eugenides cannot, from a spiritual point of view, break free from their status of exiles.

Is Linguistic Democracy Possible? English and Chinese at the Heart of the Subject

Author(s): Zoubida Sebane,Minouna Zitouni / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Does linguistic democracy exist or is it only a lull? Linguists and politicians believe that it has never existed, not even in countries where political democracy is a tribute to preserve. They rather believe there are only dominating and dominated languages.The dominating languages are explained by the number of people who speak a language. Presently, the US and China are respectively illustrative examples of dominance and dominating languages in the world. English ranks first in the top ten world’s most important languages and Chinese is gaining supremacy over many other languages. The dominating languages are hegemonic that means their use covers indoor and offshore territories. The dominated languages, therefore, are considered second-class languages, they are disregarded. This linguistic attitude has always prevailed in the world. The transfer of a dominant language to other people is considered to be a demonstration of power, traditionally, military power but also, in the modern world, economic power, and aspects of the dominant culture are usually transferred implicitly. The power of a country explains the extension of its language. English, Spanish, and Portuguese are the dominant languages of the Americas. In Africa, the languages of some of the colonizing powers like Great Britain, France and Portugal are more firmly entrenched than ever, as English is in several Asian countries. This study will concentrate on highlighting issues related to linguistic dominance which could help to clarify whether the winning of independence can lead to language recovery or not.

Gdy zabrakło bohaterów, zostali tylko stalkerzy

Author(s): Adam Orlik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Adam Orlik’s chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the significance of the dark, stalker figure of contemporary popular culture. From literature to film to video games, the enigma of the stalker figure has taken hold. This figure has taken many roles in ourculture. In the Strugatsky brothers’ short novel, Roadside Picnik, the stalker is depictedas a type of science fiction hero. This was then followed by the 1979 film Stalkerby the famous Soviet film-maker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Stalker won a few internationalfilm awards and it brought recognition to the stalker figure in popular culture. The chapter introduces the reader to the so-called “stalkers’ universes” featuring a new andenigmatic hero—the stalker. He is a seeker, much like the trackers of the old WildWest, able to seek out and find anything any one needs in the most difficult, inaccessibleand dangerous terrains. The stalker has many facets. An adventurer, an explorer,a traveler who ventures into landscapes marred and destroyed by nuclear war andother catastrophies. In this post-apocalyptic world, the stalker is the one who goes beyondthe boundaries of the known frontier and human knowledge. It is he who fillsthe white voids on the map. This unlikely hero is also a warrior, forced into combatwith fierce creatures, mutants and other humans residing in this post-apocalypticworld. Thus, the stalker character in post-apocalyptic fiction works comes to resemblethe figure of the cowboy in westerns. The stalker is associated with uninhabited openspaces, adventure and discovery of the “New World”. However, there are inherentrisks which may either culminate in great rewards or, quite the contrary, sudden death.Above all, the stalker embodies the vision of the “stranger from unknown lands” who,more often than not, becomes the reluctant hero.

A Blended Learning Model Used to Prepare Saudi Arabian Doctoral Students to be Knowledge-Based Educational Leaders

Author(s): Abdourahmane Barry,Fatemah Abdullah Alhazmi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

To secure a better future in today’s globalized world, a knowledge-based society must be a priority for every nation. For a long time, many nations have relied primarily on passive resources—that is, natural and financial resources—for their existence. However, in the era of globalization dominated by knowledge and information technologies, the focus is shifting towards active resources—that is, human resources. Human resources are perceived by nations as a key engine for competitiveness, economic prosperity, national sovereignty, and human dignity. One of the media through which these human resources are developed is education, which involves teaching and learning. To respond to the increased demands for human competencies to function in a knowledge-based society, educators must adapt to the emerging teaching and learning approaches. One of these emerging approaches is the blended learning approach, which has the ability to improve learning and cost-effectiveness, increase access and flexibility, and help institutions stay up-to-date. Therefore, in contrast to a traditional research paper, this paper describes a teaching and learning practice, with the aim of achieving two objectives: 1) to present a brief background of the blended learning approach and its models and 2) to share a specific blended learning model used to prepare Saudi Arabian doctoral students to be knowledge-based educational leaders.

ФИЛОСОФИЯ НА ЕЗИКА И НАЧАЛО НА ЛИНГВОКУЛТУРОЛОГИЯТА

Author(s): Liliana Slavianova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article argues that different languages in their essence and their influence on knowledge and feelings are in fact different worldviews, so in-depth language learning must include everything that history and philosophy associate with the inner world of man. It emphasizes the active role of language in the processes of thinking and cognition.

ЛИНГВОКУЛТУРОЛОГИЯТА И ХИПОТЕЗАТА НА САПИР-УОРФ ЗА ЛИНГВИСТИЧНАТА ОТНОСИТЕЛНОСТ

Author(s): Liliana Slavianova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

According to the hypothesis of Sapir-Worf about linguistic relativity, differences in cultural concepts and categories inherent in different languages affect the cognitive classification of experimental-objective reality, so as to form different thinking and behavior among people speaking these languages.

СЪВРЕМЕНЕН ПРОЧИТ НА ТЕОРИЯТА ЗА ЛИНГВИСТИЧНАТА ОТНОСИТЕЛНОСТ

Author(s): Liliana Slavianova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Cultural linguistics addresses language in its complexity, from syntax to semantic and pragmatic meaning, as well as the discourse structure, and seeks to explore how all these levels can be associated with certain cultural conceptualizations. The basic prerequisite on which it is based is that certain traits of human languages are embedded in such cultural conceptualisations as cultural schemes, cultural categories and cultural metaphors.

Билингвизам у источној Бачкој на примеру омладине

Author(s): Bojan Žikić / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

POEZIA ROMÂNEASCĂ ÎN VREMEA SFÂNTULUI IERARH MARTIR ANTIM IVIREANU (~1650 – 1716)

Author(s): ION MOCIOI / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Se cuvine să sărbătorim 300 de ani de la trecerea în neființă a unuia dintre marile personalități ale culturii, literaturii și bisericii românești, Sfântul Ierarh Martir Antim Ivireanul, mitropolit al Țării Românești de la începutul secolului al XVIII – lea, în plină epocă medievală. S-a născut înainte de 1650, în Iviria (Georgia), primind la botez, numele de Andrei. În tinerețe a dovedit interes și atracție pentru broderie și caligrafie, desen și ornamentație, pictură și sculptură.

Exhortatio ad paenitentiam Dominika z Prus (Kartuza, 1382–1460) i rękopiśmienna parafraza tego dzieła ze zbiorów Ossolineum

Author(s): Maria Wichowa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

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From Feeling to Narrative: Father in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Juvenile Poetic Dedications

Author(s): Yana Rowland / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the present paper I focus on the pivotal place father occupies in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s juvenile poetry. I explore the young poetess’ filial attachment in terms of her developing an identity, independence of mind and memory (in cultural terms), as evidenced by her earliest works, from 1814, through to 1826 (when her debut poetic volume, An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems, was published). A modest look into the matter through Ricoeur and Bakhtin could help the scholar perceive how the poetess grows aware of selfhood as duty within a criteriology of writing as co-being.

Разкази за папагала, или за културното многогласие в европейския XIX век

Author(s): Diyana Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The text analyses the presence of the motif of an odalisque with a parrot in 19th century art in the context of the durable topic a woman with a parrot in Western European literature. It traces the core semantic nuclei of the theme and their renditions from Delacroix and Bonington to Les Nabis and the expressionists in art, from the authors of Antiquity to Flaubert and Apollinaire in literature.

Работа с прототипом в ходе анализа литературного произведения в вузе

Author(s): Veaceslav Dolgov / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

The article aims at presenting the experience of working with the prototype while analyzing and interpreting the artistic features of a literary work in the didactic aspect. Some pre-reading tasks are suggested, as well as a system of questions and assignments used during the reading stage. We have chosen Evdokia’s life and the play “Seven Saints from the Village Bryuho” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya as the didactic materials. The recommended procedure is based on the common didactic strategies used to develop not only independent critical thinking competences, but also the competences of comprehensive and adequate interpretation of the literary works.