AN ANALYSIS OF ‘Y’KNOW’ AS A DISCOURSE MARKER OF FRAME-SHIFTING AND UNSTATED MEANING

Author(s): Diana Ligia Tudor / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

Within linguistics, the domain of discourse markers is part of a more general study of discourse coherence. This paper argues that ‘y’know’ has a major role in information state, which progresses as participants’ knowledge about the world is distributed through talk. Moreover, these transitions in information state are negotiated and displayed through verbal interaction and through its pragmatic relevance. Thus, ‘y’know’ is used to create a situation in which a speaker knows that a hearer shares knowledge about a particular piece of information and it displays a speaker as an information provider who depends upon hearer reception of information. To illustrate this approach we have chosen ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ film script by Woody Allen.

Analele Universității ”Dunărea de Jos din Galați, Lexic comun / Lexic specializat

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Annals of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Fascicle XXIV General Lexicon / Specialized Lexicon is a refereed academic journal of humanities, focused on linguistics, language history, vocabulary and culture, language studies, philology, translation studies, communication studies, cultural history, cultural anthropology, terminology and didactics. The first issue of the journal was published in 2008 by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati. The journal also publishes the scientific papers which are communicated at the international conference Lexic comun / lexic specializat. General Lexicon / Specialized Lexicon. Lexique commun / Lexique spécialisé which has been hosted by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati ever since 2008. Even if we are a Romanian journal of linguistics, the editorial board has a wide perspective towards the lexical level of any language, the interest in the movement of ideas in the field of lexicology and lexicography, as well the in the international promotion of the Romanian contributions. For this purpose the paper publication languages should mainly be Romanian, English, French, but contributions in Spanish, German or Italian are also accepted.

Analiza dyskursywno-genologiczna nazw telewizyjnych programów publicystycznych w Polsce (2005–2015)

Author(s): Ewa Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The aim of the article is a discursive and genealogical analysis of proper names of television current affairs programmes. The linguistic characteristics (structural, semantic and functional) of television broadcasts’ titles are related mostly to their self-presentation strategies and self-promotional functions. By naming, a television broadcaster creates, above all, the television’s image as an institution which safeguards freedom of speech, which is objective, pluralistic, truth-revealing and which brings a univocal resolution to socially important issues

Analiza językowa komentarzy redakcyjnych publikowanych w „Nowinach Sokólskich” pod kątem zróżnicowanego odbioru zawartych w nich implikatur

Author(s): Jerzy Białomyzy / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 64/2017

This paper aims at proving the manipulative character of articles from the weekly newspaper,especially those regarding local politicians, by means of analysing the texts from “Nowiny Sokólskie”(a popular weekly newspaper in Sokółka District resembling a soft tabloid). This periodicalis concerned with the most interesting news from the Sokółka District (Podlaskie Province). The texts are tackled from the perspective of occurrence of implicatures. The intentions present in the articles is what constitutes their integral part , given the fact that comprehending these intentions is crucial for the mutual understanding of the author and the reader along with the persuasive effect of the communication. The linguistic analysis has been carried out from the perspective of varied interpretations of implicatures depending on the type of recipient, their general knowledge and whether they can properly decode the intended message.Given this, the statements of the author may be in conflict with the so-called conversational maxims – rules defined by Paul Grice (among other linguists), referring to communicative values of the language. Besides, just like in case of any other communicative situation we also have to do with implicatures – the meaning that is not stated directly.

Analysing Dangerous Emotions: Pragmatics of Jealousy in Othello’s Speech

Author(s): Alina Ielisieieva / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2017

To achieve its cathartic effect tragedy must communicate and elicit emotions. Any dramatic utterance, treated as an act of communication within the represented world, rests on the interaction of two inseparable, accordant, and interrelated systems – language and emotions. Language can name and verbalize emotions in order to construct them in the dramatic world, but to create a linguistic image of a believable emotional utterance the language a character speaks must appear to be infl uenced and shaped by emotions. Further, that mimetic representation of emotion through language must be understood by the audience. To achieve this, dramatic language must either rely on conventional linguistic means used to express emotions or create its own code that will be decoded by the audience. The audience will vicariously experience the characters’ emotions by recognizing them in their language and actions. The emotionally dynamic image of Othello, one of the most passionate men of Elizabethan drama, is created primarily by the language he uses. To follow the changes in the syntax and the semantics of his language as the action of the play develops is to observe the transformation of the character from a loving and caring husband into a jealous beast that knows no mercy. The article will offer an analysis of the pragmalinguistic representation of jealousy in Othello’s language and show how his discourse changes in the text. The analysis will rely on basic pragmatic categories and consider Othello’s use of directives, assertives, expressives, etc. The emotional change in Othello will also be illustrated by a brief study of the change in his syntax and his vocabulary: from balanced rhetorics and sophisticated words to erratic speech and expletive swearwords.

Analysis of Political Discourse: Methodological Constraints

Author(s): Piotr Cap / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2002

The paper bridges considerations characteristic of the domains of linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as psycholinguistics and social psychology. It poses the hypothesis that political discourse is as such an analytic determinant, i.e. that it dictates methods of investigation into it. These methods manifest a “bottom-up” or “top-down” orientation (cf. Beaugrande, 1991), which is different in intensity relative to what kind of text is investigated. It is argued that certain texts which “include” an analyst (i.e. where an analyst is part of depicted events or part of discourse audience) or are more “familiar” to him/her generate observations on their function and structure at an early stage of their componential analysis, or even before it takes place. Once the global function of the text has been presupposed, the analysis proceeds “top-down”, i.e. toward all micro-data chunks supportive of the initial hypothesis.

ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSLATION PROCESS FROM SOURCE LANGUAGE TEXTS TO THEIR CORRESPONDING TARGET LANGUAGE TEXTS

Author(s): Anejda Rragami / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2015

Considering various semantic, socio-cultural, grammatical differences between the source language and the target language, loss and addition of information in translation cannot be avoided. Basnett-McGuire states “once the principle is accepted that sameness cannot exist between the two languages, it is possible to approach the question of loss and gain in the translation process” (30). Bell suggests a similar point that “something is always lost or, one might suggest, gained in the process” (6), and according to Nida, "all types of translation involve 1) loss of information, 2) addition of information, and /or 3) skewing of information" (27). In order to be as close as possible to the stylistic and grammatical features of the target language, structural adjustment in translation is necessary. As translation involves at least two languages and since each language has its own peculiarities in phonology, grammar, vocabulary, culture as well as other aspects, the translation involves a certain degree of change in meaning of the source text. This means that it is impossible to say that the translated version is identical with the original version.

Analysis of the UK prime ministerial discourse on Brexit: Thematic choices and their implications

Author(s): Ray C. H. Leung / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

This study of political discourse focuses on three selected texts about Brexit delivered by British Prime Minister Theresa May in early 2017. The texts represent three rare occasions on which May revealed to the public in detail what “negotiating objectives” the government has for Brexit. The three texts are: (i) the Lancaster House speech; (ii) Britain’s Article 50 notification letter; (iii) May’s oral statement in Parliament on the notification letter. Analytic tools from systemic functional linguistics (SFL) were employed to investigate the thematic choices in these three texts. The findings shed light on the interface between discourse and ideology. For example, frequent reference to the British society in the experiential Themes of the Lancaster House speech suggests that May tries to give prominence to the voice of the British people while addressing the general public. In the Article 50 notification letter, textual Themes which signal an adversative relation construe May’s optimism about the prospect of Brexit. Furthermore, the first-person plural pronoun we in the thematic position serves multiple purposes, one of which is to establish solidarity between Britain and the European Union. The current research underscores the contributions of SFL thematic analysis to the study of ideology in discourse.

Anforderungen an die phraseografische Praxis aus der Perspektive des Nichtmuttersprachlers

Author(s): Doris Sava / Language(s): German / Issue: 59/2016

The German metalexicography of the last decade is preoccupied by exposing the phraseology in (phraseological) dictionaries from the language user’s perpective and from the perspective of his consulting needs. Starting from theoretical considerations regarding the creation of a dictionary entry, the importance of the quality criteria of a lexicographic work, the principle of addressability and the current phraseographic practice, this study exemplarily exposes the main difficulties of the phraseographic practice from a non-native speaker’s perspective and the shortcomings of the Romanian bilingual phraseological dictionaries.

Anita Lorenc, Wymowa normatywna polskich samogłosek nosowych i spółgłoski bocznej, Warszawa 2016

Author(s): Andrii Baran / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 02/2017

The review of: Anita Lorenc, Wymowa normatywna polskich samogłosek nosowych i spółgłoski bocznej, Dom Wydawniczy „Elipsa”, Warszawa 2016, ss. 370

Anomalous use of definiteness and gender in some types of noun phrases in Bulgarian

Author(s): Valentin Gešev / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2016

The paper considers the anomalous use of definiteness and gender in Bulgarian noun phrases containing hypocoristic names, nicknames or sometimes even legal personal names. Proper names of people, being semantically definite, usually do not take the definite article in Bulgarian. But in the cases considered it is just the opposite – in informal conversation, in fiction or in ironic statements the use of a definite article is either obligatory or facultative depending on the formal and semantic features of the names. The factors to trigger the anomalous use described may be the female sex of the designee, the less typical ending of the noun, its being grammatically neuter or its inclusion in an attributive phrase. Thus the female legal personal names (e.g. Marija, Elena) may take a definite article on some special occasions (Marijata, Elenata) but male legal personal names (e.g. Boris) cannot. Male legal or hypocoristic names ending in -o (Stojko, Borko More...

Antropocentrinių frazeologinių vienetų funkciniai ir pragmatiniai ypatumai skirtingose kalbose ir kultūrinėje aplinkoje (aprašomoji ukrainiečių, rusų, lenkų ir anglų kalbų medžiaga)

Author(s): Lubomira Hnatiuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 30/2017

The article attempts to outline some characteristics of the selected Ukrainian-Russian-Polish-English anthropocentric phraseological units. The author strives to show a significant role of anthropocentric phraseological units in the representation of a cultural mentality, as well as in reflecting the national and cultural identity. The investigated examples are grouped into several paradigms, each reflecting a special human trait. It is the first attempt to draw parallels as well contrasts between phraseologisms in a given semantic paradigm both in related Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and non-related English languages. The attempt has been done to learn and understand the national spirit of the certain ethnic group through anthropocentric phraseological units. This is one of the first attempts when these four languages – Polish, English, Russian and Ukrainian, have been compared in the certain paradigms of anthropocentric phraseologisms reflecting the national and cultural identity in order to capture the spirit of the target language. It is essential for effective cross-cultural communication because the national and cultural factors of a single speech environment significantly affect not only the elements of the communicative code, but they are also important in the communication process with all its components, i.e. principles, maxims, rules of communication, communication strategies and tactics.

APOLOGIES IN L1 AND LINGUA FRANCA ENGLISH: A CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATIC STUDY OF TRIPADVISOR RESPONSES

Author(s): Christophe Hopkinson / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Apology routine formulae in Hungarian

Author(s): Małgorzata Suszczyńska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2005

This paper describes the forms and functions of Hungarian apology routine formulae (RF) used by Hungarian adults in a written Discourse Completion Test. Five apology RF types are identified, their choices being influenced by such factors as the offence type and its severity, the social role of the interlocutor and the offender's gender. Two main apology RF types, Ne haragudj `Don't be angry' and Elnézést `Excuse me' are shown to perform complementary communicative functions of restoring harmony in familiar vs. unfamiliar settings. Gender differences in the use of RF types present on various levels of analysis demonstrate that males and females choose different ways to restore social harmony and may attach importance to different aspects of the context.

Apology Strategies among EFL Postgraduate Learners

Author(s): Farida Aboud / Language(s): English / Issue: 97-1/2019

This current study aimed at exploring the varieties of Apology Strategies (AS) used by EFL postgraduate learners. Besides, it investigated the relationship between AS and the gender variable. The Discourse Completion Test questionnaire (DCT) was employed as an instrument to utilize the purposes of the study. The DCT was adopted from Harb’s study (2015). The respondents who participated in the study were 84 EFL learners, 42 Males (M) and 42 Females (F) respectively, who were enrolled in the master’s and Ph.D. programs at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). The participants were from different departments and nationalities. The findings revealed that Illocutionary Force Indicating Devices (IFIDs), the accounts and reparation, were the most AS used by the respondents. Additionally, there was not a significant relationship between AS and the gender variable among EFL postgraduate learners. Based on the results, the current study provided limitations and implications for future researches.

Approche sur corpus FOS: aspects sémantiques et pragmatiques des combinaisons privilégiées du domaine de la restauration

Author(s): Cindy Charneau / Language(s): French / Issue: 4/2018

This article’s aim is to enrich the reflection on how digital corpora studies can contribute to the analysis of specialized combinations. In order to evaluate this contribution, our objective will be to distinguish different kinds of word combinations into professional speeches for the catering area with the help of semantic and pragmatic aspects. First, we will assess the role devoted to word combinations into the teaching of French as a Foreign Language, then, we will present the methodology used to analyse the corpus before finally presenting the results.

Ar paaugliams skirtų filmų dubliavimas (vis dar) cenzūruojamas?

Author(s): Patrizia Giampieri / Language(s): English / Issue: 31/2017

The dubbing of teen films is claimed to be harshly censored and manipulated in view of the target audience. In particular, the teen films of the 1970s touching upon certain taboo topics, such as sex, drugs and violence are argued to be modified extensively in order to become less disturbing. The aim of this paper is to explore whether these claims are still true, especially in view of recent films addressing sex and drugs. In this respect, a corpus of 14 films (from 1983 to 2015) has been implemented. The first striking difference that this analysis will bring to the fore, is the film rating, being R in North America and G, or a sort of NC-14, in Italy. This paper will then analyze the Italian renderings of the most recurrent swearwords uttered in the corpus. Finally, an analysis of random film phrases will underpin that in the 1980s and 1990s the characters’ utterances were heavily manipulated. On the contrary, as far as NC-14 films and more recent films are concerned, not only do they not censor words or utterances, but they even add extra taboo words. This analysis will hence highlight that NC-14 and more recent teen films are far less manipulated and censored than the films of the 1980s and 1990s.

Ar preskriptyvizmas veikia? Taisomi žodžiai Lietuvos radijo ir TV eteryje 1960–2010

Author(s): Laima Nevinskaitė,Giedrius Tamaševičius / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 13/2019

The paper deals with the effects of prescriptivism on the Lithuanian language. The research includes one domain of language use – radio and television, and one aspect of language – lexicon, in the period between 1960 and 2010. The investigation is corpus-based and focuses on the use of words that are classified as “incorrect” by the Lithuanian norm-setters. The study is important both as a discussion of the impact of prescriptivism on language change in general, as well as of the indirect influence of media on language, since media can affect the symbolic evaluation of specific language forms. The paper consists of five chapters. The first chapter “Review of the research” discusses the theoretical assumptions and concepts needed for further analysis: it gives an overview of studies on the effects of prescriptivism conducted in Lithuania and elsewhere, presents the concepts of second-level indexicality and style, and outlines the key characteristics of media change in Lithuania that are relevant to the study. Studies on the success of prescriptivism do not give a definite answer as to whether prescriptivism works. Institutionalisation and a high degree of stigmatisation of the corrected language forms can be listed among the factors that increase its success; prescriptivism is likely to be less successful when the “forbidden” language forms are too convenient to be given up, or when prescriptivist rules are too complicated for lay language users and the rules contradict each other. In the case of media, the effect of prescriptivism is said to be weakened by media commercialisation.

ARAPSKE MODALNE PARTIKULE I ADEKVATNOST NJIHOVIH PRIJEVODNIH EKVIVALENATA U BOSANSKOME JEZIKU: SURA ET-TEKASUR

Author(s): Belkisa Dolić,Nedim Haračić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 7/2014

The introductory part of the paper provides a brief overview of the issues that are connected to a translation craft and with modal words as a category whose struggle for linguistic identity has been going on for a long time, and the final outcome only recently began to emerge on the horizon of the pragmatic, linguistic and discourse studies. The main goal of this paper is to define and describe the communicative-pragmatic function of Arab modal words hatta, kella, sevfe, sume, lev, le and n and their actualization in Sura/Chapter Et-tekasur, and then assessing the adequacy of existing translation equivalents for the same word in in the Bosnian language as well as finding new ones, more competent in the case of such proccedings impose as required. As our corpus will serve Sura/Chapter Et-Tekasur in the original Quran (in Arabic) and its seven translation in Bosnian language: Ali Riza Karabeg (1991), Džemaludin Čaušević and Muhamed Pandža (1969), Besim Korkut (1977), Mustafa Mlivo (2004), Enes Karić (1995), Esad Duraković (2004) and Muhamed Mehanović (2013).

Argumentace v jazykové interakci

Author(s): Jakub Kopecký / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2018

The article aims to introduce the fundamental features of the communicative conception of argumentation based on rhetorical and pragmalinguistic argumentation theories. Argumentation is defined as (linguistic) action grounded in accounting for a controversial position with the purpose of convincing listeners of its acceptability or in order to defend it when it is challenged. The basic form of the argumentation process is described using a three-component model which consists of the argument itself, the justified opinion and the warrant represented by the relationship between the previous components allowing the “plausibility transfer” from the argument to the disputed opinion (cf. Toulmin 2003). The article also deals with the conditions that must be met by convincing arguments, with stable content schemes of argumentation (topoi), and it seeks to answer the question of what the rationality of argumentation is based on, i.e. what the sources of its plausibility are.