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Ісламізми-власні назви в українських перекладах Корану

Author(s): Nataliia Danyliuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: X/2014

The article is devoted to analyzing proper nouns semantically connected with Islam, which appear in five Ukrainian translations of the Quran. Those words will be divided into anthroponyms, theonyms, names of angels and genies, toponyms, religious books names, names connected with eschatology. Proper nouns of Islamic origin are unadapted and appear on the periphery of the Ukrainian linguistic system, not belonging to the register of Ukrainian dictionaries (apart from certain words); the area of their use is limited to the Quran and specialized literature connected with Islam and the Islamic word. Such words have numerous graphical and orthographical variants and are unclear and incomprehensible for a majority of the Ukrainian language users.

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LXXVII Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego W Roku 2021

Author(s): Krystyna Data / Language(s): Polish Issue: 77/2021

W dniach 13–15 września 2021 roku odbył się LXXVIII Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego, zorganizowany w Akademii im. Jakuba z Paradyża w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, który (w związku z sytuacją związaną z zapobieganiem, przeciwdziałaniem i zwalczaniem COVID-19 (Dz. U. z 2020 r., poz. 511 ze zm.), został przeniesiony z września 2020 roku i odbył się formie hybrydowej. Głównym organizatorem Zjazdu była prof. Elżbieta Skorupska-Raczyńska Rektor AJP. Obrady odbywały się w budynku przy ul. Chopina 52 w Auli im. prof. Stanisława Kirkora. Zjazd otworzyli: prof. Piotr Stalmaszczyk (on line), prof. Rafał L. Górski, Prezydent Miasta Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego Jacek Wójcicki i JM Rektor AJP prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Skorupska-Raczyńska. Przewodniczący Zarządu PTJ prof. Piotr Stalmaszczyk podziękował władzom uczelni za podjęcie się całościowej organizacji Zjazdu i poniesienie kosztów. Zjazd nie mógłby się odbyć bez tej pomocy, tym bardziej, że przyszło go organ

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John Stanley, Brian O’Keeffe, Radegundis Stolze, Larisa Cercel (eds): Cognition and Comprehension in Translational Hermeneutics

Author(s): Beata Piecychna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2022

Review of: John Stanley, Brian O’Keeffe, Radegundis Stolze, Larisa Cercel (eds): Cognition and Comprehension in Translational Hermeneutics. Zeta Books. Bucharest 2021, ss. 521.

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Intensywność w języku serbskim i ukraińskim

Author(s): Anna Cychnerska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2022

The article compares two Slavic languages – Serbian and Ukrainian – in terms of the distribution of formants expressing the intensity category. The analysis, in which the semantic word-formation methodology was applied, concerns derivatives with formants strengthening the meaning of word-formation roots. Findings showed that between the two languages there are quite clear differences in connectivity of formants with word-formation roots of derivative lexemes, while similarities concern primarily the distribution of formants of foreign origin.

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Dilemmas of online video review genre: An attempt at describing genre complexity in Polish and German linguistics

Author(s): Anna Hanus,Agnieszka Kallaus / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The purpose of the article is to examine the changes in the genre pattern of review resulting from its expansion to a new online communication medium, i.e. the YouTube platform. The case study of two video reviews comprising four levels of analysis (structural, pragmatic, thematic-cognitive and stylistic) aims to compare the canonical version of the arts review and its modern online variants. The authors attempt to determine whether online video film reviews could be regarded as manifestations of the review genre evolution, intermedial adaptation, its genre pattern transformation, or – perhaps – the development of a distinct genre, characteristic of online communication only. Contrastive analysis based on selected methods of Polish linguistic genre studies applied in the context of German text type linguistics is intended to extend the scope of the ongoing research on genre with aspects of Polish and German research perspectives.

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Formulaic Language and New Data. Theoretical and Methodological Implications. Ed. by Elisabeth Piirainen, Natalia Filatkina, Sören Stumpf and Christian Pfeiffer

Author(s): Joanna Szerszunowicz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Review of: Formulaic Language and New Data. Theoretical and Methodological Implications. Ed. by Elisabeth Piirainen, Natalia Filatkina, Sören Stumpf and Christian Pfeiffer. Berlin–Boston 2020, pp. 277.

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ENGLISH IN ROMANIA

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2023

The impact of English in Romania can be seen function of historical ages, which lead to various developments in research, in the academic domains, as well as in the introduction in the Romanian language of Anglicism and even the introduction of Romanian words in the English language. Borrowings from the English language show the strong impact this language had over our own, together with its culture. Anglistics has developed various fields in literature and linguistics, lexicography and phonetics, right from its beginnings. Philological and non-philological departments of English in various universities do their best to keep up with the trends requiring Romanians to know English.

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Modality in Sustainability Discourse by Harrods and Liberty: Analysing British Cultural Icons’ Discursive Practices

Author(s): Oleksandr Kapranov / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2023

The article presents and discusses a mixed-method study whose aim is to find out how Harrods and Liberty, two luxury department stores in London (the United Kingdom) that are referred to as British cultural icons (visitbritain.com 2023), use modality that is expressed by modal verbs (e.g., can) in their discourse on sustainability. Methodologically, the study is based upon the literature (Aiezza 2015; Bu et al. 2020; Garzone & Catenaccio 2022; Kranich & Bicsar 2012), which argues that modal verbs play a number of important pragmatic roles in corporate discourse. Following the literature, it is hypothesised in the study that modal verbs in sustainability discourses by Harrods and Liberty are employed in a pragmatically similar manner. In order to verify the hypothesis, a corpus of Harrods’ and Liberty’s sustainability discourses is collected and analysed quantitatively in the computer program AntConc (Anthony 2022) to compute the frequency of the occurrence of modal verbs. Thereafter, the most frequent modal verbs in the corpus are examined qualitatively to establish their pragmatic roles in Harrods’ and Liberty’s sustainability discourses. The findings indicate that these discourses make use of the modal verbs will and can as boosters that contribute to a positive corporate image-building.

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From “Burning Bridges” to Bridging Cultural Gaps: Water and Fire Idioms in English and Romanian

Author(s): Alexandra Stan / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2023

The relation between culture and language can offer important information to the language learner. In fact, one way to understand a culture is through its language. Teachers of English as a foreign language (ought to) provide knowledge of the culture along with the mandatory curriculum items as a means to support students in bridging any cultural gaps. This paper aims to analyze English water and fire idiomatic expressions by describing their meanings and origins and identifying their Romanian equivalents. The research starts with a theoretical overview of the definitions and classifications of idiomatic expressions in the specialized literature, followed by the contrastive analysis of twenty English idioms functioning as verbs. More specifically, the description of their meanings and origins is provided, as well as the Romanian counterparts, and where possible, the origins of the translated items. The last part of the paper draws some conclusions on the significance and practical teaching implications of this analysis.

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WORDS THAT SELL: EXPLANATION AS AN ARGUMENTATIVE STRATEGY IN THE CURRENT ADVERTISING DISCOURSE

Author(s): Crina-Ancuța Macovei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

Through this research, we aim to open a window to the complexity of advertising argumentation, highlighting its role in shaping perceptions, forming attitudes and influencing consumer behavior. As an argumentative strategy, the explanation helps to create an overview of the characteristics, composition, use and benefits of a particular product, as well as recommendations for its maintenance and storage. All this leads to the performative act of argumentation, embodied by the action of buying the promoted product or service.

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К 100-ЛЕТИЮ АКАДЕМИКА НИКИТЫ ИЛЬИЧА ТОЛСТОГО

Author(s): Ekaterina Yakushkina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2023

15 апреля 2023 г. исполнилось 100 лет со дня рождения академика Никиты Ильича Толстого, выдающегося ученого, основателя Московской этнолингвистической школы, воспитавшего плеяду учеников не только в России, но и в разных славянских странах, в том числе в Сербии.

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MÉCANISMES DE L’HUMOUR DANS LES BLAGUES ROUMAINES D’AVANT 1989

Author(s): Cristi NEDELCU,Alice Ionescu / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

Under the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, humor served as a defense mechanism that allowed Romanians to cope with the regime's restrictions on freedom and the grim daily reality that blatantly contradicted official propaganda. The political joke, while highlighting the gap between the State discourse and people's experience, constituted a real weapon against lies and alienation, and expressed the people's tenacious refusal to give in to attempts at "brainwashing” by communist propaganda. The paper provides an overview of the types of jokes specific to the totalitarian period in Romania and an analysis of the mechanisms underpinning the creation of humorous effects / the role of the social context and which the (anti-) communist jokes reflect.

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L’HUMOUR À L’ALGÉRIENNE : LES CONTES DE GRIMM PARODIÉS PAR DJAFFAR GACEM

Author(s): Yasmine SAOULI,Sihem GUETTAFI / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

In this paper, we shall focus on the humorous television rewrites of the Algerian screenwriter and director Djaffar Gacem to demonstrate how humour can be at the service of transmedia storytelling. Our reflective approach is also intended to prove how Algerian humour and, more particularly, the parodic adaptations of the tale can enrich the universe of this mythical story and contribute to transmedia storytelling. Consequently, do Grimm's tales lose their primary meaning and lend themselves to a new interpretation or do they preserve the original storyline in this audiovisual transposition?

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HUMOUR EN TEMPS DE CRISE : QUAND LE COVID FAIT RIRE

Author(s): Faten SOMAI BAYA / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The issue addressed in this paper is the humour displayed on social networks in times of crisis, especially, during Covid 19. The objective is to examine and identify the linguistic function of this type of discourse, which we call “humorous facts”, and to study its rhetorical and pragmatic scope in the virtual environment of Facebook.

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La création d’une communauté discursive sublime La propagande post-djihadiste de Boko Haram

Author(s): Michael Rinn / Language(s): French Issue: 20/2023

The article raises the question of the relationship between rhetoric as a tool for argumentation and negotiation used by a discursive community to safeguard its norms and rules of life, particularly in a crisis situation and the use of the sublime abject put in use by terrorist propaganda aimed at crushing the speakers through the spectacle of extreme violence. As if this violence were capable of transforming the very body of language, the latter being the necessary condition for making society. The analysis focuses on the post-jihadist propaganda discourse held by “Boko Haram”, a terrorist group which has also been involved in banditry in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa since 2015. After having noted the multiple and complex issues of the socio-historical context necessary to understand the acts of terrorist language, the article highlights the linguistic functioning of this type of discourse, the purpose of which is not only to put civilian populations under the yoke of fear, but to produce a sublime discursive community entirely given over to single thought.

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MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN THE SERBIAN EFL LEARNING CONTEXT: INSIGHTS FROM THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOLS

Author(s): Jelena R. Danilović Jeremić / Language(s): English Issue: 81/2023

Word-building or morphological analysis features prominently in the EFL/ESL teaching lit- erature as an effective vocabulary learning strategy (cf. Gairns & Redman 1986; Nation 2001; Nunan 1995; Oz 2014) which enables learners to decipher the meaning of new lexical items by breaking them down into constituent morphemes. While L1 speakers can rely on this strategy upon encountering unfamiliar words from an early age (Anglin 1993; Clark 2001), the use of word-building in the field of EFL acquisition appears to be an under-researched topic (cf. Ward & Chuenjundaeng 2009; Diaz Contreras 2018). Therefore, the aim of this paper is to contribute to the growing body of literature on the development of morphological awareness in non-native contexts by investigating the way Serbian B2-level learners (CEFR) attempt to figure out the meaning of morphologically complex words, namely derivatives comprising one, two or three derivational affixes. Think-aloud protocols revealed that the upper-intermediate Serbian L1 English L2 learners mostly employed morphological analysis with multimorphemic words (i.e. those containing two or three derivational affixes) while bimorphemic words were often regarded as unanalyzable lexical units. Also, the data collected indicated that the learners rarely drew analogies between unknown words and words of similar morphological structure. The ensuing pedagogical implications and possible teaching interventions will be discussed.

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Précis for Context and Coherence: The Logic and Grammar of Prominence

Author(s): Una Stojnić / Language(s): English Issue: 69/2023

This précis outlines some of the key themes in Context and Coherence. At the core of Context and Coherence is the meta-semantic question: what determines the meaning of context-sensitive language and how do we interpret it as effortlessly as we do? What we can express with language is obviously constrained by grammar, but it also seems to depend on various non-linguistic features of an utterance situation, for example, pointing gestures. Accordingly, it is nearly universally assumed that grammar underspecifi es content: the interpretation of context-sensitive language depends in part on extra-linguistic features of the utterance situation. Contra this dominant tradition, the book develops and defends a thoroughly linguistic account: context-sensitivity resolution is entirely a matter of grammar, which is much more subtle and pervasive than has typically been noticed. In interpreting context-sensitive language as effortlessly as we do, we draw on our knowledge of these subtle, but pervasive, linguistic cues—what I call discourse conventions. If this is right, the dominant, extra-linguistic account must be rejected. It not only mischaracterizes the linguistic conventions affecting context-sensitivity resolution, but its widespread, and often implicit, endorsement leads to philosophically radical conclusions. The recent arguments for non-truth-conditional and non-classical semantics for modal discourse provide just one illustration of this point. But appeals to context are quite common within a wide range of debates across different subfi elds of philosophy, and they typically assume the extra-linguistic model of context-sensitivity resolution. If the account of context-sensitivity developed in Context and Coherence is on the right track, such arguments have to be reconsidered.

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LES NOMS DE FAMILLE COMPOSÉS EN ROUMAIN ET FRANÇAIS

Author(s): Adela-Marinela Stancu / Language(s): French Issue: 36/2024

French and Romanian compound family names mostly come from nicknames. Their origin is rather obscure. Semantically, these names belong to those categories of nicknames that indicate some physical or psycho-moral particularities, but they can also be related to an unusual event from the life of an individual or they can point to the local origin of some persons.

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ADDITIONS TO THE HISTORICAL ROMANIAN ONOMATOPOEIA FROM THE NORTHWEST OF KIEVAN RUS

Author(s): Vladul D. Ghimpu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

Through some additional contributions, the author brought new data regarding the name Lidul, who could be a Romanian character present at the peace negotiations from the Russo-Byzantine wars. Also supported by analogy with the ethnic names present in Romanian throughout history. Other names from other sources render the Christian from the Old Testament Amos (Amosco), brought by the Romances, as well as others, diminutive, Romance, written in the Agrarian Recessions from Toropeț and Staraia (Old) Rusa, which render Vasco, Zeno, Marco and .a. In the first case, as clear Romance names, as an indubitable argument for the presence of Romanian migration in the northwest of medieval Russia, supported by a lot of examples from the second census as well. And the attestation of the name Hot in Novgorod also confirms with new details the pre-Christian Romanian names here, presented by us and in other studies and researches.

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THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF THE WORD HEART IN ENGLISH

Author(s): Liliana Tronea-Ghidel / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

The present paper, relying on data collected from various English dictionaries, focuses on the semantic field of the term heart, by trying to render its different meanings and connotations. Heart belongs to a category of words that is particularly interesting for the linguist, because its analysis solves a specific lexicological problem. The semantic richness of heart is reflected in all its meanings related to feelings.

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