REPRESENTATIONS OF LONDON IN VIRGINIA WOOLF, GRAHAM SWIFT AND HANIF KUREISHI

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

The purpose of this study is to examine how the city of London is represented in the novels of the three authors. Virginia Woolf, Graham Swift and Hanif Kureishi belong to two different epochs, and one can say the same for the London image depicted in their novels. The article examines the differences between the modernist and postmodernist representations of the city. It will also focus on the lyricism found in the descriptions of London and in the way the city is reflected in the consciousness of the characters.

"VIAȚA LUI TUDOR ARGHEZI", DE MIREL ANGHEL

Author(s): Marinela Doina Nistea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

The Concept of “Black Humour” at French and Greek Writers

Author(s): Maklena Nika / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

In the article in question, it will be analyzed the concept of “black humour”, one of the four main pillars, which sustained the surrealist creativity. In more specific terms, they are: automat writing, insane love and objective chance. As one of the strongest expressive means of surrelist writers, black humour turned into their symbol in order to better convey the objection against the reality of time. Colorations of black humour will be analyzed in comparative platform at the following writers: Francis Picabia, Jacques Rigaut and Nikos Engonopoulos, who converge into a common thematic point – death. Through the analysis of several parts selected by them, I will also reveal the similarities in expression, poetical images used, but on the other side, their particularities as well.

The Concept of “Autonomy” And Its Relationship with the Idea of Transhumanism

Author(s): Loredana Vlad / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

Medicine has a lot of principles that need to be complied with especially when it comes to saving the life of the individual and, at the same time, respecting his rights. Today there are increasingly more cases of malpraxis either because these principles are not fully complied with or out of negligence. We believe that one of the most important principles of medicine is autonomy, whereas it is essential for the individual to act in accordance with his principles and values or those of the society where he lives. In this paper I shall analyze the concept of autonomy and its relationship with transhumanism. I shall argue that within human enhancement - whether cognitive enhancement or human enhancement - the individual must be autonomous and must be able to decide regarding his maximum benefit. We believe that human bioenhancement is a project that – when put into practice - could have negative consequences, since moral enhancement is rather seen as a danger to the freedoms and autonomy of the individual

The hermeneutics of conversation: Silence, epiphany and the irreducibility of conversion

Author(s): Małgorzata Hołda / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2016

The article focuses on the hermeneutics of conversation. Its aim is to demonstrate the nature of a hermeneutic conversation as triggering a true possibility of understanding. I propose to see silence, epiphany and conversion, with its irreducible character, as significant components of a hermeneutic conversation. Thus conceived conversation leads to an unveiling of the unknown and generates a genuine possibility of an encounter between the self and the Other. The encounter rests on two indispensable attributes: reciprocity and trust. A genuine conversation in the hermeneutic sense, propelled by these two constituents, exerts a cathartic, transformative and formative power. Not only does it lead to understanding in which the speaking partners are involved, but it entails a potent unearthing of the self, a discovery of one’s identity. This study is based on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s premise of the universal character of understanding. Gadamer’s hermeneutics regards understanding as the fundamental category of our being- in-the-world. The article illustrates the workings of the hermeneutic conversation with an analysis of J. Joyce’s “The Dead.”

ГОГОЛЕВСКИЙ ИМЕНОСЛОВ: О ФОРМЕ И СЕМАНТИКЕ ЛИЧНЫХ ИМЕН В ПОВЕСТЯХ «МИРГОРОДА»

Author(s): Vladimir Denisov / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 1/2017

The article presents the characteristics of personal names from four Gogol’s stories of the series “Mirgorod” (1835). It is based on the interpretation of common Slavic Christian names in their Ukrainian and Russian versions according to the word books and a list of “names given at the time of baptism” contained in the “Book of sundries” by young Gogol. The research leads to the conclusion that a system of male and female names in each story reflects the views of the author on the nature and types of his heroes, on their society and era, as well as on their relationship with biblical, ancient and medieval times, with nature around them. Giving a name to his character, the author took into account the phonetic and semantic structure of the anthroponym, its direct and connotative meanings (as well as contradictions between them), its semantic ties, popularity, belonging to a specific social category and/or a personality type, a historical or mythological character.

СЕМАНТИКА КОЛОРАТИВОВ В ПОВЕСТВОВАНИИ Л. ТОЛСТОГО («СМЕРТЬ ИВАНА ИЛЬИЧА», «КРЕЙЦЕРОВА СОНАТА», «ДЬЯВОЛ»)

Author(s): Elena Masolova / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 1/2017

In Tolstoy’s stories of the 1870s the coloratives have negative semantics. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” the yellow color “implicates” a movement to death. In “The Kreutzer Sonata” this color aggravates Pozdnyshev’s moral sufferings and embodies deception and lust. In “The Devil” the description of Lisa’s yellow complexion reveals Irtenev’s negative attitude to her. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” the pink and green cretonne of a “fashionable” living room loses its grandiosity in the house of the deceased man. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” the white color of clothes initially associated by the character with confidence in the future, then resulted in the patient’s dislike and was seen as evidence of inconsiderateness of people. In “The Kreutzer Sonata” the white color, in Trukhachevsky’s portrait, turned Pozdnyshev against him even more. In “The Devil” the white color Lisa was accompanied with provoked the growth of Irtenev’s irritation. In “The Kreutzer Sonata” the semantics of the red color is disturbing, ominous, and associated with debauchery and lie. In “The Devil” the description of the red clothes replaces the portrait characteristics of Stepanida; for Irtenev the red panyova and the red headscarf of his mistress became the symbols of the devilish temptation. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” the black color, being an attribute of mental and physical illness of the character, began to correspond to the image of a black sack devouring the person. In “The Kreutzer Sonata” an infernal black and red color scale contributes to the presentiment of tragedy. In “The Devil” the black color discovers Irtenev’s increasing dependence on delusion. In “The Kreutzer Sonata” the coloratives with the root “light” are related to Pozdnyshev’s insight concerning his family life, based on deception. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” “light” liberates the character of death anxiety and grants him a joy of interfluence with the world. In the given stories of Tolstoy there is presented color writing not a color code. Not all the coloratives fulfill a descriptive and prospective functions.

UN TEZAUR DE MONEDE MOLDOVENEŞTI DE LA ÎNCEPUTUL SECOLULUI AL XVI-LEA ÎN LEGĂTURĂ CU ÎNFIINŢAREA MĂNĂSTIRII ARMENEŞTI „ADORMIREA MAICII DOMNULUI – HAGIGADAR” DIN APROPIEREA ORAŞULUI SUCEAVA

Author(s): Monica Dejan / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2013

The article presents some information about the foundation of the Armenian monastery Assumption of the Virgin – Hagigadar near Suceava, and about its founder, Drăgan Dănovac. The archaeological investigation made there in 2010, unearthed a hoard of seven Moldavian coins issued under Bogdan III (1504–1517). The presence of this hoard was linked with the start of the building site, probably between 1511 and 1512. Drăgan Dănovac, an Armenian merchant, lived in Suceava in the first half of the 16th century. His name was recorded in documents that reflect a series of legal disputes between the Armenian community of Suceava and Saint Elias’ Monastery about a landed property in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Approaches to Stylistics and the Literary Text

Author(s): Elena-Maria Emandi / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The present study offers a theoretical overview of the approaches of style in a literary text. Themain directions are presented in strict relation to their relevance to highlighting the specificity of acertain type of literary production. To well-known names of international stylisticians there havebeen added outstanding Romanian names whose contribution to the domain is consideredundoubtedly valuable

Umberto Eco and Emotions in The Time of Internet

Author(s): Martini Kristo Renata / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

"Social networks gives right of speech to legions of idiots”. These are the words from Umberto Ecodirecting an attack on Internet during the ceremony in the University of Torino to award himHonoris Causa for Communication and media culture. After these statements “the networkpeople” felt offended and they launched a harsh attack against the writer. Therefore I decided toget deeply focused on such argument and made researches to create an idea about the writer‟sreflection and tried to formulate a potential personal consideration.The purpose for doing this is not to protect Eco: he is part of those people of reputation in culturewho with their work have changed the way we study language and communication, let alone hisextraordinary talent as a novelist. I conducted this analysis to better understand his opinion onInternet, social networks and technology. In this reflection I have indicated that his harsh wordsdid not come out of nothing, in contrary, he made similar statements in other cases.The theory developed by him was complete, consolidated and logically argued. Behind this attacklies a reflection on such an important topic for our society: Internet information filtering, necessityof education on internet, things which need to get started since the early school education. At theend of the article I have provided a short information about a platform, an online multimediacompiled by him named Encyclomedia, an encyclopedia based on a new concept which is dedicatedto the history of humankind by establishing links between what is searched in internet with relationto literature, science, art, music, economy, society, religion. This project demonstrates the fact thatthis man regardless of being part of cultural environment of “Novecento” tried to utilize the newtechnology to the benefit of knowledge and its dissemination.

Audiovisuals in FL Classroom

Author(s): Piri Sonila,Aida Gjinali / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The purpose of this research is to analyze the aspects of audiovisuals use in FL classroom. It is awell-known fact that that audiovisuals are part of our everyday life for many decades, and latelythey have been included in the learning process within the communicative approach, under thepressure of a greater importance of pragmatic and authentic communication. There are manybenefits coming from their use in the FL classrooms in the neurolinguistic aspect. Recently, manysuggestions have been provided on the implementation of audiovisual materials in the foreignlanguage class, some special criteria teachers should take into consideration during the process,but also concrete examples of such materials used in FL classroom generally, and particularly inthat of Italian language.

Virtual Reality in a Foreign Language Teaching

Author(s): Martini Kristo Renata / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

This article describes and elaborates on the educational potential of virtual reality, focusing on the use of three-dimensional environments in foreign languages teaching process. The study is concentrated on the analysis of one of the most used products recently, the virtual platform SECOND LIFE, by pointing out at potential possibilities that this platform offers to the didactic of foreign languages, but without leaving behind problems with which many users have to face during its implementation and use. In the introduction, the article focuses on the technology role in teaching in general and especially on foreign languages teaching. It continues on elaborating shortly on virtual reality, what it is, how it started, where it is used, and putting more emphasis on the use and possibilities it offers for the educational process and especially for foreign languages teaching.

The expressiveness of Pirandello’s fiction translated into Albanian

Author(s): Mirela Papa / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The exclamative sentences and vocatives, onomatopoeic words and other examples of expressivelanguage help to give expressive power to Pirandello‟s fiction. The „sound‟ is of utmost importancein this writer‟s works. Thus, it is only logical to assert that interjections, onomatopoeic words andvocatives are main ingredients in the melodic structure of his fiction. The line between theseelements and other expressive phrases is often not very well-defined due to their variety. The linebetween vocatives, exclamative sentences and other elements which are matched by the intonationand use in communication explains why these elements provide constantly the interjections group. Itis important to consider not only the intonation as a marker, because many direct vocations tosupernatural powers lose their meaning when they become interjections. This paper provides ananalysis of the expressive elements that Pirandello uses in his stories and the way these elementshave been translated into Albanian. We will explore whether the translators have managed toconvey even in our language the expressiveness of Pirandello‟s fiction which is one of the definingcharacteristics of his style. The paper focuses on false interjections and onomatopoeic words. Thefalse interjections are difficult to classify since, in most of the cases, they are words that belong toother parts of speech but are used as interjections. The interjections, subject to this analysis, belongto the spoken language and are, somehow, fixed phrases in the language. The analysis also includesthe onomatopoeic words which are created in direct imitation of the sound as well as constructionswhich, as a result of some changes, adopt an imitation function, although it is entirely subjective innature.

The Ideas Of Adult Education In Russian And Ukrainian Herritage End Of Xix – Beginning Of Xx Centuries

Author(s): Tymchuk Liudmyla / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

Analyzed have been the ideas of adult education and its place in the pedagogical heritage at the endof XIX – beginning XX centuries. We studied on the basis of works of A. Schjapov, A. Pruhavin, V.Vahterov, P. Kazanzev , O. Hermonius, H. Falbork, S. Siripolko the main ideas and basic notions ofadults‟ education which were developed at the end of XIX – beginning XX centuries in the form ofout-of-school education theory. We can state that at the end of XIX – beginning XX century in theform of out-of-school education theory there were established theoretical foundations of adulteducation. Fundamental ideas were formed and scientific problems and contradictions wereemphasized. Search for optimal forms and methods of work were performed. Such scientists as E.Medynskyj, S. Siropolko, V.Charnaluskyj etc formed the main principles of out-of-school education.The analyze of theoretical views shows that fundamental ideas of scientists end of XIX – beginningXX century are not only contradictive to each other and to the main principles of pedagogicmovement but also complete each other. Wide range of basic ideas of adult education wasoriginally formulated in the works of V.Charnouskyj and later they were concretized in the works ofS. Siropolko and developed in the theoretical views of E. Medynskyj. Now we can speak aboutimportant works dedicated to the theory and praxis of adult education of leading scientists of thebeginning of XX century.

Redundant words and questions: translating the colloquial style of Pirandello’s short stories

Author(s): Mirela Papa,Alva Dani / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2017

The well-known Italian writer Luigi Pirandello has his own specific style of writing. When hewrites, he does it in a spontaneous way as if he is talking to his friends. His way of writing is closerto speech. Their lexicon is often rich with redundant words, colloquial ticks which spray thecolloquial language with affective conotations sometimes of a higher intensity. İn this paper, it hasbeen tried to analyze redundant words, the different colloquial ticks, as well as the questionsarising in Pirandello‟s short stories. Moreover, the object of this study will also be the rendering ofthese characteristics when traslating the short stories in Albanian.

Vernacular Spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Samra Bujak,Azamat Akbarov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

Bosnian language has long been, and continues to be, a sensitive question to discuss about. This paper will present the language history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, introduce some linguistic features such as high and low variety of Bosnian language, codification, pragmatics, prestige etc. Besides the issues that are affected by the standardization of Bosnian as individual language. I will also discuss about how much politics affected language in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Politics is everywhere around us, so it is also involved in Bosnian language. Politics affected the development of Bosnian language a lot. How much war in Bosnia affected the progress of language? The war, between Bosnian and Serbs, that lasted long 4 years, from 1992-1996. This war was so long, it destroyed many lives and it also affected the progress of language. This is also political issue that I will discuss throughout the paper. All of these issues will be presented throughout this paper. “Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (BCMS) language is a South Slavic language. Because it has four standard variants, it is a pluricentric language” (Blum, 2002: 8). The language was finally standardized in the mid 19th century, decades before a Yugoslav state was established (Ibidem, 130-132.). Croats and Serbs differ in many ways. First of all they have different religion and they have historically lived under different territory, and have adopted different literary forms as their respective standard variants. Since independence, Bosnian has likewise been established as an official standard in Bosnia and Herzegovina. All four standard variants are based on the same dialect (Štokavian).

Semantic perception of Albanian people in the period February-April 1997 according to some Italian quotidian

Author(s): Elda Katorri / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

March of 1997 remains a gloomy and difficult period in the history of Albania. The financial pyramidsystem started to crumble and together with it the savings of a lifetime. People became homeless,hopeless and jobless. Those with a little hope tried to save and cultivate it abroad. Italy was their firstdestination.The purpose of our research is to show how this second immigration wave was linguisticallydescribed by the quotidian of that time, how this definition influenced the mass perception of people. Didthe articles’ semantics play a role on the evolution of the perception parable Italians themselves, and thenthe words, created about the Albanian people?Of course, the answer to the above question is yes. The newspapers at the press, under the qualificationas fourth power, did not just had a great echo in the public perception, but it also often influenced it.Many Italians, despite being geographically near Albania, never tried to get to know it, but were satisfiedby what they read about this country.As a conclusion what this research tries to highlight is the power ofpress language, which depending only the used semantics and lexicon is always able to cement or uncementsomeone’s or something’s image.

Toplumsal Bellek Bağlamında Sarıkamış Harekâtı’nın Türk Romanına Yansıması

Author(s): Mustafa Aydemir,Nusret Yılmaz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 89/2017

The importance of history which is a product of human actions can’t be disregarded in terms of determining, leading, structuring effect. Forgotten, pressed memory and hidden facts one day reappear and face us by using other arguments. Each historical event continues to live in our collective subconsciousness till it reappears. Society, memory and history which is involved in recollection and forgetting dialectic depend on each other. The past which is adhered to our memory meets art, a social creation and is reflected in terms of historical novels. The Sarıkamış Operation always used as the image of disaster is one of the reflections although wished to be forgotten. Sarıkamış a historical image alone takes place in both our literary and social life. Within the notional framework of our study, the relation of historical events with the social memory is examined and it has been tried to determine how Sarıkamış Operation has been reflected on the Turkish novel.

The prevention of depression on teenagers from rural environment

Author(s): Adina Stirbu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

In an attempt to capture the gravity of depression in the lives of children and adolescents, thepresent paper aims to highlight the conception of the society in which we live in connection withthis disease. The starting point for the research is the explanation of the term depression.Therefore, in the first part of the paper (Chapter I, entitled Depression in Adolescence), besidesproviding some general information about the influence of the socio-economic environment andeducation on the child's psychological development, the causes of depression and its symptoms.Chapter II seeks to highlight the importance of treating this disease. Thus, we learn that somemedications that a psychologist recommends to those who suffer from depression can causeother quite serious disorders such as suicide.

В поисках могилы Михаила Михайловича Достоевского

Author(s): Sergey Vyzhevsky / Language(s): English,Russian Issue: 1/2017

Mikhail M. Dostoevsky died in the summer cottage in Pavlovsk on July 10th 1864 and was buried on the 13th of July at a local burying ground. All the attempts to find the tomb of the famous man of the pen and brother of the great writer remain vain until now, despite the fact that the memories of Nechaeva V. S., first director of the F. M. Dostoevsky Museum in Moscow, contain directions how to find his grave. She described the way to the gravesite based on the information provided by Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dostoevskaya, daughter of Mikhail Mikhailovich. In the 20th century Pavlovsk cemetery underwent devastation and damnification including the period of the occupation in 1941—1944. At the present the tomb of M. M. Dostoevsky is lost. Due to the critical analysis of sources, study of the cemetery history, its lay-outs of 1842, 1866, 1875, 1878, 1897, 1935, metric data books of the Court Church of Mary Magdalene in Pavlovsk we managed to detect a precise gravesite where it is necessary to erect a memorial sign.