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The publication touches morphological process of social and economic terms which are used in the community while connecting with transition to market economy. The article gives analysis the types of economic terms which are formed by morphological ways.
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Analysing translation along the coordinates of signification and communication means putting it into a semiotic perspective. The aim of this paper is to bring together in a coherent analysis the elements which define translation both as a system of signification and as a process of communication. The two key-words, system and process, are meant to define the nature and the role of the meaning. Meaning is the stake of any act of translation: finding it in a text with a view to conveying it into another text and, beyond it, to the readers, within certain contexts. Semiotics offers the necessary analytical framework which allows the translation theoretician to regard in an integrated manner both the system of meaning creation and the process of its conveyance.
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The importance of the Internet in teaching foreign languages in today’s language teaching settings becomes more and more. The role of this media becomes more important by helping students to practice their language skills as well as becoming familiar with the culture of the language community, especially when there is no immediate access to the native speakers. Internet is one of the most recent and advanced tools in education which has been provided to the education environment by the advance of technology. Although there are some downsides to having access to the Internet for students and learners, it can be a good source and tool in delivering education.
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Erasmus Intensive Programmes represent a chance for teachers and students coming from European universities and different cultural backgrounds to meet and study in multinational teams, thus gaining a new point of view on the topic studied. Member of two Erasmus Intensive Programmes, the Specialization Translation and Interpretation of the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest brings its contribution to the success stories that these Intensive Programmes try and manage to be.
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The process of accession to the European Union had a wide influence in all the political, economic and cultural life of our country. The present article aims to investigate the changes recorded in Romanian, a new corpus of neologisms which was created and a new terminology of the EU community called eurojargon. The terms included in this terminology, those that begin with the prefix euro – the acronyms and shortenings are among the most common. Relatively new, the concept Eurojargon combines the words which express the language policy of the Union. Some elements of the Eurojargon may raise difficulties when translating and using them.
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The study analyses and compares the interpretation of concepts „lexical borrowing“ and „loan words“ in the Bulgarian and Czech linguistic literature of XX century. It is suggested in the synchronous study of vocabulary the etymological criterion to be replaced by structural one and the traditionally inherited concept lexical borrowing – by „lexical interaction“. It is presented arguments in defence of the thesis that from a structural point of view there are more reasons the so called process of borrowing to be defined as „contact motivation“, i.e. as one of onomasiologique processes by which the new words are formed.
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This paper reports a classroom-based empirical study that aimed to establish the level of situational and perceived interest generated by EFL learners while reading three types of texts (General Comprehension, Culture Focus and Narrative texts). Situational interest was defined as comprising five Sources of Interest, that is Text Cohesion, Prior Knowledge, Engagement, Ease of Recollection, and Emotiveness. The analysis of the students’ ratings of the questionnaire statements for the particular texts has revealed the main effect of Text Type, with the highest level of the students’ interest gained for Narrative texts. The level of interest was also dependent on Sources of Interest, with the highest mean gained for Cohesion. Narrative was the type of text perceived by the students as the most interesting of the three they worked with. The results of the study showed that the role of situational and perceived interest in reading different text types needs to be adequately approached by FL specialists as a vital factor in reading and learning tasks.
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This research describes the production of prosodic cues to mark information structure in Bulgarian and German. It compares speech by native (L1) and second language (L2) speakers and investigates prosodic transfer from the L1 to the L2. The results confirm that Bulgarian and German natives use different prosodic cues to mark information status. Comparison of Bulgarian L1 and L2 data reveals that these prosodic differences lead to transfer from the L1 to the L2. To some degree, pitch accents used to mark focus appear to be transferred from the L2 to the L1 as well.
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The aim of this study is to discover the extent to which Venuti’s translation strategies of foreignization and domestication affect the message of advertisements translated into Arabic. Based on a quantitative and qualitative method of data investigation, the results indicated that foreignization strategies had strongly affected the connotations of textual elements transferred (from the source text) while domestication strategies had significantly affected the connotations of visual elements.
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This article aims to find answers to several questions that appear more and more often in the field of foreign languages teaching methodology. On the one hand, one might wonder why teachers, in general, and language teachers, in particular, are supposed to become "intercultural". In this sense, the immediate reality provides very clear answers. Under the pressure of globalization and contemporary cultural diversity, the teaching of foreign languages acquires well-defined intercultural dimensions expressed in the content, curricula, teaching methods and educational objectives which reflect this trend towards internalisation. The teachers are the promoters of these changes and, at the same time, the first “intercultural” models for their students. On the other hand, the intercultural “metamorphosis” of teachers foregrounds two essential aspects: the definition and the awareness of their own motivation in approaching inter-culturalism and, in the same way, the development of an adequate intercultural communication competence. Drawing on the numerous references available in the literature, the article defines the concepts of intercultural motivation and intercultural communication competence by analyzing the relationships between them.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the translation procedures, which were used in the translating of Radichkov’s novel Страх and Chajtov’s short story Когато светът си съ- буваше потурите into Czech language. The main difficulty which the translator faced was how to transfer the dialect lexemes. In translatology it is not recommended to substitute one dialect for another, so these elements must be compensated by another means of expression which transfers the functions of the dialect lexemes.
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We discuss the main issues connected with the functioning of the Russian language abroad. Language is considered as a multidimensional entity, this implies a multiplicity and complementarity of its social statuses and sociolinguistic functions. The special attention is drawn to the role of the Russian language in education and its possible ability to integrate some cultural and civilizational areas.
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The paper is aimed at the specific class of words in the modern Turkish language. They are the functional equivalents of prepositions in Indo-European languages. The present article undertakes nouns in adpositional function just in the ablative case form.
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The aim of the present article is an overview of existing instruments for measuring intercultural competence. The wide variety of instruments is due to focus on different aspects of intercultural competence in the design of each of them and the lack of a unified notion as to the components of intercultural competence. The majority of instruments for measuring intercultural competence are oriented towards teamwork in international corporations, which defines their characteristic features. Since they are not directly applicable in FLT, an instrument based on Byram's model of intercultural competence is more suitable.
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The article focuses on the role and place of problem-based learning in foreign language teaching. Its practical application creates the necessary conditions for the students to become active, autonomous subjects of their own learning. Problem-based learning is mostly implemented in the context of the traditional in-person form of education but it can function successfully in the context of e-learning as well. As a result, problem-based learning online strengthens its positions in FLT today. Mobile technologies are successfully integrated in the process of language learning and allow the students to overcome the restrictions of time and place in their own learning.
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