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DIFICULTADES EN LA TRADUCCIÓN DE TERMINOS ARGÓTICOS DEL ESPAÑOL AL RUMANO

Author(s): Hose Barroso / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2014

In the following article we shall analyse the Spanish juvenile jargon, with a focus on its main characteristics and the difficulties arising in the process of its translation into Romanian language. We shall also see that the limited available support material represents an important obstacle for a thorough translation of the jargon terminology. Additionally we shall proceed to a translation exercise in which juvenile jargon terminology from a famous Spanish novel/movie -Historias del Kronen, of Jose Angel Mañas, is translated to both standard and jargon Romanian language. Based on the translation exercise we shall draw our conclusion in relation to the difficulties implied by the translation of juvenile jargon terms.

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Recepcja poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej w Korei – część druga

Author(s): Sungeun (Estera) Choi (Czoj) / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The author of this article published her first article on the reception of Wisława Szymborska’s poetry in South Korea in “Pamiętnik Literacki” in 2014. The previous article aimed at analysing the reactions of writers, poets, artists, critics and readers to the volume “The End and the Beginning”, which was translated into Korean in 2007. In this article the author continues her research on the reception of Szymborska’s poetry in South Korea. This time she presents the reaction of the Korean media and selected critics on another poetic volume of the Polish Nobel Prize Winner translated into Korean: “Enough”.

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The development of autonomous EFL students – the necessity and requirement of present times and the duty of the modern language teacher – on the example of peer feedback

Author(s): Dorota Czerska-Andrzejewska / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2016

Autonomy and independence were the key values in Western European philosophy, psychology, politics and pedagogy in the 20th century. They are essential in the development of a democratic society (Benson and Voller, 1997). Autonomy in foreign language learning appeared in the 1960s and 1970s while in 1971 the Council of Europe established the Modern Languages Project and founded the Foreign Languages Didactic Centre (CRAPEL) at the University of Nancy, France specializing in systems of learning in autonomy. The theories linking autonomy with peer feedback are those of Bound (1988) who defines the features and behaviour characteristics of an autonomous student. Bound (1988) suggests that an autonomous student undertakes initiative in the areas which require cooperation with other group members and being responsible for their development as well as considering a teacher to be an advisor is what brings autonomy close to peer feedback. Peer feedback is one of the methods in teaching foreign languages where feedback to a student is given by another student, not a teacher. This allows for more opportunities for the student to learn from each other. Peer feedback in foreign language learning provides variety in teaching as well as develops students’ autonomy in the learning process. Dam (1995) and Pawlak (2006) suggest that learner autonomy makes use of peer assessment in the form of peer support and cooperation, whereas the role of the teacher is that of a supporting scaffolding and creating room for the development of autonomy. The aim of this article is to answer the question as to whether it is possible to achieve student autonomy in English by giving oral presentations and by being assessed by one’s peers where the teacher’s role is that of a supervisor, advisor and guide. In this approach the teacher is not the only person providing feedback.

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Family Beyond Borders

Author(s): Aleksandra S. Aleksandrova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The paper studies the way Lakoff’s STATE IS A PERSON metaphor and Mussolf’s family scenario are exploited in British and Bulgarian media texts. The models that are studied include marriage partners/ divorce, children-parents relations, misbehaving children, good children, poor relatives and stepmothers. The type of family relation used for presenting certain situation can change with a change in the political environment – for instance, a country can be presented as a marriage partner in one text, as a divorcee in another and as a (disobedient) child in a third text.

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Cultural Items In Reading Texts In EFL Classes

Author(s): Birsen Tütüniş,İlkin Özyayla Başar / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The article displays a study conducted to find out the cultural items in the reading texts of EFL course books. Byram’s (1993) evaluation criteria were taken as the basis for the study. The quality of cultural context in a textbook plays an important role in language classes. In this study, it is hypothesised that without teaching the culture, one cannot teach a foreign language, and the following research question was put forward: To what extent do the selected EFL course books display the target culture? The text book analysis revealed the fact that cultural items are not sufficiently embedded into the course books to enable the teacher to get involved in teaching culture.

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Teachers’ Awareness Of The Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development

Author(s): Irina Nikolova Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Continuing professional development (CPD) is an essential part of teachers’ professional life and an important prerequisite for high quality and sustainable development in education. However, the scope, purposes, and benefits of CPD are not always clear and straightforward to the teachers who are the primary beneficiaries of the process. In the context of the recent changes in the Bulgarian Ministry of Education policies regarding teachers’ qualification and professional status, the article discusses the findings of a small-scale survey with practicing EFL teachers involved in CPD about their awareness of its nature, scope, and benefits to themselves and to their students. The survey aims to identify teachers’ perceptions and beliefs about CPD, their reasons for participating in it, as well as their previous experience of CPD events.

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Preface

Author(s): Rumyana Todorova,Irina Nikolova Ivanova,Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva / Language(s): Turkish,English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The Preface provides an overview of the thematic distribution of the whole volume.

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Attitudes towards plagiarism in academia

Author(s): Irena Vassileva,Mariya Chankova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This contribution probes into the attitudes towards plagiarism in academia as it details the results of a questionnaire study within the larger framework of a joint Bulgarian-German research project on plagiarism in academia. The questionnaire focused on investigating the scope of the notion of plagiarism as Bulgarian academics understand it and second, looking into the availability of a system of support to prevent transgressors and/or sanctions for transgressing academics across Bulgarian universities. The results of the questionnaire suggest that while there appears to be a consensus among Bulgarian academics about the different facets that make up the notion of plagiarism, the reported attitudes towards plagiarism practices vary greatly, reflecting a non-uniform perception of what constitutes an offense. It also shows a deep dissatisfaction with existing anti-plagiarism regulatory systems in Bulgarian scientific institutions.

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« MOTS SAUVAGES » : LE DÉTOUR INTELLECTUEL ET POÉTOLOGIQUE DE FONDANE

Author(s): Giovanni Rotiroti / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2019

A Few Wild Words: The Intellectual and Poetic Turning Point of Fondane. This article analyses the intellectual and poetic turning point of Benjamin Fondane, starting from A Few Wild Words, the introduction he wrote for his volume Landscapes. Setting side by side A Few Wild Words by Fondane and Der Meridian by Paul Celan, this study traces, by means of a comparative analysis of these texts, the close poetic interconnection between the two authors coming from Moldova and Bucovina, both historical regions of Romania destroyed by the horror of two world wars. Furthermore, this study examines the profound ennui and the kind of melancholy cruelty, typically Moldavian, which Fondane and Celan share in their specific way of writing poetry.

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O MAL: DESCONCERTO DA NATUREZA HUMANA… UMA LEITURA DE O AMOR EM LOBITO BAY DE LÍDIA JORGE

Author(s): Nazaré Torrão / Language(s): Portuguese Issue: 3/2019

Evil: The Disarray of Human Nature... A Reading of “O Amor em Lobito Bay” by Lídia Jorge. Lídia Jorge is a writer whose work questions and probes into the Portuguese society when it comes both to some aspects of its history, the dictatorship of the New State, the colonial war or the Carnation Revolution of 1974 as specific components of the Portuguese culture and society (the profound social change the revolution has entailed, the national identity), and to others that are common to any contemporary Western society: the female condition, discrimination against the other, violence and so on. In this study I intend to analyse her collection of short stories O Amor em Lobito Bay (Love in Lobito Bay) (2016). In the nine short texts that make up the book we are told about stories happening around the world like nine mirrors reflecting different facets of the violent contemporary society. In them, the author reveals the different forms evil can take so as to show us the pernicious stages that could lead us to accept it as inevitable or justified. To the anxiety caused by all these stories due to the difficulty of explaining the origin of evil, an answer is offered (by means of another question) which does not belong to the order of reason, but rather to that of action: what is there to do against evil? The first step is to admit one’s guilt, and it is one of the reasons why the locutory mode chosen for the narrative is crucial in the process leading to the characters’ awareness – their admission of guilt – the same as literary communication can be to the author and her readers. “Writing is a way of resisting”, Lídia Jorge said at her book launch. This study will try to analyse this issue in four of the short stories, taking into account the notions of evil (according to the theories propounded by Ricoeur, Kant and Arendt), of the contemporary (Agamben) and of the in-between (Sibony).

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THE ITALIAN SO-CALLED INCLUSIVE GENDER. A SHORT HISTORY OF A MYTH

Author(s): Francesca Dragotto / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The Italian So-Called Inclusive Gender. A Short History of a Myth. This paper aims to broadly outline the history of the so-called inclusive gender. This practice concerns linguistic representation and semiotic interpretation and is extremely frequent within communicative contexts characterized by the presence of both male and female individuals. The absence of critical reactions from contemporary Italian people to such an ancient modality of linguistic gender use and the sense of distress instinctively expressed by people – regardless of their gender – often shown towards those who try to explain the implications of an inclusive reference represent more than a clue to the existence of something beyond language, something involving the typical structure of a well-known but never explicated Myth. For this reason, it could be useful to investigate the non-visible roots of such a category and its development across the linguistic history of the Latin diasystem, as well as the Italian one.

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DEUX NON-LANGUES : LA LANGUE DE BOIS ET LA LANGUE DE COTON

Author(s): Adriana Sferle / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2019

Two Non-languages: The Wooden Language and the Silken Language. The wooden language and the silken language are both opposed to an «authentic» language, which is at the same time simple in its form, varied in its vocabulary, precise in its content and sincere in its intention. This paper aims at presenting the mechanisms of these two languages, the contexts in which they operate and the relationships established between these two content-free «languages» ("non-languages") and creativity.

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REFLECTIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF LINGUISTIC IMAGINARY

Author(s): Elena Platon / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Reflections on the Concept of Linguistic Imaginary. Our reflections on the concept of linguistic imaginary (LIM) have been triggered by the question whether or not the metalinguistic perspective initially granted to LIM – according to which LIM matches the speaking subject’s representations on the language ‒ may represent a rather restrictive comprehension formula, thus limiting the operational potential of a concept otherwise capable of covering a larger area of research. Therefore, in addition to presenting the ‘classical’ perspective on LIM, quite well-known and exploited in certain linguistic circles in Romania, we will provide a further latent perspective, as suggested by ethnolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. Our present approach aims to exploit the potentiality of such a generous and prolific concept, able to include, from our point of view, the speakers’ world-representations (which obviously include the language-representations as well), encoded in and by the language facts. From such a perspective, the language would be both the object of representation and its essential vector, LIM being part of the cultural imaginary which is expressed in concrete linguistic data at various language levels, mostly at lexical level. As a result, the concept of LIM would significantly expand and become more flexible, thus generating some new, dynamic interdisciplinary research fields.

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LE MOUVEMENT DADAÏSTE : SOURCES, HISTOIRE LITTÉRAIRE ; PRÉCURSEUR DU SURRÉALISME. LA FIGURE EMBLÉMATIQUE DU POÈTE ROUMAIN TRISTAN TZARA

Author(s): Manuela Orita-Serban / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2019

The Dada Movement: Origins, Literary History; The Pioneer of Surrealism. The Mysterious Figure of Romanian poetry, Tristan Tzara. Globally, the Dada movement can be considered a precursor of the crisis of European consciousness insofar as, coming as a reaction against the First World War, it rejects systems, ideologies, frontiers and rational categories.

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EL CRISTO DE LOS GUERRILLEROS

Author(s): Fernando Iwasaki / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 3/2019

Che Guevara, the Christ Figure of the Guerrilla Fighters. In this article, we analyze the iconographic itinerary of the photograph of the dead body of Ernesto «Che» Guevara, as well as «Che» Guevara’s impact on various forms of the imaginary, from his early reception in the Andean popular worldview to his transformation into a capitalist advertising icon. Such a process would not have been possible without the religious analogies of the original image and the iconographic dialogue between the figures of Jesus Christ and the "Che" Guevara.

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REVOLUÇÃO DOS CRAVOS. IMAGEM E MITOLOGIA

Author(s): Lidia Jorge / Language(s): Portuguese Issue: 3/2019

The Carnation Revolution. Image and Mythology. Eduardo Gageiro’s photograph showing a soldier about to take the portrait of dictator Salazar off the wall at the political police headquarters the day after the Portuguese Revolution of April 25, 1974 evokes a major and symbolic turn in the overthrow of the regime and works as an allegory of change. Yet after all these years, the outcome of that revolutionary dream spurred on by utopian desire remains complex, and its realisation in the form of democracy conceals the loss of lustre of the initial dream. In the light of this apparent contradiction, it is worth revisiting the circumstances that galvanized the revolution and the benefits obtained in terms of rights and freedom, as illustrated by Literature. Fiction, in particular, amplifies History by its storytelling of myths in a space where human desire takes on a role of reconstructing invisible realities. It is in this context that the book entitled Les mémorables (The Outstanding) finds its place.

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UNE IMAGE PALIMPSESTE DE DECEMBRE 1989

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2019

A Palimpsest Image of December 1989. The present essay focuses on a special photo (credited to the American journalist Peter Turnley), taken during the so-called Romanian Revolution, in December 1989. My paper analyses the way in which the Romanian turmoil can be condensed and caught into a photo that seems very simple at first glance, but which, in fact, proves quite complex and complicated.

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L’ENSEIGNEMENT DU ROUMAIN-LANGUE ETRANGERE. L’EXPRESSION ET LA COMPREHENSION ORALES

Author(s): Adriana Sferle / Language(s): French Issue: 3/2019

Romanian as a Foreign Language: the Teaching of Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression. This paper focuses on two important theoretical aspects of teaching Romanian as a foreign language: oral expression and comprehension, the teaching of which should always be attuned to the students’ needs and the imperatives of assessment and self-assessment. Such a reflexive approach has multiple practical consequences not only on the teaching methods but also on the syllabus and materials design within the framework of communicative teaching and learning. Where assessment is concerned, it is crucial that it should not be relegated to the status of a mere administrative task. Indeed, student performance sheds light on teacher performance and represents extremely useful feedback which makes it possible to improve teaching methods and practices.

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UNDERSTANDING THE FACTORS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE GRADUAL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WISHING TO BE GRANTED A BA IN NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Author(s): Sanda Tomescu Baciu,Raluca Pop,Fartein Th. Øverland,Roxana-Ema Dreve,Raluca-Daniela Răduţ,Ioana Andreea Mureșan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

Understanding the factors that have influenced the gradual increase in the number of students wishing to be granted a BA in Norwegian language and literature. This study has intended to identify the reasons which have led to an increased interest in the study of Norwegian at The Faculty of Letters of Babeș-Bolyai University over the past years. According to the data gathered from the 86 respondents, students are enrolling for reasons that account for both intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors. The fact that the only BA programme in Norwegian language and literature can be found in Cluj-Napoca might be one of the main reasons for the growing number of students. Good job opportunities (abroad and in Romania), and the reputation on the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature (internationalization and exchange mobilities, teaching methods, extracurricular activities, junior summer schools, etc.) also contribute to the increase in the number of students.

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Magyartanítás a magyar oktatási rendszer határain kívül. A fakultatív magyarnyelv-oktatás helyzete Erdélyben

Author(s): Erika Keszeg,Tibor Toró / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2018

Although in Romania most Hungarian children study in Hungarian language schools, the state ensures the right for Hungarian ethnic minority children enrolled in Romanian language public schools to also study Hungarian language and literature as an elective subject. In the 2017/2018 academic year there were around 1700 pupils in 64 locations taking part in Facultative Hungarian language classes. The elective language teaching reveals a mixed picture both in terms of the nationality and language proficiency of pupils and of teachers’ considerations. The main objective of the paper is to present this mixed picture and to analyse the main ideologies and problems influencing teaching practices and their practical consequences. The first part of the study presents the legal framework and relevant quantitative data, and then it outlines a possible typology of elective classes. The second part of the paper analyses three main classroom practices, and the related ideologies of the teachers.

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