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POETIC LANGUAGE AS A MARK OF THE AUTHOR OF AUTOFICTIONAL DISCOURSE: THE CASE OF HERTA MULLER’S THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS

Author(s): Violeta–Teodora Lungeanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 32/2023

Considered as a double positioned discourse, in relation both to reality and fiction, autofiction adheres to an unrestricted utterance, tending to an associative writing, which doesn’t always represent an authentic personal history of the author, but which can lead to an emersion of the one who writes – inscripteur, as Dominique Maingueneau calls it – through a series of stylistic marks. What seems at first glance missed expression, in apparent disorder, becomes a discursive mark of the author and should be considered a stylistic imprint of the discourse producer. From this point of view, Herta Muller’s autofictional writings bring into light the metamorphosis of language, due to its poetic dimensions. Her texts become a form of communication both relevant for the inner self and for the world outside. The present study aims to analyze the way in which the language of the autofictional discourse can trace the speaking subject - community relation and take part to the difficult process of identity reconstruction.

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ADDRESSING TRUTH VALUES IN WRITTEN CORPORA – A B&H CASE STUDY

Author(s): Željka Babić / Language(s): English Issue: 27/2023

This paper approaches the notion of truth( fulness) within the written media discourse, namely the three B&H daily newspapers. Aimed at researching computeraccessible online articles published in the chosen three time frames, the paper focuses on narratives containing the keyphrase “Alan Šeranić” and the representation of the notions of values of trust and confidence found in extracts which contain both the chosen keyphrase and examples of news values. The results show that the attitude towards the researched keyphrase changes both in accordance with the time frames of its use and in accordance with the geographical area of the publication source.

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THE POST – GENERATIVE PROCESS OF A STYLISTIC PHENOMENON

Author(s): Violeta Bercaru Oneață / Language(s): English Issue: 33/2023

Pure philosophical and pure poetical the more or less brilliant issue of the category in the vision of the Romanian writer Lucian Blaga is endowed with the capability to acquire multitude of new functions – this central point of the research, the category – reverberates also on the metaphorism and on the revelatory metaphor as ontological gift, and is observed in parallel with perspectives of forerunners particularly from the philosophical point of view. The argumentation entails some results concerning the language as special category named Quality of the human mind, alongside with its Poetical Function super-structure.

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OBSERVATIONS ON LANGUAGE AND LEGAL-ADMINISTRATIVE STYLE IN THE WRITINGS OF NICOLAE BĂLCESCU

Author(s): Irina Ion Guță (Vlad) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 33/2023

The chapters entitled The Rights of Romanians to the High Porte and Collective Works and Official Acts during the 1848 Revolution, published in the first volume of Nicolae Balcescu's work, Historical, Political and Economic Writings, provide us with valuable information about the configuration of the literary Romanian language in Wallachia between 1780 and 1860, about the influence of Latin-Romance borrowings on the Romanian lexicon, and about the development and modernization of the legal- administrative style. The legal-administrative style appears as a variant of the language and reflects the relationship between the citizen and public institutions, its specific terminology comprising both words from the common language and strictly specialized words, which individualize this specialized language: abuse, administrator, assembly, voters, elections, ruler, commission, decree, delegate, deputy, magistrate, servant "official".

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Information technology students’ involvement in in-class debates: speech acts and modification of the illocutionary force

Author(s): Eva Ellederová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Information technology (IT) professionals are a specific discourse community whose oral communication in English as a second language (ESL) predominates at all levels of workplace activities in the multinational IT sector. Since IT students’ pragmatic competence in performing communicative functions is essential for their effective communication in an academic setting and a global work environment, it is important to investigate this aspect of their language systematically and carefully. This paper focuses on IT students’ speech acts and the ways they modify the illocutionary force while participating in in-class debates. The analysis revealed that students used a wide range of speech acts and different metadiscourse markers for both increasing and reducing the illocutionary force. The ways IT students used boosters and hedges also reflect how they assume and share their professional knowledge and experience in their discourse community.

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The rhetoric of ‘internal’ branding in Nigeria’s rebranding campaign

Author(s): Adeyemi Adegoju / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper examines the rhetorical strategies of mobilising and inspiring a domestic audience for national identity re/construction in order to reinforce the Nigerian brand. Data for the study are composed of some branding strategies packaged and broadcast mainly on radio and television by Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Communications in its rebranding campaign in 2009 which was targeted at domestic citizens’ value re-orientation. The study adopts Fairclough’s (1992) dialectical-relational approach which centres on “dialectical reasoning” – a way of reasoning from critique of discourse to what should be done to change the existing reality, by way of explanation of relations between discourse and other components (social, cultural and political) of reality. It then applies the tenets of the theory to analyse the rhetorical strategies in the rebranding campaign, as the domestic citizens’ agency is considered instrumental in bolstering the Nigerian brand. The study demonstrates that the branding strategies analysed largely invoke history, collective memory, values, traditions, and aspirations which could appeal to domestic citizens’ nationalistic sensibilities and imaginaries to evolve an enduring Nigerian brand which is domestic driven.

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Apocalyptic representation of Covid-19: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the World Health Organization’s discourse practices

Author(s): Sadiq Altamimi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This study examines the interdiscursive representation of the coronavirus disease by the World Health Organization from the outbreak of the virus in January 2020 to the announcement of a successful vaccine in November 2020. The aim is to find out whether the agency has delivered apocalyptic language that increased anxiety and stress among the public leading to a weak human immune system, or contributed to creating global cooperation and placing emergency measures to fight the virus. I have adopted a discourse analysis approach, with the aid of NVivo qualitative software and corpus linguistic tools, for the analysis of a purpose-built corpus of the WHO Director-General’s speeches, focusing on referential, predication, perspectivation, intensifying, mitigation and argumentation strategies. The result of the analysis revealed that the WHO discourse referred to COVID-19 as an eccentric virus, qualified and intensified by the agency as a threat to humanity. The WHO adopted a subjective point of view, showing active involvement in the discursive representation of the virus and argumentatively asking people to unite until a vaccine is invented.

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Recontextualising “doing a doctoral degree” as a social practice complex: evidence from Malaysia

Author(s): Teun De Rycker / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The current study is part of a longitudinal research project into the relationship between students’ ways of recontextualising their doctoral degree experience and eventual programme completion. Building on earlier findings reported in De Rycker (2014, 2022), the objective is to examine the hidden ontology of “doing a doctoral degree”. The primary data consist in structured interviews conducted with 20 doctoral students at the Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Using Van Leeuwen’s (2008) socio-semantic model for the critical study of discourse, the analysis of the interviews produced two major empirical findings. First, doctoral students’ discourse is characterised by a strong sense of personal agency but also a lack of specificity and a simplification of the overall practice complex, in which doing research seems to be reduced to mere semiotic actions. Secondly, students construe “doing a doctoral degree” as a mystifying process replete with paradoxes. Further interpretative analysis suggests that semiotic action representations play a significant role as self-enhancing metonyms for “doing research”, helping students to demystify the academic practice and resolve some of its inherent contradictions. Implications for supervisory practice as well as the larger research project will be discussed.

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STILSKO-JEZIČKE ODLIKE NASLOVA U BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKOJ ŠTAMPI

Author(s): Amela Bajrić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 13/2023

It seems completely impossible today to imagine life without mass media. The development of modern technologies has made mass media available to everyone. Mass media, in our case the press, sometimes try to interest and excite their users with their sensational headlines, sometimes make them think, and sometimes even entertain. However, it is very important to keep in mind that each medium shapes the message according to its own language, and an integral part of the languages of the mass media are usually different stylistic and linguistic means. Following earlier analyses of journalistic style, this paper will offer a stylistic-linguistic analysis exclusively of titles, as important and recognizable features of journalistic style, whose task is to be particularly effective in provoking the reader's attention and therefore can appear in the form of rhetorical questions, phrases, already established journalistic templates, etc., which reflects their expressiveness. In addition, the analysis of the headlines of daily newspapers from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Oslobođenje, Nezavisne novine and Dnevni list) confirmed that on the phoneticphonological level, for example, there is a difference in writing foreign names, i.e. names of clubs, awards, proper names, etc. among these three newspapers, that on the morphological plan, verbs are most often used in the present and future, that the superlative forms of adjectives are often represented, that syntaxic, lexical-semantic figures are used that give the title a stronger, stylistically colored meaning - elliptical sentences, metaphor , metonymy with, of course, an unavoidable lexicon of foreign origin where anglicisms and latinisms dominate, along with some words of oriental origin, and among the dominant functions of the titles are referential (informative), popularistic, expressive and aesthetic.

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MECHANISMS OF GENERATING EMOTIONS IN THE POLISH AND GERMAN PRESS

Author(s): Olga Białek-Szwed / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The aim of the article is to try to show the mechanisms of generating emotions that appeared in press publications in Poland and in Germany in the period from March to November 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. The article refers to media studies and linguistics. It tries to show the mechanisms of generating emotions in the Polish press. It was noted that fear was the dominant emotion in the described period. The main channels for distributing emotions were text and photos, lexis and visualization. By analysing numerous and diverse press articles in both Polish and German press, this study guarantees a broad and comprehensive perspective of research on the mechanisms of generating emotions in the press determined by the subject of the pandemic.

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A FEW THEORETICAL OBSERVATIONS ON RETRANSLATING

Author(s): Georgiana Din / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2023

This paper explores the utility and cultural relevance of translation, delves into the limitations and difficulties faced by translators, discusses the intricate problems related to equivalence, and examines the concepts of fidelity and translatability within the context of translating and retranslating a text. Translation and retranslation are often regarded as the bridges which connect diverse cultures and languages and they serve as essential tools in our increasingly globalized world. These processes facilitate cross-cultural communication, make valuable knowledge and literature accessible to wider audiences, and bear profound implications for culture, diplomacy, and education.

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Text and Intercultural Context in the Teaching of the of the Romanian Language as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Cristina Eugenia Burtea-Cioroianu / Language(s): English Issue: 79/2023

The formation of communicative skills as part of reading a text in a foreign language involves an activity whose purpose is the semantic representation of the given information. Reading a text is influenced by three factors: the reader, the text and the context, the teacher having the obligation to interact with these factors. Reading remains the most effective tool through which the ability to communicate between people is developed, training thinking and language capacities. Current methodological suggestions encourage the exploitation of texts in modern language classes because they can prove to be authentic teaching resources, having a positive impact on the development of foreign language communication competence and critical thinking skills of foreign students.

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Newspeak revisited: an analysis of selected speeches of PiS politicians from the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections

Author(s): Martyna Awier / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The study aims to examine the parliamentary campaign discourse of politicians of PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, lit. Law and Justice), the main right-wing Polish party, with a view to determining whether their language displays some similarities with Polish Newspeak used in the era of Communism. The research corpus consists of public statements of the most important PiS politicians delivered in the election campaign from June to October 2019. The research material comes from a plethora of online media sources, especially records of PiS conventions and from online newspapers. The selected texts underwent close scrutiny and stylistic analysis. This allowed for determining the patterns of Newspeak employed in this right-wing party parliamentary campaign.

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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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Między powielaniem istniejących wzorów i onimiczną inwencją – w kontekście pragmatyczno-funkcjonalnych zastosowań nazw marketingowych

Author(s): Adam Siwiec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2022

The article is concerned with two contradictory tendencies in naming objects associated with consumption, i.e., in proper names with marketing application. The first tendency is to introduce names coined according to a pattern (a model series) and a variety of semiotic conventions. The other one is to strive for uniqueness, originality and onymic inventiveness. The latter is especially common in names used as messages and marketing slogans. Their advertising function is coupled with the desire to render them more attractive and attention-gripping based on their linguistic shape.

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Nazwy nowych inwestycji mieszkaniowych w Poznaniu i na przedmieściach Poznania

Author(s): Agnieszka Kijak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2022

The article presents names of residential investments located in the capital of Wielkopolska and in its suburbs. The onomastic material was excerpted from the web sites: https:// rynekpierwotny.pl/ and https://bliskopoznania.pl/. The author of the article made an attempt to classify and analyze names of 240 residential investments. The analysis shows that Polish (native), foreign and mixed names can be distinguished in terms of structure. Also, the presented names can be divided into semantic groups. The excerpted material is dominated by names based on existing street names and names of villages and towns. An important group comprises characterizing names, especially referring to nature and based on metaphors. Moreover, noteworthy are ambiguous and intertextual names as well as names whose role is related to expressions encouraging people to buy a flat in a chosen investment.

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Wartości w medialnym dyskursie o covidzie

Author(s): Laura Polkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

The text constitutes an attempt to reconstruct values referred to in the media discourse on COVID-19. The research covered four Internet portals (wyborcza.pl, onet.pl, wpolityce.pl and niezalezna.pl) and two periods (the end of March 2020 and the end of February 2021). An automatic quantitative analysis of the text corpora created for the purpose of the study was extended to include a detailed contextual analysis. As a result, eight frequency lists were created, containing the most commonly used names referring to values. i.e. axiological lexemes. They are presented in detail later in the article. Particular attention was paid to the specific discursive profiling of some axiological lexemes and to fixed phrases that contain references to values.

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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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Pogranicza oficjalności i nieoficjalności w korespondencji elektronicznej nauczycieli

Author(s): Anna Piechnik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

The article presents the area on the fringes of the official and unofficial styles in electronic correspondence sent by teachers to parents. The research material consists of e-mails sent by 112 teachers to multiple addressees – groups of parents of students from over a dozen schools at various levels of education. For the purposes of the study, a survey on teachers’ electronic communication was also conducted in 2022 among 370 educators. In the questionnaires, teachers declared their attention to adapting the linguistic shape of an electronic letter to the patterns known from traditional official paper correspondence (including the use of initial and final formal polite formulas or signing their messages with name and surname). E-mailing was considered the most common form of contact with parents, a form which required special care for the linguistic side of the text. Authentic texts of e-mails show that the actual outcomes diverge considerably from teachers’ declarations. The politeness frame of the scrutinized e-mails rarely contains official formulas, and the traditional distance typical of contacts between parties remaining in a formal relationship is also broken with the use of colloquial vocabulary and emoticons. The teachers’ statements indicate that electronic letters addressed to parents with whom the contact is difficult remain more official, while they are more willing to send messages without official markers to groups of parents who are friendly. This may point to a new function of officiality which denotes deprecation, and a different evaluation of this category, diverging from the traditional one.

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A Cognitive Semantics analysis of David Goggins’ idea of “transforming” mindset

Author(s): Anna Drogosz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The objective of the paper is an analysis of how David Goggins describes his life in his book Can’t Hurt Me. The analysis was conducted within the methodological framework of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory. It has been established that the metaphors life is a journey and aspects of the self are individuals at war provide coherence to the story of his life, while conceptual blends are a mental tool used to reframe a situation and himself. As a result of implementing those blends in his thinking, David Goggins has developed a mindset that allowed him to transform from a broken teenager to “the strongest man alive”. This case study reveals how specific conceptual blends may impact not only cognition and language in general, as is argued in Cognitive Semantics, but also one’s emotional state, and consequently one’s physical performance.

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