PSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUENCING IN VIRGINIA WOOLFS’ FLUSH

Author(s): Oxana Creanga / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2023

The article explores the concept of “psychological sequencing”, an important constituting principle of perspective actualization introduced by the linguist Mick Short in the realm of fictional storytelling. Employing a cognitive-linguistic model of analysis, the study aims at specifying the mechanics of psychological sequencing manifestations and its effect in creating immediacy and reader immersion, focusing specifically on Virginia Woolf’s Flush, a biographical work portraying Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. The analysis explores how linguistic means mirror the order in which impressions arise in the mind of the conceptualizer/focalizer, conveying a filtered and colored view of the story world. Focusing on extensive excerpts of psychological instances in Woolf's narrative, as units of analysis, the study undergoes a detailed examination of lexical, syntactical, and discursive tools, including sensory-related expressions, schema-oriented language, under lexicalization, fronting, agentless passive constructions, mimetic forms of discourse with a view to elucidating the way psychological sequencing contributes to the nuanced representation of the internal limited viewpoint in the fictional narrative under analysis, thus revealing the complex interplay between linguistic choices and reader perception.

SEMIOTICS, ARTS AND CULTURE IN UMBERTO ECO’S WORKS

Author(s): Ana-Daniela Farcaș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2023

The subject of aesthetics and that of art does not appear only in the two relatively late volumes of Umberto Eco, Storia della bellezza (2004) and Storia della bruttezza (2007), but also in the works that deal with the subject of semiotics. In the two mentioned volumes the Italian semiotician makes the correlation between the existing canons in different eras and the way in which the ideas of beauty or ugliness were reflected in philosophy, art or writings. Regarding the semiotics of art, Eco resorts to the analysis of the artistic, poetic text from the perspective of semiotic theories.

Tacitova Sentencioznost. Sentencija – retorski ukras u Tacitovim Analima

Author(s): Sanja M. Ljubišić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 7/2023

In this paper, we focus on Tacitus’ sententiousness, which is present and highly expressed in his Annals. In his rhetorical style, Tacitus frequently uses sententia as a figure of great stylistic value, thereby continuing the moralistic tendency of Roman historiography. In his own unique way, this master of the written word, and an excellent connoisseur of the circumstances in which he lived, provides a lesson for future generations and those who will read his work. In short and antithetical sentences, Tacitus engraved the moral principles he followed as a persno. Even today, Tacitus’ sayings related to certain human and social events are often quoted. In this paper, we deal with the sententia as a rhetorical ornament and its function in historical text. We will attempt to examine how Tacitus used the sententia when writing Annals, and more omportnantly, how he constructed them, as an enthymeme, in the form of a chria or epiphoneme. As a member of Seneca’s “new style,” he used many rhetorical and stylistic elements, among which the sententia was included. Sententiae themselves were epigrammatic and stylized. For the purposes of this topic, we have selected several sentences as material for a detailed analysis, not only in terms of content but also in terms of language and style.

Odlike vulgarnog latiniteta u Egerijinom putopisu

Author(s): Drago Župarić,Seada Brkan / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 7/2023

In this paper, a linguistic analysis of the Itinerarium Egeriae, one of the oldest documented Christian pilgrimages to the eastern Mediterranean, is presented. The aim of the work is to present characteristics related to Vulgar Latin. The linguistic analysis is focused on characteristics which are not in keeping with classical norms, in an attempt to describe certain changes with regard to Classical Latin and traditional grammar, which may cause difficulty for the reader. It is evident that the Itinerarium Egeriae is not characterized by ornate expression like the texts of classical writers, but it offers interesting, if sometimes confusing, deviations from classical norms. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first section Egeria, the purpose of the trip, the text, the author’s ability to observe, and her style aimed at spiritual instruction are presented. Egeria’s style of Latin are the subject of the second and main section of the work, which includes language, style, literary aspect and phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical characteristics of travel writing.

RECENZII

Author(s): Vasile Ciobanu,Gabriela PANŢEL CENUŞER,Maria Spătariu,Victor V. Grecu,Anda-Lucia Spânu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2010

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ASPECTS HUMORISTIQUES DES CHRONIQUES DE FOUAD LAROUI : LE CAS DE L’ANGLAIS QUI VEUT SAUVER AL HOCEIMA

Author(s): Elarbi ELBAKKALI / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The paper addresses some humorous aspects of the writer Fouad Laroui’s chronicles posted on the French-speaking Moroccan information site Le360. To this end, our analysis focuses on an article published on August 3, 2016: The Englishman who wants to save Al Hoceima. We seek to detect all the characteristics of the irony that the author adopts each time to create humour in the eyes of the reader. In principle, the humorous statement depends radically on the social and psychological identity of the speakers. As already mentioned, our analysis of Laroui's chronicle focuses on narrative irony, more specifically, its tools and characteristics

L'ÉVOLUTION DU DISCOURS POLITIQUE À L'ÈRE DU NUMÉRIQUE : ANALYSER L’UTILISATION DE LA SATIRE POLITIQUE SUR LES PLATEFORMES NUMÉRIQUES AU MAROC

Author(s): Hassan HABIBI,Aymen NASSIF / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

Without a shadow of a doubt, the rise of digital media has revolutionised the information process at multiple levels. Nowadays, internet users can comment, criticise, and shape news in just a few clicks. In this dynamic environment, political caricature is reinventing itself on new media platforms, replacing traditional sketching with more advanced software. Interestingly, this form of expression is no longer exclusive to professional illustrators. Internet users have embraced it to express their views on political news in a playful and ironic tone. This paper aims to analyse this discourse, using parodies, satirical illustrations, and nicknames to criticize the political landscape in Morocco.

UNE ANNÉE CHEZ LES FRANÇAIS DE FOUAD LAROUI : UN DRAME ENTRE HUMOUR ET IRONIE

Author(s): Amine MARTAH / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The reader laughs while reading Fouad LAROUI’s novels. Yet, his writings are far from being comic, they are utterly serious, very serious, in fact; we laugh about serious things! This, paradoxically, raises the question of the laugher himself, with extreme acuteness. This reversed perspective brings us to some essential issues in the work of this author and his conception of art. We shall analyse the novel Une Année chez les Français, focusing essentially on the comic devices and the traces of the irony. We shall unravel the functioning of the text which comes in various layers: from an intuition of the reader which triggers laughter in the beginning, next arousing a cautious laugh, to eventually suspending laughter when the mechanism turns against the reader himself.

LES « COULEURS DES ÉMOTIONS » : APPROCHE CONTRASTIVE FRANÇAIS-ROUMAIN

Author(s): Alice Ionescu / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

Emotions are more often than not expressed, in many languages, through idioms. They are also associated, in many cultures, with different colours of the spectrum. These associations do not seem entirely random to us, as they are due either to the observation of physiological manifestations of emotions, or to cultural / religious traditions or to certain (more or less) universal symbols or representations (there is a whole range of meanings and symbols related to the different colours). In the current paper, we propose a contrastive analysis (French-Romanian) of idioms related to emotions that contain adjectives of colour. We list the idioms that express positive (joy, happiness, enthusiasm) and negative (anger, sadness, fear, jealousy, surprise) emotions containing (adverbial) adjectives of colour: white, black, yellow, red, green, blue and pink, and we compared them in order to identify the points of convergence and divergence. To this end, we used language dictionaries (Le PetitRobert and Larousse for French, DLR for Romanian) and bilingual phraseological dictionaries (see Bibliography).

LE MOUVEMENT DE PROTESTATION COMME LIEU DE CONSTRUCTION DU DISCOURS ÉMOTIONNEL DES ALGÉRIENS

Author(s): Kamila OULEBSIR-OUKIL,Fadila OULEBSIR / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

This contribution studies the expression of emotions in the digital discourse produced around the Algerian Hirak. From a corpus of posts and comments on Facebook and videos on Youtube, we propose to analyze, on an enunciative and pragmatic level, the expression of emotion through the strategies employed by writers. To do this, we study, on different levels, the elements allowing to characterize the emotional dimension of the speeches analyzes. These levels ensure a complexity of emotional speech and invite us to scrutinize emotion through referential erasure, dialogism, speech acts as well as elements relating to technodiscourse.

APPROCHES PHILOSOPHIQUES ET LINGUISTIQUES SUR LE SENS : LES ÉMOTIONS

Author(s): Marta TORDESILLAS / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

The study of emotions is both a complex and heterogeneous field. Hence, it proves necessary to proceed to a multidisciplinary approach and to analyze the evolution of the historical context of the concept of emotion, which has become for years a topical issue in scientific research. Nowadays, moreover, emotions are a contemporary challenge to progress, in many disciplines, including health, technology or robotics. In this context, it should be noted that the development of these fields is directly interrelated to language sciences. Indeed, any form of semiotic or semantic expression would be likely to be linked to the conceptualisation of notions of meaning and significance, especially when formulating the hypothesis that emotions are part of the configuration of language. Their identification, description and categorisation will promote not only knowledge of their functioning and their role in any verbal exchange, in any human interaction, but also their programming and use in related sciences. In this paper, our aim is to highlight how the idea of emotion has been grasped, described and constructed by philosophers and linguists throughout the history of philosophical and scientific thinking and also to update linguistic research.

GENDER VARIABLE IN REALIZATION OF DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS

Author(s): Suzana S. Marković / Language(s): English Issue: 82/2023

This paper deals with the gender variable in realization of directive speech acts, such as requests, suggestions, advice etc. The sample for this small-scale research consists of 328 instances of directive speech acts which are excerpted from the transcripts of selected dialogues of the popular US sitcom Friends and five American feature-length films. Directive speech acts are analyzed using Blum-Kulka et al’s classification (1989) and divided into three broad categories– direct, conventionally indirect, and non-conventionally indirect with many subcategories. The focus of this paper will be on direct strategies typically expressed with imperatives and on conventionally indirect directives usually expressed with interrogative sentences which include a suggestory formula and preparatory strategies, with special emphasis on their use in male and female language. The goal of the paper is to analyze and compare gender preferences in using different strategies for the realization of directives, with the assumption that women will be more thoughtful of the hearer’s face and use indirect forms more frequently than men. This is in line with Holmes’s (1995) characterization of women’s speech as more polite than men’s. The paper will analyze the use of these directive strategies in F-F interactions, M-M interactions, M-F interactions and F-M interactions. The illustrative examples will be analyzed using the theory of speech acts and politeness theory, using qualitative, quantitative and comparative research methods.

Празнуваме 10-годишен юбилей на учебника „Медиен език и стил: теория и съвременни практики”, УИ „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2014 г.

Author(s): Iva Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 15/2024

Gli studi linguistici in "Ricerche slavistiche" (1952-2021)

Author(s): Anna Bonola / Language(s): Italian Issue: 65/2022

The author discusses articles published in “Ricerche slavistiche” from 1952 to 2021 pertaining the field of Slavic Linguistics, so she does not take into consideration the numerous papers devoted to philology and ecdotics. Firstly, she presents essays on lexicon and language variety (§ 1) within the various Slavic languages, then she considers those essays that are more clearly devoted to morphosyntactic phenomena (§ 2). She pays special attention to the evolution of approaches, methods and themes, together with elements of the Italian and international context helping to understand the role of “Ricerche slavistiche” in the spread and development of Linguistics in Italian Slavic studies during the seventy years of the journal’s activity.

REFERENCE UNIVERSE IN GOURMET LITERARY DISCOURSE LEXICOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Author(s): Emanuela Ciolacu / Language(s): French Issue: 36/2024

By utilizing lexicometric analysis of a study corpus to describe the way literary discourse functions and how the culinary imagination is constructed through gourmet literature, the components required to conduct pragmatic analyses of the discursive structures unique to this kind of discourse can be identified. In this paper, we investigate how computational methods might be used to find important phrases and semantic relationships in a collection of French short stories. Using Tropes and AnaText software, we verify reference universes that stand out as repeating themes in the corpus texts, starting from the premise that there is a substantial frequency of words belonging to the culinary lexicon in narrative gourmet writings.

Linguistic Models of Mass Media Genres` Stylistic Diffusion in the Communicative Space of Ukraine and Bulgaria

Author(s): Dmytro Dergach / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Research attention is focused on fundamental changes in techniques and methods of informing , which activate the communicative capabilities of language and give rise to new genres, forms and formats of interpersonal communication in various spheres and discourses. It actualizes the research problem of the diffuse stylistic nature of mass media genres, argued by the processes of assimilation of public communication`s spheres. The author’s argumentation is based on the vectors of the dynamics of the literary language`s evolutionary potential, that is focused on the format and tasks of social communication. Predictably, the architectonic heterogeneity and polyfunctionality of the language of media texts explain the syncretic nature of the genres. And also the tendency to their constant modification and transformation regarding the structure, meanings and communicative valence of language units. The article interprets models of updating of the functional and stylistic paradigm of modern literary languages in their genre projection and perspective, which do not depend on the time and space of culture. To prove this thesis, the texts of the Ukrainian and Bulgarian media space in the genre of posts in social networks were chosen as the object of analysis. The main research aim is to determine the typicality / atypicality of stylistic diffusion in the genre paradigm of Ukrainian and Bulgarian media. The attention is paid to the bloggers and companies that are well- known in Ukraine and Bulgaria as influencers who make professional activities in the fields of health, beauty, sport, etc., and really model the current mass language consciousness. The research base is formed by texts that were published in the social networks Instagram, Facebook in 2023 – 2024. The functional and stylistic methodology of the mentioned material`s interpretation allows in a comparative discourse to prove the typicality of communicative processes that are resulted in the stylistic diffusion of modern mass media genres.

IN MEMORIAM PROF. DR. MIDHAT RIĐANOVIĆ

Author(s): Nedžad Leko / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2023

In memoriam Prof. Dr. Midhat Riđanović (1935–2023).

Wiedza boska a wiedza ludzka. Boska synestezja w filozofii Ksenofanesa z Kolofonu

Author(s): Sebastian Śpiewak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 49/2023

The aim of the present article is to analyze the poetry of Xenophanes of Colophon concerning his epistemological considerations with the notion of god proposed by him. Traditionally, Xenophanes is well known as a philosopher engaged in the debate on the meaningfulness of mythological ideas. At the same time, he advocates the concept of god, which is different from pictures transmitted through The Greek epic. It shall be shown how the theological approach of the Colophonian finds its justification in his remarks on cognitive abilities, especially in creatively used opposition between human and divine knowledge. Recently indicated, the connection between Xenophanes’ theology and his epistemological theses is not exhausted in the critique of religious anthropomorphism but is more profound, and based on the awareness of the impossibility of clear knowledge (saphes) for a human being. The latter is, however attributed to god alone, who gains the knowledge in the manner of synesthesia.

THE FACILITIES AND DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSLATING PROUST À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU MASTERPIECE

Author(s): Paul-Cristian Albu / Language(s): French Issue: 37/2024

The purpose of the paper is to offer a panoramic view of the difficulties of translating an epic masterpiece written by the most prolific and prodigious French writer Marcel Proust. Its creative language could be an obstacle for our contemporary reader, because of the lengthy language style and the remembrance of all the events that occurred in the private life of the author whose work we analyzed quickly and successfully. I am also interested in researching how these difficulties can be understood in contemporaneity and how this work's message can be reflected. To offer an enriched view of the analysis of A la recherche du temps perdu, we have used the technique of close reading the masterpiece entirely, focusing on how we can explain the lexical and syntactic difficulties.

THE RATIONALITY OF ADVERTISING. AN ANALYSIS OF RATIONAL, EMOTIONAL, INTEGRATIVE AND MECHANISTIC ADVERTISING

Author(s): Dan-Laurențiu Cardaș-Răduța / Language(s): English Issue: 37/2024

Given that several opinions have emerged in the literature over time according to which advertising addresses the irrational side of the public, this study aims to demonstrate that there is rationality even in types of advertising that at first glance do not target the consumers' rationality: emotional, mechanistic and integrative advertising. The study also aims to identify what types of rationality exist in these types of advertising, with reference to the Weberian theory of rationality, from which it focuses on instrumental rationality and value rationality. The main results of the research show that beyond the emotional impact that advertising has, the public is looking for rational objectives to purchase a product. These objectives are linked to the audience's values and its need to adapt to the demands of society. The study also shows that all types of advertising can be rationalised, as audiences do not automatically react to 'irrational' messages but decide on the basis of reasoning. Advertisers know this game of rationality and irrationality and use it frequently.