A Semantic Description of the Combinability between Verbs and Nouns (on Material from Bulgarian and English)

Author(s): Svetlozara Leseva,Ivelina Stoyanova,Maria Todorova,Hristina Kukova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

This paper represents a methodology for defining restrictions on the semantic combinability between different semantic classes of verbs and the sets of nouns corresponding to the elements of their conceptual frame (i.e. the major participants in the situation described). Our observations focus on verb synsets from WordNet and their assigned FrameNet frames which mutually inform each other. We analyse the semantic information typical for each of the studied verb classes and define semantic restrictions on the nouns they combine with. The theoretical and empirical value of the provided semantic representations and restrictions lies in the enhanced modelling of verb-noun combinability which is universal enough to be applicable not only to the languages exemplified (English and Bulgarian), but (with possible modifications) to various other languages for which wordnets are available.

A SHORT HISTORY OF COMPUTER USE AT FACULTY OF PHYSICS – UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Author(s): Mircea Victor Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

For physicists computing is a main activity. Starting from devising an experiment to problem solving with computer, from using mathematical tables to other aids to computation, physics has grown its strength by using each step the numerical computation. So, computing for researches as well as education was used and steadily improved by us, starting from first minicomputers to the last generation of computers and algorithms. In this presentation we will follow, in short, the evolution of computing, hard and soft, in physics at our faculty. We selected here the main field of interests that was connected with problems showing: programmed solutions, simulations and modeling, computer application and software during the time. Such a time recollection is interesting and surprises me as how diverse and far such activity was done. Examples will be from computation in tradition physics, to biology, chemistry, astronomy, medicine to data processing and visualization, data management, to create our own educational software and so on. The fields as nonlinear dynamics, complexity, chaos and fractals, as well as fluid dynamics, atomic, molecular or nuclear physics, earth or stellar physics, connected to improvement of the experiments and devices via artificial intelligence are some of our topics which will be exemplified here.

AGNIESZKA MAŁOCHA-KRUPA, FEMINATYWUM W UWIKŁANIACH JĘZYKOWO-KULTUROWYCH, Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, Wrocław 2018, ss. 313

Author(s): Ewa Woźniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2020

Agresja słowna i wulgaryzmy na przykładzie filmów Patryka Vegi

Author(s): Żaneta Szlachcikowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 01/2020

The films by the Polish director Patryk Vega: PitBull (2005), Pitbull. Nowe porządki (2016) and Pitbull. Niebezpieczne kobiety (2016) provoke a reflection on the devulgarization of the language spoken by movie characters. It appears that the profanities formulated by the protagonists can replace numerous verbs. While the analyzed material fits into the rouge cinema, most of the curse words used do not apply to the sphere of criminal offenses. Instead, the obscenities primarily describe everyday activities, such as moving around or eating. The verbal aggression featured in the movies of the Polish director thus puts the audience at risk of adopting bad language habits.

Aleida Assmanns Gedächtnistheorie im europäischen Kontext

Author(s): Leopoldo Domínguez / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

Aleida Assmann is regarded as one of the precursor in the field of cultural memory, remembering and forgetting. The aim of this article is to outline main concepts of Assmann‘s theory and put them into contrast with the research done in the same field by other scholars. It also analyses her theory in the European context in order to take into consideration some aspects of the German, Spanish and Polish culture of remembrance.

AN INTRODUCTION TO LEXICAL SEMANTICS FOR STUDENTS OF TRANSLATION STUDIES

Author(s): Imola Katalin Nagy / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

The volume entitled An introduction to lexical semantics for students of translation studies aims to help students and translators understand the role and importance of semantics within the wider system of linguistics and to help them fully meet the requirements of the programme in the subject. The book is intended for English-language students taking the course of contemporary English language. However, An introduction to lexical semantics for students of translation studies may also be of interest to those who would like to gain some information about the resources of the Modern English lexicon and about the complex nature of meaning.

An investigation into the impact of emotional quotient (EQ) on Iranian EFL learners’ language achievement

Author(s): Mojtaba Zokaee,Samad Mirza Suzani / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2020

The contribution of emotional quotient and its dimensions to the students’ language achievement have been widely acknowledged; however, the association between the two variables has been varied in different contexts. In this vein, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional quotient (EQ) and language achievement (LA) of Iranian EFL students, and the extent to which EQ components can predict their language achievement. To this end, 138 undergraduate Iranian EFL learners from three different Iranian universities in Shiraz, Iran were selected through the census sampling technique to participate in the study. General English questions (adapted from university entrance exam) and the Persian validated version of the Schutte Self-report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) were employed to collect data on language achievement and emotional quotient, respectively and SPSS software was used to analyze the data. A total of 103 students, aged 18 to 27, returned the questionnaires. Findings revealed a significant correlation between EFL learners’ EQ and their LA, while EQ explained 6.7% of the variability of students’ LA, and none of the subscales of the EQ had a linear relationship with LA. Given the positive correlation between EQ and LA, educational policy-makers and education providers are recommended to focus on these factors that can leverage students’ and teachers’ emotions in the learning environment.

ANADISS

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

The academic journal ANADISS is a biannual publication which comes out at Suceava University Press. On the initiative of the members of the "Discourse Analysis" Research Centre founded in 2005 within the Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences from "Stefan cel Mare" University, Suceava, the articles and their abstracts are written in French, English, German, Spanish or Italian.

One of the fundamental components of the human existence's dimension is the linguistic one. Language defines the human presence as intensely as the human becoming stabilizes and affirms the language. In the contemporary world, this equilibrium is often fragile.

The present publication proposes the presentation of such contributions, which can sustain the aggrandizement and the establishment of the human-language relation. To this end, our journal's preoccupations gravitate around themes such as: political discourse, text and discursiveness, discourse and didacticism, inter-text - inter-discourse, discourse and society, linguistic imaginary and language dynamics, production and capture of specialty discourses, discursive perspectives and various cultural contexts, knowledge and discourse: discursive and non-discursive practices, inter-text and inter-speech, discourse and society, linguistic imaginary and language dynamics, discourse and identity. We illustrate through these the Saussurian principal according to which "la langue n'est faite qu'en vue du discours", without ignoring its materialization within the text.

Journal Policy: ANADISS is an international journal that accepts for publication reviewed original papers, short communications, reviews and conference proceedings on a broad range of topics of interest for Discourse Analysis, particularly, for Linguistics in general. There are no article processing charges (APC) or article submission charge.

Author's Ownership and Rights: The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright and to retain publishing rights on their materials.

Open Access Policy: ANADISS Journal offers „open access” to published literature. ANADISS Journal assures has free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. ANADISS Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Open access enables authors to reach a much broader audience, which has the potential to increase the impact of their research. The ANADISS issues are available online for free, without any charge to download or print each article.

Anaphoric deixis as presupposition trigger

Author(s): Hranush Tovmasyan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

The study focuses on a new interpretation of deictic anaphoricity treating it as a means for bringing forth an older piece of information—presupposition—in the local context of communication from the general communication discourse. This multi-directional referential process secures two indispensable text and discourse structuring prerequisites: text cohesion and discourse coherence.

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski - ortograficzna wątpliwość usunięta

Author(s): Maciej Malinowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2004

Andrzejewskiego sen o Baczyńskim

Author(s): Jan Potkański / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The book is a successful attempt to renew research on the literature of war and occupation conducted so far, and at the same time to present the phenomenon of the underground University of Warsaw and its educational, academic, and cultural activity in particular with regard to literary studies. The authors describe the profiles of young artists for whom the ideas of Romanticism were a constant point of reference in their writing and in the armed combat against the occupier.

Antroponimy w nowoczesnym rosyjsko-polskim słowniku przekładowym

Author(s): Bogumił Gasek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

The article discusses the problem of the presentation of anthroponyms in translation dictionaries. A critical analysis is conducted using the resources included in The Great Russian-Polish Dictionary edited by “Wydawnictwo PWN”. Inaccuracies found in dictionary entries allow us to formulate some conclusions about suitable methods to present anthroponyms in a modern electronic Russian-Polish translation dictionary.

APPROPRIATION, REFORMULATION ET CIRCULATION DE LA LIBERTÉ GUIDANT LE PEUPLE SUR LES RÉSEAUX SOCIONUMÉRIQUES DURANT LES ÉVÉNEMENTS DE PARIS

Author(s): Justine Simon / Language(s): French / Issue: 24/2018

The discourse analysis which is proposed concerns mechanisms of appropriation, reformulation and circulation of the painting Liberty Leading the People of Eugène Delacroix on socio-digital networks during the events of Paris: attack against Charlie Hebdo the 07/01/2015 and attacks in Paris the 13/11/15. The article studies how net surfers have compared the events of Paris with the symbolic strenght of the famous painting. It aims to enlighten the processes of circulation of discourses on socio-digital networks and also wants to analyse the interdiscursive dimension of the original reformulations.

Aproximación al estudio fraseológico como enfoque al análisis de las lenguas europeas

Author(s): Cătălina-Iuliana PÎNZARIU / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 29/2020

Attitudes and language use of (potential) new speakers of a minoritized language: the case of adults learning West Frisian in formal courses

Author(s): Guillem Belmar / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2019

Adults learning a minoritized language are potential new speakers, that is “adults who acquire a socially and communicatively consequential level of competence and practice in a minority language” (Jaffe, 2015; see also O'Rourke, Pujolar, & Ramallo, 2015). New speakers’ research has become quite common recently, marking a shift from traditional notions of speakerness in minority contexts, built around the Fishmanian discourse of reversing language shift (see Kubota, 2009). The new speaker —actually neo-speaker— is one of the seven categories put forward by Grinevald and Bert (2011), who considered them central to language revitalization. Answering the call for more data on new speakers of minoritized languages in O'Rourke, Pujolar, & Ramallo, 2015, this research aims to start the debate on the new speakers of Frisian (see Belmar, 2018; Belmar, Eikens, Jong, Miedema, & Pinho, 2018; and Belmar, Boven, & Pinho, 2019) by means of a questionnaire filled in by adults learning the language in the evening courses offered by Afûk. This article presents an analysis of their backgrounds, their attitudes towards the language, and their language use.

Autobiography-Biography-Narration. Research Practice for Biographical Perspectives

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2014

This volume includes eight complementary articles that relate to the empirical, methodological, analytical, interpretive and theoretical aspects of the narrative-biographical research. The basic linking assumption of these works is a departure from the trend, still dominant in Poland and especially visible in the social sciences, modeled on the ideas taken from the natural sciences. The co-authors of Autobiography―Biography―Narration, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and literary studies) and a transdisciplinary auto/biographical research plane, pick up as their starting point the processual perspective of the socio-cultural world, whose central element is the active subject as the creator of his/her own biography. Suchassumptions (expressed explicitly and implicitly) provided the basis forreports on the Authors’ own research projects (cf. in particular the textsby Karolina Dudek and Anna Kurpiel) and a framework for ordering the purely theoretical aspects of narrative-biographical studies (cf. the articleby Katarzyna Gajek).

Autopromocja stacji telewizyjnych z perspektywy retorycznej. Techniki perswazyjne

Author(s): Barbara Sobczak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The article focuses on persuasion techniques used by media broadcasters in selfpromotional activities. These techniques are a specific way, in which the broadcaster acts in the communication process. Certain elements of this process can be emphasized or modified in order to increase its impact. The starting point of this article was an assumption, that the selection of persuasive techniques is derivatized from such rhetorical determinants, as the context of functioning of the media (ex. The effects of technological changes: the unification of media products, the exponential increase in the amount of information, the increasing global competition). Also, planned target groups and objective of the broadcaster. The research material allows to distinct persuasion techniques implemented at three levels in self-promotional activities of media broadcasters: 1) ways of transmitting the information (ex. Repetition and targeting audiences), 2) content (ex. positive selection technique, fragmentation, use of the unavailability rule, displaying the benefits from interacting with the medium, increasing the attractiveness of the communication by referring to broadly respected authorities) and 3) the forms of communication (uniqueness technique).

Autopromocja, autoprezentacja, wizerunek w komunikowaniu masowym. Błąd, kryzys, skandal. T. 5

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

BABY TALK – конверсационен анали

Author(s): Galina Bundzolova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2-3/2019

The role of baby talk is shown as a specific linguistic register and communicative strategy not restricted to the adult’s adaptation to the specifics of the communication with the child, but also has teaching, socializing and creative functions as far as it reflects the reverse influence of the child on the adults, revealing the creative potential of both sides. The methodology of Conversation Analysis (Garfinkel, Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson) is applied to the study of conversations/dialogues between adults and children, which does not presume or set up beforehand any theoretical models or schemes of interpretation, but studies conversations in their spontaneous flow, as a specific ‘local management’ mechanism (‘network of procedures’) for the ordering of turn-taking as well as of the positions and roles in a given conversation.

Bendrieji žmogaus lytinių organų pavadinimai XIX a. pab.–XX a. pr. lietuvių gydytojų populiarinamuosiuose medicinos raštuose

Author(s): Palmira Zemlevičiūtė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 26/2019

The article analyses common names of human genitals used by Lithuanian medical doctors in the popularized medical writings (books, booklets and articles) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The meanings of these names are identified based on the context of their use and other sources (the Academic Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language, anatomy literature), and the etymological sources are determined (colloquial, written and foreign languages). Questions of the relationship between endogenous and exogenous terms, creation of new terms, problematic meanings of some terms, connotations, terminologization, and euphemization are discussed.