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.

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.

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.

Between Science, Art, and Forgery: Latin Textual Criticism as a Case Example

Author(s): Jerzy Axer / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The methodology and practice of Latin text editing is presented in the paper as an example of a humanities scholar’s work that combines scientific effort with artistic activity, including forgery of works by old masters. Part one outlines the methodological situation in textual criticism in the 1960s and 1970s, when the author was a university student and novice researcher. Next, the author considers what caused changes in editing methodology in subsequent decades and, finally, he comments on present-day debates surrounding the role of the academic editor, with a special focus on the interdisciplinary aspects of this issue.

Beyond Truth and Falsehood

Author(s): Ewa Kosowska,Barbara Bokus / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The authors discuss truth and falsehood in science and the arts. They view truth as an irreducible point of reference, both in striving for elementary knowledge about the world and in seeking methods and artistic means of achieving this goal. The multilevel and multiple-aspect research presented here, conducted on material from different periods and different cultures, shows very clearly that truth and falsehood lie at the foundation of all human motivation, choices, decisions, and behaviors. At the same time, however, it reveals that every bid to extrapolate the results of detailed studies into generalizations aimed at universalization – by the very fact of their discursivation – either subjects the discussion to the rules of formal logic or situates it outside the realm of truth and falsehood.

Bilder trotz allem? – Medialität und Erinnerung in Herta Müllers Text-Bild-Collagen

Author(s): Beate Sommerfeld / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

The article analyses the collages of Herta Müller as an appropriate means of articulating traumatic experiences made under the regime of rumanian dictator Ceausescu. The own liminal position and the contingency of west-german print-media offer a space for poetological reflections and experiments. Müller develops a strategy of playfulness that allows to free traumatic experiences and initiates a process of healing memory. The collages also try to give an answer to the question, to what extent the terror experienced in the Past can be articulated across aesthetic forms.

Black metal okiem filologa – próba językoznawczego zdefiniowania pojęcia

Author(s): Kamil Barski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The main purpose of the article is to present a new definition of an extreme music genre, namely black metal, based on the linguistic theory of prototypes. This necessity eventuates from its expansion, as a result of which the genre (specifically: its forms) is blowing up from within. In the face of diversity of black metal songs and the fact that all of traditional black metal’s main features could be invalidated by the opposing work of one of contemporary bands, a new, more capacious model of a definition is needed. The presented model is a prototypical categorisation derived from a postmodern linguistic paradigm.