A Lost Lady: A Narrative of Manifest Destiny and Neocolonialism

Author(s): Ammar Aqeeli / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The greatly examined story of A Lost Lady usually depicts Mrs. Forrester’s success in meeting and adapting to the challenges of a changing world, a world characterized by materialism and self-fulfilment. However, the overlooked story, one far more disturbing than the privileged story in the text, is the narrative of oppressed groups of people of other races and the lower class. Drawing on some aspects of postcolonial theory, this paper explores Willa Cather’s own reactions to real changes in her society, to the waning power of imperialism, and of her nostalgic longing for the western prairies of her youth, without showing any sympathy for the dispossessed Native Americans and other oppressed races. It will also disclose the unmistakable colonial overtones, which remarkably resonate with the common discourse of “Manifest Destiny” during the time period of American expansion to the Wild West.

A moura: a deusa traducida

Author(s): Alba Rodríguez-Saavedra / Language(s): Spanish / Publication Year: 0

Our currently ongoing PhD research focuses on the origin of the mouras, the female leading characters in Galician folktales. We consider them as the result of a number of translating and paratranslating cultural processes derived from several changes within social and religious systems from an original concept we identify with a pre-Indo European ancient female deity. Thus, we agree with Vladimir Propp that when a religion dies, its content becomes mythology. We think this would have been what happened with the mouras. Through our comprehensive corpus compiling these legends about the mouras or encantos –one of the most common variations of this form–, we analyze semantic, formal and pragmatic aspects that link the characters of these current folktales to the ancient deity. Our study relies on anthropological and ethnological findings that reveal her frequent snake-like representation, and her symbolic association with water, earth and stone, hierophanic elements that, like paratexts complementing the main text, enhance its meaning. Our theoretical ground is built on the contributions made by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marija Gimbutas and Mircea Eliade on Anthropology, as well as on the T&P Group at the Universidade de Vigo on paratranslation and Itamar Even-Zohar’s proposals on interferences among polysystems, in order to support our thesis. We sustain that the origin of the mouras would go back to an Indo-European ancient female goddess, whose distortion in the primary system would have been continued through successive cultural translating and para-translating processes.

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.

Acerca de las propiedades temporales y aspectuales del perfecto en español y en inglés: una perspectiva didáctica

Author(s): Tomasz Niestorowicz / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 5/2020

The purpose of the present article is to describe the temporal and aspectual characteristics of the category perfecto / perfect in Spanish and English from a didactic perspective. A contrastive study will be presented, which will compare the verbal forms of Spanish pretérito perfecto compuesto tense with verbal forms of English present perfect tense. The present article is motivated by the need to reflect on the didactic use of the comparative study for Polish students learning Spanish as a foreign language, for whom the only reference point may be English, given that there is no temporal opposition in Polish such as pretérito perfecto compuesto / pretérito perfecto simple.

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.

Analele Universității ”Dunărea de Jos din Galați, Lexic comun / Lexic specializat

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Annals of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Fascicle XXIV General Lexicon / Specialized Lexicon is a refereed academic journal of humanities, focused on linguistics, language history, vocabulary and culture, language studies, philology, translation studies, communication studies, cultural history, cultural anthropology, terminology and didactics. The first issue of the journal was published in 2008 by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati. The journal also publishes the scientific papers which are communicated at the international conference Lexic comun / lexic specializat. General Lexicon / Specialized Lexicon. Lexique commun / Lexique spécialisé which has been hosted by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati ever since 2008. Even if we are a Romanian journal of linguistics, the editorial board has a wide perspective towards the lexical level of any language, the interest in the movement of ideas in the field of lexicology and lexicography, as well the in the international promotion of the Romanian contributions. For this purpose the paper publication languages should mainly be Romanian, English, French, but contributions in Spanish, German or Italian are also accepted.

Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

Universitaria Publishing House was founded in 1992 as a specialized department of the University of Craiova and, since then, it has been an active participant in the students training process and a reliable partner for academic research, making its name through the quality and diversity of its books, with more than 5,000 printed titles. It owns 24 collections under which are edited and printed specialized works in human sciences, technical domains, courses and reference works in linguistics and philology, economics, law and philosophy, thus continually promoting general cultural and scientific values and also the values of our region, Oltenia.

The French department of the University of Craiova has been publishing the journal Annales de l’Université de Craiova. Série Langues et Littératures romanes annually, since 1997, and the articles, written in French, address language, literature, didactics and translation topics. All the papers are peer reviewed by at least two scholars or researchers with national or international visibility.

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.

APPROACHES IN TRANSLATING NOUN PHRASES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING TEXTS

Author(s): Liliana-Florentina Ricinschi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

The article presents, investigates and analyses a series of aspects related to the difficulties that a translator faces when translating specialized texts, more specifically texts belonging to civil engineering. The issues that arise during the process of translation are multiple and complex and involve different levels of the text. Out of these difficulties, the morphological ones are of special importance. As a sub-category of morphological aspects, noun phrases need to be paid particular attention, both due to their length and to the complex relationships that are formed within the same noun phrase. An important concept connected to noun phrases is that of nominalization and the way it helps build meaning inside nominal compounds. The last part of the article explains and examines the way in which these noun phrases are rendered into the target text.

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