(Nie)Pamięć o wiekach średnich w powieści Mai Jurkowskiej Katedra

Author(s): Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

Literature is one of those areas of human activity which functions within the culture of memory. It is indeed one of the means of creating memory – many narratives are concerned with the way in which individuals and communities remember and forget, as well as the way in which they forge their own identity. Modern literature has made the exploration of memory patterns one of is most important themes. The paper constitutes an attempt to analyse the literary images of the cathedral in connection with the patterns of individual and communal memory in Maja Jurkowska’s novel Katedra in the context of Polish and German memory discourse.

(Re)Negocjacje kultur pamięci – słowo wstępne

Author(s): Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec,Dominika Wyrzykiewicz / Language(s): Polish,German / Publication Year: 0

Memory – Discourse – Identity. Interdisciplinary Reflections is a bilingual book aligning with the memorial discourse trend. It contains reflections on the condition of man and the world in the context of Polish and German memory discourse in the post-war culture. The authors refer to the category of memory in public and private dimensions and present various approaches to the issues of memory turn and transformations concerning mutual relations and interpenetration of literature, music, art. And contemporary media. The book includes the papers written by German and Polish studies scholars, historians, and art. Historians from Poland, Germany and Spain.

[ˈhӕrəs] or [,həˈrӕs], [’hɒtəl] or [həʊˈtɛl]? – What/ Whose Language Do Our Students Learn (and Why)?

Author(s): Andreea Bratu / Language(s): English / Issue: XX/2019

Learners of a foreign language (L2) are to a greater or smaller extent influenced by their native tongue (L1), be it at the level of the structures used or at the lexical and morphological levels (tenses used according to the L1 verbal behavior, to give just one example). The purpose of this paper is twofold: to investigate the deviations from the standard pronunciation in English that are common among Romanian students, trying to explain them, and to analyse the choices they make between British and American pronunciation. Questionnaires have been used with Ist and IInd year students of the English Department of the Faculty of Letters in Craiova.

110 ГОДИНИ ОТ РОЖДЕНИЕТО НА ЧЛ.-КОР. ПРОФ. ЛЮБОМИР АНДРЕЙЧИН

Author(s): Zhaneta Zlateva,Milen Tomov,Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2020

The paper deals with the main contributions to Bulgarian linguistics made by Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin. The authors highlight his innovative methods of research in Mo¬dern Standard Bulgarian and his understanding of the grammatical categories of the Bul¬garian verb system, in particular. They go on to outline his theoretical views on or¬tho¬graphy and the normativisation of Bulgarian spelling, emphasising his exceptional contribution to this area. Finally, the authors discuss Prof. Andreychin’s contributions to the study of the history of Modern Standard Bulgarian.

A comparative study of the gap between de-jure and de-facto language policies: the case of Kyrgyzstan and Hungary

Author(s): Askar Mambetaliev / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2019

The purpose of this study was to find the main factors that guide language policies and discover correlations between top-down and bottom-up ideologies in the context of Hungary and Kyrgyzstan. To accomplish this, the study created a database of relevant official documents, photos of linguistic landscapes and qualitative data. The study analyzed the documented top-down decisions from historical perspectives, and then compared them with the data collected from interviews and surveys, and from the collection of photos. The participants included both high-ranking political figures, professors, students and random citizens. Results showed that the official policies often do not comprehensively match with the people’s beliefs, attitudes and desires. Findings also imply that using either document analysis, or the method of linguistic landscape, or qualitative methods alone, might not sufficiently validate the results in the absence of each other, since errors may top up from various discrepancies between top-down and bottom-up arrangements, as well as from overt and covert ideologies.

A Local Perspective on lexicography. Dictionary Research, Practice and Use in Romania/ Editors Marinela Burada and Raluca Sinu

Author(s): Daniela Caluianu / Language(s): English / Issue: 25/2020

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 moldvai csángómagyar oktatási program kutatása és támogatása vizuális módszerekkel

Author(s): Petteri Laihonen / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

The study and support of the Moldavian Csángó Educational Program is a multi-year project including fieldwork carried out in 30 Moldavian sites between 2017 and 2019. During the fieldwork, several visual and digital methods are introduced, and the materials generated form a large multimodal database. In this article, I present some visual methods that have proved successful so far, with particular reference to answering the following research questions: In what situations and how do the participants in the Educational Program identify themselves? What is the language repertoire of the participants in the Educational Program and how does it evolve? How do the participants in the Educational Program relate to literacy? How do the participants in the Educational Program vision their linguistic future? What kind of language or language varieties are used in the Program? I mention the following preliminary results: The pupils in the Educational Program were dominantly Romanians, but most often Hungarian language was viewed as the language of identity. With regards to spoken language, the Program is characterized by language tolerance. However, due to the large distance between Hungarian varieties in Moldavia and the Hungarian standard, standard Hungarian orthography is hard to learn for the participants. The activation of oral language knowledge serves the maintenance of Hungarian varieties in Moldavia, while teaching Hungarian literacy serves further studies in Hungarian medium education available beyond Moldavia.

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.

A study of appropriacy of cultural conceptualizations of taboo topics in EFL classes

Author(s): Elaheh Rahimi / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

The cultural practices related to local uses of certain topics are a socially communicative minefield for English learners. The purposes of this study were twofold. First, the cultural linguistics framework was employed to investigate the appropriateness of cultural conceptualizations (CCs) of taboo topics in Iranian EFL classes. A revealing result was that students do not feel embarrassed or uneasy about using CCs of taboo topics. Second, the study attempted to explore teachers’ and students’ perceptions about the effects of employing taboo topics in EFL classes by means of interviews. The results indicate that teachers need to be cognizant of the forbidden nature of these topics and approach them critically via CCs to avoid insulting students. They also provide a basis for pedagogical implications for instructors in Iran teaching English as a foreign language.

About the two-volume trilingual dictionary of linguistic terms

Author(s): Pavel Krejčí / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The author reviews the book Nadezhda Stalyanova and Elena Kreychova. Rechnik na lingvistichnite termini za studenti slavisti A–N (balgarski ezik – cheshki ezik – polski ezik). Sofia: Paradigma 2019, 142 p., ISBN 978-954-326-387-5; Rechnik na lingvistichnite termini za studenti slavisti O–Ya (balgarski ezik – cheshki ezik – polski ezik). Sofia: Paradigma 2020, 118 p., ISBN 978-954-326-425-4 .

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.

Aksjologiczny wymiar retoryki krytycznej i afirmatywnej w gatunkach prasowych

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

The article referring to elements of rhetoric system concentrates on values present in journalistic texts. The proposed typology of genres, which by definition are affirmative or critical and occasionally critical or affirmative, complements genological classification in press studies. The article provides illustrative examples of respective forms of journalistic writing.

Aktywizowanie rozwoju sprawności słuchania w języku polskim jako ojczystym

Author(s): Marta Urszula Chyb / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 29/2020

The aim of the present article is to present the typology of listening comprehension skills activated during Polish language lessons. What the author claims is that in Polish school two types of listening co-exist, namely: natural and activated. The former resembles conditions of natural communication, since a student assumes the role of text recipient, whereas the latter is a process of teaching the skills of listening comprehension. Based on questions and instructions elicited from selected school handbooks shows in what way the activated type of listening comprehension is taught as a part of Polish as a mother tongue lessons.

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 academic writing needs analysis of Czech university graduate students

Author(s): Renata Jančaříková,Renata Povolná,Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova,Světlana Hanušová,Martin Němec / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The present paper presents the results of a needs analysis conducted among Czech students involved in a Master’s degree programme English Language Teacher Education. The aim was to identify their academic writing needs on the basis of a needs analysis questionnaire and a linguistic analysis of their written discourse in order to find out whether there are divergences between their ‘wants’ and ‘lacks’ (Hutchinson & Waters 1987). The results indicate that the students’ previous tuition at Bachelor’s level focused primarily on lexico-grammatical features of academic style such as text organizing devices, academic vocabulary, grammatical structures and citation styles. However, other areas essential to writing a successful Master’s thesis, such as evaluation and interpretation of results, conveying personal viewpoints and communicating with the reader or acknowledging research limitations, were ascribed a somewhat lower importance by the students, suggesting the existence of a divergence between the students’ ‘wants’ and ‘lacks’. The findings concerning the students’ perception of the writing process also concur with the finding of the authors’ previous research (Dontcheva et al. 2020) into the Theme zone in Czech students’ Master’s theses, which has indicated that Czech Master’s students tend to overuse textual Themes expressed by linkers and underuse interpersonal Themes realised by stance devices.