Cross-cultural analysis of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in persuasive local newspaper articles

Author(s): Maryam Farnia,Nahid Mohammadi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This paper aims to explore the role interpersonal metadiscourse markers play in the construction and achievement of persuasion in local British and Iranian newspapers. To this end, a corpus of 120 persuasive opinion articles published in two local Iranian newspapers, namely Isfahan Ziba and Isfahan (Emrooz) Today, and two local British newspapers, namely Liverpool Echo and Chronicle Live, from July 2015 to June 2016, were randomly selected and analyzed based on Dafouz-Milne’s (2008) taxonomy of interpersonal metadiscourse markers. The overal findings disclose that interpersonal metadiscourse is present in the two corpora; however, there are variations in the distribution and frequency of interpersonal markers.

Acknowledgment patterns in English and Lithuanian research writing

Author(s): Jolanta Šinkūnienė,Gabrielė Dudzinskaitė / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The paper focuses on the features of acknowledgments in scientific texts written by British and Lithuanian authors in the Humanities. The data comes from a self-compiled corpus of acknowledgments in scientific books written by British and Lithuanian researchers in their native languages, and from doctoral dissertations written by Lithuanian doctoral students in Lithuanian. The results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis suggest that the British scholars place more importance on acknowledgments as they single out their thanks as separate sections, make them longer and express gratitude for a larger number of individuals and institutions than the Lithuanian scholars. Generally the same moves and steps are employed in the three data sets, but the distribution of some moves and steps is different.

Review

Author(s): Irena Hůlková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The present review deals with the following publication: Aijmer, K., Rühlemann, C. (eds) (2015) Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 461 pp.

Review

Author(s): Radek Vogel / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The present review deals with the following publications: Bednárová-Gibová, K. (2014) The English Language through the Prism of the Centuries. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity. 94 pp. Bednárová-Gibová, K. (2018) Selected Chapters in English Lexicology. Part I: Lexical Semantics and Lexicography. Prešov: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity. 113 pp.

Interlinguistische und interdiskursive Kontrastivitat am Beispiel der linguistischen Forschung zum Migrationsdiskurs in Polen und in Deutschland

Author(s): Marta Smykała / Language(s): German Issue: 10/2022

The present paper focuses on the desideratum of interlinguistic and interdiscursive contrastivity, delineated by Zofia Bilut-Homplewicz in 2013. Both types of contrastivity are presented with reference to linguistic research on the migration discourse in Poland and Germany. As a starting point, the author outlines interlinguistic and interdiscursive contrastivity. What follows is a comprehensive account of the comparative variables such as ≫migration, migration discourse, linguistic research on migration discourse≪ – each of which is discussed in relation to Poland, Germany or Germanspeaking countries and the Polish and German research. Within the framework of an interdiscursive and interlinguistic comparison, the focus of attention is particularly on the concept of topos and its operationalisation in both research areas.

Чуждоезиковото обучение – цел на инженерното образование и инструменти в образователната среда

Author(s): Tsvetelina Vukadinova,Senia Terzieva,Juliana Javorova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

The article presents a study concerning the development and testing of innovative educational approaches for developing language competences of engineering students. The study was carried out among 1st and 2nd year students of the specialty „Technical Mechanics“ at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) – Sofia, Bulgaria. An original bilingual educational tool was developed for this purpose. It was designed to support and improve the learning process in specialized foreign language classes.

W poszukiwaniu perspektywy zoocentrycznej w kinie niefikcjonalnym. Przykład produkcji filmowej Stowarzyszenia Otwarte Klatki

Author(s): Patrycja Chuszcz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 9/2022

Patrycja Chuszcz’s aim in this article is to analyze the film productions of the Open Cages Association, which works for so-called farm animal rights, and to inquire about the attempt to go beyond the anthropocentric perspective in the audiovisual materials created by this organization. She begins her considerations by outlining the tradition of non-fiction film about animals. She discusses the current search for the zoocentric perspective in cinema by documentary and visual artists. Next she analyzes the film productions of the Open Cages Association. She compares the organization’s films with the perspective resulting from interviews with its members and with the literaturę on the subject. The analysis shows that activists – despite contesting a certain sector of modern civilization (related to industrial livestock production) – rely on the broader and prevailing technological-cultural paradigm. This borrowing is manifested, among other things, in the use of an anthropocentric perspective and anthropomorphism in the films created by the Open Cages Association. However, activists adopt this attitude consciously, following the perspective of effective altruism.

140 пословици и поговорки от Голо Бърдо, Албания (по материали от с. Требища)

Author(s): Gergana Coneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2014

Родствена структура и роднинска терминология (с. Требища, обл. Голо Бърдо, Албания

Author(s): Gergana Coneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2014

Българският език на ново място по света

Author(s): Ana Kocheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2016

Except in Bulgaria in its current maximum reduced borders there are many large communities of Bulgarians in other countries in the world – somewhere they are recognized as national minorities, elsewhere - not. These communities conditional and figuratively we can call a few "small Bulgaria" or "New Bulgaria" abroad. Considering the number of the Bulgarians from the language continuum (the language of the Bulgarians in the old historical regions - Mizia, Thrace and Macedonia - inside and outside of state borders) plus the number of the Bulgarianspeakers from the new locations around the world, the total number of Bulgarian speakers on our planet moves about 15 million people. It is thus clear the central role played by the Bulgarian language for consolidation and storage of the nation, even in times of increasing globalization.

Humour in conversation among bilinguals:

Author(s): Marianthi Georgalidou,Vasilia Kourtis-Kazoullis,Hasan Kaili / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

In this study, we analyse conversations recorded during ethnographic research in two bilingualcommunities on the island of Rhodes, Greece. We examine: (a) the bilingual in Greek andTurkish Muslim community of Rhodes (Georgalidou et al. 2010, 2013) and (b) the Greek-American/Canadian community of repatriated emigrant families of Rhodian origin (Kourtis-Kazoullis 2016). In particular, combining interactional and conversation analytic frameworks(Auer 1995; Gafaranga 2007), we examine contemporary approaches to bi-/multilingualismfocusing on the pragmatics of humour in conversations among bilinguals. We scrutinise aspectsof the overall and sequential organisation of talk as well as instances of humour produced byspeakers of different ethnic origin, generation, and social groups. We focus on the constructionof “otherness,” which reflects the dynamic interplay between the micro-level of conversationalpractices and the macro-level of discourse involving contrasting categorisations and identitiespertaining to differently orientated ethnic and social groups. Based on the analysis, we willshow a) how humorous targeting orients in-groups versus out-groups, and b) mediates thedynamic process of constructing the identity of speakers who, being members of minoritylinguistic communities, represent “otherness.”

Covidly humorous memes:

Author(s): Mohamed Mifdal / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The analysis of memes posted on Moroccan Facebook pages during the first wave of Covid-19pandemic shows that the use of humour by Moroccans is not only motivated by achieving mirthbut it also vehicles critical views about issues of common concern debated in the digital publicsphere. Some of these memes were used to cope with fear and uncertainty. However, most memesharboured mixed feelings about the situation and were used for social control and theexpression of conflict and resistance, addressing issues of behaviour, governance andcommunication. This article uses a social semiotic approach to analyse the collected memes(460 from personal and communal pages) as a multimodal discourse in terms of context, culture,and media affordances. This article contends that the study of these memes can be a key tounderstanding how Moroccans used humour to cope with danger and radical uncertainty, buildidentification and strengthen social cohesion. It also highlights the polyvocality of humour intimes of the pandemic and the gradual shift from inclusive, conformist and sympathetic humourto disparaging, exclusive and challenging humour as the pandemic lingered, consensus beganto crack, social control was challenged and injunctive norms were replaced by survival values.The results show how these memes are indicative of the way humour changes mechanisms andfunctions in terms of contingent motivations.

Travel-related humour and COVID-19:

Author(s): Anja Pabel,Maja Turnšek / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This study aims to provide an overview of humorous travel-related memes shared during theCOVID-19 pandemic. A total of 80 Internet memes were content analysed for emergentthemes. The findings reveal three major themes: playful aggression, making fun of one’slonging for travel, and making fun of new travel realities. The identified themes were linked tothe existing literature to better understand the memes being studied. The analysis of memesprovides a methodologically agile way to study conditions that may otherwise be overlooked,e.g., peoples’ travel-related desires and concerns while in lockdown.

Book review

Author(s): Răzvan Săftoiu / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Особености на българо-немския смесен език в Австрия

Author(s): Ana Kocheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2016

The language of the Bulgarians, spoken in different micro sociums, dispersed scatteredaround the Austrian capital Vienna, but united by a tangle of direct and indirect links betweenthe communicants, turns into intermediate (mixed) language. This is evident from very richempirical material: many German label expressions, proverbs, ready formulas wingedphrases, phrasal combinations, complete untranslated in Bulgarian sentences, exclamations,names of different concepts for specific Austrian realities in the field of administrative lifeand documentaries, education, business and trade relations, companies and services, thechurch and so on.

Начини за назоваване на явлението говорене на сън в Родопските говори

Author(s): Kiril Parvanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2016

The article is dedicated on the words expressing the phenomena speaking during the dream in232 villages in the Rhodopian Dialects. The collected linguistic material is taken from thequestionnaire for the Rhodopian Dialect Atlas and the Archive for Bulgarian DialectDictionary. The article presents the words (борав’а, бълнувам, блазнем, сборувам, бърборя)and the idioms with the verbs (приказвам, гълча, лафа) expressing speaking during thedream – their origin and their distribution. It also analyzes the other meanings of the wordsexpressing speaking during the dream in the Bulgarian dialects in Bulgaria, Macedonia,Turkey, Greece, Serbia.

Реликти в българските диалекти от междуезиковите контакти на Балканския полуостров (с оглед на превода им на чужд език)

Author(s): Slavka Keremidchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2016

Some of the difficulties, that the translator of the ancient Bulgarian literature faces, where in the texts he finds already outdated terminological (production, socially-political, religious, etc.) lexis, had been analyzed. Part of this lexis is a relict prove of the time when the argotic dialects on the Balkan peninsula had been in their bloom and when the Balkan nations had accomplished intensive material, cultural and spiritual exchange, that brought to the interaction and the mutual penetration of their languages at different linguistic levels.

Особености на публицистичния стил на изданията на българските езикови общности в чужбина (в съпоставка с пресата в България)

Author(s): Slavka Keremidchieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2016

The development is useful with its conclusions for defining the degree of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Bulgarian linguistic community in Austria as a part of Bulgarianlinguistic communities in the European diaspore. The purpose of this research is not only theregistration of the numbers of regularly published editions around the world, mainly inAustria, but it is also a trial to analyze the most important specifications of their publicisticstyle in comparison with the language and style of the periodicals published in Bulgaria.

Der sichtbare Diskurs. Interdisziplinäre Aspekte der Visualisierung von sprachlichen Daten im Kontext des universitären DaF-Unterrichts

Author(s): Attila Mészáros / Language(s): German Issue: 6/2022

The article deals with the question of how linguistic data obtained through discourse linguistic analyses are communicated outside linguistics. The focus is on the didactics of German as a foreign language, with a special focus on university German teacher training in Slovakia. It will be examined how the more recent disciplines such as discourse linguistics can be effectively integrated into the curriculum beyond classical linguistics. This requires an interdisciplinary perspective, which is offered here through the visualizations. Based on this background, case studies from the German and Slovakian migration discourse of 2015 will be used to show how optimized knowledge can be conveyed using visualizations, even across complex subject areas.

Равнище на езиковата подготовка и култура на студентите педагози

Author(s): Neli Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

The problems related to the level of language preparation and culture of the regular and part time students in the pedagogy degree course from Sofia university “St. Kl. Ohridski’’ as potential future primary teachers are discussed in the article. The analysis is based on a test study data from a research made in February-May 2022. The conclusions and generalizations from the analysis are focused on the further improvement of the students’ language preparation.