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Raising EFL Students’ Awareness Of Pragmatic Conventions In Forming Intercultural Competence

Author(s): İsmail Erton / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

For almost half a century, teaching and learning a language and even the linguistic studies related to them were elaborated in a structural framework. Both the focus on teaching/learning methods and the linguistic corpus offered within such curricula were far from that of developing EFL students’ cross-cultural interactions. This paper suggests that the implementation of a pedagogy of pragmatics in foreign language instruction facilitates the development of intercultural competence and activates the cross-cultural schemata of the learners. The pragmatically-oriented social behavior which embodies political, sociocultural and economic conventions can be integrated into the EFL curriculum via translation, literary studies and digital multimedia technology.

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Stereotypes And Prejudices At The Border: An Attempt At Raising Intercultural Awareness Through Examples From The Bulgarian And The British Media

Author(s): Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

Using a corpus comprised of examples from the Bulgarian and the British print media discourse on the topic of refugees, the paper aims at analyzing the stereotypes and prejudices that are formed and promoted at the encounter of the Other who is culturally and/or religiously different. In addition, the paper looks into the possible attitudes that these stereotypes can provoke towards refugees and the awareness of the image of the cultural Other that they contribute to. The main method of analysis is CDA and the aim is comparing and contrasting the linguistic devices used in both the Bulgarian and the British media on the topic in two different time periods.

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Cultural Items In Reading Texts In EFL Classes

Author(s): Birsen Tütüniş,İlkin Özyayla Başar / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The article displays a study conducted to find out the cultural items in the reading texts of EFL course books. Byram’s (1993) evaluation criteria were taken as the basis for the study. The quality of cultural context in a textbook plays an important role in language classes. In this study, it is hypothesised that without teaching the culture, one cannot teach a foreign language, and the following research question was put forward: To what extent do the selected EFL course books display the target culture? The text book analysis revealed the fact that cultural items are not sufficiently embedded into the course books to enable the teacher to get involved in teaching culture.

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Teachers’ Awareness Of The Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development

Author(s): Irina Nikolova Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Continuing professional development (CPD) is an essential part of teachers’ professional life and an important prerequisite for high quality and sustainable development in education. However, the scope, purposes, and benefits of CPD are not always clear and straightforward to the teachers who are the primary beneficiaries of the process. In the context of the recent changes in the Bulgarian Ministry of Education policies regarding teachers’ qualification and professional status, the article discusses the findings of a small-scale survey with practicing EFL teachers involved in CPD about their awareness of its nature, scope, and benefits to themselves and to their students. The survey aims to identify teachers’ perceptions and beliefs about CPD, their reasons for participating in it, as well as their previous experience of CPD events.

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The Non-Linguistic Context – A Bridge To Linguistic Items And Phenomena

Author(s): Miroslava Tsvetkova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Each language is a complex system, which represents the world in a unique way, with its own stock of sounds, words, and phrases, as well as with its own grammatical constructions. The aim of the article is to prove that the non-linguistic context is a good way to improve the acquisition of linguistic items and phenomena and that our non-linguistic experience can affect the way we perceive language.The study proves that language, perception, and thought are interdependent and the direction of interaction can go both from linguistic to non-linguistic patterns and vice versa.The question of language and thought needs to extend not only to whether language affects thought, but whether non-linguistic patterns can affect the way language is perceived.

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Verb Choice In Medical Research Articles (ESP)

Author(s): Ilina Doykova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

The corpus-based analysis of high frequency verbs used in research articles aims at establishing the lexical core, native and non-native researchers need for publishing in medicine. The verbs, extracted from two self-compiled corpora are structured as per the established format of the research article genre. The findings showed that in the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion sections there is great variation in the use of verbs, related to data observation, presentation, and description. Areas of difference in evaluative language and the preferred lexical structures in reporting scientific results are indicated. The predicative adjective construction is identified as a frequent strong verb substitute in the non-native scientific writing. Specific verb lists form a valuable source for the creation of teaching materials for university and PhD students.

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Preface

Author(s): / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

An overview by the Editor-in-Chief of the articles comprising the current issue.

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Теоретични интерпретации на въпроса в английския език от гледна точка на неговия синтаксис, семантика и прагматика

Author(s): Irina Nikolova Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2010

The article deals with the interface between the fields of study concerned with the notion of question and its interpretations in logics and linguistics. It is an attempt to present a survey of some of the main approaches and views on the semantic category of question and the corresponding categories of interrogative /in syntax/, and asking /in pragmatics/.

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Табу, евфемизъм и дисфемизъм

Author(s): Antoaneta Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2010

In the conversational speech we express positive and negative emotions and attitudes to all kinds of referents. The clean tongue and the bad language are present in the different cultures. For this reason in the article are represented verbal means of euphemisms and dysphemisms, the cycle taboo-euphemism in the german linguistics studies and the these of a kaleidoscope taboo-euphemism- dysphemism, based on the opposition of euphemisms and dysphemisms.

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Preface

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

The Preface provides an overview of the main topics touched upon in this volume.

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The Impact Of Classroom Activities On The Improvement Of Readıng Skılls In Students Wıth Attentıon Hyperactıvıty Dısorder (ADHD)

Author(s): Doğuş Aydın / Language(s): Turkish,English Issue: 1/2018

ADHD is a disorder diagnosed in 21st century students in a notable manner. This increase in diagnosis has recently led the scholars to study these kinds of students’ learning skills extensively. Reading as a skill is highly problematic for such students. Thus, this research is discussing the classroom reading strategies that must be adopted for the students who have this disability. Three students volunteered to participate in the research. These students were all diagnosed with the disorder by a psychologist. As a result of the research conducted, the students learned how to read strategically. The strategies implemented are metacognitive, cognitive and social-affective. Due to their application, such students can achieve higher success in reading comprehension questions.

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Teachers’ Perceptions Of The Role Of Pragmatics In The EFL Classroom

Author(s): Irina Nikolova Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The need to prepare foreign language learners for successful cross-cultural communication increases the importance of developing their pragmatic competence. However, due to different factors, classroom procedures are still largely dominated by form-focused instruction and manipulation, and the focus on pragmatic phenomena remains somewhat neglected or marginalised. The present study looks into teachers’ awareness of the pragmatic domain and its impact on their attitudes and approaches to developing the pragmatic component of communicative competence. Data analysis showed that most of the teachers are aware of the main issues involved in teaching pragmatic competence. They were able to name different speech acts and give a variety of appropriate examples. However, about 43% couldn't name any speech acts or gave wrong answers. Teachers’ awareness of pragmatic appropriacy was demonstrated in the extensive lists of topics and behaviours which they considered inappropriate in cross-cultural encounters

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Frame Semantics And Verbs Of Motion. The Case of Enter And Go Into. A Corpus-Based Study

Author(s): Svetlana Nedelcheva,Mariana Todorova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The article studies the verbs enter and go into in a corpus of technical texts on a comparative basis. We apply the methodology of Frame semantics with the purpose of showing foreign learners of English an indicative characteristic of the language, i.e. the various constructions, in which enter and go into participate, as well as the semantic network of their distinctive meanings. In this research we rely on the usage-based approach and provide evidence for the importance of context in the semantic analysis and frame profiling. The analysis contributes to constructing a theoretically and empirically coherent approach to technical corpus data and investigating its specificities to help students acquire English constructions and use them efficiently and effortlessly in written and spoken communication.

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On The Interpretation Of Speech Acts Of Negation In English And Bulgarian Spoken Discourse

Author(s): Deyana Peneva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper makes an attempt to give a more in-depth explanation of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of a particular performative verb in English language and its translation equivalents in Bulgarian with regard to its relevance to negation and negative illocutionary attitude. The article further focuses on different scopes in negation with a view to internal and external negation markers, propositional and illocutionary characteristic features, polemic and descriptive aspects of negation. The database comprises two corpora: a set of communicative acts taken from the British national corpus (BNC) of spoken language from which all utterances represented by the performative verb reject in first person singular form were extracted and a Bulgarian corpus of data collected from 8 consecutive emissions of a current affairs talkshow Milen Tsvetkov’s hour on Nova Television in which the respective verb in Bulgarian was identified. The focal point in the analysis is the interpretation of negative meanings expressed by the representative verb in both languages which vary along different context-dependent situations and propositional content.

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Bridging English And Bulgarian Intensifiers And Adjectives

Author(s): Irina Stoyanova-Georgieva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

It is perfectly natural that users of English and Bulgarian alike find some combinations of intensifiers and adjectives possible while others sound too strange to be used. The paper deals with the constraints that govern the collocation of intensifiers and adjectives in English and in Bulgarian and proves that these restrictions are predictable and lie in conceptualisations of both constituents. What is more, the study proves that the same criteria that govern the classification of English intensifiers into paradigms of similar degree are valid for their Bulgarian translation equivalents. The same is demonstrated for the English adjectives and their Bulgarian counterparts. As a result, the study maps the similarities between the way English and Bulgarian collocations are formed and provides working, trustworthy models for classification of Bulgarian adverbs and adjectives.

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Preface

Author(s): Rumyana Todorova,Irina Nikolova Ivanova,Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva / Language(s): Turkish,English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The Preface provides an overview of the thematic distribution of the whole volume.

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Representations Of Reality In The Demarcation Zone Between Reason And Sensation In English And Bulgarian Language Advertising Discourse

Author(s): Rumyana Todorova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The paper deals with different representations of reality in the demarcation zone between reason and sensation in English and Bulgarian language advertising discourse. On the one hand, there exists an explicit requirement for advertising agents to describe the object of attention in a way which is nearest to the truth and the real world. On the other hand, text producers have to use enticing and sensational verbal and nonverbal means of expressing information so that they can sell not only the product but the life styles they are trying to impose on their target audiences. So, the strategies and techniques vary with various advertisements promoting goods and services even by the same company. The intermingling of knowledge and distortion of reality or irreality with the hope that ignorance or lack of knowledge on part of text receivers would help ‘trick’ them one way or another is shown in examples of English and Bulgarian language ads. The texts are structured in such a way that they can provoke consumers’ dreams, illusions, fantasies and imagination for better feelings and emotions as well as pleasure and satisfaction bordering with perfect bliss.

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Mirroring Reality Or Establishing A Virtual Reality: The Influence Of The Media On People’s Opinion On Muslims

Author(s): Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The paper marks an intersection between previous studies conducted on the image of Muslims in the media and a survey conducted among Bulgarian and international informants on their perception of Muslims and the way the media have influenced their opinion on that religious group.

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Press Journalist’s Profession In Poland After Political Transformation In 1989 And Nowadays

Author(s): Joanna Mikosz / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 2/2018

The article presents press journalist’s profession in Poland after the political transformation in 1989 and nowadays. In the first part the Author discusses changes in press journalism occupation after the political transformation in Poland in 1989. Joanna Mikosz presents the work conditions in Polish editorial offices and consequences of appearing foreign publishing houses at the Polish press market. The article shows positive and negatives changes of transformation in the shape of Polish newspapers and magazines and work of journalist’s profession. The last part of the considerations will attempt of answer what kind of role press journalism in Poland plays nowadays, what kind of dailies and magazines are the most popular and in which direction will go in their development.

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Common Traits And Differences In The Verbalization Of Superstructures In Media Genres

Author(s): Alesia Shevtsova / Language(s): English,Russian,Belarusian Issue: 2/2018

The article deals with the semantic structure (superstructure) of two media genres: the radio discussion and the TV news. There have been revealed the components of the prototypical superstructure, which characterize the genre in different languages. Besides the universal parts we have identified specific features of the superstructural components, which are typical of a concrete lingual culture. There have been discussed some peculiarities of the communicative behavior of the representatives of the British, Belarusian and Russian lingual cultures.

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