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Classical Crossover and Its Russian and Ukrainian Interpretations

Author(s): Iryna Shylnikova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: classical crossover; music studies; music genres; mass culture;

This article aims to explore the phenomenon of “classical crossover,” a contempo- rary music trend that blends “high” and “low” elements. In addition to analyzing the genre’s main features and cultural preconditions for its emergence, the article will examine its historical origins and development. The second part of the article focuses on examples of classical crossover in Russian and Ukrainian music, with an analysis of several artists who have ventured into this new type of production, including the Terem Quartet, Anna Netrebko, Olga Chubareva, and Arina Domski. By applying historical and cultural methodology, the article suggests that classi- cal crossover has a broad audience in Russia and Ukraine, allowing musicians to introduce elite classical music to the masses. Although some may view the genre as a dilution of classical music’s distinctive qualities in order to cater to popular tastes, it also provides musicians with the opportunity to create original pieces thatmerge tradition with innovation. Considering all of the above, the author of this article aims to explore the cultural significance and impact of classical crossover in the music industry.

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The History and Development of the Musical Romans as a Genre A Short Overview

Author(s): Gloria Politi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Russian romance; romans; opera; song; history of music;

The purpose of this essay is to trace the lines of evolution of the Russian romance, which found fertile ground for its development from the mid-18th century. The genre was firmly embedded in a tradition that had originated a century and a half earlier, but its roots lay in the oral production of ancient Rus’. Despite this strong historical-anthropological imprint, the diachronic development of Russian romance, as a hybrid genre of dual nature—poetic and musical—addressed to both elite and mass audiences, is marked by a series of revivals and contaminations (mainly in 19th-century Europe, especially in Italy). The article, based on culturological, literary and historical studies, presents a brief overview of the development of the genre and its various sub-genres, such as bytovoĭ romans, romans-ballad, romans-elegii͡a, up to contemporary songs and melodies.

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Inhuman Humanity: On the Theater of Angela Di Maso

Author(s): Andrea Fernando de Carlo / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Angela Di Maso; contemporary theater; tradition; innovation; social norms; tragedy; violence;

This article discusses Angela Di Maso’s theater, which is a reflection on contemporary society and aims to awaken audiences from social conformity and consumerism. This theater seeks to explore human existence, with its metaphysical anxiety, violence, and the brutality of everyday life present. It challenges social norms and stereotypes, using crude language to tell stories that disturb and provoke self-analysis. Angela Di Maso’s theater has gained recognition and success for its versatility in combining textual and scenic elements, meticulously developed with actors. Di Maso’s work combines tradition and innovation, drawing inspiration from European theater and at the same time representing a form of resistance to traditional and avant-garde theatrical conventions, forging new paths of expression and advocating freedom of expression. The article includes as an appendix an extensive interview with Angela Di Maso, entitled “From Jerzy Grotowski to Angela Di Maso, via Witold Gombrowicz: An Interview with an Enfant Terrible of Italian Theater.”

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Transnational Pathways of Eurasian Performance Arts Introduction

Author(s): Artur Duda / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: theater studies; performance studies; transnationality; Eurasian theater;

Introduction to essay cluster Transnational Pathways of Eurasian Performance Arts.

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Finding Kokoro through the Eyes Butoh in Roberta Carreri’s Work and Pedagogy

Author(s): Simone Dragone / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: Butoh; kokoro; theatre anthropology; intercultural training; creative process; theatre pedagogy; Eurasian theatre;

In 1984, Roberta Carreri, Odin Teatret actress since 1974, saw Niwa (The Garden), a Butoh dance performance by Muteki-Sha, and attended a three-day workshop with Natsu Nakajima, direct heir of the Butoh pioneer Tatsumi Hijikata. In 1986, she traveled to Japan to work with Natsu Nakajima and Kazuo Ohno. The meeting with the Asian masters changed her approach to training and the creative process. For her, the most remarkable aspect of this apprenticeship was the work with the eyes. The way the eyes are used in Butoh conditioned Carreri’s training and the creative process of her solo performance Judith (1988). Since those same years, the Italian actress has been developing her own pedagogy. Today, she travels globally leading the workshop Dance of Intentions, which includes “flexing the eyes,” an exercise whereby the actress transmits to trainees how it is possible to shape the quality of scenic presence through the eyes. Drawing on a rich bibliography, Roberta Carreri’s work diaries, unpublished documents, and audiovisual materials kept at the Odin Teatret Archives, this paper aims to analyze how the actress embodied the ability to find the kokoro (Japanese for “heart” or “soul”), its application to the creative process and the performance, as well as her pedagogic work, and how this Butoh apprenticeship conditioned her professional identity.

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Developing English Language Skills for Professional Communication in Medicine

Author(s): Ilina Doykova / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: EMP; content-based instruction; authenticity; corpus tools in language pedagogy;

The purpose of the present article is to present a model for a content-based textbook as a teaching resource in the subject of English for medical purposes. We aimed at enhancing the quality of specialised foreign language teaching offered at university level as well as optimising and streamlining the training process. Based on the communicative approach, a conceptual model of the course Professional Communication in English for the specialty of medicine is demonstrated with incorporated lexico-grammatical tasks to develop the four language skills of speaking, reading, listening, and writing at level B2 (CEFR). The authenticity and the relevance of the learning content is verified with the help of a pre-compiled corpus of professional texts and keyword list collections. Each textbook text is checked for the extent of compatibility of its lexical content to the corpus keyword list for the purposes of focused instruction in the EMP classroom

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The Role of Metaphoric Competence in Medical English Instruction

Author(s): Slaveya Goranova / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: conceptual metaphor; Medical English; metaphoric competence;

The article deals with the growing need for developing greater metaphoric competence in Medical English courses, this need being addressed, in particular, by influencing the elaboration of the major didactic tool, the textbook. The paper examines conceptual metaphors in Medical English in accordance with the stipulations of the Cognitive Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson. It highlights the dichotomy of metaphor proper and metaphoric instance, which corresponds to the existence of metaphor in thought as opposed to its embodiment in language. We analyze Medical metaphors and highlight major umbrella metaphors. The issue of dead metaphors in Medical English is addressed. We conclude that hidden metaphors in Medical English must be elucidated, such resurrection of the original source mapping playing an important role in achieving metaphoric competence. We insist that this competence is, in fact, twofold: metaphoric competence at the level of lexis and metaphoric competence at the level of thought.

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Analysis of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Telegram Posts by Means of Text Mining

Author(s): Alexandra-Lavinia ISTRATIE-MACAROV / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Zelenskyy; discourse; social media; Telegram; emotional marketing; text mining; political communication;

This article analyses the posts the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made in English on the Telegram channel “Zelenskiy / Official”, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022, and until 19September 2022, using text mining software and techniques. The study analyses readability, lexical density, the most frequent terms, correlations, collocations, and common phrases. In terms of techniques, mind-mapping, trend analysis, network analysis, n-gram generation and topic modelling were used. The positioning of this real-time public discourse is relevant since the channel has one million individual subscribers from around the world. Furthermore, Zelenskyy has been qualified as a celebrity politician (Archer and Cawston), who also gained wide electoral support through his social media presence (Dorosh, Nocon and Zakaulova). It is even more relevant to analyse the English posts since it can be inferred that they debuted with the full-scale attacks of 2022 (since the creation of the channel on 30 July 2019,only three posts in English were made before 24 February 2022).

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The Discursive Presence of Digital Technology in Research Articles in Psycholinguistics: A Systematic Analysis

Author(s): Oleksandr Kapranov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: digital technology; psycholinguistics; psycholinguistic discourse; systematic analysis;

The article introduces and discusses a systematic analysis of the discursive presence of digital technology (e.g., computer programs) in research articles (RAs) in psycholinguistics published in a peer-reviewed journal of psycholinguistics from 2014 to 2022. The corpus was examined for the discursive presence of digital technology and its relation to psycholinguistic research topics. Additionally, the corpus was processed in AntConc (Anthony 2022) in order to identify the frequency of lexical items associated with the discursive presence of digital technology. The results of the systematic analysis yielded the following findings: the presence of digital technology was manifested, predominantly, by software programs, as well as digital artefacts that were localised in the Results and Discussion sections of RAs, whilst the discursive presence of hardware was less frequent in the corpus. The findings were further discussed in the article.

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Critical Thinking Strategies as an Influential Tool in Growing the Disciplinary Literacy

Author(s): Iryna Liashenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: critical thinking; disciplinary literacy; professional competency; university students; ESP;

The rapid development and changing of the employability market due to ongoing economic metamorphoses require high-level skills and abilities to prepare graduate students for specific life situations. The educational system needs to use more efficient approaches in increasing essential skills for modern life and work situations. The study aims to define the appropriate teaching methods and more profound thinking skills for developing specific work activities with the students. The academic importance of the research lies in revealing new connections between critical thinking skills and disciplinary literacy in ESP in preparing future professionals with its practical meaning for future application. The relevant literature helped synthesize the contextual framework of the structure of disciplinary literacy. The student group has traced and justified critical thinking skills as a professional component in the study. The results supported the conceptual framework with critical thinking as a crucial component of disciplinary literacy for future professionals. Critical thinking, a key 21st-century employability skill, is sought to make the professional portrait of a graduate consistent and effective, which could have important implications for future educational policies.

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Pro- in Two Semantic Networks (A Comparative Study of English and Bulgarian)

Author(s): Svetlana Nedelcheva / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: spatial semantics; prefix pro-; English; Bulgarian; semantic networks;

The prefix pro- is found in different languages of Indo-European origin.It has given rise to a number of prefixes and prepositions in these languages. The present article aims to construct the semantic networks of pro- in English as are presentative of Germanic languages and Bulgarian as one of the South Slavic languages and to find some intersections and variations. Most studies devoted to prefixes focus on their function as aspectual markers and do not consider their semantic contribution when they are associated with verbs. By analysing the prefix pro-, this research tries to show that prefixes also play a very important role in the semantic structuring of space. As the data reveal, pro- is more productive in Bulgarian than in English, as it combines with more varied types of base verbs. Therefore, it has developed a more branched semantic network.

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The Markers of Concession in Assertive Speech Acts in American and Bulgarian Discussion Programmes

Author(s): Deyana Peneva / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: assertive speech acts; markers of concession; syntactic relations; semantics; pragmatic meaning;

The relevance of the paper is due to the exponential increase in cross cultural research interests in the area of communicative acts that are steadily becoming the matter of examination from linguistic and pragmatic perspectives. The study is aimed at defining, classifying and analysing the markers of concession identified and extracted from 6 consecutive broadcasts of two popular discussion programmes in American-English and Bulgarian (TED talks and Investbook) within the confines of the simple (extended) clause. In particular, the use of the descriptive analytical method in the data interpretation allows distinguishing the structural and pragmatic specificities of the two sets of data. The focus is on the relations of concession within the boundaries of assertive speech acts and more precisely: the representations of certain linguistic means of concession with an emphasis on their functional-semantic and structural-syntactic features as well as on their pragmatic representation. The diversity and the linguistic variability of the adverbial forms of concession are further inspected in terms of their coherent deployment and respective reflection on their semantic functions and communicative meaning.

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Strategies Used in Translating IMO SMCP (2001)

Author(s): Ioana-Raluca VIŞAN,Oana Tătaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: maritime terminology; Seaspeak; Maritime English (ME); maritime Romanian; translation strategy; translation difficulty; (non)equivalence;

The focus of this paper revolves around the translation strategies employed when translating the official version of the Standard Marine Communication Phrases - IMO SMCP (2001) - into Romanian. The source text is “an institutional document” published by the International Maritime Organization in English, and consists of a list of phrases arranged thematically. The phrases cover a number of maritime topics which represent the dominant speech acts and moves in maritime communication. In addition, the translated text is primarily intended for Romanian speaking seafarers, shore-based personnel and trainees in Romanian Maritime Education and Training Institutions. Even though seemingly devoid of difficult lexical and terminological load, most of the source language phrases can become a real challenge for the maritime language translator, in terms of dealing with lexical gaps, semi-technical vocabulary, neologisms and/or possible cases of polysemy. Therefore, the paper provides a source-text analysis and translation problems on the terminological and terminology-related levels of linguistic description in the process of translating the IMO SMCP 2001 into Romanian.

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Virtual Exchange Programs and the Development of Cross-Cultural Communication and Academic Language Skills in Higher Education

Author(s): Andrea Roxana Bellot / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: English for Specific Purposes (ESP); English for Academic Purposes (EAP); literature and cultural studies; international virtual exchange; intercultural and digital competence; language skills;

This paper examines the role of language in two virtual exchanges that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, between a public university in Spain and two partner universities in the U.S. The exchanges focused on English literature and cultural studies and aimed to enhance intercultural competence, cross-cultural understanding, and skills in English-language literary analysis. The students were able to develop their skills in critical thinking, investigate relevant topics regarding gender, race, and identity, enhance technological competence and digital professionalism, sharpen interpersonal communication and teamwork skills, and improve their use of English for academic purposes. The interactions took place entirely online, in English, and both synchronously and asynchronously. The paper discusses how the English language impacted communication and group work in the international student teams.

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Teaching Conversation (10 Documentaries for Law Students)

Author(s): Alina Costea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: communicative skills; identity; productive skills; learner autonomy; conversation; confidence;

Students of English for Specific Purposes do not learn for the sake of learning. They need to be practical and to consider English as an essential tool to help them climb the ladder in their future careers. Thus, this is why we got engaged into a challenging and rewarding project with our 2nd year of study Law students to boost their communicative skills and foremost, to guide them to better use spoken English and legal jargon in order to gain autonomy, together with confidence. In this respect, we have selected ten documentaries for these students to watch and debate on, ranging from topics such as online identity theft to women’s rights and liberties in the Arabic world or to what is to be hidden in the mind of a serial killer. Not surprisingly, our students have shown great interest into these matters as the end of term feedback revealed to us. Not only that they have improved speaking and vocabulary, but they have also stretched the boundaries of critical thinking they could reach at the start of our journey together and the art of arguing for one’s perspective over global issues connected to the field of Law. The theoretical support for our project and for this paper was provided by many scholars such as Scott Thornbury and Diana Slade’s “Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy”, orby Jim Scrievener, “Learning Teaching. The Essential Guide To English LanguageTeaching” and others.

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A return to the green years with films inspired by famous novels or established scenarios from the last three decades

Le retour aux annees vertes par des films inspires de romans celebres ou de scenarios consacres, des dernieres trois décennies

Author(s): Carmen- Liliana Mărunţelu,Cristina Tamaş / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: childhood; adolescence; innocence; love; cinematographic special effects; visual effects;

The analysis we propose is based on the relationship that is established, in the case of screenplays, especially between text and image, between line and sound, as a soundtrack, because the film is the director s logical vision of the complex plan of the short story or of the novel that constitutes the foundation of an artistic edifice, in an exposition that, if masterfully conducted, can become a work of art. This is the case of some famous novels whose screen adaptations have become equally famous and which appear in the Encyclopedia published in France with the title 100 Classics of the 7th Art, that bring together film critics from Paris, Berlin, London, Munich and New York. If the 80s can be considered the cinema beyond appearances in search of the great secret of metamorphosis and transgression, the90s are those of speed, in other words 20 images in 6 seconds. It is about this art at the end of the millennium, in the last decade, that we aim to deal with, but especially with those exceptional productions that return to childhood and adolescence with the joy of playfulness and innocence.

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Teaching Idioms Connected to Business English and Colors

Author(s): Lavinia Nădrag,Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează) / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: English for Specific Purposes; idioms; metaphors; colors; business English; teaching activities;

It is widely acknowledged that metaphors and idioms play a key role in understanding the ways in which people from various cultures construct and envisage the world via their mother tongue. Having in view the tight interconnections between language and culture, the ESP teaching process should when it comes to the teaching of metaphoric and idiomatic expressions. The literature has highlighted the importance of teaching idioms and metaphors also in specialized languages, such as economics, law and medicine; for instance, in business, color symbolism and idioms can be employed in order to communicate the key features of a product. This paper tackles several aspects related to the concept of metaphor and idiom, the meanings conveyed by various color idioms in business English, the importance of teaching idioms to ESP students (with a focus on business English), and briefly presents several recommended activities that can be employed when teaching (business) idioms.

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The Significance of BELF and Communication Skills: Incorporating ESP in the Core Curriculum in Higher Education - Challenges, Issues, And Opportunities

Author(s): Biljana NAUMOSKA-SARAKINSKA / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: ESP; proficiency; competencies; communication; Business English;

The need for ESP is vital in equipping non-native English speakers from all fields to be competitive in the workplace, outside the academic context, regardless of where they see themselves in the future, and where they will pursue their professional ambitions; they now need to demonstrate their English proficiency in their chosen professional endeavors. As such, there is a need to incorporate ESP in the core curriculum for every Faculty in addition to the core courses of the particular field of study. However, before this can be realized, there are other issues that need to be addressed, such as the class load, the number of semesters it will be offered, and the level it will be taught at, among others. Furthermore, there are questions concerning the competencies the students will have been equipped with by the end of the course, as well as the expectations concerning the final aims and outcomes. In line with this, an important issue that needs to be addressed is that of the choice of materials to be used in the realization of the syllabus, all with the aim to best meet the learner issues, as well as possible solutions to alleviate and overcome them. In this context, it will look at and discuss the results from a survey that was conducted among students, freshmen, from the Faculty of Economics in Skopje, N. Macedonia, who had taken the elective course Business English in the fall term of 2022/2023.

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Functional Exchanges and Context in Point of the English language as “lingua franca”. Case Study Agenda-setting Concept

Author(s): Oana Tătaru,Ioana-Raluca VIŞAN / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: context; lingua franca; oral expression; language; agenda-setting;

The present-day society is characterized by a wide range of channels within the framework of which communication and language have a particular role in the transmission of specialized knowledge. The function and connotation of any conversational exchange implies the subject to acknowledge the norms and expectations as regards language that are assumed by the participants in a context.The perception of the world depends on ideologies whereas the concept of power constrains language use and, therefore, communication with others; the notion of context, accounting for the situatedness of oral expression or text implies concrete properties of participants and social identities, roles, relations as well as social actions of a specific case.

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Defiance of “Magdalenes”. Female Challenges in Recent Irish Fiction by Nicoleta Stanca

Author(s): Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează) / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Nicoleta Stanca; Review;

Review of: Nicoleta Stanca. Defiance of “Magdalenes”. Female Challenges in Recent Irish Fiction. București: Editura Universitară, 2023. Foreword by HE Paul McGarry, Ambassador of Ireland to Romania and Postscript by Professor Anne Fogarty, University College, Dublin. ISBN 978-606-28-1570-7. 247 pp.

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