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This article attempts to interpret the protagonists of the iconic works of the 1990s: the Polish novel Panna Nikt [Miss Nobody] and the American series Twin Peaks, the film Fire, Walk with Me, and the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer through the prism of the category of girlhood, viewed as a particular existential experience of oscillation between childhood and female adulthood, a period of initiation. Using feminist and gender critique, the heroines' girlhood is analyzed in the context of their identity and position in the network of social hierarchies and symbolic structures in which they function.
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This article, based on the analysis of a series of letters about the unfair division of roles in the family sent to the editor of “Filipinka” in 1967 is part of the trend of girlhood studies and research on the social history of emotions. It shows how the process of distinguishing girls as a social group and the development of girl culture was accompanied by their gradual emotional emancipation. Letters to the editor, being a specific form of communication, are treated in the article as a kind of “emotional shelter” according to William Reddy’s terminology, allowing for the articulation of affects that go beyond the set of accepted emotional norms and may be signs of social change.
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Why did Pippi Longstocking, the fictional character created by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, become one of the most popular icons of contemporary feminism? Examining the development of the riot grrrls music trend and the anarcho-punk aesthetic, the answer can be quickly found. A question arises about girlhood as a strategy and a subversive solution drawing on literary prototypes of the “odd child” who will not grow old.
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The article is a review of the book Erased Pleasure. Clitoris and Thinking by Catherine Malabou. Its main topic is ‘the feminine,’ a category introduced by French second-wave feminism and still useful for feminist theory.
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The subject of interest of the presented pilot case study was to observe, how online teaching influenced non-verbal communication, specifically the gestures of a class teacher in the fourth grade during a geometry lesson. We compared two video recordings: an online lesson lasting 30 minutes, 33 seconds and regular geometry lesson in person in classroom lasting 35 minutes, 19 seconds, both rewritten in the CHAT system. Following J. Mistrík (1997) we classified the teacher’s auto-semantic gestures as deictic, iconic, symbolic and contact. We also registered adaptors according to DeVito (2008). Our analysis shows that the teacher observed in teaching geometry lessons at primary level used gestures most effectively. This is evidenced by the predominance of deictic gestures, mostly aimed at the blackboard and the subject of the lesson (geometric shapes and assignments on the blackboard) during online and regular face-to-face lesson in the classroom. However, online teaching has influenced the teacher’s gestures both in the number of gestures used (significantly less in online teaching) and in the different representation of the occurrence of individual types of gestures. In online teaching, there was a higher tendency to use iconic gestures to illustrate the subject taught and a tendency to almost not use symbolic gestures to express consent or disagreement with the pupil’s answer. In online teaching, we have also observed a significant reduction in contact gestures and adaptors. During the regular face-to-face teaching, we noticed a specific use of symbolic gestures for the teacher to nod in advance as if instead of the pupils. The most common adaptor in face-to-face teaching was adjusting the face mask.
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The aim of the article was to introduce the translation of chosen word combinations and collocations based on the research material of the Slovak National Corpus. The English-Slovak parallel corpus was used to introduce the translation from the English into the Slovak language. The topic discussed within the research was family. Five adjective-noun word combinations/collocations were chosen based on the MI value in the corpus. The higher this value was, the most probable it was that a particular word combination was a collocation at the same time. However, the detailed analysis of chosen word combinations/collocations was done to say for sure what type of word combinations the analysed combinations were: free word combinations, collocations or idioms. The analysis of chosen word combinations was based on the linguistic analysis by Vajickova – Luţa 2019. The results of the analysis showed that not all word combinations with a high MI value in the corpus are collocations at the same time.
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The subject of swear words has long been overlooked. In Slovak linguistics, it is rarely discussed, and what attention it does receive is often uncoordinated, with opinions and classifications varying considerably. We aim to fill this gap by unifying several theoretical points and proposing practical solutions in this article. One especially interesting lexeme in this regard is the French word con, as well as its derivates. We define con as a dysphemism; for the translator, dysphemisms and swear words in general can present a real conundrum. In this article, we look at the “black novel” (roman noir) Behind the Panels There Are Men by Swiss writer Joseph Incardona. This contemporary work reflects reality in a harsh manner, using many disparaging expressions in the process. We proceed by identifying such expressions in the text and proposing possible ways to translate them. We hope that these solutions will prove helpful to translators, including future Slovak translators of Incardona’s works, seeing that none of his numerous books have been translated into Slovak to date.
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Vocabulary learning is a crucial part of English language acquisition. In order to learn vocabulary successfully, there is a need for effective vocabulary tasks. There are many tools to measure vocabulary task efficacy, and one of them is the Involvement Load Hypothesis. The ILH was evaluated by conducting an experimental study between three groups of 15 Slovak EFL learners. Learners completed tasks with different involvement loads and unannounced immediate post-test focused on meaning recall. The findings partially supported the Involvement Load Hypothesis. Students who had finished the task with the highest involvement load were found to recall significantly more meanings than students who had carried out the task with the lowest involvement load. However, the vocabulary gains of the learners who had completed the task with a moderate involvement load were not significantly different from other groups. This study shows that increasing the involvement load in the vocabulary tasks can be highly beneficial for Slovak EFL learners. Moreover, teachers and learners can benefit from this valuable insight into the effectiveness of materials used for teaching and learning vocabulary.
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Peta međunarodna konferencija anglista održana je u periodu od 3. do 5. septembra 2009. godine sa temom Konstrukcija, dekonstrukcija, rekonstrukcija (Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction).
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In contrast to the many South Asian texts that explore deep, metaphysically oriented states of mind, introspection of a personal, empirical, everyday kind is relatively rare in the textual archive until the early modern period, beginning roughly in the 16th century. At that time a remarkable richness of personal introspective works is evident in all the major south Indian languages. This article explores some of the features of that literature, with representative examples of literary, musical, and philosophical sources focused on the individual and on her or his sense of self.
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The Sanskrit campū Nīlakaṇṭhavijaya is arguably the most popular literary work of Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita. It narrates the mythical story of the churning of the Ocean of Milk, with an emphasis on the part played by Dīkṣita’s personal god—Śiva. A close reading reveals that this text is preoccupied with themes of agency and subjectivity. The multiple characters of the story are not conventional archetypes. Rather, they inhabit shared worlds and come across as having distinct yet intersecting identities. Gods, demons, snakes and even Venom are given very human biographies and social milieux. And all these biographies flow into that of the titular Nīlakaṇṭha, presenting an implicit model of the self. But who is the Nīlakaṇṭha of the title?
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Śiva’s sense of self is ever-evolving, ever-changing. His selfawareness is in constant motion, expanding and contracting in its many manifestations. The movement is circular. It forms Śiva’s life cycle which is structured and bound to an internal dynamic based on a tensile balance between the reflexive and reflective modes of the god. The following article examines this dynamic, sketches the structure of the life cycle as it appears in the Kālavadha Kāvya of Kṛṣṇalīlāśuka, and aims to shed new light on the vibrant sense of Śiva’s self.
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This paper studies Naiṣadha in Our Language (Bhāṣānaiṣadhacampu), a 16th-century Maṇipravāḷam retelling of the Nala and Damayantī tale from Kerala. It focuses on two main aspects of this text, both illustrated by different expressive modes: one ‘high,’ pulling towards the polished, dense literature of the Sanskrit style, and the other ‘low,’ pulling towards the performative, the local, and the colloquial. The first is exemplified by reading several verses where Damayantī is struggling to formulate an answer to Nala. Here, I discuss a heightened interest in the depiction of the individual, encapsulated in his or her relationship with and separation from other individuals. The second is illustrated by long prose sections describing men on their way to the wedding. Here, I discuss several allusions to Kerala’s contemporary society and literature, and the expressive possibilities of Maṇipravāḷam prose. The association with Śrīharṣa’s canonical Sanskrit Naiṣadhacaritam serves as a roadmap to some of the intriguing literary selections of this text.
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This article explores artistic innovations in Kūṭiyāṭṭam theater through the lens of critique developed in the Naṭāṅkuśa—a polemical treatise composed, perhaps, in the 15th century Kerala. The focus is on the Naṭāṅkuśa’s fierce disapproval of the performance of multiple roles by an actor dressed as one and the same character—for example, switching from the role of Hanumān to that of Rāma, while still in Hanumān’s costume and make-up. The author of the Naṭāṅkuśa utilizes epistemological arguments to demonstrate the impossibility of accommodating more than one character in a single actor’s mind. Nor can a spectator have a stable cognition of the second- order characters. The fact that the author attributes to the opponent— a Kūṭiyāṭṭam performer—a non-dualist theory of cognition, suggests that the theory of Kūṭiyāṭṭam was inspired by Advaita Vedāntin and the non-dualist Śaiva epistemological presuppositions.
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Kārtikā Tirunāḷ Bālarāma Varma (r. 1758–1798) was the ruler of the South Indian state of Travancore and the author of a Sanskrit treatise on theatrology, the Bālarāmabharata. His reign constituted an important period of patronage of arts and literature, especially in the field of performing arts. The king was not only an outstanding patron but also an eminent scholar and an accomplished author. As the evidence of this great variety of roles, the paper proposes to analyse the opening passages of the Bālarāmabharata where Kārtikā Tirunāḷ Bālarāma Varma presents himself in a self-portrait of sorts: as a ruler, patron, scholar and poet. He inscribes himself in the patronage tradition of the rulers of Travancore as well as in the line of the continuators of Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra while simultaneously showcasing his literary prowess and practical experience in the contemporary tradition of performing arts.
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The paper discusses the literary translator, seen not as somebody who merely renders the meaning of the source text in another language but rather as a person who intervenes in the text in order to make it acceptable to the target culture. Thus, the literary translator is almost writer-like and needs certain qualities and knowledge that are dealt with as well. Reference is also made to the role literary translation plays in the imposition of a certain manner of writing or of a certain ideology and to the literary translator’s (in)visibility.
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In this article we will make a short presentation of the process of forming the surnames in France, by pointing out the categories of names which led to the formation of surnames.
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