‘Bulgarize Away!’ – Cognitive Analysis of Phrasal Verbs with Away (A Corpus Study)

Author(s): Svetlana Nedelcheva / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

This research intends to find a more cognitive-oriented approach to the instruction of English phrasal verbs in comparison with traditional approaches. This special group of verbal phrases displays a considerable diversity of meanings even when they contain the same adverbial particle, and accordingly leads to inevitable complexity in the EFL classroom. This paper does not only aim to organize the meanings of verbs + away constructions in a semantic network but also plans to show how EFL learners can interpret the meaning of constructed ‘online’ phrasal verbs (cf. Evans, Bergen, Zinken 2007: 28) such as ‘Bulgarize away’, used by Ashton Kutcher’s character in the American movie Valentine’s day. The overall objective of the study is to oppose the false assumption that phrasal verbs (PVs) are random and without logical principles. We would like to show that PVs’ idiomaticity is comprehensible and should not make EFL students confused and inclined to avoid using them.

‘Transforma zdaniowa’ – próba interpretacji

Author(s): Zuzanna Topolinska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 26/2018

The author analyses a series of Polish sentences, including those utterances which grammatically do not belong to the basic structures of their respective sentences. Her goal is to prove that so-called sentential transform is not a separate type of grammatical structure, but any sentence and/or noun phrase structure that has been transformed in order to be incorporated into another sentence structure The transformation is usually morphological in character, and applied to constitutive members of the respective sentence and/or noun phrase.

“[They] would say she was betraying Poland already”: Major Themes in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Writers of Polish Origins

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

“Dinner by the River” and “Driving to the Airport”: Andrew Taylor’s Polish Ash Poems and Jacques Derrida’s Cinder

Author(s): Ryszard W. Wolny / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Andrew Taylor (b. 1940), one of the most eminent living Australian poets, has had a lasting relationship with Poland and Opole in particular. As a result of one of his several visits to Opole, he wrote two poems, “Dinner by the River,” which was later included in the volume edited by Peter Rose The Best Australian Poems 2008 (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2008), and “Driving to the Airport,” which appeared in The Unhaunting (London: Salt, 2009). Both poems were originally included in the volume Australia: Identity, Memory and Destiny (ed. Wolny and Nicieja, Opole 2008). The aim of this paper is, therefore, to explore the image of Poland, and the Odra River in particular, the Australian poet has created, alongside the memories of the past his visit to Poland evoked. The elements that unite the Polish poems are the ones connected with coal, soot, fi re, ashes, embers and what Jacques Derrida called cendre (cinder) in one of his most important books, Feu la cendre [Cinders] (Minneapolis, London 2014).

“He certainly was rough to look at”: Social Distinctions in Anthony Trollope’s Antipodean Fiction

Author(s): Agnieszka Setecka / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

The following article concentrates on the representation of social class in Anthony Trollope’s Antipodean stories, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) and “Catherine Carmichael” (1878). Although Trollope was aware of the problematic nature of class boundaries in the Antipodes, he nevertheless employed the English model of class distinctions as a point of reference. In the two stories he concentrated on wealthy squatters’ attempts to reconstruct the way of life of the English gentry and on the role of women, who either exposed the false pretences to gentility, as in “Catherine Carmichael,” or contributed to consolidation of the landowning classes as in Harry Heathcote of Gangoil.

“I’ll risk you, if you’ll risk me”: The Ambiguity of Human Existence and Relationships in Marilyn Duckworth’s Married Alive

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

The aim of this paper is to analyse Marilyn Duckworth’s Married Alive within the framework of Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy of ambiguity, risk and reciprocal recognition. It is argued that the New Zealand writer represents human relationships both as a potential threat to one’s subjectivity, conceptualising them in terms of conflict and competition, and a necessity that may enrich both parties. What is celebrated in the novel as the key to establishing a mutually rewarding bond is the wilful acceptance of risk and reciprocal recognition of oneself and the lover as both subject and object.

“Like being trapped in a drum”: The Poetics of Resonance in Frances Itani’s Deafening

Author(s): Ruta Šlapkauskaite / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

This paper considers how Frances Itani’s Deafening imaginatively rethinks our understanding of the Great War in the age of postmemory. Seeing as the novel is set in Canada and Europe during the First World War and takes as its protagonist a deaf woman, the poetic attention given to the senses as a horizon of phenomenological experience magnifies the moral bonds that the characters establish in defiance of both deafness and death. Guided by the theoretical reasoning of Marianne Hirsch, Elaine Scarry, and Alison Landsberg as well as contemporary phenomenological thinking, most significantly that of Edward S. Casey, Steven Connor, Michel Serres, and Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper examines how the novel’s attentiveness to the materiality of the body in regard to the ethical collisions of sound and silence as well as life and death contributes to a poetics of resonance that generates prosthetic memories, turning the anonymous record of war into a private experience of moral endurance inscribed on the ear of historical legacy.

“Love Thyself“: A Comparison between the English and the Japanese Versions of the Title Song in Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures, 2013)

Author(s): Maria Grajdian / Language(s): English / Issue: 35/2018

This paper will focus on the animated movie Frozen (directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee) and its title song “Let It Go”, translated into Japanese as “Ari no mama de” (literally “The Way I Am”), and will explore its role in the redefinition of femininity as a site of acceptance and compassion, instead of an active interplay of competition and power, as presented by the historical reality modeled by the 60-year-long feminist movement. Released in the year 2013 and highly acclaimed in Japan, Frozen (translated as Anna to yuki no joō, literally: Anna and the Snow-Queen) became the second in terms of total earnings, after USA, with 247,6 USD, the third-highest grossing film of all times (after Spirited Away, 2001, and Titanic, 1997), the second-highest grossing imported film (following Titanic) and the highest-grossing Disney film. Taking into account two other animation movies released in the same year by Studio Ghibli –The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu, director: Miyazaki Hayao) and The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no monogatari, director: Takahata Isao) –this paper analyzes the structural and semantic transformations in Frozen’s title song from its English version into the Japanese adaptation, refering to the three levels of significance emerging in thetranslation-adaptation process: emotional ambivalence, the dynamic reconsideration of legends and myths, the subtle highlighting of the spiral-like dialectics of cause and effect.

“My lot is cast in with my sex and country”: Generic Conventions, Gender Anxieties and American Identity in Emma Hart Willard’s and Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Travel Letters

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

The article analyses generic conventions, gender constraints and authorial self-definition in two ante-bellum American travel accounts – Emma Hart Willard’s Journal and Letters, from France and Great Britain (1833) and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home (1841). Emma Hart Willard, a pioneer in women’s higher education and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, an author of sentimental novels, were influential figures of the Early Republic, active in the literary public sphere. Narrative personas adopted in their travel letters have been shaped by the authors’ national identity on the one hand and by ideals of republican motherhood, which they propagated, on the other. Both travelogues are preceded with apologies filled with self-deprecating rhetoric, typical for women’s travel writing in the early 19th century and both are intended to instruct the American reader. Other conventional features of American antebellum travel writing include comparisons between British and American government and society with a view of extolling the latter as well as avid interest in social status and public activities of European women. Willard and Sedgwick deal with possible gender anxieties of their upper middle-class female readers by assuring them that following one’s literary or educational vocation in the public sphere does necessarily mean compromising ideals of true womanhood in private life

“Storytelling is an ancient art”: Stories, Maps, Migrants and Flâneurs in Arnold Zable’s Selected Texts

Author(s): Dagmara Drewniak / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Nadine Fresco in her research on exiled Holocaust survivors uses the term diaspora des cendres (1981) to depict the status of Jewish migrants whose lives are forever marked by their tragic experience as well as a conviction that “the[ir] place of origins has gone up in ashes” (Hirsch 243). As a result, Jewish migrants and their children have frequently resorted to storytelling treated as a means of transferring their memories, postmemories and their condition of exile from the destroyed Eastern Europe into the New World. Since “[l]iterature of Australians of Polish-Jewish descent holds a special place in Australian culture” (Kwapisz Williams 125), the aim of this paper is to look at selected texts by one of the greatest Jewish-Australian storytellers of our time: Arnold Zable and analyse them according to the paradigm of an exiled flâneur whose life concentrates on wandering the world, sitting in a Melbourne café, invoking afterimages of the lost homeland as well as positioning one’s status on a map of contemporary Jewish migrants. The analyses of Zable’s Jewels and Ashes (1991) and Cafe Scheherazade (2001) would locate Zable as a memoirist as well as his fi ctional characters within the Australian community of migrants who are immersed in discussing their un/belonging and up/rootedness. The analysis also comprises discussions on mapping the past within the context of the new territory and the value of storytelling.

“Such beauty transforming the dark”: Wallace Stevens’s Project in Frank Ormsby’s “Fireflies”

Author(s): Wit Pietrzak,Karolina Marzec / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Although Frank Ormsby’s poetry is associated with what Terry Eagleton has called tropes of irony and commitment, his 2009 collection Fireflies inclines, rather surprisingly, towards Wallace Stevens’s idea of imagination as a force impacting reality. Reading Ormsby’s volume against a selection of poems by Stevens unravels what appears to be a consistent affinity between the author of Harmonium and the Ulster-born poet. This affinity manifests itself, as the present paper aims to show, in the fact that in Fireflies, much like in Stevens, a form of perception of reality is delineated that is never to stagnate into an achieved balance.

“THE OUTLOOK THAT WOULD BE RIGHT.” WALLACE STEVENS’S CINEMATIC VISION

Author(s): Octavian More / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

“The Outlook That Would Be Right.” Wallace Stevens’s Cinematic Vision. Drawing on the premise that a fundamental characteristic of modernist art is the convergence of various expressive and technical modes, this paper provides an examination of a selection of texts by Wallace Stevens in which the poetic vision and method intersect with the principles of cinematic montage, with a view to demonstrating the persistence throughout his oeuvre of a particular form of “sight”, employed for tackling a series of epistemological and aesthetic issues.

“THE OVERALL AIM OF THIS WORK IS ….” FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL SUBJECT IN RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONS ACROSS FOUR DISCIPLINES

Author(s): Seyed Foad Ebrahimi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

This study investigates the types and discourse functions of grammatical subjects in research article introductions across four disciplines, namely: Applied Linguistics and Psychology, representing soft sciences, and Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, representing hard sciences. This study was carried out on a corpus of 40 research article introductions (10 from each discipline). The research article introductions were sourced from twelve ISI journals published from 2008 to 2012. The corpus was analysed based on the modified model in relation to grammatical subject types and discourse functions suggested by Ebrahimi (2014). The results revealed that the grammatical subject type selections were guided by the nature of the research article introduction. However, the frequency of use of the grammatical subject types was constrained by the nature of the discipline. Discourse functions of grammatical subject types were predominantly determined by the divisions of the hard and soft sciences, and the specific disciplines within and the internal structure of the research article introductions. In addition, the results of this study manifest a new framework for the analysis of discourse functions of grammatical subject types in research article introductions.

“The White Experiment”: Racism and the Broome Pearl-Shelling Industry

Author(s): Stefanie Affeldt / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

With the Federation of Australia, aspiration for racial homogeneity was firmly established as being fundamental to national identity. Therefore, increasing criticism was directed against Asian employment in the pearl-shelling industry of Broome. It was not least against the backdrop of population politics, that several efforts were implemented to disestablish the purportedly ‘multiracial enclave’ in ‘White Australia.’ These culminated in “the white experiment,” i.e. the introduction of a dozen British men to evince European fitness as pearl divers and initiate the replacement of Asian pearling crews. Embedded in these endeavours were reflections of broader discourses on ‘white supremacy’ and racist discrimination.

“Vain dalliance with misery”: Moral Therapy in William Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage”

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

The following paper will examine how (male) speakers in William Wordsworth’s “The Baker’s Cart” and “Incipient Madness,” which eventually became reworked into “The Ruined Cottage,” narrate the histories of traumatised women. It will be argued that by distorting the women’s accounts of suffering into a didactic lesson for themselves, the poems’ speakers embody the tension present in the chief psychiatric treatment of the Romantic period, moral therapy, which strove to humanise and give voice to afflicted subjects, at the same time trying to contain and eventually correct their “otherness.”

“War song of America”: The Vigilantes and American Propagandistic Poetry of the First World War

Author(s): Sara Prieto / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the Committee of Public Information (CPI) organised several branches of propaganda to advertise and promote the war in hundreds of magazines and newspapers nationwide. One of these organisations was the group of writers known as “the Vigilantes.” This essay examines Fifes and Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War (1917), published by the Vigilantes a few months after the American declaration of war. The discussion frames the context under which the Vigilantes conceived their poems as well as the main strategies that they employed to poetically portray the role that the United States was to play in the conflict.

“WE STOPPED DREAMING”: JULIE OTSUKA’S (UN)TOLD STORIES OF PICTURE BRIDES

Author(s): Cristina Chevere?an / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

“We Stopped Dreaming”: Julie Otsuka’s (Un)Told Stories of Picture Brides. Focusing on Julie Otsuka’s acclaimed 2011 novel, The Buddha in the Attic, this paper will investigate the picture bride phenomenon as a multilayered trade of lives, identities, emotions and expectations, drawing a vivid picture of the protagonists’ subjection to exploitation, abuse, discrimination and deceit.

“What we need is a common language, even more than having the same methods of research.” An Interview with Radegundis Stolze on Translational Hermeneutics and its Place and Role within Translation Studies

Author(s): Larisa Cercel / Language(s): English / Issue: 01 (20)/2018

“When the Stars Are Glittering with Gold up in the Sky…” Jewellery Metaphors in Descriptions of the Sky Phenomena in Roman Literature.

Author(s): Radoslaw Pietka / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2017

The paper traces the use of metaphors and comparisons concerning jewellery in the descriptions of the sky in Roman literature, most of all in poetry. As it is shown in the paper, many of those poetic devices served as ameans highlighting the vividness and perfection of the natural sky phenomena. Analysis of jewellery imageryhelps also to demonstrate the occurrence of some changes in descriptive conventions and aesthetic attitudesin Roman literature.

„Ajm Polisz i mieszkam w Glasgowicach”. Wybrane zjawiska kontaktu językowego w tekstach pisanych na przykładzie zbioru wspomnień Wyfrunęli*

Author(s): Kathryn Northeast / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2018

The aim of the paper is to discuss the most important features of bilingual literature, as well as to indicate lexical, grammatical and spelling-related phenomena present in texts of contemporary migrant authors. The material used for the analysis was a Memoirs’ Collection Wyfrunęli. Nowa emigracja o sobie which was written by Poles who migrated to the UK and Ireland after 2004.