We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.

4.50 €

Face and politeness in Irish English opinions – a study amongst Polish and Irish students

Author(s): Weronika Gąsior / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Epistemologically, an opinion is different from a fact. However, emotionally, that difference can be more blurry. In a study of exchanges of opinions among Polish and Irish English speakers those emotional attachments to opinions on the one hand, and the importance of facts on the other, become apparent. These differences can cause conflict in intercultural communication. While Poles are believed to express opinions which are “dogmatic” (Wierzbicka, 1985), English opinions tend to be stated so that they are clearly distinguishable from a statement of fact (Mullan, 2010). This study aimed, firstly, to describe the politeness characteristics of the speech act set of exchanging opinions in two linguistic groups: Polish-Irish and Irish-Irish interactions in English. Secondly, it examined issues of socio-pragmatic principles of expressing opinions in Ireland. Discourse data was gathered in six open role-plays, which were followed by focus groups exploring the issues of sociocultural constraints in expressing opinions. The results point towards a difference in cultural scripts (Wierzbicka, 1994) for opinions in the two linguistic groups; confirm previous classifications of Polish and Irish cultures as favouring positive and negative politeness respectively; and provide an insight into the affective side of exchanging opinions.

More...

4.50 €

The usage of diminutives in polite phrases as a way to express positive/negative politeness or to formulate face-threatening acts in Polish

Author(s): Paulina Biały / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Expressive polite phrases, namely the ones containing diminutive forms, play a significant role in interpersonal communication. According to Ożóg (1990, p. 72), they are aimed at convincing the addressee of special, and not only formal or perfunctory, attitude of the speaker towards him/her. Moreover, as it is usually the case, they are applied in situations when the speaker wants to maintain the addressee’s positive face, for instance he/she wants to express meanings such as familiarity, intimacy, or liking. Nevertheless, sometimes they may be used as acts threatening the addressee’s positive or negative face. Usually, in the case of diminutives, face-threatening acts are done off record, when the speaker wants to express irony, disrespect and pitifulness. This article aims at answering the question about the role of diminutives in polite phrases. Are they always related only to positive politeness? How is their presence in a sentence perceived by the addressees? Moreover, the comparison between Polish and English will be provided as these two languages differ significantly in terms of expressing emotions in a conversation. In order to get answers for the questions mentioned above, a short questionnaire, containing some typical expressive polite phrases, was distributed among a representative number of native speakers of Polish and English, in order to assess whether the presence of diminutives influences their impressions and reactions to these sentences.

More...

4.50 €

Āp kitnā kamāte haĩ? “How much money do you earn?” The Indian way of politeness

Author(s): Magdalena Varga / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Everyone is aware of the fact that ignorance and the lack of proper knowledge are our worst enemies in every field of life. Therefore, it will not be an exaggeration to say that they are the cause of the most undesired results in the process of communication.The present paper shows how the language competence not followed by the knowledge of cultural background and context may lead to gaffes or misunderstandings at best, and even to offences and conflicts at worst. Its main goal is to outline the complex connection between family and caste in particular, or broadly speaking – community and religion in India, and to show the specificity of their influence on Hindi, the most widely known language of the Indian subcontinent. The paper describes all the most important factors which are crucial to the Indian concept of “face.” They also present grammatical and lexical measures and politeness strategies with the use of which Hindi speaking people deal within the multilevel socio-cultural relations and are able to coexist with each other more or less peacefully. Finally, the nuances one should take into account while making conversation with Hindi-speaking partner are mentioned.

More...

4.50 €

Analysis of Japanese political analytic articles: Making face salient to explain actions in political interactions

Author(s): Yasuhisa Watanabe / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In Japanese newspapers and web journal articles analysing political and international relations, the Japanese counterparts of the term “face”, for example kao, mentsu, taimen (Yabuuchi, 2004) as well as tachiba, considered as the key to describe interpersonal relationships (Haugh, 2005), are frequently used. The emic notion of Japanese face and its construals (Spencer-Oatey, 2007) are used to explain actions or the lack of actions by a politician and a government as a result of saving or claiming face. The face that each participant, be it a person or an organisation, claims is an image of itself, formed through ongoing relationships among participants and observers in the political arena. Facework among the participants unfolds in forms of decisionmaking, political power game and war. Goffman’s (1967) formulation of face and facework is still applicable in describing the face of a politician and a government in these articles.The aim of this chapter is to analyse the Japanese emic face on its own through the analysis of Japanese political analytic articles, which make direct references to emic notion of face as cultural insiders (Haugh, 2013). I will firstly demonstrate how Japanese emic face is applied to describe intra-national and international political relations in Japanese political analytic articles. I will then reaffirm the ongoing nature of face, both between participants and in public, and the role that non-participants play in maintaining one’s face.

More...

4.50 €

Face and ethics in professional interpreting

Author(s): Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Interpreting can be considered a form of intercultural communication in which at least three participants take part – primary participants (the speaker and the hearer(s)) and the interpreter. This is interpreter-mediated communication in social interaction (Jacobsen, 2009). Thus the interpreter, like any other interaction participant, has face – “an image of self delineated in terms of approved social attributes” (Goffman, 1967, p. 5). Face, which is created during social interaction, is both a property of relationships and a property of the individual, and is shaped by culture and the role he/she performs. Among the socially relevant qualities of the individual’s self-image, we can distinguish three groups of attributes: • attributes tied to moral conduct (e.g., adherence to the code of professional ethics), • attributes tied to a position in a social setting (e.g., professional competence of the interpreter), • attributes tied to interpersonal skills and facework competence (e.g., coordinating/mediating skills).To maintain face participants engage in facework (Goffman, 1967), actions which address face, involving threat and support as well as actions aimed at maintaining face.The aim of the study is to analyse the interpreter’s professional face, its ethical aspect in particular, and facework strategies employed during interpreting. The study has been carried out within the framework of the Cultural Face Model (Bogdanowska-Jakubowska, 2010).

More...

4.50 €

Еднокракият език

Author(s): Rumen Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article is dedicated to the problems that emerged in Bulgarian after the eradication of the so-called, double "е" pronounced differently in East and West Bulgaria. The author discusses the reasons, political ones included, which led to the maiming of the Bulgarian language.

More...

4.50 €

Балканские очерки

Author(s): Viktor Kossyk / Language(s): English,Russian Publication Year: 0

The text is related to the consideration of the anecdote in the Balkans, more specifically with the subject of nationalism, the "own" and the "alien" in the relations between Balkan people. The text itself is a rife with varied anecdotes in the capacity of the quintessence of political, public and everyday Balkan life in all its variety.

More...

4.50 €

Параметри на социално функциониране на турския език в България

Author(s): Harun Bekir / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The linguistic picture in Bulgaria is far from monolinguistic. Turkish is in a strong position in Bulgarian linguistic situation because it is really used and is a key element of the group identity of its bearers. Turkish in Bulgaria enjoys a high prestige withing the framework of its own group. It has real communication functions and is handed down in the family. The distribution and social function of Turkish as one of the minority languages is also important for the linguistic situation in the country. In connection with this, it is one of the linguistic formations participating in the Bulgarian linguistic situation. In analyzing the functioning of Turkish in Bulgaria, we have also tried to define the spheres of its usage and to present the place of Turkish in the life of the Turks, in addition to the spheres of communication and the individual social strata; the main trends related to Turkish and the factors that determine them, as well as to evaluate the conditions with a view to the future of Turkish among the Turkish community in Bulgaria.

More...

4.50 €

Construcciones causativas «hacer(se) + Inf.», «dejar(se) + Inf.» como recurso del texto de traducción: micro- y macroparámetros

Author(s): Sergiy Fokin / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The present study focuses on some usage peculiarities of Spanish causative constructions «hacers(se) + Inf.», «dejar(se) + Inf.» in fiction texts translated into Spanish VS original ones. Though causative constructions do exist in many languages, they may show a wide number of asymmetric features (such as pronominal forms, present in Romanic languages, absent in English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, etc.). As there are frequently no direct equivalents in the original text for the causative constructions, more subjective factors can influence the translator’s decision whether to use them or not. Particularly, it turned out that translators tend to exaggerate a «favorite» construction or to underuse some stylistic devices. A million-tokens corpus demonstrates it to be a strong tendency in translated fiction text, unlike in the original ones.

More...

4.50 €

Algunas reflexiones sobre la „Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Fonética y fonologia” (2011)

Author(s): Jerzy Szałek / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The publication by Tomas Navarro Tomas of two fundamental books pertaning to Spanish phonetics („Manual de pronunciación española” (1918) y „Manual de entonación española” (1944) gave rise to the appearance of more publications dealing with the description and functioning of the Spanish phonetic and phonological systems. All the subsequent publications – which were based on Tomas Navarro Tomas’ books – attempted to develop, define more precisely and verify the theses formulated by the Father of Spanish phonetics. The author of this article presents a new important book which is indubitably an exceptional publication and constitutes a breakthrough in Spanish linguistics. His remarks are confined to the Spanish segmental system and phonetic change. The book came into being as the result of a close cooperation between 22 academies of the Spanish language („Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Fonética y fonologia”, vol. 3, 2011).

More...

4.50 €

La Lingüística cultural: una aportación a la metodología

Author(s): Joanna Wilk-Racięska / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this article is to present the research apparatus of the cultural linguistics. I understand the cultural linguistics as a multidimensional research system which, depending of the phenomenon under investigation uses various tools. Hence, the research apparatus of cultural linguistics covers both cognitive and pragmatic tools and it can also use the instruments typical for ethnolinguistics. However the most important tool serving in a sense as an authorization of later cognitive and pragmatic studies is an analysis by means of notional decomposition. When a subject of research is language changes created mainly as a result of an encounter of two different visions of the world, a decomposition of notional structure of the expressions into basic elements seems the most reasonable and even a necessary starting point.

More...

4.50 €

Documentos del Consejo de Europa: transparencia y reponsabilidad

Author(s): Izabela Rychel / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The experts have been interested in the process of the second language acquisition for many years. However, the significant changes appeared in the second decade of the twentieth century. The establishment of the Council of Europe, an ogranization which associates 47 countries, provided new common standards of the evaluation of the language proficiency. The most important aim of the work of the Council of Europe was to promote the multilingualism and multiculturalism to create between the European citizens understanding and openness for other cultures. What is more, common norms facilitated people the mobility because the certificates they were receiving started beeing recognisable in ither countries. The creation of the CEFR and European Language Portfolio was the beginning of the new way of understanding the process of the second language acquisition which, nowadays, has to be transparent for students. Furthermore, students have become more conscious and responsible for their own learning. The possibility of monitoring their learning process gives them opportunity to work out their stategies and patterns of work. Therefore, they are not just an audience but they take an active part in the second languages acquisition.

More...

4.50 €

Acerca del potencial didáctico de la Lingüística Cognitiva en el aula de E/LE: el caso de las locuciones

Author(s): Agnieszka Szyndler / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to present the didactic potential of Cognitive Linguistic, and in particular of Cognitive Theory of Metaphor in teaching Spanish as a foreign language. The present article, whose subject matter are idiomatic expressions which belong to the core of phraseology and can be viewed as prototypical phraseological units, not only attempts to demonstrate the reasons why this theoretical framework is extremely beneficial in the foreign language classroom but also focuses on role that the iconic dimension of idioms (mental image) and its metaphorical value (conceptual metaphors) have in the teaching and learning process. In other words, particular attention will be paid to research into the application of the theoretical postulates of Cognitive Linguistics to didactics of phraseology.

More...

30.00 €

Szekspiromania. Księga dedykowana pamięci Andrzeja Żurowskiego

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish

A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of a renowned Shakespeare scholar Andrzej Żurowski (1944–2013). The book is devoted to the interpretation and reception of Shakespeare’s works in Polish theatre and abroad, to theatrical practices and various dramatic devices, to translations and comparative studies, as well as to polemics and Shakespearean inspirations in broadly defined culture: in music, iconography, and translation. A diverse study of the phenomenon of the contemporary and global Shakespeare.

More...

0.00 €

Sosyal Bilimler Üzerine Araştırmalar - V

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish

Technological developments and globalization has changed human nature. This change directly affects all stages of human life. At this point, it becomes inevitable to carry out research on people and human life. All studies carried out in the field of Social Sciences aim to understand human, human life and human nature. In this work, which was put forward in order to understand the human, different studies from different disciplines were discussed and a step was tried to be built in order to reach this goal, albeit to some extent.

More...

0.00 €

Доклади от Международната годишна конференция на Института за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“ (София, 2023 година)

Author(s): Petya Barkalova,Krasilina Koleva-Kostova,Hristo Manev,Krasimira Aleksova,Ruska Stancheva,Verka Sasheva,Gergana Padareva-Ilieva,Teodora Krasteva,Elka Mircheva,Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova,Pirnika Penkova-Lyager,Tatyana Ilieva,Nadka Nikolova,Vanya Micheva,Georgi Mitrinov,Kalina Micheva-Peycheva,Magdalena Abadzhieva,Luchia Antonova-Vasileva,Manuela Nevaci,Irina Floarea,Iliyana Garavalova,Svitlana Georgieva,Kiril Kirilov,Krasimira Koleva,Hristina Deykova,Mariyana Parzulova,Simeon Stefanov,Nadezhda Dancheva,Tatyana Braga,Velislava Stoykova,Peter Žeňuch,Yoanna Kirilova,Svetlana Šašerina,Alexander Letuchiy,Ekaterina Tarpomanova,Ivan Derzhanski,Olena Siruk,Georgi Georgiev,Olena Voytseva,Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski,Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska,Vladislav Marinov,Reni Manova,Viara Maldžieva,Miyryam Salim / Language(s): Turkish,Slovak,English,Bulgarian,Romanian,Croatian,Russian,Polish,Ukrainian,Old Slavonic,Hungarian,Old Bulgarian

This volume contains the papers presented at 2023 edition of the Annual International Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences .The Conference is a prestigious forum for sharing the latest achievements and trends in all areas of the study of the Bulgarian language in Bulgaria and around the world, as well as the advances of the ten departments of the Institute, including research carried out under national and international projects and in cooperation with scholarly centers in Bulgaria and abroad.

More...

0.00 €

Polsko-słoweński dialog międzykulturowy. Slovensko-poljski medkulturni dialog

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,Slovenian

The volume addresses important issues of Polish-Slovenian intercultural dialogue and its multifaceted nature. It has been divided into five parts, each dealing with a different type of relationship and often deepening and supplementing previous reflection on the subject. Some texts, moreover, uncover areas of Polish-Slovenian dialogue that are still completely unknown. The first part deals with direct Polish-Slovenian contacts, experiences that constitute a biographical feature and are related to various types of wanderings. The authors of the texts collected in the second part present intertextual relations in the sphere of themes and literary structures between Polish and Slovenian writers. In the next part, the authors' attention is focused on literary translations, which are an important manifestation of Polish-Slovenian and Slovenian-Polish intercultural dialogue and are an expression of the need to bring the two cultures closer together and to translate them through the medium of literature. The intercultural dialogue at the level of linguistic structures, content and expression, is described in the articles collected in the next part of the volume. The last part is devoted to the sphere of education, promotion of the language and culture of both countries, cooperation in the field of higher education or selected aspects of language policy in higher education in Poland and Slovenia. The volume Polish-Slovenian Intercultural Dialogue is the outcome of the first exclusively Slovenian academic conference in Poland and in the world devoted to cultural contacts between Poland and Slovenia.

More...

0.00 €

Zbornik radova u znak sjećanja na kolegicu Almu Granov

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian

Odsjek za bosanski, hrvatski i srpski jezik Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu priredio je Zbornik radova u znak sjećanja na kolegicu Almu Granov (1968–2013). Alma Granov bila je asistentica, viša asistentica i docentica na Odsjeku od 1993. do svoje smrti, te je ostavila veliki trag i kao nastavnica i kao naučnica među kolegicama i kolegama i studentima našeg fakulteta. Kolegica Granov dala je značajan doprinos bosanskohercegovačkoj lingvistici u oblasti rekcijske fonologije i posebno kompjuterske semiotike. Veliku je zaslugu imala u projektu uvrštavanja bosanskog jezika na Google Translate. Dr. Alma Granov napustila nas je u trenutku kada je pripremala projekt koji se ticao procesa digitalizacije bosanskohercegovačke kulturne baštine. Zbornik objedinjuje deset radova iz lingvisitke, nauke o književnosti i kulutrne bašine te dodatne tekstove o životu i radu kolegice Granov. Pored članova Odsjeka za bosanski, hrvatski i srpski jezik, radove su napisali kolegice i kolege koji su sarađivali s kolegicom Granov te mlađe kolegice i kolege koji su usvajali prva znanja iz njenih tekstova o kompjuterskoj lingvisici i jezičkim tehnologijama. Svaki pojedinačni rad u Zborniku recenzirala su po dva recenzenta slijepom recenzijom. Zbornik su u cijelosti dodatno recenzirala dva recenzenta otvorenim recenzijama. Pored sjećanja, ovaj zbornik je posebno naš znak zahvalnosti kolegici Almi Granov za njenu hrabrost da se uhvati ukoštac s brojnim izazovima u oblasti kojom se bavila te da iza sebe ostavi pionirske radove koji će služiti narednim naučnim generacijama. Zbornik objedinjuje deset radova iz lingvistike, nauke o književnosti i kulturne baštine. Uz članove Odsjeka za bosanski, hrvatski i srpski jezik, radove su napisali kolege i kolegice koji su sarađivali s kolegicom Granov te mlađe kolegice i kolege koji su usvajali prva znanja iz njenih tekstova o kompjuterskoj lingvistici i jezičkim tehnologijama. Vjerujemo da će sadržaj ovog zbornika biti koristan i zanimljiv čitateljstvu te da će radovi objavljeni u njemu biti inspirativni za dalja naučna i stručna istraživanja sličnih tema u području lingvistike, književne nauke i kulture uopće.

More...

0.00 €

Семантични студии. Синтактично и семантично описание на български глаголи

Author(s): Svetla Koeva,Svetlozara Leseva,Ivelina Stoyanova,Hristina Kukova,Valentina Stefanova,Maria Todorova,Tsvetana Dimitrova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian

The volume “Semantic Studies: Syntactic and Semantic Description of Bulgarian Verbs” is developed as part of the project “Enriching the Semantic Network WordNet with Conceptual Frames”, funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under the Program for Funding Fundamental Research (Grant Agreement No. KP-06-N50/1 of 2020).

More...

0.00 €

Inovare, integrare şi comunicare în spaţiul educaţional

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian

This volume includes a selection of the papers presented at the International Conference "Education in the Perspective of Values", the XVIth edition, held at the "1 December 1918" University of Alba Iulia - Romania, on October 9 - 11, 2024. The organizers of this edition were: "1 December 1918" University of Alba Iulia (Romania), "Saint Clement of Ohrid" University of Sofia (Bulgaria), University of Belgrade (Serbia), University of Helsinki, UNESCO Chair on Values, Dialogue and Human Rights (Finland), “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, the Doctoral School “Didactics. Tradition. Development. Innovation” (Romania) and Moldova State University (Republic of Moldova). We were honoured by the presence of representatives of the main research and academic centres from Romania, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Bulgaria, professors and researchers from the academic community, as well as from institutes specialized in research in the education field, public figures concerned with identifying and promoting sustainable values for the development of children, teenagers and young adults, in different educational contexts. This year, the participation was numerous, over 70 research works being included in the three volumes published on this occasion. This year's research has included scientific fields such as: educational sciences, psychology, theology, philology, philosophy, sociology, economic sciences, engineering, computer science, music and mathematics, as well as a number of interdisciplinary fields.

More...