Între seducţie şi anxietate. Chipuri ale feminităţii în Le Voyage D’Urien

Author(s): Mihai Serban / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2018

Le voyage d’Urien, which appeared in 1893, chronologically the third text published by André Gide (after Les Cahiers d' André Walter and Le Traité de Narcisse), is simultaneously a pseudo-travel journal and a pseudo-adherence to Mallarmé poetics. The text is apparently an exploration of the aquatic environment, but its in-built allegory is nevertheless transparent. Each aquatic environment discovered in all three stages of the voyage of the Orion – the Pathetic Ocean, the Sargasso Sea and Journey to the Glacial Sea – metonymically evokes a certain female typology: the clear water that makes one eager to swim, although it is full of dangerous creatures lurking beneath the surface, both appealing and dangerous like the sirens and the amazons that inhabit it; murky marshes, warm but repellent, like a feminine carnal presence, but much too submissive; frozen water, pure and unfriendly like a cold, unreachable angelic creature, and artificial at the same time. The whole process of Gide’s self-discovery exists in nuce in this ambiguous and ironic book, in which the inhibition brought about by femininity, the result of an unhealthy Puritan education, is dissimulated with the help of cynicism and adolescent joviality.

„Family” in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: A Gendered Perspective

Author(s): Shruti Amar / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2018

The concept of family is deeply associated with South Asian cultural ethos. Yet, with the arrival of the British in Bengal in the later decades of the eighteenth century the concept of the family began to change. The new class of the Bengali élite began to be influenced by the Victorian moral principles and feudal patriarchy notions of family and womanhood. Governed by the sense of “high” morality, these elite men vouched for a kind of woman who could provide them with marital bliss and a good family life. Jhumpa Lahiri, I argue, constructs a perfect middle-class woman called Ashima in her acclaimed novel‘The Namesake’(2003) to comment upon the manner in which Bengalreforms and subsequent nationalist phase have shaped a class of Bengali women that remains ingrained to the idea of marriage and domesticity

Aspects thématiques et sémiotiques dans l’autofiction d’écriture féminine

Author(s): Olivia Rusu / Language(s): French Issue: 35/2018

Autofiction allows authors to remove internal censorship and to go as far as possible in the exhibition of their intimate and unspoken lives. Actually, the “true lying on oneself” that appears in autofictions constitutes a way for the readers to read between the lines both the peculiarities of the writer, and those of the writing itself. In autofictions we may discern two paradigms, one traditional and one postmodern. It is quite obvious that women’s autofictional writing broadens and multiplies the inherent ambivalences of this genre. However, from the point of view of literary history, it was difficult for women to write their autobiographies because of at least two factors: the woman writer did not exist as a “subject”, and she could not enjoy the status of “being a writer” since she had no position from where she could have spoken. While creating an identity she does not have, the woman writer’s autofiction tends to be rather “agitated”. But at the same time, it deconstructs old models of autobiography and creates new ones. This article offers a semiotic perspective on this topic, pointing out thematic aspects in women’s autofiction and offering example from severalworks of Marguerite Duras and Amélie Nothomb.

Marriage, Home and Women’s Koinónia in Night of Henna (2005)

Author(s): IULIA Nicoleta RĂȘCANU / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2018

The notion of arranged marriage stands at the intersection of the Eastern and the Western discourses, being an issue that raises questions and a lot of public debate. As there are still diasporic South Asian communities in the West that still comply with norms from ‘home’, the hosting societies may find it interesting to understand cultural practices that are totally different from theirs. Arranged marriage seems to be a particularly interesting one as it involves elements of personal choice and independence, so characteristic of and valuable in Western societies. Apart from the issue of marriage, this paper also explores the concept of ‘sisterhood’ as a feature of non-Western societies and of their women’s collective consciousness. The bonding between these women is very strong prior to marriage and to migration. Even if these last two factors affect the female bond, this paper shows that it can be re-interpreted and re-created in other forms even post marriage and migration

Fight of Flight: Documentary Practice in Two Views of Migrants in Sweden

Author(s): Kevin KING / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2018

The article examines the narrative techniques two short documentary films used to present the issue of Syrian migrants entering Sweden. Stockholm Syndrome presents immigrants as a threat to European values, utilizing a host of false assertions, the threat of rape and graphic imagery to stoke fear in its populist audience. Flight follows two young girls from Syria to Sweden, presenting the migrant’s point of view with sympathy, while ignoring the larger issues of war, migration and its consequences. In both films, established documentary practices are used to invoke emotional responses while eschewing factual accuracy or explication.

“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.

Imagen y argumentatiòn en los discursos de asunciòn presidencial de Cristina Elisabet Fernádez de Kirchner en 2007 y 2011

Author(s): Simona-Luiza TIGRIȘ / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 35/2018

Cristina Kirchner served as president of Argentina for two terms (2007-2011, 2011-2015). The purpose of thisarticle is to identify the argumentative resources that she uses most in her inaugural addresses.Cristina Kirchner uses various fallacies, metaphors, personifications andantitheses whichincrease the persuasive power of her speeches. As an argumentative strategy, she uses comparisons so as to place different concepts on the same level and rhetorical questions in orderto focus the attention of the audience on what she is about to say. In both of her speeches she createsa strong and positive imageof hersel

Blood Is Thicker than the Ocean: Language and Immigration in Miroslav Penkov’s East of the West

Author(s): Michal Moussaffi / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2018

Miroslav Penkov’s East of the West is a collection of stories which take place in Bulgaria and the United States and deal with the experiences of immigration and deterritorialization. In this paper I study the ways in which Penkov uses language to communicate the immigrant’s experience of miscommunication. While deterritorialization by immigration is a universal subject, in Penkov’s book of stories he deals explicitly with the relationship between east and west and demonstrates, beginning with the title of his book, that these concepts are inherently relative.

Culture – China’s Choice in Soft Power. A Case Study on the Political and Intellectual Chinese Discourse on Soft Power

Author(s): Iulia Elena GÎŢĂ / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2018

Soft power concept is an increasingly researched topic and one which gained the attention and interest of national governments. In the international competition between countries, a rising number of nations started to notice that culture and language play an important role in their global image, China being one of the pioneers which placed great importance on the promotion and development of soft power with culture as its core. The aim of this paper is to analyse the tools of culture promoted and implemented by China, though its agents of soft power and think-tanks. In achieving the proposed objectives, the research will focus on the position and conceptualization of soft power by the several Chinese schools of thought and on investigating the Chinese political discourse from the first acknowledgement of the concept during the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in 2007 to the latest in 2017.

Corina Anton, Luminiţa Diaconu et Ioana Munteanu (dir.), Du Blanc au Noir : les couleurs dans la symbolique médiévale, Éditions de l’Université de Bucarest, collection « Mediaevalia »

Author(s): Veronica Grecu / Language(s): French Issue: 35/2018

The article presents the book “Du Blanc au Noir : les couleurs dans la symbolique médiévale » (From White to Black : the Colours of Medieval Symbolistic”) by Corina Anton, Luminiţa Diaconu and Ioana Munteanu (ed.), published by Bucharest University Press, collection « Mediaevalia », no. 8/ 2018.Key words: medieval literature, significance of colours, light, identity, gender

Ciało w tekstach piosenek polskich raperów

Author(s): Izabela Puchala / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2018

This article is an attempt to analyse the portrayal of the body in the lyrics of Polish hip hop songs. The analysis focuses on one hundred randomly chosen songs which include the lexeme ciało ‘body’. All the analysed songs were written by Polish rappers after the year 2000. The paper begins by describing the hip hop subculture; it also presents an overview of the definitions of the term ciało ‘body’ offered by dictionaries of contemporary Polish. The analysis of the collected lyrics reveals that rappers use the noun ciało ‘body’ to refer to ‘an organism, alive or dead, seen as a whole’ as well as to ‘a female’ presented as a sexual object.

PETER CHAADAYEV - FATHER OF PROVIDENTIALISM IN RUSSIA

Author(s): Grzegorz Przebinda / Language(s): English Issue: 164/2018

«ОБРАБОТАТЬ НАПИЛЬНИКОМ…» АНАЛИЗ ОДНОГО ПРЕЦЕДЕНТНОГО ТЕКСТА

Author(s): Aleksander Kiklewicz / Language(s): Russian Issue: 164/2018

The author examines the nature and degree of difference of jokes as precedent texts of folklore. Feature-based jokes due to multiple reproductions in spoken communication are more or less modifiable. The author shows these modifications on the four levels of semantic text structure: compositional blocks (introduction, problem, problem solving); script (as a sequence of events); frame (as a constitutive part of the proposition); facets references. The author concludes that the greatest modification occurs at the lowest level of the semantic text structure, i.e. at the level of reference of the particular frame characteristics.

Introduction à la conception coserienne sur le langage

Author(s): Dumitru Cornel Vîlcu / Language(s): French Issue: 03/2010

The article presents briefly the fundamental ideas of the linguistics initiated by Eugenio Coseriu, insisting upon the three planes of language, the judgements of conformity and the text specificity. The text closes with the presentation of the universal principles of language.

Silvia Irimiea, Text Linguistics, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca, 2008, 229 p.

Author(s): Liana Muthu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2010

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SCRIEREA CU DIACRITICE ● Indicator al gradului de cultură şi de profesionalism ● Condiţie esenţială pentru elaborarea, interpretarea şi aplicarea corectă a textelor şi a prevederilor legale

Author(s): Grigore Lăcrișa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 39/2019

In Romanian, writing with diacritics is not an option, but an obligation. The diacritics not only tone, but also specify and personalize the language, culture and life. It is part of the basic structure of the act of communication, of creation by word and, therefore, any people who have such a language speak it, serve it and respect it with sanctity. Romanian is one of the most nuanced, expressive and balanced languages on the planet. That is why we need to speak it correctly and write it correctly.

Konwersacyjne wykładniki emocji w rozmowie

Author(s): Mariusz Rutkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

The paper presents the analysis and interpretation of signals of emotions in a talk.Full and complete investigation of interlocutors` emotional involvement is possible in thecontext of adjacent utterances. The linguistic tool that makes it possible is the conversationalanalysis methodology, which is based on the real conversations. In this paper suchthe conversations analyzed are the institutional talk as well as telephonic emergency call.In both of the types of conversation, the emotional signals reveal. The signals are: intonation,tone of the voice, louder talking, interruptions, overlaps, and talk-script-conflict.By these crucial issues, the paper shows how the preference organization of talk affects theinterlocutors` emotional behaviors: the dispreferred turns evoke the emotional engaging.

ZBIÓR RZECZY POTRZEBNIEJSZYCH DO WYDOSKONALENIA SIĘ W OJCZYSTYM JĘZYKU SŁUŻĄCYCH [1776] MICHAŁA DUDZIŃSKIEGO JAKO ŹRÓDŁO WIEDZY O POLSZCZYŹNIE PÓŁNOCNOKRESOWEJ

Author(s): Wanda Decyk-Zięba / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06/2019

The aim of this paper is to present Zbiór rzeczy… (A collection…) by Michał Dudziński as a reliable source of knowledge of the north borderland Polish language. The author, guided by his own sense of language standard and Thesaurus by G. Knapius, considered all that deviated from the standard incorrect. And since his language experience resulted from contacts with the north borderland Polish language, he recorded words characteristic of this regional variant of Polish as incorrect ones in his work. The north borderland regionalisms recorded by the author include: I) the borderland words of the a) Belarusian, b) Ukrainian-Belarusian (with a broader range, recorded also in sources from the south borderland) origin, II) archaisms, and III) vocabulary common to the north borderland and Polish dialects, IV) a) phonetic, b) morphological, and c) lexical innovations resulting from language interference.

Z DZIEJÓW JEZYKOWYCH KONTAKTÓW POLSKO-KOREAŃSKICH. WYRAZY KOREAŃSKIE W KSIĄŻCE WACŁAWA SIEROSZEWSKIEGO KOREA. KLUCZ DALEKIEGO WSCHODU

Author(s): Kim Gwangseok / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06/2019

The subject matter of the paper falls into the fi eld of interlanguage contacts and concerns Korean lexis in the form of an extensive set of borrowings, references and quotations in the book titled Korea. Klucz Dalekiego Wschodu (Korea. The key of the Far East) of 1905 by Wacław Sieroszewski. It is at the same time the first example of adapting Korean words as heard or read by the author in their phonetic form to the Polish language. These are words representing various categories of lexis, including common words, nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some idioms and conversational phrases, as well as proper names, toponyms and anthroponyms. Sieroszewski mixes various spelling conventions modelled also on early (mainly Russian and English) transcription systems of Korean. Sieroszewski’s limited knowledge of Korea’s language position resulted also in Japanised forms of some toponyms in his text.

Szaleńcy jako „odpady” nowoczesnego świata w kontekście wypowiedzi teoretyków kultury

Author(s): Katarzyna Rytlewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2017

The thesis proves that the forms of medical treatment are determined by the culture in which sick people are functioning. It formsspecific disease entities and definite therapies. This is the culture that becomes principal for creating and functioning a medical system, and, in consequence, the system itself corresponds to its fundamental paradigms as far as the sphere of theory and practice is concerned.