LINGUISTICS
Agnieszka DANOWSKA-NOWAK
Problemy nauczania języka polskiego dzieci z polskich rodzin rosyjskojęzycznych na przykładzie Republiki Mołdawii / Problems of Teaching Polish to Children From Polish Russian-Speaking Families on the Example of the Republic of Moldova
Institution: school teacher
Email: krzysztof.nowak@us.edu.pl
Keywords: Poles in the Republic of Moldova; Polish language in post-Soviet countries; Polish teachers in post-Soviet countries; Polish teaching system in the Republic of Moldova; teaching Polish in Polish Russian- speaking environments
Abstract
The article tries to show the complicated situation of teaching Polish to children from Russian-speaking families on the example of the Republic of Moldova, from the didactic point of view. The author of the article taught there in the years 2003-2005 in a kindergarten in Chisinau. In the independent (since 1991) Republic of Moldova (formerly a Soviet republic), the Polish language was rarely used among Poles living there, the dominant language was Russian, rarely Romanian. The Poles living there gradually forgot the Polish language. It also happened that in the Soviet times, fear of reprisals, the family stopped using the language of their ancestors. Therefore, when starting to learn Polish, a child learns it as a foreign language, the learning of which is characterized by an organized process spread over time. After 1991, the Polish language is attractive, which is related to the prestige of Polish culture and the good economic situation of Poland. For the methodology of language teaching, this meant two important issues: the need to take into account the transition from Russian, and less often Romanian, to Polish, and the need to refer to the communicative approach through a comparative linguistic analysis.
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Mihail-George HÂNCU
„Acatistul Maicii Domnului” într-un manuscris bilingv din 1683: probleme ale traducerii din slavonă în română / The Akathist of the Theotokos in a Bilingual Manuscript From 1683: Issues in Translating From Slavonic to Romanian
Institution: Researcher PhD., Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, New Europe College
Email: mihailhancu@gmail.com
Keywords: The Akathist Hymn; 17th-century Romanian translations; Slavonic grammar; Slavonic- Romanian glossaries; bilingual texts
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze a rather unique miscellaneous manuscript from the end of the 17th century, which contains both a Slavonic-Romanian lexicon and a Romanian translation of the Akathist Hymn, accompanied by the original Slavonic text on the left half of each page. The translator, a certain logothete named Mihai, does his best to provide his own version of a text whose first translations had only started surfacing in the first half of the same century. In the process of rendering the Slavonic text, he encountered a number of difficulties, some due to the morphological differences between Romanian and Slavonic (which were less apparent or even absent in the case of Slavonic and Greek), others due to his own carelessness or even lack of grammatical knowledge.
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Nikolai PASKALEV
Dubla diminutivare în limbile bulgară și română / Double Diminutivization in Bulgarian and Romanian
Institution: Lecturer of Bulgarian,
Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: ndymitrov@abv.bg
Keywords: double diminutivization; diminutive markers; pragmatics; denotative and connotative meaning
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe the double and multiple diminutives in Bulgarian and Romanian. A definition of so-called double diminutivization is given and ways of expressing it are presented. A model of the semantic structure of the double and multiple diminutives is also proposed, as well as an explanation of their occurrence in communication and of their communicative functions in both languages.
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Rositsa STEFCHEVA
Проблеми на лексикографското представяне на частиците с прагматична функция в българския и хърватския език / Issues of the Lexicographic Representation of Pragmatic Particles in the Croatian and Bulgarian Languages
Institution: Assoc. Prof. PhD., University „Kliment Ohridski” Sofia, Bulgaria
Email: rosica_stef@abv.bg
Keywords: pragmatic particles; lexicographic definition; conversion; integral model of description of linguistic facts; discourse
Abstract
This study deals with some theoretical issues of the lexicographical representation of the pragmatic particles in the Bulgarian and Croatian languages. The analysis focuses on the lexicographic definitions of the particles indeed, actually, simply/наистина, действително, просто/zaista, zbilja, stvarno, jednostavno, excerpted from Veliki rječnik hrvatskog jezika, HJP, Dictionary of the Bulgarian language. Since the lexicographical concept stems from the current linguistic theory, an attempt has been made to systematize the lexicographical approaches in view of their dominant theoretical concepts. Some of the highlights include, e.g., the structural-morphological approach ‒ the grammaticalization processes presented as manifestations of lexical polysemy, homonymy or conversion, as well as the so-called integral model of description of linguistic facts, oriented to information related to the syntagmatic combination of particles in the broadest sense ‒ both at the level of utterance and the level of discourse. The representation of particles in the same dictionary entry with the adverbs has its basis in grammatical polysemy. Conclusions are made regarding the need for the lexicographic definitions to more fully reflect the semantic structure of particles, as this makes it possible to trace their modifying role at the level of discourse and speech acts.
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Katerina VOYNOVA
Актуални тенденции в езиковото изграждане на спортни новини в българските онлайн медии / Current Trends in the Linguistic Construction of Sports News in the Bulgarian Online Media
Institution: Assist. PhD., University „Kliment Ohridski” Sofia, Bulgaria
Email: ksmile@abv.bg
Keywords: online media; news; sport; language; metaphors
Abstract
Sports are invariably in most news media. In this report, attention will be paid to trends in the linguistic construction of football news. There will be analyzed the techniques used to report on the most
current events in the world of football.
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VARIA
Katalin BALÁZS
Conceptul „pământ”/„земля” în frazeologismele limbilor română și rusă / The Concept “Earth”/ “Земля” in Romanian and Russian Phraseological Units
Institution: Lecturer. PhD.,
Faculty of Letters, "Babeş-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca
Email: balazskaty@yahoo.com
Keywords: concept; conceptualization; perception; phraseological units containing the lexeme “Earth”; Romanian and Russian languages
Abstract
In the present paper, we will focus on phraseological units that have in their structure the lexeme “Earth” in the Romanian and Russian languages. We will present the conceptualization, the ways of perception the concept by the speakers of each language. The inventory and analysis of idiomatic constructions is based on lexicographic sources: bilingual dictionaries, explanatory and phraseological dictionaries. The material presented in this paper can be a topic for students to approach, within the optional course of
Phraseology or practical Russian language courses.
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Sorin DUȘAN
Pe urmele Tetraevanghelului scris de Popa Simeon în anul 1450 / On the Traces of the Tetraevangelion Written by Priest Simeon in the Year 1450
Institution: Apple Inc., S.U.A
Email: sorin@apple.com
Keywords: Church Slavonic; medieval manuscripts; tetraevangelion; priest; monk; monastery
Abstract
This article discusses on one of the oldest Tetraevangelions [Four Gospels Books], with exact creation date, written in medieval times on the territory of current Romania. The manuscript was written in Church Slavonic of Middle Bulgarian redaction. It was signed by its author, Priest Simeon (Сѷмеѡна), on July 14, 1450, during the time of Iancu de Hunedoara, Voivode of Transylvania, on the river Nerganiu, (Нерганю), in the village called The Big Village at Halmash (ᲀелико село ха(л)маш). Two remarkable notes are on the back of the folio 214: the first, is the colophon written by the author, Priest Simeon, and describes the time and location when he finished writing this manuscript and the second, was written later by a monk called Mitrofan (Митрофа(н)) and describes how he donated this manuscript to his mentor from his monastery to be used by other priests. This article is based on research done during the last three years and its focus is threefold: a) to provide a short chronological summary of some significant publications that described this manuscript, b) to provide information about the circumstances and the place where the manuscript was first found in modern times and by whom, and c) to provide evidence and arguments for its actual origin and to refute previous assumptions, widely accepted, regarding the geographical origin where this manuscript was written.
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Nina KHRYSTYCH
A Short Overview of Modern Approaches in the Study of Foreign Languages in Ukraine
Institution: Lecturer PhD,
State Pedagogical University "Hrîhori Skovoroda" in Pereiaslav, Ukraine
Email: ninaxrystych@gmail.com
Keywords: education; language studies; foreign languages; competence; teaching methods; approaches
Abstract
The article deals with the problem of choices of adequate approaches in teaching foreign languages. The author analyzes the different approaches based on psychology of teaching, the object of teaching, and the subject of teaching. Accordingly, there is a set of classifications of approaches such as cognitive, behaviorist, conscious, integrated, direct, active and so on. Anyhow, the author emphasizes the importance of the communicative approach which is a basis of communicative competence, the content of which is determined by the language competence, speech competence, and socio-cultural competence. The author concludes that the educators must try out numerous approaches for promoting students' interest in lifelong language learning.
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Sanda MISIRIANȚU
„Luna” și „soarele” în structuri lexicale incluse într-un dicționar bilingv (observații pe marginea limbilor română și rusă) / “Moon” and “Sun” in Dictionary Structures (Remarks on the Romanian and Russian Languages)
Institution: Lecturer PhD.,
Faculty of Letters, "Babeş-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca
Email: misiriantusanda@yahoo.com
Keywords: Romanian and Russian languages; contrastive lexicology; bilingual dictionary; phraseological dictionary; expressions containing the noun “moon”; expressions containing the noun “sun”
Abstract
In this paper, we will focus on structures containing the nouns “moon” and “sun” in the Romanian and Russian languages. Mainly, we will present the structures in which the two nouns appear in a bilingual dictionary that we consider to be a lexicographic reference source in the field. We will make observations of a lexical-grammatical nature regarding the way the structures are made, highlighting the differences and similarities between the two languages. We will analyze the usual phrases recorded in the dictionary, but also the phraseological expressions present here.
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Lucia RÁČKOVÁ
Slovenské verbum percepcie «počuť» z pohľadu mirativity / The Slovak Verb of Perception “počuť” From the Perspective of Mirativity
Institution: PhD.,
Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Email: lucia.hrckova@umb.sk
Keywords: Slovak language; mirative marker; Aikhenvald range of mirative meanings; perfectiveness; past tense; grammaticalization; Slovak National Corpus
Abstract
This research could fill the gap in the field of studies concerning the mirativity in the Slovak language. The aim of our paper is to analyse Slovak prefixal verb of auditive perception počuť in its past tense perfective forms whithin the texts of the Slovak National Corpus. The analysis should be performed by identifying the mirative meanings of the mentioned verb. The paper deals with the mirative markers which we classify based on Aikhenvald range of mirative meanings. Another important aspect that we identified, is whether we can speak about mirativity in Slovak in terms of a grammaticalized linguistic category. The paper also pays attention to the correlation between mirative markers and the grammatical persons used by the speaker. We found out that in our research sample, the 3rd person of singular was predominant.
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CENTENARY
Constantin GEAMBAȘU
Bilanțul aniversării romantismului polonez în România / Anniversary of Polish romanticism in Romania
Institution: Prof. PhD. Emeritus,
Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: kgeambasu@yahoo.com
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IN HONOREM
Lidija ČOLEVIĆ
Prof. univ. dr. Octavia Nedelcu la ceas aniversar / Prof. PhD Octavia Nedelcu on her anniversary
Institution: Lecturer PhD.
Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: lidijacolevic@yahoo.com
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Constantin GEAMBAȘU
Nicolae Mareș: între iubire și responsabilitate / Nicolae Mareș: between love and responsibility
Institution: Prof. PhD. Emeritus,
Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: kgeambasu@yahoo.com
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BOOK REVIEWS
Maria LAȚCHICI
Camelia Dinu (coord.), Modernismul rus în Veacul de Argint
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: maria.latchici@lls.unibuc.ro
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Clara CĂPĂŢÎNĂ
Darko Matovac, Basic Croatian Grammar: For Croatian Language Learners
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: clara.capatina@lls.unibuc.ro
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Camelia DINU
Mihnea Moroianu, Ciprian Nițișor (ed.), Dostoievski văzut de contemporanii săi
Institution: Assoc. Prof. Habil. PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: camelia.dinu@lls.unibuc.ro
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Gabriel-Andrei STAN
Isaiah Berlin, Gânditorii ruși
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: gabriel-andrei.stan@lls.unibuc.ro
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Anca-Maria BERCARU
Ruxandra Lambru, Nume de persoană la români în secolele XIV-XV (Țara Românească)
Institution: Lecturer PhD., Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Email: anca.bercaru@lls.unibuc.ro
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