PRAGMATIC, LINGUAL CULTURAL SENSES AND ETHNIC SYMBOLS IN ARTISTIC TRANSLATION

Author(s):  
Oleh Tyshchenko

The article considers performative speech acts (expressives, commissives, wishes, curses, threats, warnings, etc.) and generally exclamatory phraseology in the original and translation in terms of the function of the addressee, the specifics of the communicative situation, the symbolism and pragmatics of the cultural text. Through cultural and semiotic reconstruction of these units, their semantic and grammatical structure and features of motivation in several linguistic cultures were clarified. Collectively, these verbal acts, on the one hand, mark the semiotic structure of the narrative structure of the text, and on the other hand, indicate the idiostyle of a particular author or characterize the speech of the characters and the associated range of emotions (curses, invectives, cries of indignation, dissatisfaction, etc.). Several translated versions of M. Bulgakov’s novel «The Master and Margarita» (in Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak and English) and English translations of M. Kotsyubynsky’s novel «Fata Morgana» and Dovzhenko’s short story «Enchanted Desna» constitute the material for the study. The obtained results are essential for elucidating the specifics of the national conceptual sphere of a certain culture and revealing the types of inter lingual equivalents, idiomatic analogues in the transmission of common ethno-cultural content. This approach can be useful for a new understanding of domestication and adaptation in translation, translation of culturally marked units, onyms, mythological concepts, etc. as a specific translation practices. There was further developed the theory of phatic and performative-expressive speech acts in lingual cultural comprehension.

Author(s):  
Ahmad Alqassas

This chapter focuses on the semantic and pragmatic effects associated with the various positions of negation. Particularly, presuppositional readings for negative statements follow from different structural positions of negation (higher in the TP) as opposed to the non-presuppositional interpretations associated with the lower NegP below TP. This chapter also analyses contrasts between SA maa on the one hand and laa and its variants on the other hand. These contrasts are related to scope readings, presupposition, mood and speech acts (commissive, directive, volitive, and (ir)realis). I argue that presuppositional negation is a product of the interplay between syntax and pragmatics. Specifically, I propose that presuppositional negative markers are higher in the syntactic structure. They occupy a position above the tense phrase in the clausal structure, namely NegP above TP (cf. Zanuttini 1997 for similar effects in various Romance). Pragmatically marked negation includes presuppositional negation, categorical negation and cleft-negation. The former two are in a NegP above TP, while the latter is in CP.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
NFN Defina

When playing, children will communicate to one another. They use language when communicating with their interlocutors. In this sense, this study was aimed at analyzing types of expressive illocutionary speech acts produced by children to communicate when playing. Ethnographic communication method was employed in this research done at Klender National Residence, East Jakarta. The data collecting technique was observation aimed to take down notes the children’s speech acts when playing football, in particular. The obtained data were then analyzed by using matching method. Meanwhile, this research employed Schiffrin’s speech acts theory. The findings revealed that in the distribution of the use of expressive speech acts in the children’s dialogues when playing football were identified six pairs of speech. From the six pairs, only two types of expressive speech acts were identified, while the other three were none. The produced expressive speech acts are 1) blaming expression in five pairs (83,3%) and 2) pardoning expression in one pairs (16,7%). On the other hand, the unidentified types of expressive speech acts are 1) thanking, 2) congratulating, 3) praising and 4) condoling, 5) welcoming, 6) criticising,  7) complaining,  dan 8)  flattering. In conclusion, the children used expressive illocutionary speech acts more with blaming expression than those with pardoning, thanking, congratulating, praising and  condoling. So, their communicative language tends to involve blaming expressions. Abstrak Saat bermain, anak-anak akan berkomunikasi sesamanya. Mereka menggunakan bahasa saat berkomunikasi dengan mitra tutur.  Sehubungan dengan hal itu, tujuan dalam penelitian ini adalah menganalisis jenis tindak tutur illokusioner ekspresif yang dihasilkan anak-anak untuk berkomunikasi saat bermain. Metode penelitian ini adalah metode etnografi komunikasi. Penelitian dilaksanakan di Perumnas Klender, Jakarta Timur. Teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi. Observasi bertujuan mencatat tuturan-tuturan anak-anak saat bermain bola. Teknik analisi data,data yang sudah terkumpul selanjutnya dianalisis menggunakan metode padan. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori tindak tutur yang dikemukan Schiffrin. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh data bahwa distribusi penggunaan tindak tutur ekspresif  dalam dialog anak-anak saat bermain bola, dapat diidentifikasi 6 pasang ujaran.  Dari enam pasang ujaran, hanya ada dua jenis ujaran ekspresif, sedangkan tiga jenis ujaran ekspresif lainnya tidak ada.Tindak tutur yang dihasilkan itu adalah 1) tindak tutur ekspresif menyalahkan berjumlah 5 pasangan ujaran  (83,3 %) dan 2) tindak tutur ekspresif  meminta maaf 1 pasangan ujaran (16,7 %).  Sebaliknya, tindak tutur ekspresif yang tidak dipergunakan 1) berterima kasih, 2) memberi selamat, 3) memuji, 4) belangsung kawa, 5) menyambut, 6) mengkritik, 7)  mengeluh,  dan 8) menyanjung. Kesimpulannya adalah dalam bermain, anak-anak lebih banyak menggunakan tindak tutur ilokusi ekspresif  menyalahkan jika dibadingkan dengan tindak tutur  meminta maaf, berterima kasih, memberi selamat, memuji, belangsung kawa, menyambut, mengkritik, mengeluh, dan menyanjung. Jadi, bahasa mereka dalam berkomunikasi cenderung menyalahkan.


Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Agung Mas Triadnyani

This paper aims to investigate the ideas contained in the short story entitled “Anjing” by Kuntowijoyo. There are two views of society towards dogs. On the one hand, this animal is considered an animal that is loyal to his master, on the other hand dog are often considered a disturbing animal and has a negative connotation. This short story describe how dog can affect the lives of neighbors. The method used is an analytic descriptive method. The theory used is narratologi from Todorov. The result obtained is through living as neighbors, we learn to respect the right of other people


Author(s):  
Zulaikhat Magomedovna Mallaeva

The article examines the relationship between the semantics of a sentence and its grammatical structure. The complexity of the research is due to the following factors: 1) the lack of own research methods for the grammat-ical structure of the sentence; 2) the absence of more or less fully explicated concepts and terms for the study of the semantics of the sentence. In the Dagestan languages of the ergative typology, such structural types of sentences are presented, which differ both in terms of content and in terms of grammatical design of this content. The peculiarities of the syntactic structure of the language of the Dagestan languages cannot be investigated without establishing the regular connections that exist between the structural types of the sentence and the logical content of the sentence, on the one hand, and between the semantics of the sentence and a special grammatical form of representation of this content, on the other hand.


Author(s):  
Валерий Вячеславович Волков ◽  
Наталья Васильевна Волкова

Цель данной работы - уточнить жанровую специфику британских и российских литературных антиутопий. В центре внимания авторов, с одной стороны, жанрово-теоретический анализ утопий, с другой стороны, анализ содержания и структуры базового дуального концепта «Время: настоящее - возможное будущее» и концептов, смежных с ним. Ключевые концепты интерпретируются по процедурам, использующимся в филологической герменевтике. В результате исследования выявлены отличительные особенности британских и российских антиутопий. Аксиологическое основание «британской» дистопии - стабильность и упрощенность, что каузирует застылость в рамках линейного времени. «Российская» дистопия в романе Ефремова основывается на идеях коммунизма, которые оказалось невозможным реализовать. Рассказ Чехова «Пари» строится в традициях «духовного реализма», центрирует внимание на соотношении секулярного и религиозного путей к «совершенному человеку». The purpose of the article is to clarify the genre characteristics of the British and the Russian dystopian fiction. The work is focused, on the one hand, on the genre and theory analysis of utopias and, on the other hand, on the content and structure analysis of the main binary concept «Time: the Present and the Possible Future», as well as related concepts. The key concepts are interpreted according to the procedures used in the philological hermeneutics. The distinctive features of the British and the Russian dystopias are revealed. The axiological essence of the «British» dystopia is stability and simplicity leading to stagnation within linear time. The «Russian» dystopia in Efremov’s novel is based on the ideas of communism impossible to implement. Chekhov’s short story «The Bet» is based on the traditions of «spiritual realism» and focuses the reader’s attention on the correlation of the secular and religious paths to the «perfect human being».


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
NFN Jahdiah

This study discusses speech act of bamamai (nagging) in Banjar language. Bamamai is an expressive speech act. Bamamai usually involves the speaker's emotion toward the speech partner when the speech is not in accordance with what the speaker wants. This research aims to describe bamamai speech acts based on Leech’s politeness scale. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data collected are descriptive, taken from the speakers’ conversations in Banjar language’s oral variety. The theory used in this research is the politeness scale by Leech, namely (1) cost and benefit scale, (2) optionality scale, (3) indirectness scale, (4) authority scale and (5) distance scale. The research shows that there are polite speeches in the bamamai (nagging) speech act because they are in accordance with Leech’s politeness scale, namely the indirectness, authority and optionality scale. On the other hand, there are impolite speeches in bamamai (nagging) speech act because they are not in accordance with the indirectness scale and social distance scale. AbstrakPenelitian ini membahas mengenai tindak tutur bamamai (mengomel) dalam bahasa Banjar. Bamamai termasuk tindak tutur ekspresif. Bamamai biasanya melibatkan emosi penutur kepada mitra tutur ketika tuturan mitra tutur tidak sesuai dengan yang diinginkan oleh penutur. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan tindak tutur bamamai berdasarkan skala kesantunan Leech.  Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskripsif kualitatif. Data yang dikumpulkan berbentuk deskriptif percakapan penutur berbahasa Banjar dalam ragam lisan. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini skala kesantunan yang dikemukakan oleh Leech, yaitu (1) skala kerugian dan keuntungan, (2) skala pilihan, (3) skala ketidaklangsungan, (4) skala keotoritasan, dan (5) skala jarak. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dalam tindak tutur bamamai terdapat tuturan yang santun karena sesuai dengan skala kesantunan yang dikemukakan oleh Leech, yaitu skala ketidaklangsungan, keotoritasan, dan pilihan. Sebaliknya, dalam tindak tutur bamamai terdapat tuturan yang tidak santun karena tidak sesuai dengan skala ketidaklangsungan dan skala jarak sosial.


2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bacalja ◽  
Goran Pavel Šantek

Homer's epics had significant influence on the development of narratives. In literary history Homer's opus was regarded as the beginning of literature in European cultural realm. On the other hand, one of the most important literary characters in the Antiquity was "Odysseus – the one that starts an extraordinary sequence of literary heroes in the following centuries". This paper deals with Odysseus' ordeals – from Troy to Ithaca, which influenced the formulation of paradigm of fairytale hero's actions. Ordeals are marked by obstacles that are placed by gods, and in fairytales those are typical actions of heroes who overcome obstacles in order to achieve justice or undo the wrong. The authors select the motives from the Odyssey that are integrated into the narrative structure of the fairytale. Those motives are based on mythological perception of life and world.


In the paper, the national and women’s contexts closely interrelated in W. S. Maugham’s “The Unconquered” short story (1943) are being examined. While analysing the ground of the conquest and resistance, it is concluded that war conquering and sexual violence are aimed to establish the men’s power over certain part of the world. In some ways, capturing a woman and occupying the land are considered equal things under the patriarchal rules. With this in mind, any male conqueror tries to reach both of them not only for the sake of victory, but also for approval his status of a worthy member of a men-ruling society (a nation). Next, the role of stereotypes as an engine of all negative phenomena of national and gender non-understanding, in particular, war and various kinds of inequality, is stressed. Tracing the complex relationship between, on the one hand, Frenchmen and Germans, and women and men, on the other hand, it should be token that the final infanticide is multivalued whereas it means the woman’s liberation and revenge for the men’s world, as well as is an apogee of national resistance.


Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jamie S. Scott

Set in the early 1990s, Hanif Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic” (1997) dramatizes tensions between Parvez, a lapsed Pakistani Muslim migrant to postcolonial England, and his son Ali, who rejects the western secularity of his father and reverts to a strict form of fundamentalist Islam. If these tensions remain unresolved in the story, Kureishi’s film adaptation elaborates them. In so doing, though, My Son the Fanatic (dir. Udayan Prasad 1997) presents a very different picture. Renamed Farid, the film’s eponymous youth breaks off engagement to the daughter of the local chief of police and challenges his father: “Can you put keema [minced meat] with strawberries?” Metaphorically, this question articulates the deeper concern underlying the story: How might migrants in diaspora live an authentic Muslim life in the secular environment of the predominantly non-Muslim United Kingdom? A close reading of My Son the Fanatic reveals vying answers. Farid and Parvez both invoke the Qur’an, ultimate arbiter of value, meaning and truth in Islam, but thence their paths diverge widely. On the one hand, the film depicts the revivalist maslak of Deobandi Islam, though such missionary fervour may lead all too easily to the violent militancy of Farid and his cohort. On the other hand, My Son the Fanatic suggests conditions of possibility for a Muslim life of sacralised secularity by developing the love between Parvez and Sandra in terms of tropes and themes transposed from the Sufi imaginary to the postcolonial United Kingdom, most notably an ethos of iḥsān, that is, the cultivation of what is beautiful and good.


Author(s):  
Mikhail Kissine

This chapter is devoted to major theoretical questions surrounding non-assertion speech acts. First is addressed the distinction between institutional and non-institutional speech acts. Then, directives, questions, expressives, and commissives are discussed in turn. Each of these classes of speech acts raise specific issues, which are separately discussed. For instance, it is important to determine the exact relationship questions bear, on the one hand, to directives and, on the other hand, to assertions. It is equally important to understand whether some expressives and commissive should be thought in naturalistic terms and how they relate to other types of speech acts. The extent to which definitions directives should make reference to desire expression is also discussed. That said, the study of non-assertion speech acts is also threaded with several common themes, such as the tension between normative and intentionality approaches, and the impact of non-assertion speech acts on theories of assertion.


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