scholarly journals The mixing of language codes in anglophone postmodern literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
E. A. Denisova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Postmodern Literature ◽  
Mechanism Of Interaction ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

The study of the mixing of language codes on a par with linguistic and extralinguistic factors that determine peculiarities of the equal functioning of two (or more) languages in a communicative act or in a literary text, in particular an anglophone literary text, is studied at the interdisciplinary level and is relevant. Traditionally, the phenomenon of mixing language codes is considered as a separate aspect of language interactions, as well as in the context of such linguistic phenomena as: borrowings, interference, bilingualism, diglossia, code switching, etc. The interest of linguists to language mixtures arose in the middle of the 20th century. This is evidenced by works in the field of structural phonology theory, information theory, bilingualism theory, considering successfully coexisting language systems (two or more). In linguistics, as in the other interdisciplinary studies, today debates about the nature of bilingualism and the prerequisites for its occurrence take place. Traditionally, bilingualism is considered to be a forced phenomenon arising from the established use of two languages in society. However, we emphasize that the so-called tradition of using several languages in speech is not always present in society, unlike the Anglophone postmodern literature of the last century, where the presence of language mixtures (foreign language insertions) is one of the characteristic features. The key issue of this article is the Anglophone literary text created by bilingual bi-cultural writers using the strategy of language mixing (code switching) not only as a language game, but also as a full-fledged linguistic phenomenon, the mechanism of interaction of components of language insertions, demonstrating a certain style, cultural way of portrayed social and linguistic environment.The aim of the study is to analyze the language and speech activity of the characters of a certain language group on the material of the Anglophone literary text. 

scholarly journals Typology of Code Switching Functions in the Space of a Literary Text (Based on the Novel Shantaram by G. D. Roberts)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Alexandrovna Gamalinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Switching Theory ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Switching Functions ◽  
Communicative Act

The article is devoted to the study of code switching mechanisms in terms of language contacts in the space of literary texts. It considers the main concepts of the code switching theory. The research focuses on the classification of code switching functions in the space of a literary text (based on the novel Shantaram by G. D. Roberts). The relevance of the study is determined by the usage of modern literary text as a research material. The literary text is at the same time a product of “artistic communication in the culture of post-literacy” [1, 57] and a linguistic object that represents the literary norms of various languages, as well as dialects and colloquial forms of the languages presented. The article highlights the causes and goals of using various codes within the framework of a single communicative act in bilingual speech. As a result, the functional and linguistic features of code switching are analyzed and various classifications are described. Keywords: code, code switching, multilingualism, language contacts, communicative act

scholarly journals Code-Switching on Advertisement: A Case of Food Advertisements in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Eugenie Mainake
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
Food Advertisements ◽  
Public Perspective ◽  
Tv Commercials ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

Code-switching is a natural linguistic phenomenon for individuals who understand and use two or more languages interchangeably. Grosjean (2010) argues that code-switching will likely occur to bilingual speakers’ speech. Hoffman (1991) confirms that a code-switching is a form of speech creativity of bilinguals. Recently, studies have shown that code-switching is also found on TV commercials in some multilingual countries. In Indonesia alone, Da Silva (2014) has investigated the frequency of English words in Indonesian TV advertisements and Sintya’s (2017) study also disseminated products whose advertisements were Indonesian-English code-switching. The present study further explored particular ads, food products for code-switching, and the types of code-switching used. The findings revealed Indonesian-English switches and demonstrated intra-sentential switching as the dominantly used switch in the advertisements. The study proposed to investigate the public perspective on such code-switching and the impacts towards the public interest of purchasing the products. Lastly, the author finds it important to view the

scholarly journals Środki retoryczne, liryka, glottodydaktyka – o zastosowaniu poezji na lekcji języka obcego

Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
Dorota Szczęśniak Dorota Szczęśniak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Teaching Language

This paper discusses the importance of working with a literary text (especially poetry) in the context of the foreign language (FL) classroom. In order to facilitate FL teaching, language teachers are encouraged to use poetry and rhetorical devices occurring in such texts (e.g. rhymes, alliteration, metaphor etc.). The paper offers some teaching procedures and techniques based on rhetorical devices, which may prove valuable in raising FL students’ motivation and language awareness while having fun analyzing quality literary texts.

scholarly journals الإبداعات المغربية باللغات الأجنبية بين سلطة اللغة وسلطة الهوية: قراءة تراتبية

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (80) ◽  
pp. 142-111
Author(s):  
فؤاد بوعلي
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Cultural Alienation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Creative Writings ◽  
The Relationship

أثارت الكتابة الإبداعية باللغات الأجنبية العديد من المواقف المتعارضة في الحقلين: الأكاديمي، والثقافي. فقد عرف تاريخ المغرب الحديث سجالاً قوياً بخصوص هوية الكتابات الإبداعية باللغات الأجنبية، بين مَن يرى فيها استلاباً ثقافياً، ومَن يرفض ربط الجنسية الأدبية بالانتماء اللغوي، بل وربطها بالمتخيّل الجماعي أكثر من أيّ شيء آخر، ثمّ بالمنتوج الأدبي بوصفه تجسيداً لهذا المتخيّل. فالتعبير عن الذات بلغة أجنبية يطرح للنقاش مفاهيم، مثل: الهوية الثقافية، والسلطة، والخصوصية، والعلاقة بالآخر. وباستخدام القراءة التراتبية التي ظهرت في الدراسات بعد الكولونيالية أمكننا إثبات التلازم بين استعمال اللغة الفرنسية في الإبداع ومسار الفرنكفونية بوصفها إيديولوجيا استعماريةً تفرض لغتها على الشعوب والفضاءات الذيلية. The debate over literary writing in a foreign language has instigated a lot of dichotomous points of view in Moroccan academic and cultural circles. History of modern Morocco has witnessed strong ongoing debates about the identity of creative writings in foreign language. There are those who would consider such writings as cultural alienation. Contrary to that, there are those who refuse to link literary text to language belonging, and link it instead to the collective imaginary and to the literary product as a manifestation of this imaginary. In fact, expressing the self by using a foreign language puts into question notions such as cultural identity, authority, nation-building, and otherness. By applying the theory of hierarchical reading which appeared in the post colonial studies, we have established the relationship between using French in creative writings and La Francophonie as a colonial ideology imposed on people and annexed spaces.

scholarly journals Polish-English Code-Switching in the Language of Polish Facebook Users

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Daria Pańka
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
L1 And L2

Social networking services, such as Facebook, are important channels of communication both for monolingual users and for those having various degrees of proficiency in L2, with the latter deploying expression both from L1 and L2. It can, therefore, be presumed that communication on FB plays a role in practicing the use of L2. One of the phenomena that can be examined in relation to that are various forms of code-switching. There is animmense research gap related to Polish-English code-switching appearing on this SNS. To obtain a full picture of the issue, the paper identifies and discusses types, strategies, and functions of Polish-English code-switches found in posts and comments published by Poles on Facebook in 2014–2019. It also indicates possible applications of FB tools and materials including CS in foreign language teaching and learning and shows how Facebook enables “social learning” (Mallia, 2013). The research is based on a corpus constructed by the author of this article. An integrated approach with both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis is used in the paper. Three main CS types (intrasentential, intersentential, and tag-switching) and strategies (alternation, insertion, and congruent lexicalisation) have been attested in the material. The code-switches mostly indicate in-group membership but also, for example, introduce humor, quotes, and signal a lack of L1 equivalents. The study points out that there are certain relations between the types, strategies and functions. The resultsof the research are collated with the recent studies on Polish-English and Indonesian-English CS on Facebook.

scholarly journals Parentheses in A. Belyi's poetry and prose

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (24) ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Mikhail N. Kulakovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Game ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Characteristic Functions ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Functional Features

The article examines peculiarities of the use of parentheses in A. Belyi's lyrics and prose. The author describes the main aspects of analysing parentheses in modern linguistics: description of their functional features, their link with the main body of the statement, parentheses as text forming means, time and space organization of the text, realization of the author's irony, means of conveying evaluative information, ways of comparing, metatextual comment, informative actualization, means of creating a dialogue in a fiction text, usage parentheses in particular genres. This study identifies the most characteristic functions of parentheses in A. Belyi's texts, the connection of parentheses with different textual levels and their role in the overall structure of the literary text. Both the most typical and unique functions of parentheses in A. Belyi's works are described in detail. The main functional features of parentheses are defined in terms of space and time organization of the text and the interaction of various informative and subjective speech plans of the text. The article outlines the main aspects of language game within the framework of parentheses, as well as the means of interaction between the parentheses and the main context, presented in the poetry and prose of A. Belyi. The analysis suggests that the most typical functions of the parentheses in A. Belyi's works are detailed portrayal of the character, switching space and time registers, making comparisons, clarification, and conveying emotional and evaluative information.

scholarly journals Dialogism of translation in comparative dimension. Review of Viktoriia Prykhodko's monograph «Reception and interpretation of literary text in foreign language discourse: comparative dimension» (Lutsk, 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Nataliia Horodniuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Source Of Information

The relevance of the monograph is determined, first of all, by the fact that contemporary national literatures are increasingly interacting with each other through translation, and thus the need to consider translated works in comparison with the originals is increasing. Studying the features and patterns of the literary translation is an important area of modern comparative studies. The work focuses on ways of preserving the national and cultural component of the translated text. The works of M. Gogol, Lesia Ukrainka, I. Franko, F. Dostoievskyi, R. Kipling, and J. Conrad were analyzed according to this aspect. A comparative idea of a dialogue is proposed. It is noted that translation is a broad dialogic process between the author and the reader through the interpreter, which includes reception and interpretation. Literary translation is interpreted as the basis for establishing a dialogue between the text and the interpreter, as an expression of the meaning that flows through the prism of the translating consciousness and enriches it, as a co-creation of the writer and interpreter, the purpose of which is mutual understanding, and the result of this understanding is the text-translation. Attention is paid to the issue of intertextuality as a translation problem. Despite the understanding of intertextuality as the interaction between the texts by different authors (text in text) and the interrelation between different works of one author, the thesis proposes to expand the scope of interpretation of this term, adding to it also different interpretations of one work in the same language. In the monograph the problem of reception and interpretation of literary text is considered in the imagological aspect. In particular, the study of reception and interpretation of other national character in a foreign language discourse plays an important role. Foreign language reception and interpretation of laughter culture in general and «Gogol laughter» in particular are thoroughly investigated. A deep analysis of the works of M. Gogol and F. Dostoevsky made it possible to conclude that the carnival colour of Gogol's «pure, folk-festive» laughter and the parody and comic intonation of F. Dostoevsky during translation give rise to certain problems of preserving their identity. It is noted that the perception of colour in a literary work is a peculiar way of interpreting it, and the semantic nuances of colour markings in one language or another require the problem of the reception adequacy and the interpretation of colour when translating from language to language. The practical importance of the monograph is determined by the possibility of using its basic provisions and results as an additional source of information for further comprehension of the translational paradigm in the comparative dimension.

LANGUAGE GAMES IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Iermachkova ◽  
Katarína Chválová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Effective Implementation

The paper is devoted to the language game in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The research aims to examine the phenomenon of the language game in journalistic text and show its effective implementation in the study processes. Language games are considered at different language levels (word-formation, graphics, paremiology and etc.). The article analyzes the definitions of the examined phenomenon and its main functions in journalistic text.

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