scholarly journals Tożsamość żydowska na pograniczu kultur i narodów

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Irmina Jaśkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Anti Semitism

Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. The process takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexive and external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particular group. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constituted quite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves from other communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes, various influences affect their identity. As a consequence the Jews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma between own nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressing deep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of all national and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memory and fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth century crisis and in the light of the western world secularization it has become also cultural identity.Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. Theprocess takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexiveand external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particulargroup. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constitutedquite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves fromother communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes,various influences affect their identity. As a consequence theJews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma betweenown nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressingdeep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of allnational and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memoryand fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth centurycrisis and in the light of the western world secularization it hasbecome also cultural identity.

scholarly journals Matijaner Meyera in Translation: Cultural Identity Construction Through Untranslatability of Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Barnali Talukder
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Primary Resource ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Bengali Language

The concepts of language and cultural identity of a speaker are entwined as they complement each other. However, translation poses a challenge to the identity language predominantly constructs. Therefore, translatable elements of language get the stage of universality while the untranslatable-s essentially bring forth the culture they are descended from. In this study, a short story collection from Bangladesh, Matijaner Meyera, where there is a celebration of diverse branches of Bengali language, has been brought to light to show how untranslatability of a number of culture-oriented vocabularies vibrantly tells about Bengali culture. The primary resource includes a lot many culture-oriented vocabularies as well as few phrases that English, as a language, cannot accommodate in it. Inability of other languages to penetrate such culture-rooted belongings of Bengali language showcases the power a language retains to protect itself from any invading force. This study has argued in favor of the untranslatable base of Bengali that English, due to cultural distance, cannot embrace linguistically. Therefore, such cultural difference eventually develops a distinct linguistic identity of Bengali through untranslatability that this study has attempted to divulge.

‘All the world’s a stage’ – Shakespeare in English Language Education

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Anglophone Literature

If asked about which writer they associate with Anglophone literature, most students might come up with William Shakespeare, who has also become an integral part of British cultural identity. As a matter of fact, his works keep delighting audiences worldwide. However, EFL learners might struggle with the complexity and ambiguity of his plays and poetry. This anthology provides perspectives of how to read and teach Shakespeare. Thereby, it focusses on a variety of texts worth implementing in teaching units. The articles take the perspective of literary and cultural studies as base and aim at interconnecting it to major con-cepts and theories of teaching literature and culture and provides ideas of how to actively teach Shakespeare in class. With contributions by Alina Dresen, Julia Falter, Jessie-May Franken, Sophie Gnech, Svenja Harzem, Michelle Hausschild, Christina Kattwinkel, Ruth Kühsel, Dr. Imke Lichterfeld, Milena Niesen, Rahel Ovesiek, Daniel Schönbauer, Alina Tary, Sofia Ullah, Daniel Voges und Bernadette von Tongelen.

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Yuranny Marcela Romero Archila
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
First Time

ENLETAWA JOURNAL seeks to disseminate different experiences that have emerged from a diversity of teaching and learning contexts. Publishing is an outstanding opportunity to share knowledge and communicate one’s own experiences and thoughts to others, and ENLETAWA JOURNAL provides that space for first-time authors, as well as experienced ones. In this issue, we are pleased to present five papers that primarily deal with cultural identity, identity construction, feedback, Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL), and Student-Centered Learning (SCL).

scholarly journals Amy Samuelson, Becoming a tree hugger: youth environmentalism in Chişinău, Moldova

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 217-233
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Local Contexts

This paper focuses on Ecoweek, an environmental project for young people in Moldova, in order to explore the themes of post-Soviet cultural identity construction and the adaptation of Western ideas to local contexts. It considers how Ecoweek participants’ establishment of international connections allowed them to create an environmentalism that was cosmopolitan, yet distinctly Moldovan. Their approach reflects the strong global awareness of many urban young people in Moldova, who often look outside of the country for opportunities. The paper argues that students’ participation in the project was related not just to a determination to solve environmental problems, but also to a desire to be part of a global trend, to gain experience, and to make useful contacts. Moreover, it suggests that the same factors leading the students to produce a globally informed environmentalism also made it difficult to build a lasting movement

scholarly journals The Effect of Gender on the Bilingual and Bicultural Identity of the Iraqi EFL Learners' Recognition and Production of Request

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. p32
Author(s):  
Mohammed Jasim Betti ◽  
Zainab Kadhim Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
College Of Education ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Better Than

This study examines the effect of gender on students' bilingual and bicultural identity in their recognition and production of request is studied. This means that it investigates to what extent the learners’ mother tongue and culture influence their recognition and production of request in the EFL and the effect of gender on such an identity. The study aims at exploring and identifying the linguistic patterns of request in English used by Iraqi EFL learners, those patterns of request transferred from Iraqi EFL learners’ mother tongue, and the Iraqi EFL learners’ cultural patterns and cultural realization of request transferred from Arabic culture into the EFL. Some hypotheses of the study state that there is a bilingual and cultural identity in using request by Iraqi EFL learners, females are better than males in request perception and production and they are worse in Arabic monolingualism and monoculturalism, students are better in English monolingualism and monoculturalism than in the other request features, students’ English monolingual and monocultural identity is more apparent in request perception than in production. To validate or refute its hypotheses, a test comprising recognition and production has been constructed and applied to fifty Iraqi EFL learners at fourth year, Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Thi-Qar at the academic year (2020-2021). After data analysis, some conclusions are arrived at. The study concludes that Iraqi EFL learners are pragmatically incompetent and they have a bilingual and bicultural identity because of their mother tongue and culture interference.

scholarly journals An exploration of discoursal identity: The rhetoric of narrative writing

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Inna Livytska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Writer Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Cultural Choices ◽  
Semiotic Process

The paper aims at disclosing the process of writer identity enactive construal in narrative writing. Three constituent parts of identity discoursal construction in the narrative are social semiotics as a reflection of the social environment, cultural identity theory as the embodiment of cultural choices and preferences, and pragmatics (Charles S. Peirce). The following research questions have been formulated: (1) What is the nature of identity construction? (2) What rhetorical factors influence identity construal in narrative discourse? By providing a step-by-step analysis of thematic structure, the paper conducts a discourse analysis of narrative episodes in terms of Agent, Process, and Medium triad (Halliday, 1973), reflecting the mechanisms of reader’s manipulation with information as a dynamic semiotic process of interpretation, limited by a final interpretant.

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