Studia Anglica Resoviensia T. 16 (2019)

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Ambient and Multilayered Sound Design of Chaos and Paranoia in “Southland Tales” (2006)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Kniaź, Lidia
The article elaborates on sound design in American science-fiction film “Southland Tales” (2006) directed by Richard Kelly. Southland Tales‘ soundtrack may be considered inventive as it influences the tone of the film to a large extent and, thus, functions as a narrative device. I argue that it employs multilayered and ambient sounds so as to express the chaotic and complex atmosphere of the post-Bush American society. The analysis focuses on the characteristics of sound design in Southland Tales, namely the use of ambient music and multiplicity of sound layers. Next, it demonstrates in what ways the sound design in Southland Tales allows for interpreting the film as a satire. Moreover, the essay draws critical attention to the voiceover as a device which contributes to the emotionless and paranoid atmosphere of the film which would not be so emphasized if it were not for the sound.
Dialogue in View of Human Caring
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Jiménez Cataño, Rafael
This paper seeks to explore the elements for an anthropology of dialogue that can be offered through an anthropological deepening of rhetoric. From the attention that is due to the interlocutor as a person, we obtain—in the light of both the philosophy of care and the theory of politeness—a particular approach to the notion of service. This notion, made ambiguous by our modern sensitivity, receives a new reading when it is interpreted in the sense of ‗care‘. In recalling the ancient roots of the notion of person, it is revealing how much the recent relational sociology offers to conceive dialogue as a relational good, a human good that only can be made together. The conditions for reaching this specific approach are recent, even if the fundamental notions (relation, person, service, care) are rather old.
Folk Etymology: Escape from the Unknown, the Obscure and Nothing More?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Kleparski, Grzegorz A.
The mechanism of folk-etymology has received considerable attention from both laymen and those scholars that are busy analyzing natural languages, and although much has been said about the issue of determining the scope of the phenomena the mechanism encompasses, and the way the instances of its operation can be classified, many questions remain unanswered. In linguistic tradition, folk etymologizing is usually viewed as being motivated by the natural human wish to escape from what is illogical and obscure, and so it is viewed by, for example, Rundblad and Kronenfeld (2000). Yet, we are convinced that one may point to other motivating forces operative here, the forces that lie within the scope of broadly-understood ideology and provincialism-shunning aesthetics.
Interaction and Strategic Competence among Third Agers: Results of a Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Borkowska, Anna
The main aim set to this paper is to investigate the use of communication strategies by members of the Third Age University in Nowy Targ. The structure of a small-scale study, namely an information gap task performed in pair work, was primarily designed to promote cooperative behaviours and encourage real-life interaction. The results of a self-evaluation questionnaire indicate that, in a general sense, third agers appeared to be positive about their performance, and clearly admitted that speaking in pairs played an eminent role in second language communication. It has been demonstrated that third agers, despite a low proficiency level i.e. A1 and A2, were determined to complete the task, and achieve mutual goals. They tended to check their own accuracy, and seek for an interlocutor‘s confirmation during dyadic interaction. Also, some participants applied code switching to the third language, be it German as, apparently, it seemed to be more automatised in communicative contexts. In a similar vein, older adults used own-performance problem-related strategies, such as self-rephrasing, and self-repair in order to be more accurate and solve communication problems. Significantly, the strategy that helped the participants gain more time to process reactions was retrieval. Overall, it is worthwhile to mention that seniors appreciated interaction with their partners since pair cooperation encouraged them to communicate in English.
Severed Language Contacts: Two Examples from the History of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Szymański, Leszek
The phenomenon of language contact is generally viewed as establishing or maintaining relationship by speakers of different languages. As far as the English language is concerned, especially its contemporary status, it is its global reach and influence that is discussed, as well as the influence it exerts on other languages. The present text deals with a reverse phenomenon, that is the cessation of contact, which results in a change of the linguistic situation. This is exemplified with the 16th-century English Reformation, to be more precise: the establishment of the Anglican Church, and the independence of the United States in the 18th century. With these two events, the author attempts to present how the breaking of contact influenced the further development of the linguistic situation in the external history of the English language.
The Need for Educational Equity through Multimethodology and Differentiation in the Moroccan EFL Classroom
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) El Khdar, Abdelmoula; Rguibi, Samira; Bouziane, Abdelmajid
All current educational documents in Morocco, the Strategic Vision 2015-2030 included, mandate the use of hybrid modes of instructional delivery and assessment tools to meet the pressing demands of diverse student population. The Moroccan English as Foreign Language (EFL) classroom success is contingent on how well EFL teachers know the learners they serve on daily basis. The EFL classroom in general is a volatile social milieu with diverse human dimensions. This paper is an attempt to probe the theoretical foundations behind the need for multimethodology and differentiation. It primarily addresses the premises of the Strategic Vision 2015-2030 which warn against the one-size-fits-all instructional modes. Then it addresses the challenges in the teaching of languages in Morocco. Alternatively, it suggests implementing differentiated instruction and multimethodology to rethink the educational instructional practices in an attempt to maximize students‘ academic growth, increase their engagement and trigger quality learning. Finally, it briefly introduces a model of differentiation in teaching and assessment that goes hand in hand with the major orientations of reform in Morocco and the international standards of differentiated instruction.
The Strange Space of Home Outside Home: Diaspora as Heterotopia in SKY Lee’s "Disappearing Moon Café" (1990)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Antoniak, Joanna
The notion of heterotopia – a space which simultaneously mirrors and distorts the reflection of the real world – introduced by Michel Foucault is often used in human geography and social sciences to discuss different spaces existing within multicultural societies. One of such spaces is a diaspora, a place uniting people on the basis of their ethnic identity and inhabited by those who are often perceived by the host culture as undesirable and, therefore, should be isolated. However, diaspora is not empty and idle; instead, its inhabitants use the space provided by the host society to recreate the places known to them, mirroring and, at the same time, distorting and modifying them. The aim of this paper is to discuss the depiction of diaspora as heterotopia in SKY Lee‘s debut novel “Disappearing Moon Café”.
The Translation of Culture-bound Elements from Arabic into English in Ibn Khaldun’s Masterpiece: Domestication and Foreignization Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Ou-Hssata, Hassan; Tounsi, Abdeljalil
This study is a descriptive and interdisciplinary work whose main aim is to explore the translation strategies that translators use in translating cultural-bound elements (CBEs) from Arabic into English. Being strongly and deeply rooted in their culture, CBEs, in many cases, do not have equivalents in target languages and cultures. Thus, this constitutes one of the most difficult problems that translators meet in the process of rendition. The corpus of the study is picked from the well-known Arabic sociological ouevre “The Muqaddimah”, written by the Ibn Khaldun and translated by Translated by Franz Rosenthal. The study dwells on the methods, approaches, procedures and strategies that translators, in general, and the translator of “The Muqaddimah”, in particular, makes use of in dealing with these CBEs. Within the same line of thought, the study differentiates global from local strategies and introduces Venuti‘s concepts of domesticating and foreignizing translation strategies, which he mentioned in his masterpiece “The Translator’s Invisibility”, a book that calls to raise awareness of translation and acknowledgement to the translators. Foreignization, the study proves, is widely used in the translation of CBEs in the selected text because it maintains the identity of the source text, supports the target reader with cultural information of the source text and enhances cultural understanding among nations and cultures.
Voice Typology: A Case of Polish Adjectival Passive Participles Related to Object Experiencer Verbs in “Roz-“
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2019) Malicka-Kleparska, Anna
Passive participles constitute an interesting body of data from the morpho-syntactic point of view as they combine adjectival and verbal properties, and consequently have to be endowed with rich morpho-syntactic structures. In this text we research the system of passive participles in Polish, clearly delimiting their verbal and adjectival properties. Then we concentrate on resultative states as a category with most puzzling mixed characteristics. Focusing on the resultatives derived from Object Experiencer Verbs, we argue for Intransitive Voice Projection in their structure. Some morpho-syntactic problems presented by these participles are solved when we consider a possibility that they code event kinds, rather than event tokens. Finally, the morpho-syntax of participles is juxtaposed with that of unaccusatives. The results support the kind of voice typology in which verbal structures may contain the intransitive voice projection, or lack voice altogether.

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