Studia Anglica Resoviensia T. 19 (2022)

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A Poetry of the Dispossessed and Fallen: a Quantitative Analysis of the Morphological and Syntactic Structures in Cannibal Corpse Titles
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Pavlović, Dejan
This paper delves into the lyrical aspect of the band Cannibal Corpse by focusing on the notable formal units found in the titles of their songs and albums. The corpus features the entirety of Cannibal Corpse's recorded output, which were collected by accessing the band's profile page on the web-site “Encyclopeadia Metallum: The Metal Archives”. The aim of the paper is to showcase the specific structures found in these titles, and to determine how typical these structures are for the discography of Cannibal Corpse by presenting them in percentage figures. The paper initially introduces the main tenets of death metal as a style, as well as Cannibal Corpse in particular, with an emphasis on the lyrical aspect. Next, in the theoretical perspective of the research, it defines the lexical and phrasal forms found in the corpus of titles in linguistic terms. The structures from the corpus are classified into two larger units: lexical forms, and phrasal forms + coordinated structures, as well as the appropriate subunits; the structures are then systematized according to their frequency of occurrence expressed in percentages followed by the analysis of the figures. The paper seeks to ultimately arrive at the conclusion why such forms are used to coin titles in this band's body of work, and what specific meaning they carry, as well as what similar research ideas lie in the future, in order to better understand the relationship between the titles and the lyrical topics involved in this genre of music.
Conceptualizastion of shtetl in American English: A Cultural Linguistic Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Dziama, Anna
This paper examines the conceptualizations of shtetl, ‘a small Jewish town or village formerly found in Eastern Europe’, in American English from the perspective of cultural linguistics. It can be observed that the concept of shtetl reflects cultural metaphors, where shtetl is viewed as a mythic Jewish idyll and, contemporarily, a metaphor for Jewish communality, for example, referring to an apartment building in an urban Jewish American neighborhood of the East Coast cities. It may be suggested that shtetl is also used to describe and categorize things such as tradition, a place of Jewish Diaspora and Yiddishkeit for, mainly, American Jewry. Therefore, this research paper presents cultural categorizations of a place that often emerges at the cultural level of cognition. Overall, the observations made in this paper reveal the potential of cultural schema theory for the studies of cultural linguistics. To recognize this role, the fundamentals of cultural linguistics and its schemes have been used to highlight the need for further research. Several cross-sectional studies have accentuated the cultural concept of a shtetl, e.g. Palmer (1996), Sharifian (2011, 2017). This study has tried to identify the key elements of a shtetl. I have applied Sharifian’s (2017) cultural conceptualization models as well as his distributed model of cultural schemas that can contribute to the knowledge of understating the concept of shtetl in Yiddish and American English, and among Holocaust survivors, first generation, second generation, and third generation American Jews.
COVID-19 reflected in emotional journalistic texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Panasenko, Nataliya; Petrovičová, Ida
The article presents the results of research based on the analysis of media texts reflecting the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of people globally. As this impact is mainly negative, all these media texts (printed and digital) belong to the journalism of an emotional nature. The authors present the classification of journalistic genres, make the important subdivision into hard news and soft news, analyse the most popular emotions theories and approaches to their study. The pandemic reflected in media may be considered as hard news and is closely connected with news value, i.e. the impact of the publication on a wide audience. News values may function in the text as signals of addressee orientation. The definite impact may be evoked by emotively charged words in the media text; such words can be regarded from the perspective of emotive semantics. This approach leads us to media linguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics which is based on the multilevel analysis of media text, namely text structure (each journalistic message has its own specific composition), vocabulary (texts belonging to journalism of analytical or emotional types have different vocabulary), and categories (structural and semantic text categories depend on journalistic genre). Media texts belonging to emotional journalism abound in different stylistic devices; in our essay semasiological and syntactic devices are prevalent.
CRISIS as a Keyword in Anglophone Public Discourse: a Semantic, Ideological and Cultural Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Ye, Zhengdao
In Anglophone public discourse, the word crisis plays a significant role in discussion of critical events and situations across a wide range of domains. This paper discusses the word’s status as a keyword in mainstream Anglophone discourse, unpacks its semantic contents through natural semantics metalanguage and corpus-assisted collocational analysis, and explores the ideological and cultural assumptions underpinning its usage. It finds that the idea of “government” is central to the meaning of crisis and that the contemporary use of the word not only signals a systematic problem, but also legitimates government actions and the general public’s expectations, reflecting a particular way of thinking about the state and its involvement in liberal society and a shift away from the classical interpretation of the role of government. The study also raises questions about interpreting critical world events and analysing political discourse through the lens of crisis and its related concepts.
Divine interference into language triplet code as a new perspective on the mysterious confusion at Babel
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Kida, Ireneusz
This paper proposes a possible scenario, a novel one as far as is believed, which might have taken place at Babel in the land of Shin‘ar, Lower Mesopotamia, where a major language change occurred, here referred to as the Confusion. The correlation of the structure of Semitic languages with the genetic code of organic matter, including that of human organisms, may give new insights into what might have happened at Babel and in its aftermath. Not only may it provide a key to understanding language split, change and its subsequent development and differentiation but also to the nature of the very original language itself and its divinity. The paper has an interdisciplinary character, as it includes elements of historical linguistics, biology, chemistry, archaeology and anthropology, though with strong theological (creationist) undertones. The notion of the triplet code will particularly be in the spotlight here.
Investigating user group behavior patterns in digital examinations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Krakowian, Przemysław
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), as well as Electronically Mediated Communication (EMC), is becoming a staple feature of many working environments. More recently, Computer Mediated Assessment (CMA) in the form of Testing Assessment Systems (TMS) has joined the ranks of arrangements where learning, information exchange and assessment take place in digital landscapes, where on top of deploying assessment, they constitute a meeting ground for teachers, assessors, and students/learners. Any such system has the potential to offer numerous other opportunities including amongst others a training platform, a system for creating learner portfolios, a vetting system for rating scale construction or a multimedia annotated corpus of learner language. Additionally, information stored in a TMS may be used for research purposes, collaborative arrangements for professional development, vetting and training solutions. This paper presents what has emerged from developing procedures and functionalities in digital exams, and what may appear as attractive opportunities offering insights into the functioning of digital assessment and digital testing environments. While, admittedly, functionalities presented here have been gradually, and while in most cases, added ad hoc to the system, over the course of eleven years since the environment was first put into operation, have come, not only to complement one another, but also to function as a coherent system. In their current state, they offer practical solutions in quality control, training, research, and systems forensics.
On the Conceptualisation of LIFE in the melodrama “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Dale, Inga
According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (hereafter: CMT), conceived by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), metaphors are not merely rarely occurring poetic or stylistic features of language. On the contrary, as the scholars point out, conceptual metaphors have their origins in our bodily experiences of the world around us. Hence, they are ubiquitous and have a consequently profound influence on our thoughts and actions. This paper aims to show that people, life, love, romance, birth, life stages, life goals, progress made, obstacles along the way, successes and failures, emotions experienced, as well as time, death and the afterlife are conceptualized in modalities of a SOURCE-PATH-GOAL schema, JOURNEY and MOTION IN SPACE domains in accordance with CMT. This is achieved by analysing a monomodal discourse using the Pragglejaz Group (2007) method and an online Cambridge English Dictionary. For the study, I have used a selection of monologues and dialogues of Benjamin Button, the protagonist, together with the characters who have the greatest impact on his life in the Eric Roth screenplay of a melodrama entitled: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, directed by D. Fincher and based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
The Influence of Motivation Strategies on Student’s Self-efficacy in Second Language Acquisition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2022-12) Mindowicz, Katarzyna
Motivation and self-efficacy are fundamental factors that influence second language acquisition and are increasingly considered a significant concern in psychology and foreign language didactics. For an in-depth exploration of the subject, action research was conducted to learn whether the motivation strategies proposed by Dörnyei (2001) influence learners' self-efficacy in SLA. The study focused on introducing selected motivational techniques to the research group and measuring the impact of the application of these strategies in the classroom on learners' levels of self-efficacy and motivation. All the data needed to answer the research questions were collected using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The most valuable conclusion that emerges from the research results is that selected motivational techniques increase students' level of self-efficacy in second language acquisition.

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