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Some Functions of "Utopian Business" Motif in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

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Kujawska-Lis E.

Acta Neophilologica

2005

issue VII

17-30

The article aims at presenting some of the functions of the "utopian business" motif represented by the Cheeryble Brothers in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, as well as indicating some of the ways in which the utopian dimension is achieved. Shown in comparison with other Dickensian companies, the Cheeryble Brothers seems unique. The uniqueness lies in the fact that in the majority of cases the firms are destructive forces in the novels whereas employment in the brothers’ company equals the highest happiness possible. The firm is an ideal, almost symbiotic merger of private and business lives of the characters, moving it to the realm of utopia. The functions of the "utopian business" motif are numerous. The company is seen as the centre of goodness in the novel and the antithesis of evil represented by Ralph Nickleby and Squeers. The motif ends the picaresque element in the novel by providing the main character with proper financial stability which in turn enables him to support his family and seek for emotional stability. At the same time it reinforces the fairy-tale convention in the novel where the brothers, through their helpful attitude, act as good uncles of other characters. From a different perspective, the "utopian business" motif is used to advocate the idea of self-help and charity thus indicating the cultural model of the world based on the Christian in a general sense, and Puritan in a narrower sense, ethics.

The Immigrant as "the Other". Towards Differential Cultural Models

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Głaz A.

Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium

2017

vol. 2

issue 2

W artykule rozważa się, w jaki sposób pojęcie Innego, rozumianego tu jako imigranta różniącego się od mieszkańców kraju, do którego przybywa pod względem etnicznym, religijnym, językowym i rasowym, przedstawiane jest w wybranym segmencie anglojęzycznego dyskursu medialnego. Dane pochodzą z mediów brytyjskich, amerykańskich, kanadyjskich, australijskich i nowozelandzkich (głównie z prasy), lecz ponieważ są ograniczone do sześciu wybranych artykułów, proponowana analiza ma charakter jakościowy, nie ilościowy czy statystyczny. Jest to zatem propozycja metody rekonstrukcji modelu kulturowego (cultural model) danego pojęcia, nie zaś prezentacja skończonego modelu (w tym wypadku Innego). Przy zastosowaniu tej metody, ilościowe i jakościowe poszerzenie korpusu poddawanego analizie może pomóc w stworzeniu opisów różnych modeli kulturowych heterogenicznego pojęcia Innego. Pod względem teoretycznym pojęcie modelu kulturowego wiąże się także w niniejszej pracy z pojęciem kulturowej ramy mentalnej (cultural mindset).

The study looks at how the fear of the Other, rampant in contemporary societies, is countered linguistically in selected English-language discourses, including both sides of the Atlantic, Australia, and New Zealand. The overarching conceptual category of THE OTHER is internally heterogeneous and involves linguistic portrayals through such terms as other, different, foreigner, stranger, or alien. The kinds of discourses that will be analysed, i.e. those aimed to reduce the level of the fear of or the hostility towards Others, contextualize these terms in ways markedly different from those in the fear-augmenting discourses. Typical devices used for the purpose are collocations and lexical patterns within the text.The data come from British, American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand press and public discourse, with some insight also obtained from Ryszard Kapuściński’s book The Other. However, because the book is a series of lectures translated from Polish into English, a brief excursus into the analogous portrayal in the Polish original is also performed. On the theoretical side, the analysis will hopefully provide a hint as to whether and in what ways the heterogeneity of THE OTHER as a concept can be captured in terms of differential cultural models.

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Some Functions of "Utopian Business" Motif in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Immigrant as "the Other". Towards Differential Cultural Models