The article addresses blogging in a foreign language as a process supporting its acquisition. The author assumes that in some respects it may affect the development of second-language skills in a most positive way. The text unravels the viewpoint taken at this issue by first-year students of Gdańsk University German studies. Their comments are discussed through the prism of findings made by contemporary science.
Since 2015 there has been increased protest action by students at South African universities. One of the issues is decolonizing the curriculum. Academics have been re-thinking the curricula of various academic offerings. Recognizing the African heritage of students studying German could be in the form of comparing the first language (L1) of black African learners with German in order to facilitate learning the target language (TL). Specific examples of similarities and differences between German and Zulu are addressed in this article.
The paper deals with a comprehensive study of translation strategies in English-Ukrainian translation of President Joseph R. Biden’s inaugural address. Political discourse is characterized by its unique features triggering a considerable interest in applied linguistics and translation studies. In brief, political speeches are often delivered by politicians to communicate their messages to the public. They mainly operate as a tool of persuasion, imposing political ideas, beliefs, and practices crucial in constituting a political community. The paper deals with a comprehensive study of translation strategies in English- -Ukrainian translation of President Joseph R. Biden’s inaugural address. Political discourse is characterized by its unique features triggering a considerable interest in applied linguistics and translation studies. In brief, political speeches are often delivered by politicians to communicate their messages to the public. They mainly operate as a tool of persuasion, imposing political ideas, beliefs, and practices crucial in constituting a political community. Translating political speeches can posit serious problems due to their unique features as a special text genre. Appropriate translation methods are needed to ensure a higher quality political speech translation and its adequacy. It has been decided that the best methods for the proposed study were discourse and comparative analyses combined with generalization. The translation techniques employed in the translation of Joseph R. Biden’s inaugural address into Ukrainian include lexical, grammatical, and complex transformations. A comparative analysis of the linguistic means used by both American president and the translator has demonstrated that the source text submitted for translation undergoes interlingual changes to create the text with the same communicative intent in the target language. Syntactic translation transformations are the most dominant ones, followed by lexical and grammatical. Such changes in the translation of the American President’s inaugural address are necessary for better conforming to existing cultural norms and soothing out social, religious, and political differences in English and Ukrainian cultures. Thus, translation is not simply an act of faithful reproduction but, rather, deliberate and conscious creation of secret linguistic and pragmatic codes.
Modern linguistics is characterised by a great interest in contrastive investigations, comparing different aspects of related and distant languages. Due to the development of the linguistic theory of translation, the comparative study of languages is very topical nowadays, creating a basis for the theory and practice of translation as a whole and for translation stylistics in particular. When comparing different aspects of two languages we can improve our knowledge of each language because some specifi c features of the language are explained when compared. Hence, the linguistic theory of translation will be developed by means of studying similar and contrastive aspects of two languages which form a translation pair – the source language and the target language. Stylistic topics play an important role in translation linguistics. Stylistics as a science is connected with translation as an object of linguistic analysis. The two-language character of linguistic translation investigation approximates it with investigation into contrastive stylistics, which studies the functional equivalents of units from different languages.
The article discusses a number of issues related to the forms of communicative competence assessment of the non-natives to the establishment of their level of bilingualism and language awareness. In this context, there was analyzed a number of issues related to the impact of teachers’ language awareness and the use of their personal resources of a foreign language (English) demonstrated during their FL lessons to be assessed from the point of view of the development of the quality of the target language learners. In its conclusions, the paper highlights the importance of the quality of the language used by FL teachers upon the actual level of competence of the language actually used by their learners. Słowa kluczowe: komunikacja, języka docelowy, bilingwizm, ocena jakości języka Keywords: communication, target language, bilingualism, quality language assessment
The article deals with the situation of Ukrainian language in contemporary multicultural societies. Selected issues present traditional ways of developing, existence and maintenance of the language in its home country and abroad. Sociolinguistic studies of this problem are very important for the coherent view of language developing processes. The aim of the paper is to represent the place of Ukrainian in the context of multilingualism of the modem world and to compare such definitions as bilingualism, mother tongue, heritage language, target language, first language and second language in different languages (English, Polish and Ukrainian) with reference to Ukrainian. One of the main research issues is comparing of lingual situation of Ukrainian in diaspora in different countries and its meaning for representatives of different waves of emigration. Meaning the language for each next generation, consequences of the language interference, ways of maintenance are the main issues interesting not just for linguists, but for sociologists so far.
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W artykule przedstawiono sytuację języka ukraińskiego we współczesnych społeczeństwach wielokulturowych. Wybrane zagadnienia prezentują tradycyjny rozwój, przetrwanie oraz zachowanie języka w kraju oraz w warunkach emigracji. Socjolingwistyczne badania tego problemu są bardzo ważne dla tworzenia całościowego obrazu rozwoju języka. Cel artykułu polega na przedstawieniu miejsca języka ukraińskiego w kontekście wielojęzyczności współczesnego świata oraz na porównywaniu takich definicji, jak dwujęzyczność, język ojczysty, język odziedziczony, język docelowy, pierwszy i drugi język w różnych językach (przede wszystkim w angielskim, polskim oraz ukraińskim) w odniesieniu właśnie do języka ukraińskiego. Ważnym aspektem jest porównywanie sytuacji języka ukraińskiego w diasporze w różnych krajach oraz znaczenia języka dla przedstawicieli różnych fal emigracji. Znaczenie języka dla każdego kolejnego pokolenia, skutki interferencji językowej, sposoby na zachowanie języka to podstawowe zagadnienia, które są interesujące zarówno dla językoznawców, jak i socjologów.
The purpose of this article is, above all, to draw attention to some of the problems which many Polish students face in the area of making a coherent translation of a foreign-language text into Polish. Additionally, the need to develop this competence during university studies will be discussed. Translation practice shows that high competence in one’s native language (as the target language), consisting of the ability to create a coherent text, taking into account syntactic, lexical (semantic) and stylistic nuances, is a sine qua non for professional success. The object of the analyses presented in this article is a body of texts translated by Polish students who are studying for a master’s degree in romance languages.
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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przede wszystkim pokazanie problemów z zakresu poprawnego tworzenia spójnego tekstu tłumaczenia w języku polskim, z jakimi borykają się studenci polonofoni, a także zwrócenie uwagi na konieczność rozwijania tej kompetencji w toku studiów. Praktyka tłumaczeniowa pokazuje, że wysoka kompetencja w języku ojczystym (jako docelowym), polegająca na znajomości reguł tworzenia spójnego tekstu, z uwzględnieniem niuansów składniowych, leksykalnych (semantycznych) i stylistycznych, jest warunkiem sine qua non odniesienia zawodowego sukcesu. Podstawą przedstawionych w artykule analiz jest korpus prac tłumaczeniowych studentów polonofonów odbywających studia magisterskie na kierunku filologia romańska.
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