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Transferring multilingual humour intralingually: the case of “Big Night”

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Magazzù G.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2019

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vol. 7

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issue 1

EN

Multilingual films usually tackle significant social and political issues. Sometimes, these films adopt linguistic diversity to create confusion and to trigger humour, accomplishing a comic effect. Normally, films about migration and diaspora are multilingual, as they want to recreate the linguistic diversity that exists in reality. There are many cases though in which the translator/adapter faces the struggle of translating into his/her own language. In this paper, we will analyse the Italian dubbing of Big Night, to see how the dialogues have been conveyed and especially how verbally expressed humour and stereotypes from the Italian language and culture are transferred intralingually and to what effect.

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Język – tożsamość – komunikacja

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Hofmański W.

Slavia Occidentalis

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2015

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issue 72/1

27-37

PL

This article discusses relation between language awareness, identity and multilingualism. Notion of bilingualism can be interpreted in many different ways – depending on research perspective (sociological, psychological, pragmalinguistic etc.). The most recent research (thanks tneuropsychological instruments) shows relatively objective view of this phenomenon. In this way, it is possible to separate natural bilingualism from (even perfect!) knowledge of foreign language – and double (lingual) identity from efficient exploitation of new, second languaculture.

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RECONCILING THE TWO WEST AFRICAS: MANAGING ETHNIC AND LINGUAL DIVERSITY FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION

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Folarin S., Folarin O., Olorunyomi B.

Ante Portas – Studia nad Bezpieczeństwem

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2015

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vol. 2(5)

179-193

EN

In international politics, language is core in inter-state trust and relationship, and the West African region (or sub-region), which is multi-ethnic, culturally plural and bi- or multilingual in imported languages, may never evolve an integrated region if the diversity is not converted from source of disconnections to source of connections. At best, West Africans have regarded themselves as precolonial kinsmen but post-colonial strangers as a result of the factor of language barriers created in the years of colonial rule. The Yoruba, Ewe, Ashante, Mende, Temne and many more had similarities of languages and cultures and led a regular life of communal conflict and cooperation until the arrival of the French, English, Portuguese and Germans, who established sharp misunderstandings and divisions along the lines of European lingua franca. From a participation-observation experience and perspective, and having consulted literature and government records on futile integration efforts, the study, adopting a functionalist model for analysis, submits that the differences have led to alienation among West Africans since independence, and ECOWAS, despite its spirited commitment to regional integration by the protocol on free movement across the borders, has faced brick-walls from human and social forces engendered by language barriers. This paper looks beyond the artificial linguistic barriers inherent in the bilingual or multilingual character of West Africa, by exploring the richness of the linguistic diversity to advance the cause of regional integration. The paper strongly advocates that local languages spoken across most of the West African states such as Hausa, Mandingo, Peul and Yoruba be taught in primary and secondary schools, while ECOWAS leaders should agree on making English, French and Portuguese compulsory in all secondary schools and higher institutions in their respective countries. These will help demystify and dismantle the artificial linguistic barriers created by the accident of colonialism and make the formal and informal instruments, including ECOWAS towards integration, more functional.

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L’animalité du discours des protagonistes en traduction française et anglaise de la pièce « Le Chien » de Jean-Marc Dalpé

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Pałaniuk M.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2012

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vol. 39

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issue 2

41-56

EN

The oral character inherent to a theatre and the hybrid or multilingual character of modern French Canadian literature invests it with functions that pertain strictly to the spoken word and that translator must take into account. This paper examines translation strategies proposed and applied in English and Standard-French translations of the play "Le Chien", written by Franco-Ontarian playwright Jean-Marc Dalpé. In the play "Le Chien" the hybrid character of language and abundance of swearwords constitutes a symptom of inability to communicate of protagonists and animality of their discourse. This specificity, crucial in terms of interpretation of the play, is the major obstacle in translator’s work because he needs to target the specific, English and French-speaking audience which is unilingual and doesn’t have the same cultural experience.

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Konzept Deutsch als Fremdsprache nach Englisch (DaFnE) – Notwendigkeit oder Wunschvorstellung? Empirische Untersuchung in Grundschulen in Großpolen

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Wypusz J.

Glottodidactica

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2015

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vol. 42

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issue 1

81-91

DE

DaFnE (German abbreviation: Deutsch als Fremdsprache nach Englisch – German after English) is an approach to teaching German as a third language to students who have already learned English. This methodology, which combines a first language (L1) with English as a second language (L2) and German as a third language (L3), is gaining popularity in Poland. This article contains both theoretical background and empirical research related to DaFnE. The first part introduces relevant definitions, aims of the DaFnE method and a short history of Tertiary Language Learning. The second part discusses teaching materials, which were created by the author of the article and used during empirical research in primary schools in the region of Greater Poland. Additionally, the paper includes results of surveys among the students and interviews among the German teachers.

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“Multilingualism is the Real Thing”: Multilingualism from the Parents’ Perspective

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Jazbec S., Kacjan B.

The New Educational Review

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2019

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vol. 57

87-99

EN

Language heterogeneity in the classroom is quite a common phenomenon. For experts, it is a challenge; for teachers and parents, it is most often a problem. This challenge or problem will be discussed on the basis of the theory of multilingual education and migration pedagogy. The aim of this contribution is to present an app that can be regarded as a universal tool for fostering multilingualism and explaining it from the viewpoint of parents, since they are an important but often ignored aspect of multilingual education. The research analysis will illustrate and interpret the research results of a qualitative study in which parents from different countries participated. It is not country specific, but it highlights the key aspects that can foster multilingual education and that at least partly match with the underlying theory.

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Code Choice and Face

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Lavric E.

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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2007

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vol. 3

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issue -1

23-35

EN

This paper starts by presenting the factors that govern language choices among multilinguals, to show then that they can be seen as the result of face considerations:1) "Natural" or "efficient" language choice: choosing the language for which the product of the competences of both partners is highest. This maximizes the negative face, i.e. the freedom of action, of both partners.2) Language practice: choosing a language not because it is the easiest one but because one wishes to practice it. This means reducing one's positive and negative face for the moment in order to increase them in the long run.3) Prestige or its opposite, fear of losing face by making mistakes. This is clearly the positive face aspect of language choices.4) And finally, compliance: adapting to the language preferences of one's partner by speaking either his mother tongue, or a language s/he has a preference for. This means reducing one's own negative face in order to increase the one of the partner. Which in turn will contribute to the positive face of both partners, one feeling important because s/he is being complied with, and the other getting the image of a kind and polite person.

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Language planning and language policy in the ecological perspective

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Wiertlewska J.

Glottodidactica

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2012

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vol. 39

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issue 1

117-126

PL

The paper deals with the issue of language planning and policy both in the historical as well as the ecological perspective. The problem of linguistic diversity protection and maintenance in opposition to monolingual global world is explored.

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Languages for Specific Purposes in the Business Services Sector in Poland 2021. Origins, Background, Results and Perspectives of the Language Barometer of Lódz

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Grzeszczakowska-Pawlikowska B., Makowski J., Stawikowska-Marcinkowska A.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2022

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vol. Special Issue

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issue 16

75-89

EN

The article contributes to current discourses on the opportunities, challenges and limits for foreign and specialised language didactics in the context of the closer cooperations between Universities and the wider economic and social environment. It presents and discusses the background, origins, results and perspectives of the research project “The Language Barometer of Lodz 2021. Employees of the modern business services sector”. The research questions of the survey are primarily directed at the required foreign language skills of the target group, areas of application of foreign languages, the knowledge and specialist areas to be mastered, language training in the company, as well as the aspect of multilingualism in the context of professional communication. The paper will present and discuss the global results of the survey, and also provide a full package of anonymous raw data collected during the survey for possible further analysis and study. The data obtained in the survey can be used for projects and research initiatives on various aspects of specialised communication in an intercultural work environment, but may also find application in, among other things, the development or modification of curricula at different levels of learning, the creation of specialisation modules, language courses, workshops or educational materials.

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Polityka językowa w zakresie nauczania pierwszego języka obcego w wielojęzycznym kraju na przykładzie Szwajcarii – inspirujące doświadczenie

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Stępkowska A.

Neofilolog

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2011

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issue 37

215-227

EN

The article analyses the Swiss language policy, language planning and the partner – language model offered by the Swiss educational system. The Swiss language policy is most focused on extra-linguistic aims dealing with the changes in the social distribution of languages, and the promotion of multilingualism. Switzerland oscillates between two systems: the traditional language – partner model, and the choice of a language of wider communication (English). Much is indicative of the fact that now Swit-zerland is getting ready for multilingual future with English at hand.

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Germanistik im Beruf: Ausbildung, Karrierechancen, Realität. Spezifik der beruflichen (Fach-) Kommunikation von Germanisten in der Branche moderner Unternehmensdienstleistungen in Polen

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Makowski J.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2022

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vol. Special Issue

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issue 16

171-181

EN

This paper addresses the question of the specificity of professional (specialist) communication among graduates of the German Studies working in business services in Poland. The research results presented are based on the global results of the project “The Language Barometer of Lódz 2021. Employees in the Modern Business Services Sector.” The target group are employees of companies in the Polish business services sector and, at the same time, graduates of the Master’s degree programme in German at the University of Lódz. The research questions of the survey are primarily directed at the required foreign language skills of the target group, areas of application of foreign languages, the knowledge and specialist areas to be mastered, language training in the company and multilingualism in professional communication.

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Transferring multilingual humour intralingually: the case of “Big Night”

Język – tożsamość – komunikacja

RECONCILING THE TWO WEST AFRICAS: MANAGING ETHNIC AND LINGUAL DIVERSITY FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION

L’animalité du discours des protagonistes en traduction française et anglaise de la pièce « Le Chien » de Jean-Marc Dalpé

Konzept Deutsch als Fremdsprache nach Englisch (DaFnE) – Notwendigkeit oder Wunschvorstellung? Empirische Untersuchung in Grundschulen in Großpolen

“Multilingualism is the Real Thing”: Multilingualism from the Parents’ Perspective

Code Choice and Face

Language planning and language policy in the ecological perspective

Languages for Specific Purposes in the Business Services Sector in Poland 2021. Origins, Background, Results and Perspectives of the Language Barometer of Lódz

Polityka językowa w zakresie nauczania pierwszego języka obcego w wielojęzycznym kraju na przykładzie Szwajcarii – inspirujące doświadczenie

Germanistik im Beruf: Ausbildung, Karrierechancen, Realität. Spezifik der beruflichen (Fach-) Kommunikation von Germanisten in der Branche moderner Unternehmensdienstleistungen in Polen