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Editorial
Non-thematic issues always represent a challenge, mostly premised on defining and constructing a subtle thread that would, at least apparently, unify all of the numerous submitted papers, thoughts and opinions about a variety of different subjects. Sometimes the final product, the metaphoric body of our journal, is a harmonious and perhaps even optimistic reading of cultural, social and literary phenomena, while on some other occasions the projected and articulated themes and ideas tend to be a bit harsher, stronger and more explicit in their nature. Such is the issue in front of you; in spite of the cheerful and celebratory time of the year, the segment dedicated to culture and literature is defined by the somewhat gloomy overtones of the presented ideas, merging silently with the foreboding shadows and the unfriendly figure insidiously dominating our cover. However, the articulated themes and analyses, while inclined toward the darker states and altered perceptions of reality, still form a rich tapestry of research and scrutiny, actively and significantly contributing to contemporary debates on the subjects at hand....
The limitations of Chinese transcription and the domination of Chinese scripts in print cause a difficulty in reflecting the otherness of Chinese foreign terms in English. The discrepancy among Chinese dialects has also brought about challenges. A novel form of translating Chinese foreign terms in The Joy Luck Club was invented in order to improve the representation of otherness. Since the publication of the first Chinese version of the novel, better results have been demonstrated in more recent retranslations of The Joy Luck Club. Fewer deletions and less mistranslation indicate an improvement in the latest retranslations in comparison to the older versions. On the basis of a result-oriented analysis, supported by data and real-time reading experience, this study discusses linguistic and non-linguistic factors in translating Chinese foreign terms in English in The Joy Luck Club into five Chinese and one Japanese version. Reflecting otherness can provide an accurate translation whereas...
In this article we analyze the novel Waiting for the Barbarians, by the South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee. We read the novel from the perspective of some ethical insights of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, associating them with the emphasized domination of the political in the novel. In this unequal relationship, however, political domination gradually cedes place to the ethical doing, the beginning of which is marked by aporia, that is, by an attempt to reconcile two irreconcilable perspectives: that of loyalty to political authority and that of individual responsibility for the other human being. When the latter takes place, the main character – the unnamed Magistrate – becomes an ethical subject. But this is not an easy process, and in order for this to happen, he must experience physical pain and risk his own life. In doing so, he undergoes the journey from a position of political power to complete disempowering. However, taking responsibility for the other is a much ...
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Sjedili smo na kamenoj klupi šivajući pretpostavke: sad lančić istina sad lančić laži, mogućnost da se međusobno razumijemo i euharistijsku tajnu puti što je tvoja kad mi se udaljuješ. To nam je postalo pukim pitanjem perspektive, bol. Kretali smo se oprezno kao ptica dvojbe, motrilo nas je opčinjavajuće oko samostrela. Više nismo shvaćali, samo smo ponavljali imena geparda, isijavanja brazgotine srčanih klijetki i dosadni krmelj glagola: istančani šav kože što nas dijeli od kamenja. Prožvakali smo gustu tišinu poput sjećanja na jutarnju maglu djetinjstva; odlazio si polako poput stada ovaca u smjeru vode i postao si šuma. Od tolike šutnje naučili smo govoriti ludilom praznine, i smisao nam je postao puka školska navada: ljubaznost ruku, s vremena na vrijeme, da bi se prebrisala divljačnost rase. Tako nestaje vrsta, vid naše janjeće ljubavi. Bila je to grčevita borba da se zaustave strojevi, da se razumijemo, govor kosilica i amfora teška trbuhu što preko oka nam usisava svu svjetlost ...
Princeze nikada ne umiru. Udaju se i žive sretno do kraja života. "Ideja će mi sinuti kad se najmanje budem nadala", kaže Alice, "uvijek je tako. Neću očajavati." Upravo sjedi na kauču držeći bilježnicu u rukama u koju je trenutak prije, velikim štampanim slovima na vrhu lista, upisala "ideje za Afonsov rođendan". Pažljivo je povukla pet strelica i svaku označila brojem. Poslije toga nije napisala više ništa. Ovo je već sedmi popis koji radi otkako je sjela. Pogleda uprta prema dnevnom boravku, oko kažiprsta lijeve ruke mota plamen jarkoplave kose, kao u lutke."Kako se to smišlja neka ideja", upita se šapatom koji je uvježbala još u mladosti, "kako?"
Frequent lexical patterns can explain how language, society and culture interact. In this paper, we analyze the most frequent adjectival collocates which precede lemmas WOMAN and MAN, by searching the node words woman, women, man and men in the British National Corpus (BNC) using the statistical procedure list. The primary postulate is that frequent collocational patterns reveal common societal and cultural concepts. The research is based on Sinclair’s theory about how frequency points to what is typical and central in a language (17). Furthermore, Stubbs’s understanding of a community’s value system being built up and maintained by the recurrent use of particular phrasings in texts (Words and Phrases 166) is explored through the repetition of lexical patterns in the corpus, thus exposing dominant cultural models. Keywords: WOMAN, MAN, BNC, frequency, collocates, language, society, cultureMichael Stubbs’s principle that “language in use transmits the culture,” by which he provides his ...
