{"title":"[Anténe, Petr. Howard Jacobson's novels in the context of contemporary British Jewish literature]","authors":"Michael Weiss","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-2-18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-2-18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"302-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The “voice of conscience”, in Heidegger’s philosophy, refers to the moment of self-realization when the existentially authentic individual as Dasein recognizes the range of possibilities in any given situation for which he/she is responsible. It is only the authentic individual who hears the call of conscience by having chosen to hear it. The call, if heard, reveals to Dasein the possibilities it has before it to take proper action based on the situation to lead a better life, not only for itself but also for others. Benjamin Sachs in Leviathan, in representing the Heideggerian Dasein, chooses to hear his conscience and cries out against the political corruption which his fellow American citizens ignore to hear. As an authentic individual, in the tradition of Heidegger’s Dasein, Ben rebels against communal ignorance under political tyranny following the rise of his political conscience, an uprising which is existential in principle and radical in practice, giving Auster’s novel an Existential-Marxist tone.
{"title":"Auster's Leviathan : when the \"voice of conscience\" calls out","authors":"Mohammad-Javad Haj’jari, N. Maleki","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-2-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-2-8","url":null,"abstract":"The “voice of conscience”, in Heidegger’s philosophy, refers to the moment of self-realization when the existentially authentic individual as Dasein recognizes the range of possibilities in any given situation for which he/she is responsible. It is only the authentic individual who hears the call of conscience by having chosen to hear it. The call, if heard, reveals to Dasein the possibilities it has before it to take proper action based on the situation to lead a better life, not only for itself but also for others. Benjamin Sachs in Leviathan, in representing the Heideggerian Dasein, chooses to hear his conscience and cries out against the political corruption which his fellow American citizens ignore to hear. As an authentic individual, in the tradition of Heidegger’s Dasein, Ben rebels against communal ignorance under political tyranny following the rise of his political conscience, an uprising which is existential in principle and radical in practice, giving Auster’s novel an Existential-Marxist tone.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"137-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the way in which two basic emotions and the character’s gender are rendered in the reading aloud of prose in terms of the fundamental frequency and the variability of the fundamental frequency. When female characters express happiness or male characters express sadness, the effects of the two variables reinforce each other. However, when female characters express sadness or male characters express happiness, the two characteristics, theoretically, cancel each other. The results of this study indicate that the happy-sad dichotomy has priority over the character’s gender. These findings could potentially be extended to the more general claim that the broad category of emotion has a greater influence than the character’s sex on the reader’s voice.
{"title":"The influence of character's gender and the basic emotions of \"happiness\" and \"sadness\" on voice pitch in the reading of fiction","authors":"Łukasz Stolarski","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-1-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-1-3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the way in which two basic emotions and the character’s gender are rendered in the reading aloud of prose in terms of the fundamental frequency and the variability of the fundamental frequency. When female characters express happiness or male characters express sadness, the effects of the two variables reinforce each other. However, when female characters express sadness or male characters express happiness, the two characteristics, theoretically, cancel each other. The results of this study indicate that the happy-sad dichotomy has priority over the character’s gender. These findings could potentially be extended to the more general claim that the broad category of emotion has a greater influence than the character’s sex on the reader’s voice.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"49-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this paper is to present the results of our research into the politeness strategy of complimenting or giving positive evaluations in English on the Internet with a specific focus on comments responding to selected YouTube music videos. Compliments in face-to-face interactions have been widely studied for decades, with a new tendency emerging: the occurrence of compliments and compliment responses in digital contexts (Placencia and Lower 2016). Although there is no obvious formula for expressing compliments, research shows that there seems to be a limited number of patterns used for their construction (Válková 2012). On the corpus of complimentary evaluations in online comments on music (modern and classical), we aim to show to what extent the variety of forms conforms to the types presented in the available material and whether there are any essential differences in the characteristic lexical and syntactic repertoire with respect to the selected music genres.
本文的目的是展示我们对在互联网上用英语赞美或给予积极评价的礼貌策略的研究结果，并特别关注对选定的YouTube音乐视频的评论。几十年来，人们对面对面互动中的赞美进行了广泛的研究，并出现了一种新的趋势:在数字环境中出现赞美和赞美反应(Placencia and Lower 2016)。虽然没有明确的表达赞美的公式，但研究表明，用于表达赞美的模式似乎有限(Válková 2012)。在在线音乐评论(现代和古典)的补充评价语料库中，我们的目标是显示形式的多样性在多大程度上符合现有材料中呈现的类型，以及就所选音乐类型而言，特征词汇和句法曲目是否存在本质差异。
{"title":"Strategies of positive evaluation in computer-mediated communication","authors":"Silvie Válková, Jana Kořínková","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-2-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-2-4","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present the results of our research into the politeness strategy of complimenting or giving positive evaluations in English on the Internet with a specific focus on comments responding to selected YouTube music videos. Compliments in face-to-face interactions have been widely studied for decades, with a new tendency emerging: the occurrence of compliments and compliment responses in digital contexts (Placencia and Lower 2016). Although there is no obvious formula for expressing compliments, research shows that there seems to be a limited number of patterns used for their construction (Válková 2012). On the corpus of complimentary evaluations in online comments on music (modern and classical), we aim to show to what extent the variety of forms conforms to the types presented in the available material and whether there are any essential differences in the characteristic lexical and syntactic repertoire with respect to the selected music genres.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"67-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article invites a reading of Michael Crummey’s Sweetland (2014) from the geocritical point of view. The novel is a fictional record of the resettlement of a fishing town situated on an imaginary island off the coast of Newfoundland. The main character refuses to leave his home, and by feigning his own death manages to stay behind when all other inhabitants depart. The proposed analysis employs such geocritical tools as geobiography, cartography, sensory experience of the land and its agency, regionalism as well as Pierre Nora’s concept of lieu de mémoire. The article analyzes the geobiographical elements in the novel to underscore the book’s status as Crummey’s tribute to his fatherland. It investigates the factors that prevented the protagonist from taking the resettlement package and the transformations that the deserted island undergoes. It also elaborates on the motif of the map in the discussed narrative and reflects on the role of Newfoundland literature in preserving regional identity.
{"title":"Tribute to Newfoundland, tribute to fatherland : Michael Crummey's Sweetland in a geocritical perspective","authors":"Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-2-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-2-7","url":null,"abstract":"The article invites a reading of Michael Crummey’s Sweetland (2014) from the geocritical point of view. The novel is a fictional record of the resettlement of a fishing town situated on an imaginary island off the coast of Newfoundland. The main character refuses to leave his home, and by feigning his own death manages to stay behind when all other inhabitants depart. The proposed analysis employs such geocritical tools as geobiography, cartography, sensory experience of the land and its agency, regionalism as well as Pierre Nora’s concept of lieu de mémoire. The article analyzes the geobiographical elements in the novel to underscore the book’s status as Crummey’s tribute to his fatherland. It investigates the factors that prevented the protagonist from taking the resettlement package and the transformations that the deserted island undergoes. It also elaborates on the motif of the map in the discussed narrative and reflects on the role of Newfoundland literature in preserving regional identity.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"13 1","pages":"119-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prescience allowed H. G. Wells to predict the outbreak of WWII and anticipate modern technologies, such as the aeroplane, the tank, the atomic bomb, the laser beam, and biological engineering. This article explores Wells’s prefiguration of the singularity in the shape of the world brain. In both his fiction and journalism, Wells invests in vast political and social transformations, which precede the emergence of a knowledge infrastructure whose universal availability purports to transcend national, racial, gender, and socioeconomic boundaries. Contextualized alongside present-day concerns about exclusion, the world brain offers a critical model for circumventing the singularity as a dystopian prospect.
{"title":"The singularity and H.G. Wells's conception of the world brain","authors":"Maxim Shadurski","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-1-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-1-11","url":null,"abstract":"Prescience allowed H. G. Wells to predict the outbreak of WWII and anticipate modern technologies, such as the aeroplane, the tank, the atomic bomb, the laser beam, and biological engineering. This article explores Wells’s prefiguration of the singularity in the shape of the world brain. In both his fiction and journalism, Wells invests in vast political and social transformations, which precede the emergence of a knowledge infrastructure whose universal availability purports to transcend national, racial, gender, and socioeconomic boundaries. Contextualized alongside present-day concerns about exclusion, the world brain offers a critical model for circumventing the singularity as a dystopian prospect.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"229-241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyses a group of metaphors conceptualising the welfare state as a participant in the ATTACK scenario, as well as several related metaphors involving the use of force, in a corpus of British newspaper articles published between 2008 and April 2015. The analysis draws on a point of convergence between Discourse-Historical Approach and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, focusing on the argumentative functions of these metaphors. The paper finds that these particular metaphors are attested predominantly in the left-leaning newspapers. As a predication strategy with a coercive effect, they typically work to axiologically and emotionally undermine the austerity policies of the Coalition government.
{"title":"Attack metaphors of the welfare state and austerity across the British press, 2008–2015","authors":"Małgorzata Paprota","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-1-2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses a group of metaphors conceptualising the welfare state as a participant in the ATTACK scenario, as well as several related metaphors involving the use of force, in a corpus of British newspaper articles published between 2008 and April 2015. The analysis draws on a point of convergence between Discourse-Historical Approach and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, focusing on the argumentative functions of these metaphors. The paper finds that these particular metaphors are attested predominantly in the left-leaning newspapers. As a predication strategy with a coercive effect, they typically work to axiologically and emotionally undermine the austerity policies of the Coalition government.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"21-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Ponton, Douglas Mark. Understanding political persuasion: linguistic and rhetorical analysis]","authors":"J. Chovanec","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-2-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-2-17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"297-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this paper is to analyze the portrayal of Native American people and traditions in Charles de Lint’s most recent novel The Wind in His Heart (2017). The theoretical framework for the proposed analysis will be provided by Gerald Vizenor’s works dealing with the depiction of Indigenous communities in mainstream (predominantly white) culture and Marek Oziewicz’s One Earth, One People (2008) in which the author examines the restorative power of mythopoeic fantasy. Since the works of Charles de Lint, which belong to the category of mythopoeic fantasy, implicitly argue that Indigenous spirituality may play a significant role in the process of restoration discussed by Oziewicz, the inclusion of Oziewicz’s perspective will contribute to the overall assessment of de Lint’s portrayal of Native people and traditions.
本文的目的是分析查尔斯·德·林特(Charles de Lint)最新小说《风在他心中》(2017)中对美洲原住民和传统的刻画。杰拉德·维泽诺(Gerald Vizenor)的作品描述了主流文化(主要是白人)中的土著社区，以及马雷克·奥兹维茨(Marek Oziewicz)的《同一个地球，同一个民族》(2008)，其中作者研究了神话幻想的恢复力量，为本文提出的分析提供了理论框架。由于查尔斯·德·林特的作品属于神话幻想的范畴，含蓄地认为土著精神可能在奥兹维茨所讨论的恢复过程中起着重要作用，因此纳入奥兹维茨的观点将有助于全面评估德·林特对土著人民和传统的描绘。
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