Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.10
Magdalena Ciubăncan
(Inter)cultural awareness is a widely discussed concept in foreign language education, being considered one of the main pillars on which the process of language learning is based. Our paper’s aim is to analyze the way in which (inter)cultural awareness is constructed in the main Japanese language textbooks used worldwide after the 1980s. We focus on the self-introduction sections in A1-level textbooks, identifying the main “foreigner” characters and examining their linguistic and cultural behavior in their interactions with the Japanese ones, as this is the first encounter of non-Japanese learners with the (inter)cultural construct in Japanese language study materials. We demonstrate that, at this level, we can speak of an advanced cultural awareness, but not of a genuine intercultural one.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.06
Yaryna Oprisnyk
The article aims at investigating the phenomenon of intermediality in 2005 novel Never Let Me Go by the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, whose Japanese origin adds to the inherently laconic, Eastern aesthetics of his writing. Of particular importance is the notion of “literary cinematographicness”, defined as the use of cinematic techniques (or filmic modes) in narrative fiction, thus producing the effect of multimodality. Analyzing Ishiguro’s novel, the article focuses on such elements of literary cinematographicness as the prevalent audiovisuality, the use of audio-visual special effects, different shots sizes and shifts in perspective, montage, frame shots, flashbacks, and flexible chronotope.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.07
R. Marin
This article proposes a discussion of autoethnography as an instrument of decolonizing the academe and creating spaces for the voices of the under-represented and their lived experiences, often queer and/or non-white. This discussion is inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s speculative fiction and is part of a larger doctoral project exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and religion in her earlier, more classic, science fiction and her later, previsionary, speculative fiction. The objective is to lay out a theoretical foundation to the contention that Butler’s fiction is equivalent to self-mapping - and thus autoethnographic -, and that it engages the minority woman and queer reader in a similarly autoethnographic journey. The present article is a theoretic preamble to this contention. An extended version of this article is aimed to be included in my doctoral thesis, where these theories of autoethnography will be tested on Butler’s Bloodchild, Parable of the Sower, and Fledgling.
{"title":"FICTION IN-BETWEEN: AN INTRODUCTION\u0000TO AUTOTEHNOGRAPHY","authors":"R. Marin","doi":"10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.07","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a discussion of autoethnography as an instrument of decolonizing the\u0000academe and creating spaces for the voices of the under-represented and their lived\u0000experiences, often queer and/or non-white. This discussion is inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s\u0000speculative fiction and is part of a larger doctoral project exploring the intersections of race,\u0000gender, sexuality and religion in her earlier, more classic, science fiction and her later, previsionary, speculative fiction. The objective is to lay out a theoretical foundation to the\u0000contention that Butler’s fiction is equivalent to self-mapping - and thus autoethnographic -,\u0000and that it engages the minority woman and queer reader in a similarly autoethnographic\u0000journey. The present article is a theoretic preamble to this contention. An extended version\u0000of this article is aimed to be included in my doctoral thesis, where these theories of\u0000autoethnography will be tested on Butler’s Bloodchild, Parable of the Sower, and Fledgling.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46573672","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.12
Doris Sava
The competitive financing of research and the increased competition caused research practice to focus on citation indices and the scientific community on rankings, the demand for an improved response from research and for more visibility are developments that have often been criticized by the public. The change in the scientific landscape and the culture of quantification due to the competition for funds, grants and positions, the establishment of reputation through long lists of publications and third-party funding, decisive criteria for professions and recruitment, reveal grievances in the scientific community. The article therefore shows the consequences of these developments and names some challenges that the humanities, and in particular the philological disciplines, encounter in meeting scientific standards.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.04
Veronica Cȃmpian, Sonia Maloș
The debates around the COVID-19 pandemic have been a sensitive issue for the citizens in the last two years and the authorities have tried to promote the vaccination campaign through different means. The aim of this paper is to examine the communication strategies used in approaching the COVID-19 vaccination campaign to the population, focusing on the Romanian cultural mindset, specificities, values and beliefs that have been addressed. The corpus of the analysis consists of the informative short films broadcast on TVR in early 2021, which carry the messages of well-known doctors. The content analysis focuses on three main levels: sensitising, informing and motivating. Each of these levels has been assigned structural and functional features to analyse key examples and have a critical approach.
{"title":"ADAPTING THE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES\u0000FOR THE COVID-19 VACCINATION CAMPAIGN\u0000TO THE ROMANIAN CULTURAL MINDSET","authors":"Veronica Cȃmpian, Sonia Maloș","doi":"10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.04","url":null,"abstract":"The debates around the COVID-19 pandemic have been a sensitive issue for the citizens in\u0000the last two years and the authorities have tried to promote the vaccination campaign through\u0000different means. The aim of this paper is to examine the communication strategies used in\u0000approaching the COVID-19 vaccination campaign to the population, focusing on the\u0000Romanian cultural mindset, specificities, values and beliefs that have been addressed. The\u0000corpus of the analysis consists of the informative short films broadcast on TVR in early 2021,\u0000which carry the messages of well-known doctors.\u0000The content analysis focuses on three main levels: sensitising, informing and motivating.\u0000Each of these levels has been assigned structural and functional features to analyse key\u0000examples and have a critical approach.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49406525","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.09
Mihaela Parpalea
This paper presents some arguments based on research into multimedia opportunities in foreign language learning. It provides critical comments on different and sometimes controversial views of learners and teachers on how new media have been promoted in language teaching. The new media comprise combination of texts, sounds, computer-based exercises - like cloze passages exercises, jumble sentences rearrangements, or text reconstruction dialogues - and grammar tables and structures with supporting software tools enclosed in spelling programs, audio dictionaries and search engines, allowing the user to browse the entire range for specific topics of activities. All these are significantly beneficial to the language learning process. Notwithstanding all these benefits, it is doubtful whether these new computer-based methods live up to the claim to surpass the effectiveness of existing, traditional methods in language teaching and learning. Most of the traditional exercises, as well as those based on PC applications, largely rely on a substantial amount of authentic language contained in most of the reference works. All in all, we can say that
{"title":"DER NUTZEN DER NEUEN MEDIEN IN DER UNTERRICHTSPRAXIS","authors":"Mihaela Parpalea","doi":"10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.09","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents some arguments based on research into multimedia opportunities in\u0000foreign language learning. It provides critical comments on different and sometimes\u0000controversial views of learners and teachers on how new media have been promoted in\u0000language teaching. The new media comprise combination of texts, sounds, computer-based\u0000exercises - like cloze passages exercises, jumble sentences rearrangements, or text\u0000reconstruction dialogues - and grammar tables and structures with supporting software\u0000tools enclosed in spelling programs, audio dictionaries and search engines, allowing the\u0000user to browse the entire range for specific topics of activities. All these are significantly\u0000beneficial to the language learning process. Notwithstanding all these benefits, it is\u0000doubtful whether these new computer-based methods live up to the claim to surpass the\u0000effectiveness of existing, traditional methods in language teaching and learning. Most of\u0000the traditional exercises, as well as those based on PC applications, largely rely on a\u0000substantial amount of authentic language contained in most of the reference works. All in\u0000all, we can say that","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43174476","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.05
R. Marinescu
This article discusses the fictional transpositions of a traumatic event in recent Romanian history in some contemporary novels by women writers. Decree 770/1966 meant the brutal intervention of the paternalistic state in the private lives of its citizens and the redefinition of gender roles to the effect of translating reproductive roles into productive ones. The theme of abortion is analysed from the theoretical perspective of new historicism and cultural materialism and through a feminine and feminist lens in a number of works published by Romanian contemporary women authors in the past few years.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.13
Luminiţa Steriu
In this article, we have chosen to study the issue of the resumption of the discourse of others within the master dissertations. We will examine the practice of reformulating the discourse of others implemented by students in the development of the literature review in their master's dissertation. In particular, we will look at the reconciliation between citation and the different types of reformulation identified in the corpus. For operational reasons, we will leave aside the analysis of the citations themselves by focusing on the analysis of the reformulations produced by the students and how these represent a continuation of the citation at the enunciative level by the proximity face to the speech of others.
{"title":"DE LA CITATION À LA REFORMULATION DANS L'ÉCRITURE\u0000DU MÉMOIRE DE MASTER","authors":"Luminiţa Steriu","doi":"10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.13","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we have chosen to study the issue of the resumption of the discourse of others\u0000within the master dissertations. We will examine the practice of reformulating the discourse\u0000of others implemented by students in the development of the literature review in their master's\u0000dissertation. In particular, we will look at the reconciliation between citation and the\u0000different types of reformulation identified in the corpus. For operational reasons, we will\u0000leave aside the analysis of the citations themselves by focusing on the analysis of the\u0000reformulations produced by the students and how these represent a continuation of the\u0000citation at the enunciative level by the proximity face to the speech of others.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44037174","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.11
Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu
Publishing procedures in all scientific areas have been in constant flux to ensure articles’ formal unity and most importantly significant contribution to respective research fields. Scientists but more specifically higher education professionals across the globe have joined a race for “points” to warrant their standing in academic communities or to comply with promotion or tenure requirements. Publishing scientific/ academic work in high-ranking journals is today the norm in most universities worldwide which has imposed on editorial teams methods of selection relying almost exclusively on the authority of reviewers. This article will present a brief overview of recent concerns regarding the peer review practice in different publishing fields and the issue of less than collegial behaviours that have also emerged. The paper examines the importance of unbiased feedback of specialists which ensures the quality of published materials and highlights authors’ apprehension about bullying in peer review processes. The present critique will also mention the need for golden rules of conduct for peer reviewers and the necessity of editorial boards to supervise and address inappropriate aggressive comments from reviewers.
{"title":"OPENING PANDORA’S BOX:\u0000A CRITIQUE OF PEER REVIEW PROCESSES","authors":"Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu","doi":"10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.11","url":null,"abstract":"Publishing procedures in all scientific areas have been in constant flux to ensure articles’\u0000formal unity and most importantly significant contribution to respective research fields.\u0000Scientists but more specifically higher education professionals across the globe have joined\u0000a race for “points” to warrant their standing in academic communities or to comply with\u0000promotion or tenure requirements. Publishing scientific/ academic work in high-ranking\u0000journals is today the norm in most universities worldwide which has imposed on editorial\u0000teams methods of selection relying almost exclusively on the authority of reviewers.\u0000This article will present a brief overview of recent concerns regarding the peer review\u0000practice in different publishing fields and the issue of less than collegial behaviours that\u0000have also emerged. The paper examines the importance of unbiased feedback of specialists\u0000which ensures the quality of published materials and highlights authors’ apprehension\u0000about bullying in peer review processes. The present critique will also mention the need for\u0000golden rules of conduct for peer reviewers and the necessity of editorial boards to\u0000supervise and address inappropriate aggressive comments from reviewers.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43167640","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.24818/syn/2022/18/1.08
Blaženka Abramović
This empirical essay shows how to bring, as a teacher, authentic and linguistically difficult texts closer to learners through playful forms of work. By presenting tested forms of work that have evolved over time through their use in classrooms, this article shows how cognitive learning, practical and creative activity as well as social and personal learning can be interconnected.
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