Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.05
Monica Got
By addressing the peculiarities and formal inventiveness of Ana Castillo’s novel The Mixquiahuala Letters, the paper identifies and categorizes the elements of identity that generate the metaphysical construction of a bicephalous feminine/feminist experience—a permanent fluidity of the ethos, a profound alterity of the receptive act, and a radical, disruptive participatory courage. While examining how identity (re)construction can resonate, metonymically, in the actual scriptural arrangement of the novel’s text, the paper focuses on the study of the relationship between the formal, textual, and semiotic-receptive representation of the idea of emancipation, through Ana Castillo’s explicit auctorial intentionality.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.01
Adina Ciugureanu
The article brings into discussion the case of a few exceptional women who wrote, published, and became popular in the Age of Reason as poets, critics, and activists. They were considered as Nonconformist because they belonged to the Baptist or Unitarian Church and did not follow the mainstream Church of England views. On the other hand, the end of the eighteenth century witnessed the rise of Romantic aesthetics and of a number of nature poets. The questions this article attempts to answer refer both to the influence of the Biblical discourse on a group of women’s literary and non-literary productions and to the way in which the emerging Romantic aesthetics also impacted their work. How did devotional poetry go along Romantic principles and feminist views? Anne Steele’s and Mary Steele’s poetry, Mary Scott’s and Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist agenda will be highlighted in the analysis.
{"title":"DEVOTIONAL DISCOURSE AND FEMALE AUTHORSHIP:\u0000FROM THE STEELE CIRCLE TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT","authors":"Adina Ciugureanu","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.01","url":null,"abstract":"The article brings into discussion the case of a few exceptional women who wrote,\u0000published, and became popular in the Age of Reason as poets, critics, and activists. They\u0000were considered as Nonconformist because they belonged to the Baptist or Unitarian\u0000Church and did not follow the mainstream Church of England views. On the other hand,\u0000the end of the eighteenth century witnessed the rise of Romantic aesthetics and of a number\u0000of nature poets. The questions this article attempts to answer refer both to the influence of\u0000the Biblical discourse on a group of women’s literary and non-literary productions and to\u0000the way in which the emerging Romantic aesthetics also impacted their work. How did\u0000devotional poetry go along Romantic principles and feminist views? Anne Steele’s and\u0000Mary Steele’s poetry, Mary Scott’s and Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist agenda will be\u0000highlighted in the analysis.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46141043","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 : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.08
Mihaela Parpalea
This paper presents several research-based aspects on language-related communication, message-related communication and action-related communication and the connection between inner and outer attitude within communication, meaning that mental and physical conditions of speaking and hearing go hand in hand. The article also describes some differences between verbal and non-verbal communication, as well as encoding and decoding procedures in inter-cultural communication. Communication is about acting, with and without language, about intentions, about the circumstances and relationships between people, about attitudes behind the words, about physical behavior that expresses inner attitudes. Feelings are expressed in body language and physical changes also change the emotional state of communication participants. Summing up, some views of what communicative language and action are and are not, of what they can and cannot, are also presented.
{"title":"KÖRPERSPRACHE IM KONTEXT\u0000DES KOMMUNIKATIONSPROZESSES\u0000BODY LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT\u0000OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS","authors":"Mihaela Parpalea","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.08","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents several research-based aspects on language-related communication,\u0000message-related communication and action-related communication and the connection\u0000between inner and outer attitude within communication, meaning that mental and physical\u0000conditions of speaking and hearing go hand in hand. The article also describes some\u0000differences between verbal and non-verbal communication, as well as encoding and\u0000decoding procedures in inter-cultural communication. Communication is about acting, with\u0000and without language, about intentions, about the circumstances and relationships between\u0000people, about attitudes behind the words, about physical behavior that expresses inner\u0000attitudes. Feelings are expressed in body language and physical changes also change the\u0000emotional state of communication participants. Summing up, some views of what\u0000communicative language and action are and are not, of what they can and cannot, are also\u0000presented.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43505883","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 : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.02
Fatima Tauseef, M. Chauhan
The neo-liberal model of development has facilitated the cross-border movements, thereby making both national and international migration one of the survival strategies to fight against persistent poverty, economic insecurity and deepening inequalities. It is known to all that Covid-19 and lockdown measures had a large impact on employment and labour market affecting human lives across the globe. This paper focuses on the experiences of women migrant workers situated within one of the most populous states of India, i.e., Uttar Pradesh. How did they make sense of their lived realities in the face of downsizing being done by the companies, which meant partial wages or losing the jobs permanently, and also the sudden transition that they had to opt for and negotiate with?
{"title":"INVISIBILITY OF WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS\u0000AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDIA","authors":"Fatima Tauseef, M. Chauhan","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.02","url":null,"abstract":"The neo-liberal model of development has facilitated the cross-border movements, thereby\u0000making both national and international migration one of the survival strategies to fight\u0000against persistent poverty, economic insecurity and deepening inequalities. It is known to\u0000all that Covid-19 and lockdown measures had a large impact on employment and labour\u0000market affecting human lives across the globe. This paper focuses on the experiences of\u0000women migrant workers situated within one of the most populous states of India, i.e., Uttar\u0000Pradesh. How did they make sense of their lived realities in the face of downsizing being\u0000done by the companies, which meant partial wages or losing the jobs permanently, and also\u0000the sudden transition that they had to opt for and negotiate with?","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43837305","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 : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.07
A. Enache, M. Militaru, Viorelavalentina Dima
The present research looks into the most common inadvertencies that occur in professional writing – more specifically, in writing for business purposes. Against the background of the labour market requirements for professionals equipped with sound writing skills – perceived as ‘deal makers or breakers’ – the paper presents the results of a qualitative analysis of business written assignments of students from an English-taught Business Administration programme organised by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. The analysis reveals that, despite students being highly proficient users of the target language, they nonetheless stumble upon challenges that pertain not to accuracy and correctness, but to extraneous factors such as appropriateness, flexibility, conciseness, relevance and deference. In the following, we shall attempt to shed light on these inadvertencies and highlight the aspects to be taken into account when writing in a business context.
{"title":"PITFALLS OF PROFESSIONAL WRITING – THE MOST COMMON\u0000MISTAKES IN WRITING FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES","authors":"A. Enache, M. Militaru, Viorelavalentina Dima","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.07","url":null,"abstract":"The present research looks into the most common inadvertencies that occur in professional\u0000writing – more specifically, in writing for business purposes. Against the background of the\u0000labour market requirements for professionals equipped with sound writing skills –\u0000perceived as ‘deal makers or breakers’ – the paper presents the results of a qualitative\u0000analysis of business written assignments of students from an English-taught Business\u0000Administration programme organised by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies,\u0000Romania. The analysis reveals that, despite students being highly proficient users of the\u0000target language, they nonetheless stumble upon challenges that pertain not to accuracy and\u0000correctness, but to extraneous factors such as appropriateness, flexibility, conciseness,\u0000relevance and deference. In the following, we shall attempt to shed light on these\u0000inadvertencies and highlight the aspects to be taken into account when writing in a\u0000business context.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47150711","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 : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.04
Florian Andrei Vlad
Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, both accommodates and provokes a variety of voices and discourses, evoking and dealing with India’s past, present, and future, thus highlighting its author’s dialogic vision. Although postcolonial and posthumanist approaches are worth exploring at length in this very challenging text, the current starts from the novel’s initial “conversation” with a controversial non-fiction book, Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, and the theory of the ten flatteners that reshape globalization, with Bangalore as the then (2006) neoliberal hub of the world. Using the patterns of the frame narrative of the Arabian Nights and of the European epistolary novel, the text under investigation dramatizes and transfigures the dark side of neoliberalism by means of the imaginary conversation between a murderer turned successful entrepreneur and the leader of the world’s most prominent rising economic tiger.
{"title":"DIALOGIC ADIGA: THE NEOLIBERAL GOSPEL\u0000AND ITS CONTEXTS IN THE WHITE TIGER","authors":"Florian Andrei Vlad","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, both\u0000accommodates and provokes a variety of voices and discourses, evoking and dealing with\u0000India’s past, present, and future, thus highlighting its author’s dialogic vision. Although\u0000postcolonial and posthumanist approaches are worth exploring at length in this very\u0000challenging text, the current starts from the novel’s initial “conversation” with a\u0000controversial non-fiction book, Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat, and the theory of\u0000the ten flatteners that reshape globalization, with Bangalore as the then (2006) neoliberal\u0000hub of the world. Using the patterns of the frame narrative of the Arabian Nights and of the\u0000European epistolary novel, the text under investigation dramatizes and transfigures the\u0000dark side of neoliberalism by means of the imaginary conversation between a murderer\u0000turned successful entrepreneur and the leader of the world’s most prominent rising\u0000economic tiger.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45565983","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 : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.06
I. David
Disease and its effect on the body and personal autonomy, as well as its influence on the social position of the diseased person, are among the key themes in the novels of the 19th century French writer Émile Zola. When it comes to female characters, illness has a multifold impact, having both physical and psychological effects, erasing in extreme cases female identity itself. The aim of this article is to offer insights into how sickness is depicted as a menace that leaves female characters deprived of any power they might have by affecting their appearance, which is the main indicator of their social identity and the key instrument they can use to establish and maintain relationships, and by taking away their ability to control themselves and how they are seen by others.
{"title":"THE THREAT OF DISEASE ON FEMALE IDENTITY\u0000IN EMILE ZOLA’S NOVELS","authors":"I. David","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.06","url":null,"abstract":"Disease and its effect on the body and personal autonomy, as well as its influence on the\u0000social position of the diseased person, are among the key themes in the novels of the 19th\u0000century French writer Émile Zola. When it comes to female characters, illness has a\u0000multifold impact, having both physical and psychological effects, erasing in extreme cases\u0000female identity itself. The aim of this article is to offer insights into how sickness is depicted\u0000as a menace that leaves female characters deprived of any power they might have by\u0000affecting their appearance, which is the main indicator of their social identity and the key\u0000instrument they can use to establish and maintain relationships, and by taking away their\u0000ability to control themselves and how they are seen by others.","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47524987","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 : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.09
R. Bârlea
{"title":"ROUMANITÉ ET MÉDIATION CULTURELLE\u0000SOUS L’ANGLE DES MYTHES, DES LÉGENDES ET DES CONTES","authors":"R. Bârlea","doi":"10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24818/syn/2021/17/2.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38079,"journal":{"name":"Synergy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47636069","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.24818/SYN/2021/17/1.02
T. Alina
This paper analyses the relationship between the author and the reader in two of Borges’s most representative fictions: “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”. In the first writing, the fictional reader and narrator Borges not only challenges the non-fictional reader to interpret correctly the various references that appear in the text, but he also invades his real-life world. In the second story, “Pierre Menard”, the fictional reader and narrator challenges the non-fictional reader again by claiming that two identical texts may acquire different values when they are attributed to two different authors living in different periods of time. By exploring these provoking texts, the article attempts to establish Borges’s own perspectives on “authorship” and “readership” starting from the premise that, in the Borgesian stories, the line between the reader and the author is blurred.
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