Furkó, Péter
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
Discourse markers are non-propositional linguistic items that are notoriously difficult to identify as well as to categorize. We can observe several borderline phenomena and overlaps with other formal and functional categories, e.g. inserts, adverbials, contextualization cues, pragmatic force modifiers, etc. By way of addressing such overlaps as we...
Furkó, Bálint Péter
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
The aim of the paper is to examine common Irish English stereotypes in cinematographic representations of Irish English with special reference to pragmatic features and sociopragmatic norms. After giving an overview of some of the ways in which the concepts of ‘stereotype’ and ‘stereotyping’ are defined and used in sociolinguistics and sociopragmat...
Magyari, Sára
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
By analyzing the key words we reconstruct the conceptions created by the two speech communities in their languages in order to understand their interpretation of reality. The analysis of the collocations and expressions identifies common basic principles reflecting the relationship between language and thought. The analysis is based on the theory o...
Hubbes, László Attila
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
Hungarian civil religion in general, and various ethno-pagan spiritualities in special are deeply unsatisfied with the canonical version(s) of ancient national history. Screening history is an act of powerful pictorial mythologization of historical discourses and also a visual expression of national characterology. In recent years two animated film...
Kommer, Alois
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
The paper deals the stereotype of the Yiddish mother („jiddise máme“) as it is treated in the novel „Die jiddische Mamme“ written by Rafael Seligmann, a Jewish journalist and writer. The aim of the analysis is to search the answer to the question whether the writer presents the stereotype or fights against it. It presents not only the stereotype of...
Tapodi, Zsuzsa
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose as a postmodern literary work is extensively based on transtextuality. There are series of quotations from the Bible, Petrus Abelardus, St. Bernard, Petrarch, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Jorge L. Borges, Nietzsche, and other classic authors interwoven into the novel’s narrative. The text is a result of mul...
Ispánovics Csapó, Julianna
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
The literary palette of Tolnai’s textual universe within the Hungarian literature from Vojvodina is based, among others, upon the intertwining of various cultural entities. The social and cultural spaces of “Big Yugoslavia,” the phenomena, figures, and works of the European-oriented Yugoslav and ethnic culture (literature, painting, book publishing...
Arhire, Mona
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
Apart from the ellipsis occurring in discourse as a fairly common cohesive device, the literary dialogue oftentimes uses ellipsis as a stylistic or rhetorical device or as a means of endowing characters with idiolectal or sociolectal features. This paper examines such instances of ellipsis which contribute to the construction of the literary heroes...
Albert, Noémi
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) presents its readers with a “borderless world.” This borderlessness concerns space and time, with complex and interweaving spatiotemporal planes. In this fictional world, the subject will serve as an entity that brings together disparate spatialities and temporalities through an intricate symbolic web that connec...
Suciu, Sorin Gheorghe
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
Part of a larger research, initially thought and written as an essay, our paper is a transdisciplinary approach on Elmar Salmann’s idea of the novel as the modern depository of humanity’s religious and philosophical legacy, which would otherwise not find a way to express itself nowadays. As a support, we are using the one and only novel of a profou...
