14th International Student Poster Presentation Conference
in English and American Studies
2024 - Abstracts
Please note that the times refer to CEST, Hungarian time.
BA sectionPolin Denver
Eötvös Loránd University
Edward the 2nd
In my poster presentation I will focus on Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward the Second". I will present viewers with the general idea of the play, and I will then focus on the Edward's persona-on the trials and tribulations he was bound to face. I will give several perspectives on this play-that is of Edward, the nobles and the more general one. However, besides that, I will also put emphasis on the nature of Edward's identity and self-identity; how his kingship is interconnected with those. Furthermore, I will focus on his status as a king-that is, what kingship brings him in terms of personality and self-identity, how it impacts his mindset in general. I will also analyze his identity more in detail, and will arrive at the conclusion that his status is one of the key elements of his personality; it both fuels it to an extent and also aggravates his inner struggles. Besides, I will also introduce and explain the concept of two bodies of a king-private and public; I will give viewers/readers the perspective on Edward from different points of view: him as a public person, that is, a lawful monarch; him as a private person-or a lover, and I will make more detailed analysis on these two spheres and their inevitable clash that unfolded throughout the entirety of the play.
Elizaveta Ergakova
Eötvös Loránd University
Orientalism in Victorian Literature and Art
Orientalism in Victorian literature and art is an imitative portrayal of a significant variety of cultural aspects of the Eastern World Orientalist' works from the Victorian age are riddled with considerable ambiguity: they display both oriental and imperialistic attitudes and make an imprecise representation of Eastern cultures, creating a fantasy-like world, manmade reality imposing on it their own European taste and value system. The poster delves into identifying ambiguous illustrations of the Orient in Victorian Literature through the works of Rudyard Kipling, who simultaneously fulfilled the British agenda and criticized its colonial tendencies. Also, the poster aims to introduce the problem of "the Other" as seen from the British point of view through artistic representation of the time, namely, painting and architecture.
Flóra Nagy
Eötvös Loránd University
The MMIWG Crisis
"In Canada, the progressive country considered to be one of the safest in the world, as many as 4,000 Indigenous women and girls are believed to have been killed or have gone missing over the past 30 years, according to research conducted by the NWAC– although even this disturbingly high number might be an underestimation.
MMIWG, short for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is a severe human rights crisis across the US and Canada. And it is also the name of a community-based grassroots movement, with the aim to spread awareness on the issue, advocate for policy changes, and provide support for the families affected. It was found that Indigenous women are 12 times more likely to go missing or be murdered than non-Indigenous women in Canada. They make up 16% of female homicide victims, and 11% of missing women, despite only constituting 4% of Canada’s overall female population. The list of reasons explaining these disturbing numbers is vast, among them the ongoing legacy of imperialism, racism, and sexism.
My poster on this topic will strive to raise awareness of this crisis, by putting the statistics into context, amplifying the voices of those affected, and highlighting the remarkable resilience of the communities through Indigenous-led movements and organizations.
Sofia Ulnyrova
Eötvös Loránd University
Shadowing and dictogloss as a tool for formulaic language learning
"My poster will examine two new strategies for formulaic language (FL) acquisition: shadowing and dictogloss. Shadowing involves reading out loud a text simultaneously with a speaker. Dictogloss involves collecting keywords from a dictated text and then working in groups, aiming to reconstruct its gist (Ellis, 2008, as cited).
Research indicates progress in FL education, with digital sources offering access to authentic materials, facilitating FL learning. Mentioned shadowing and dictogloss promote recognition and utilisation of multiword phrases. Thus, these tasks guide students in identifying separate units of expressions and constructing complete FL phrases, enhancing their language proficiency.
The poster will complement last year’s one, where I focused on using FL in writing. This time, I present the theoretical part.
Elizaveta Zubenko
Eötvös Loránd University
"Words as Witnesses"
"The primary objective of my poster is to undertake a critical review of distinct branches within forensic linguistics and to illustrate some of the topics they encompass. The intention is to provide a precise definition of forensic linguistics, define its operational mechanisms, identify applicable contexts, and temporal considerations for its utilization. Furthermore, the investigation aims to examine the types of evidentiary materials with which forensic linguistics can effectively engage.
More precisely, I will illustrate the various branches of this field of applied linguistics through three case studies: ""the Unabomber"", ""the Bentley case"", and ""the Emoji code"". My aim is to highlight the efficacy and diversity of various subfields of forensic linguistics.
Methodologically, this critical literature review, coupled with the presentation of pertinent case studies, constitutes the investigative approach.
In my opinion, the topic of forensic linguistics is not being widely and properly discussed within university curricula. Given its interdisciplinary nature, situated at the intersection of language and law, the significance of this field cannot be overstated. Consequently, the profound intricacies of forensic linguistics should be more thoroughly investigated and disseminated to a broader audience, particularly among students pursuing linguistic studies. My presentation aims to bring this field closer to students by showing them how diverse theories can interact and work in action.
Anna Lehoczky
University of Miskolc
Agency in Worldbuilding: A Transmedia Analysis
"I examine worldbuilding across various media, including fiction, tabletop role-playing games, movies and video games. In my research, I explore how the process of worldbuilding shapes the experiences of participants and audiences, and how the depth and scope of worldbuilding and its mode of representation are determined in different media. I assume that the openness or constraints of worldbuilding affect the narrative and worldbuilding agency of creators and the immersive experience of the audiences of fictional worlds, and that the power dynamics between them influence the relationship between creators and consumers of such narratives. I posit that the narrative agency and experience shaped by worldbuilding is largely dependent on the possibilities offered by different genres and media. Therefore, the methods, techniques, strategies and emphases of worldbuilding must be adapted to the particular genre and medium in which fictional worlds are created. For example, tabletop role-playing games require a more expansive and adaptive world-
building methodology, while novels offer a more structured one. By examining the interplay between worldbuilding and my chosen media, I offer a comprehensive understanding of the dimensions of worldbuilding narratives in fiction, films, tabletop role-playing games and video games,contributing to insights about our engagement with fictional worlds.
Vladislava Vishnevskaia
Eötvös Loránd University
Shame as a Controlling Means
Shame has always been used as a way to subjugate people, influence their thoughts and feelings, and control their behavior. It gained particular influence during the Victorian era, and women were most affected by it. In my research, I will talk about the biological aspects of shame (how our bodies react to this emotion), the social aspect (why humans, as social creatures, avoid this emotion) and cognitive (how our brains absorb this emotion). My study will be conducted at the intersection of cognitive linguistics and literature. I am going to explore shame through metaphors from Victorian poems that depict the image of the ideal Victorian woman. Shame played an important role in achieving this image: with its help, women were forced to submit to the existing idea. I am interested in explaining how and why shame made women follow patriarchal customs and traditions; and although the Victorians considered shame a natural and most suitable emotion for women, it was just an attempt to keep women in the patriarchal system. Along with the negative aspects, I will also highlight the positive ones to show the contrast between the healthy feeling of shame and the unhealthy use of shame as a means of control.
Eszter Hartványi
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Phonotactic differences between English and Thai
"The aim of this study is to map out the difficulties Thai speakers of English encounter when pronouncing word-final consonants. These problems are caused by the extremely different phonotactic rules of the two languages. Previous studies have already brought this phenomenon to light, even offering a brief insight into the repair strategies used by Thai speakers. One of the most recent studies, Suntornsawet (2022), offers an overview of Thai accented English speech, highlighting the difference between the consonant system of the two languages. I aim to enhance the scope of the studies in this field by focusing merely on the word-final consonants and their realization in both spontaneous and scripted speech. For my research, I mostly used footage of interviews of young Thai speakers of English. The scripted speech was also collected from an online database. The results are expected to be systematic, stemming from the differences between the two languages, exhibiting high similarity with the repair strategies witnessed in loanword phonology. Furthermore, I hope to be able to identify other factors with influence on pronunciation (such as orthographic interference, especially interesting in the case of these two languages using different writing systems) and investigate their role in the pronunciation of Thai speakers.
References
Suntornsawet, J. (2022). A Systemic Review of Thai-Accented English Phonology. PASAA, 63, 348-370. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1348382.
Laura Serfőző
University of Debrecen
“A naked lunch is natural to us”: The Representation of Naked Lunch in Cronenberg’s Vision, A Re-imagined Adaptation of Burroughs’ Early Work.
Naked Lunch the movie, directed by David Cronenberg in 1991, a surrealist science fiction drama, is not a direct adaptation from William Burroughs’s book sharing the same title, but a collage of his earlier works, such as Junky, Queer, Interzone and Naked Lunch. This study looks at the movie as a standalone creation, something Burroughs-inspired but an overall independent representation of his world and characters, and analyzes the representation of his works. The movie builds them up into a world of its own. Through understanding and recognizing Burroughs’s early works in the movie, I demonstrate how they were adapted and changed to fulfill David Cronenberg’s vision. As he put it: “I think of it as product of a dream I would have about Burroughs and his book, a dream to which I bring all my particular obsessions and idiosyncrasies.” My work represents the particular feeling that Naked Lunch, both the book and the movie, became famous for. In conclusion, Naked Lunch the movie doesn’t represent Burroughs’s work in the same light as his books, but the movie also never claimed to do that – it causes goosebumps for different reasons, but the atmosphere is similar. My presentation imitates this atmosphere.
Polin Denver
Eötvös Loránd University
Edward the 2nd
In my poster presentation I will focus on Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward the Second". I will present viewers with the general idea of the play, and I will then focus on the Edward's persona-on the trials and tribulations he was bound to face. I will give several perspectives on this play-that is of Edward, the nobles and the more general one. However, besides that, I will also put emphasis on the nature of Edward's identity and self-identity; how his kingship is interconnected with those. Furthermore, I will focus on his status as a king-that is, what kingship brings him in terms of personality and self-identity, how it impacts his mindset in general. I will also analyze his identity more in detail, and will arrive at the conclusion that his status is one of the key elements of his personality; it both fuels it to an extent and also aggravates his inner struggles. Besides, I will also introduce and explain the concept of two bodies of a king-private and public; I will give viewers/readers the perspective on Edward from different points of view: him as a public person, that is, a lawful monarch; him as a private person-or a lover, and I will make more detailed analysis on these two spheres and their inevitable clash that unfolded throughout the entirety of the play.
Viktoriia Stepanova
Eötvös Loránd University
Greek mythology in English poetry
We all at least once have hear of Greek mythology and its myth. But very few people really know about how much it affected classical literature and brilliant authors throughout the time. Greek mythology also laid the foundation for lots of pieces of poetry, a topic which I would like to delve into.
MA sectionTeréz Mirjam Brdar
Eötvös Loránd University
Variation in the use of sports metaphors in American and British news discourse
According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, patterns of thought are reflected in metaphors, and as Kövecses (2015) demonstrates, context has a great impact on the choice of metaphors. Within this framework, the aim of the present poster is to compare the use of sports metaphors before, during and after the 2022 FIFA World Cup in spoken and written American and British English. Based on Boers’ (1999) study of cyclical variation in the use of metaphors, my hypothesis is that there would be a difference between the number of sports metaphors used during the competition and the periods before and after it. The three time periods examined were (1) three weeks in September 2022, (2) three weeks during the championship, and (3) five weeks a month and a half after the event. The corpus (450,000 words in 9 subcorpora) consists of transcripts of TV news programmes and newspaper articles. The identification of the sports metaphors in the subcorpora was carried out with the help of the USAS Semantic Tagger. The findings confirm the hypothesis of the study: in both the American and British sources sports metaphors were the most frequent in the second period, i.e., during the championship.
Lia Esslbauer
Eötvös Loránd University
Recontextualizing the Gothic in For the Term of His Natural Life. From the 1874 Novel to the 1927 Film.
Context plays a major role in the creation of meaning in a text. In the case of screen adaptations, the source text is recontextualized which results in complex resemiotizations that may diverge from the semiotic organization of the source text. This is the case with the 1927 silent film adaptation of the 1874 Gothic novel For the Term of His Natural Life. In this presentation, I apply a social semiotic approach based on Tan et al. (2016) to analyze how the respective contexts of the novel and the movie impact the creation of meaning and the use of the Gothic. First, the presentation identifies the respective contexts, followed by a stylistic analysis of the Gothic elements of the texts. Finally, the two aspects are interrelated to examine the impact of context on style and meaning. The differing historical, national, and sociocultural contexts of the two texts result in a divergence of meaning which is especially visible in the treatment of the ending. Both texts employ Gothic conventions that are highly recognizable to their audience, but the silent film offers a more melodramatic, pre-interpreted version due to the process of recontextualization.
Júlia Papp
Eötvös Loránd University
Regularization and irregularization of past participle and preterite verbs in British English
The formation of English past tense verbs can change over time, with irregular verbs sometimes becoming regular (regularization) and regular verbs sometimes becoming irregular (irregularization). It has been generally asserted that English past tense verbs tend to become more regular over time, from Old to Modern English. Other studies have presented a more mixed results of these processes by looking at shorter periods of time. British English has been claimed to have more irregular past tense verbs than American English. Causes of this type of language change can be investigated, as well as the factors that impede or even reverse regularization. These include verb frequency, register, transitivity, and voice. The aim of this study was to compare the factors between the 1994 and 2014 versions of the British National Corpus. It analyzed whether past tense verbs became more regular or irregular during this 20-year period and assessed the explanatory value of these features. The results showed that register was a significant factor, with both passive voice and transitivity prompting the use of irregular verbs to a small extent. Additionally, there was a weak correlation between frequency and irregularization.
Petra Orendács
Eötvös Loránd University
The Depiction of Camilla Macaulay in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Its Current Reception
"Donna Tartt’s 1992 campus novel is a cult classic, especially appealing to a specific audience of young university students. Since the end of the 2010s, the novel has been enjoying a renaissance as reader communities on the internet endorse it, and even try to imitate the lifestyle of its main characters. However, many people within these communities (which are usually made up of young women and teenaged girls) take the only female main character, Camilla Macaulay as a role model, and aspire to be like her – failing to notice that she is written through a rather misogynistic lens.
In my poster presentation, I will summarise the main themes and satirical nature of the novel, then move on to the character of Camilla Macaulay, and explain how the first-person narration distorts her personality. Then, I will compare her to one of the smaller characters, Judy Poovey, meant to be Camilla’s antithesis. Lastly, I will take a short detour to introduce now-contemporary reception of the novel amongst the BookTok (bookish TikTok) community, and through examining the reception, I will shed light on some drawbacks of too subtle satire.
Luca Guttengeber
Eötvös Loránd University
Modern Representation of Native Americans in Hollywood: The Case Study of Twilight and Reservation Dogs
Ever since the early days of Hollywood, stereotypical “Indian” tropes – such as the “romanticized,” “broken,” or “progressive Indian” -- and the homogenization of different cultures characterized Native American representation in mainstream movies and TV shows. Even though Hollywood in the 21st century is a great signifier of the changes in social awareness relating to ethnic, gender and sexual minority issues and subsequent inclusion of these groups, Indigenous people are still severely under- and misrepresented by the entertainment industry. The aim of this poster presentation is to highlight the importance of the so-called Narrative Change Strategy set out by the Reclaiming Native Truth study. To do so, after a historical overview of the aforementioned tropes and their origins, I will compare two mainstream products of modern motion picture: the Twilight Saga (2008-2012) and Reservation Dogs (2021-23). By juxtaposing the portrayal of Native Americans in these series, not only the endurance and negative impact of the outdated Hollywood tropes will become imminent, but a subversion and solution to this problem will also present itself. By taking control of the narrative, American Indians can offer a more accurate, positive and authentic depiction of contemporary Natives.
Boglárka Joanovics
Eötvös Loránd University
The First Witch of the New World - The Forgotten Witchcraft Trials of Connecticut and the case of Alice Young
Everybody has heard about the infamous Salem Witch Trials that caused the death of 19 people in one year. However, it is lesser known that fifty years before the outbreak of the Salem witch-hunt, the very first person executed for witchcraft accusations was a resident of Windsor, a settlement part of the Connecticut Colony. There is only one diary entry that made historians realize Alice Young was the first suspected witch in the New World and her hanging marked the beginning of a half-century-long hysteria within the thirteen American Colonies. The residents of Windsor brought their witchcraft beliefs from England across the Atlantic and the town’s early struggles with Native Americans, failed crops and the difficulties of a newly settled land all contributed to the suspicion of Satan’s presence in the community. The focus of my presentation is to examine how Puritan beliefs and their fear of the devil led to the hanging of Alice Young in Windsor, paying close attention to the historical timeline of Windsor, as well as the trial of Young, which presumably influenced all future cases, including the ones in Salem.
Dóra Süle
Eötvös Loránd University
The Role of Cognitive Metaphors in the Psychological Treatment of Eating Disorders
"Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most well-known eating disorders that mainly affect women aged between 13 and 23. Anorexia could be regarded as a phobia in which the patients are afraid of gaining weight; while bulimia consists of bingeing and purging phases. These disorders are treated with psychotherapy which can include individual and family therapy sessions.
The aim of this research is to identify and analyse the conceptual metaphors that emerge in the therapy of these patients. Metaphors in this field of psychiatry are especially important, because uncovering them can provide a way to get a better understanding of a patient’s mental state and how it changes during the healing process. Based on the assumption that context plays a crucial role in the selection of metaphors (see e.g., Kövecses 2015), I attended eight family therapy sessions and analysed the metaphor use of all the participants of the therapy: the patient, the phychiatrist and the parents. I have also taken into account the frequency of the metaphors and its effect on the therapeutic process. The findings have confirmed my main hypothesis, according to which the patient’s metaphors are influenced by the metaphor use of the other participants of the sessions.
Vencel Wutka
Eötvös Loránd University
The Development of Preaspiration in North Germanic
"This study examines preaspiration, a distinct feature in North Germanic, tracing its emergence and historical development from West Scandinavian during the Common Scandinavian era (800–1050 CE). Within Germanic, North Germanic stands out for its exclusive use of preaspirated segments due to a series of historical developments, which reflect conserved archaic traits, prevalent in today’s Icelandic, Faroese, Gudbrandsdalen and Jaeren Norwegian, as well as Härjedalen Swedish.
To explain the developments and language changes that gave rise to preaspiration (and corresponding sonorant devoicing) as a North Germanic phenomenon, this study provides data to illustrate the developmental steps of preaspiration, including nasal devoicing, nasal+fortis stop assimilation, gemination, reinterpretation of voiceless nasals and geminates, leading to preaspiration, as well as the phonetic variation of preaspiration.
Keywords: preaspiration, Common Scandinavian, North Germanic, exclusive, development, language change, variation.
Virág Simon
Eötvös Loránd University
The ambiguous behaviour of /v/
The aim of the paper is to present the discoveries of the phonology of /v/. The feature of /v/ has ambiguous patterning in a way that it is a labiodental sonorant and at the same time, it partially behaves like a normal obstruent fricative as it undergoes final devoicing and goes through regressive assimilation as it is affected by the following sound; however, does not trigger regressive voicing assimilation like obstruents do. Realization arises here because if /v/ is obstruent, therefore, it should trigger regressive voicing assimilation. The study is founded on different analysis of the phonological status of /v/. In the end of the presentation the results will be given.
Anna Enikő Varga
Eötvös Loránd University
A queer reading on Sherlock Holmes
"Name: Anna Enikő Varga
Title: A queer reading on Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular fictional characters, first appearing in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, these texts are predominantly approached as detective fiction. (Clausen, 1984). However, there are other approaches to its cultural literary analysis with relevance to contemporary themes. One such link can be established through its 2010 BBC adaptation. (Hofmann, 2018) The research behind this poster undertakes a queer analysis of the television series ""Sherlock” based on Arthur Conan Doyle's works, investigating narrative arcs, the presence of queer thematic elements, character dynamics, and the creative choices that alludes to a nuanced queer reading. Not only does it contribute to the understanding of queer subtext within popular culture but also highlights the potential of adapting canonical works to address diverse expressions of identity in the 21st century. This research argues that Arthur Conan Doyle's stories contained a rather subtle queer subtext that the series intentionally draws attention to, fostering a more explicit representation of non-normative identities and contradicts the misperception that applying a queer reading to pieces of media, colloquially often referred to as “making it gay” is wrong, rather unveils layers of meaning and challenge normative perspectives within the narrative. (Boots, 2016; Kenning, 2023)
References
Botts, A. (2016). (No) Sex and Sherlock: Asexuality, Victorian Abstinence and the Art of Ambiguity. In Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations (pp. 169–180). McFarland & Company.
Clausen, C. (1984). Sherlock Holmes, Order, and the Late-Victorian Mind. The Georgia Review, 38(1), 104–123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41398643
Hofmann, M. A. (2018). Johnlock meta and authorial intent in Sherlock fandom: Affirmational or transformational? Transformative Works and Cultures, 28. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1465
Kenning, T. D. (2023). Queer Historicism as literary theory: An Exploration of Three Texts.
Dorka Lippai
Eötvös Loránd University
Highlighting William Holman Hunt's ideology: An iconographical study of the Oriental lamps featured in some of his major works
"The topic I have chosen for my OTDK presentation last year is what I wish to illustrate with a poster at ISPPC. As the research focuses on William Holman Hunt's paintings, more specifically his use of Oriental style lamps, a collage of said symbols with accompanying quotes from the paper seems fitting for a poster presentation. The study concentrates on three of Hunt's major works: The Light of the World (the first and third version of the painting), The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, and The Lady of Shalott. In connection with these artworks, the research examines the relevance of lamps and lanterns as symbols in some of William Holman Hunt's most acknowledged paintings, how they relate to the artist's personal ideology, and to his relationship to Oriental cultures as well. A fresh viewpoint on Hunt's tolerance for differing religions as well as his changing relationship with faith may be gained by examining these depictions of the Eastern-style lamps and lanterns side by side.
PhD - English and American history, English speaking cultures and English and American literature sectionLoretta Anna Jungbauer
Eötvös Loránd University
Death by Marlowe
"Several pieces of art support the idea that no phenomenon was as alluring to the Renaissance mind as Death. People were exposed to its presence on a daily basis on both individual and collective level for Death was an integral part of the Early modern everydays. Executions, visual representations on church walls, skeletal figures in portraits, and memento mori jewellery worn by both noble men and commoners served as reminders of the fleeting nature of human existence. It was only natural that through the medium of drama, Death also found its place on the Elizabethan stage.
As a prominent dramatist of the Elizabethan age, Christopher Marlowe, too, explored different facets of death in his plays considering both the earthly and the transcendental realms. While Doctor Faustus focuses primarily on Death's spiritual effects, The Jew of Malta investigates Death and human mortality from a material point of view.
My aim is to highlight the different approaches to the phenomenon of Death as exemplified by the above-mentioned plays as well as to explore in which ways Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays combine them so as to offer the audience an innovative reading of the inherited cultural sets of meanings within the Elizabethan theatrical context.
PhD - Applied linguistics and Language pedagogy sectionAmoh, Solomon Owusu
Eötvös Loránd University
Epenthesis as a hiatus breaker: the case study of Esahie.
"Languages resort to phonological processes like vowel elision, segment epenthesizing, and others. Epenthesis as the main resolving strategy for the Esahie language leads to the insertion of glides, which is extremely common cross-linguistically (Zygis, 2010, Uffmann, 2007). They are preferred based on sonority, as they come after vowels in the sonority hierarchy. These sound segments are not underlyingly present, but they are realized in both emphatic, rapid, and slow speech for ease of articulation.
According to Casali (1996, 2011), high-front vowels in the V1 position are related to the palatal glide /j/, while high-back vowels are related to the labio-velar /w/. Esahie supports this but notes that high-front vowels in the V2 position can also determine the epenthetic glide to be used. /a/ cannot determine any glide when concatenated with other vowels.
The data shows that a high-back vowel followed by a mid-front vowel leads to the insertion of a palatal glide. Likewise, palatal glide is used to fill an empty onset, thereby removing vowel hiatus. Both SPE and Feature Geometry were employed. SPE provides rule-based alternations, while Feature Geometry accounts for feature spreading.
Mahmoud Fannouna
Eötvös Loránd University
Procedure and Strategies Employed in English-Arabic News Translation in the Case of Palestinian Graduates’ Translations
"This paper seeks to unravel a detailed examination of English-Arabic news translation processes, emphasizing the strategies and procedures employed by Palestinian graduates. Delving into both linguistic and cultural dimensions, the study identified 16 common procedures, including 'calque,' 'transposition,' and 'near-synonymy.' Demonstrating the necessity of balancing semantic and communicative meaning, translators navigate nuanced choices to preserve intent while adapting to the target language. The cultural translation analysis highlights the prevalence of 'cultural borrowing' and 'calque,' signifying a foreignizing approach. With foreignization dominating at approximately 93%, instances of domestication through 'cultural redomestication' are limited. The findings illuminate translators' endeavors to reconcile linguistic precision, cultural significance, and communicative efficacy, contributing nuanced insights to English-Arabic news translation practices. The results of this research may enrich scholarly discussions on translation, serving as a valuable resource for professionals, educators, and researchers.
Keywords: translation procedures, English-Arabic news translation, linguistic and cultural aspects, communicative translation, cultural borrowing, foreignization.
Mohamad Ali Khalil
Eötvös Loránd University
On the Biconsonantal Roots of Lebanese Arabic
This poster examines biconsonantal roots in Lebanese Arabic as a core part of the morphosyntactic paradigms of the language. A better understanding of the templates and patterns by which this type of root manifests allows for a precise description of their behavior and bearing within the system. Biconsonantal roots show a geminated second consonant C2 as well as a glide preceding the inflectional suffixes for the 1st and 2nd persons in form I, typical of final-weak roots. Final weak roots are triconsonantal roots wherein the third and last consonant is either the palatal glide ‘y’ or the labiovelar ‘w’. The paper analyzes this phenomenon, and the data shows that the glide in biconsonantal roots is excrescent, unlike final-weak glides, which are a part of the root. The biconsonantal glide emerges as a result of a diphthongization process of a long vowel, which in turn is a result of lengthening an epenthetic vowel. The conclusion reached in this paper thus enables biconsonantal roots to be analyzed systemically and classified properly morphologically and semantically, paving the way for a more comprehensive and complete picture of the Lebanese Arabic verbal system. More specifically, the analysis allows for a rigorous distinction between what is final-weak and what is biconsonantal with an additional glide.
Polin Denver
Eötvös Loránd University
Edward the 2nd
In my poster presentation I will focus on Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward the Second". I will present viewers with the general idea of the play, and I will then focus on the Edward's persona-on the trials and tribulations he was bound to face. I will give several perspectives on this play-that is of Edward, the nobles and the more general one. However, besides that, I will also put emphasis on the nature of Edward's identity and self-identity; how his kingship is interconnected with those. Furthermore, I will focus on his status as a king-that is, what kingship brings him in terms of personality and self-identity, how it impacts his mindset in general. I will also analyze his identity more in detail, and will arrive at the conclusion that his status is one of the key elements of his personality; it both fuels it to an extent and also aggravates his inner struggles. Besides, I will also introduce and explain the concept of two bodies of a king-private and public; I will give viewers/readers the perspective on Edward from different points of view: him as a public person, that is, a lawful monarch; him as a private person-or a lover, and I will make more detailed analysis on these two spheres and their inevitable clash that unfolded throughout the entirety of the play.
Elizaveta Ergakova
Eötvös Loránd University
Orientalism in Victorian Literature and Art
Orientalism in Victorian literature and art is an imitative portrayal of a significant variety of cultural aspects of the Eastern World Orientalist' works from the Victorian age are riddled with considerable ambiguity: they display both oriental and imperialistic attitudes and make an imprecise representation of Eastern cultures, creating a fantasy-like world, manmade reality imposing on it their own European taste and value system. The poster delves into identifying ambiguous illustrations of the Orient in Victorian Literature through the works of Rudyard Kipling, who simultaneously fulfilled the British agenda and criticized its colonial tendencies. Also, the poster aims to introduce the problem of "the Other" as seen from the British point of view through artistic representation of the time, namely, painting and architecture.
Flóra Nagy
Eötvös Loránd University
The MMIWG Crisis
"In Canada, the progressive country considered to be one of the safest in the world, as many as 4,000 Indigenous women and girls are believed to have been killed or have gone missing over the past 30 years, according to research conducted by the NWAC– although even this disturbingly high number might be an underestimation. MMIWG, short for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is a severe human rights crisis across the US and Canada. And it is also the name of a community-based grassroots movement, with the aim to spread awareness on the issue, advocate for policy changes, and provide support for the families affected. It was found that Indigenous women are 12 times more likely to go missing or be murdered than non-Indigenous women in Canada. They make up 16% of female homicide victims, and 11% of missing women, despite only constituting 4% of Canada’s overall female population. The list of reasons explaining these disturbing numbers is vast, among them the ongoing legacy of imperialism, racism, and sexism. My poster on this topic will strive to raise awareness of this crisis, by putting the statistics into context, amplifying the voices of those affected, and highlighting the remarkable resilience of the communities through Indigenous-led movements and organizations.
Sofia Ulnyrova
Eötvös Loránd University
Shadowing and dictogloss as a tool for formulaic language learning
"My poster will examine two new strategies for formulaic language (FL) acquisition: shadowing and dictogloss. Shadowing involves reading out loud a text simultaneously with a speaker. Dictogloss involves collecting keywords from a dictated text and then working in groups, aiming to reconstruct its gist (Ellis, 2008, as cited). Research indicates progress in FL education, with digital sources offering access to authentic materials, facilitating FL learning. Mentioned shadowing and dictogloss promote recognition and utilisation of multiword phrases. Thus, these tasks guide students in identifying separate units of expressions and constructing complete FL phrases, enhancing their language proficiency. The poster will complement last year’s one, where I focused on using FL in writing. This time, I present the theoretical part.
Elizaveta Zubenko
Eötvös Loránd University
"Words as Witnesses"
"The primary objective of my poster is to undertake a critical review of distinct branches within forensic linguistics and to illustrate some of the topics they encompass. The intention is to provide a precise definition of forensic linguistics, define its operational mechanisms, identify applicable contexts, and temporal considerations for its utilization. Furthermore, the investigation aims to examine the types of evidentiary materials with which forensic linguistics can effectively engage. More precisely, I will illustrate the various branches of this field of applied linguistics through three case studies: ""the Unabomber"", ""the Bentley case"", and ""the Emoji code"". My aim is to highlight the efficacy and diversity of various subfields of forensic linguistics. Methodologically, this critical literature review, coupled with the presentation of pertinent case studies, constitutes the investigative approach. In my opinion, the topic of forensic linguistics is not being widely and properly discussed within university curricula. Given its interdisciplinary nature, situated at the intersection of language and law, the significance of this field cannot be overstated. Consequently, the profound intricacies of forensic linguistics should be more thoroughly investigated and disseminated to a broader audience, particularly among students pursuing linguistic studies. My presentation aims to bring this field closer to students by showing them how diverse theories can interact and work in action.
Anna Lehoczky
University of Miskolc
Agency in Worldbuilding: A Transmedia Analysis
"I examine worldbuilding across various media, including fiction, tabletop role-playing games, movies and video games. In my research, I explore how the process of worldbuilding shapes the experiences of participants and audiences, and how the depth and scope of worldbuilding and its mode of representation are determined in different media. I assume that the openness or constraints of worldbuilding affect the narrative and worldbuilding agency of creators and the immersive experience of the audiences of fictional worlds, and that the power dynamics between them influence the relationship between creators and consumers of such narratives. I posit that the narrative agency and experience shaped by worldbuilding is largely dependent on the possibilities offered by different genres and media. Therefore, the methods, techniques, strategies and emphases of worldbuilding must be adapted to the particular genre and medium in which fictional worlds are created. For example, tabletop role-playing games require a more expansive and adaptive world- building methodology, while novels offer a more structured one. By examining the interplay between worldbuilding and my chosen media, I offer a comprehensive understanding of the dimensions of worldbuilding narratives in fiction, films, tabletop role-playing games and video games,contributing to insights about our engagement with fictional worlds.
Vladislava Vishnevskaia
Eötvös Loránd University
Shame as a Controlling Means
Shame has always been used as a way to subjugate people, influence their thoughts and feelings, and control their behavior. It gained particular influence during the Victorian era, and women were most affected by it. In my research, I will talk about the biological aspects of shame (how our bodies react to this emotion), the social aspect (why humans, as social creatures, avoid this emotion) and cognitive (how our brains absorb this emotion). My study will be conducted at the intersection of cognitive linguistics and literature. I am going to explore shame through metaphors from Victorian poems that depict the image of the ideal Victorian woman. Shame played an important role in achieving this image: with its help, women were forced to submit to the existing idea. I am interested in explaining how and why shame made women follow patriarchal customs and traditions; and although the Victorians considered shame a natural and most suitable emotion for women, it was just an attempt to keep women in the patriarchal system. Along with the negative aspects, I will also highlight the positive ones to show the contrast between the healthy feeling of shame and the unhealthy use of shame as a means of control.
Eszter Hartványi
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Phonotactic differences between English and Thai
"The aim of this study is to map out the difficulties Thai speakers of English encounter when pronouncing word-final consonants. These problems are caused by the extremely different phonotactic rules of the two languages. Previous studies have already brought this phenomenon to light, even offering a brief insight into the repair strategies used by Thai speakers. One of the most recent studies, Suntornsawet (2022), offers an overview of Thai accented English speech, highlighting the difference between the consonant system of the two languages. I aim to enhance the scope of the studies in this field by focusing merely on the word-final consonants and their realization in both spontaneous and scripted speech. For my research, I mostly used footage of interviews of young Thai speakers of English. The scripted speech was also collected from an online database. The results are expected to be systematic, stemming from the differences between the two languages, exhibiting high similarity with the repair strategies witnessed in loanword phonology. Furthermore, I hope to be able to identify other factors with influence on pronunciation (such as orthographic interference, especially interesting in the case of these two languages using different writing systems) and investigate their role in the pronunciation of Thai speakers. References Suntornsawet, J. (2022). A Systemic Review of Thai-Accented English Phonology. PASAA, 63, 348-370. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1348382.
Laura Serfőző
University of Debrecen
“A naked lunch is natural to us”: The Representation of Naked Lunch in Cronenberg’s Vision, A Re-imagined Adaptation of Burroughs’ Early Work.
Naked Lunch the movie, directed by David Cronenberg in 1991, a surrealist science fiction drama, is not a direct adaptation from William Burroughs’s book sharing the same title, but a collage of his earlier works, such as Junky, Queer, Interzone and Naked Lunch. This study looks at the movie as a standalone creation, something Burroughs-inspired but an overall independent representation of his world and characters, and analyzes the representation of his works. The movie builds them up into a world of its own. Through understanding and recognizing Burroughs’s early works in the movie, I demonstrate how they were adapted and changed to fulfill David Cronenberg’s vision. As he put it: “I think of it as product of a dream I would have about Burroughs and his book, a dream to which I bring all my particular obsessions and idiosyncrasies.” My work represents the particular feeling that Naked Lunch, both the book and the movie, became famous for. In conclusion, Naked Lunch the movie doesn’t represent Burroughs’s work in the same light as his books, but the movie also never claimed to do that – it causes goosebumps for different reasons, but the atmosphere is similar. My presentation imitates this atmosphere.
Polin Denver
Eötvös Loránd University
Edward the 2nd
In my poster presentation I will focus on Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward the Second". I will present viewers with the general idea of the play, and I will then focus on the Edward's persona-on the trials and tribulations he was bound to face. I will give several perspectives on this play-that is of Edward, the nobles and the more general one. However, besides that, I will also put emphasis on the nature of Edward's identity and self-identity; how his kingship is interconnected with those. Furthermore, I will focus on his status as a king-that is, what kingship brings him in terms of personality and self-identity, how it impacts his mindset in general. I will also analyze his identity more in detail, and will arrive at the conclusion that his status is one of the key elements of his personality; it both fuels it to an extent and also aggravates his inner struggles. Besides, I will also introduce and explain the concept of two bodies of a king-private and public; I will give viewers/readers the perspective on Edward from different points of view: him as a public person, that is, a lawful monarch; him as a private person-or a lover, and I will make more detailed analysis on these two spheres and their inevitable clash that unfolded throughout the entirety of the play.
Viktoriia Stepanova
Eötvös Loránd University
Greek mythology in English poetry
We all at least once have hear of Greek mythology and its myth. But very few people really know about how much it affected classical literature and brilliant authors throughout the time. Greek mythology also laid the foundation for lots of pieces of poetry, a topic which I would like to delve into.
Teréz Mirjam Brdar
Eötvös Loránd University
Variation in the use of sports metaphors in American and British news discourse
According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, patterns of thought are reflected in metaphors, and as Kövecses (2015) demonstrates, context has a great impact on the choice of metaphors. Within this framework, the aim of the present poster is to compare the use of sports metaphors before, during and after the 2022 FIFA World Cup in spoken and written American and British English. Based on Boers’ (1999) study of cyclical variation in the use of metaphors, my hypothesis is that there would be a difference between the number of sports metaphors used during the competition and the periods before and after it. The three time periods examined were (1) three weeks in September 2022, (2) three weeks during the championship, and (3) five weeks a month and a half after the event. The corpus (450,000 words in 9 subcorpora) consists of transcripts of TV news programmes and newspaper articles. The identification of the sports metaphors in the subcorpora was carried out with the help of the USAS Semantic Tagger. The findings confirm the hypothesis of the study: in both the American and British sources sports metaphors were the most frequent in the second period, i.e., during the championship.
Lia Esslbauer
Eötvös Loránd University
Recontextualizing the Gothic in For the Term of His Natural Life. From the 1874 Novel to the 1927 Film.
Context plays a major role in the creation of meaning in a text. In the case of screen adaptations, the source text is recontextualized which results in complex resemiotizations that may diverge from the semiotic organization of the source text. This is the case with the 1927 silent film adaptation of the 1874 Gothic novel For the Term of His Natural Life. In this presentation, I apply a social semiotic approach based on Tan et al. (2016) to analyze how the respective contexts of the novel and the movie impact the creation of meaning and the use of the Gothic. First, the presentation identifies the respective contexts, followed by a stylistic analysis of the Gothic elements of the texts. Finally, the two aspects are interrelated to examine the impact of context on style and meaning. The differing historical, national, and sociocultural contexts of the two texts result in a divergence of meaning which is especially visible in the treatment of the ending. Both texts employ Gothic conventions that are highly recognizable to their audience, but the silent film offers a more melodramatic, pre-interpreted version due to the process of recontextualization.
Júlia Papp
Eötvös Loránd University
Regularization and irregularization of past participle and preterite verbs in British English
The formation of English past tense verbs can change over time, with irregular verbs sometimes becoming regular (regularization) and regular verbs sometimes becoming irregular (irregularization). It has been generally asserted that English past tense verbs tend to become more regular over time, from Old to Modern English. Other studies have presented a more mixed results of these processes by looking at shorter periods of time. British English has been claimed to have more irregular past tense verbs than American English. Causes of this type of language change can be investigated, as well as the factors that impede or even reverse regularization. These include verb frequency, register, transitivity, and voice. The aim of this study was to compare the factors between the 1994 and 2014 versions of the British National Corpus. It analyzed whether past tense verbs became more regular or irregular during this 20-year period and assessed the explanatory value of these features. The results showed that register was a significant factor, with both passive voice and transitivity prompting the use of irregular verbs to a small extent. Additionally, there was a weak correlation between frequency and irregularization.
Petra Orendács
Eötvös Loránd University
The Depiction of Camilla Macaulay in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Its Current Reception
"Donna Tartt’s 1992 campus novel is a cult classic, especially appealing to a specific audience of young university students. Since the end of the 2010s, the novel has been enjoying a renaissance as reader communities on the internet endorse it, and even try to imitate the lifestyle of its main characters. However, many people within these communities (which are usually made up of young women and teenaged girls) take the only female main character, Camilla Macaulay as a role model, and aspire to be like her – failing to notice that she is written through a rather misogynistic lens. In my poster presentation, I will summarise the main themes and satirical nature of the novel, then move on to the character of Camilla Macaulay, and explain how the first-person narration distorts her personality. Then, I will compare her to one of the smaller characters, Judy Poovey, meant to be Camilla’s antithesis. Lastly, I will take a short detour to introduce now-contemporary reception of the novel amongst the BookTok (bookish TikTok) community, and through examining the reception, I will shed light on some drawbacks of too subtle satire.
Luca Guttengeber
Eötvös Loránd University
Modern Representation of Native Americans in Hollywood: The Case Study of Twilight and Reservation Dogs
Ever since the early days of Hollywood, stereotypical “Indian” tropes – such as the “romanticized,” “broken,” or “progressive Indian” -- and the homogenization of different cultures characterized Native American representation in mainstream movies and TV shows. Even though Hollywood in the 21st century is a great signifier of the changes in social awareness relating to ethnic, gender and sexual minority issues and subsequent inclusion of these groups, Indigenous people are still severely under- and misrepresented by the entertainment industry. The aim of this poster presentation is to highlight the importance of the so-called Narrative Change Strategy set out by the Reclaiming Native Truth study. To do so, after a historical overview of the aforementioned tropes and their origins, I will compare two mainstream products of modern motion picture: the Twilight Saga (2008-2012) and Reservation Dogs (2021-23). By juxtaposing the portrayal of Native Americans in these series, not only the endurance and negative impact of the outdated Hollywood tropes will become imminent, but a subversion and solution to this problem will also present itself. By taking control of the narrative, American Indians can offer a more accurate, positive and authentic depiction of contemporary Natives.
Boglárka Joanovics
Eötvös Loránd University
The First Witch of the New World - The Forgotten Witchcraft Trials of Connecticut and the case of Alice Young
Everybody has heard about the infamous Salem Witch Trials that caused the death of 19 people in one year. However, it is lesser known that fifty years before the outbreak of the Salem witch-hunt, the very first person executed for witchcraft accusations was a resident of Windsor, a settlement part of the Connecticut Colony. There is only one diary entry that made historians realize Alice Young was the first suspected witch in the New World and her hanging marked the beginning of a half-century-long hysteria within the thirteen American Colonies. The residents of Windsor brought their witchcraft beliefs from England across the Atlantic and the town’s early struggles with Native Americans, failed crops and the difficulties of a newly settled land all contributed to the suspicion of Satan’s presence in the community. The focus of my presentation is to examine how Puritan beliefs and their fear of the devil led to the hanging of Alice Young in Windsor, paying close attention to the historical timeline of Windsor, as well as the trial of Young, which presumably influenced all future cases, including the ones in Salem.
Dóra Süle
Eötvös Loránd University
The Role of Cognitive Metaphors in the Psychological Treatment of Eating Disorders
"Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most well-known eating disorders that mainly affect women aged between 13 and 23. Anorexia could be regarded as a phobia in which the patients are afraid of gaining weight; while bulimia consists of bingeing and purging phases. These disorders are treated with psychotherapy which can include individual and family therapy sessions. The aim of this research is to identify and analyse the conceptual metaphors that emerge in the therapy of these patients. Metaphors in this field of psychiatry are especially important, because uncovering them can provide a way to get a better understanding of a patient’s mental state and how it changes during the healing process. Based on the assumption that context plays a crucial role in the selection of metaphors (see e.g., Kövecses 2015), I attended eight family therapy sessions and analysed the metaphor use of all the participants of the therapy: the patient, the phychiatrist and the parents. I have also taken into account the frequency of the metaphors and its effect on the therapeutic process. The findings have confirmed my main hypothesis, according to which the patient’s metaphors are influenced by the metaphor use of the other participants of the sessions.
Vencel Wutka
Eötvös Loránd University
The Development of Preaspiration in North Germanic
"This study examines preaspiration, a distinct feature in North Germanic, tracing its emergence and historical development from West Scandinavian during the Common Scandinavian era (800–1050 CE). Within Germanic, North Germanic stands out for its exclusive use of preaspirated segments due to a series of historical developments, which reflect conserved archaic traits, prevalent in today’s Icelandic, Faroese, Gudbrandsdalen and Jaeren Norwegian, as well as Härjedalen Swedish. To explain the developments and language changes that gave rise to preaspiration (and corresponding sonorant devoicing) as a North Germanic phenomenon, this study provides data to illustrate the developmental steps of preaspiration, including nasal devoicing, nasal+fortis stop assimilation, gemination, reinterpretation of voiceless nasals and geminates, leading to preaspiration, as well as the phonetic variation of preaspiration. Keywords: preaspiration, Common Scandinavian, North Germanic, exclusive, development, language change, variation.
Virág Simon
Eötvös Loránd University
The ambiguous behaviour of /v/
The aim of the paper is to present the discoveries of the phonology of /v/. The feature of /v/ has ambiguous patterning in a way that it is a labiodental sonorant and at the same time, it partially behaves like a normal obstruent fricative as it undergoes final devoicing and goes through regressive assimilation as it is affected by the following sound; however, does not trigger regressive voicing assimilation like obstruents do. Realization arises here because if /v/ is obstruent, therefore, it should trigger regressive voicing assimilation. The study is founded on different analysis of the phonological status of /v/. In the end of the presentation the results will be given.
Anna Enikő Varga
Eötvös Loránd University
A queer reading on Sherlock Holmes
"Name: Anna Enikő Varga Title: A queer reading on Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular fictional characters, first appearing in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, these texts are predominantly approached as detective fiction. (Clausen, 1984). However, there are other approaches to its cultural literary analysis with relevance to contemporary themes. One such link can be established through its 2010 BBC adaptation. (Hofmann, 2018) The research behind this poster undertakes a queer analysis of the television series ""Sherlock” based on Arthur Conan Doyle's works, investigating narrative arcs, the presence of queer thematic elements, character dynamics, and the creative choices that alludes to a nuanced queer reading. Not only does it contribute to the understanding of queer subtext within popular culture but also highlights the potential of adapting canonical works to address diverse expressions of identity in the 21st century. This research argues that Arthur Conan Doyle's stories contained a rather subtle queer subtext that the series intentionally draws attention to, fostering a more explicit representation of non-normative identities and contradicts the misperception that applying a queer reading to pieces of media, colloquially often referred to as “making it gay” is wrong, rather unveils layers of meaning and challenge normative perspectives within the narrative. (Boots, 2016; Kenning, 2023) References Botts, A. (2016). (No) Sex and Sherlock: Asexuality, Victorian Abstinence and the Art of Ambiguity. In Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations (pp. 169–180). McFarland & Company. Clausen, C. (1984). Sherlock Holmes, Order, and the Late-Victorian Mind. The Georgia Review, 38(1), 104–123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41398643 Hofmann, M. A. (2018). Johnlock meta and authorial intent in Sherlock fandom: Affirmational or transformational? Transformative Works and Cultures, 28. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1465 Kenning, T. D. (2023). Queer Historicism as literary theory: An Exploration of Three Texts.
Dorka Lippai
Eötvös Loránd University
Highlighting William Holman Hunt's ideology: An iconographical study of the Oriental lamps featured in some of his major works
"The topic I have chosen for my OTDK presentation last year is what I wish to illustrate with a poster at ISPPC. As the research focuses on William Holman Hunt's paintings, more specifically his use of Oriental style lamps, a collage of said symbols with accompanying quotes from the paper seems fitting for a poster presentation. The study concentrates on three of Hunt's major works: The Light of the World (the first and third version of the painting), The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, and The Lady of Shalott. In connection with these artworks, the research examines the relevance of lamps and lanterns as symbols in some of William Holman Hunt's most acknowledged paintings, how they relate to the artist's personal ideology, and to his relationship to Oriental cultures as well. A fresh viewpoint on Hunt's tolerance for differing religions as well as his changing relationship with faith may be gained by examining these depictions of the Eastern-style lamps and lanterns side by side.
PhD - English and American history, English speaking cultures and English and American literature sectionLoretta Anna Jungbauer
Eötvös Loránd University
Death by Marlowe
"Several pieces of art support the idea that no phenomenon was as alluring to the Renaissance mind as Death. People were exposed to its presence on a daily basis on both individual and collective level for Death was an integral part of the Early modern everydays. Executions, visual representations on church walls, skeletal figures in portraits, and memento mori jewellery worn by both noble men and commoners served as reminders of the fleeting nature of human existence. It was only natural that through the medium of drama, Death also found its place on the Elizabethan stage.
As a prominent dramatist of the Elizabethan age, Christopher Marlowe, too, explored different facets of death in his plays considering both the earthly and the transcendental realms. While Doctor Faustus focuses primarily on Death's spiritual effects, The Jew of Malta investigates Death and human mortality from a material point of view.
My aim is to highlight the different approaches to the phenomenon of Death as exemplified by the above-mentioned plays as well as to explore in which ways Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays combine them so as to offer the audience an innovative reading of the inherited cultural sets of meanings within the Elizabethan theatrical context.
PhD - Applied linguistics and Language pedagogy sectionAmoh, Solomon Owusu
Eötvös Loránd University
Epenthesis as a hiatus breaker: the case study of Esahie.
"Languages resort to phonological processes like vowel elision, segment epenthesizing, and others. Epenthesis as the main resolving strategy for the Esahie language leads to the insertion of glides, which is extremely common cross-linguistically (Zygis, 2010, Uffmann, 2007). They are preferred based on sonority, as they come after vowels in the sonority hierarchy. These sound segments are not underlyingly present, but they are realized in both emphatic, rapid, and slow speech for ease of articulation.
According to Casali (1996, 2011), high-front vowels in the V1 position are related to the palatal glide /j/, while high-back vowels are related to the labio-velar /w/. Esahie supports this but notes that high-front vowels in the V2 position can also determine the epenthetic glide to be used. /a/ cannot determine any glide when concatenated with other vowels.
The data shows that a high-back vowel followed by a mid-front vowel leads to the insertion of a palatal glide. Likewise, palatal glide is used to fill an empty onset, thereby removing vowel hiatus. Both SPE and Feature Geometry were employed. SPE provides rule-based alternations, while Feature Geometry accounts for feature spreading.
Mahmoud Fannouna
Eötvös Loránd University
Procedure and Strategies Employed in English-Arabic News Translation in the Case of Palestinian Graduates’ Translations
"This paper seeks to unravel a detailed examination of English-Arabic news translation processes, emphasizing the strategies and procedures employed by Palestinian graduates. Delving into both linguistic and cultural dimensions, the study identified 16 common procedures, including 'calque,' 'transposition,' and 'near-synonymy.' Demonstrating the necessity of balancing semantic and communicative meaning, translators navigate nuanced choices to preserve intent while adapting to the target language. The cultural translation analysis highlights the prevalence of 'cultural borrowing' and 'calque,' signifying a foreignizing approach. With foreignization dominating at approximately 93%, instances of domestication through 'cultural redomestication' are limited. The findings illuminate translators' endeavors to reconcile linguistic precision, cultural significance, and communicative efficacy, contributing nuanced insights to English-Arabic news translation practices. The results of this research may enrich scholarly discussions on translation, serving as a valuable resource for professionals, educators, and researchers.
Keywords: translation procedures, English-Arabic news translation, linguistic and cultural aspects, communicative translation, cultural borrowing, foreignization.
Mohamad Ali Khalil
Eötvös Loránd University
On the Biconsonantal Roots of Lebanese Arabic
This poster examines biconsonantal roots in Lebanese Arabic as a core part of the morphosyntactic paradigms of the language. A better understanding of the templates and patterns by which this type of root manifests allows for a precise description of their behavior and bearing within the system. Biconsonantal roots show a geminated second consonant C2 as well as a glide preceding the inflectional suffixes for the 1st and 2nd persons in form I, typical of final-weak roots. Final weak roots are triconsonantal roots wherein the third and last consonant is either the palatal glide ‘y’ or the labiovelar ‘w’. The paper analyzes this phenomenon, and the data shows that the glide in biconsonantal roots is excrescent, unlike final-weak glides, which are a part of the root. The biconsonantal glide emerges as a result of a diphthongization process of a long vowel, which in turn is a result of lengthening an epenthetic vowel. The conclusion reached in this paper thus enables biconsonantal roots to be analyzed systemically and classified properly morphologically and semantically, paving the way for a more comprehensive and complete picture of the Lebanese Arabic verbal system. More specifically, the analysis allows for a rigorous distinction between what is final-weak and what is biconsonantal with an additional glide.
Loretta Anna Jungbauer
Eötvös Loránd University
Death by Marlowe
"Several pieces of art support the idea that no phenomenon was as alluring to the Renaissance mind as Death. People were exposed to its presence on a daily basis on both individual and collective level for Death was an integral part of the Early modern everydays. Executions, visual representations on church walls, skeletal figures in portraits, and memento mori jewellery worn by both noble men and commoners served as reminders of the fleeting nature of human existence. It was only natural that through the medium of drama, Death also found its place on the Elizabethan stage. As a prominent dramatist of the Elizabethan age, Christopher Marlowe, too, explored different facets of death in his plays considering both the earthly and the transcendental realms. While Doctor Faustus focuses primarily on Death's spiritual effects, The Jew of Malta investigates Death and human mortality from a material point of view. My aim is to highlight the different approaches to the phenomenon of Death as exemplified by the above-mentioned plays as well as to explore in which ways Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays combine them so as to offer the audience an innovative reading of the inherited cultural sets of meanings within the Elizabethan theatrical context.
Amoh, Solomon Owusu
Eötvös Loránd University
Epenthesis as a hiatus breaker: the case study of Esahie.
"Languages resort to phonological processes like vowel elision, segment epenthesizing, and others. Epenthesis as the main resolving strategy for the Esahie language leads to the insertion of glides, which is extremely common cross-linguistically (Zygis, 2010, Uffmann, 2007). They are preferred based on sonority, as they come after vowels in the sonority hierarchy. These sound segments are not underlyingly present, but they are realized in both emphatic, rapid, and slow speech for ease of articulation. According to Casali (1996, 2011), high-front vowels in the V1 position are related to the palatal glide /j/, while high-back vowels are related to the labio-velar /w/. Esahie supports this but notes that high-front vowels in the V2 position can also determine the epenthetic glide to be used. /a/ cannot determine any glide when concatenated with other vowels. The data shows that a high-back vowel followed by a mid-front vowel leads to the insertion of a palatal glide. Likewise, palatal glide is used to fill an empty onset, thereby removing vowel hiatus. Both SPE and Feature Geometry were employed. SPE provides rule-based alternations, while Feature Geometry accounts for feature spreading.
Mahmoud Fannouna
Eötvös Loránd University
Procedure and Strategies Employed in English-Arabic News Translation in the Case of Palestinian Graduates’ Translations
"This paper seeks to unravel a detailed examination of English-Arabic news translation processes, emphasizing the strategies and procedures employed by Palestinian graduates. Delving into both linguistic and cultural dimensions, the study identified 16 common procedures, including 'calque,' 'transposition,' and 'near-synonymy.' Demonstrating the necessity of balancing semantic and communicative meaning, translators navigate nuanced choices to preserve intent while adapting to the target language. The cultural translation analysis highlights the prevalence of 'cultural borrowing' and 'calque,' signifying a foreignizing approach. With foreignization dominating at approximately 93%, instances of domestication through 'cultural redomestication' are limited. The findings illuminate translators' endeavors to reconcile linguistic precision, cultural significance, and communicative efficacy, contributing nuanced insights to English-Arabic news translation practices. The results of this research may enrich scholarly discussions on translation, serving as a valuable resource for professionals, educators, and researchers. Keywords: translation procedures, English-Arabic news translation, linguistic and cultural aspects, communicative translation, cultural borrowing, foreignization.
Mohamad Ali Khalil
Eötvös Loránd University
On the Biconsonantal Roots of Lebanese Arabic
This poster examines biconsonantal roots in Lebanese Arabic as a core part of the morphosyntactic paradigms of the language. A better understanding of the templates and patterns by which this type of root manifests allows for a precise description of their behavior and bearing within the system. Biconsonantal roots show a geminated second consonant C2 as well as a glide preceding the inflectional suffixes for the 1st and 2nd persons in form I, typical of final-weak roots. Final weak roots are triconsonantal roots wherein the third and last consonant is either the palatal glide ‘y’ or the labiovelar ‘w’. The paper analyzes this phenomenon, and the data shows that the glide in biconsonantal roots is excrescent, unlike final-weak glides, which are a part of the root. The biconsonantal glide emerges as a result of a diphthongization process of a long vowel, which in turn is a result of lengthening an epenthetic vowel. The conclusion reached in this paper thus enables biconsonantal roots to be analyzed systemically and classified properly morphologically and semantically, paving the way for a more comprehensive and complete picture of the Lebanese Arabic verbal system. More specifically, the analysis allows for a rigorous distinction between what is final-weak and what is biconsonantal with an additional glide.