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Politeness Pragmatemes in the Elementary Level French Textbook Edito A1
- Authors: Elina Sidorovič
  Pages: 1 - 7
  Abstract: Politeness pragmatemes, such as greetings, thanks, and apologies, are common expressions used to convey politeness in everyday communication. Although native speakers do not always pay attention to these expressions, they are unique due to their strictly limited "ritual" use. This article analyzes the politeness pragmatemes present in the Edito A1 textbook by Didier Editions (2016), intended for beginner learners of French as a foreign language. The chosen textbook integrates these expressions into various contexts, such as greetings, introductions, orders, and telephone conversations, etc. The article also describes the syntactic and morphological characteristics of politeness pragmatemes, showing that they can come from any part of speech (noun, adjective, participle, verb, adverb, interjection). Finally, the analysis shows that the inclusion of these pragmatemes in the textbook aims to familiarize learners with social interactions in French and to promote mutual respect through communication.
  Keywords: Articles ;
  Des premières priorités, un hasard imprévu, applaudir des deux mains,
  découvrir pour la première fois… Or about Pleonastic Phrasemes in
  Contemporary French and Polish
  - Authors: Małgorzata Izert
    Pages: 1 - 11
    Abstract: In this article, we present a comparative study of approximately hundred pleonastic collocational phrasemes in French, created through three specific syntactic patterns: N+Adj / Adj+N or N de/à N and V+Adv, and their Polish equivalents. We attempt to explain the semantic mechanisms of pleonasm construction. Some of these pleonasms are due to the speakers' ignorance or thoughtlessness, making them incorrect and to be avoided in official language. Others are intentional and useful, as they add additional value such as emphasis or intensity, precision and explanation to the meaning of the constructed phrasemes. The componential analysis we propose as a method of analysis, demonstrates either a semantic congruence, that is a useful correlation between the sememes of the components of pleonastic phrasemes, or excessive and useless addition. In other words, it allows us to verify whether the redundancy of meaning has any utility or is perfectly superfluous.
    Keywords: Articles ; The Term depression in Contemporary Lithuanian Journalism
    
    Authors: Palmira Zemlevičiūtė
    Pages: 1 - 1
    Abstract: The article attempts to look into the ways that the special meaning of the term depression (Lith. depresija) changes in the discourse of journalism and the factors that drive those changes. Analysis of nearly 2,000 sentences featured in the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language that contain the term depression has shown that only one meaning of this term (medical) undergoes transformation as the term transcends the boundaries of a special field, while the rest of its meanings are not susceptible to change. First, the terminological meanings in which this term is used in the material covered by the analysis basically do not change at all, and no break between the term and the underlying concept occurs. Second, the terminological (medical) meaning changes to an extent, and the concept becomes simplified. Third, the terminological meaning undergoes a series of different semantic transformations and the term becomes even more detached from the special meaning, acquiring a number of emotional, expressive shades. These transformations depend on the topics covered by texts, the intentions of the authors, the contextual partners (adjectives, verbs), which often carry some stylistic connotations. Still, it can be sometimes difficult to determine the extent of transformation of the terminological meaning of the term depression with a high degree of accuracy. At times, the boundary between the term depression and the word depression becomes unclear.
    PubDate: 2023-02-13
    DOI: 10.15388/Verb.38
    Issue No: Vol. 14 (2023)
  - Topics in Foreign Language Teaching in Research Articles in
    Psycholinguistics: Reviewing the State-of-the-Art
    
    Authors: Oleksandr Kapranov
    Pages: 2 - 2
    Abstract: The article introduces a study whose purpose is to provide a review of research articles (RAs) in psycholinguistics which focus on foreign language teaching (FLT). To that end, the study examines a corpus of RAs in psycholinguistics that address FLT-related research topics, which are published in two international peer-reviewed journals, namely Psycholinguistics and Eastern European Journal of Psycholinguistics. The corpus was examined for the presence of research topics in FLT, as well as the RAs’ bibliometric data. The results of the corpus analysis revealed that the majority of the RAs were single-authored by female researchers, who focused on such FLT-related research topics as translation and interpreting, speaking in a foreign language (FL), and FL proficiency. It was established that the FLT-themed RAs investigated primarily English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and, less frequently, German, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and Ukrainian. The findings are further described and discussed in the article.
    PubDate: 2023-07-07
    DOI: 10.15388/Verb.39
    Issue No: Vol. 14 (2023)
  - Phrasemes in Academic Student Texts
    
    Authors: Danguolė Melnikienė
    Pages: 3 - 3
    Abstract: Vilma ZUBAITIENĖ, Gintarė JUDŽENTYTĖ-ŠINKŪNIENĖ, Eglė GUDAVIČIENĖ, Lina PLAUŠINAITYTĖ, Skaistė VOLUNGEVIČIENĖ. Studentų darbų fraziškumas. Kolektyvinė monografija. Vilnius, Vilniaus Universiteto leidykla, 2020, 614 p.
    PubDate: 2023-08-22
    DOI: 10.15388/Verb.40
    Issue No: Vol. 14 (2023)
  - "New Regionalism" and Its Implementation in Ukrainian Legislation: The
    Terminology and the Political Implications
    
    Authors: Nazarii Melnyk
    Pages: 1 - 11
    Abstract: This paper investigates the terminology associated with "New regionalism" and its integration into Ukrainian legislation, analyzing its political and administrative implications. "New regionalism" is a contemporary administrative-territorial reform, with a focus on the principle of subsidiarity, which minimizes central authority intervention in local affairs. While not explicitly present in its regulations, certain subsidiarity elements are part of Ukrainian law. The study explores the adoption and implementation of "New regionalism" principles and terminology within the country's legal discourse. The second aim of the study was to examine how "New regionalism" could potentially influence the political dynamics and administrative structures, particularly in the context of decentralization efforts. By employing systematic and comparative methodologies alongside principles of dialectical analysis, the study offers insights into the evolving landscape of Ukrainian political and administrative terminology alongside its structures, which might play a crucial role in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
    Keywords: Articles ; Prompting Metalinguistic Awareness in Large Language Models: ChatGPT and
    Bias Effects on the Grammar of Italian and Italian Varieties
    
    Authors: Angelapia Massaro, Giuseppe Samo
    Pages: 4 - 4
    Abstract: We explore ChatGPT’s handling of left-peripheral phenomena in Italian and Italian varieties through prompt engineering to investigate 1) forms of syntactic bias in the model, 2) the model’s metalinguistic awareness in relation to reorderings of canonical clauses (e.g., Topics) and certain grammatical categories (object clitics). A further question concerns the content of the model’s sources of training data: how are minor languages included in the model’s training' The results of our investigation show that 1) the model seems to be biased against reorderings, labelling them as archaic even though it is not the case; 2) the model seems to have difficulties with coindexed elements such as clitics and their anaphoric status, labeling them as ‘not referring to any element in the phrase’, and 3) major languages still seem to be dominant, overshadowing the positive effects of including minor languages in the model’s training.
    Keywords: Articles ; Expressions of Lithuanian Identity in the Spoken Language Corpus of
    Repatriated Children
    
    Authors: Anželika Gaidienė, Aurelija Tamulionienė
    Pages: 4 - 4
    Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the spoken corpus samples with the lexemes Lietuva, lietuvis, lietuviškas and lietuviškai of the repatriated children and to show how the children's Lithuanian identity expressed through the use of these lexemes. The aim of the research was to explore the perception of Lithuania among the repatriated children, what they (dis)like in Lithuania, what characteristics of Lithuania, Lithuanians, etc., they identify, etc. The research material consists of data from 73 children (aged 8-12). Examples of these lexemes were collected from the first part of the semi-structured interview "warm-up", in which the pupils introduced themselves, talked about their family, friends, place of residence, etc. In this part of the interview, the children were also asked what they like in Lithuania, what they don't like and why. The analysis of the examples found showed that the Lithuanian identity of the repatriated children is most broadly expressed through social and cultural aspects. This significantly points to factors important for adaptation.
    Keywords: Articles ; Language Policy at Universities in the Process of Internationalisation:
    Vilnius University Students’ Views
    
    Authors: Roma Kriaučiūnienė, Rasa Šlikaitė
    Pages: 8 - 8
    Abstract: The current paper focuses on the study of novel lexical items, i. e. the processes involved in the making of new words, in order to discover which methods contribute to the expansion of the current English lexicon. The research is based on the new words coined since 2004 which are included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online (ensuring that the items in the sample cover various semantic fields, are of diverse origins, and all are already accepted into the working vocabulary). Two objectives are completed to explore the subject and achieve its aim: 1) to establish the concept of new words and to overview the processes of lexical expansion in the English language, and 2) to determine which methods are employed and which are absent in the creation of new words in current English by analyzing the novel lexical items retrieved from the OED Online. Quantitative and qualitative methods are applied in this study. The results indicate that the concept of new words is not straightforward in the English language. More often than not, the terms neologisms and new words are used synonymously to refer to recent, novel lexical items recognized and used by the language community. English has an extensive inventory of word-forming tools classified into these distinct categories: word-formation, semantic change, borrowing, and other; each further subdivided into various processes. Overall, the subtypes of word-formation – derivation, shortening and compounding – are used the most in the creation of recent additions to the lexicon. Predominantly, the findings are consistent with the tendencies of lexical expansion observed in previous studies.
    PubDate: 2022-12-30
    DOI: 10.15388/Verb.34
    Issue No: Vol. 13 (2022)
    
    Analysis of English-Spanish False Friends
    
    Authors: Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, Deimantė Šarkaitė
    Pages: 11 - 11
    Abstract: The present study aims to carry out an analysis of English-Spanish false friends in order to establish the most prevailing type of false friends and to determine their degree of falseness and semantic resemblance. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to conduct the research. The results of the analysis have shown that the most dominant part of speech among false friends in English and Spanish is the category of nouns. The vast majority of false friends share their origins in Latin. The most prevailing type of false friends is semantic total. The data gathered from the questionnaire display that the majority of language users are familiar with the phenomenon and can recognize and understand the meaning of the false friend word pairs.
    PubDate: 2022-12-30
    DOI: 10.15388/Verb.37
    Issue No: Vol. 13 (2022)

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