Présentation du numéro courant de Neophilologica

The defrosted statement is a form of language production where the support of enunciation is not only particular, but above all very salient to the point where one could say that everything
is modalization in the defrosting, since it constitutes a dominant predication. However, few linguistic
studies specifically describe this phenomenon behind which there is a real complexity that manifests itself at the level of the various factors that participate interactively in the modal component whose aspects of grammatical type and lexical.

If the defrosting is accompanied by reworking of sequences with a certain fixity by including a subjectivity, the latter must, in principle, meet the general conditions of congruence ; between the marks of the modalisation inherent in the follow-up to the defrosting operation and those which follow it, we will seek to understand how aspectual and modal conflicts are managed according to the meaning of the enunciator of a defrosting. Knowing that defrosted statements necessarily subsumes three broad ontological categories: the person, space and time, is there a hierarchy within the modalities of action of verbal defrostings, even phrastic?

El artículo presenta el estudio comparativo de las formas prefijadas del verbo polaco "pisać" y sus equivalentes en castellano. En la primera parte describimos las bases teóricas de la prefijación polaca comparándola con las nociones de la temporalidad y aspecto en español contemporáneo. En la segunda parte mostramos los resultados del análisis contrastivo en el que intentamos encontrar y clasificar los equivalentes castellanos para las formas prefijadas polacas formadas a base del verbo "pisać". Cada significado está acompañado de algunos ejemplos de uso reales y formalizado mediante los esquemas semántico-sintácticos. El objetivo principal de nuestro trabajo es mostrar las relaciones entre ambas lenguas tomando como punto de partida los verbos prefijados creados a base de un verbo polaco. Los esquemas formales que completan nuestro análisis pueden usarse tanto para la traducción automática como para la creación de los ejercicios didácticos.

The audio description, defined as an audiovisual and intersemiotic translation, makes it possible to make a film accessible to the blind. The objective of this article is to analyze the linguistic means of describing the emotions experienced by the characters in the film. By studying the audio description created for the French series entitled Lupin, we identify expressions referring to joy.

During her artistic career, Edith Piaf recorded over three hundred songs. Throughout her life, she sang about love and misfortune. In her rich repertoire, composed of realistic, popular, and poetic songs, she tells stories in which characters are often mentioned by their first or last names, thus not remaining anonymous. The use of proper names in Edith Piaf’s song lyrics is a common stylistic feature. The settings of these stories can also be identified. The events in Piaf’s songs usually take place in specific locations, which makes them even more authentic and dramatic. In this article, I present the results of onomastic research based on an analysis of all the proper names appearing in Edith Piaf’s song lyrics and examine their functions. The article also includes suggestions for pedagogical use of proper names in French as a foreign language lessons.

In this work, we are interested in a type of anaphora, rarely studied by linguists, namely “axiological anaphora”. We will conduct our research using an integrative approach, that of the three primary functions (the Predicate, the Argument and the Modalizer). To do this, we use “predicative analysis”, which will allow us to answer the following question: What are the defining properties of an axiological anaphora, this lexical unit, considered both as a “unit of third articulation”, as a “marker of subjectivity” and as a “tool of textual coherence”?

For the analysis of the question in the title, I adopted a somewhat “simple” research path – it’s as if I were rediscovering 3 basic notions in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI): term, artificiality and intelligence.

The article is an attempt to develop conceptual plans both in the linguistic picture of the world of AI terminology and in their presence in the extralinguistic world (why does the term frequently change from “scientific” to “daily existence”, how and/or why does the term lose its linguistic “strangeness” etc?).

Study’s conclusions indicate that the “humanization” of AI is happening much faster than one might expect.

This text aims to analyze the role of Italian and Polish prepositions in the process of perceiving the world, or in this case, a comparison between the two linguistic and conceptual systems. Prepositions are lexical elements treated in different ways in linguistic studies: some researchers argue that the preposition is semantically empty, on the contrary, its function is to combine two elements or linguistic structures in a sentence; others say it has some semantic features. There are many examples of expressions in Italian and Polish (or in other languages) in which the prepositional phrases
differ in the translations, i.e., some prepositions are untranslatable (they do not have a lexical
equivalent) and some are not translated with use of their so-called equivalents. There are natural languages in which prepositions are used less frequently or offer greater possibilities of use, or the given language provides other linguistic tools to express the same meaning.

In this contribution, the basis for the considerations is mainly the theory of Cognitive Grammar by Ronald W. Langacker (1987, 1991a, 1991b, 1995, 2000, 2008), with the central notion of “construal” (previously known as “imagery”), and its dimensions, in particular the prominence with the distinction of the trajector/landmark alignment. The analysis of prepositions, regardless of the examined language, can be vast and complex; therefore, here we will present examples (in Italian and Polish) of selected expressions, i.e., the most interesting and contrasting ones.

Just as the lexicon can designate certain entities by distinguishing their totality from their parts, grammar makes it possible to actualize a semantic category in discourse by affirming, presupposing or denying the existence of other instances of it, apart from those mentioned in the utterance. We propose a contrastive analysis of this general function, which we call anti-exhaustivity, in an onomasiological approach that includes both its literal and figurative expression, and its pragmatic implications.

The linguistic features performing this function are various, and may change from one language to another, but there are some consistent typological relationships between the partitives of Western Finno-Ugric languages and Basque, with fairly stable correspondences to the Baltic and Slavic geni­tive and verbal aspect, the French and Italian partitive article, the Zero article of Ibero-Romance languages and the classifiers of Mandarin Chinese.

The Repetitions as Stylistic Features in Translation: A Comparative Analysis Polish – Spanish – French

 Abstract

In addition to their role in situational coherence, repetitions serve multiple textual functions and can constitute a crucial component of style within a literary work. In the prose of Wiesław Myśliwski, repetitions help create, along with other stylistic devices, an effect of orality. Therefore, this study proposes a comparative analysis of  repetitions and their function in Myśliwski's novel, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli, and its two translations into Spanish and French, respectively, El arte de desgranar alubias and L’art d’écosser les haricots. Through the examples provided, the techniques employed by the translators are illustrated, along with the consequences of their decisions for conveying the oral nuance of the text. This, in turn, enables the identification of the main differences between the two translations and serves as a basis for attempting to explain these discrepancies.

In the French text, there is a clear tendency to avoid repetitions, whereas the Spanish version of the novel reveals considerable fidelity in translating these. The reasons for this difference lie outside the French or Spanish linguistic systems and any potential limitations they may impose. The discrepancies in the translation of repetitions arise more from differing literary traditions.

Our paper tackles the polylexicality which is based on data on the phonics and the writing of the Chinese language. By dissociating the writing and phonics of Chinese, we have conducted formal and stratified analyses of these two aspects. By means of the triple articulation of language, we have shown the interdependence of different articulations of language and the ambivalence of the Chinese lexical unit in its form and function.
We have revealed that the frozenness and the polylexicality are omnipresent in the Chinese language, from phonics to combinatorics, and that modern standard Chinese is doubly articulated in both phonics and writing, which explains the gestalt perception of this language and the specific content of the mold which is the lexical unit. We have also drawn on the principle of linguistic economy to clarify certain basic linguistic concepts that are problematic for the Chinese language, such as morpheme, grapheme, word, etc.

Traditionally, linguistics has been perceived as a tool serving Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This perception often limits this tool to the language used by the coach and the coachee, aiming to help the latter achieve the desired state.

But have we considered NLP as a tool serving linguistics ?

NLP offers linguists a vast field of research in applied linguistics. Our objective is to show that the interactions between linguistics and NLP are bidirectional and that the theory of the third articulation of language plays a considerable role in determining the effectiveness of a neuro-linguistic programming protocol.

In NLP, the choice of predicative units by the coachee is not arbitrary. It must take into account, on the one hand, the subject’s meta-programs, i.e., their “filters” and “thinking models” that influence their perception of the world, their behavior, and their reactions in various situations. On the other hand, it must consider their “belief universe” to ensure a better result. For example, it would be incongruous to talk to a kinesthetic person about the “power of speech” or what could be “a pleasure for the eyes,” as their filters differ from those of an auditory or visual subject. The units of the third articulation of language thus intervene to reinforce these filters, as they themselves are charged, at the level of their internal combination, with lexical anchors encapsulating the filters related to each type of subject. This study aims to examine the contribution of the theory of the third articulation of language in the constitution of a reference framework for predicates to facilitate the apprehension of the respective meta-programs of the subjects.