{"title":"VAPSHE ARA: ATTITUDES OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY STUDENTS IN GEORGIA TOWARDS THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE","authors":"Yasmine Mitaishvili-Rayyis","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.05","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the beliefs and attitudes of English Philology students in Georgia towards the Russian language, focusing on Russia’s linguistic prestige and history within Georgia, and the current state of Russian-Georgian relations. The study employs a qualitative research approach through interviews and contrastive analysis to investigate linguistic prestige, models for language context, relevant educational and language policy, and student perspectives. This exploration is rooted in sociolinguists, though draws from linguistic anthropology, and political science, taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. The study seeks to answer various research questions, including the role of Russian in contemporary and historical Georgia, the factors that influence the students' perceptions of the Russian language, and how historical context shapes linguistic attitudes. The findings suggest that the status of Russian in Georgia reflects the country’s historical, cultural, and political context, where the promotion of both Georgian national identity and language, as well as the English language, has led to the marginalization of Russian in most domains. Additionally, the research underscores the significant role of the legacy of the Soviet occupation in shaping the views of English Philology students toward the Russian language. Overall, this article sheds light on the complex relationship between language, politics, and identity in contemporary Georgia.","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"53 74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128145355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CONCEPT OF FOREGROUNDING IN THE WAKE OF THE DEVELOPMENTS OF STYLISTICS","authors":"Nino Tevdoradze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.07","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of foregrounding occupied much of Jakobson’s time stylistics. Through the influence of later and recent developments in the field of stylistics, this concept has undergone deep alteration and has been taken to a new level. This paper aims to discuss, on the one hand, its emergence and evolution. On the other, it endeavors to examine its validity from today’s perspective.","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128398354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge, R. Dolidze, Mariam Keburia, Sopio Totibadze
{"title":"METAPHORIC CONCEPTUALISATION OF PRIDE IN THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE","authors":"Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge, R. Dolidze, Mariam Keburia, Sopio Totibadze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.02","url":null,"abstract":"Metaphors express the cultural values of society and communicate their worldviews (Lakoff & Johnson, 2008). From this standpoint, the choice of metaphors to conceptualize emotions (for instance, PRIDE) is believed to be determined by universal and cultural-specific metaphoric models that arise from globally shared contexts on the one hand and cultural-specific contexts, practised locally and accepted by the speech-community, on the other (Kövecses, 2015). This paper explores the general models of metaphor and their specific manifestations employed while conceptualization the concept of PRIDE in the Georgian language and culture. The empirical data were collected from the Georgian National Corpus. The data were analysed employing the model of metaphor suggested by Rusieshvili (2005).","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134369041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"METAPHOR AND ITS INTERPRETATION PROCESS IN DYSTOPIAN FICTION","authors":"Tamar Khvedelidze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"10 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113967410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ USE OF BACKCHANNEL SIGNALS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF VIRTUAL (ZOOM) CLASS: THE STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Mariam Nebieridze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.04","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with special signals which show the speaker that their message is getting through. These signals are examined in online classroom discourse, taking place via Zoom and emphasis is placed on students’ perspective in relation to the use of the abovementioned signals. The data were collected through questionnaires that have been prepared in Google Form to circulate among the undergraduate students from the Department of English Philology, Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. After the thorough study of linguistic and empirical data, the frequency of the usage of backchannels by students has been established and the types of backchannel signals were distinguished. In addition, the students’ perspective on the function of the backchannel signals has been determined and Zoom-specific backchannel signals were identified.","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128496455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FUNCTION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF TEACHING TRANSLATION IN ELT","authors":"L. Dumbadze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124169591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS AND METONYMIES IN “CORALINE” BY N. GAIMAN","authors":"Nato Peradze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.03","url":null,"abstract":"This research embraces conceptual metaphors and metonymies in Neil Gaiman’s book “Coraline”. The theoretical framework of the article is based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), and the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor by Lakoff (1993). The article employs the qualitative method of analysis: the metaphoric and metonymic linguistic expressions from the book have been selected and grouped according to their corresponding cognitive metaphors and conceptual metonymies. Thus, the research aims to identify and analyze these linguistic expressions and their conceptual metaphors and metonymies, identify their significance and relation to the plot, and the function of universal and cultural-specific metaphors.","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124451023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PERFECTLY PERFECT ADVERBS: A LEARNER CORPUS STUDY OF THE AMPLIFIER COLLOCATIONS BY GEORGIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH","authors":"M. Makhatadze","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128265858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT FOR LEARNERS (A CASE STUDY)","authors":"Ekaterina Torchinava","doi":"10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52340/putk.2023.2346-8149.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":194532,"journal":{"name":"Online journal of Humanities","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114259311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}