Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature最新文献

“MY TONGUE SWORE BUT MY HEART DID NOT”: VINDICATING ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE PROCUSTEAN BED OF SCIENTISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE “我的舌头发誓，但我的心没有”:为普通语言哲学辩护，反对语言哲学中科学主义的堕落

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.34739/fci.2021.02.06

David Pérez Chico

{"title":"“MY TONGUE SWORE BUT MY HEART DID NOT”: VINDICATING ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE PROCUSTEAN BED OF SCIENTISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE","authors":"David Pérez Chico","doi":"10.34739/fci.2021.02.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34739/fci.2021.02.06","url":null,"abstract":"Often vilified, if not outright rejected, ordinary language philosophy has been sustained, from its very beginnings, due to the farne of authors such as Austin and the later Wittgenstein; but not, however, on its own merits. These, w hen recognized, are branded as either constituting a bad philosophy of language, or simply a bad philosophy altogether. Thus, same charitable interpretations have tried to domesticate its methods to make it compatible with a mare orthodox philosophy of language. Very gradually, however, this situation is changing, largely thanks to the influence that Stanley Cavell's philosophy is having on several generations of philosophers. The main thing is to convince ourselves that ordinary language philosophy is not strictly speaking a philosophy of language. It is a philosophy that proceeds from the ordinary and pays attention to the importance that the ordinary has for philosophy. We will, in the course of this article, analyze the criticisms and attempts to domesticate ordinary language philosophy and will anticipate Cavell's defense of the ordinary language philosophy as practiced by Austin and Ryle in Cavell's inheritance of the farmer.","PeriodicalId":403792,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115301423","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}

引用次数: 0

THE PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WOMAN IN THE POETRY OF WANDA MELCER 万达·梅尔瑟诗歌中的现代女性形象

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.34739/fci.2021.02.05

S. Sobieraj

{"title":"THE PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WOMAN IN THE POETRY OF WANDA MELCER","authors":"S. Sobieraj","doi":"10.34739/fci.2021.02.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34739/fci.2021.02.05","url":null,"abstract":"The article tackles the topie of womanhood as a typical motif in Wanda Melcer' s poetry, a topie which in historical-literary studies has so far been insufficiently discussed. Through the analysis of selected poems from her two published volumes as well as from other scattered poems, the portrait of a modern woman as presented in that poetry has been sketched out. This woman is a person who takes part in civilisational, social and manner-related changes. Her relations to culture, art and literature, her vitality and being active in life, all attest to her abandonment of roles imposed by the patriarchal system. It has been shown that the \"new woman\" breaks taboos and is educated. Above all she is independent and selfreliant, desires success and thirsts for new experiences, as demonstrated by how she frequently changes her surroundings and appropriates new spaces. She moulds her identity in confrontation with the outside world, she is open to otherness and changeability. At the same time she maintains personal consistency. Her creative identity is related to acting upon the principle of choice, and not obligation. Due to the multitude of biographical references present, the portrait of the female heroine contained in Wanda Melcer's poetry can be seen as a self-portrait of the author herself.","PeriodicalId":403792,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133851230","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}

引用次数: 0

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE COMPREHENSION OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES BY NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY INSPIRED BY BOUTON’S (1988) 影响英语母语者和非英语母语者对会话含义理解的因素:一项受bouton(1988)启发的实证研究

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.34739/fci.2021.02.03

Alisa-Anastasiia Kavetska

{"title":"FACTORS INFLUENCING THE COMPREHENSION OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES BY NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY INSPIRED BY BOUTON’S (1988)","authors":"Alisa-Anastasiia Kavetska","doi":"10.34739/fci.2021.02.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34739/fci.2021.02.03","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of the present study has been to examine implicature comprehension in native and foreign/second language speakers of English from different linguistic backgrounds. The project was inspired by an earlier work of Bouton (1988), whose objective was to measure the influence of cultural background on the ability to grasp implied meanings in English, by comparing native and non-native speakers' performance. A modified digital version of the original multiple-choice test (Bouton 1988) was used to collect the data. Gricean (1989) theory of conversational implicature served as a theoretical framework for the study. The quantitative analysis of the data collected from the speakers of 33 languages was compared against the original results and the scope of the analysis was expanded to incorporate the examination of other factors affecting implicature understanding in native and nonnative languages. The present results corroborate some of the earlier findings and suggest that language competence and cultural background are crucial factors in understanding implicated meanings.","PeriodicalId":403792,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115710794","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}

引用次数: 0

ADDRESSING LOSS AND NOSTALGIA: TWO CUBAN DIASPORIC NOVELS OF THE NINETIES 讲述失落与怀旧:两部九十年代古巴流散小说

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.34739/fci.2021.02.01

Arturo Matute Castro

引用次数: 0

THE UNCANNY: DEVELOPMENT AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE 不可思议:发展和对未来的展望

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.34739/fci.2021.02.04

Aleksandra Mrówczyńska

{"title":"THE UNCANNY: DEVELOPMENT AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE","authors":"Aleksandra Mrówczyńska","doi":"10.34739/fci.2021.02.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34739/fci.2021.02.04","url":null,"abstract":"In 1919 Sigmund Freud raised the interest in the uncanny by claiming in his essay \"Das Unheimliche\" that something can be familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Since the emergence of the concept in the 20th century, many scholars have presented their own definition of the uncanny. The concept originates from the German unheimlich but the meaning reaches far beyond its dictionary definition. As Masschelein suggests, the word itself \"is untranslatable qua form and content\" (Masschelein 2011, 7) and as long as the uncanny cannot be understood literally, the ambiguity of the term can lead to a multitude of interpretations. The aim of this paper is to explore how the perception of the uncanny has been changing through the years in connection with the Freudian definition. The paper offers an overview of various interpretations of the concept starting from 1906 until today. The juxtaposition of the most significant views on the uncanny shows how the concept has gradually formed a basis for various fields of study such as literature and art. The paper presents future perspectives of the uncanny where it no longer refers only to the motif of the double or supernatural elements but it also tackles the problems of body transformations and politics.","PeriodicalId":403792,"journal":{"name":"Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature","volume":"28 23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129912894","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}

引用次数: 0

CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF ANGER IN ENGLISH IDIOMS. AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE EXTENDED CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY 英语习语中愤怒的概念化。基于扩展概念隐喻理论的分析

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.34739/fci.2021.02.02

S. Dobiášová

引用次数: 0

Images of Migrants in Alice Munro's Short Stories: Dialogue Between Cultures 爱丽丝·门罗短篇小说中的移民形象:文化间的对话

Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature Pub Date : 2020-11-24 DOI: 10.34739/FCI.2020.01.01

Kristina Vorontsova

引用次数: 0