SicPub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1075/sic.00063.ces
A. M. C. Mancera
{"title":"Uses and resources of mitigation, in contrast","authors":"A. M. C. Mancera","doi":"10.1075/sic.00063.ces","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00063.ces","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Mitigation is a highly complex pragmatic phenomenon which has been prioritized as a subject of study in recent\u0000 decades. However, because of this complexity, there is still neither a convincing definition of exactly what mitigation is nor a\u0000 definitive list of the linguistic and non-verbal resources through which it is carried out. For this reason, several empirical\u0000 studies which seek to explain sociopragmatic and geolectal variability in the uses and strategies of mitigation are under way.\u0000 This is also the aim of our paper, included in the Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish from Spain and\u0000 America (PRESEEA). In it, we present relevant data obtained from the comparison of what occurs in Madrid, Valencia,\u0000 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Puebla (Mexico) regarding the frequency of the production of mitigation and its function in\u0000 transactional interaction, together with the most productive strategies used in each community. This enables us to identify\u0000 convergences and divergences and pinpoint sociopragmatic and geolectal patterns.","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"61 1","pages":"362-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88291074","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.2
Ljubica Matek, Zvonimir Prtenjača
{"title":"No Country for Old X-Men: The Aging Hero in No Country for Old Men and Logan","authors":"Ljubica Matek, Zvonimir Prtenjača","doi":"10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87400411","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.5
Nikolai Wansart
{"title":"Speech(lessness), Negative Pleasure, and the Sublime Objects of Suburbia in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School","authors":"Nikolai Wansart","doi":"10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74805095","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.3
M. Krivokapić, Sanja Runtić
{"title":"Native American Urban Narratives: Theodore Van Alst’s Sacred Smokes and Tommy Orange’s There There","authors":"M. Krivokapić, Sanja Runtić","doi":"10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73888674","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.4
Smiljana Narančić Kovač, Katarina Aladrović Slovaček
{"title":"The Adventures of Hlapić in Burgenland Croatian","authors":"Smiljana Narančić Kovač, Katarina Aladrović Slovaček","doi":"10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/3.10.lc.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"104 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74735675","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.15291/sic/3.10.ewrs.4
Danijela Lugarić Vukas, Mark Lipoveckij
{"title":"Predgovor. Paralogije. Transformacije (post)modernističkoga diskursa u kulturi od 1920-ih do 2000-ih godina.","authors":"Danijela Lugarić Vukas, Mark Lipoveckij","doi":"10.15291/sic/3.10.ewrs.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/3.10.ewrs.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"1 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83090082","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-05-02DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.4
Diana Njegovan
{"title":"A City as the Key to Interpreting a Novel by Alessandro Baricco","authors":"Diana Njegovan","doi":"10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"5 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86672777","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-05-02DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.1
T. Parezanović
{"title":"Tourist Writing: Facing and Embracing the Otherness of Space and Narrative","authors":"T. Parezanović","doi":"10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sets out to examine a specific body of fictional narratives featuring tourists as protagonists. It is the experience of tourists that determines the plot development, dynamics and denouement of these narratives, and the present paper focuses in particular on Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Hotel (1927) and Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950). The representation of tourists in fiction contradicts what most theories within tourism study posit, as these fictional tourists are placed outside their comfort zone and, additionally, perceived as individuals, not part of a homogeneous mass. Such placement outside a circumscribed world, as the analysis of the two novels shows, is achieved by heterotopian spatiality which the texts construct, whereby the concept of heterotopia relies on Michel Foucault's writing. The aspect of individuality is stressed through the narrative technique called free indirect discourse; spatiality and narrative combined thus set the scene for representing the experience of tourists. Protagonists in the two novels, Sydney Warren and Karen Stone, embody Dean MacCannell's and Zygmunt Bauman's views of tourists as modern pilgrims, in search of self-discovery through interaction with otherness. Using extracts from both novels, the paper shows how this otherness is constructed spatially, the role narration plays in the process, and the effect it has on tourist protagonists. The analysis results can, finally, be used to advance the academic study of the interconnection between space and narrative in literary [sic] a journal of literature, culture and literary translation Borders and Crossings No. 2 Year 10 04/2020 LC.1 ISSN 1847-7755; doi: 10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.1 2 fiction and deepen the understanding of tourists’ behavior in relation to the particular place in which they find themselves.","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"99 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80573647","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}
SicPub Date : 2020-05-02DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.9
Tim Hannigan
{"title":"“Collateral Damage in the War on Travel Writing”: Recovering Reader Responses to Contemporary Travel Writing","authors":"Tim Hannigan","doi":"10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.10.lc.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53192,"journal":{"name":"Sic","volume":"1 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91369479","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}