CP – Number 21 (2016)

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CP, Number 21

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No. 21 (2016)  Editorial

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Our paper aims to respond to the cultural need of asserting cultural identity by rediscovering Romanian food-related practices and meanings in association with the space of the kitchen. More specifically, it is an attempt to present the Romanian kitchen as a cultural space where the practices of cooking food, the tools used in food preparation and the time of the day/month/year when a certain dish is made carry deep meanings that are part of the traditions and identity of the Romanian people. Our broader aim is to promote aspects of Romanian cultural life from the visible and invisible Romanian cultural heritage at an international level. The premise is that, in the area of cultural food heritage, more than in any other domain, each community has layers of popular knowledge accumulated historically, as a result of the interaction with the environment and the living conditions, many of these supported by a solid scientific basis (Bergflødt et al., 2012). Due to the cultural transmission from one generation to another, traditional knowledge acquires the character of historical continuity of using resources. Rediscovering them does not contrast with the idea of progress but, on the contrary, includes it (Cannarella & Piccioni, 2011; Handayani & Prawito, 2009; Parrotta & Agnoletti, 2007).

Keywords:

cultural heritage, kitchen, cultural practices, kitchen tools, food preparation.

Code [ID]:

CP201621V00S01A0001 [0004475]

Issue:

CP, Number 21

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No. 21 (2016)  Editorial

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The aim of this article is to examine the semantic fields of some terms chosen from the field of revitalisation in order to find a translation model for the chosen terms and their most suitable equivalents. The problems with translation of the terminology from the field of art and architecture are related to the fact that it is impossible to create a unified definition for some terms which would include all aspects relating to these concepts. Often some terms found within a specific culture may display more meanings and definitions in comparison to other societies. Moreover, as it is shown in this article, the lack of unified, specific definition of some terms is present even within the same culture. This phenomenon stems from the intra and intercultural diversity of conceptualisation. These problems appear not only in the context of broad terms like culture, language or art but in other, narrower aspects of human activity. What is more, the specialist literature from this field of research is limited, even though the issue presented above is important in the process of classification, digitalisation and creation of multilingual thesauri concerning art and architecture. The method used in this research consists of gathering, analysing and comparing the semantic fields of the chosen terms in both languages while using dictionaries and specialist literature from the field of art and architecture. The analysis enabled the creation of specific typology in the context of translation of Polish and English terms concerning the process of revitalisation.

Keywords:

translation, culture, revitalisation, art, architecture.

Code [ID]:

CP201621V00S01A0002 [0004476]

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CP, Number 21

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No. 21 (2016)  Editorial

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The aim of this article is to demonstrate the influence of literary noosphere in Jan Twardowski’s poems on a child’s development process. As the priest-poet focused all his love and attention on children, he took account of all the specific requirements children have during their innocent childhood. He explains universal truths concerning life, faith and God through simple rhymes and basic words. What is more, Twardowski’s texts fascinate and captivate not only the young but also adult readers through the spiritual scapes they create.

Keywords:

Jan Twardowski, child development, literary texts, literary noosphere, spiritual scapes.

Code [ID]:

CP201621V00S01A0003 [0004477]

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CP, Number 21

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No. 21 (2016)  Editorial

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The language of intimacy and – in particular – terms of affection, which constitutes its major element, are a significant part of our everyday language. The first such terms came forth as early as Anglo-Saxon times and this conceptual category is still being constantly enlarged with new lexical items. The key objective of our paper is to examine a mere fraction of this extensive conceptual category, by confining our analysis to those terms that were employed at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries. To be more precise, we shall focus on nine terms of endearment which were used by Shakespeare in his works. By means of the cognitive apparatus, we will trace the semantic development of these words and, finally, we will search for their traces in modern dictionaries of English.

Keywords:

endearments, Shakespeare, cognitive approach, zoosemy.

Code [ID]:

CP201621V00S01A0004 [0004478]

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CP, Number 21

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No. 21 (2016)  Editorial

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Our interdisciplinary approach to the discursive production of social identities combines diachronic and synchronic perspectives to the purpose of outlining the hierarchical way of structuring Romanian urban social classes into specifically communist (Dumitru 1996) vs. post-communist types. In observing the way in which such types have emerged, evolved, altered or disappeared, we retrace different forms of social representation for two enduring socio-cultural types – the upstart/parvenu (Rom. “ciocoi”) and the industrialist – and pin down positive vs. negative, individual or collective stereotypic attributes, which are being differently constructed, depending on the social context in which the individuals are being placed (Ellemers and van Knippenberg 1997).

Keywords:

social identity, social classes, urban context, types, stereotypes, discursive construction.

Code [ID]:

CP201621V00S01A0005 [0004479]

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CP, Number 21

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No. 21 (2016)  Editorial

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After John Bunyan’s allegorical The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (1678), a tradition of urban peregrinations may be observed in Anglophone literature as part of a Bildungsroman; thus, we only have to think of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) in the city of Dublin, or Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy. Jeffrey Eugenides uses the pattern, extending it to several cities and several generations in his novel, Middlesex. The narrator’s life begins before his conception with his grandparents’ exodus from Asia Minor, and his own exile from America to Germany: we have a triptych of cities – Smyrna-Detroit-Berlin –, each city tending to proliferate with satellites, each offering to be read like a text, if we admit that “a city is constructed like a text, it is an ‘inscription of man in space’ (Barthes 1988: 193) unfolding, challenging, confusing, thrilling and threatening all at the same time.” (Campbell & Kean 1997: 162) This Barthesian inscription of man in space is echoed in Walt Whitman’s definition of cities as organic bodies connecting the individual to the whole, and stressing their “dynamic, forward-looking qualities and transformative potential” (Idem, 162). Fitzgerald adds in “an edge of sexuality, mystery and a strange mixture of glamour, wealth and fading glory that is always part of the urban milieu” (Idem 177), while Upton Sinclair sees the city as a jungle. In addition to literature, painting and the cinema are well-adapted to the celebration of cities. If the painter Edward Hopper is fascinated by the “raw disorder of New York”, Woody Allen declares his love to his city without being able to choose among its contradictions in Manhattan (1979). For contradictions and ambiguities are indeed what most characterize a city, making it difficult to understand, exciting curiosity, sometimes triggering fear.

Keywords:

urban quest, identity, Smyrna, Detroit, Berlin, Jeffrey Eugenides.

Code [ID]:

CP201621V00S01A0006 [0004480]